Sunday August 20-th, 2017
Tropical Wave to Affect Windward Islands
Monday morning, the system was located about 1,100 miles southeast of the islands, moving west, northwestward at 15 to 20 mph, National Hurricane Center forecasters said . Unnamed Tropical Depression Eight also flooded North Carolina in late August....
Amit Shah lashes out at Pakistan for terror activities in India
Addressing the BJP's national council meeting in Calicut, Shah said India is committed to give a befitting reply to Pakistan sponsored terrorism. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that he feels a sense of pride when he hears praise for ...
Two policemen injured in Budapest explosion
The police are offering 10 million forints ($37,000) for any information that leads to the arrest of the perpetrator. Both the officers needed surgery, with a female officer in a critical condition on Sunday and her male colleague stable.
Modi said there were 17 attempts by fidayeen attackers sent by the neighbouring country which have been defeated by the courageous Indian soldiers who have neutralised over 110 terrorists which is the highest in recent years. He said people of Paki...
It was also expected to be their last meeting before Obama steps down from the United States presidency. Hours before his meeting with President Obama, Turkish officials shot and slightly wounded an attacker armed with a knife who tried to enter the ...
Officials say the three coaches remain hospitalized with serious injuries. The Legacy High School varsity football team will indeed play its homecoming game Friday against Prairie View. They were treated and later released. Three school buses were ...
Gabon court upholds Ali Bongo's election win
Incumbent President Ali Bongo, the son of late ruler Omar Bongo, was declared the victor of the August 27 election by a margin of fewer than 6,000 votes. But the government has warned Ping he will be held responsible if fresh violence breaks out, and...
Russian Federation is also opposed to THAAD deployment and on Friday its foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, told the United Nations General Assembly it was wrong of the United States to use the threat of an attack by North Korea to deploy the system....
Russian troops arrive in Pakistan for joint exercises: army
Cherat lies 34 miles south-east from Peshawar. Media reports from Islamabad had said the exercises would take place at the military school in Rattu, which is in Gilgit-Baltistan. Reports say that 250 soldiers of the Kumaon Regiment are represen...
He is the lineal middleweight champion and that fight would be the biggest in boxing. "I'm coming to fight Canelo, and you're going to be in for a massive shock". "I hit him with some jabs and some right hands, but to be more competitive I needed b...
Keith's wife alternately begs the officers not to shoot Scott and yells at her husband directly to not let the officers break open the auto windows. When asked if the video of the shooting being released would ease tensions, Bamberg said proteste...
It has never happened before, so why to happen now, either by the Russians or the Syrians? Thursday's meeting of the International Syria Support Group comes after the two blamed each other for spoiling the country's cease-fire that they had agreed ...
In Damascus, the seat of Assad's power, where life goes on almost as normal and the six-year-war feels like a distant inconvenience, many cling to his rule, fearing the alternative. The United States and Russian Federation have failed to agree on how...
North Korea accuses US of provoking atomic war
The Clinton administration actually tried to launch surgical strikes against North Korea's nuclear facility in Yongbyon during the first North Korean nuclear crisis from 1993 to 1994. USA presidential candidates have mentioned that the "usage of mili...
Breaking those down we see that the ratings are as follows: 5 Strong Buy, 1 Rated Buy, 9 Rated Hold and 0 Rated Sell. OXY's value Change from Open was at -0.99% with a Gap of 0.70%. This represents a $3.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a divide...
Toddler rescued after spending 72 hours in Siberian woods
He was finally located on Wednesday morning about two miles away from his home, exhausted and showing signs of hypothermia, but otherwise in good health. He ate chocolate he had in his pocket, took shelter and slept under a tree. Kara-Ool jokingly ...
South Korea's second-biggest container line has been approached by financial institutions that have funded Hanjin's vessel purchases, for a likely sale of mostly container ships, the people said, asking not to be identified, as the talks are private....
Twitter surges on report it's said to be closer to sale
Another day, another Twitter acquisition report . Microsoft Corp.'s $26.2 billion purchase in June of LinkedIn sparked new conjecture on likely candidates for Twitter . Only this time, there might actually be some teeth behind the talk that Twit...
Bombing suspect's father contacted the feds in 2014
The other bomb left in Manhattan didn't explode. But in Wednesday's poster it said agents are "interested in speaking to these individuals and recovering the luggage". David Patton, the head of the federal public defenders office in NY, asked on ...
School officials in four Canadian provinces respond differently to bomb threats
Nunavut RCMP said they received a threat at 9:00 a.m., September 22, that bombs had been placed in schools in all three regions of the territory. The evacuation order came shortly after two Nova Scotia Community College campuses were evacuated afte...
