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(Reuters) Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards on Monday (August 15) toured areas of the state hardest hit by deadly floods, as swollen rivers receded slowly from record levels. Edwards called the floods unprecedented and said he was proud of the way residents had responded after waters inundated homes, rising to rooftops in some areas and trapping people inside cars on a major interstate around Baton Rouge. The floods left seven people dead. “I’m very […]
(REUTERS) China on Tuesday launched the world’s first quantum satellite, which will help it establish “hack-proof” communications between space and the ground, state media said, the latest advance in an ambitious space program. The program is a priority as President Xi Jinping has urged China to establish itself as a space power, and apart from its civilian ambitions, it has tested anti-satellite missiles. The Quantum Experiments at Space Scale, or QUESS, satellite, was launched […]
(REUTERS) Republican Donald Trump said on Monday he would work closely with NATO allies to defeat Islamic State militants if he wins the White House, reversing an earlier threat that the United States might not meet its obligations to the Western military alliance. In a policy speech, Trump said he would wage a multi-front “military, cyber and financial” war against Islamic State, although it was not clear how that would differ from the Obama […]
(REUTERS) U.S. officials said on Monday 15 inmates from the Guantanamo prison were transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the single largest transfer of Guantanamo detainees during President Barack Obama’s administration. The transfer of the 12 Yemeni and three Afghan citizens brings the total number of detainees down to 61 at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Most have been held without charge or trial for more than a decade, drawing international […]
by Jeanete Duazo Eagle News Service Canada Bureau (Eagle News) — The Public Health Agency of Canada has confirmed the country’s first case of Zika-related defects in a fetus, withholding further information for privacy reasons. It has however, confirmed that the fetus had severe congenital neurological anomalies. This is the second Canadian case of maternal-to-fetus transmission occurred in a baby that was confirmed to have the virus and the first to which has been linked to […]
(REUTERS) Declaring he was tired of talking about Donald Trump, President Barack Obama urged Democrats on Monday not to grow too confident about their prospects in the 2016 election despite Hillary Clinton’s strong position in the race for the White House. Obama, who is on a two-week vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the coast of Massachusetts, took a short break from his relaxation time to raise money for Clinton, the Democratic presidential […]
(UNITED NATIONS) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today started a programme to train European laboratory staff on how to use nuclear-derived techniques to detect lumpy skin disease – a highly infectious cowpox virus spreading across the continent. “Lumpy skin disease has always been considered exotic in Europe, therefore many laboratories in the region are not prepared to detect it, or to differentiate between its various strains,” said Giovanni Cattoli, head of the UN […]
by Thomas Watkins WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Fifteen Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the largest such release in years, the Pentagon announced Monday. The latest transfers bring the remaining population of the detention center down to 61. Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, about 780 inmates have been housed in the US military-run facility. According to a State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, 12 of the men […]
GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AFP) — Gunmen stormed a bar and kidnapped at least 10 people Monday in the Mexican resort city of Puerto Vallarta, state prosecutors said, linking it to a war between rival gangs. The heavily armed men arrived in pickup trucks around dawn and abducted their victims from the bar of a restaurant called La Leche in the city’s upscale hotel district, the Jalisco state prosecutor’s office said in a statement, citing witnesses. Chief […]
(REUTERS) A 5.3 magnitude shallow earthquake killed at least four people, including a U.S. tourist, and injured dozens when it rocked a copper-producing region popular with trekkers late on Sunday, authorities said. The quake struck just 8 kilometers (5 miles) deep in the Caylloma province of the Andean region Arequipa and at least five aftershocks shook the region anew on Monday, the Geophysical Institute of Peru said. The USGS reported the earthquake as having […]
(REUTERS) The city of Milwaukee imposed a 10 p.m. curfew on Monday in an attempt to quell rioting that erupted the previous two nights in response to the police shooting of an armed black man in one of the most segregated cities in the United States. Mayor Tom Barrett also renewed his call for state officials to release a video of the Saturday night shooting in hopes it convinces angry protesters that deadly force […]
(REUTERS) Egyptian judoka Islam El Shehaby has been sent home from the Rio Olympics after refusing to shake the hand of Israeli Or Sasson following the end of their bout, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday. El Shehaby, who was sent home by his own team, lost the fight on Friday and was reprimanded by the IOC for his actions. The athlete said he did not want to shake hands with an Israeli, […]
