Baghdad/London/Beirut, Oct 14 (IANS) At least 50 people were killed Tuesday in clashes and airstrikes against IS positions in Iraq, a security source said, even as the fight against the Sunni radical group continued in neighbouring Syria. In Salahudin province, Iraqi security forces, backed by Shia militia, captured three villages in the southeastern town of Dujail, […]
London, Oct 14 (IANS/EFE) London’s Heathrow airport began Tuesday applying new precautionary measures to detect possible cases of Ebola virus disease in passengers arriving from West African countries affected by the deadly virus. An airport spokesman told Efe news agency that the new measures went into effect Tuesday morning and were being applied by the staff […]
United Nations, Oct 14 (IANS) India has called on the international community to tackle the twin digital divides — that between developed and developing nations and that between men and women in developing countries. While “growth of information and communications technologies (ICT) over the past decade has exceeded all expectations,” India’s Ambassador to the UN Asoke […]
Tokyo, Oct 14 (IANS) Japan’s Daisuke Takahashi, a Vancouver Olympics bronze medallist, announced Tuesday that he is retiring from competitive figure skating. “I’ve decided to retire so that I can take the next step in my career,” Takahashi said, reports Xinhua. “It was a quick decision but I didn’t want to fuss about it for too […]
Islamabad, Oct 11 (IANS) English supermodel Naomi Campbell’s tweet congratulating “malaria” for winning the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize has gone viral on social media. Campbell was apparently meaning to wish Pakistani girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai , but the message backfired when she wrote the word “malaria” instead of Malala, Dawn online reported Saturday. “Congratulations malaria […]
Cairo, Oct 11 (IANS) A radical group that is thought to be affiliated with the Al Qaeda has announced the formation of a new Islamic State (IS) group in the Arabian peninsula, a media report said Saturday. In its first online statement, the group threatened the Houthi Shias and the Yemeni army, urging Sunnis to stay […]
Madrid, Oct 11 (IANS) Teresa Romero, the 44-year-old Spanish nursing auxiliary infected with the Ebola virus, remains in a critical but stable condition, according to the latest reports Saturday. Romero, the first person to become infected with the virus outside of Africa, is being treated on the sixth floor of the Carlos III Hospital in Madrid, […]
Cairo, Oct 11 (IANS) Farah Dakhlallah, British foreign office spokesperson, has said that Egypt can play an important role in combating extremism by securing the Libyan borders and banning arms smuggling as well as realising national reconciliation in Libya. Dakhlallah told Egypt’s state-run news agency MENA that Britain was backing the UN efforts aimed at a […]
Canberra, Oct 8 (IANS) Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Wednesday expressed “frustration and anger” at “preachers of hate” who come to Australia to incidte hostility, saying he will move to ban them. Abbott said on Sydney radio Wednesday that he wanted to set up a “red card” system to stop these “hate preachers” getting visas to […]
United Nations, Oct 8 (IANS) The UN Security Council Tuesday condemned the targeted attack on peacekeepers in Mali in which one personnel was killed. The Senegalese peacekeeper was killed when United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) camp in Kidal was hit by rocket fire, Xinhua reported. “The members of the Security Council called […]