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Protesters try to pull down the gates of the Legislative Yuan building during a rally against overhaul of the military and civil service pension funds in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday. — Reuters

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 ...

April 25, 2018

WhatsApp bans European under-16s from using app

PARIS — WhatsApp has raised its minimum age for users in the European Union to 16 years, as the bloc prepares for a new online privacy law to come into force next month.In an update to its terms of service on Wednesday, WhatsApp said the minimum age for users outside the EU was still 13 years.“If you live in a country in the European region, you must be at least ...

Madrid’s regional Government President Cristina Cifuentes addresses a press conference in Madrid on Wednesday. — EPA

April 25, 2018

Madrid’s leader resigns over ‘cream theft’ claim

MADRID — The head of the region of Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes, resigned on Wednesday after claims she had falsified her master’s degree and been caught shoplifting in 2011, the latest blow to the ruling People’s Party (PP) ahead of regional elections next year.Madrid is traditionally a stronghold for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s center-right party but is under growing pressure from market-friendly Ciudadanos, which is polling ahead as the PP struggles ...

Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen, center, speaks with journalists at a press briefing in front of the courthouse in Copenhagen after the verdict in the case of Peter Madsen was announced in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Wednesday. — AFP

April 25, 2018

Danish inventor sentenced to life for murdering Swedish journalist

COPENHAGEN — A Danish court sentenced inventor Peter Madsen to life in prison on Wednesday for murdering and dismembering a Swedish journalist aboard his home-built submarine in Copenhagen harbor in August 2017.Madsen, dressed in black, sat completely still as his sentence was handed down in the Copenhagen City Court.Police detained him on Aug. 11 last year when he emerged from his submarine without Wall, a 30-year-old Swedish journalist who was ...

US President Donald Trump (R), French President Emmanuel Macron (2nd R), US First Lady Melania Trump (2nd L) and French First Lady Brigitte Macron are seen on the balcony at the White House in Washington, DC. — AFP

April 25, 2018

Iran jittery as France, US call for new nuclear deal

Washington — The leaders of the United States and France call for a new deal curbing Tehran's nuclear program, but Iranian President Hassan Rohani swiftly rejected their demands and the EU insisted the current agreement must stay.The appeal from two of the signatories to the 2015 accord came as French President Emmanuel Macron was on a state visit, received with much pomp by US President Donald Trump.Trump Tuesday laid transatlantic ...

Pierre Kraehenbuehl

April 25, 2018

Food aid for Palestinians in Gaza may run out in June: UN

BRUSSELS — Emergency food aid for around a million Palestinians in Gaza may run out from June if the UN agency for Palestinian refugees cannot raise another $200 million following a cut-off in US funding, the agency said on Tuesday.Pierre Kraehenbuehl, who heads the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) providing aid for Palestinians across the Middle East, said US President Donald Trump had withheld $305 million in funding, far ...

April 25, 2018

Princess Abeer to be named CSR Ambassador at Kuwait event

Kuwait City — Under the patronage of Sheikha Amthal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Arab Women and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Arab Countries Conference will be launched in Kuwait Thursday under the theme “Arab Women in International Organizations: Status and Empowerment”.Princess Abeer Bint Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz will be named CSR Ambassador in the event, which will be attended by Arab female ministers, UN female ambassadors and representatives, and the Vice ...

The campaign poster of Basil Gorgis, a former Iraqi footballer, hangs in a street in Irbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region. — AFP

April 25, 2018

Ex-sports stars enter Iraq political scene

Baghdad — In the sweltering heat of Mexico '86, Ahmed Radhi and Basil Gorgis pulled on the same jerseys to represent Iraq's football team in its sole World Cup Finals.But now, a third of a century later, they're just two of several former stars taking part in a very different contest -- as parliamentary candidates in next month's election.While the World Cup adventure ended in dismal failure, with Iraq crashing ...

Farmers have been struggling to get seeds as a fall in oil revenues since 2011 has hit the supply of foreign exchange needed to fund imports. — File photo

April 25, 2018

Libya to cover 2018 grain needs with imports, eyes higher harvest

TRIPOLI — Libya will have to cover its 2018 grain consumption needs of around 1.2 million tonnes almost entirely by imports but hopes to boost production from the next harvest, a senior official said.Abdelmoneim Mohamed Shihab ad-Din, the top official in the agricultural ministry in a UN-backed government in Tripoli, said the oil producing nation could meet at least half of its cereal needs in future, if security and power ...

Libyan footballers take part in a training exercise in Tripoli ahead of their first African Cup qualifiers.— AFP

April 25, 2018

Libya's women footballers struggle on and off pitch

Tripoli — Libya's national women's football team is not only struggling on the pitch but also battling a conservative society that frowns on women playing sports in public at all.Female athletes and women's teams have many critics in the patriarchal Muslim country."Go cover yourself!" "Your place is at home." You're playing because "you have no man to educate you" -- such comments are hurled at players every time they train, ...