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16 Oct 2013
Galleries Web links WASHINGTON – Democratic leader Harry Reid saysSenate leaders have reached a bipartisan deal to avoid default and end the government shutdown, now in its 16th day. Reid made the announcement at the start of the Senate session on Wednesday. The deal would reopen the government through Jan. 15 and increase the nation’s borrowing…
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October 16, 2013 — Updated 0510 GMT (1310 HKT) Japanese businessmen walk against strong wind and rain as Typhoon Wipha reached Tokyo on Wednesday. Tokyo (CNN) — At least 14 people have died and hundreds of flights have been canceled as Typhoon Wipha pummeled the Tokyo area on Wednesday. A government official in Oshima, a small island 120 km south..
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Typhoon Wipha, projected to become
Tokyo’s biggest storm in about
10 years, was forecast to pass along eastern
Japan, reaching the capital early today and heading northeast to the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.
Narita airport, just east of Tokyo…
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Sicily has declared a state of emergency due to rising numbers of migrants coming by boats from the
Mediterranean sea.
Drones, warships and helicopters were deployed on Tuesday inside and outside
Italian waters to scare-off people-smugglers,…
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SEOUL — A joint
U.S.-South
Korean task force will study
Seoul’s ability to respond to possible
North Korean provocations as officials consider whether to delay transferring U.S. wartime control of allied troops to
South Korea, according to the…
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At least five people have been killed in the eastern
Indian state of
Odisha in floods triggered by heavy rains that accompanied a fierce cyclone over the weekend. The
Budhabalanga river is overflowing and has flooded two districts, officials…
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
JERUSALEM:
Israel on Tuesday urged the world to avoid a partial deal with
Iran, which could see a relaxing of sanctions, just hours before a new round of nuclear talks.
Following a meeting late on Monday, the security cabinet warned the international…
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras
15 Oct 2013
At least five people have been killed in the eastern
Indian state of
Odisha in floods triggered by heavy rains that accompanied a fierce cyclone over the weekend. The
Budhabalanga river is overflowing and has flooded two districts, officials…
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
JERUSALEM:
Israel on Tuesday urged the world to avoid a partial deal with
Iran, which could see a relaxing of sanctions, just hours before a new round of nuclear talks.
Following a meeting late on Monday, the security cabinet warned the international…
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The UN Children‘s Fund has said
Israel’s army and police force continue to mistreat
Palestinian youths during arrests and detentions, despite agreeing to test alternative treatment following international pressure. Teh fund’s progress report,…
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14 Oct 2013
Seven Red Cross workers have been kidnapped in northern Syria after their convoy was ambushed by armed militants. The team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had been visiting the area from…
The Associated Press VALLETTA (AP)—Three deadly
Mediterranean shipwrecks that claimed the lives of hundreds of would-be asylum seekers fleeing war and repression sharpened calls Saturday for humanitarian corridors to allow safe passage to
Europe. At…
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Mass beatification attended by 25,
000 despite calls for pope to cancel event over church’s support for
General Francisco Franco Priests arrive for the beatification ceremony of 522 priests, monks, nuns and
Catholic laymen killed during the
Spanish…
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KABUL,
Afghanistan —
NATO says a man wearing an
Afghan national security forces uniform killed one of its service members in eastern Afghanistan. The alliance says in a statement that the incident occurred on Sunday, but provided no other…
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13 Oct 2013
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Mass evacuation of towns and villages on
India‘s eastern coast limits death toll as 135mph winds force huge waves inland
A man salvages a table stuck in uprooted trees fallen during cyclone Phailin on a road in Berhampur, India.
Photograph:
Bikas…
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Police clamp down on foreign nationals trafficked by gangs and the rogue employers who turn a blind eye in pursuit of profit An immigration official amid preparations to raid a factory in the UK.
Photograph:
Gary Calton For
The Observer/gary calton…
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Three deadly
Mediterranean shipwrecks that claimed the lives of hundreds of would-be asylum-seekers fleeing war and repression sharpened calls Saturday for humanitarian corridors to allow safe passage to
Europe. At least 34 people drowned in Maltese…
photo: UN / Ryan Brown
12 Oct 2013
The strongest cyclone to threaten India in more than a decade bore down on its east coast Saturday as authorities bused and trucked tens of thousands of villagers from their mud and thatch coastal homes to government shelters inland. Officials canceled holy day celebrations and stockpiled emergency supplies in coastal Orissa and Andhra Pradesh…
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SEOUL:
North Korea on Saturday issued a fresh warning of an “all-out war”, urging the
United States to stop military drills and what it described as “nuclear blackmail”. In a thinly veiled threat to strike the United States, the
North’s
National…
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photo: UN / Sarah Fretwell
CAIRO: Supporters of
Egypt’s ousted Islamist president held scattered protests across the country Friday, calling off a planned rally at
Cairo’s iconic
Tahrir Squarealmost a week after bloody clashes left nearly 60 dead. Since the…
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11 Oct 2013
DENVER —
Scott Carpenter conquered the heights of space, the depths of the ocean, and the darkness of fear. And in doing so he became the second
Americanto orbit the
Earth, powered by not just a rocket but an insatiable curiosity. “Conquering…
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Indian officials say they are expecting a “very severe storm” that could cause widespread damage and flooding, to hit the country’s eastern seaboard.
