NSA deputy calls Trump’s wiretapping allegations ‘crazy’
Author: AFPSat, 2017-03-18ID: 1489853873227809800NEW YORK: The deputy director of the US National Security Agency has described White House allegations that Britain helped spy on President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign as “just crazy.”The accusations infuriated British officials, prompting an uncommonly vehement denial from Britain’s GCHQ intelligence agency and forcing White House spokesmen to back away from […]
Pope’s Egypt visit offers chance to improve Catholic-Muslim ties
Author: ReutersSat, 2017-03-18ID: 1489853327707759700 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis will make a trip to Egypt next month, the Vatican said on Saturday, giving the pontiff another opportunity to promote better relations between Catholics and Muslims. Francis has accepted an invitation to Cairo on April 28-29 from President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Catholic bishops, the pope of the Coptic church […]
Germany owes NATO ‘vast sums’: Trump
Author: APSat, 2017-03-18ID: 1489847632677272100 WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Saturday that Germany owes “vast sums of money” to NATO and the US “must be paid more” for providing defense, reiterating his stance that European allies need to meet their end of the bargain if they are to continue benefiting from the military alliance. Trump’s tweet from his […]
Indian Muslim clerics go missing in Pakistan
Author: Associated PressSat, 2017-03-18ID: 1489834117516190600ISLAMABAD: Pakistan says authorities are looking for two prominent Indian Muslim clerics who went missing during a visit to the country earlier this month.A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday that Asif Ali Nizami, 80, the custodian of a famed Sufi shrine in New Delhi, and his 60-year old nephew Nazim Ali Nizami arrived […]
Flash floods take dramatic toll in Lima, northern Peru
Author: Luis Jaime Cisneros, Carlos Mandujano| AFPSat, 2017-03-18ID: 1489831715186044100 LIMA, Peru: El Nino-fueled flash floods and landslides hit parts of Lima, leaving some communities cut off from roads Saturday, as others fled rising rivers and millions fretted that they won’t have drinking water. Peru’s geographic extremes help fuel the often deadly force of the mudslides, known locally […]
Man shot dead after seizing soldier’s gun at Paris Orly airport
Author: ANGELA CHARLTON | APSat, 2017-03-18ID: 1489828621045836700 PARIS: A man was shot to death Saturday after trying to seize the weapon of a soldier guarding Paris’ Orly Airport, prompting a partial evacuation of the terminal, police said. Authorities warned visitors to avoid the area while an ongoing police operation was underway. Emergency vehicles surrounded the airport as […]
Tension as Tillerson brings tough N.Korea stance to China
Author: Dan Martin | AFPSat, 2017-03-18ID: 1489825026165732400BEIJING: The United States’ top diplomat will press a tougher new line on North Korea in talks with a wary China on Saturday, in a tense atmosphere after President Donald Trump accused Beijing of failing to rein in Pyongyang.On a tour of Asia, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has broken with […]
Bangladesh police shoot militant armed with explosives
Author: ReutersSat, 2017-03-18ID: 1489824018785696000 DHAKA: Bangladesh police shot and killed a suspected militant who tried to enter a security checkpost on a motorcycle armed with explosives on Saturday, the latest in a string of security incidents since a deadly attack on a cafe in July. The latest incident came a day after a suicide bomber blew himself […]
How a school bomb-scare case sparked a media-vs.-FBI fight
Author: RAPHAEL SATTER | APSat, 2017-03-18ID: 1489824068395700900WASHINGTON: The young hacker was told in no uncertain terms: You are safe with me.“I am not trying to find out your true identity,” AP journalist Norm Weatherill assured the teenager in an online chat. “As a member of the Press, I would rather not know who you are as writers […]
Blasphemy charges create climate of fear for Pakistani media
Author: KATHY GANNON | APSat, 2017-03-18ID: 1489819744075469800 ISLAMABAD: Ahmad Waqas Goraya couldn’t see anything through the black hood, but he could hear the screams. A Pakistani blogger with a penchant for criticizing Pakistan’s powerful military and taking the government to task, Goraya was kidnapped in January along with four other bloggers. “I could hear the screams of […]
