Aden, Sep 2 (IANS) Three people have been executed by militants in Yemen Monday for having links with the United States, a military source said. “Suspected Yemen-based Al Qaida operatives kidnapped three local residents and then executed them all by firing a barrage of bullets on them in Qattan region of Hadramout province,” Xinhua quoted the […]
Beijing, Sep 2 (IANS) A stabbing spree in a Chinese school has left three children and a teacher dead Monday. Chen Yanfu, 43, who was upset that his daughter was not allowed to register at the school, rampaged through classrooms of Dongfang Primary School, stabbing students and teachers, in Yunxi county in central China’s Hubei province […]
Abuja, Sep 2 (IANS) Nigeria will soon get a Japanese drug to treat Ebola, the country’s Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said Monday. The drug named Favipiravir and developed by a subsidiary of Fujifilm Holdings in Japan, could be delivered any time soon in Nigeria, Xinhua quoted Chukwu as telling reporters here. Apart from the Japanese drug, […]
Washington, Aug 29 (IANS/EFE) Police arrested more than 100 immigration reform activists Thursday in front of the White House as they demanded the relief for the country’s 11 million undocumented foreigners, who are at risk of being deported. The peaceful march began at the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The executive director of the Casa […]
United Nations, Aug 29 (IANS) The United Nations Thursday said that there is an urgent need for humanitarian assistance in Iraqi areas sieged by the Islamic State militants. “The World Food Programme (WFP), which has delivered food to more than 700,000 people since the start of the crisis in June, warns that there is an urgent […]
Jerusalem, Aug 29 (IANS) Israeli opposition leader strongly criticised the speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the military operation in Gaza, saying it is a sad victory, media reported. On his Facebook page, Isaac Herzog, said Netanyahu lost the confidence of Israelis, especially those in the south and areas close to the Gaza Strip, MENA […]
Washington, Aug 29 (IANS) US President Barack Obama said Thursday he has asked his administration to prepare a range of military options against the Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria. At a press conference in White House, Obama said he has ordered Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to prepare “a range of options” as he […]
Damascus, Aug 29 (IANS) The Islamic State (IS) militants killed more than 160 Syrian soldiers captured by them in Syria’s northern province of al-Raqqa, activists said. The militants captured the Syrian soldiers while fleeing the al-Tabaqa airbase when the airbase was recently seized by the IS, Xinhua reported citing the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights […]
Berlin, Aug 29 (IANS) German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Thursday that the European Union will discuss further sanctions against Russia on its special summit in Brussels Saturday. “We want diplomatic solutions and we will persist in our efforts. However, we realise that things have deteriorated again in the past few days,” Xinhua quoted Merkel as saying […]
Nairobi, Aug 29 (IANS) Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta Thursday directed security agencies to sink a ship which was seized while carrying drugs in the coastal city of Mombasa. “We do not care who owns the ship or the drugs, we will destroy them to teach lesson to those who bent on ruining our children,” Kenyatta said. […]