Irma: Six dead at Florida nursing home left without power(BBC)
Media captionFlorida nursing home survivors evacuated Six people at a Florida nursing home that was left without power for days after Hurricane Irma have died. Police evacuated 115 residents on Wednesday from the facility, whose air conditioning was cut by the storm. Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief said three were found dead at the nursing […]
‘Turkey to get what Libya & Iraq lacked: Russian-made S-400 missile system’
13 September, 2017 Comments Off on ‘Turkey to get what Libya & Iraq lacked: Russian-made S-400 missile system’
Anti-aircraft defense system S-400 Triumph of an air defense regiment. © Sergey Malgavko / Sputnik Turkey-US relations have generally been quite bad and getting worse since the attempted coup against President Erdogan in the summer of 2016, explains Adam Garrie, Managing Editor at the Duran. TrendsTurkey crackdown on Kurds NATO member Turkey announced it made down payment for […]
Continue reading …Number of migrants arriving in Spain soars: minister
13 September, 2017 Comments Off on Number of migrants arriving in Spain soars: minister
Would-be immigrants atop a border fence separating Morocco from the north African Spanish enclave of Melilla. Photo: AFP The number of migrants arriving in Spain so far this year has soared more than 88 percent from the same period in 2016, Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said on Tuesday. Speaking in a parliamentary commission on […]
Continue reading …Seoul detects radioactive gas from N. Korea nuke test
13 September, 2017 Comments Off on Seoul detects radioactive gas from N. Korea nuke test
FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14. KCNA / Reuters A radioactive gas, xenon-133, has been detected from the recent North Korean nuclear test, the South’s nuclear watchdog said, adding that it is still unclear whether it was from a hydrogen bomb test as Pyongyang claimed. Read […]
Continue reading …France considers banning mobile phones in schools
13 September, 2017 Comments Off on France considers banning mobile phones in schools
School students with their mobiles. AFP French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has touched off a public debate about banning phones in schools as he seeks to implement a campaign pledge by President Emmanuel Macron. In an interview with Express magazine, the minister suggested that pupils might be asked to deposit their phones in secure boxes […]
Continue reading …Army secures Deir Ezzor Airport’s landing strips, gains control over new areas in eastern countryside of Homs
13 September, 2017 Comments Off on Army secures Deir Ezzor Airport’s landing strips, gains control over new areas in eastern countryside of Homs
Deir Ezzor/Homs, SANA – Syrian Arab Army units continued operations to secure the perimeter of Deir Ezzor Military Airport and Regiment 137, in conjunction with concentrated operations to eliminate ISIS terrorists form the province’s southeastern countryside. SANA’s correspondent said that an army unit that established control over al-Thurda Mountains and met with the Airport’s garrison a few days […]
Continue reading …Aung San Suu Kyi cancels trip to UN General Assembly
13 September, 2017 Comments Off on Aung San Suu Kyi cancels trip to UN General Assembly
Myanmar leader faces mounting criticism globally over ethnic cleansing campaign targeting country’s Rohingya Muslims Myanmar’s national leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not attend the upcoming UN General Assembly session in New York. A spokesperson for her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), told Reuters news agency late on Tuesday that the Nobel Peace Prize […]
Continue reading …Germany resumes Afghan deportations months after Kabul truck bomb
13 September, 2017 Comments Off on Germany resumes Afghan deportations months after Kabul truck bomb
Photo: DPA Eight Afghans expelled from Germany arrived in Kabul on Wednesday as Berlin resumed deportations of rejected asylum seekers from the war-torn country months after a huge truck bomb hit the Afghan capital. Germany suspended the controversial expulsions after a sewage tanker packed with explosives detonated near the German embassy in Kabul’s diplomatic quarter […]
Continue reading …Russia sends 4,000 tons of pipes, cables & machinery in reconstruction aid to Syria – MoD
13 September, 2017 Comments Off on Russia sends 4,000 tons of pipes, cables & machinery in reconstruction aid to Syria – MoD
© Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation Russia is preparing to send more than 4,000 tons of materials and over 40 pieces of construction equipment to Syria to help the war-torn country in its multibillion-dollar reconstruction effort. TrendsRussian anti-terror op in Syria, Syria war The shipment of industrial aid that is currently being readied for […]
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