Archive du mois : avril 2018

0

UAE airplane blocked from leaving Somalia’s Puntland map

Somali officials are said to have stopped a plane from the United Arab Emirates from leaving the country after Emirati military trainers on board refused to hand over their luggage to be scanned and searched. The local news website Mareeg reported on Saturday that Somali officials at Bosaso airport insisted that the « heavy bags » on the…

0

How foremost is the OPCW’s mission in Syria?

Representatives of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have arrived in Damascus, where they will conduct a so-called fact finding mission into the chemical attack in Douma on April 7. The OPCW will try « to establish facts surrounding allegations of the use of toxic chemicals, reportedly chlorine, for hostile purposes in the…

0

Beyoncé’s Coachella efficiency: Survey it live here

Beyoncé Knowles is coming to Coachella in California tonight, and she is definitely maybe possibly hopefully bringing a Destiny’s Child reunion with her. To make sure you don’t miss any of the sure-to-be “Flawless” performances, here’s where to watch and what you need to know. Knowles is scheduled to go on stage Saturday at 11:10…

0

Crowds come by for Winnie Mandela’s funeral

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWinnie Madikizela-Mandela’s casket was draped in the national flagLarge crowds gathered in South Africa for the funeral of the anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Thousands of mourners crowded into a stadium in Soweto, near Johannesburg, where the campaigner was given a high-level send-off before her burial in Johannesburg.…

0

Viktor Orban’s victory promps thunder in Budapest

Tens of thousands of Hungarians have protested in Budapest against what they say is the unfair election system that gave Viktor Orban a landslide victory at the polls after a « hate campaign » against immigrants. Saturday’s protest came after the prime minister won a third straight term in power in Sunday’s elections. Orban’s ruling Fidesz party…

0

LG V30S ThinQ overview: A stable but pointless cell telephone

Then there’s QLens, which ultimately isn’t much more than a pared-down version of Bixby Vision. Once it’s enabled, you’re given the option to snap a photo of an object and search for related results on Amazon and Pinterest. I’ve been dreaming for years now of an app that would help me identify shoes, accessories and…

0

Solid earnings season will no longer be sufficient to avert one other correction, economist Robert Shiller says

Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller believes a strong earnings season may not be adequate to keep stocks out of the red. Despite two corrections since February, the Yale University Professor — who predicted both the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s and the housing meltdown that triggered the 2008 financial crisis — contended market valuations…

South Africa’s Winnie Mandela laid to leisure 0

South Africa’s Winnie Mandela laid to leisure

South Africa has laid to rest anti-apartheid icon Winnie Mandela with full state honours at a stadium funeral in Soweto. The ex-wife of the country’s former President Nelson Mandela died earlier this month at the age of 81. Tens of thousands of mourners burst into loud cheers as the coffin carrying her remains was wheeled into the stadium, less…