Officialssay they have cancelled holy day celebrations in coastal
Orissa and Andhra…
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Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was detained Thursday by interior ministry personnel, an official at the ministry’s anti-crime directorate announced. “No one kidnapped him,” the
LANA news agency quoted the…
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Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was kidnapped from his
Tripoli hotel at dawn on Thursday by an armed group and taken to an unknown location, the government and sources said. “The head of the transitional…
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–> Greenwald, a Rio-based correspondent for Britain’s
Guardian newspaper, also said that if
Brazil wanted more data on alleged US snooping into its affairs it should offer
Snowden asylum. Snowden, a former US spy agency contractor wanted by…
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Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was detained Thursday by interior ministry personnel, an official at the ministry’s anti-crime directorate announced. “No one kidnapped him,” the
LANA news agency quoted the…
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Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was kidnapped from his
Tripoli hotel at dawn on Thursday by an armed group and taken to an unknown location, the government and sources said. “The head of the transitional…
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–> Greenwald, a Rio-based correspondent for Britain’s
Guardian newspaper, also said that if
Brazil wanted more data on alleged US snooping into its affairs it should offer
Snowden asylum. Snowden, a former US spy agency contractor wanted by…
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The United States on Wednesday cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to its
Mideast ally
Egypt, responding to the military ouster last summer of the nation’s first democratically elected president and the crackdown on protesters that has sunk…
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10Oct 2013
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Pervez Musharraf, the former president and military ruler of Pakistan, has been granted bail in the Akbar Bugti murder case and could leave the country as early as Thursday, Reuters reported.
“Musharraf can fly to Dubai tomorrow once these legal formalities are completed,” Ahmed Raza Kasuri, who heads the Musharraf defense team, told Reuters.
Musharraf has already been granted bail in two other cases after being arrested last spring, one involving the murder of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in 2007. But the Supreme Court was originally refusing to grant bail in the Bugti case as early as last month.
The former army chief, who has been under house arrest in a villa on the outskirts of Islamabad since April 19, took power in a 1999 coup, and later became president. He stepped down after Bhutto’s party won election in 2008.
After moving to London for nearly four years of self-imposed exile, Musharraf returned to Pakistan last March to contest a May 11 general election, but the pending court cases disqualified him from standing.
The most recent bail was regarding the death of Nawab Akbar Bugti, a veteran Baloch nationalist leader and former chief minister of Balochistan who was killed in a 2006 military operation. A case was brought against Musharraf for the death in 2009.
It’s possible that the 70-year-old former dictator’s departure is due to failing health.
Who are the world’s 10 most dangerous terrorists?
By Tim Lister, CNN
October 9, 2013 —
Ayman al-Zawahiri is the leader of al Qaeda. A reward up to $25 million has been offered by the U.S. government. Click through to see the men allegedly plotting, directing and, in some cases, carrying out acts of terror around the world.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Al Qaeda’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, tops the list
- Other names include figures from Yemen, Somalia and Iraq
- Many groups pledge allegiance to al Qaeda
09 Oct 2013
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As the war continues in
Syria, so does the risk of deadly malnutrition for children. Special-nutrient rich foods, like those being distributed by the
UN World Food Programme (
WFP) can save their lives. Spokesperson Laure Chadraoui told me last week…
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European lawmakers on Tuesday were set to tighten rules governing the multibillion-dollar tobacco market by imposing bigger and bolder warnings on cigarette packs, banning most flavorings like menthol and strengthening regulation of electronic…
photo: AP / Greg Baker
RIO DE JANEIRO —
Brazil’s president,
Dilma Rousseff, crisply demanded an explanation on Monday from
Canada over revelations that a
Canadian intelligence agency had spied on Brazil’s mining and energy ministry and a top Brazilian diplomat, a…
photo: AP / Eraldo Peres
WASHINGTON:
Stock markets fell on day as the federal government shutdown entered its seventh day with no end in sight and the prospect of a US default loomed. Lawmakers appeared to be making little headway in raising the
US debt ceiling,…
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08 Oct 2013
European lawmakers on Tuesday were set to tighten rules governing the multibillion-dollar tobacco market by imposing bigger and bolder warnings on cigarette packs, banning most flavorings like menthol and strengthening regulation of electronic…
photo: AP / Greg Baker
RIO DE JANEIRO —
Brazil’s president,
Dilma Rousseff, crisply demanded an explanation on Monday from
Canada over revelations that a
Canadian intelligence agency had spied on Brazil’s mining and energy ministry and a top Brazilian diplomat, a…
photo: AP / Eraldo Peres
WASHINGTON:
Stock markets fell on day as the federal government shutdown entered its seventh day with no end in sight and the prospect of a US default loomed. Lawmakers appeared to be making little headway in raising the
US debt ceiling,…
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Argentina‘s
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will undergo surgery later to treat bleeding on her brain. Ms Kirchner, 60, was initially ordered her to rest for a month on Saturday after doctors found the subdural haematoma following a blow to…
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BROOKLYN,
N.Y. — A lawyer for
New York City on Monday denied that the
NYPDhas a surveillance program to spy on Muslims. Responding to an
ACLU lawsuit claiming religious discrimination that seeks to force police to turn over surveillance records,…
photo: Public Domain / Lance Cpl. Isis M. Ramirez
KABUL:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday condemned the
NATO mission in his country for causing “a lot of suffering” without delivering any gains. The outgoing leader also suggested to the
BBC that he might not
sign a bilateral security deal…
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07 Oct 2013
CAIRO — Egypt stumbled deeper into turmoil after a national holiday celebrating the military turned to mayhem, leaving 51 dead across the country and exposing the deep divisions plaguing the nation. The high death toll in Sunday’s clashes between security forces and Islamist protesters came as crowds from Egypt’s two rival camps —…
The head of
Pakistan’s powerful military has said he will stand down when his term ends next month, apparently scotching rumours that he was seeking to further extend his position. In an announcement that surprised many observers,
General Ashfaq…
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At least 34 people have been killed and dozens hurt in
Egypt in clashes between police and supporters of the deposed Islamist
President Mohammed Morsi. More than 200 members of the
Muslim Brotherhood were arrested in
Cairo, where 26 of the deaths…
photo: AP / Hassan Ammar
BERLIN (AP) â??
Germany is handing over a key military base in northern
Afghanistan to local security forces as part of the gradual pullout of
Western forces in the coming years. According to prepared…
photo: US DoD / Ed Droha
At least 66 people have died in
Iraq after a suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of
Shiite pilgrims passing through a mainly
Sunni neighbourhood in
Baghdad and another detonated his explosives inside a cafe north of the capital. The…
photo: AP / Karim Kadim
photo: UN / Tobin Jones
BRAITHWAITE, La. (AP) —
Tropical Storm Karen continued to chug toward the
Gulf Coast on Saturday, threatening to bring heavy winds and high rains, despite a general weakening of the storm.
