Archive for the January 9, 2018
-
The International Olympic Committee has "extended the deadline" for North Korea's participation in the Winter Olympics, it announced on Monday. "We will be as flexible as we can be," an IOC spokesman told AFP over
Read More -
Philippe Coutinho officially completed his "dream" 160-million-euro ($192 million) move from Liverpool to Barcelona on Monday, making him the third most expensive player in history. Coutinho, 25, signed a five-year contract in a ceremony sitting
Read More -
Regime forces upped the pressure on two of the last rebel bastions in Syria on Monday, pounding the Eastern Ghouta enclave near Damascus and the northern province of Idlib. Shelling and air strikes on Ghouta,
Read More -
Tunisian police on Monday fired tear gas and clashed with hundreds of people protesting against unemployment, high prices and new taxes in two towns, residents said. Tunisia, widely seen in the West as the only
Read More -
French President Emmanuel Macron urged Europe Monday to take part in China's massive Silk Road infrastructure project but warned against "hegemony", saying both sides should share the benefits. Macron, on the first day of a
Read More -
Temperatures in subtropical Bangladesh hit a 70-year-low Monday as authorities handed out tens of thousands of blankets to help the poor fight a record cold spell, officials said. The mercury plunged to a frigid 2.6
Read More -
Police officers shot and killed nearly 1,000 people in the United States in 2017, slightly more than the previous year, according to a tally published on Monday by The Washington Post. A total of 987
Read More -
Egyptians will head to the polls on March 26-28 in the first round of a presidential election, National Elections Authority chief Lasheen Ibrahim said Monday. A second round will be held on April 24-26 if
Read More -
A 3.4-magnitude earthquake rocked the northern Dutch province of Groningen on Monday, the biggest since 2012 following a series of tremors blamed on extraction in Europe's biggest gas field. Residents said the ground shook just
Read More -
Chaos reigned at New York's flagship airport for a third consecutive day Sunday with one terminal flooded and irate passengers stranded by chronic delays blamed on brutal cold and a deadly winter storm. Arrivals were
Read More