Three targets attacked in Syria
washington April 14, 2018 03:33America, England and France have attacked three targets in Syria dealing with the Syrian chemical weapons program, the US General Dunford has announced.
America, England and France have attacked three targets in Syria dealing with the Syrian chemical weapons program, the US General Dunford has announced.
The Russian parliament is considering a boycott of Western liquor and other products in response to economic sanctions that the US has issued against Russian companies in response to the Skripal issue.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel concludes that her country is taking part in military attacks on Syria. She said Thursday that Germany would do everything to make it clear that the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable.
Although the play is officially premiered, Harry Potter And The Cursed Child has already broken a record on Broadway. Production in the third week of the previews turned the highest weekly turnover for a non-musical ever.
VIDEO An ultimate stupid tourist has almost injured a giraffe in a safari park.
Approximately 2500 gendarmes started Monday with the evacuation of a large site near Nantes where a new airport was planned. An estimated 250 squatters are still entrenched on the site in Notre-Dame-des-Landes. French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb has said that this lawless zone is now being lifted.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with Donald Trump in Washington this month.
At least six miners have been killed by a collapse in a Georgian coal mine. Three others were injured. That was what the Ministry of Home Affairs announced.
Julius Maada Bio is the new president of Sierra Leone. He was sworn in a few hours after the election committee announced the results. The candidate of the opposition Peoples Party SLPP defeated the incumbent president Ernest Bai Koroma in an exciting ballot box. According to the official result, Maada Bio received 51.8 percent of the votes, against 48.2 percent for Bai Koroma.
Outside Rihanna's 'Rude Boy' shines through the luxurious shopping center, young people sitting in a state-of-the-art office sipping a latte bent over their laptops on their first start-up. It could be London, New York or Tel Aviv. But this is Rawabi, the first planned city in the West Bank.
The West risks a return to the Cold War with its actions in the case of the former double spy Sergei Skripal, says the Russian foreign intelligence service SWR. 'For fear of change, the West is prepared to build a new iron curtain around it,' said SWR chief Sergei Narisjkin on Wednesday in Moscow.
Bahrain has discovered the largest oil field in the history of the kingdom in the Gulf for its west coast.
A day after the deadly protests at the border with Israel, Palestinians have once again sought the confrontation with the Israeli army. With warning shots, young people in the Gaza Strip were kept at a distance. In addition, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, thirteen people were injured.
According to two senior government officials, President Donald Trump wants the early departure of US troops from Syria, he told his advisers.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres warns that the rising tensions between Russia and the West can lead to a new Cold War.
A fire in a police station in Venezuela killed 68 people. That is what the authorities have announced. An investigation has started.
A sculpture by a naked president Trump will be auctioned in May. Julien's Auctions mentions the auction 'The Emperor Has No Balls' and must be the showpiece at the New Jersey auction. It is estimated that some 20,000 to 30,000 dollars will be offered.
In Bulgaria, commotion arose about the death of dozens of horses. Activists found the dying animals on a mountainside in the west of the country, near the border with Macedonia.
A 45-year-old man from Nieuwkoop is suspected of having forced a woman for hours in Breukelen to different locations and raped her several times. He threatened her to later turned out with a fake gun. The woman was left tied up and found by passersby, reports the Public Prosecution Service (OM) Midden-Nederland.
Shell sells its 20 percent interest in the West Qurna 1 Iraqi oil field at the Japanese Itochu. Messages about the sale did the round earlier and it was waiting for the usual approval. Shell receives for an amount of 406 million dollars (329 million euros). The debt of $ 144 million is also part of the agreement.
Australian rescue workers are doing their utmost to save dozens of whales stranded on the west coast. It involves about 150 short-finned pilot whales, about half of whom are already dead.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the assassination of Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. But they were not the actual target. With the reckless attack with nerve gas, the Russian president has let every opponent in the West know that they are outlawed and that he will come after them.
A Palestinian teenage girl filmed when she kicked and hit an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank gets eight months in prison. That follows from the deal she closed Wednesday with the military prosecutor, reported the news site of Haaretz in Israel. According to the deal, she would plead guilty against a reduced sentence.
At least 26 people were killed on Wednesday by an attack in the Afghan capital Kabul.
The Netherlands is not going to announce sanctions against Turkey on its own as a punishment for the Turkish invasion of the Syrian Afrin region. Such a one-man action would be counterproductive, says Minister Stef Blok of Foreign Affairs.
According to prosecutors, a driver from the French consulate in Jerusalem has smuggled numerous firearms from the Palestinian Gaza Strip to the Israeli West Bank in the last three months. 24-year-old Romain Franck from Northern France, according to Israeli media, has known and would have had money as a motive. He is reportedly on Monday for a special court in Beersheba.
An Israeli was stabbed in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday and was badly wounded. The attacker was shot dead by a security officer. The incident happened at the entrance to the Temple Mount.
Who is Vladimir Putin? A classic villain from a James Bond film, who looks at the world with contempt and sees it only as the playground of his personal ambitions? A tragic character from a Shakespeare drama? A pragmatist who is deeply misunderstood and deceived by the West?
Because of an attack with a car in the West Bank, at least one Israeli has died. Three others were injured, according to local media. The Israeli radio reported two deaths.
The only presidential candidate in Russia who did not campaign for the Sunday elections, Vladimir Putin, apparently wins the ballot box. He has been in power for eighteen years and does not have to worry about losing it. If it is up to the current law, the last six years will be his last term.