MayorBill de Blasio gave an impassioned presentation about traffic safety on Tuesday. On Thursday, under the immutable law of political comeuppance, he got busted by a TV news crew that caught his two-S.U.V. detail rolling through stop signs, changing lanes without signaling and barreling down the highway over the speed limit. At this point another law of politics kicked in, wherein the official response generates more heat and derision than the actual offense. The New York Police Department,...
Print21 February 2014 – International Mother Language Day celebrates linguistic and cultural diversity alongside multilingualism as a force for peace and sustainable development, United Nations officials said today, marking the commemoration by calling on countries to promote and protect local...
Africa's oldest leader, he has outlived most of his younger siblings and most of his political foes. "It is all God's will," he said at the burial of his younger sister Bridget who died aged 78. Mugabe once quipped he would rule his country until he turned 100. After winning a new five-year term...
Reuters February 21, 2014 - 12:15 MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab said they carried out Friday's car bomb and gun attack against the presidential palace in central Mogadishu that left several people dead. "We targetted the so-called presidential palace. Our...
In what lawyers described as a "groundbreaking" decision, the office of New York City's comptroller has settled a lawsuit for $6.4 million without even...
TweetKabul, Feb 21 (IANS) Five people were killed in a car bomb attack on a district police station and ensuing gunfight between Taliban militants and policemen in a suburban area of Afghanistan's capital Kabul Friday morning, police said. "Three of the station policemen were injured...
LONDON/ANKARA (Reuters) - As Syria's war nears the start of its fourth year, Iran has stepped up support on the ground for PresidentBashar al-Assad, providing elite teams to gather intelligence and train troops, sources with knowledge of military movements say. This further backing from Tehran,...
The European Union (EU) foreign ministers on Thursday agreed to adopt sanctions against Ukraine, including asset freezes, visa bans and ban on exporting anti-riot equipments, EU...
US PresidentBarack Obama will meet exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at the White House on Friday, a move likely to anger China. The two last met in 2011, in talks that China said damaged Sino-US ties. China describes the Dalai Lama as a separatist, while the spiritual leader says he...
