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Sunday, 16 November 2014
Ukraine crisis preoccupies G-20 summit
Despite not being on the G-20 agenda the crisis in Ukraine hung heavy over the gathering of leaders from key developing and industrial countries Saturday.
With the meeting in its second and final day, President Obama talked Asia Pacific cooperation and Ukraine with the Australian...
Read moreSaturday, 15 November 2014
Muslims found Americas before Columbus says Turkey's Erdogan
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Muslims discovered the Americas more than three centuries before Christopher Columbus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
He made the claim during a conference of Latin American Muslim leaders in Istanbul, pointing to a diary entry in which Columbus mentioned a mosque...
Read moreComet lander shuts down after sending data
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A pioneering robotic spacecraft shut down on Saturday after radioing results of its first and probably last batch of scientific experiments from the surface of a comet, scientists said.
Batteries aboard the European Space Agency’s Philae comet lander drained, shutting down the washing...
Read moreTuesday, 21 October 2014
Ebola vaccine trials in W. Africa in Januarymarie
The World Health Organization is pressing the search for an Ebola vaccine and hopes to begin testing two experimental versions as early as January on more than 20,000 front-line health care workers and others in West Africa's hot zone — a bigger rollout than envisioned just a few...
Read moreSaturday, 18 October 2014
Nepal FA chiefs ask FIFA to investigate own president
(Reuters) - Senior officials at Nepal's football association (ANFA) have asked FIFA's ethics chief Michael Garcia to launch an investigation into their own president Ganesh Thapa.
The request, via an emailed letter seen by Reuters, comes after the country's public accounts committee...
Read moreTuesday, 14 October 2014
Obama: World not doing enough to fight Ebola
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(AP) — President Barack Obama says "the world is not doing enough" to fight Ebola.
Obama suggested to reporters Tuesday that he plans to reach out to foreign leaders to pressure them to do more. He spoke at the end of a meeting with U.S. and allied military leaders primarily focused...
Read moreSaturday, 27 September 2014
Hong Kong clashes, arrests kick-start plans to blockade city
(Reuters) - Violent clashes between Hong Kong riot police and students galvanized tens of thousands of supporters for the city's pro-democracy movement and kick-started a plan to lock down the heart of the Asian financial center early on Sunday.
Leaders and supporters of Occupy...
Read moreWorld Leaders Give Their Annual Speeches At The UNlavr
(AP) — World leaders gathered Saturday for the fourth day of the annual ministerial meeting of the U.N. General Assembly to address the state of their countries and the world. Here are highlights from some of the newsworthy speakers:
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
The president of the...
Read moreThursday, 25 September 2014
One of the girls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria's Chibok freed -police
(Reuters) - One of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist Boko Haram rebels in the northeastern Nigerian village of Chibok was freed this week, police and a parent of some of the other missing girls said on Thursday.
Boko Haram militants took the girls from a secondary...
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