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 […]
Washington, Oct 29 (IANS) An unmanned spaceship operated by a private US firm exploded just minutes after its launch Tuesday, media reported. The rocket blew up over the launch complex at Wallops Island, Virginia, Xinhua reported citin the NASA TV. Orbital Sciences Corp., the contractor, said no one was believed to have been injured and the […]
Sydney, Oct 29 (IANS) Australian special forces troops have conducted G20 training exercises involving a mock hostage recovery operation in Brisbane Tuesday. Australian Defence Force spokesman for the G20, Maj. Gen. Stuart Smith, said the elite soldiers would be conducting more mock counter-terrorism rehearsals in Brisbane over the coming weeks, Xinhua reported. “It’s been provided for […]
Manama, Oct 28 (IANS) An Indian, allegedly tortured and held hostage in Bahrain by five Bangladeshis for a paltry BHD800 ransom (about $2,000), was rescued with the help of his co-worker, an Indonesian woman, in an undercover police operation. The five Bangladeshi carpenters are now standing trial in connection with last year’s abduction of the 28-year-old […]
Madrid, Oct 27 (IANS/EFE) Juan Manuel Parra, the emergency doctor who attended Teresa Romero, the Spanish nurse who was infected with the Ebola virus, was discharged Monday from Madrid’s Carlos III Hospital, where he was kept in quarantine for 21 days. Parra, who was put in isolation after he had high-risk contact with the Spanish nurse, […]
Lagos, Oct 27 (IANS) A German construction worker was shot dead in southwest Nigeria’s Ogun state by unknown gunmen, his employer Julius Berger said Monday. The unnamed worker, a sub-contractor, was shot dead last Friday when several workers were traveling without their security escorts. Another staff of Julius Berger was abducted, the company confirmed to Xinhua, […]
Islamabad, Oct 27 (IANS) The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Jan Kubis Monday met with top Pakistani advisers in Islamabad and discussed the recent developments in Afghanistan and in Pakistan-Afghanistan relations, officials said. Pakistani leaders assured full “support for the United Nations in dealing with issues post-2014” as most of the foreign troops are on […]