Officials still urged residents to be vigilant, even as an…
photo: USAF / John Bainter
06 Oct 2013
Authorities in Egypt have warned against anti-army protests on Sunday when the country celebrates the 40th anniversary of an attack on Israel, saying the protesters will be regarded as agents of foreign powers. “Protesters against the army on the anniversary of [October 6] victory will be carrying out the duties of agents, not activists,”…
At least 66 people have died in
Iraq after a suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of
Shiite pilgrims passing through a mainly
Sunni neighbourhood in
Baghdad and another detonated his explosives inside a cafe north of the capital. The…
photo: AP / Karim Kadim
photo: UN / Tobin Jones
BRAITHWAITE, La. (AP) —
Tropical Storm Karen continued to chug toward the
Gulf Coast on Saturday, threatening to bring heavy winds and high rains, despite a general weakening of the storm.
Officials still urged residents to be vigilant, even as an…
photo: USAF / John Bainter
OSAKA — Thursday’s agreement between the
United States and
Japan to revise defense cooperation guidelines touched on a number of core issues, such as transferring
U.S. Marines to
Guam, building a contentious replacement in
Okinawafor the
Futenma…
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At least five civilians, including three children, were killed overnight in a
NATOairstrike in eastern
Afghanistan, officials said yesterday. The civilians, aged between 12 and 20, were killed while they were out hunting birds in the area of…
photo: US DoD / Ed Drohan
Syria has given international experts additional details about its chemical weapons program that go beyond a
Sept. 21 declaration of its poison gas arsenal, the UN said on Friday. The team consists of experts from the
Organisation for the
Prohibition…
photo: UN / Sarah Fretwell
05 Oct 2013
KABUL, Afghanistan — The United States and Afghanistan have reached an impasse in their talks over the role that American forces will play here beyond next year, officials from both countries say, raising the distinct possibility of a total withdrawal — an outcome that the Pentagon’s top military commanders dismissed just months ago. Connect With…
Lucy Poni JUBA —
Scores of children in
South Sudan‘s
Upper Nile state have been diagnosed with measles in the last few weeks, prompting officials to launch a vaccination campaign, a top health official said. “
As of August we have been…
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The last thing you can call these tragedies is fatal accidents. The umpteenth tragedy involving
African migrants off the tiny island of
Lampedusa could and should have been prevented, like the countless other deaths that have occurred over the last…
photo: UN / Ryan Brown
photo: US Army / Eddie Siguenza
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When politicians become fixated on numbers instead of people, the result can be somewhat grotesque. In
Syria for example, the number of dead in the chemical weapons attack has been disputed, with numbers ranging from 400 to 1,400 casualties,…
photo: UN / Ryan Brown
PARIS –
Irina Bokova has been nominated by
UNESCO‘s executive board as the agency’s director-general – all but ensuring her another four-year term. The 61-year-old
Bulgarian former career diplomat was selected Friday over Rachad
Farahof
Djibouti and…
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
04 Oct 2013
International experts were on Friday gearing up to disable the chemical weapons programme in war-hit Syria after reporting “encouraging” progress in a day of meetings with regime officials. The Syrian regime and its armed opponents have both been accused of carrying out numerous atrocities in the 30-month conflict, which began as a popular uprising…
photo: AP / Nino Randazzo, Health Care Service
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ROME: An
Italian senate committee is likely to start a process on Friday to expel
Silvio Berlusconi from parliament following his conviction for tax fraud, meaning the former prime minister’s fate could be sealed within weeks.
Berlusconi, who has…
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KABUL: A former Islamist warlord who is said to be responsible for bringing al-Qaida to
Afghanistan and who trained the mastermind behind the
9/11 attacks, announced he was running for president on Thursday, a move likely to be greeted with…
photo: AP / Kamran Jebreili
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Golden Dawn leader
Nikos Michaloliakos has been ordered to remain in custody pending trial on charges of belonging to a criminal group. During a marathon session at the Evelpidon court complex in
Athens that went on until the early hours of Thursday,…
photo: AP / Thanassis Stavrakis
photo: AP / Andrew Medichini
03 Oct 2013
At least 82 migrants have been killed and scores are missing after a boat caught fire and capsized near a Sicilian island. About 150 people have been pulled from the water off Lampedusa, as emergency workers race to rescue more survivors. The coastguard said it appeared that there were between 400 and 500 migrants on the boat when it sank. The UN…
03 Oct 2013
Click photo to enlarge This aerial photo shows the storage tank, fifth from left at left plot, which workers detected the water dripping from the top, at theFukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Japan’s crippled nuclear plant has a new leak of highly radioactive water…
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Golden Dawn leader
Nikos Michaloliakos has been ordered to remain in custody pending trial on charges of belonging to a criminal group. During a marathon session at the Evelpidon court complex in
Athens that went on until the early hours of Thursday,…
photo: AP / Thanassis Stavrakis
Ancient Mars was
home to giant volcanoes capable of eruptions a thousand times more powerful than the one that shook
Mount St. Helens in
1980, scientists said on Wednesday. The finding raises fresh questions about conditions on Mars in its early…
photo: NASA
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The world‘s population will rise to 9.7 billion in 2050 from the current level of
7.1billion and
India will overtake
China as the world’s most populous nation, a
Frenchstudy said on Wednesday. A bi-annual report by the
French Institute of…
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SEOUL –
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the
Pentagon is trying to reduce the number of civilian employees who are slated to be furloughed Tuesday and added that some could eventually be called back to work even if the federal government…
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
VATICAN
CITY (AP) —
Pope Francis says he wants a missionary church with a modern spirit that gives hope to the poor, young and elderly, speaking as key meetings begin on church reform. Francis gave a lengthy interview to the editor of
Rome daily La…
photo: WN / Marzena J.
