Nairobi, Oct 31 (IANS) Kenya’s cabinet Thursday announced elaborate measures as part of a contingency plan for Ebola preparedness and response to ensure the east Africa nation remains free from Ebola. The cabinet which met under the chairmanship of President Uhuru Kenyatta, directed the formation of an experts committee to monitor the country on a 24-hour […]
Sydney, Oct 31 (IANS) Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced Friday that her government was lifting sanctions on Fiji that have been in place since the 2006 military coup in the country. “As I depart for a two-day visit to Fiji, the first by any foreign minister since the (Fiji) elections in Sep, I announce the […]
Jerusalem, Oct 31 (IANS) Israel recalled its ambassador to Sweden Thursday to protest the Scandinavian country’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state, an Israeli foreign ministry source said. Yitzhak Bachman, Israel’s ambassador in Stockholm, was “brought back for consultations”, according to the source, following Sweden ‘s announcement earlier Thursday. Bachman will return to Jerusalem until further […]
Dhaka, Oct 29 (IANS) Motiur Rahman Nizami, the chief of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, was sentenced to death Wednesday for crimes during the 1971 Liberation War, prompting his supporters to call nationwide protests. A special tribunal ruled that the 71-year-old leader was guilty on eight of the 16 charges levelled against him in a historic trial […]
Perth (Australia), Oct 29 (IANS) In an incident of mistaken identity in Australia’s Perth city, a Gurdwara was spray-painted by vandals with anti-Muslim graffiti. Sikh Gurdawara Perth treasurer Amandeep Singh said CCTV captured two vandals spray-painting the underconstruction Bennett Springs gurdwara early Wednesday (about 1.30 a.m.), WA today.com.au reported. “I think they have confused us with […]
Washington, Oct 29 (IANS) India was ranked 142nd among 189 nations in ease of doing business in a new World Bank Group report, even as it found that the country set the pace for regulatory reform in South Asia in 2013-14. India’s overall ranking fell by two notches in “The Doing Business 2015: Going Beyond Efficiency” […]
Beijing, Oct 29 (IANS) The value of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened by 16 basis points to 6.1405 against the US dollar in its central parity Wednesday, authorities said. In China’s foreign exchange spot market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent from the central parity rate each trading […]
Mexico City, Oct 29 (IANS/EFE) Experts with the Mexican Attorney General’s Office are scouring an area near the town of Cocula for the bodies of the 43 students who disappeared Sep 26 near the city of Iguala. The officials started working Tuesday at the dump located in a hard-to-access zone about 10 km from Cocula and […]
Buenos Aires, Oct 29 (IANS/EFE) An Argentine television programme aired a video Tuesday showing soccer legend Diego Maradona hitting his ex-girlfriend, Rocio Oliva, hours after the soccer idol had said he “never raised a hand” against a woman. The video was shot with a mobile phone by Rocio Oliva herself and appeared on the programme “Nosotros […]
Washington, Oct 29 (IANS/EFE) Amber Vinson, one of the two Dallas nurses who cared for an Ebola-infected Liberian man and then infected with the virus themselves, was released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta Tuesday after a 10-day stay. Vinson “has recovered from her infection with Ebola virus, and she can return to her community and […]