Director-General deplores death of journalist Almigdad Mojalli in Yemen...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) 'I condemn the death of Almigdad Mojalli,' the Director-General said. 'I call on all parties to make sure that...
View ArticleMarco Rubio mans up on 2016 campaign trail after Republican rivals put the...
Waverly, Iowa: People might have gotten the wrong impression lately that Marco Rubio is some kind of pointy-toed-boot-wearing fancy-pants. Stop thinking that. Right now. He owns a handgun. Went to a...
View ArticleSarah Palin's Donald Trump approval shows charisma, anger and political naiveté
Washington: There is nothing surprising about the political marriage of Donald Trump and Sarah Palin. Indeed ever since Trump gave up flirting with a political career and joined the race it was almost...
View ArticleGlobal economic shift 'a good thing', Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tells...
Don't Play Replay Replay Video Icon Player help icon The global economic transition worrying world markets is ultimately "a good thing", Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has told a Washington...
View ArticleUS agency says its response to Flint water crisis too slow
Washington: The US Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it was reviewing its handling of a crisis over lead-contaminated drinking water in the Michigan city of Flint and acknowledged it did...
View ArticlePregnant Americans contract Zika virus while travelling, health warning issued
St Louis: Two pregnant women from Illinois have contracted the mosquito-borne Zika virus while travelling in Honduras and Haiti, while a baby was born with the virus in Hawaii raising fears the virus...
View ArticleIslamic State holds about 3500 slaves in Iraq, UN says
New York: The United Nations has revealed details of the "staggering civilian death toll in Iraq" over the past two years and estimated some 3500 Iraqis continue to be held captive as "slaves", since...
View ArticleMissing Americans in Baghdad taken from apartment
Baghdad: Three Americans who have gone missing in Iraq were probably kidnapped from a Baghdad apartment, security officials and local news reports say. The apartment may have been the home of an Iraqi...
View ArticlePlastic to outweigh fish in oceans, says report
The world's oceans will contain more plastics than fish by 2050 as plastic – mostly packaging – enters the seas at the rate of one garbage truck-load a minute, a new report has warned. Massive volumes...
View ArticleCommon Frameworks on ICT in Education Teacher Training and Digitally...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) This meeting provided a forum for the sharing of common frameworks for ICT in Education teacher training. Discussions...
View ArticleWriter Elias Sanbar and Spain’s Biblioteca Islámica to receive 2015 UNESCO...
(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Elias Sanbar (Haifa, 1947) is one of the most distinguished Arab intellectuals today, whose activities encompass...
View ArticleKim Beazley leaves Washington
Kim Beazley arrived in Washington, DC, in the middle of the snowiest winter in the capital since 1880, in February, 2010, a year after Barack Obama was sworn into office. Seeing a visitor to the front...
View ArticleFreed reporter Jason Rezaian: I want to catch up on basketball, 'Star Wars'
A smiling Jason Rezaian made his first public appearance Wednesday since being released from an Iranian prison, briefly waving to a crowd of reporters in Germany and saying he "can't wait to get home."...
View ArticleBeing frozen 'to death' saved Justin Smith's life, and it could save others too
Pennsylvania: Don Smith saw the boots first, just the toes, peeking out from a drift of snow along the side of the empty road. He brought his car to a stop, clambered out into the early morning chill...
View ArticleSarah Palin blames son's domestic violence on Obama's leadership
Washington: Sarah Palin accused President Barack Obama of ignoring service veterans after it emerged her former soldier son had been arrested on domestic violence charges. The former vice-presidential...
View Article'Swedish Fritzl' doctor accused of imprisoning woman in bunker is 'highly...
This is the doctor accused of drugging a woman with Rohypnol-laced strawberries and keeping her captive in a sound-proof bunker he had built under his rural property in Sweden. Martin Trenneborg, 38,...
View ArticleFive scientists indicted in secrets case involving China
Philadelphia: Two Glaxo Smith Kline scientists and three others were charged by a federal grand jury in Philadelphia on Wednesday with conspiracy to steal promising cancer research secrets from the...
View ArticleZika virus: The number of birth defects cases in Brazil rising
Brasilia: The cases of babies born with unusually small heads continue to rise in Brazil, where researchers say they have found new evidence linking the increase to the Zika virus spreading through the...
View ArticleJakarta attacks: Indonesia vows to strengthen anti-terror laws
Jakarta: The Indonesian government has vowed to tighten anti-terrorism laws in the wake of Jakarta's deadly attacks but it faces a delicate task given the history of repression under the Suharto...
View ArticleIsrael's plan to seize West Bank land is 'violation of international law': UN
Jerusalem: Israel confirmed on Thursday it was planning to appropriate a large tract of fertile land in the occupied West Bank, close to Jordan, a move likely to exacerbate tensions with Western allies...
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