17 killed, four missing in western Indonesia floods By: Agencies on May 16, 2016SIBOLANGIT: Rescuers on Monday found the bodies of 17 people who were among 20 university students and two guides who went missing in rain-triggered floods and landslides at a popular waterfall in western Indonesia, an official said. One student was found alive and was being treated at a hospital, said Darwin Surbakti, an official from […]
Philippines Duterte vows hangings in war on crime By: Agencies on May 16, 2016MANILA: Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte vowed Monday to introduce executions by hanging as part of a ruthless law-and-order crackdown that would also include ordering military snipers to kill suspected criminals. In back-to-back press conferences since his landslide victory in May 9 elections, the tough-talking mayor of southern Davao city said security forces would be given […]
Spanish tyre fire could take 10 more days to extinguish By: Agencies on May 16, 2016 MADRID: It could take another 10 days to put out a huge fire at a tyre dump near Madrid, regional authorities said Monday, though residents have already been allowed to return to the area. Some 10,000 people living in the town of Sesena near the Spanish capital evacuated their homes Friday after the dump […]
Global opposition to Israel good omen: Iran By: Agencies on May 16, 2016TEHRAN: Iran has welcomed the growing wave of international opposition to the Israeli regime’s continued illegal settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territories. “The Islamic Republic of Iran… sees the intensification of global opposition to this (Israeli) regime’s illegal and inhuman actions including settler outpost construction as a good omen and calls for international action […]
Vietnam TV says reactionary forces at work in environmental protest By: Agencies on May 16, 2016HANOI: Vietnam’s state television issued a warning to the public to shun calls by “reactionary forces” to join protests over an environmental disaster it said was being exploited to try to overthrow the government. An 11-minute prime-time report on Vietnam Television (VTV) disclosed names and images of well-known dissidents and bloggers it said were trying […]
Asked about aid, China says Venezuela crisis is domestic matter By: Agencies on May 16, 2016BEIJING: An economic crisis in Venezuela is a domestic matter, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday, when asked if the country planned to give aid to the Latin American nation. The OPEC country, which has received about $50 billion in Chinese financing since 2007, is also struggling with a contracting economy and […]
Sweden sentences man to life imprisonment for genocide in Rwanda By: Agencies on May 16, 2016STOCKHOLM: A Swedish court sentenced on Monday a 61-year-old man to life in prison for genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the second such case brought by the Nordic country over crimes during the conflict. The Stockholm District Court said Claver Berinkindi, a Swedish citizen originally from Rwanda, was convicted of genocide and gross crime under […]
Londons new Muslim mayor, already tilting the worlds political chessboard By: By Peter Apps on May 15, 2016It didn’t take long for London’s new mayor to make a splash on the world stage: He knocked a fast but effective hole in Donald Trump’s proposed temporary ban on foreign Muslims entering the United States. In many ways, of course, it wasn’t a particularly meaningful victory. Trump may never reach the White House. Even […]
Is Donald Trump the next Andrew Jackson? Or the next Groucho Marx? By: By Neal Gabler on May 15, 2016Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is being hailed as a “populist.” But Trump is no ordinary political populist — one of those folks who rail against economic inequality. He has managed to do something no other populist has: Trump grafted the populism of popular culture (where it has been extremely popular) onto politics […]
Straight-talking Swamy takes aim at Indias old elite By: Agencies on May 15, 2016He’s been called India’s Donald Trump: a media-savvy right-wing populist who is unafraid of upsetting everyone from the ruling elite to religious minorities as he rails against corruption. And after returning to parliament following a 15-year absence, Subramanian Swamy says he won’t temper his shoot-from-the-hip style that has made him one of India’s most popular […]