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Syrians need $70 mln of humanitarian aid: OIC

2012-04-07 19:50:06 UTC
At least one million Syrians affected by violence need urgent humanitarian aid worth $70 million, said the head of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Saturday, AFP reported. A joint UN and OIC assessment mission that visited Syria has "...

Pray For Manchester

2017-05-23 17:07:23 UTC
<i><h2>Please retweet: Parents go online to find their children after UK attack</h2> By Michael Holden and Jon Super | </i>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND — Desperate parents and friends posted heart-wrenching messages and pictures on social media in th...

China's big banks lend nearly 300 billion yuan in March: paper

2012-04-07 07:57:42 UTC
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's big four state banks extended almost 300 billion yuan ($47.50 billion) in new local-currency loans last month, the official Securities Times reported on Saturday, citing unidentified sources. The newspaper also estimat...

Hollywood cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, dead at 81

2017-04-13 06:42:53 UTC
Hollywood cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, who counted "Goodfellas", "Gangs of New York" and "The Departed" among the blockbuster movies he filmed, died overnight at his home in Berlin, his publisher said on Wednesday. He was 81. In a career t...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated

2017-02-03 09:01:47 UTC
<strong>World War I 1914</strong><h2> Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated</h2> In an event that is widely acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Au...

Iranian Protesters: The Jeannie Is Out Of The Bottle

2018-01-02 07:21:13 UTC
<blockquote><h3> Demonstrations in a number of Iranian cities have taken an unexpected turn. Initially instigated by the clerics, they've been taken over by secular forces predominantly opposed to the mullahs’ regime.</h3>Be careful, Iranian Vice...

Germany's 130 year-old health care system vs. America's broken one

2017-03-11 23:38:50 UTC
<h3>Germany's 130 year-old health care system vs. America's broken one. </h3> In Germany’s healthcare system, which goes back to Otto von Bismarck’s social security programme of the 1880s, anyone residing in the country is required to take out...

Mike Flynn Seeks Immunity To Testify

2017-03-31 03:01:29 UTC
<blockquote><h2>Former national security adviser may know details of Russia ties</h2> <h3>President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn is reportedly willing to testify about the Trump team’s ties with Russia in exchan...

Romney criticizes Biden on consulate attack

2012-10-13 04:17:53 UTC
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Broadening his attack on administration foreign policy, Mitt Romney accused Vice President Joe Biden on Friday of "doubling down on denial" in a dispute over security at a diplomatic post in Libya that was overrun by terrorist...

EU sent inspectors to examine Spain deficit figures

2012-03-13 17:10:08 UTC
Inspectors from the European Commission have been in Spain to evaluate its 2011 budget deficit after the numbers came in much higher than expected, the EU executive said on Friday. Spain said at the end of February that its budget deficit was 8....

"Bomb-like device" Found In Central Oslo, Suspect Arrested

2017-04-09 07:09:52 UTC
Norwegian police set off a controlled explosion of a "bomb-like device" found in central Oslo on Saturday, a suspect is being held in custody, and the security police has overtaken the conduct of the investigation, authorities said. A Reuters r...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault says Assad is lying about chemical attacks

2017-04-14 06:47:34 UTC
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault dismissed as lies and propaganda on Friday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's comments that a poison gas attack blamed on his government last week in Idlib province was "100 percent fabrication". Ayraul...

Gunfire erupted inside a packed nightclub in Cincinnati, Ohio

2017-03-26 17:17:53 UTC
By Joe Wessels | CINCINNATI, OHIO — Gunfire erupted inside a packed nightclub in Cincinnati, Ohio, early Sunday morning, killing one person and injuring 15 others, as an apparent argument that may have started earlier in the day turned violent...

U.S. sanctions Iran officials, Chinese network over missile program

2017-05-17 18:14:17 UTC
The United States on Wednesday sanctioned two Iranian defense officials, an Iranian company and members of a China-based network for supporting Iran's ballistic missile program, the U.S. Treasury said in a statement. The targeted sanctions come...