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Iraq’s president visits Iran weeks after US renews sanctions 40 minutes ago
Published On: November 17, 2018 01:47 PM NPT By: Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran, Nov 17 : Iraq’s president is visiting Iran less than two weeks after the United States restored oil sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal.
William Goldman, Oscar winner for ‘Butch Cassidy,’ has died
Published On: November 17, 2018 01:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW YORK, Nov 17: William Goldman, the screenwriter and Hollywood wise man who won Academy Awards for “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men” and summed up the mystery of making a box office hit by declaring “Nobody knows anything,” has died. He was 87.
Obama’s memoir sells more than 725,000 copies
Published On: November 17, 2018 12:30 PM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW YORK, Nov 17: First day sales for Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” topped 725,000 copies, making it one of the year’s biggest debuts.
Fire deaths rise to 71 ahead of Trump’s California visit
Published On: November 17, 2018 12:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
CALIFORNIA, Nov 17: With the confirmed death toll at 71 and the list of unaccounted for people more than 1,000, authorities in Northern California on Friday searched for those who perished and those who survived the fiercest of wildfires ahead of a planned visit by President Donald Trump.
Argentina: Submarine missing a year found deep in Atlantic
Published On: November 17, 2018 11:09 AM NPT By: Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Nov 17: Argentina’s navy announced early Saturday that searchers found the missing submarine ARA San Juan deep in the Atlantic a year after it disappeared with 44 crewmen aboard.
Fire death toll hits 63; sheriff says hundreds still missing
Published On: November 16, 2018 07:35 PM NPT By: Associated Press
CHICO, Calif., Nov 16: At least 63 people are now dead from a Northern California wildfire, and officials say they have a missing persons list with 631 names on it in an ever-evolving accounting of the victims of the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century.
Last Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide, get life terms
Published On: November 16, 2018 12:16 PM NPT By: Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov 16 : The last surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s were convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes Friday by an international tribunal.
David Hockney painting fetches record $90M at NYC auction
Published On: November 16, 2018 10:20 AM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW YORK, Nov 16 : A painting by the British artist David Hockney fetched $90.3 million at Christie’s on Thursday night, easily breaking the record for a work by a living artist sold at auction.
EU divorce deal in peril after two UK Cabinet ministers quit
Published On: November 15, 2018 08:18 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LONDON, Nov 15: Two British Cabinet ministers, including Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, resigned Thursday in opposition to the divorce deal struck by Prime Minister Theresa May with the EU — a major blow to her authority and her ability to get the deal through Parliament.
Northern California fire death toll at 56; 130 missing
Published On: November 15, 2018 04:16 PM NPT By: Associated Press
CALIFORNIA, Nov 15: As the scope of a deadly Northern California wildfire set in, the sheriff said more than 450 people had now been assigned to comb through the charred remains in search for more bodies.
Pence says Myanmar’s handling of Rohingya ‘without excuse’
Published On: November 14, 2018 04:13 PM NPT By: Associated Press
SINGAPORE, Nov 14: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi rebuffed criticism from U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and other leaders Wednesday over her government’s treatment of its ethnic Rohingya Muslims.
Asian leaders push toward pacts on South China Sea, trade
Published On: November 14, 2018 11:46 AM NPT By: Associated Press
SINGAPORE, Nov 14 : Leaders from Southeast Asia, China and other neighboring countries met in Singapore on Wednesday and cited progress on keeping peace in the contentious South China Sea as evidence that the region is managing to handle such issues on its own.
CIA considered potential truth serum for terror suspects
Published On: November 14, 2018 11:18 AM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Nov 14 : Shortly after 9/11, the CIA considered using a drug it thought might work like a truth serum and force terror suspects to give up information about potential attacks.
Incoming House members prep for do’s and don’ts on the Hill
Published On: November 13, 2018 05:25 PM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Nov 13: Don’t hire someone you can’t fire, like the son of a campaign donor or the child of the mayor. No matter what you may have said during the campaign about changing Congress, hire enough Hill veterans to make the office run smoothly.
China postpones on allowing tiger bone, rhino horn trading
Published On: November 13, 2018 11:18 AM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIJING, Nov 13 : China is postponing its decision to allow trading in tiger and rhinoceros parts a bare two weeks after the easing of the ban had raised fears the country was giving legal cover to poaching and smuggling of endangered wildlife.
Women's role in WWI underplayed as the world commemorates the Armistice centennial
Published On: November 12, 2018 01:30 PM NPT By: Associated Press
The role women played in the war was only mentioned in passing as dozens of world leaders, including Angela Merkel of Germany, gathered in Paris to mark a century since WWI ended.
From first shot to silence of peace: Timeline of World War I
Published On: November 11, 2018 04:12 PM NPT By: Associated Press
PARIS , Nov 11 : Unleashed by an archduke’s assassination, World War I gradually entangled more and more countries, killing millions of soldiers and civilians and touching multiple continents.
World leaders gather in Paris a century after WWI armistice
Published On: November 11, 2018 04:09 PM NPT By: Associated Press
PARIS, Nov 11 : World leaders with the power to make war but a duty to preserve the peace gathered by the dozens Sunday to mark the end of World War I’s slaughter 100 years ago, turning Paris in the epicenter of global commemorations that drove home a powerful message: never again.
Trump joins world leaders to mark 100 years since end of WWI
Published On: November 11, 2018 04:04 PM NPT By: Associated Press
PARIS, Nov 11: President Donald Trump is joining French President Emmanuel Macron and other world leaders to the mark 100 years since the end of World War I.
China’s annual shopping frenzy shatters records again
Published On: November 11, 2018 11:58 AM NPT By: Associated Press
SHANGHAI, Nov 11 : Online shoppers spent more than $14 billion within the first two hours of China’s annual buying frenzy on Sunday, once again breaking records as the consumer tradition enters its 10th year.
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