Month: November 2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump shook up his transition team Friday as he plunged into the work of setting up his administration, elevating Vice President-elect Mike Pence to head the operations. The move, one of the first key decisions as Trump pivots from campaigning […]

Iraqi special forces said they pushed deeper into Mosul on Friday despite heavy resistance from Islamic State militants using civilians as cover, and were holding half a dozen city neighborhoods seized in the last 10 days. The elite Counter Terrorism Service troops broke through Islamic […]

Syrian government troops and their allies advanced on Friday in a district of western Aleppo captured last month by rebels, a Syrian military source and an insurgent official said. The Syrian military source said the pro-government forces had completely retaken the al-Minian district and had […]

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which has ensured peace in Europe since the end of World War II, woke up Wednesday to what seemed like a nightmare: an incoming U.S. president who openly questions the value of the alliance. During his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly […]

The first human test of early time-restricted feeding found that this meal-timing strategy strategy reduced swings in hunger and altered fat and carb burning patterns, which may help with losing weight. In early time-restricted feeding (eTRF), people eat their last meal by the mid-afternoon and […]

Workmen building a high school in southern China were dynamiting through bedrock – and when the dust settled, they found they had inadvertently uncovered a well-preserved dinosaur skeleton. It turned out to be the first example of its species, which scientists have poetically named Tongtianlong […]

 Thomas Mac Pfeifer: Das ist das erste Vorlesebuch für Kinder, die aus Krisen- und Kriegsgebieten zu uns gekommen sind. Darin sind Erzählungen enthalten aus dem Irak, aus Afghanistan, aus Syrien und aus ganz Afrika. Die Geschichten in dem Buch sind also jeweils in der Heimatsprache […]

Desde el inicio de la crisis de Siria, los reyes árabes apoyados por Occidente y algunos líderes occidentales se opusieron a Bashar al Assad, el presidente sirio, e insistieron en su salida y en un cambio de régimen. Los partidarios de Assad dijeron al inicio […]

Ya se ha reunido con los líderes de otros partidos El primer ministro de Líbano, Saad Hariri, se ha mostrado “optimista” este jueves sobre la posibilidad de que el nuevo Gobierno sea formado “pronto”, según ha informado el diario local An Nahar. “Si trabajamos juntos […]