One in eight people around the world is chronically undernourished, the
United Nations‘ food agencies said on this morning. They warned world leaders that some regions would fail in halving the number of hungry by
2015. In their , the
UN agencies…
photo: UN / Amanda Voisard
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01 Oct 2013
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Before stepping out of his house, Asif Ali gives his route careful consideration. The 28-year-old builder from Pakistan blames far-right street gangs for three attacks he suffered near his home in a poor area ofAthens where a recent murder triggered Greece’s crackdown on the Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party. Ali says he was…
SEOUL –
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the
Pentagon is trying to reduce the number of civilian employees who are slated to be furloughed Tuesday and added that some could eventually be called back to work even if the federal government…
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
VATICAN
CITY (AP) —
Pope Francis says he wants a missionary church with a modern spirit that gives hope to the poor, young and elderly, speaking as key meetings begin on church reform. Francis gave a lengthy interview to the editor of
Rome daily La…
photo: WN / Marzena J.
One in eight people around the world is chronically undernourished, the
United Nations‘ food agencies said on this morning. They warned world leaders that some regions would fail in halving the number of hungry by
2015. In their , the
UN agencies…
photo: UN / Amanda Voisard
SEOUL:
South Korea displayed its longest-range missile capable of striking all of
North Korea and other sophisticated weapons at a massive military ceremony on Tuesday, a display of force meant to show
Pyongyang that any provocation would be met with…
photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
A wave of car bombs exploded across
Baghdad this morning, killing at least 51 people and wounding more than
100, officials said.
The attacks were all on busy areas, markets and car parks, and predominantly in
Shi’ite neighbourhoods. The deadliest…
photo: AP / Hadi Mizban
Colorado transportation managers aren’t waiting for emergency highway dollars to filter in before they send crews out to repair roads and bridges washed out by September flooding. “We have people that need to get
home and to work.
We can‘t wait for…
photo: USAF / R.J. Oriez
30 Sep 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry said a deal on Iran‘s nuclear programme could be reached relatively quickly. He said it would have the potential to dramatically improve the relationship between the two countries. Mr Kerry said intensifying diplomatic efforts to resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme could produce an agreement…
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ESTES
PARK,
Colo. •
Estes Park, a prime vacation spot that attracts thousands each year, has begun to mend after the epic
Colorado flooding two weeks ago. But getting to the village for the changing of seasons, traditionally a big draw for tourists,…
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Lily Newman – On Friday the UN
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change put its collective foot down about global warming. Its happening and its our fault. But as with any issue that affects all of humanity, the most important question is…
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras
29 Sep 2013
Five ministers from Silvio Berlusconi‘s centre-right political party have resigned, effectively bringing down the government of Enrico Letta, the current prime minister. Talks will now start to find a new parliamentary majority to back a new cabinet and avoid going back to elections just seven months after the last one. The political jockeying that…
PESHAWAR,
Pakistan (AP) — A car bomb exploded on a crowded street in northwestern Pakistan Sunday, killing 33 people in the third blast to hit the troubled city of
Peshawar in a week, officials said. The latest explosion appeared to have been a bomb…
photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad
September 29, 2013 — Updated 0700
GMT (1500
HKT)
Athens (
CNN) — The leader of
Greece‘s extreme right wing
Golden Dawn party and four party lawmakers were charged Sunday with forming and participating in a criminal gang.
NikosMichaloliakos and the…
photo: AP / Fosphotos/Panayiotis Tzamaros
HPAKANT,
Myanmar (Reuters) –
Tin Tun picked all night through teetering heaps of rubble to find the palm-sized lump of jade he now holds in his hand. He hopes it will make him a fortune.
It’s happened before. “
Last year I found a stone worth 50…
photo: AP / Tran Van Minh
VOA News At least four people have been killed and several others wounded in a suicide bomb attack in northern
Mali.
Officials say a car bomb went off Saturday near a military camp in…
photo: AP
— A judge’s ruling Friday that
New Jersey must allow gay couples to marry will not be the last word on the issue after Gov.
Chris Christie‘s administration said it would appeal to a higher court. The judge,
Mary Jacobson, sided with gay and lesbian…
photo: AP / Mel Evans
photo: AP / Firdia Lisnawati
photo: AP / Gregorio Borgia
28 Sep 2013
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Friday night to secure and destroy Syria?s chemical weapons stockpile, a landmark decision aimed at taking poison gas off the battlefield in the escalating 2½-year conflict. The vote after two weeks of intense negotiations marked a major breakthrough in the paralysis that…
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It is more certain than ever that human civilisation is the main cause of global warming, putting the world on track for dangerous temperature rises, the latest major UN assessment of climate change science has found. The Intergovernmental Panel on…
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VOA News The United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously to adopt a resolution that requires
Syria to eliminate its arsenal of chemical weapons. The resolution places binding obligations on the nation. The vote late Friday by the…
photo: UN / Mark Garten
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27 Sep 2013
September 27, 2013 — Updated 0857 GMT (1657 HKT) (CNN) — Human activity has caused at least half of climate change in the last half century, hundreds of scientists say. They are 95% certain of this, the surest they’ve ever been, says a United Nations report published Friday. That activity?Driving cars, running power plants on coal and oil,…
Experts from the world’s chemical weapons watchdog will begin inspecting
Syria‘s stockpile of toxic munitions by Tuesday, according to reports. Syria is instructed to provide inspectors with security and “immediate and unfettered” access to…
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 26 (
Xinhua) —
Palestine on Thursday called upon the international community “to remain alert to condemn and stop any actions on the ground that would undermine negotiations,” such as the continuation of settlement construction…
photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz
Re: “Put a price on carbon,” by Shawn Reeder, Tuesday
Letters, and “
Temperaturedata clouds report —
Scientists unsure how to explain surface warming…
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Reuters
ROME — Divers on Thursday recovered what they believe could be the remains of the last two missing bodies from the sea where the
Costa Concordiacruise liner sank last year off the
Italian island…
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By
Environment Correspondent Alister
Doyle STOCKHOLM (Reuters) –
A U.N. panel of global climate scientists were set to work through Thursday night to ensure that their strongest case yet for man-made global warming would make sense to the widest…
photo: WN / Marzena J.
