US leads boycott of nuclear weapons ban talks
Author: Catherine TRIOMPHE (AFP)Mon, 2017-03-27 (All day)ID: 1490699492616285300 UNITED NATIONS: More than 100 countries on Monday launched the first UN talks aimed at achieving a legally binding ban on nuclear weapons, as Washington led an international boycott of a process it deems unrealistic. Before the conference had even begun, the US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, […]
Legal spat in US over parents wanting to name child “Allah“
Author: AFPTue, 2017-03-28 (All day)ID: 1490699242246265200 WASHINGTON: A civil rights group is suing the US state of Georgia because it will not let a couple give their toddler daughter “Allah” as her last name. Parents Elizabeth Handy and Bilal Walk want to name their 22-month-old daughter ZalyKha Graceful Lorraina Allah. But state officials at the Department of […]
Angry mob attacks Africans in India after teen’s death
Author: AFPTue, 2017-03-28 (All day)ID: 1490698889756236700 NEW DELHI: Hundreds of residents of an Indian city where a teenage boy died of a suspected drug overdose went on a violent rampage against Africans, using steel chairs to attack shoppers in a local mall. The riots broke out late Monday after police in Greater Noida, a satellite city of […]
Putin to meet Iran’s Rouhani in Moscow
Author: (AFP)Tue, 2017-03-28 (All day)ID: 1490687764845436800 Moscow :Russian President Vladimir Putin was Tuesday to host Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani for talks that will be closely watched for signs of their next moves in Syria. Rouhani’s first official visit to Russia comes as the two Syrian regime supporters push for ways to end the six-year conflict, having done […]
London attacker’s wife ‘saddened and shocked’
Author: Associated PressTue, 2017-03-28 (All day)ID: 1490687418855394800 LONDON: The wife of the man who killed four people outside Britain’s Parliament last week condemned the attack, saying she is “saddened and shocked.” In statement released through London police on Tuesday, Khalid Masood’s wife, Rohey Hydara, also said “I express my condolences to the families of the victims that […]
Australia shelves planned extradition treaty with China
Author: Associated PressTue, 2017-03-28 03:00ID: 1490677927994914900CANBERRA, Australia: The Australian government has shelved a planned extradition treaty with China rather than allow the Senate reject it over human rights concerns.Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said senior ministers decided Tuesday not to proceed with the treaty after the opposition Labour Party declared it would block it in the Senate.Bishop says […]
Man arrested in connection with vandalism at Colorado mosque
Author: Associated PressTue, 2017-03-28 03:00ID: 1490685461535135300FORT COLLINS, Colorado: Police arrested a suspect in connection with the vandalism at a mosque near Colorado State University, a case they are investigating as a hate crime.Joseph Scott Giaquinto, 35, was arrested on suspicion of several charges, including a crime motivated by bias, The Coloradoan reports (http://noconow.co/2mKWQEG ).Police had asked for […]
Brits in Germany put down roots to weather Brexit
Author: Agence France PresseTue, 2017-03-28 06:33ID: 1490680560145028300 FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Former Royal Air Force airman Paul Hughes never imagined saying it, but he admits that he was almost “ashamed of my fellow countrymen” when Britons voted to leave the EU last June. “I was devastated,” he tells AFP. Since the fateful referendum last summer, 34-year-old Hughes — […]
Hard-line Hindu priest a handful for Modi in heartland Indian state
Author: ReutersTue, 2017-03-28 (All day)ID: 1490680402835016200 GORAKHPUR, India/NEW DELHI: Since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stunned the political establishment by promoting a hard-line Hindu priest to one of the country’s most powerful positions, Yogi Adityanath has sounded more statesman than rabble-rouser. Gone is the fiery anti-Muslim rhetoric and promotion of Hindu supremacy for which the saffron-robed 44-year-old […]
Police: No active search for suspects in nightclub shooting
Author: DAN SEWELL & JOHN SEEWER | APTue, 2017-03-28 03:00ID: 1490679966264985500CINCINNATI: As Cincinnati police delved further into their investigation of a nightclub shooting melee that left one person dead and 16 injured, city officials Monday urged more witnesses to come forward and offered reassurances amid questions about safety in public gathering spots.Police Chief Eliot Isaac declined to […]
