Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:01:45 +0000
JOHANNESBURG – The second powerful cyclone to strike Mozambique in just six weeks ripped off roofs and killed at least three people on Friday as the United Nations warned of “massive flooding” ahead.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 13:43:48 +0000
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Catholic churches in Sri Lanka canceled all Sunday Masses until further notice over concerns that they remain a top target of Islamic State-linked extremists, even as authorities said Friday a suspected local leader blew himself up in the Easter suicide bombings.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:45:08 +0000
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping promised Friday to set high standards for Beijing’s sweeping infrastructure-building initiative as fellow leaders praised the effort despite worries it is saddling some countries with too much debt.
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:20:27 +0000
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Central Intelligence Agency opened its own account on Instagram Thursday with a picture of a desk of mysteries teased by the children’s game prompt “I spy with my little eye.” The photo tempts with intrigues and adventure: A wig suggesting disguises, maps of China and the Gulf, foreign banknotes, a burn […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:20:13 +0000
Standing casually and turning their heads to stare straight at the camera, Ndakazi and Ndeze look like any cool selfie pros – only these posers are gorillas. The picture showing the two orphaned female gorillas posing like humans was taken in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park and has gone viral since it was […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:15:31 +0000
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday police are looking for 140 people believed to have links with the Islamic State group, which has claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday suicide bombings of churches and hotels. Muslims in Sri Lanka were urged to pray at home yesterday and not attend mosques or […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:05:52 +0000
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AFP) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un accused the US of acting in ”bad faith” at his summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Pyongyang’s state media said yesterday, after he secured Moscow’s backing in his standoff with Donald Trump. Kim and Putin met Thursday in the far eastern Russian port of Vladivostok for […]
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:39:30 +0000
China said Thursday its navy warned off a French warship that had entered the Taiwan Strait earlier this month and has lodged an official protest over the rare move by a European power.
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Hundreds of Ahmadi Muslims, who finally found peace in Sri Lanka, fear backlash after the Easter bombings that killed over 350 people.
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:45:08 +0000
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Former US Vice President Joe Biden jumped into the race for the White House Thursday, positioning the veteran Democrat as a frontrunner among the many candidates seeking to challenge Donald Trump in 2020. The party’s 76-year-old senior statesman is the most experienced and recognized Democrat in the race, a popular former vice […]
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