Article by WNews.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingIt was during one of the debates that you could practically hear a pin drop, that is, when Republican candidate Donald Trump asserted a former Republican president failed to keep Americans safe on Sept ... invasion ofIraq, despite a Saudi Arabia connection to 9/11, was an enormous mistake facilitated by former PresidentGeorge W....
Soaring through space nearly 75 million miles away from Earth, the spacecraft placed itself in EmergencyMode sometime in the middle of last week. NASA engineers were unaware of the problem until Thursday when they were unable to contact Kepler... More than 1,000of those have ... The K2 phase of its operations involves the study of the Milky Way galaxy....
Such students have faced long enrollment delays and have been turned away from classrooms as the result of some districts' arbitrary interpretations of residency rules and state laws, the researchers said ... Many states allow students to enroll beyond that age, according to the Education Commissionof the States ... Researchers said they had presented their recommendations to the DepartmentofEducation....
Since KingSalmanofSaudi Arabia arrived in Cairo on Thursday for a five-day visit, the leader of the oil-rich kingdom has lavished his Egyptian allies with promises of aid and investment. But this time, instead of writing a blank check with little more than a polite "thank you" to show for it, King Salman will return home Monday with something more substantial in return. two islands in a strategic corner of the Red Sea....
As anger spread on Monday, veteran lawyer Khaled Ali filed a complaint with the administrative court, arguing that according to a 1906 maritime treaty between Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, the islands are Egyptian and the move amounts to a transfer of sovereignty. The treaty precedes the founding ofSaudi Arabia in 1932....
First it was the abrasive invasion ofUkraine’s Crimea Peninsula which the flamboyant and dangerous Putin declared “Russian.”. There were no apologies to Crimean citizens, the Ukrainian government or the rest of a stunned world ...Russia is doubling its supply of strategic nuclear warheads and is over the limit of 1,550 warheads under the New START arms treaty....
That dream, however, might also turn into a nightmare as many successful applicants of the land development agency’s 2010 and 2014 housing schemes later found out. With a new housing scheme in the offing, the DDA is trying out a digital solution to the problem of allottee dissatisfaction, of which it was at the receiving end during the previous two housing schemes....
After upping the frequency of its recently launched service to include daily flights to Tokyo from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Japan Airlines is looking for more ways to tap the “huge” potential of the North Texas market, the company’s chairman and director Masaru Onishi said.Related... On the potential of the D/FW market. ... “We found there was an open window at the end of last year to start the operation,” he said....
The readers of the National Enquirer in the US know. The readers of a Scottish newspaper know. MediocreGoogle skills and a prurient interest in the sex lives of famous people would winkle out the names in seconds ...It's a story that has given some involved in the News Corp phone-hacking saga a certain sense of schadenfreude ... Early this year, AB and CD approached the editor ofThe Sun on Sunday and told them about the sexual encounters....
At least that’s what the Paal Kibsgaard, the CEOof industry leader Schlumberger is telling the world ...North American onshore rig counts have collapsed, offshore services have been in the tank for a couple of years, every oil major out there has renegotiated every part of their service contract to slash their own costs (and correspondingly OFS profits), and the pressure shows no signof abating....
Kerry also said that the US is ready to prepare to negotiate a peace treaty on the Korean peninsula...ofStateJohn Kerry said on Monday ... Kerry had said in February that a denuclearised North Korea could one day enter talks with Washington on a treaty formally ending the Korean Warof 1950-53....
Dion said Canada views the creation of a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty, or FMCT, as the most practical option the country can pursue in a renewed push towards nuclear disarmament ... It has been more than half a century since the United Nations embarked on creating a treaty, the FMCT, to control the spread of nuclear materials....
Justice Department has announced it will sue to block the merger ofHalliburton and Baker Hughes...Without three competitors, industries and companies fall prey to problems of tacit collusion, resulting in slowly higher prices and less overall economic efficiency. The HAL/BHI merger was done in by the lack of a third strong competitor ... At the endof the day, only GE showed much of a willingness to bid on many of the assets....
Under the latter treaty, known as the Treatyof Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea (CMATS), East Timor received 90 per cent of revenue from a "Joint Petroleum DevelopmentArea" and a half share of Greater Sunrise, most of which lies outside the JPDA... and the impact of the treaties as well," he told Fairfax Media ... Both sides can appoint two members of the panel....
No state should conduct a nuclear test explosion and all states should sign and ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty without delay and without conditions to achieve the early entry into force of the treaty. As a priority, we call upon the Conference on Disar-mament to immediately begin negotiations on a treaty banning the production of fissile material for use in nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices....
Montreal Protocol Parties poised to eliminate warming from one of six main climate pollutants ... It is widely considered the world's most effective environmental treaty, phasing out Freon and other fluorinated gases to put the stratospheric ozone layer on track to recover by mid-century, while also providing more climate mitigation than any other agreement--the equivalent of more than 135 billion tons of carbon dioxide....
Objections to the Kermadec OceanSanctuary are ignoring the need for leadership in marine conservation, overstating the impacts in respect of fishery and Treaty settlement obligations and underestimating the opportunities for economic and scientific gain, ... ....