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USA Cuba
Two British medics who joined Islamic State killed in Iraq
Two British medics who abandoned studies in Sudan to join Islamic State with a group of other students have been killed in fighting in Iraq, the BBC reported. Ahmed Sami Khider and Hisham Fadlallah died at the weekend, the BBC said, with Khider believed to have been killed in a convoy ...
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Malta
OSCE Freedom Representative to hold more talks on new media law
Dunja Mijatović, Representative on Freedom of the Media at the OSCE has welcomed several proposals in Malta's new proposed media law but called for further talks on provisions such as the registration of website editors and limitations on protection of sources. The OSCE Organisation on Security and Cooperation in Europe conducted ...
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Panama Malta
Finance Minister Edward Scicluna 'disappointed with ferocious attack' on Malta’s financial sector
Finance Minister Edward Scicluna has struck out at recent news reports, and expressed his disappointment at criticism of Malta's financial services sector, which is being "ferociously and unfairly attacked."He said that Malta's tax regime, Igaming sector and financial sector must be defended. "I will not stay telling the opposition about ...
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Panama
'Government is turning this country into a brothel' – PN Whip David Agius
PN Whip David Agius said this evening said that government is turning this country into a brothel.He was speaking during a Parliamentary debate on the budgetary estimates, and said that one scandal after another results in PN MPs unable to speak about the issues at hand in Parliament, as the ...
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Brasile
Rebelião em presídio do Rio Grande do Sul deixa um morto
Um detento morreu durante uma rebelião ocorrida no início da tarde dessa terça-feira (28/2), no Presídio Estadual de Três Passos, na região noroeste do Rio Grande do Sul. A identidade da vítima não foi revelada. As causas da morte estão sendo apuradas.De acordo com a Secretaria de Segurança Pública, os ...
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Brasile
Incêndio de grandes proporções atinge favela de Paraisópolis (SP)
Um incêndio de grandes proporções atingiu a favela de Paraisópolis, zona sul de São Paulo, na tarde desta quarta-feira, (1º/3). De acordo com o Corpo de Bombeiros, ao menos 50 barracos foram atingidos pelo fogo. Ainda não há informações sobre vítimas. Leia mais notícias em Brasil A corporação combate as chamas com ...
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Portogallo
GCM reage a tentativa de assalto e mata dois em São Bernardo do Campo (SP)
Um guarda-civil municipal (GCM) matou dois ladrões que tentaram assaltá-lo na madrugada desta quarta-feira, dia 1º, em São Bernardo do Campo, município do ABC paulista. De acordo com informações da polícia, o GCM estava com a namorada em uma motocicleta parado em um semáforo da região central da cidade. O ...
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USA
Economic Trends: What Booming Markets Are Telling Us About the Global Economy
Shedding pessimism after seeming to be hopelessly trapped in a cycle of low growth and inflation.
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Kenya
MPs cut budgets to cater for lecturers, doctors strike and drought
MPs have cut budgets of key state departments to cater for the ongoing lecturers and doctors' strikes and the drought. Doctors downed their tools on December 5 last year saying theirs would be the longest strike in Kenya's history. Lecturers took their action on January 19 and have also said ...
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Grecia
Bekerfinale als bron van mooie herinneringen
Sparta-Vitesse (vanavond) en AZ-Cambuur Leeuwarden (morgen) zijn de verrassende halve finales in de KNVB-beker. ‘Welke speler kan nou zeggen dat hij een bekerfinale heeft gespeeld?’, vertelt AZ-veteraan Martin Haar aan Jan-Cees Butter.