26 Sep 2013
UNITED NATIONS: UN leader
Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday pressed the major powers to overcome differences on the
Syria war amid difficult talks on a
UN Security Council resolution on Syria’s chemical arms. Countries suffering the refugee fallout…
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas
DENVER – Six people who were unaccounted for after massive flooding in
Colorado have been found safe and well, authorities said Tuesday. Only one person remained missing and presumed dead. Eight deaths have been confirmed. It was a remarkable outcome…
photo: US Army / Joseph K. VonNida
photo: UN / Amanda Voisard
24 September 2013 –
The President of
Bulgaria appealed for substantial progress in fighting poverty, ending conflicts and preserving the environment under the overall objective of safeguarding human dignity as he took the podium at the high-level…
photo: UN / Amanda Voisard
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras
25 Sep 2013
DENVER – Six people who were unaccounted for after massive flooding in
Colorado have been found safe and well, authorities said Tuesday. Only one person remained missing and presumed dead. Eight deaths have been confirmed. It was a remarkable outcome…
photo: US Army / Joseph K. VonNida
photo: UN / Amanda Voisard
24 September 2013 –
The President of
Bulgaria appealed for substantial progress in fighting poverty, ending conflicts and preserving the environment under the overall objective of safeguarding human dignity as he took the podium at the high-level…
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24 Sep 2013
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BERLIN: The leader of
Germany‘s
Free Democrats (
FDP) resigned on Monday after the party’s worst-ever election defeat, which saw it kicked out of parliament where it was junior partner to
Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s conservatives. Outgoing vice…
photo: AP / Martin Meissner
PESHAWAR,
Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistan police official says the death toll from a church bombing has risen to 81 as angry Christians protested the deadliest attack ever in Pakistan…
photo: AP / Fareed Khan
Egypt is likely to completely rewrite the constitution adopted under Mohamed Morsi, a spokesman for the committee amending it said on Sunday, in a further push to reverse changes introduced under the deposed president. The 50-member…
photo: AP / Hassan Ammar
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CONAKRY,
Guinea —
Security forces in Guinea’s capital used tear gas to break up clashes that erupted Sunday between supporters of the opposition and ruling parties campaigning for long-delayed and hotly-contested legislative elections, resulting in…
photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell
23 Sep 2013
A powerful typhoon that slammed into southern China with winds that blew cars off the road has caused more deaths, bringing the toll in Asia to at least 33. Typhoon Usagi, which was the season’s strongest storm at its peak, forced hundreds of flight cancellations and shut down shipping and train lines before weakening to a tropical depression over…
PESHAWAR,
Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistan police official says the death toll from a church bombing has risen to 81 as angry Christians protested the deadliest attack ever in Pakistan…
photo: AP / Fareed Khan
Egypt is likely to completely rewrite the constitution adopted under Mohamed Morsi, a spokesman for the committee amending it said on Sunday, in a further push to reverse changes introduced under the deposed president. The 50-member…
photo: AP / Hassan Ammar
CONAKRY,
Guinea —
Security forces in Guinea’s capital used tear gas to break up clashes that erupted Sunday between supporters of the opposition and ruling parties campaigning for long-delayed and hotly-contested legislative elections, resulting in…
photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell
photo: AP / Abdel Magid al-Fergany
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras
Catholics around the globe are reacting mostly positively to
Pope Francis‘ recent remarks that the church has become too focused on “small-minded rules” on hot-button issues like homosexuality, abortion and contraceptives. At
Masses over the weekend,…
photo: WN / Marzena J.
As
Hurricane Katrina devastated
New Orleans in
2005, thousands of pets were forced to be left behind, but
Colorado‘s massive pet rescue in
Boulder taught emergency personnel that keeping humans and their four-legged friends together have made the…
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22 Sep 2013
22 Sep 2013
Tweet JINAN, China – A Chinese court sentenced ousted senior politician Bo Xilai to life in jail on Sunday after finding him guilty on all counts following his dramatic five-day trial last month on charges of corruption, taking bribes and abuse of power. Bo was a rising star in China’s leadership circles when his career was stopped short last year…
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BERLIN — She enjoys overwhelming popularity and leads an economy that’s the envy of
Europe. But
Angela Merkel is in a fight to clinch a new term for her ruling coalition in Sunday’s national election, with polls showing her center-right…
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September 20: Joined by
Egypt‘s top interim leaders, Egypt’s military chief led a funeral procession today for a police general killed in a raid on an Islamist stronghold near
Cairo, aiming to show a national front against supporters of the ousted…
photo: AP / Hassan Ammar
NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (
Xinhua) —
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Friday called on world business leaders to do even more in conjunction with the
United Nations to promote sustainable development worldwide, saying that “we cannot accept a rising…
photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (
Xinhua) —
U.S. space agency
NASA on Friday announced an end to the eight-year
Deep Impact mission that included an unprecedented impact, comet flybys and the return of approximately
500,
000 images of celestial objects. The…
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21 Sep 2013
In the short term, the White House‘s decision to strike a deal with Russia overSyria‘s chemical weapons bailed President Barack Obama out of a Syria use-of-force vote that he was likely to lose. But in the medium term, what has transpired after the August 21 chemical weapons attack in Damascus has clearly favored Assad, Russia,…
BERLIN — She enjoys overwhelming popularity and leads an economy that’s the envy of
Europe. But
Angela Merkel is in a fight to clinch a new term for her ruling coalition in Sunday’s national election, with polls showing her center-right…
photo: AP / dpa,Jochen Luebke
photo: AP / Kamran Jebreili
photo: AP / Akira Suemori
September 20: Joined by
Egypt‘s top interim leaders, Egypt’s military chief led a funeral procession today for a police general killed in a raid on an Islamist stronghold near
Cairo, aiming to show a national front against supporters of the ousted…
photo: AP / Hassan Ammar
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (
Xinhua) —
U.S. space agency
NASA on Friday announced an end to the eight-year
Deep Impact mission that included an unprecedented impact, comet flybys and the return of approximately
500,
000 images of celestial objects. The…
photo: Public Domain / Mosesofmason
photo: UN / Mark Garten
Islamist
Boko Haram militants killed 159 people in two roadside attacks in northeast
Nigeria this week, officials said, far more than was originally reported and a
sign that a four-month-old army offensive has yet to stabilise the region. In the…
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba
20 Sep 2013
Syria&aposs government says it will call for a cease-fire at a proposed
UnitedNations-backed peace conference aimed at ending the country&aposs civil war.
