Paris, Feb 26 (IANS) Three Al-Jazeera journalists were arrested in Paris after flying a drone from a park on the edge of the city, a judicial source said. “The first was piloting the drone, the second was filming and the third was watching,” the source said. The arrests were made Wednesday after multiple drone sightings […]
Brussels, Feb 24 The European Commission (EC) said Tuesday that the list of reforms the leftist Greek government of Alexis Tsipras has agreed to undertake in return for more financial assistance for Greece appears to be “sufficiently comprehensive”. “In the view of the Commission, this list is sufficiently comprehensive as to be a valid starting […]
Toronto, Feb 23 A small yet significant study has revealed that some women turned to watching pornography for the first time after reading the best-seller “Fifty Shades of Grey”. “Several women [we interviewed] were hopping in for the first time to pornography or sexually explicit material that were written by women for women,” researcher Diana […]
Washington, Feb 12 At least 26 Americans of Indian or South Asian origin have been featured in this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 list or what the US business magazine terms “today’s greatest gathering of young game changers, movers and makers.” “Our fourth annual celebration is bigger than ever: 600 millennials in 20 fields” says […]
New York, Feb 10 (IANS) The US has confirmed the death of aid worker Kayla Mueller, who was held hostage by the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group after being captured in Syria, media reported Tuesday. Her family said they were “heartbroken” to learn the news, CNN reported. President Barack Obama offered his condolences to the […]
Yangon, Feb 10 (IANS) Fighting continued in Myanmar’s Kokang region Tuesday with the government forces combing the areas where troops of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) were retreating, media reported. Clashes took place four times between the two sides during the day, Xinhua news agency reported citing state radio and TV. According to […]
Cairo, Feb. Feb 10 (IANS) Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his visiting Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed Tuesday to build a nuclear power station in Dabaa city in Egypt’s coastal Matrouh province. “I attended with President Putin the ceremony of signing a memorandum of understanding to establish a nuclear power station in Dabaa,” Xinhua news […]
Paris, Feb 10 (IANS/EFE) Former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said he was unaware that the women attending the orgies he helped organise were prostitutes, when testifying Tuesday at his trial on procurement charges. Strauss-Kahn is being tried, along with 13 other individuals, by Lille’s Correctional Court on charges of “aggravated procurement” […]
Beijing, Feb 10 (IANS) A man who killed three children in a primary school knife attack in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region three years ago was executed Tuesday. Wu Yechang was found guilty of the triple murder and sentenced to death by the Guigang Intermediate People’s Court in January 2014, Xinhua news agency reported. The […]
London, Feb 10 (IANS) An Islamic State (IS) affiliate in Egypt has released a video purporting to show the beheading of eight Bedouin Arab men it accused of working for the Egyptian and Israeli armies, media reported Tuesday. The video, posted on the Twitter account of the jihadi group known as Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis’ late […]