English - Worldnews Network

Meeting between David Cameron and Jean-Claude Juncker

29 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

EU referendum: UK 'closes in on EU in-work benefits deal'

The UK is said to be closing in on a deal that would allow it to deny in-work benefits to workers from other parts of the EU for up to four years. A source close to the negotiations told the BBC the proposed arrangement with the EU would mean the UK could initiate an "emergency brake" on the payments. It would have to show that the influx of workers from other EU countries was

File - Georgian troops provide security while U.S. soldiers show other Georgian troops the hidden spots Taliban members use to shoot rockets at Bagram Airfield during a patrol through the village of Kalamusa in Bagram, Afghanistan, Oct. 11, 2014.

29 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

Security in Afghanistan ‘worsening’

WASHINGTON: The Obama administration's pick to be the next top American commander in Afghanistan said on Thursday the security situation in... ...

File - Internally Displaced Persons visit a health clinic at the Manik Farm camp to seek medical treatment, 23 May 2009, Sri Lanka.

29 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

Sri Lanka's missing thousands: one woman's six-year fight to find her husband

When journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda went missing, police told wife Sandhya ‘getting abducted was fashionable’ and he would soon return. More than 90 court appearances and a change in government later, she is still searching

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Park Geun-hye, President of the Republic of Korea.

29 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

Koreans, Japanese Join Hands to List Peace Mission with UNESCO

Korean and Japanese civic groups have joined hands in submitting hundreds of documents to UNESCO about historic Korean peace missions to Japan. They want them

FOX News debate moderators (L-R) Chris Wallace, Megyn Kelly and Bret Baier wait for the start of the Republican presidential primary debate, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa.

29 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

GOP rivals mock Trump, try to make the most of his absence

Click photo to enlarge Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, answers a question as Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., looks on during a Republican presidential primary debate, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) «12345» DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) —

Republican presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump speaks to an audience during a town hall event, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N.H.

29 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

Fox accuses Trump of wanting $5 million in exchange for debate participation

In Donald Trump’s absence from the Republican presidential debate on Thursday, his rivals chided the billionaire front-runner for skipping the event and holding a competing fund-raiser for veterans across town in Des Moines, Iowa. Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes had three phone conversations wit...

A still from FBI footage showing the joint FBI and Oregon State Police traffic stop and OSP officer-involved shooting of Robert “LaVoy” Finicum on the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The clip was shown at an FBI press conference in Burns, Oregon on 01/28/2016.

29 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

Oregon standoff: FBI releases video of Finicum shooting

Media captionAerial video released by the FBI January 28, 2016 shows a man who had just stepped out of the white pickup truck at a police roadblock Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, the Oregon militaman killed by police on Tuesday, reached for a handgun before he was shot, according to the FBI. The agency has released dramatic footage of the shooting, showing Finicum speeding away from

President of the United States Barack Obama

US will counter ISIS terror plotters in any country: Obama

The US will continue to counter terror plotters of Islamic State militant group in any country where necessary, President Barack Obama has said while directing his national security team to intensify its ongoing counter-terrorism campaign to destroy the terror outfit. In a meeting with his National Security Council, Obama discussed intensification of US campaign to degrade and

Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), speaks at a press conference following the Security Council meeting on the humanitarian situation in Syria, 27 January, 2016.

29 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

Syria peace talks to kick off in Geneva without key figures

UN-mediated peace talks aimed at ending Syria’s conflict are scheduled to kick off on Friday, but the absence of key opposition members threatens to derail the biggest diplomatic push yet to resolve the nearly five-year-old civil war. ...

Climate change could worsen diseases like Zika virus, experts say

The recent outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in South America serves as a stark reminder of the health risks linked to a warming world, health experts say. The virus, linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil, has already been discovered in Australian travellers returning from South America, and was detected in six Australians last year. Zika is spread by

Honoring Holocaust heroes, Obama warns against rise of intolerance

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned on Wednesday against the rise of religious intolerance in veiled criticism of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during an event to honor men and women who helped save Jews from peril in the Holocaust. Obama made the remarks at the Israeli Embassy, where he attended a ceremony to honor, posthumously,

28 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

Has Aung San Suu Kyi' picked Myanmar's president?