Deputy Prime Minister Qadri Jamil told
The Guardian the conflict has reached a stalemate,…
photo: AP / Narciso Contreras
photo: AP / Dolores Ochoa
DAKAR,
Senegal — Oil is being stolen on an “industrial scale” in
Nigeria, the world’s 13th largest producer, and the country’s politicians and security officials are among those profiting, according to a new report from a prominent
Britishresearch…
photo: AP / George Osodi
Nigerian officials spent Thursday collecting corpses in northeastern
Nigeria where Islamist
Boko Haram militants killed at least 87 people during an attack earlier this week. The…
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photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite
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19 Sep 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iranian President Hasan Rouhani said Wednesday that his country has never sought and will never seek a nuclear bomb, tellingNBC News in an interview that he has full authority to resolve a standoff with the West. Rouhani spoke to the American television network in Tehran just days before he is to make his first appearance as…
Silvio Berlusconi says he will remain at the heart of
Italian politics even if senators vote to throw him out of parliament. The former prime minister and convicted fraudster was speaking before a preliminary vote by a
Senate panel. “I will…
photo: AP / Alberto Pellaschiar
Reuters
September 18, 2013 – 17:12 By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) –
Zimbabwe‘s opposition leader
Morgan Tsvangirai said on Wednesday he would remain leader of his
MDC party despite an internal call for him to quit after an overwhelming…
photo: AP / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi
BERLIN,
Sept 18 (Reuters) –
Germany exported
111 tonnes of chemicals to
Syriabetween
2002 and
2006 that could be used in the production of sarin gas, according to a government document published on Wednesday. But the government rejected a suggestion…
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photo: USAF / Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson
By JULIE JARGON
Starbucks Corp. thrust itself deeper into the national debate over guns, with
Chief Executive Howard Schultz saying the coffee giant wants firearm owners to stop carrying their weapons in its stores. Mr. Schultz, in an open letter…
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18 Sep 2013
Storms leave 40,000 holidaymakers cut off and locals in shelters, with supplies running short and airports waterlogged A police car in a flooded parking lot of Acapulco international airport. Photograph: Victor Lopez/Rex Thousands of tourists were still trapped and locals evacuated from their homes in Acapulco after roads to Mexico‘s most famous…
photo: AP / Guillermo Aria
A wave of car bombs rocked commercial streets in
Baghdad on Tuesday, part of a series of attacks across the country that left 31 victims and 4 attackers dead. The bombings were believed to have been carried out by
Sunnis aiming to undermine…
photo: AP / Karim Kadim
Israel plans to allow building materials meant for private projects into the
Gaza Strip for the first time in six years, an
Israeli defense official said Tuesday.
Gazahas been struggling with a shortage of building materials that has worsened since…
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SWAZILAND’S
King Mswati III has chosen an 18-year-old beauty-pageant contestant as his 15th wife, a palace spokesman said on Tuesday, days before a much-criticised parliamentary vote. “I can confirm that the king has introduced to the nation a new…
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Rwanda‘s governing
RPF party has won a resounding victory in parliamentary elections, securing 76% of the vote.
The party of
President Paul Kagame, which came to power after the genocide of
1994, won 40 of the 53 seats directly elected on…
photo: AP / Marc Hofer
King Willem-Alexander delivered a message to the
Dutch people from the government in a nationally televised address: the welfare state of the
20th centuryis gone. In its place a “participation society” is emerging, in which people must…
photo: AP / Dusan Vranic
DENVER — A little more than a year after
Colorado Gov.
John Hickenlooperinsisted his wildfire-ravaged state was still “open for business,” he may have to throw another lifeline to the state’s billion-dollar tourism industry as the world takes in the…
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17 Sep 2013
AMSTERDAM — King Willem-Alexander delivered a message to the Dutch people from the government Tuesday in a nationally televised address: the welfare state of the 20th century is gone. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow@nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors In its place will be a…
DENVER — A little more than a year after
Colorado Gov.
