KUWAIT Two people were injured on Thursday when Kuwaiti coastguards confronted and foiled an attempt by an Iraqi vessel to enter Kuwaiti territorial waters, the state news agency KUNA reported. KUNA said that four armed men aboard the Iraqi craft had threatened the patrol boat with weapons as it tried to stop them entering. “The coastguards dealt with the situation appropriately and managed to seize the boat […]
KINSHASA Congolese authorities said on Thursday they had recaptured 179 fugitives who broke out of the capital’s main prison, in a mass escape that underscored growing security concerns since President Joseph Kabila refused to step down from power. Police in Kinshasa urged residents in a statement to turn in other fugitives and collaborate with authorities “to avoid the resurgence of criminality in the coming days”. Democratic Republic […]
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela Mobs looted shops and fought security forces overnight in Venezuela’s restive western region, where three soldiers were being charged on Thursday with the shooting death of a man who was buying diapers for his baby, witnesses said. Six weeks of anti-government unrest have resulted in at least 44 deaths, as well as hundreds of injuries and arrests in the worst turmoil of President Nicolas […]
By Jamie McGeever | LONDON LONDON The turmoil in Washington surrounding Donald Trump’s presidency is rattling world markets, and the burst of volatility could force investors into a strategic or tactical rethink of how much risk they are happy to face. Increasingly damaging revelations about the Trump administration’s and election team’s dealings with Russia triggered the biggest fall on Wall Street on Wednesday since last September and […]
Orangutans prove to be exceptionally awesome moms. One proof: they nurse longer than any other mammal, sometimes into the ninth year of life. New study findings showed that previous estimates of wild orangutan mothers nursing their offspring for up to seven years may be low. The pattern could actually last up to eight or nine years, particularly when young orangutans would supplement their diet with breast milk during […]
Google will launch its payment system Android Pay in Brazil by the end of 2017, the company announced yesterday. The company’s director of engineering for payment products Varouj Chitilian told delegates at Google’s I/O 2017 event taking place this week that “the momentum and the traction is just incredible” for the company’s contactless payment offering. “I’m personally very excited about Brazil because it will be our first […]
A festival, unlike, say, a concert or exhibition, is a contained, utopian world, with a focus on a set of circumscribed pursuits. Like a highbrow summer camp for adults, festivals offer a jot of escapism, a chance to turn our attention away from some of the weightier issues of the past year. What makes them stand apart from other events is the joy of sharing the same […]
Brazil’s markets crashed on their opening on Thursday, with the benchmark Ibovespa stock index down 10.47 per cent after one of the country’s leading newspapers alleged President Michel Temer had been taped endorsing bribe payments. The real weakened 7.69 per cent against the dollar after the reports, which threaten to topple a government that had won market support with a set of crucial reforms to overhaul Brazil`s sinking public […]
The grandiose reception seeks to convince Mr. Trump that his priorities are theirs, too, and that they are indispensable partners in fighting terrorism, in confronting Iran, in bolstering American businesses and perhaps even in pursuing peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Continue reading the main story “It is a remarkably buoyant moment for them,” said Stephen A. Seche, a former United States ambassador to Yemen and the executive […]
BRASILIA Brazilian President Michel Temer on Thursday told lawmakers that his government would not be toppled by allegations he was caught on tape trying to buy the silence of a potential witness in a sprawling graft investigation, a senator who was at the meeting said. Separately, an aide to Temer said the president planned to make an announcement about the allegations on Thursday, adding that he was […]
By Stephanie van den Berg | AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM The World Court ordered Pakistan on Thursday not to execute Indian citizen Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, convicted of spying, until it hears a case brought by India arguing that Islamabad violated a treaty guaranteeing diplomatic assistance to foreigners accused of crimes. The court, formally known as the International Court of Justice (ICJ), is the top United Nations legal body for […]
ROGER AILES DEAD — MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) May 18, 2017 Media giant Roger Ailes, who resigned as chairman and CEO of Fox News amid sexual harassment allegations last year, has died at the age of 77. His death was first reported by the Drudge Report. No cause of death was given. The statement shared by his wife Elizabeth Ailes read as follows: I am profoundly sad and […]
