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18.10.2013 15:19
ROME - A U.S. Navy ship rescued 128
men from a raft after it was spotted in
the Mediterranean Sea by a Maltese
patrol aircraft, U.S. authorities said,
the latest incident in the growing
migrant crisis.
U.S. Navy Photo / AP
The USS San Antonio came to the re
of 128 men men adrift in an inflata
raft...
18.10.2013 15:02
BEIJING – With last winter’s
“Airpocalypse” still fresh in Beijing
officials’ minds, politicians have
introduced new guidelines for dealing
with so-called “bad-air” days. The
scheme calls for an alternative driving
day schedule for cars with even and
odd numbered license plates in the
event of...
18.10.2013 15:00
Disturbing new surveillance footage
recorded amid the deadly siege on a
Kenyan mall last month offers a gut-
wrenching glimpse into the utter chaos
and carnage of the attack, which left
67 people dead and nearly 200 others
injured over four days of bloodshed.
The devastating footage from...
18.10.2013 14:51
Thousands of Australians were forced
to evacuate their homes on Thursday
by wind whipped wildfires that have
already destroyed at least 100
properties and claimed the life of one
man.
Fueled by unseasonably high
temperatures and strong gusts, 100
fires were burning in New South Wales
near the...
18.10.2013 14:48
A senior Military Intelligence officer
has been killed in eastern Syria, state
media and activists say.
State television reported on Thursday
that Gen Jamaa Jamaa had died while
"carrying out his national duties" and
"pursuing terrorists" in Deir al-Zour.
The Syrian Observatory for Human...
11.10.2013 17:10
In Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish
neighborhoods, Mendel Epstein made a
name for himself as the rabbi to see
for women struggling to divorce their
husbands. Among the Orthodox, a
divorce requires the husband’s
permission, known as a “get,” and tales
abound of women whose husbands
refuse to...
11.10.2013 17:03
LATAKIA, Syria — Before dawn on
Aug. 4, Raed Shakouhi, an olive and
walnut farmer in a government-held
hilltop village near the Syrian coast,
just across a valley from rebel
territory, was woken by gunshots and
cries of “God is great.”
Mr. Shakouhi, 42, hid among nearby
trees with his wife and...
11.10.2013 16:29
European
governments should divert funds to routine
bowel cancer tests from less effective breast
and prostate screening programs, scientists
said on Saturday, presenting what they called
"irrefutable" evidence that bowel screening
saves lives.
Many governments devote significant funds
to breast...
11.10.2013 15:32
About 1,000 people had to leave their
homes in Derry because of the alert and
several roads were closed. All police
cordons have now been lifted.
The police said the "intent was to kill or
injure".
Supt Stephen Cargin said: "This is
complete disregard for innocent lives by
those individuals who...
27.09.2013 21:18
British soldiers are being put at risk
of developing psychosis by taking an
anti-malarial drug that has been
banned by the US military, it is
claimed. Mefloquine, also known as
Lariam, has been linked to a number
of suicides and murders among
troops, with the US Food and Drug
Administration...