John Hickenlooperinsisted his wildfire-ravaged state was still “open for business,” he may have to throw another lifeline to the state’s billion-dollar tourism industry as the world takes in the…
photo: US DoD / Joseph K. VonNida
photo: UN / Jean-Marc Ferr
By
Keith Coffman, Reuters DENVER –
Search-and-rescue teams bolstered by
National Guard troops fanned out across
Colorado’s flood-stricken landscape on Monday, as a week of torrential rains blamed for eight deaths and the destruction of at…
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Careful not to blame either side for a deadly chemical weapon attack, UN inspectors reported that rockets loaded with the nerve agent sarin had been fired from an area where
Syria‘s military has bases, but said the evidence could have been…
photo: UN / Jean-Marc Ferré
The UN has confirmed that the worst chemical weapons attack in 25 years took place in eastern
Damascus last month, involving specially designed rockets that spread sarin nerve agent over rebel-held suburbs of the
Syrian capital. The report did not…
photo: AP / Qusair Lens
A top policewoman in southern
Afghanistan died Monday after being shot by unknown attackers, months after her predecessor was also slain. Her death, one of the latest in a string of attacks on prominent
Afghan women, could make it even harder to…
photo: US DoD / Glenn Fawcett
Dozens of people trapped in a deadly urban battle between Muslim rebels and
Philippine troops rushed to safety on Tuesday as the guerillas lost ground in more heavy fighting, authorities said. Sixty-one people have died and 70,
000 residents been…
photo: AP / Bullit Marquez
16 Sep 2013
ACAPULCO, Mexico — The remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel continued to deluge Mexico’s southwestern Pacific shoulder with dangerous rains whileHurricane Ingrid headed for a Monday landfall on the country’s opposite coast in an unusual double onslaught that federal authorities said had caused at least 21 deaths. The heaviest blow Sunday fell on the…
Reuters
September 16, 2013 – 12:04 BRUSSELS (Reuters) –
The European Unionpledged an additional 650 million euros (
541 million pounds) in aid for
Somaliaon Monday to back a three-year reconstruction plan aimed at building on fragile security…
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The fighting has been a stark reminder that decades-old grievances fester in the Catholic-majority country despite strong economic growth and an agreement with the biggest Muslim rebel group that was meant to pave the way to peace. The army said at…
photo: AP / Bullit Marquez
GIGLIO ISLAND,
Italy — A complex system of pulleys and counterweights on Monday gently began lifting up the
Costa Concordia cruise ship from its side on a Tuscan reef where it capsized in
2012, an anxiously awaited operation of a kind that has never…
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Thousands of workers from both
South and
North Korea returned to the joint
Kaesong industrial complex to restore operations after escalating threats of war forced its shutdown five months ago. Hundreds of trucks carrying factory managers and company…
photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz
15 Sep 2013
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) — Nearly 100 Muslim guerrillas who have held scores of people hostage for a week in a southern Philippine city have been killed or captured in an offensive to retake rebel-held coastal communities, officials said Sunday. Army troops and police special forces have regained rebel-held grounds and are pressing an assault…
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BAGHDAD — A new wave of insurgent attacks, mostly car bombs targeting Shiite-dominated cities in central and southern
Iraq, killed at least 35 people on Sunday, officials said.
The attacks continue a surge in bloodshed that has engulfed the…
photo: AP / Nabil al-Jurani
By Prak
Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) –
Police fired teargas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who had rallied in
Cambodia‘s capital on Sunday to push for an independent investigation into a July election they say was fixed to…
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Three civilian lives have been claimed in a Taliban suicide attack in a failed attempt to target foreign forces in the
Daman district of
Kandahar province in
Afghanistan, officials have said. The attacker prematurely triggered…
photo: US Army / Chad Carlson
KUNDUZ,
Afghanistan –
Sometime in the next few weeks, local workers will rip out the fancy cooking equipment in the gleaming, $20 million armored dining hall on the German-run military base at
Kunduz, Afghanistan, and replace it with crude…
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14 Sep 2013
BALTIMORE — MANY scientists believe that by transforming the earth’s natural landscapes, we are undermining the very life support systems that sustain us. Like bacteria in a petri dish, our exploding numbers are reaching the limits of a finite planet, with dire consequences. Disaster looms as humans exceed the earth’s natural carrying capacity….
The rescue of hundreds of people stranded by epic mountain flooding in
Coloradohas been stepped up as food and water supplies run low.
Meanwhile thousands more were driven from their homes on the plains as debris-filled rivers became muddy seas…
photo: AP / Brennan Linsley
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CALI,
Colombia –
Italy’s first black minister defended her adopted homeland Friday, insisting it is not racist even though she endured a series of racially-charged threats and taunts since assuming her post. Speaking to a gathering in Colombia of…
photo: AP / Domenico Stinellis
Attacks across
Iraq, including a bombing at a
Sunni mosque north of
Baghdad, killed 33 people Friday in the latest eruption of violence to rock the country, officials said. The deadliest of Friday’s attacks occurred when a bomb exploded inside a…
photo: AP
Four men have been charged over an attempt to take control of computers at a bank branch to steal millions of pounds,
Scotland Yard said.
Police thwarted the cyber gang after one of the plotters allegedly posed as an engineer to fit a computer in a…
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13 Sep 2013
Philippine officials were trying to negotiate a surrender of Muslim rebels who were holding more than 100 civilians hostage, as President Benigno Aquino IIIwarned that his government would not hesitate to use force to end the five-day standoff. On Friday Aquino visited troops and some of the 15,000 displaced people in southern Zamboanga…
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In recent days the
Egyptian army has launched a major military campaign against militants in the northern
Sinai Peninsula.
Government spokesmen have said they intend to “fully cleanse” the area of militants, and military sources say 22,
000…
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
UNITED NATIONS — Congolese and
U.N. troops have pushed back the
M23 rebel group that had been entrenched in the hills above
Goma and the rebels no longer pose a threat to the strategically important city in eastern
Congo, the U.N. peacekeeping chief…
photo: UN / Sylvain Liechti
Reuters
September 12, 2013 – 15:24 By
Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) –
Iran will cooperate with the
U.N. nuclear agency to find ways to “overcome existing issues once and for all”,
Tehran‘s new envoy said on Thursday, hinting at a more flexible…
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ROME — An international team of engineers is expressing confidence a never-before attempted strategy to set upright a luxury liner which capsized off
Italy will work. They devised no “
Plan B” if the
Concordia falls back on its crippled side or splits…
photo: AP / Pier Paolo Cito
photo: AP / RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service
photo: AP / Bullit Marquez
Three Malian soldiers have been wounded in the first clashes with
Tuareg rebels since the two sides signed a ceasefire deal in June, the army has said, A Malian capitain warned the clash could endanger the truce. The fighting took place near the…
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BARCELONA,
Spain — Several hundred thousand people demanding an independent
Catalonia have joined hands to form a 400-kilometer (250-mile) human chain across the northeastern region of Spain. The demonstration Wednesday aimed to illustrate local…
photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti
photo: AP / Gregorio Borgia
11 Sep 2013
Prosecutors on Wednesday asked for a “death sentence” for four men who participated in the rape and murder of a 23-year-old student last December, a goal long sought by the victim’s family and many Indians who were horrified by the case, Ellen Barry wrote in The New York Times. “There can be nothing more diabolic than a helpless girl…
11 Sep 2013
Rebel fighters holding scores of hostages in the southern Philippines have demanded international mediation, an official said. The rebels, enraged by a broken peace deal with the government, are holding the civilian hostages as human shields near the port city of Zamboanga. Troops have surrounded…
EL-ARISH,
Egypt (AP) — A pair of suicide bombers rammed their explosives-laden cars into military targets in Egypt’s volatile
Sinai on Wednesday, killing at least four soldiers and wounding 20 people, security officials said. One bombing brought…
photo: AP
ZAMBOANGA: Thousands of residents fled as fighting between
Philippine troops and Muslim rebels intensified Wednesday on the third day of a deadly siege in a key southern city. At least 13,
000 people crammed into Zamboanga city sports stadium seeking…
photo: AP / Bullit Marquez
photo: AP / South Korean Unification Ministry
WASHINGTON —
The National Security Agency admitted in documents released Tuesday that it had wrongly put 16,
000 phone numbers on an “alert list” so their incoming calls could be monitored, a mistake that a judge on the secret surveillance court…
photo: AP / Patrick Semansky, File
What could be worse for
America‘s standing in the world than a
Congress refusing to support a
President‘s proposal for military action against a rogue regime that used
WMD? Here’s one idea:
A U.S. President letting that rogue be rescued from military…
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photo: AP / Luis Hidalgo
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NAIROBI : Chefs from
Denmark’s world famous
Noma restaurant have launched an appeal to support a colleague in war-torn
Somalia after his establishment was targeted again by Al-Qaeda inspired insurgents.
