Asia Pacific|Pakistan Hit by Attack on Christian Colony and Court Bombing
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Northwestern Pakistan was struck by two separate militant attacks hours apart on Friday, when gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a Christian colony near the town of Peshawar, killing one civilian, and a suicide bomb attack on a district court in the town of Mardan killed 12 people and wounded 54 others.Militants stormed the Christian neighborhood early on Friday morning, triggering a shoot-out in which four attackers were killed and one Christian died, police and the m..>> view originalIslam Karimov: Turkey announces Uzbek leader's death
Image copyright AP Image caption Mr Karimov had governed Uzbekistan since 1989 Uzbek President Islam Karimov, one of Asia's most authoritarian leaders, has died, Turkey says - despite no official Uzbek confirmation. Mr Karimov, 78 and in power since 1989, was taken to hospital last week after a brain haemorrhage but the government has only said he is critically ill.Uzbek state TV channels have dropped light entertainment programmes. Unnamed diplomatic..>> view originalSturgeon launches new Scottish independence drive after "seismic" Brexit v...
By Elisabeth O'Leary | STIRLING, Scotland STIRLING, Scotland The Scottish National Party is to send out thousands of its faithful to measure the appetite for independence, leader Nicola Sturgeon announced on Friday, raising the political stakes further as Britain decides how it will leave the European Union.The first minister of the devolved Scottish government said Britain's June vote to leave the EU, dragging Scotland with it, had shifted the debate dramatically just two years after Scots ..>> view originalOne Year Ago, Alan Kurdi's Body Washed Ashore And Shocked The World
Note: This article contains disturbing images from the beach at Bodrum that will be upsetting to some readers. It has already been one year since heart-wrenching photos surfaced of a 3-year-old boy who, forced to flee his home in Syria and subjected to a grueling journey from the Middle East to Europe, was found facedown, washed up on a beach in the Turkish resort town of Bodrum. The visceral sorrow associated with the images of Alan Kurdi’s lifeless body caused a social media firestorm, unitin..>> view originalIndian Leaders Head to the Vatican for Mother Teresa's Canonization
As Pope Francis prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on Sept. 4, a string of top Indian politicians are heading to the Vatican to witness her canonization, underlining her popularity in her adopted home. Born in Skopje in present day Macedonia, the nun will be named a saint less than two decades after her death, thanks to the Vatican’s decision to fast-track her canonization, a process that can take centuries. She arrived in India in 1929, becoming a citizen ..>> view originalPutin denies role in DNC hack, 'important' that information made public
A US official saying earlier this summer there was "little doubt" Russia was behind the attack."I don't know anything about it, and on a state level Russia has never done this," Putin told Bloomberg News. Still, Putin asked if it matters "who hacked this data," and argued that "the important thing is the content that was given to the public."The Russian president also commented on the US presidential election. Putin said that he has no preference among the two major party candidates, but critici..>> view originalBusiness confidence is back in Brazil - but will it last?
Opening new stores during a recession requires bravery and faith.Last year about 100,000 shops shut down across Brazil as the country's economic crisis reached new depths.And there are no clear signs that the recession will be over in the near future, with the economy still shrinking rapidly and unemployment still on the rise.Yet for Flavio Rocha, who leads Riachuelo, one of the country's biggest fashion retailers, confidence in the future of Brazil's economy is back for good.The main reaso..>> view originalDaily Mail publishes retraction to a story at the center of Melania Trump lawsuit
Melania Trump stands with her husband, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. (Mark Kauzlarich/Reuters) LONDON — Britain's Daily Mail tabloid said Friday in its print edition that it did not mean to suggest that allegations that Melania Trump, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, had worked as an escort in the 1990s were true. On Thursday, lawyers for Trump filed a lawsuit in a court in Maryland against the ..>> view original
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