CARACAS, Oct 25 (APP/AFP): Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the opposition-majority legislature Tuesday of staging a “parliamentary coup” after lawmakers voted to put him on trial amid a tense political and economic crisis. “I have called a meeting tomorrow at 11:00 am (1500 GMT) at the National Defense Council for all public powers to evaluate […]
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Venezuela’s Maduro accuses opponents of ‘parliamentary coup’
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Italy PM threatens EU budget veto over migrants
ROME, Oct 25 (APP/AFP): Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Tuesday threatened to veto the EU’s budget over a lack of solidarity from European neighbours as it struggles with a huge influx of migrants. “We give 20 billion (euros) to Europe so that we can get back 12 — and if Hungary, the Czech Republic […]
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Antarctic glacier thinning more rapidly than thought: study
PARIS, Oct 25 (APP/AFP): A large glacier in West Antarctica lost up to half a kilometre in thickness in seven years, thinning more quickly than scientists thought possible, according to a study released Tuesday. The Smith Glacier, spilling into the Amundsen Sea, shed up to 70 metres (230 feet) per year between 2002 and 2009, […]
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Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in Sweden
STOCKHOLM, Oct 25 (APP/AFP): Swedish police on Tuesday arrested a 48-year-old man suspected of involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide which claimed 800,000 lives, police and prosecutors said. The man, whose identity was not revealed, was arrested at dawn in his house at Orebro, about 160 kilometres (100 miles) west of Stockholm. The suspect came […]
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Venezuela lawmakers vote for political trial of president
CARACAS, Oct 25 (APP/AFP): Venezuela’s opposition-majority legislature voted on Tuesday to open a political trial against President Nicolas Maduro, who is resisting efforts to remove him from power in a volatile political crisis. A majority of lawmakers in the National Assembly voted in favor of a motion to launch a “political and criminal trial” against […]
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China blast suspects ‘confess’ as 14 killed: state media
BEIJING, Oct 25 (APP/AFP): The toll from a powerful explosion in China rose to 14 dead and 147 injured Tuesday, state media said, as three suspects were arrested and admitted to illegally storing explosives. Monday’s blast in Xinmin, in the northern province of Shaanxi, tore through five prefabricated buildings, destroying or damaging 58 others, the […]