Thursday, 04 September 2014
 




2014-09-04
updated 1:24 AM EDT, Thu September 4, 2014 (CNN) -- In a 55-minute long video, al Qaeda announced it will launch a new branch in the Indian subcontinent. Speaking in the video, al Qaeda leader Ayman...
2014-09-04
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday that more than 100 Americans are fighting with Islamic State militants, the first time the Pentagon chief has put a number on U.S....
2014-09-04
Jessica Berman The growing number of Type 2 diabetes cases worldwide will make it difficult to control and eliminate tuberculosis. Experts have found a connection between the two diseases, reminiscent...
2014-09-04
By Andy McFarlane BBC News The threat from Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria continues to feature heavily in the press. Under the headline "your move, Mr President," the Independent...
2014-09-03
Reuters DUBAI — Al-Qaida leader Ayman al Zawahri on Wednesday announced the formation of an Indian branch of his militant group he said would spread Islamic rule and “raise the flag of...
2014-09-03
VOA News U.S. authorities have seized $500,000 of assets tied to a former South Korean president convicted of corruption. The announcement on Wednesday by the Justice Department marks the second...
2014-09-03
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says more than 1,900 people have now died in West Africa's Ebola outbreak. WHO head Margaret Chan said there were 3,500 confirmed or probable cases in Guinea,...
2014-09-03
Ukraine’s leader sent financial markets into turbulence as he backtracked on talk of an end to five months of violence in his nation’s east. President Petro Poroshenko announced this morning that he’d...
2014-09-03
Vladimir Putin says he "sketched out" a peace plan during his flight from Moscow. Photo: AP Kiev: Russian President Vladimir Putin has listed seven steps he said were necessary for a ceasefire in the...
2014-09-03
Former French First Lady Valerie Trierweiler has claimed President Francois Hollande tried to win her back with flowers, dinner invitations and text messages in her secret memoir. The 49-year-old, a...
2014-09-03
Reuters MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA— The Nigerian town of Bama remains under government control after an assault by Boko Haram, the Borno state government and local vigilante groups said on Wednesday,...
2014-09-03
'We will not be intimidated' ... US President Barack Obama says America will seek regional partners to help it dismantle Islamic State. Photo: AP The United States plans to fight Islamic State until...
2014-09-03
Al Pessin CARDIFF, WALES— The 28 NATO leaders are gathering in Wales, in western Britain, for their first summit in two years, amid a new and challenging array of crises. In 2012 in Chicago,...
2014-09-03
UNITED NATIONS: Top UN officials have warned that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa "will get worse before it gets better" as they called for international action to deal with the crisis, saying...
2014-09-03
BERNE: FIFA president Sepp Blatter has reiterated that Russia's hosting of the 2018 World Cup is not up for discussion. "We are not placing any questions over the World Cup in Russia," he told an...
2014-09-03
The best result of Tuesday's action at the U.S. Open was that victories by Roger Federer and Gael Monfils will put them on the same tennis court in two days. That should be good for tennis. Everybody...
2014-09-03
Natacha Bouchart says such a move would be illegal, but she wants to send a strong message to Britain French police expel migrants from a camp in Calais in July. Photograph: Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty...
2014-09-03
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has ordered about 350 more troops to...
2014-09-03
An estimated $1tn (£600bn) a year is being taken out of poor countries and millions of lives are lost because of corruption, according to campaigners. A report by the US-based anti-poverty...
2014-09-02
By Akane Otani NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended mostly lower on Tuesday, retreating from records set the previous month, as falling crude oil prices dragged energy shares down and offset strong...
2014-09-02
By Arun Kumar WASHINGTON: Just two weeks after beheading American photojournalist James Foley, the Islamic State (IS) Sunni extremist organisation sent what it called "A second message to America",...
2014-09-02
Scott Bobb JERUSALEM— Israeli officials are following with concern the recent fighting between Syrian rebels and government forces near the contested Golan Heights. Forty-four U.N. peacekeepers from...
2014-09-02
VOA News Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested 88 men - half of whom are Saudis - and are suspected to be part of an al-Qaida terrorist cell operating in the kingdom. Interior Ministry spokesman...
2014-09-02
Lisa Schlein GENEVA— Thousands of Nigerians have fled vicious attacks by Boko Haram and sought refuge in Cameroon in the past 10 days, officials from Cameroon and the United Nations say. Cameroonian...
2014-09-02
Alexei Nikolsky / Reuters So much for subtlety. Russia President Vladimir Putin apparently told the president of the European Commission that he could capture Kiev in two weeks, if he...