Month: December 2016

BENGHAZI, LIBYA —  A suicide bomber has killed eight Libyan army troops near the eastern city of Benghazi, an attack that showed the Islamic State group is still able to strike out in the North African country despite recent battlefield losses, Libyan security and health […]

Columnist Katie Hopkins has apologised to a Muslim family she accused of being extremists after they were refused entry to the US for a Disneyland trip. Mail Online, which published her claim, also paid £150,000 in libel damages to the Mahmood family. Hopkins wrongly said […]

ALISON STEWART, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: Since winning the election six weeks ago, Donald Trump has nominated most of his cabinet and picked top White House staff, all key players in shaping U.S. policy. He’ll also have Republican majorities in both Houses of Congress on […]

UNITED NATIONS —  The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution urging the immediate deployment of U.N. monitors to oversee the evacuation of thousands of civilians from the war-ravaged Syrian city of Aleppo. The approval of the French measure Monday in New York […]

Thousands of people, including dozens of orphans, have left Aleppo in one of the besieged Syrian city’s biggest evacuations yet. More than 4,500 civilians have left rebel-held parts of eastern Aleppo so far on Monday. Among them is seven-year-old Bana Alabed, who had tweeted about […]

10. Your Name Makoto Shinkai’s Japanese smash hit is dazzling in more ways than one. The range of lighting effects and painterly panoramas makes it the most spectacular cartoon of the year, and the plotting gets weirder and more apocalyptic as it goes along: Your […]

President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri have formed a new government of 30 ministers. Among the cabinet posts, only one ministry was allocated to a female, Inayat Ezzdin who was named as Minister of State for Administrative Development Affairs.

NINEVEH PROVINCE, IRAQ — “When Iraqi forces closed in, IS (Islamic State) militants told us Shia soldiers would murder us and rape our women,” said Fatehi Mohammad, a 64-year-old farmer in a remote desert village in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh province. Before IS took over his village […]

Auf den Weihnachtsmarkt in Berlin ist am Abend vermutlich ein Anschlag mit einem Lastwagen verübt worden. Der Lkw sei in eine Menschenmenge gerast. Es gab nach Polizeiangaben neun Tote und mindestens 50 zum Teil schwer Verletzte. Der mutmaßliche Fahrer flüchtete, konnte aber inzwischen festgenommen worden. […]