BEIRUT Islamic State attacked a village near the main road between Aleppo and Homs on Thursday, killing many residents, Syrian state media and a war monitor said. The jihadist group said in a social media feed it had captured the village of Aqarib al-Safi, but the government-run SANA news agency reported that the attack had been repulsed. SANA said Islamic State fighters had killed 20 people in […]
CHICAGO Wal-Mart Stores Inc reported higher-than-expected quarterly comparable sales on Thursday, helped by greater traffic at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores and a rise in online sales. Sales at U.S. stores open at least a year rose 1.4 percent in the first quarter, excluding fuel. Analysts polled by research firm Consesus Metrix had forecast a rise of 1.3 percent. Earnings per share for the world’s largest retailer […]
HALIFAX, England British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday that the days of Britain making vast annual contributions to the European Union will end, but there may be some specific EU programmes in which Britain would want to participate after Brexit. In a list of policy pledges ahead of a June 8 election, May said it might be necessary for Britain to make a contribution for […]
A recent poll put Mr. Raisi in second place in the race for the presidency, with 27 percent of the projected vote. The same poll, by the Iranian Students Polling Agency, projected that the incumbent president, Hassan Rouhani, will get around 42 percent, depending on the turnout on Friday. Continue reading the main story On Monday, though, the second-most-popular conservative in the race, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the […]
Officials in Saudi Arabia have organised a packed schedule for US President Donald Trump’s visit to the kingdom this weekend. In his first official foreign trip, Trump will attend three key summits on May 20-21 in Riyadh, which will be attended by 55 leaders along with representatives from across the Islamic world, according to the official website riyadhsummit2017.org, which also includes a clock counting down to when […]
By Robin Emmott | BRUSSELS BRUSSELS France and Germany are resisting a plan by U.S. officials for NATO to take a bigger role in the fight against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, in line with calls from President Donald Trump for the alliance to do more to combat terrorism. Many alliance members hope the plan will be announced in Brussels next Thursday, when Trump attends his […]
By Vicki Krueger • May 17, 2017 Innovations can be analyzed so you can evaluate whether they will work at your organization. Here are some questions to ask when you are in the first phase of innovation: gathering ideas. Have you established realistic goals for this idea? Even if this idea had a positive outcome elsewhere, will it work at your organization? Is there a downside to […]
Transporting methane from gas wellheads to market provides multiple opportunities for this greenhouse gas to leak into the atmosphere. Now, an international team of researchers has taken the first step in converting methane directly to electricity using bacteria, in a way that could be done near the drilling sites. (via WSJ)
PHNOM PENH Hundreds of people gathered at one of Cambodia’s most notorious “Killing Fields” on Thursday to remember victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide of at least 1.8 million Cambodians in the 1970s. Most of the victims died of starvation, torture, exhaustion or disease in labour camps or were bludgeoned to death during mass executions. At Choeung Ek, some 15 km (9 miles) from the Cambodian capital, […]
ISTANBUL Germany is free to withdraw its troops stationed at Turkey’s Incirlik air base if it wants to, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday, adding Berlin should drop its “patronising approach” to Ankara. Cavusoglu made the comments in an interview with private broadcaster NTV. Germany said on Wednesday it was considering moving the roughly 250 troops deployed at Incirlik to Jordan because Ankara refuses to […]
Adylkuzz is believed to have infected more computers than WannaCry, using the same vulnerabilities Another large-scale, stealthy cyberattack is underway on a scale that could dwarf last week’s assault on computers worldwide, a global cybersecurity firm told AFP on Wednesday. The new attack targets the same vulnerabilities the WannaCry ransomware worm exploited but, rather than freeze files, uses the hundreds of thousands of computers believed to have […]
18 May 2017 Colombo: To further boost its sourcing operations and to bring in high quality products for its large chain of hypermarkets, Middle East based retail giant LULU group today inaugurated it world-class sourcing, food processing & export unit in Sri Lanka. Y.A.S. Lanka was inaugurated by Sagala Ratanayaka, Chief of Staff to the PM & Minister for Law & Order and Southern Development in the […]
