Guatemala’s congress has sworn in a former judge as president while
his predecessor has appeared in court over corruption allegations just
hours after resigning.
Alejandro Maldonado, a 79-year-old conservative who only became vice
president in May, will serve out the rest of Otto Perez Molina’s term,
handing over on January 14.
Separately on Thursday, a judge – citing a flight risk – ordered
Perez to be held in prison while hearings over his alleged role in a
customs-corruption scandal...
Showing posts with label World News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World News. Show all posts
Friday, 4 September 2015
03:52
Excellent Johnson
The Islamic State group has blown up three tower tombs in the
ancient Syrian city of Palmyra that were built between the years 44 and
103 AD, the country’s antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim said on
Friday.
Abdulkarim told Reuters that sources in Palmyra had confirmed the
destruction of three tombs including that of Elahbel, built in 103 AD,
which he said was four storeys high and had an underground floor.
IS group militants have blown up two other temples over the past few weeks...
03:50
Excellent Johnson
The father of a three-year-old Syrian boy whose body was washed up on
a Turkish beach in an image that shocked the world returned to his
hometown Kobane on Friday to bury his family, an AFP photographer reported.
Abdullah Kurdi arrived at the Turkish border town of Suruc with the
funeral caskets of his son and other family members who also drowned
while trying to get to Europe, and headed towards the flashpoint Syrian
town with family members and Turkish security forces.
The long convoy...
Monday, 22 December 2014
12:58
Excellent Johnson
Chinese prosecutors have indicted the son of
Hong Kong film star Jackie Chan on drug
offences, more than four months after he was first
detained.
The announcement on Monday did not mention
when a trial would be held but if convicted,
singer-actor Jaycee Chan could face up to three
years in jail.
Beijing police detained the younger Chan at his
Beijing apartment in August along with Taiwanese
movie star Ko Kai. Police said Chan and Ko both
tested positive for marijuana and admitted using
the drug.
Jaycee...
Monday, 25 August 2014
03:13
Sergio kun
The disease is transmitted through contact with the
bodily fluids of an infected person…
Indian s*x workers NL Ebola Fever: Indian Prostitutes
Commercial s*x workers in India have been warned to
stay away from African clients due to the Ebola virus
which is currently plaguing some countries in the
Western part of the continent.
The directive was given to prostitutes operating in
India’s largest city, Kolkata, Sonagachi.
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, an Indian NGO
informed a gathering of 130,000...
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
12:17
Unknown
A 48-year-old British woman who collapsed and died in Austria following a trip to Nigeria did not die from the Ebola Virus Disease.
Head of the regional health board in Austria, Franz Katzgraber, said
tests had ruled out the Ebola virus but the cause of death remained
unknown.
The woman had travelled from Nigeria...
11:29
Unknown
The
Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has imposed a night- time
curfew and quarantined two affected neighbourhoods in a bid to stop the Ebola epidemic rampaging through West Africa.
The new quarantine areas include Monrovia’s West Point slum.
The President said that the commencement of the curfew would start on...
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
05:17
Unknown
For many, it may be shopping in Dubai
or Paris, for others, it may just be a quick trip to visit loved ones,
but when the world’s most powerful family decides to take time off, they
do it the healthy way.
President Barack Obama, the first lady Michelle Obama and daughter Malia Obama are currently on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA.
With crisis in Israel, and the protest of...
04:47
Unknown
The American government has promised to collaborate with Nigeria in containing the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease.
The U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr James Entwistle, told reporters in
Abuja on Monday, after a close door meeting with Nigeria’s Minister of
Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, that his government...
04:38
Unknown
Vehicles carrying refugees from the Luhansk area of Eastern Ukraine were hit by rockets and mortar, killing scores of people.
Ukraine has blamed pro-Russian rebels but they have denied carrying out the attack, near the village of Novosvitlivka.
Another military spokesman said that people had been burned alive
inside...
04:34
Unknown
There are conflicting reports about whether Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Iraqi troops have fully retaken Mosul dam from Islamic state (IS) militants.
Militants from the Islamic State group had seized the Mosul Dam on
August 7, giving them access and control of enormous power and water
reserves and threatening to deny those resources to much of...
04:32
Unknown
Liberia
said that it has found all 17 suspected Ebola patients who fled a
quarantine centre in Monrovia at the weekend and transferred them to
another clinic.
“We are glad to confirm that all of the 17 individuals have been
accounted for and have now been transferred to JFK Ebola specialist
treatment centre,” the Liberian information minister, Lewis...
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