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DAVOS, Switzerland – For 10 minutes at the World Economic Forum here on Wednesday afternoon, a conference room jammed with more than 100 high-powered delegates was entirely silent. The rare…
MOGADISHU, Jan 22 (Reuters) – The Somali Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for a bomb attack at the gate of a Mogadishu hotel where Turkish delegates were meeting on…
Lacking strong clout and diplomatic reach in the Middle East, Japan scrambled Thursday for ways to secure the release of two hostages held by the Islamic State group, as two…
This teen’s birthday surprise led to tears of joy. Dylan Johnson, who has autism, has had an appreciation for vacuum cleaners since he was 2 years old, according to Today.com….
DUBAI, Jan 22 (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia plans to delay the public flogging of a rights activist on medical grounds, Amnesty International said on Thursday, raising the possibility that Riyadh…
At its largest gathering to date, the World Economic Forum is expected to be “more serious” than recent years because of the pressing economic, health and terror turmoil. But the…
BUENOS AIRES, Jan 22 (Reuters) – The death of a prosecutor investigating the bombing of a Jewish community center was not a suicide, as was initially reported, Argentine President Cristina…
By EMILY CADEI — OZY There aren’t many places Ed Chow could fly to that would be farther from his Washington D.C. base than that nearly impossible-to-spell, ex-Soviet Union satellite…
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi said Thursday that Muslims need to adapt their religious discourse to the present and eliminate elements of their rhetoric that could foster violence. “Islam is a…
If you’re going to bet on the Super Bowl, why not make it a superwager? Not “super” in the sense of exorbitant and unreasonable — “super” as in superhero. Well,…
A Yemeni government spokesman says the cabinet has submitted its resignation to embattled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi amid a standoff with Shiite rebels who control the capital. – “We…
Technological advances will drastically change life in the developing world by 2030. Bill Gates is betting on it. In the 2015 Gates Annual Letter, published by the Bill & Melinda…
It is impossible not to have strong views when it comes to the debate on Africa’s rise: despite solid economic growth and progress in poverty alleviation, people’s views on the…
In a video posted online Tuesday, a masked man clad in black and holding a knife stands over two kneeling men in orange jumpsuits in a barren landscape. The masked…
The man was preparing to test for leaks inside the 10-meter high tank on Monday morning, local time, when he fell, according to a statement from the Tokyo Electric Power…
Kenyan police have fueled outrage by tear-gassing schoolchildren who were protesting over a playground. The children, along with teachers and activists, were demonstrating after the playground was walled off during…
For the 50-year-old Hong Kong based architect, this sparked a lifelong motoring passion, and today he owns a collection of 40 classic cars and 130 motorcycles. Even though Foster’s day…
“Cyber attacks are hard to trace back and are usually committed across borders. This complexity means that it is extremely difficult to identify the source of the attacks.” – Der…
Audio recordings from the cockpit of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 contain no sounds of gunfire or explosions, making it unlikely the plane was brought down by terrorism, Indonesian investigators say. The…
BEIJING, Jan 20 (Reuters) – China’s economic growth held steady at 7.3 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, slightly better than expected but still hovering at its…
Argentina’s government said Monday there was no indication that anybody else was involved in the death of a prosecutor who had accused President Cristina Fernandez of shielding Iranian suspects in…
Gov. Bobby Jindal has been speaking in London recently, and he startled quite a number of people in the House of Commons when he talked about “no-go zones” in Britain,…
“Don’t both teams have to play with the football?” a Facebook friend of mine promptly inquired in a post, mystified as to how the New England Patriots could come under…
In the United States, the top 1% control more than one third of the nation’s resources. Two out of three Americans disapprove of the current distribution of income and wealth….
It’s a heart-pounding climb up a dark, piss-drenched stairwell. The greasy iron elevator that services the flaking 1920s apartment building seems to function only intermittently. A small group of German…
Birth place: Vadnagar, Gujarat, India Birthname: Narendra Damodardas Modi Father: Damodardas Modi Mother: Hiraba “Heeraben” Modi Marriage: Jashodaben (Chimanlal) Modi (1968-present, separated) – September 27-30, 2014 – Modi makes his…
Income inequality is like the weather: Everyone talks about it, but no one does much about it. Now comes President Obama in his State of the Union Address, hoping to…
Canadian soldiers opened fire on Islamic State group extremists in Iraq over the last week in what a general called an act of self-defense. – He says that while Canadian…
By Yara Bayoumy and Mohammed Ghobari SANAA, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Yemen’s powerful Houthi movement fought artillery battles with the army near the presidential palace in Sanaa on Monday, surrounded…
And at the Golden Globes recently, Hollywood declared its aversion to attacks on liberty, mocking North Korea’s Kim Jong Un for trying to shut down the movie “The Interview” and…