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European Council President Donald Tusk said early on Friday (December 18) morning that he was more optimistic of finding a compromise with Prime Minister David Cameron in February after a summit dinner on Thursday discussing British demands for reform of the European Union. “We had a substantive and constructive discussion over dinner. I didn’t want to sound too dramatic before the meeting, but I do believe that tonight was a make-or-break moment. Prime Minister Cameron set […]
Iran’s aim of having sanctions against it lifted by the end of January under a deal with major powers is “not impossible”, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog monitoring its implementation said on Wednesday (December 16). Tehran is racing to keep its side of the deal reached with world powers in July, under which the sanctions that have battered its economy will be suspended in exchange for Iran severely limiting its nuclear programme. Iranian […]
President Barack Obama said on Thursday U.S. intelligence professionals did not have any specific or credible information about a pending attack on the United States and Americans would prevail over the threat of terrorism. Obama, speaking to reporters during a visit with advisers at the National Counterterrorism Center outside Washington, warned the U.S. public to remain vigilant going into the holiday season. “When terrorists pull off a despicable act like what happened in San Bernardino, […]
Suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter arrived at FIFA headquarters on Thursday (December 17) for his hearing before the group’s ethics panel. FIFA investigators in November called for sanctions against Blatter and European (UEFA) soccer chief Michel Platini, both of whom were suspended from their posts for 90 days on Oct. 8 pending a full investigation. Blatter has reiterated that a 2 million Swiss franc ($2.02 million) payment from FIFA to Platini in 2011 — when […]
The Indonesian navy on Thursday (December 17) conducted a search and rescue for the missing crew members of a vessel that sunk off Indonesia. Six crew members are still missing after a general cargo freighter sank in the Singapore Strait following a collision with a chemical tanker at 8:14 p.m. (7.14 a.m. ET) on Wednesday (December 16). The 10,385 deadweight tonne (dwt) cargo freighter Thorco Cloud, operated by Danish shipper Thorco Shipping and registered in […]
Chinese rescuers say there’s little chance of survival for the 19 workers trapped inside a coal mine after an explosion, state media reported on Thursday (December 17). The blast happened at about 2:30 p.m. (0630 GMT) on Wednesday (December 16) in Hegang city, when 52 miners were working underground, CCTV said. Thirty-three of the miners managed to escape after the accident, it added. CCTV said the fire brought the underground temperature up to as high […]
Islamic State militants fired rockets at a base in northern Iraq where Turkish troops are stationed on Wednesday ( December 160, as they launched a wave of attacks against Kurdish forces, officials said. The Turkish Armed Forces said in a statement its soldiers returned fire, and four had been lightly injured when katyusha rockets landed in their camp north of the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul. Turkey deployed around 150 troops in the Bashiqa area […]
A mistrial was declared on Wednesday (December 16) in the case of a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man whose killing sparked riots in April, and the city’s mayor urged calm. The judge dismissed the jury in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Officer William Porter – the first of six officers to be tried in Gray’s death – after 16 hours of deliberations during which the jurors were […]
Nineteen miners were still trapped in a coal mine explosion, as rescue operation was underway in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province, state media reported on Thursday (December 17). The state broadcaster CCTV showed thick smoke coming out from the mine and fire engines parked in line to join the rescue work. As of 09:30 a.m. (0130 GMT) on Thursday, the fire was still burning, blocking rescuers from approaching the trapped miners. The blast happened at about […]
Islamic State has “revolutionized” terrorism by seeking to inspire small-scale individual attacks around the world through social media, encrypted communications and slickly produced propaganda, FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday (December 16). “Your parent’s al Qaeda was a very different model than the threat we face today,” Comey said at a counter terrorism conference in New York City. He said the Federal Bureau of Investigation currently has “hundreds” of investigations in all 50 U.S. […]
The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is not “overly concerned” about the lifting of a ban on U.S. crude oil exports included in a new omnibus spending bill, saying oil products were already being exported under various waivers, the White House said on Wednesday (December 16). The United States “already exports 4.3 million barrels a day of refined petroleum product, and there are there were already written into the law a handful of waivers […]
The new Argentine government declared a national emergency at the country’s electrical energy sector on Tuesday (December 15), citing a deterioration in the generation and distribution of energy across the nation. At a news conference in Buenos Aires, Energy and Mining Minister Juan Jose Aranguren announced measures to ration electricity and added that the state of emergency will likely be in place until 2017. “The president of the nation, Mauricio Macri, has raised an emergency […]
