ALEPPO, Syria, (APP/AFP) – Fresh air strikes pounded Syria’s Aleppo city early Monday, an AFP correspondent said, as US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva in a bid to halt the mounting carnage. More than a week of fighting in and around Syria’s second city has killed hundreds of civilians. Air strikes on […]
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Fresh raids in Syria’s Aleppo despite bids to halt fighting
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Senior sheriff official in US resigns over racist e-mails
LOS ANGELES, (APP/AFP) – A senior official at the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department resigned Sunday following criticism over e-mails he sent disparaging blacks, Muslims, Latinos and women, the department said in a statement. Sheriff Jim McDonnell said he accepted the resignation of his chief-of-staff Tom Angel after the emergence of emails he forwarded from […]
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Four killed in homemade bomb blast in India
KOLKATA, (APP/AFP) – Four people were killed when the crude bombs they were making exploded in India’s West Bengal, where bitterly fought state elections are underway, a senior police official said Monday. Another six people were injured in the explosion on Sunday night in a village about 360 kilometres (220 miles) north of Kolkata, close […]
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Brazil impeachment: Rousseff begins her long goodbye
RIO DE JANEIRO, (APP/AFP) – Dilma Rousseff greets the Olympic flame in Brazil on Tuesday, but the pomp and ceremony will seem empty to a president likely to be suspended from office just a week later. The arrival of the flame in Brasilia from an ancient Greek temple via Switzerland will trigger a three-month countdown […]
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French PM vows to supervise Australian sub deal himself
CANBERRA , (APP/AFP) – A mega deal to build Australian submarines was so important, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Monday, that he pledged to personally supervise the project as Paris and Canberra bolster defence ties. French contractor DCNS last week beat off competition from Japan and Germany to seal the 12-submarine Aus$50 billion ($39 […]
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Panama Papers controversy diverting attention from national issues, including Kashmir
WASHINGTON, (APP): Controversy over Panama papers is diverting attention from key issues of national importance, including Kashmir, a prominent US-based Kashmiri Sardar Zubari Khan said on Saturday, calling on those agitating the issue to wait for the findings of the commission set up to probe the matter. Talking to APP here, Mr Khan, the President […]