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Liberia bans journalists from Ebola centres
Liberia said on Friday it was banning journalists from Ebola clinics, defying media rights campaigners who have warned panicked African governments against "muzzling" reporters in response to the crisis. Government spokesman Isaac Jackson made the announcement as he was questioned on a radio phone-in show about reporters being barred from covering a strike at a Monrovia Ebola treatment unit (ETU).
History was made on Friday when an Indian and a Pakistani national jointly shared the Nobel peace prize for 2014, the first time ever. India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai were awarded the Nobel peace prize 2014 jointly for "showing great personal courage and in their struggle against the suppression of children and for the right of all children to education". Child labour activist Satyarthi became India's 8th Nobel laureate while the champion for children's education Malala became
I am ready to dialogue with Pak-Narendra Modi
Rebuffing Pakistan for raising the Kashmir issue at the UN, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Saturday that he was prepared to engage in a serious bilateral dialogue with it "without the shadow of terrorism" but asked it to create an "appropriate environment" for that. Without making a direct reference to the strident speech of his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif here on Friday in which he had insisted on a plebiscite in Kashmir, Modi made it clear that "raising issues in this forum is not the way to make progress towards resolving issues between our two countries."
Indian students in Malaysia to be sent back home
Nineteen Indian students who had entered Malaysia with false work visas have approached the Indian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur to urge early repatriation to India, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Minister of state for external affairs Gen. V.K. Singh (retd) said emergency certificates have been issued to the 19 students by the Indian mission as the students said their passports had been kept by the employer. "Our mission is constantly facilitating various formalities of Malaysian immigration and closely following up the matter with the Malaysian authorities.
He was shivering with fear infront of tiger before dying
A white tiger on Tuesday attacked and killed a youth who apparently jumped into its enclosure at a zoo in the Indian capital. Witnesses said the tiger grabbed the young man by the neck as horrified onlookers at the National Zoological Park in New Delhi screamed and threw sticks and stones to try to save him. One witness said he raced to the enclosure after hearing screams to see the victim locked in the tiger's jaws, "writhing badly in pain".
We have to be prepared for 'that commitment'- David Cameron
Prime Minister David Cameron warned that British military action against Islamic State militants could last for "years" as he urged lawmakers on Friday to vote in favour of joining US-led air strikes in Iraq. Cameron kicked off an emergency House of Commons debate with a call to action against the "psychopathic terrorists" who have beheaded British aid worker David Haines and are holding two more Britons, Alan Henning and John Cantlie.
Air France cancels flights as strike enters second week
Air France expects to operate 41 percent of its flights on Monday as a pilots strike over cost cuts and plans for the company's budget Transavia unit enters its second week. The French airline, part of Air France-KLM, also confirmed it planned to operate just 38 percent of services on Sunday, based on 65 percent of pilots taking part in the walkout. The SNPL pilots union, which has extended the strike until Friday and said it could seek to prolong it further as talks with management stall, has called on French Prime Minister Manuel Valls to intervene to try to resolve the dispute.
Yemeni PM Mohammed Salem Basindwa resigns amid reports of rebel advances
Yemen's prime minister submitted his resignation to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Sunday amid chaos over reported advances by Shia Muslim Houthi rebels on some military buildings and government offices in the capital. The move by Mohammed Salem Basindwa added to confusion in Sanaa, where Houthi rebels were due to sign a deal brokered by U.N. special envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar, intended to end the fighting and pave the way for a new government within two weeks. "I have decided to tender my resignation from the government (of national reconciliation) out of my concern to pave
Yemeni PM Mohammed Salem Basindwa resigns amid reports of rebel advances
Yemen's prime minister submitted his resignation to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on Sunday amid chaos over reported advances by Shia Muslim Houthi rebels on some military buildings and government offices in the capital. The move by Mohammed Salem Basindwa added to confusion in Sanaa, where Houthi rebels were due to sign a deal brokered by U.N. special envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar, intended to end the fighting and pave the way for a new government within two weeks. "I have decided to tender my resignation from the government (of national reconciliation) out of my concern to pave
‘Inexperienced’ Bilawal Bhutto, says BJP, Congress
Politicians cutting across party lines came together on Saturday to hit out at Pakistan Peoples Party chairman and scion of Bhutto family Bilawal Bhutto for his remarks on Kashmir. Addressing party workers in Multan on Friday, Bilawal had said he and his PPP will get back entire Kashmir from India.
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