With less than 90 days until the Summer Games, it’s all pain and no party in Rio. The first thing you notice is nothing, and the nothingnes...
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Showing posts with label World. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Friday, April 15, 2016
7.0 quake strikes Japan; rescuers try to free residents
A dentist office is seen on its shaken off its foundation in Kumamoto's Chuo Ward. A magnitude-7.3 earthquake rocked Kumamoto Prefectur...
Second strong quake rocks Kumamoto area,killing at least 11
A magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture early Saturday, killing at least 11 more people, injuring many more and bringing down ...
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Bosnian 'Indiana Jones': Discovery of stone sphere suggests existence of lost civilization
Bosnian 'Indiana Jones' Cites This Mysterious Ball as a Key to Past. Archaeologists have reportedly unearthed a huge stone sphere i...
US-born Ukrainian finance minister may buy country's largest telecom company – reports
Ukraine’s finance minister may soon own one of Ukraine's largest IT businesses. A firm co-founded by US-born Natalie Jaresko, a former S...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Panama has raided the law offices at the center of the ‘Panama Papers'
Organized crime prosecutors raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm Tuesday looking for evidence of money laundering and financin...
Monday, April 11, 2016
Dennis Skinner Gets Chucked Out Of Commons For Calling Cameron 'Dodgy Dave'
Dennis Skinner branded David Cameron "dodgy Dave" in the Commons on Monday - and got thrown out of the chamber for it. The vetera...
Turkey car bomb: Explosive-filled vehicle explodes at southeast military base
At least twenty soldiers have been wounded following a car bomb attack in the mainly Kurdish region of southeast Turkey. Security sources s...
Brazil impeachment: Vote deals new blow to Rousseff
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has suffered a blow to her hopes of staving off impeachment proceedings, after a committee voted they ...
Who Loses the Most From ‘Brexit’? Try Goldman Sachs
A vast construction site in the heart of London is a testament to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s $500 million bet on the city’s global financia...
Sunday, April 10, 2016
World's longest snake, a python estimated at 8m long, caught in Malaysia
A huge python found on a construction site in Malaysia could take the record for the longest snake ever to be caught with initial estimates ...
New Zealand reviews its foreign trust rules
New Zealand's government has appointed a tax expert to review its disclosure rules for foreign trusts and says it's open to consider...
Friday, March 25, 2016
Mexico embraces US-style trials to fight impunity.
The recent court case following the murder of Temixco mayor Gisela Mota highlighted the growing pains of the new system. It was once unthin...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Mexico announces reward in hunt for missing students
Mexico's government announced a $110,000 reward for information on the disappearance of 43 students in a case of alleged collusion betwe...
IS fighters seize weapons airdrop meant for Kurds
Islamic State group fighters seized at least one cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces that were meant to suppy Kurdish m...
Police Called to London Airport as Passengers Confront Staff over 10-Hour Delay
Armed police were called to London Heathrow Terminal 5 after passengers began taking out their frustrations over a broken jet. Metropo...
Total CEO Christophe de Margerie dies in jet accident
Snowplough driver in Total CEO’s Russia plane crash was drunk: Investigators Moscow: The driver of a snowplough involved in a deadly ac...
Consumed by Islamic State, Iraq's Anbar province a key battleground again
In recent weeks, the world has watched the battle to save Syria’s border town of Kobani from Islamic State. But the radical jihadists have f...
Special Report: U.S. visa program for crime victims is hit-or-miss prospect
It was the week of Chinese New Year, and Jian Zhen Huang was climbing her sister’s doorstep in Brooklyn with cups and other supplies for the...
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