The first time Aung San Suu Kyi's party won a general election the Burmese army refused to accept the result. So it's understandable that everything she's done since the National League for Democracy's victory last November has been focused on avoiding a repeat of 1990 and making sure that this time power is actually transferred. There's been no victory rally, no triumphalism,

File - Forces loyal to former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo set fire to roadside shops in Attécoubé, a district of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, after shutting down anti-Gbagbo protests, 24 February, 2011.

28 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

All eyes on trial of Ivory Coast's fallen strongman Gbagbo

Former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo goes on trial Thursday charged with crimes against humanity, as five years after 3,000 people died in post-election unrest his supporters and foes hope to finally uncover the truth behind the crisis. ...

File - Refugees and migrants wait for the bus to transport them onward after their arrival from the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos to the Athens' port of Piraeus on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015.

28 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

Sweden May Send Back up to 80,000 Refugees After Pleas Rejected

Sweden’s government may need to reject almost half the people who sought asylum within its borders last year as the government looks into the feasibility of sending them back. As many as 80,000 of the 163,000 asylum

28 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

Scientists unravel breakthrough in schizophrenia cause

Scientists pursuing the biological roots of schizophrenia have identified a potential factor - a normal brain process that gets kicked into overdrive - that could lead to breakthroughs in the prevention or treatment of the serious mental health condition. The result, accomplished by analysis of genetics, autopsy brain tissue and laboratory mice, is "going to be a game-changer"

File - Ammon Bundy, right, shakes hand with a federal agent guarding the gate at the Burns Municipal Airport in Oregon on Friday, Jan. 22, 2016.

3 more arrested as Bundy urges refuge occupiers to leave

Hours after the jailed leader of an armed anti-government group urged remaining militants to abandon the Oregon wildlife refuge they have occupied for more than three weeks, the FBI said they arrested three more suspects at one of the checkpoints they've established near the refuge. The FBI and Oregon State Police said in a statement that 45-year-old Duane Leo Ehmer of Irrigon,

UNESCO World Heritage Sites under threat

LUANG PRABANG: A number of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites face major challenges, including the following: MACHU PICCHU, PERU This magnificent "lost city of the Incas" is cited by UNESCO as beset by logging, poor waste management and agricultural incursion but hasn't been placed on its list of sites in danger. Peruvian experts are raising other alarm bells, from vehicle fumes to

Japanese Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Akira Amari reacts during a press conference in Tokyo, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016.

28 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

Big blow to Abe as economy minister Amari quits over graft claims

(From Reuters) Japan’s economy minister Akira Amari said Thursday he was stepping down over graft allegations, dealing a major blow to Prime Minister

File - President Barack Obama jokes with cast members of the movie "The Monuments Men" in the Diplomatic Reception Room, prior to a movie screening in the Family Theater of the White House, Feb. 18, 2014.

28 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

Barack Obama on Oscars diversity: are we giving everyone a fair shot?

US president weighs in on current debate over all-white lists of nominees, arguing that more diversity leads to ‘better art’

File - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) holds talks with Moammar Gadhaffi, President of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, 2 February, 2009, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

28 Jan 2016
- more
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+

Libya, extremism and the consequences of collapse

When former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was dragged from a drainage pipe in his hometown of Sirte and summarily executed by rebel forces in October 2011, much of the world looked at the event optimistically as the end of a 42-year dictatorship and a chance for the country to move forward. In reality, however, the power vacuum left by the fall of Gaddafi's regime,

Jail Escapee Surrenders To Police In California

Italian police capture two fugitive mafia bosses in mountain bunker full of guns

Psychedelic Rock Icon Paul Kantner Dies At 74

Reports Indicate Apple's iPhone 5se To Be Available By Mid-March At $499 Pricetag

More children in Central African Republic accuse European troops of sex abuse

Foreign journalists released after Burundi police swoop

Four Chinese miners rescued after 36 days trapped underground

Media Provides Conflicting Reports On Severity Of Israeli Power Ransomware Cyberattack