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Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee announced they were suspending their presidential campaigns on Monday (February 1) following dismal results in the Iowa Caucuses. O’Malley, who had trouble gaining any traction in the Democratic race, won just 0.6 percent of the vote. “And so tonight I have to tell you that I am suspending this presidential bid. But I am not ending this fight because the fight you and I […]
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz beat billionaire Donald Trump in Iowa’s Republican presidential nominating contest on Monday (February 1), dealing a big upset to the national front-runner in the race to be their party’s White House nominee in 2016. Cruz, a conservative lawmaker from Texas, won with 28 percent of the vote compared to 24 percent for businessman Trump, according to MSNBC. Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, came in third place with 23 percent, […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin is undermining international efforts to end the Syrian civil war by bombing opponents of Islamic State in an attempt to bolster Bashar al-Assad, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday (February 1) during a visit to the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, about 10 km (six miles) south of the border with Syria. In a clear sign of frustration with the Kremlin, Hammond scolded Putin for paying lip service to […]
Iowa Democrats at a Des Moines school split into groups to be counted for their candidates in the first of the 2016 U.S. presidential nominating contests on Monday (February 1). Supporters caucusing for presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton, Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders lined up after the caucus leader told them they had become “part of Iowa and U.S. history”. Clinton, a former secretary of state, had a slight edge over insurgent Bernie Sanders, a self-styled […]
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told Iowa caucus-goers, on Monday (February 1) that he is a “messenger” for those wanting to take the country back as the state’s critical presidential primary got underway. Candidates from both parties toured caucus sites to make their final campaign pitches as Iowans kicked off the first of the 2016 presidential nominating contests. Trump and his wife Melania made an appearance at St. Francis of Assisi school in West Des […]
REUTERS– China’s foreign ministry in Beijing accused the United States on Monday (February 1) of seeking maritime hegemony in the name of freedom of navigation after a U.S. Navy destroyer sailed within 12 nautical miles of a disputed island in the South China Sea. China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion of world trade is shipped every year. Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan have rival claims. […]
The newly established theater commands of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army undertake the mission of safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development interests, safeguard regional stability and world peace, said Yang Yujun, spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of National Defense at a press conference on Monday in Beijing. He told reporters that the five theater commands are: the Eastern Theater Command, the Southern Theater Command, the Western Theater Command, the Northern Theater Command and the Central […]
REUTERS — Delegates from the Organisation of American States (OAS) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (CELAC) met with Haitian officials in Port-au-Prince on Monday (February 01) to seek an end to the political crisis that has engulfed the country since presidential elections were cancelled late last month. The visit follows a decision by the OAS to send a special mission to the Caribbean nation to oversee a transition of power and […]
(Reuters) — The World Health Organization has declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus to be an international public health emergency due to its link to thousands of suspected cases of birth defects in Brazil. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan told reporters on Monday (February 1) coordinated international action was needed to improve detection and speed work on a vaccine and better diagnostics for the disease, although curbs on travel or trade were not necessary. The emergency […]
(Reuters) — A student at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, has contracted the Zika virus, school officials said on Monday (February 1). “We are aware of this [and] we are monitoring it,” Communications Director Suzanne Seurattan told reporters, adding that, “our conversations with our own health and wellness team, as well as the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), show that there is no health risk here on campus […]
(Eagle News) — In the first month of year 2016, while snow storm Jonas bombarded the Mid-Atlantic States, all New York and New Jersey could do was wait. So when Wednesday came, some people already began to prepare. But, in spite of all the warnings broadcast on the television, radio and internet, people weren’t prepared for the ferocity of the storm. At around Friday evening, January 22, snow fell and became more frequent, winds became […]
China condemned the latest action of the United States of America when the latter sent another missile destroyer in the disputed territories in the West Philippine Sea. Said US operation aims to guarantee the freedom of navigation in said territories. The United States sent said ship without asking for the leave of the three claimants of the said three territory – namely China, Taiwan and Vietnam. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video […]
