Archive du mois : janvier 2018
Darren Osborne, 48, is accused of killing Makram Ali, 51, and injuring several others after he mounted the pavement with a van he hired outside the mosque in north London, on June 19 last year The man accused of driving a van into a crowd of people outside Finsbury Park mosque had also hoped to…
The jump in interest rates to four-year highs is the biggest catalyst behind the stock market’s sell off, and there are three big events that could send those rates even higher in the next 24 hours. The first is President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech Tuesday evening. On the surface, it appears harmless…
Participants of a Russia-hosted conference for peace in Syria have agreed to set up a commission to rewrite the war-torn country’s constitution. Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, said on Tuesday that delegates at the two-day conference at the Black Sea resort of Sochi, agreed to include both government and opposition officials in…
The alleged Finsbury Park attacker has claimed he originally wanted to kill Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan among victims at a pro-Palestinian march in London. Darren Osborne, 48, took the stand at Woolwich Crown Court to claim he concocted the original plan at a Welsh pub with two men called Dave and Terry Jones. He…
Ross D. Franklin/AP by John Binder30 Jan 2018Washington, D.C.0 30 Jan, 201830 Jan, 2018 Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) says he has asked the United States Capitol Police and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to arrest “any illegal aliens” who arrive and attempt to attend President Trump’s “State of the Union” address. Last week, ABC News revealed that at…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as much as 411 points, putting U.S. stocks on pace for the biggest two-day decline since August, while yields on benchmark government bonds touched April 2014 highs as caution crept into markets after one of the best starts to a year in recent history. Screens flashed red across most…
Between 1941 and 1945, the German National Socialists carried out the worst genocide in history. The National Socialists – Nazis – systematically and horrifically murdered around six million Jewish people in Europe. They rounded their victims up into ghettos, imprisoned them in labour camps, and killed them in purpose-built gas chambers. The following sentence shouldn’t…
Nicosia, Cyprus – Nine-year-old Mihalis Mihail had never seen a ship before, let alone been on board one. Yet there he stood, anxious and confused on the deck of The Patra, about to embark on a journey that would change his life forever. The port of Limassol in southern Cyprus stirred with unusual commotion that…
On a hot November evening last year, I found myself in the middle of a bizarre, otherworldly scene in the economic capital of the Ivory Coast, Abidjan. On a small stage set up at a local stadium, Ivorian football star Didier Drogba was urging hundreds of local youth to chant, « I promise I won’t migrate! I…
It’s no secret Jeff Bezos has been looking to crack health care. But no one expected him to pull in Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon, too. News Tuesday that Bezos’s Amazon.com Inc., Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., led by Dimon, plan to join forces to change how health care is provided…
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