The instrument for doing this was the Fort Schuyler Management Company-an offshoot of SUNY Polytechnic, an arm of the governor's under-performing START-UP NY program and a handler of construction contracts in the Buffalo Billion initiative.
EU Leaders Meet In Bratislava To Chart Future Of Bloc
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) - In a centuries-old castle in the middle of their fractious continent, European Union leaders on Friday anxiously sought to forge a sense of common objective in the face of the planned departure of Britain and fundamental...
Buhari meets Obama in NY
Buhari, in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina , said the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council headed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, will soon come out with wide-ranging business environment...
Before their meeting, Obama and Netanyahu reaffirmed the strong alliances between United States and Israel, and hailed the massive deal on USA military assistance to Israel signed last week. Obama has little to show for his two efforts - one spearhea...
Recurrently, the issue of peace in the South American nation was heard in the interventions of the first day of the general debate of the Assembly at its 71st Session Period. As a war-hardened veteran of Colombia's FARC guerrillas, Roberto Méndez...
Clinton, Trump decry latest police shootings of black men
Asked in January if he could imagine Trump delivering a State of the Union address, Obama quipped, "Well, I can imagine it - in a 'Saturday Night [Live]' skit". "That man went to the vehicle", Trump said. "If you are a dancing and sliding and gliding...
Israel, Palestinians clash over settlements at UN
AJC Chief Executive Officer Director David Harris noted the striking contrast between the prime minister's remarks and those of President Abbas, who addressed the General Assembly shortly before the Israeli leader. The issue of settlements in the Wes...
Victim begged mall stabber not to kill him
Adan was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer. Adan allegedly attacked shoppers at a mall, where police said he asked at least one victim whether they were Muslim before stabbing them, and made "some reference to Allah". "It's going to be ...
I repeat it, fuck you, ' Duterte claimed. "While the immediate cause was my strong comments to certain press questions that elicited concern and distress, we also regret it came across as a personal attack on the US President", he said. He spoke in...
It was found around 9:30 p.m.in a wastebasket outside a neighborhood pub, about 500 feet from a train trestle. Former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said, "That's a step up in sophistication from what we saw here in Boston". Nine persons wer...
The October 2015 protests renewed hope for an overhaul of South Africa's tertiary education system to be inclusive and encompassing. Violent protests a year ago forced President Jacob Zuma to freeze fees for 2016, but universities said doing that a...
Israeli police on Monday opened fire and critically injured a Palestinian outside Jerusalem's Herod's Gate after he allegedly stabbed and injured two police officers, according to local sources and Israeli police. Israel says anti-Israeli incitement ...
Notedly, a section of security establishment is in favour of launching surgical strikes against Pakistan to destroy terror camps operating in Pakistan-held Kashmir . Relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours have been on edge since a New-Year...
USA economic trade sanctions on the once-isolated Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar are being eased to support the country's transition toward democracy and a market economy. The military and associates who profited under junta rule still have huge s...
Search for suspects in shooting that put Marine near death
According to Los Angeles police, Segovia was shot once in the head near 31st Street and Western Avenue at around 11:30 p.m. Friday. "At this point, it's absolutely a mystery", LAPD Capt. "My son did not sign into the Marines to give up", said his...
We have one more day, Saturday , of seeing a chance of rain from this system and then we finally begin to dry out. Given the abundant moisture across the region, rain may be heavy...
For the 12-month period ended March 31, 2017, India's LNG imports were up by 15.5% on year at 24.6bn m³. "The biggest impact this could have is if it signals a new contract being ...
But in light of the Congressional Budget Office's estimate that 22 million more Americans will lose coverage under the Senate plan than under Obamacare , it seems unlikely...
NHRA: Steve Torrence raced to his fourth Top Fuel victory of the season, beating Doug Kalita in the Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk, Ohio. But with the addition of C...
The ACLU said it welcomed the Supreme Court battle, tweeting: "Same-sex couples deserve to be treated with the same dignity and respect as anyone else". Even when a business owne...
What about the failing @ nytimes & @ washingtonpost? The president also retweeted a doctored image of the network's logo that refers to CNN as FNN - the Fake News Network. ...
Lawsuit Claims Poland Spring Water Isn't from a Spring
The suit also claims the company has been forced "to build or maintain phony, man-made "springs" at all eight of the spring water collection sites in ME it lists on its label. Nes...
Anticipated Trump Executive Order Places Infrastructure in Flood's Way
Malala Yousafzai gets into Oxford University
Iraqi army launches determined attack on Isis stronghold of Tal Afar
Venezuelan constitutional assembly seizes power of opposition-led congress
Next week's striking New Yorker cover shows Trump traveling with the KKK
Man stabs eight people in Siberian city
