Sunday, 28 February 2016
 




2016-02-28
ADEN, Yemen, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Warplanes of the Saudi-led Arab coalition launched airstrikes that mistakenly hit a public market in the northeastern parts of Yemen's capital Sanaa on Saturday,...
2016-02-28
ATHENS, Greece – Greece is fast becoming the “warehouse of human beings” that its government has vowed not to allow. Hastily setup camps for refugees and other migrants are full....
2016-02-27
OMAHA, Neb.The United States' economy is in better shape than the presidential candidates make it seem, investor Warren Buffett said Saturday, even though businesses like his still face challenges....
2016-02-27
Isabela Cocoli More than 20,000 Russians marched through central Moscow Saturday to honor the memory of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who was killed in the shadow of the Kremlin one year ago....
2016-02-27
Conceding that the fight against Islamic State remains “difficult”, President Barack Obama today said the US will “destroy” the barbaric terror group and asserted that ending...
2016-02-27
Margaret Besheer The cease-fire in Syria that began Saturday has mostly held, but there have been some incidents of violence. State media report a car bomb explosion on the outskirts of the central...
2016-02-27
Preliminary results early Saturday morning showed reformist candidates heading for their best showing in more than a decade in Iranian parliamentary elections, according to local media and election...
2016-02-26
New Mexico teenagers may now exchange nude photos without fear of criminal prosecution under a new bill that legalizes sexting and could have national implications for laws on child abuse images. Gov....
2016-02-26
A Christian pastor in China who refused to remove a cross from his church’s roof has been jailed for 14 years for corruption and inciting people to disturb social order, BBC News reports. Chinese...
2016-02-26
The government of Singapore has greenlit a system to track cars with satellites to calculate road taxes, and a lot of people don't trust it, Mashable reports. On Thursday, the Land Transport Authority...
2016-02-26
It's the latest sign that Republicans are beginning to accept the idea that the real estate magnate could win the party's nomination. ......
2016-02-26
Iranians went to the polls Friday to decide on the makeup of the country’s parliament and clerical body known as the Assembly of Experts, a referendum on whether to further empower the country’s...
2016-02-26
Thirty-seven people stranded on Australia's flagship icebreaker, which ran aground in Antarctica, have been rescued, authorities said. The Aurora Australis had broken free of its mooring lines on...
2016-02-26
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine security forces killed as many as 42 Muslim rebels claiming links with Islamic State and captured their stronghold during five days of fighting in the mountains of a...
2016-02-26
Alfred E. Mann, a pioneering investor and philanthropist whose companies have developed breakthrough medical devices including the first rechargeable pacemaker and an artificial retina that allows the...
2016-02-26
US President Barack Obama put the onus for upholding a ceasefire in Syria firmly on the regime and its Russian ally, warning Moscow and Damascus that the "world will be watching." Hours before the...
2016-02-26
By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia and the United States circulated to the U.N. Security Council on Thursday a draft resolution endorsing the planned halt in fighting in Syria and...
2016-02-26
President Barack Obama directed his national security team Thursday to press the US-led international campaign to destroy the Islamic State group "on all fronts." He also expressed hope that a...
2016-02-25
One of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s key promises he’s made since he launched his presidential bid last year has struck a raw nerve with former Mexican President Vicente Fox, CNN reported Thursday....
2016-02-25
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Three decades after a "people power" revolt ousted his dictator father, Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was wooing voters on the campaign trail this week in his bid to become the...
2016-02-25
A French judge on Thursday upheld a government plan to partially demolish a shanty town near the port of Calais for migrants trying to reach Britain, Reuters reports. Reuters quoted a spokesman for...
2016-02-25
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran&aposs; reformists are hoping to win their strongest presence in parliament since 2004 as hard-liners try to stave off a blow to their power in nationwide elections Friday,...
2016-02-25
WAVERLY, Va. (AP) -- A powerful storm system swept across the East Coast on Wednesday, killing four people in Virginia and knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the...
2016-02-25
An inquiry into sexual abuse at Britain’s BBC by late presenter Jimmy Savile on Thursday found a culture of “fear” around whistleblowing that helped him hide his crimes for decades and persists to...
2016-02-25
The government of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is strongly encouraging its citizens to hunker down and work harder with a “70-day campaign of loyalty” prior to a May meeting of its ruling Workers’...