News Archive - 29 October 2016

Since its establishment, the Guardian Council of the Constitution has raised objection from a wide range of political groups for its conduct. The legal body, responsible for approving nominees for parliamentary and presidential elections, and for ratifying bills passed by the parliament, has been especially criticized in the recent...

>REYKJAVIK Support for Iceland's Pirates in parliamentary elections has turned out lower than anticipated, making it less likely that the anti-establishment party will be part of a new government, early election results showed on Sunday.Voters looked to oust the governing center-right government in its current form, though the ruling...

>PHOENIX Sensing a potential turning point, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump mounted a furious effort on Saturday to portray Democrat Hillary Clinton as unfit to lead the country after the latest chapter in her email controversy unfolded as he tries to mount a comeback.With the Nov. 8 election only...

>WASHINGTON Top aides to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday insisted there is "no evidence of wrongdoing" following the FBI's notification to the U.S. Congress on Friday that it is again looking at Clinton's use of a private server for emails when she was secretary of state."There's...

>NEW YORK With 11 days to go before the U.S. presidential election, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by 15 percentage points among early voters surveyed in the past two weeks, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project.Though data is not available for all...

>BERLIN China is strategically buying up key technologies in Germany while protecting its own companies against foreign takeovers with "discriminatory requirements", German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Saturday.Gabriel, also vice chancellor and leader of Germany's Social Democrats, heads to China next week after having ratcheted up tensions with...

>The prison in the city's al-Zaydiyah district was holding 84 prisoners when it was struck three times late on Saturday, the sources said.The Saudi-led coalition has been fighting Houthi rebels since March 2015 to try to restore to office internationally-recognized President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who was sidelined from power...

>The negotiation will start on Monday and the ministry will announce the results then after having more information, trade vice minister Hoang Quoc Vuong told a news conference. Carlsberg, which owns 17.08 percent of Habeco as of August 31, signed an agreement to have priority rights to purchase any...

>There was tension this week between the two countries over how to take care of young migrants after bulldozers flattened the camp that had been home to over 6,000 refugees and migrants hoping to cross the Channel to Britain.Hollande said 5,000 people had been evacuated from Calais and that...

>BRUSSELS A much-debated trade deal between the European Union and the United States is not dead and negotiations will continue with the new U.S. administration after November's elections, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said on Saturday.A similar agreement between the EU and Canada can finally be signed on...

>VIENNA Officials from OPEC and non-member oil producing countries met on Saturday aiming to build support for an OPEC plan to reduce output one day after OPEC members were unable to agreed on how to implement the deal.Arriving for the meeting with OPEC's High Level Committee of exporters, only...

>Security guards fired at the car as it moved at high speed toward the bank's building and it then blew up, they said. The blast caused minor damage to the building in a central district of Aden known as Crater and two cars nearby, one belonging to security guards and...

>SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq Iraqi Shi'ite militias said on Saturday they had launched an offensive towards the west of Mosul, an operation that would tighten the noose around Islamic State's Iraq stronghold but could inflame sectarian tension in the mainly Sunni region.The battle for Mosul is expected to be...

>BEIJING China's imports of North Korean coal run counter to global sanctions, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday, adding that a U.S. missile system deployed in South Korea should "motivate" Beijing to pressure Pyongyang over its nuclear program. North Korea's exports of coal to China provide a...