Sunday, 15 September 2013
 




2013-09-14
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...
2013-09-14
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...
2013-09-14
Tweet United Nations, Sep 14 (IANS) With global and national efforts to end preventable deaths of children under five years of age, child mortality worldwide has been on decline by half since 1990, a...
2013-09-14
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...
2013-09-14
GUWAHATI: The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) report in which the UN, for the first time, has termed the exodus of Bangladeshis into India as "the single largest...
2013-09-14
By JAY SOLOMON and CAROL E. LEE CONNECT Enlarge Image Close GENEVA—The Obama administration took two steps back from its push for a prompt attack on Syria, allowing several weeks more for diplomacy on...
2013-09-14
The family of Pablo Escobar, a cocaine lord venerated by Colombia's poor and hunted relentlessly by police, are attempting to register his name as a commercial brand. Pablo Escobar Photo: AP AFP...
2013-09-13
LYONS, Colo. (AP) — This is what Associated Press reporters on the scene Friday are learning about unfolding events: 1:56 p.m. MDT The football game between Fresno State and Colorado is being...
2013-09-13
The president of the Central Africa Republic says he is disbanding the Seleka rebel group which helped to bring him to power earlier this year. President Michel...
2013-09-13
For Americans, September 11 is a day that will live in infamy along with December 7, 1941. On both days America was attacked by another nation, resulting in massive destruction and loss of life. On...
2013-09-13
Somewhere bumping along the back roads in Mali, Nick Kristof challenged me to reflect on lessons learned from my 25 years working in Africa first as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1980s and most...
2013-09-13
The international envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, today held a three way meeting with John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov as key talks in Geneva enter the second day. Speaking from Genevea, Mr Lavrov and...
2013-09-13
Human Rights Watch on Friday urged Commonwealth leaders to boycott an upcoming summit in Sri Lanka to protest against the country’s failure to investigate abuses by its military during a decades-long...
2013-09-13
BEIRUT — An international human rights group is accusing Syrian government forces and pro-regime militias of summary executions that left at least 248 people dead in two predominantly Sunni Muslim...
2013-09-13
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...
2013-09-13
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2013-09-13
(Source: UN - United Nations) Press release Some 35 million more children under five at risk if child mortality goal not met A new UNICEF report examining trends in child mortality shows that, if...
2013-09-13
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...
2013-09-13
BRUSSELS, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- European Commission leaders on Thursday hailed the formal approval by the European Parliament (EP) of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) for European banks. "I am...
2013-09-13
Congolese and United Nations troops pushed back the M23 rebel group, forcing it back to the negotiating table and removing a threat to the city of Goma, the UN peacekeeping chief has said. Herve...
2013-09-12
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...
2013-09-12
Britain's Prince William has completed his last shift with the Armed Forces. It had been widely reported that the 31-year-old royal was planning to focus on his charity work following the birth of his...
2013-09-12
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...
2013-09-12
BY MATTHEW LEE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva Thursday morning to test the seriousness of a Russian proposal to secure Syria's chemical weapons....