News In Brief
Florida executes serial killer Reuters, TallahasseeA former carnival worker convicted of killing three women in Florida was executed on Thursday after multiple overturned convictions and...
International
Democrats furious over Obama administration deportations
AP, Washington :Congressional Democrats confronted White House officials on Thursday over holiday-season raids seeking Central American immigrants for deportation, accusing the administration of spreading terror...
US missile wrongly shipped to Cuba, says report
AP, Washington :A dummy U.S. Hellfire missile was mistakenly shipped from Europe to Cuba in 2014, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.The inert missile did...
Planned Parenthood endorses Hillary in funding boon
AFP, Washington :Planned Parenthood, the influential US women’s health care provider savaged by anti-abortion Republicans who want to shut it down, said Thursday it was...
Cameron appeals to Germany to help avoid `Brexit`
AFP, London :British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday appealed to Germany to help him achieve the European Union reforms he needs to persuade Britons...
Congress sends health law repeal to Obama for first time
AP, Washington :The GOP-led Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama Wednesday repealing his signature health law, fulfilling a promise to Republican voters in a...
News In Brief
Heaviest air strikes yet strike SanaaReuters, Cairo Dozens of air strikes hit the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday, in what residents described as the heaviest...
Obama promises unorthodox State of the Union address
AFP, Washington :US President Barack Obama has promised his final State of the Union address next week will focus on issues “beyond the next election”...
State of emergency declared in California gas leak
AFP, Los Angeles :The governor of California on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in a Los Angeles community where a massive gas leak has...
South China Sea air freedoms ‘non-negotiable’ : UK
AFP, Manila :British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Thursday on a visit to the Philippines that any attempt to restrict air and sea travel in...
Snow makes migrants’ journey through Europe even harder
AFP, Šentilj :It’s the first time that Arman Butt, a Pakistani man desperately seeking to reach western Europe, sees snow.But as the 30-year-old goes limp...
December was ‘wettest month for UK’ in over 100 years
PTI, London : Britain has just experienced its wettest month in more than a century, the MeT Office said today.Citing provisional figures, the weather department said...