Several thousand African asylum seekers who entered Israel illegally via Egypt staged a peaceful protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday, police said. The demonstrators denounced the refusal of the authorities to grant them refugee status, as well as holding…
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Shareholders of Italy’s troubled Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena — the world’s oldest bank — on Saturday voted to postpone until mid-2014 a giant capital increase needed to stave off nationalisation. Management had wanted the 3.0-billion-euro ($4.…
A Chinese icebreaker has failed to break through thick ice to free a ship carrying scientists and tourists stranded off Antarctica, forcing Australian authorities to look at other rescue options Saturday. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA…
Today, a judge in New York ruled that the NSA’s collection of phone metadata of United States citizens is, in fact, lawful. This ruling—the result of a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the United States Government—comes…
Yesterday, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s website published a press release to announce that the City was going to start accepting bids for pay-by-app parking systems, bringing one of the metropolitan area’s biggest headaches into the 21st…
Four American military personnel have been detained in Libya and are being held by the government there, the US State Department said Friday. “We can confirm that four US military personnel are currently being held in Libyan government custody,” said…
China’s top legislative committee formally approved a loosening of the country’s hugely controversial one-child policy on Saturday and abolished “re-education through labour” camps, state media reported. The decisions were taken by the standing committee…
American schoolchildren were slaughtered in a hail of bullets after packing like sardines into a bathroom in a doomed bid to escape the murderous rampage of Newtown gunman Adam Lanza. Harrowing details about last year’s mass shooting were revealed on…
27 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Security Council and the top United Nations envoy in Lebanon have strongly…
27 December 2013 – The United Nations today called on the Iraqi Government to ensure maximum security for some 3,200…