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April 25, 2018
Donors pledge $4.4 billion in Syria aid for 2018: UN
Brussels — International donors will pledge $4.4 billion (3.6 billion euros) in aid of the Syrian conflict at a Brussels conference Wednesday, a senior UN official said, well short of the amount hoped for.“My best guess is that by the end of the day we will have heard pledges for 2018 of $4.4 billion,”Mark Lowcock, the head of UN aid agency UNOCHA, told a news conference.“I want particularly to thank ...
April 25, 2018
Leave in one week, Kuwait tells Philippines ambassador
KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait on Wednesday gave a one-week deadline for the Philippines ambassador to leave the country over a growing diplomatic dispute over Filipina housemaids and workers in the country.Kuwait also recalled its own ambassador from Manila over the row, according to a bulletin on the state-run KUNA news agency.The Philippines had no immediate comment on the decision.The announcement came after Kuwait summoned the Philippines ambassador over comments he ...
April 25, 2018
Arizona Republican declares victory in tight race for House seat
PHOENIX, Arizona — Republicans declared victory on Wednesday in a special Arizona election for a vacated US House of Representatives seat after a tight race that could nonetheless bolster Democratic momentum heading into November’s midterm vote.Multiple news networks called the race for Republican Debbie Lesko over Democratic candidate Hiral Tipirneni, a former emergency room doctor. Lesko is a former Arizona state senator who left the legislature in January.“I want to ...
April 25, 2018
Tens of thousands protest as Armenia crisis deepens
YEREVAN — Armenia’s crisis deepened on Wednesday as tens of thousands of people took to the streets after the opposition accused the government of refusing to negotiate a transfer of power following the resignation of veteran leader Serzh Sarkisian.Authorities beefed up security in the capital Yerevan, cordoning off buildings housing the government and the ruling Republican party, and deploying hundreds of police and several armored personnel carriers.Protesters shouted, clapped, whistled, ...
April 25, 2018
Thousands gather for ANZAC Day memorials around world
SYDNEY, Australia — Thousands of people attended dawn war memorial services on Wednesday across Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Britain, France and in Thailand to commemorate ANZAC Day, the Gallipoli landings and the centenary of the final year of World War I.On April 25, 1915, thousands of troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey, where they fought under their own flags ...
April 25, 2018
ICC apologizes as India rape guru tweet causes political row
NEW DELHI — Cricket’s world governing body apologized on Wednesday after leaving a sarcastic remark on a video showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi sharing a stage with an Indian guru convicted of raping a teenage girl.The International Cricket Council went into damage control after its Twitter account posted the Hindu prayer “Narayan, Narayan” (Oh Lord, Oh Lord) beneath a video of Modi standing with Asaram Bapu.Asaram, one of India’s self-styled ...
April 25, 2018
Indonesia oil well explosion kills 18, injures dozens
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — The death toll from a blaze at an illegal Indonesian oil well on Wednesday has jumped to 18 with dozens injured, authorities said, warning there could be yet more victims.Images from the accident showed a towering flame shooting some 70 meters (230 feet) above homes and palm trees dotting a small community in Sumatra island’s Aceh province.Firefighters on Wednesday afternoon were still battling the blaze sparked ...
April 25, 2018
New 3-D map of Milky Way will ‘revolutionize astronomy’
PARIS — Europe’s Gaia satellite has produced a 3-D map, hailed as revolutionary, of more than a billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy — complete with their distance from Earth, color, and motion through space.The eagerly-anticipated catalogue, published Wednesday, was compiled from data Gaia gathered on some 1.7 billion stars from its unique vantage point in space, about 1.5 million km (930,000 miles) from Earth.“The dataset is very rich ...
April 25, 2018
South African unions protest over minimum wage
JOHANNESBURG — More than 2,000 South African union members marched in Johannesburg in a nationwide protest on Wednesday against a proposed national minimum wage, presenting a test for new President Cyril Ramaphosa who champions the policy.The 20 rand ($1.6) an hour minimum wage, which Ramaphosa sees as an important step to tackle labor instability and wage inequality, was approved by the cabinet in November and meant to be introduced on ...
April 25, 2018
Taiwan veterans clash with police in pension protest
TAIPEI — Taiwanese military veterans on Wednesday scuffled with police as they tried to storm parliament in the latest of a series of protests against planned pension cuts.Hundreds gathered outside the legislature’s main entrance and some threw smoke bombs and water bottles at police guarding the building in central Taipei.They also tried in vain to hurl an empty wooden coffin into the parliament compound’s courtyard, television footage showed.“How can the ...
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