Three decades have passed since the Chernobyl accident – its reality receding, as a memory of suffering is replaced by iconic post-apocalyptic imagery shot by tourists and documentary crews. Yet the story of the station’s demise remains momentous. There had been potentially grave nuclear plant accidents before, at Sellafield and[…]
US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have given a fresh push to a potentially huge US-European trade pact despite mounting opposition. Obama said after talks with Merkel in Hanover on Sunday that the deal could be reached by the end of the year. “Angela and I agree[…]
The Fatah movement on Friday mourned the death of one of its representatives at the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), Rabiha Diab, who passed away aged 62.Diab had been detained by Israeli forces seven times, spent a total of nearly seven years in Israeli jails, was sentenced to house arrest twice,[…]
More than 165 world leaders have gathered at the UN headquarters to sign the Paris climate deal and get the ball rolling on plans to check global warming. Held on Earth Day, Friday’s ceremony in New York City comes four months after the deal was clinched in Paris and marks[…]
An uneasy truce between Kurdish and Syrian government supporters appeared to have broken down into heavy clashes and the deaths of at least a dozen people as a new front threatened to open in the war in northern Syria. Militias supporting the government of Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday clashed with[…]
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Ecuador, the US Geological Survey (USGS) has reported. The new tremblor comes just days after a devastating 7.8 quake killed at least 587 people in the South American country and amid internationally-assisted recovery efforts. The earthquake was centered some 33.0 kilometers[…]
The United States will deter and confront aggression against Gulf Arab countries, who continue to have concerns about threats from Iran, President Barack Obama said after meeting their leaders to iron out strains in their alliance. “I reaffirmed the policy of the United States to use all elements of our[…]
Brazil’s beleaguered Dilma Rousseff has changed her plans and will attend a UN event on Friday in New York to make her case against an impeachment process that could remove her from office within weeks, her office said. The Brazilian president lost a crucial vote in the lower house of[…]
Gulf monarchies on Wednesday voiced support for Morocco’s claim over Western Sahara during a joint summit in Riyadh, where Moroccan King Mohammed VI spoke of a “dangerous” situation. “We stress our support to all political and security causes that are important for your brotherly country, mainly the Western Sahara,” Saudi[…]
Ethiopian troops have crossed into South Sudan in search of more than 100 children who were kidnapped and spirited across the border in a surprise attack that also killed 208 people. The attackers, who were armed with machine guns, killed anyone who tried to stop them from taking the children,[…]
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