The Village, set up in 2008 by restaurateur…
photo: UN / STUART PRICE
Barack Obama has said he will delay a military strike against
Syria if the Assad regime agrees to place its chemical weapons under international control.
The US president said he was “absolutely” prepared to pause plans for military action…
photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office
ZAMBOANGA,
Philippines : Muslim rebels seized scores more hostages and traded gunfire with Philippines troops today, in the second day of a stand-off after mounting a deadly attack on a southern city, officials said. Gunshots rang out at dawn…
photo: AP
The estranged wife of a former neighbourhood watch volunteer cleared over the fatal shooting of a black teenager has accused him of threatening her and her father with a gun in a call to police. Shellie Zimmerman called police, said
Police Chief…
photo: AP / Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green, Pool
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
AMSTERDAM: A painting that sat for six decades in a Norwegian industrialist’s attic after he was told it was a fake
Van Gogh was pronounced the real thing Monday, making it the first full-size canvas by the tortured
Dutch artist to be…
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09 Sep 2013
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has denied ordering an alleged chemical weapons attack said to have killed hundreds of civilians in the Damascuscountryside on August 21st. He also warned that US military operations designed to degrade his forces could change the course of the war in favour of rebels and radical jihadis, causing regional chaos,…
Police in northern
India are investigating the role of six politicians they believe may have been responsible for inciting violence between members of different religious communities that has left at least 28 people dead. Hundreds of troops and…
photo: AP / Rajesh Kumar Singh
Tweet MANILA – Muslim rebels took 30 civilian hostages in the southern
Philippines on Monday and held security forces in a standoff as part of a drive to derail peace talks, officials said.
Police commandos cordoned off parts of
Zamboanga City on the…
photo: AP
DAKAR,
Senegal –
Mali‘s new prime minister has selected a 34-person
Cabinetthat includes a post focused on reconciliation and development of the country’s north, which fell under rebel control following a coup last year.
The new Cabinet, disclosed…
photo: AP / Harouna Traore
KABUL,
Afghanistan —
Afghan officials said Sunday that a
NATO air strike in the eastern part of the country killed 16 people, including 11 civilians, a version countered by the international coalition, which said in a statement its attack killed 10…
photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus
photo: AP / Gerald Herbert
The question of a military intervention in
Syria continues to divide the international community. Syria expert
Petra Becker sheds light on possible scenarios if the US were to go ahead with such an attack. DW: At the
G20 summit in
St. Petersburg, it…
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
Print 8 September 2013 –
United Nations senior officials highlighted the role of literacy in achieving a more sustainable future, stressing that knowledge can help combat poverty and improve people’s livelihoods. “In our knowledge-based…
photo: UN / Evan Schneider
08 Sep 2013
David Cameron‘s remarks at the G20 summit suggesting that the supporters of a military strike on Syria bypass the UN Security Council have once again cast a harsh light on the workings of a body founded in 1945 with the avowed aim of keeping the world’s peace. If the prime minister has identified a problem, his solution is the worst imaginable….
In the end it was a comfortable win –
Tokyo beating
Istanbul 60-36. In fact Tokyo were so far out in front here that they almost won in the first round. It was all very different four years ago. Then Tokyo polled just 20 votes as they went out in the…
photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi
Australia‘s
PM-elect Tony Abbott has said his top priorities are to abolish a tax on carbon emissions and to stop asylum-seekers arriving by boat. Mr
Abbott‘s Liberal-National coalition ended the
Labor party‘s six-year rule in a…
photo: AP / Rick Rycroft
photo: US Army / Joshua B. Dwyer
It is difficult that
America has lost so many young men and women in the wars in
Iraq and
Afghanistan.
It hurts, and yet we expect casualties when there is war. We honor our fallen and still active troops and veterans with gratitude whenever we can….
photo: US Army / Joshua B. Dwyer
The good economic news keeps coming. The latest motorcycle manufacturers to report good sales figures are Harley-Davidson and Ducati. Harley today released its fourth quarter world-wide sales results for…
photo: WN / Marzena J.
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
Asylum seeker activists held placards and yelled: ‘
Refugees are welcome here!’ The leaders cast their votes, amid some chaotic scenes “Ah, the vultures on
Vulture Street,” a protester yelled as the media covering
Kevin Rudd arrived ahead…
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President Barack Obama had mixed results as he lobbied members of the
G20leading world economies to bolster international support for a military response to the
Syrian government‘s alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians. Here is…
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CAIRO (Reuters) –
Egypt‘s army-backed government has dissolved the
Muslim Brotherhood as a registered non-governmental organization, the state-run Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Friday, pressing a crackdown on deposed…
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra
photo: AP / Ben Curtis, File