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(Reuters) — A hippo being transported on a truck in South Taiwan’s Miaoli County on Friday (December 26) jumped out of the vehicle, and broke its leg and tooth, being left stranded on the street for hours before being rescued, local media reported. The hippo jumped through the window of the moving truck and hit a parked car before falling on the ground, local media said. Footage aired on FTV, a local broadcaster, showed the […]
(Eagle News Service) — Hundreds to thousands of New York police officers turned their backs on a screen which showed city Mayor Bill de Blasio delivering a eulogy for slain NY police police department’s Rafael Ramos on Saturday, December 27. Reuters said that police forces from across the country “wordlessly turned away from the giant screens broadcasting the funeral at the church in Queens, New York as de Blasio took to the podium.” It said the number […]
(Reuters) — A number of orphanages have been established in Conakry, capital city of Guinea, to accommodate children who have been left behind by their parents killed by the Ebola virus. Although these children are all Ebola free, community members and their relatives are in constant denial to take their responsibilities in fear of catching infection. The founder of Felfedef Children’s Home, Agnes Mimi Loua, has turned an old fax and photocopy center into an orphanage […]
GENEVA – Over 7 million people from 194 countries have participated in MY World, the United Nations survey for a better world. The survey places good jobs in the top 3 priorities for post-2015. MY World survey participants have voted for six out of 16 issues which are most important to them and their families – from better health care to clean water and sanitation, to freedom from discrimination. Their votes represent the hopes and […]
A brawl broke out between Georgian politicians during a parliament session on Friday (December 26), as deputies came to blows over the selection process of the country’s delegations in international bodies. The debate on party quotas became heated when senior parliamentarian Tina Khidasheli suggested the United National Movement party have their quota decreased. “Quota shares must be brought to reality for all delegations, because of the fact that (OurGeorgia) Free Democrats is now not in […]
A small passenger plane crashed in northern Colombia on Wednesday (December 24), killing all six passengers and the pilot, who had warned air traffic control of a mechanical fault moments before, the website of the “El Tiempo” newspaper reported. The Cessna aircraft operated by Alas, a small regional airline, disappeared while flying theBucaramanga to Malaga route in Santander province, the newspaper’s website said, adding all seven bodies were found inside or near the plane. The […]
According to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Ukraine’s pursuit of NATO membership posed a danger to European security and that the West was using Kiev’s bid to join the Atlantic alliance as a way to fuel confrontation betweenRussia and Ukraine. The Kiev parliament’s renunciation of Ukraine’s neutral status this week as a step toward joining NATO has outraged Moscow and deepened the worst confrontation between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. Lavrov […]
A technician at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have been exposed to the deadly Ebola virus due to a laboratory error, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing federal officials. The worker will be monitored for signs of infection for 21 days, the disease’s incubation period, and a group of fewer than 12 other employees who entered the lab where the mistake happened will also be assessed for exposure, the […]
They used to be symbols of an oil-fuelled boom, but the unfinished buildings in Iraq’s Kurdish north are now crammed with people fleeing violence in the rest of the country. Of the two million people displaced by Islamic State offensives in Iraq this year, almost half sought refuge in Kurdistan, inflating the semi-autonomous region’s population by around 20 percent and putting acute strain on its resources. The concrete frames of future shopping centers and supermarkets […]
Former Hong Kong chief secretary Rafael Hui was sentenced by Hong Kong’s High Court on Tuesday to seven-and-a-half years for corruption and misconduct. Hui was ordered to pay the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government a fine of 11.182 million H.K. dollars (about 1.437 million U.S. dollars). Hui was convicted on five counts of misconduct and corruption, which makes him the highest-ranking official in Hong Kong’s history to be found guilty of taking bribes. […]
The UN Security Council today kicked off a debate on human rights in the Peoples’ Democratic Republic of Korea, with a call that a case be referred to the International Criminal Court. Ivan Šimonović. Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, said, “Rarely has such an extensive charge-sheet of international crimes been brought to this Council’s attention.” Šimonović said a UN-backed report before the council had reported, “Victims of extermination. Of murder, enslavement and torture. Of rape, […]
North Korea, at the center of a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of Sony Pictures, experienced a complete Internet outage for hours before links were restored on Tuesday, a U.S. company that monitors Internet infrastructure said. New Hampshire-based Dyn said the reason for the outage was not known but could range from technological glitches to a hacking attack. Several U.S. officials close to the investigations of the attack on Sony Pictures said […]
