Several injured in shooting at French school: sources
Author: Agence France PresseThu, 2017-03-16ID: 1489669718022194800PARIS: Several people were injured in a shooting Thursday at a high school in the southern French town of Grasse, police said.One person was arrested and another was on the run after the shooting at the Tocqueville high school, a police source told AFP, asking not to be named.All schools in the […]
One hurt in letter bomb blast at IMF Paris office
Author: Agence France PresseThu, 2017-03-16ID: 1489669353412159100PARIS: A letter bomb exploded at the Paris offices of the International Monetary Fund on Thursday, injuring a secretary who suffered burns to her hands and face, police said.Employees were evacuated from the building near the Arc de Triomphe monument in the heart of the capital “as a precaution” after the late […]
European relief as Dutch snub ‘siren song’ of far-right
Author: Agence France PresseThu, 2017-03-16ID: 1489668545272083500THE HAGUE: European leaders breathed a sigh of relief Thursday as the pragmatic Dutch plumped for the status-quo, voting Liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte back into power even though the far-right shot up into second place.“A vote for Europe, a vote against extremists,” Margaritis Schinas, spokesman for EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, […]
Angelina Jolie defends UN, decries ‘tide of nationalism’
Author: Associated PressWed, 2017-03-15ID: 1489650036190609000 GENEVA: Angelina Jolie has made a strong defense of the United Nations, saying the world body, as “imperfect” as it is, needs reform but also support. The American actress and special envoy for the UN refugee agency decried a “rising tide of nationalism masquerading as populism, and the re-emergence of policies encouraging […]
Tillerson: 20 years of efforts to denuclearise NKorea ‘have failed’
Author: Agence France PresseThu, 2017-03-16ID: 1489649828030584400 TOKYO: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that two decades of efforts to stop North Korea’s nuclear ambitions have not worked and that a new approach is needed. “I think it’s important to recognize that the political and diplomatic efforts of the past 20 years to bring North Korea […]
Exit poll: Dutch PM Rutte beats anti-Islam leader Wilders
Author: MIKE CORDER and RAF CASERT | APWed, 2017-03-15ID: 1489649740110574300 THE HAGUE, Netherlands: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday was moving toward a dominating parliamentary election victory over anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, who looked like he failed the year’s first litmus test for populism in Europe. The Netherlands’ main exit poll suggests Rutte’s party won 31 […]
Turkey ‘expels Dutch cows’ amid diplomatic crisis
Author: AFPWed, 2017-03-15ID: 1489644199290262800 ISTANBUL: Turkey’s red meat association has ordered a consignment of prize Dutch cattle to be sent back to the Netherlands, saying it no longer wants to farm the cows due to the diplomatic crisis between the countries. Bulent Tunc, the head of the Turkish Association of Red Meat Producers, told Turkish media that […]
Hawaii judge freezes Trump’s revamped travel ban
Author: Kent Nishimura and Frankie Taggart | AFPThu, 2017-03-16ID: 1489641269410145400 HONOLULU, USA: A federal court in Hawaii on Wednesday halted Donald Trump’s revised executive order temporarily closing US borders to refugees and nationals from six Muslim-majority countries, dealing the president a humiliating defeat. US District Judge Derrick Watson ruled that the state of Hawaii, in its legal […]
Sudanese President Receives Message from Turkish Peer
Khartoum, March 16 (QNA) – Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Thursday received a written message from Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyib Erdogan pertaining to bilateral relations between the two countries and means of boosting and developing them, in addition to regional and international issues of mutual interest. Hassan Yafouz, the special presidential envoy of the Turkish […]
Palestinian Foreign Ministry Welcomes ESCWA Report on Israeli Practices
Ramallah, March 16 (QNA) – The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has welcomed a report issued by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in which it stressed that Israel has established an apartheid regime that oppresses and dominates the Palestinian people. In a statement issued Thursday, the ministry reiterated the importance of […]
