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WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Monday (April 18) that the United States is providing more support to Iraq as its military moves to take back territory from Islamic State, and he expects the city of Mosul will be retaken eventually. “As we see the Iraqis willing to fight and gaining ground, let’s make sure that we are providing them more support,” Obama said in an […]
JERUSALEM,Israel (Reuters) – A bomb blew up a bus and set fire to another in Jerusalem on Monday (April 18), wounding 21 people in an attack that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu linked to a six-month-old wave of Palestinian street violence. There was no immediate claim of responsibility from any armed Palestinian factions for the blast. Israeli officials declined to assign direct blame, saying only that two of the casualties had not yet been identified […]
President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Monday that the United States is providing more support to Iraq as its military moves to take back territory from Islamic State, and he expects the city of Mosul will be retaken eventually. “As we see the Iraqis willing to fight and gaining ground, let’s make sure that we are providing them more support,” Obama said in an interview with CBS News. U.S. officials announced in […]
BY ANA ISABEL MARTINEZ AND JULIA SYMMES COBB PORTOVIEJO/PEDERNALES, ECUADOR (Reuters) — Touring a city ravaged by the earthquake that killed at least 413 people, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa on Monday contemplated a rebuilding costing billions of dollars and a potentially “huge” impact on the fragile OPEC economy. But the traumatized survivors Correa met on his rounds two days after the magnitude 7.8 quake had much more immediate concerns: many asked him for water. With the death […]
HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA (Reuters) – Large parts of Texas were under a flash flood warning on Monday (April 18) after a storm system dumped as much as 18 inches (45 cm) of rain in areas near Houston, causing hundreds of canceled flights, closed roads and massive power outages. One fatality has been reported, Channel 13 in Houston said, from storms that have caused nearly 900 water rescues in the country’s fourth-largest city. The National Weather Service […]
https://youtu.be/1YC4u8skQxA SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce on Tuesday mocked Johnny Depp’s acting skills in a video recorded with his wife as an apology for breaking the country’s strict quarantine laws. Joyce, who is also agriculture minister, sparked global headlines last year when he threatened to have the couple’s pet dogs put down unless they “buggered off back to the United States”. The Hollywood star and actress-model Amber Heard on Monday […]
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders accused front-runner Hillary Clinton of apparent campaign finance violations on Monday, ratcheting up the rhetoric against his rival one day before New York state’s crucial primary elections. Sanders questioned whether Clinton’s campaign violated legal limits on donations by paying her staffers with funds from a joint fundraising effort by Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, or DNC. Sanders has long maintained that the DNC has favored Clinton over Sanders. […]
The United States will send more troops to Iraq and will put them closer to the front lines of battle there to advise Iraqi forces in the war against Islamic State militants. U.S. defense officials said on Monday that Washington will deploy about 200 additional troops, mostly as advisers for Iraqi troops as they advance towards Mosul, the largest Iraqi city still under Islamic State control. “As we see the Iraqis willing to fight and […]
(REUTERS) — Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff vowed on Monday to fight impeachment tooth-and-nail in the Senate after a heavy defeat in the lower house of Congress raised the likelihood of an end to 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s largest economy. In a raucous vote late on Sunday that sparked jubilation among Rousseff’s foes, the opposition comfortably surpassed the two-thirds majority needed to send Brazil’s first female president for trial in the Senate […]
https://youtu.be/68DYa_2sSzY QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — The death toll from the powerful earthquake that struck Ecuador over the weekend has risen to at least 413, government officials reported Monday. “We are counting 413 people dead at present,” the country’s security ministry said. The new toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Ecuador on Saturday evening updates an earlier count of 350. pld/bfm/acb © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
(REUTERS) — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is throwing a concert in a park with a dramatic view of Manhattan’s skyscrapers. At the northern end of New York state, Republican front-runner Donald Trump will hold a rally in Buffalo, a Rust Belt city recovering from economic decline. The Democratic front-runner, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who represented New York for eight years in the U.S. Senate and whose main home is in a […]
(Reuters) — A member of Islamic State’s war council and two aides were killed in northern Iraq on Monday by U.S. and Kurdish commandos in the second helicopter raid in two days in the area by a U.S.-led coalition, Kurdish security sources said. A statement by the Kurdish regional security council said Monday’s raid south of the Iraqi city of Mosul killed Suleiman Abd Shabib al-Jabouri, also known as Abu Saif. As a member of the […]
