Baghdad, Sep 5 (IANS) As many as 15 people have been killed and 52 others injured in bomb attacks across Baghdad Thursday, police sources said. A suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden car into a police checkpoint and blew it up in kadhimiyah district in northern Baghdad, leaving at least nine people killed and 35 others injured, […]
London, Sep 5 (IANS/EFE) Russia might face more economic sanctions unless it ceases its attempts to destabilise Ukraine, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday. In an interview with the BBC, Cameron said the measures taken against Russia, which is accused of supporting separatist insurgents in eastern Ukraine with weapons and uniformed Russian troops, were beginning […]
Moscow, Sep 5 (IANS) NATO has been trying to use the Ukraine conflict to divert public attention from worsening economic situation in Europe, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Thursday. “I am convinced that NATO has been very glad that the current events in Ukraine lead to new tension in relations with Russia,” Xinhua quoted […]
Cardiff, Sep 5 (IANS) Western leaders meeting for a NATO summit in Wales Thursday outlined the long-term engagement in Afghanistan after the end of the NATO-led combat mission in the country later this year. Leaders from 28 NATO nations joined by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) partner countries agreed to launch a non-combat mission in […]
United Nations, Sep 4 (IANS) US President Barack Obama will convene a Security Council summit on “growing and dangerous phenomenon” of foreign terrorist fighters, American envoy to the UN Samantha Power said Wednesday. The summit will be held on Sep 25, with attendance of heads of state and government, who holds the rotating council presidency for […]
Moscow, Sep 4 (IANS) Russia Wednesday said that France’s decision to put the delivery of one of the two Mistral warships to Moscow on hold will not be a tragedy. “Even though this is unpleasant news of course and it strains relations with our French partners, the termination of the contract will not be a tragedy […]
United Nations, Sep 4 (IANS) The UN humanitarian agency estimates that the deteriorating security situation in Libya has affected nearly two million people across the north African country, a United Nations spokesman said. “The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that the deteriorating security situation has spread from the Tripoli International Airport and […]
Washington, Sep 4 (IANS) The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa is racing ahead of efforts to control it and at least $600 million is needed to get the unprecedented epidemic under control, UN health officials said Wednesday. “This Ebola epidemic is the largest, most severe and most complex we have ever seen in the nearly […]
Addis Ababa, Sep 4 (IANS) The African Union (AU) Wednesday said that it would host an emergency meeting to consolidate collective continental efforts against Ebola. The emergency meeting of the executive council will be held in the Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa Sep 8. AU Executive Council will meet to adopt a common position and define appropriate […]
Damascus, Sep 4 (IANS) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Wednesday lauded Iran’s readiness to help with the reconstruction process in Syria, media reported. Assad made the remarks during his meeting with the visiting head of the Iranian-Syrian Economic Relations Development Committee Rostam Qasemi and the accompanying delegation, Xinhua reported citing the state-run SANA news agency. Assad said […]