News Archive - 9 April 2016

>Headlines screaming "Deportations to begin" and "Markets sink as trade war looms" top a parody newspaper front page the Boston Globe posted on Saturday, with a scathing editorial denouncing Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump's candidacy.The mock-up, offering the Globe's satirical view of America under a Trump presidency, was set...

>Thousands of people were packed into the temple and the narrow lanes around it in the southern state of Kerala for the display that began at midnight and went on for hours.One of the crackers fell on a shed where the fireworks were stored, setting off the fire, local...

>The Canadian pipeline company said that regulator PHMSA has approved a return to service plan for a controlled start. It was not immediately clear when and if the pipeline had restarted.  The pipeline, which delivers light and heavy crude from Hardisty, Alberta, to Cushing, Oklahoma, and Illinois, was shut...

>LONDON British Prime Minister David Cameron published his tax records on Sunday in an attempt to draw a line under questions about his personal finances raised by the mention of his late father in the Panama Papers for setting up an offshore fund.The revelations have led to demands for...

>Americans Steve Kaplan, Jason Levien and their investment group want a controlling interest in the Premier League club, the Welsh team said on their website (www.swanseacity.net)."We believe we have a proposal which will help Swansea progress both on and off the field," said chairman Huw Jenkins. Swansea,...

>CAIRO Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement late on Saturday to set up a 60 billion Saudi riyal investment fund among other investment agreements including an economic free-zone to develop Egypt's Sinai region, Egyptian state television reported.The signing of the agreements took place in Egypt's Abdeen palace in...

>Comedian Andy Richter, who attended the Illinois school where former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert coached wrestling decades ago, said a detail in court documents about the politician's alleged sexual abuse of at least four male students jogged a memory for him.Richter said for the first time in...

>The soldiers were detained while travelling from the southern port of Aden to al-Mahra province in eastern Yemen via Ahwar, a city in Abyan province under al Qaeda control.The militants took them to a remote area and killed them by firing squad, the officials and residents said. They said...

>Gunshots were also heard but it was not immediately clear what had caused the explosions, which came following a period of relative calm in the Afghan capital. (Reporting by James Mackenzie; Editing by Toby Chopra)...

>    The announcement followed his signing of a law this week authorizing him to take steps to avoid receivership at the GDB, the U.S. territory's primary fiscal agent, and prevent a run on the bank.    The emergency declaration "establishes reasonable and necessary procedures to preserve GDB's liquidity,"...

>The rebels had by late on Friday taken control of Tasil in Deraa province that is near the Jordanian border and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the source and the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.They drove out fighters from the Yarmouk Martyrs' Brigade and the Muthanna Movement, which...

>Belgian media said the man arrested late on Friday was Bilal El Makhoukhi, who was convicted in January last year for being involved in Sharia4Belgium, a now disbanded organization which recruited people to go and fight alongside Jihadist organizations in Syria and Iraq.Originally sentenced to five years in prison,...

>WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is maintaining pressure on the Senate to approve his Supreme Court nominee, but the need for Republican U.S. senators seeking re-election to keep conservative voters happy before primary elections in the coming months is working against him.From April 26 to Sept. 13, nine states...

>U.S. Air Forces Central Command said it last flew the long-range bombers operationally in the region in May 2006 as part of the war in Afghanistan, and during a U.S.-led military exercise in Jordan in May 2015."The B-52 demonstrates our continued resolve to apply persistent pressure...

>The building, which has a shop on the ground floor, had been cordoned off by police and forensics experts entered the premises. Police said snipers had also been deployed. On Friday, police detained two key suspects in the Islamic State attacks on Paris and Brussels as they pursued operations to...

>Tata put its entire UK business up for sale last month, including steel works at Port Talbot in south Wales, saying it could no longer endure mounting losses caused by increased imports to Europe from countries like China, high manufacturing costs and domestic market weakness."I urged China to accelerate...

>"It is an illusion that a faster reduction in key rates, despite a rise in inflation, may stimulate economic growth. The effect (on growth) may be very short-term," Nabiullina told the weekly "Vesti on Saturday" program on Russia's state TV.Nabiullina added that monetary policy could do little to stimulate...

>A third of Republican voters who support Donald Trump could turn their backs on their party in November's presidential election if he is denied the nomination in a contested convention, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.The results are bad news for Trump's rivals as well as party elites opposed to...

>WASHINGTON - Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are facing off in a U.S. presidential nominating contest in Wyoming on Saturday, as the candidates gear up for a crucial match-up in New York.Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, is fresh off a string of recent wins...

>KABUL U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Saturday to show support for the government and to try to defuse a political crisis fueled in part by a national unity deal he brokered in 2014.The visit comes at a difficult moment for...

>His remarks were likely to be read as an attempt to rule out the prospect of "helicopter" money distributions to euro zone citizens, an extreme form of monetary easing first described by economist Milton Friedman. "The framework sets limits of what monetary policy must not do and pursue -- in...

>PHOENIX An Arizona man filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the results of the state’s March presidential primary election, alleging the nominating contest was marred by long lines at polling stations and discrimination against minority voters.The lawsuit filed by Tucson resident John Brakey alleges that election officials improperly handled...