Archive du mois : janvier 2018
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that Washington owed Turkey an explanation over reports that it was creating a 30,000-strong border force in northern Syria, adding that the issue has been « misportrayed ». « That entire situation has been misportrayed, misdescribed, some people misspoke. We are not creating a border security force at all, » Tillerson…
India’s top court has rejected a bid to ban a Bollywood film featuring a Hindu queen battling a Muslim ruler, allowing for the fictional period drama to be screened across the country. Right-wing Hindu and caste groups had protested against the release of Padmaavat. The Supreme Court in the capital, New Delhi, ruled in favour of…
– I have this sourced. Big Ben is massively frustrated with Mike Tomlin. That was the seventh time he has called out the coaching staff– that was the most direct. It’s not that he called out Tomlin, it’s when he called him out– on his radio show, after he had read, or heard, Tomlin under…
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REUTERS/Neil HallA bloodbath gripped the crypto markets this week, with virtually every single major cryptocurrency taking significant losses, but huge amounts of excitement remains about the space from all corners of society. Bitcoin, the first, biggest, and most recognisable cryptocurrency, has been at the heart of much of that excitement, with acolytes touting it as…
Belgium has pledged to donate 19m euro ($23m) to UNRWA, the UN’s aid organisation for Palestinian refugees, after the US government announced it would slash its funding to the agency by half. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said in a statement on Wednesday that Brussels would allocate the funds over three years. The first annual…
The parents of 13 children found starving and chained to their beds in appalling conditions had ‘said their goodbyes’ only hours before their arrest, the Mirror can reveal. David and Louise Turpin were led away in handcuffs after police swooped on their large bungalow at around 7.30am on Sunday morning. It came after their 17-year-old…
Enlarge / A dose of Tc-99m to be used in an upcoming scan. There’s a mad dash for a vital radioactive isotope that’s used in about 50,000 medical procedures every day in the US, including spotting deadly cancers and looming heart problems. Currently, access to it hinges on a shaky supply chain and a handful…
Accra, Ghana – They have come from the big cities of San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. Thousands of them. And many refuse to return. A new wave of African-Americans is escaping the incessant racism and prejudice in the United States. From Senegal and Ghana to The Gambia, communities are emerging in defiance of conventional wisdom…
A young Palestinian man has been killed in an exchange of fire with the Israeli army near the occupied West Bank town of Jenin. One other Palestinian and two Israeli soldiers were also injured in Thursday’s incident, which took place before dawn. Israeli forces encircled the home of Ahmed Nasser Jarrar, 22, based on intelligence…
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