The United Nations will name a date on Friday for Syria’s warring parties to return to the negotiating table for a second round of talks, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. De Mistura abruptly aborted a first round of talks on Feb. 3, saying more preparatory work[…]
Tens of thousands of Fijians remain homeless and living in evacuation shelters in the aftermath of a devastating cyclone at the weekend, officials said on Thursday, as aid began trickling in to the outer reaches of the South Pacific archipelago. The death toll from Cyclone Winston, the worst storm ever[…]
Islamic State has released a 25-minute video featuring the faces of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg being riddled with mock bullet holes. Isis has begun to respond with increasing urgency as Facebook and Twitter have attempted to block terrorist content on the network. Representatives from both[…]
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) was ordered by a Missouri state jury to pay $72 million of damages to the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer was linked to her use of the company’s talc-based Baby Powder and Shower to Shower for several decades. In a verdict announced[…]
More details have emerged on the ongoing trial of 32 people accused of spying for Iran in Saudi Arabia, with latest developments being a nuclear physicist allegedly among the accused. A Saudi defendant on trial at the Criminal Court in Riyadh on Tuesday turned out to be a nuclear physicist,[…]
A Swedish teenager has described how she found herself living in Mosul under the rule of the Islamic State group after an odyssey of train and road trips from her home town with her boyfriend. Marlin Stivani Nivarlain, 15, was rescued from the northern Iraqi city earlier this month by[…]
Cologne police have reportedly launched an investigation into the cops who leaked internal reports of mass harassment and sex assaults on New Year’s Eve to the media. The press only learned about the outrageous attacks four days after the incidents. According to Süddeutsche Zeitung, police recently launched an investigation to[…]
At least three people have died in severe weather in the southern states of the United States, where tornadoes, damaging hail and flash floods left a swath of destruction. Tornadoes churned across many states, from Louisiana to Georgia, but the most destructive were in Louisiana and Mississippi. More than 30[…]
Syria’s president has assured Russia of his readiness to respect a ceasefire deal brokered by Moscow and Washington, the Kremlin said. “A phone call took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar al-Assad,” the Kremlin said in a statement on Wednesday. “In particular,[…]
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have urged their citizens to leave Lebanon or avoid travelling there. The move on Tuesday came after Riyadh halted $4bn in aid to Lebanese security forces in response to “hostile” positions linked to Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah. The Saudi foreign ministry issued[…]
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