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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Sunday (January 3) criticized Saudi Arabia’s beheading of a prominent Shiite cleric. She told a campaign rally in Derry, New Hampshire that the beheading “was not a smart decision”, and that the beheading “will inflame the region even more.” Cleric Nimr al-Nimr was among the 47 killed on Saturday (January 2) in the kingdom’s biggest mass execution for decades. Most were Sunnis convicted of al Qaeda attacks in […]
(Reuters) An earthquake measuring 6.8 struck northwest of Imphal in India, near the Myanmar border, on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The USGS said the quake was 57 kms (35 miles) deep, and initially reported it had struck inside Myanmar.
A group of self-styled militiamen occupied the headquarters of a U.S. wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon to protest the imminent jailing of two ranchers, officials said on Sunday, in the latest skirmish over federal land management in the West. The occupation, which began on Saturday, followed a march in Burns, a small city about 50 miles (80 km) north of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, in support of Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son, Steven Hammond. […]
Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran on Sunday, responding to the storming of its embassy in Tehran in an escalating row between the rival Middle East powers over Riyadh’s execution of a Shi’ite Muslim cleric. Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference in Riyadh that the envoy of Shi’ite Iran had been asked to quit Saudi Arabia within 48 hours. The kingdom, he said, would not allow the Islamic republic to undermine its security. […]
Emergency services boosted river defenses in England’s Croston village on Tuesday (December 29) after warnings of more rain raised concerns it would be hit by further flooding. The village in Lancashire has been severely battered by heavy rain in recent weeks, leaving many homes without power. Severe flood warnings were issued for Croston because of the gap in its flood defenses, the Environment Agency said. A Chinook helicopter carrying sandbags was flown into the area […]
Colombia has already declared red alert for the uptick in forest fires spreading through the South American country that have been stirred up as a consequence of drought brought on by the El Nino phenomenon. The caution is effective for roughly 80 percent of the country. The Colombian Environment Ministry has noted a rise in temperatures of between three and four degrees Celsius (seven and eight degrees Fahrenheit) throughout the country. The country has already […]
Families continued to abandon their homes on Monday (December 28) in the southern cone of South America, which is seeing its worst flooding in decades and has already forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate. In northern Argentina, some 20,000 people have had to evacuate in what local authorities have called the worst flooding in 50 years. Aerial views showed large swamped areas in the Argentine city of Concordia, in the Entre Rios province. This […]
The Islamic State (IS) group has lost over half of its land in Iraq as the government forces claimed on Monday the retaking of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s western province of Anbar. The territory controlled by the terrorist group has reduced to 20 percent of the whole country, down from 40 percent in 2014, according to local media reports. The IS has controlled large areas in middle and northern part of Iraq since June, […]
Hydrologists and geologists nationwide have been gathering in east China’s Shandong Province to direct rescue plans to find the quickest possible way to save 17 trapped miners inside a collapsed gypsum mine. A total of 29 people were working underground when the mine collapsed at 07:56 last Friday in Pingyi County. Eleven were rescued on Saturday while one died. According to authorities, the 17 trapped are located at two sections: three in a quarry work […]
Russia’s air forces carried out 164 sorties in Syria in the past three days, hitting 556 targets, Lieutenant General Sergei Rudskoi, a department chief at Russia’s Defence Ministry, told a news briefing on Monday (December 28). “As of December 25, 164 sorties have been carried out hitting 556 terrorist targets in provinces of Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Homs, Damascus, Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa,” Rudskoi official said. He also said that Russian aviation supported advance towards […]
Alfredo Pacheco, a soccer player who played for the Salvadoran national side before being banned from the sport for life for his involvement in match fixing, was murdered on Sunday (December 28). Thirty-three-year-old Pacheco was with a group of friends chatting in a gas station when an unknown assailant shot at the group various times, authorities said. Two other people were injured and were taken to a nearby hospital in the city of Santa Ana, […]
Immigration authorities in Costa Rica said on Monday (December 28) they have started deportation proceedings for 56 Cubans who crossed into their border after the nation stopped issuing transit visas for Cubans trying to reach the United States. Costa Rica stopped giving out transit visas to Cubans on Dec. 18. The Cubans are being held in capital San Jose. “We have 56 people of Cuban nationality who were picked up coming into the country illegally. […]
