ROME/ATHENS (Reuters) – Seven international hostages kidnapped ultimate month by way of a Nigerian Islamist staff from a development firm’s compound have been killed, the Italian and Greek Foreign Ministries mentioned on Sunday. Al Qaeda-affiliated crew Ansaru said on Saturday it had killed the hostages seized on February 7 in […]
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syria's opposition has postponed a gathering to type a provisional executive, within the newest setback to opposition efforts to create an administration to take over if President Bashar al-Assad is ousted, coalition sources stated on Sunday. The Syrian National Coalition meeting to opt for a provisional prime […]
MIAMI (Reuters) – Argentine developer Jose Luis Melo watched as Miami's real property market reeled from the U.S. housing crash and lots of the city's condominiums sat unsold — and decided it was once time to build. It was late 2010 and Melo, who runs the Melo Crew actual estate […]
KABUL (Reuters) – The top U.S. basic in Afghanistan expressed dismay on Sunday at remarks by President Hamid Karzai, who prompt that Washington benefited from Taliban assaults on his usa. Karzai's remarks, delivered all over the first discuss with through new U.S. Security Secretary Chuck Hagel, further strained already fraught […]
When you’ve ever tried to shield the validity of global warming to anyone who doesn’t consider in it, you’ve almost definitely heard them say, “The Earth thawed itself out of an Ice Age once sooner than and no person known as that global warming!”
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela's charged election race kicked off on Sunday with throngs attending mass on the coffin of deceased leader Hugo Chavez and vowing to again his most popular successor, Nicolas Maduro, over probably opposition contender Henrique Capriles. The pair have except Monday to register their candidacies for the […]
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Tons of of Pakistani Christians took to the streets across the united states on Sunday, annoying higher protection after a Christian nearby used to be torched within the metropolis of Lahore a day past in reference to the usa's controversial anti-blasphemy law. Police fired into the air […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Metropolis Council Speaker Christine Quinn, regarded as a front-runner to be New York's subsequent mayor, officially launched her candidacy on Sunday for the job that would make her the city's first feminine and first openly homosexual mayor. The Democratic Quinn, forty six, made her […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Top Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his outgoing cabinet on Sunday for what he stated was once most definitely the ultimate time, signaling he was on the subject of finishing the formation of a brand new govt. Netanyahu's closing date to current a governing coalition is on […]
KISUMU/MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – Strongholds of defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga have been peaceable on Sunday, it sounds as if reflecting a need with the aid of Kenyans to avoid a repeat of the bloodshed that adopted the ultimate election five years in the past. Odinga has refused to concede […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With debate intensifying in the United States over the usage of drone aircraft, the U.S. military mentioned on Sunday that it had eliminated information about air strikes carried out with the aid of unmanned planes in Afghanistan from its month-to-month air power summaries. U.S. Critical Command, which […]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals from around the globe gather this week in a conclave to select a new pope following the beautiful resignation of Benedict XVI. In the secretive world of the Vatican, there is no solution to know who’s within the working, and historical past has yielded numerous […]
BEIJING (AP) — In the annals of Chinese bureaucratic power, the Railways Ministry stood aside. Working everything from one of the crucial world's busiest rail systems to a distinct police pressure, the ministry was so pervasive and robust it resisted govt reform efforts for years. Chinese known as it "Boss […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Heaps of protesters marched in the Eastern capital on Sunday calling on the federal government to shun nuclear energy, a day earlier than the 2d anniversary of an earthquake and tsunami that prompted the arena's worst atomic disaster in 25 years. Japan is still coming to phrases […]