Sitting in a Mexican bar in the US capital, Maria complains that “using lemon instead of lime in a margarita is like using onions instead of garlic.” But lemon margaritas just might be coming to a cantina near you, thanks to the skyrocketing price of…
Browsing: World News
Global / International news and media releases covering America, Asia, Europe, Middle-East, Oceania and the World beyond.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has vetoed a plan to ban WhatsApp, following a row over censorship of the popular messaging application, media reports said Wednesday. Access to social networks, including Twitter and Facebook, are routinely blocked by…
Los Angeles Clippers President Andy Roeser, who has been with the NBA club since 1984, will take an indefinite leave of absence starting immediately, the league announced. The news came three days after the NBA announced that it would appoint a new…
5 May 2014 – The United Nations Security Council strongly condemned today’s deadly terrorist attack in Sana’a, as well as…
5 May 2014 – Gunfire stopped distribution of food today in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp, a United Nations spokesperson…
Alibaba — often described as a Chinese version of Amazon or eBay — filed documents Tuesday for its US stock listing, widely expected to be one of the largest offerings in history. The initial filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission indicates…
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky broke her silence Tuesday about her illicit 1990s affair with president Bill Clinton, saying she wants to reclaim the narrative of events that brought her global humiliation. Lewinsky, now 40, was in her early…
Former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall pleaded guilty Tuesday to indecently assaulting a girl but will face trial on 15 counts of rape. The 84-year-old admitted an indecent assault on a girl aged under 16, between 1978 and 1979. He denied 20 other counts…
2 May 2014 – The suffering of United States inmate Clayton Lockett during his execution in Oklahoma on 29 April…
1 May 2014 – Significant gains in the fight against the cholera epidemic in Haiti have been recorded as the…
A strong and shallow earthquake rattled northern Thailand on Monday afternoon, shaking tall buildings in Bangkok hundreds of miles to the south, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. The 6.0-magnitude quake, at a depth of just 7.4 kilometres…
The European Union has named David O’Sullivan of Ireland to become the bloc’s new envoy to Washington amid negotiations to forge a free trade pact between the two economic giants. “I am delighted to announce the appointment of David O’Sullivan to this…
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned South Sudan’s warring factions Monday against walking away from ceasefire agreements and recently agreed peace talks, saying the implications of such a move would be “serious”. “Let me make clear: if there is…
Thousands of pro-Russian protesters assaulted Odessa’s police headquarters Sunday, days after deadly clashes and a fire there killed dozens of their comrades in what Kiev charged was a Russian plot to “destroy Ukraine”. The unrest in the southern port…
Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are rising significantly among young people in the United States, according to new research that warns of a growing epidemic in American youth. Type 1 diabetes rose 21 percent among children and teenagers from between…
More than 2,000 pro-Russian militants on Sunday stormed the police headquarters in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, where 42 people died in clashes two days ago. An AFP reporter on the scene said the crowd shouted “fascists, fascists” as they attacked…
Several dozen Russian planes including what appeared to be strategic bombers and fighter jets have been spotted in the sky above the Moscow-controlled peninsula of Crimea, witnesses and experts said. According to Russian media, President Vladimir Putin…
Voters in Panama go to the polls Sunday to pick the country’s next president, after a campaign that revealed few major policy differences among the top candidates. The campaign has gone down to the wire, with polls giving any of the three leading contenders…
Nigel Farage, head of the UK Independence Party that is currently leading polls ahead of this month’s European elections, told AFP during an interview in Portsmouth of his hatred of the European Union and his determination to bring down its parliament…
President Barack Obama cracked jokes about the government’s disastrous health care policy rollout and mocked political opponents at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The annual event, known informally as the “nerd prom,” brings Washington’s top…