Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 10:04:13 +0000
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s move to lift bans on drilling for oil and gas in offshore Arctic and Atlantic areas is illegal, a US judge has ruled. Trump’s effort to open more areas to drilling “is unlawful, as it exceeds the president’s authority,” Judge Sharon Gleason ruled. As a result, bans on drilling in […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 10:02:33 +0000
KIEV, Ukraine (AFP) – A comedian whose political experience is limited to playing the president on TV is likely to top the first round of voting when Ukrainians go to the polls on Sunday. Actor Volodymyr Zelensky’s bid started as a long shot but he has leapfrogged establishment politicians amid public frustration over corruption and […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2019 10:01:56 +0000
SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea yesterday described the February raid on its embassy in Madrid by a dissident group as a ‘’grave terrorist attack’’ and urged an investigation into the perpetrators. A group of armed men burst into Pyongyang’s Spanish embassy last month and roughed up employees before fleeing with documents and computers. The incident […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 08:58:45 +0000
WASHINGTON, United States – American actor George Clooney has called for a boycott of nine Brunei-owned hotels over the sultanate’s imposition of the death penalty for gay sex and adultery. “Every single time we stay at or take meetings at or dine at any of these nine hotels we are putting money directly into the […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 07:00:27 +0000
Pope Francis on Friday made it compulsory in law to report the sexual abuse of children within the Vatican and in its diplomatic missions worldwide. Although the city state within Rome is tiny, and very few children live there, the sweeping legal changes reflect a desire to show that the Catholic Church is finally acting […]
Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:53:44 +0000
BRUSSELS — European Union countries decided Friday to extend the mandate of a naval mission hunting smugglers in the Mediterranean Sea, but took the unusual step of restricting the operation by refusing to allow it to deploy any ships, in an effort to ease tensions with Italy’s anti-migrant government.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:00:58 +0000
BEIJING — Chinese and U.S. negotiators adjourned trade talks in Beijing on Friday with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin saying they had been “constructive.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:17:56 +0000
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has issued sweeping new sex abuse legislation for Vatican personnel and Holy See diplomats overseas, requiring the immediate reporting of abuse allegations to Vatican prosecutors, a policy shift aimed at being a model for the Catholic Church worldwide.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:42:07 +0000
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is forging ahead with promoting moderate Islam during a weekend trip to Morocco, seeking to build on warming ties with the Sunni world while also ministering to a tiny Catholic community and offering solidarity with migrants.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:09:49 +0000
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s air quality has deteriorated from among the cleanest in the world to one of the most polluted over the past two decades, shaving five years from life expectancy in some regions, researchers say.
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