A Texas hunting club auctioned off a permit to kill a black rhinoceros in Namibia, raising $350,000 towards conservation efforts for the animal, but not without controversy. The Dallas Safari Club, which on Saturday said all money would be given to…
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JERUSALEM — Dissonance. That is the word chosen by David Landau, the Israeli author and journalist, when asked to describe the essence of Ariel Sharon. “The dissonance between what people expected and what they got from him,” Landau said. The final…
A chastened Gov. Chris Christie did everything he could yesterday to quell the burgeoning Bridgegate scandal, but the investigations are likely to continue for months, with an Assembly committee preparing to subpoena a parade of current and former Christie…
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s US presidential ambitions ran into a jam when he was forced to admit his staff lied to him about their role in blocking commuter traffic onto a major bridge. Christie, a larger-than-life Republican seen as a frontrunner…
Former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon died in hospital near Tel Aviv Saturday after eight years in a coma, prompting a flood of tributes in Israel but contempt from Palestinians. He was 85. “He’s gone,” his son Gilad told reporters at the Sheba Medical…
Several hundred demonstrators rallied outside a London police station Saturday to condemn an inquest which found that police lawfully shot dead a man in 2011, in a killing that sparked nationwide riots. They condemned the “perverse” jury verdict returned…
India on Saturday said a bitter row over the US arrest and strip-search of an Indian consulate official had triggered a “mini-crisis” in bilateral relations and much more must be done to repair ties. Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid’s remarks…
10 January 2014 – Strongly deploring recent clashes in the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah in Iraq’s Anbar province, the…
10 January 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency today warned that Israel could be breaking international law by limiting…
9 January 2014 – With the humanitarian situation in war-torn Syria “getting more difficult every day”, the head of the…
8 January 2014 – Despite a delay in eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons material, the United Nations Security Council expects that…
8 January 2014 – Warning that the critical humanitarian situation in Iraq’s Anbar province is likely to worsen as fighting…
7 January 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today strongly condemned the killing of more than 20 people,…
7 January 2014 – The process of removing Syria’s most critical chemical weapons material outside of the country for destruction…
7 January 2014 – The United Nations and its humanitarian partners today appealed for $1 billion to save millions of…
10 January 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) confirmed today that it is seeking details from Australian authorities…
10 January 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today said it hopes that Myanmar’s decision to commute all…
6 January 2014 – The top United Nations official in Lebanon met today with senior leaders from the Government of…
10 January 2014 – United Nations independent human rights experts today urged the Spanish Government to reconsider its decision to…
10 January 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today expressed concern about a decision by the Malaysian Ministry…