The Palestinian leadership on Monday night held Israel responsible for the failure of the Jordan- sponsored exploratory talks that were launched in Amman on Jan. 3. The leadership of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said in a statement that the failure was because Israel insisted on the continuation of settlement and rejected the two-state solution based [...]
Iran will unveil a new domestically- built unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with high capabilities and versatile features, the local satellite Press TV reported on Monday. Mehdi Iraji, the aeronautics engineer in charge of the project, said that the new remote-controlled aircraft, called A1, has a maximum flight level of 10,000 feet, said the report. It [...]
Six people were killed and two others injured in a fire that took place Tuesday in a village in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir, the provincial governor said. The fire occurred early Tuesday in a house in Ilgin village of Diyarbakir’s Egil town, leaving six people, including four children, dead and two children injured, Diyarbakir [...]
About 5,000 Bolivian Amazonian indigenous people marched into the capital Monday to demand the construction of a highway that would run through their territory, local media reported. Months ago, the project was abandoned by the Bolivian government after several days of protests by other indigenous groups. The demonstrators, from the Indigenous Council of the South [...]
U.S. Senate began the first move on Monday to initiate a bill that congressmen and their staffs are banned from insider stock trading, a follow-up to President Barack Obama’ s recent State of the Union address. On a wide bipartisan procedural vote of 93 to 2, senators agreed to debate on the bill possibly later [...]
Defiant Occupy D.C. protesters on Monday vowed to continue with their encampment in the U.S. capital as the deadline for decampment passed. The U.S. National Park Service last week ordered protesters at two encampment sites — McPherson Square or Freedom Plaza — to remove their sleeping bags, pillows and other gear by Monday noon, or [...]
At least 123 people were injured in an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter on Monday which shook the southern Peruvian department of Ica, the National Civil Defense Institute (Indeci) said. Most of the injured suffered only slight bruises and were soon discharged from local hospitals, Indeci said, adding that some 50 homes were damaged [...]
An Irish court has sentenced a defrocked Roman Catholic priest who served time for molesting children in California to three years in prison for possessing child pornography. Oliver O’Grady was arrested in Dublin in December 2010 after leaving a computer containing pornographic images of children on a flight from Amsterdam. O’Grady worked in northern California from 1971 until 1993, when he was arrested [...]
Police and prison authorities say a Lithuanian man charged with bludgeoning aBritish couple to death has been found dead in prison. Rimvydas Liorancas was charged with killing 62-year-old Avtar Kolar and his 58-year-old wife Carole, whose bodies were found by their policeman son in a quiet neighborhood of Birmingham, central England, on Jan. 11. Post-mortem examinations showed that the couple died from [...]
Thirty people, most of them homeless, have died of hypothermia in recent days in Ukraine, part of a surge of deaths across eastern Europe as the region grapples with an unusually severe cold spell. In all, at least 54 people have died from the cold in Europe over the last week. Of the victims in Ukraine, 21 were found [...]
