BRUSSELS, Oct 26, (APP/AFP) – The European Commission on Tuesday demanded “clarifications” from seven eurozone countries over their draft budgets, expressing particular concern that Italy, Cyprus and Finland are not meeting EU targets. Belgium, Portugal, Spain and Lithuania, whose budgets were flagged for different reasons, have also been sent letters by the EU executive seeking […]
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EU questions budgets of seven eurozone countries
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Kids’ ‘miracle’ survival as Australia theme park deaths probed
GOLD COAST, Australia, Oct 26, (APP/AFP) – Two children had a “miracle” survival when a raft flipped at an Australian theme park killing four adults, police said Wednesday, as claims emerged that safety concerns had been raised at Dreamworld last year. Two women and two men died when two rafts on the Thunder River Rapids […]
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Non-state actor likely behind US cyber attack: Clapper
WASHINGTON, Oct 26, (APP/AFP) – The giant cyber attack that paralyzed many US sites last week was likely not the work of a foreign country, the top US intelligence chief said Tuesday. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the investigation into the massive attack Friday that pounded the underpinnings of the internet was still […]
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‘Many more’ corals die in Great Barrier Reef bleaching
SYDNEY, Oct 26, (APP/AFP) – More corals are dying and others are succumbing to disease and predators after the worst-ever bleaching on Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, scientists said Wednesday. A swathe of corals bleached in the northern third of the 2,300-kilometre (1,429-mile) long biodiverse site off the Queensland state coast died after an unprecedented […]
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US author Paul Beatty wins Man Booker literary prize
LONDON, Oct 25 (APP/AFP): Paul Beatty became the first US author to win the Man Booker Prize — the world’s most prestigious English-language literary award — for his novel “The Sellout” on Tuesday. The jury said the novel was a “shocking and unexpectedly funny” portrayal of his native Los Angeles, which employs satire to explore […]
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Colin Powell is voting for Clinton: aide
WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (APP/AFP): Republican ex-secretary of state Colin Powell announced Tuesday he will vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the November 8 presidential election. The announcement by Powell, a retired four-star US Army general who served in George W. Bush’s administration, is the latest from a long line of Republican former and current officials […]