Date created : 15/07/2019 – 14:44Latest update : 15/07/2019 – 15:37 Fariba Adelkhah, an academic with dual French and Iranian nationality from Paris’s prestigious Sciences Po university, has been arrested in Iran and denied contact with French consular staff, France’s foreign ministry said Monday. ADVERTISING Read more “France calls on the Iranian authorities to shed […]
The head of world amateur boxing’s governing body (AIBA) — Uzbek businessman and alleged drug trafficker Gafur Rakhimov — has resigned from the post after his tenure played a role in AIBA being stripped of the right to organize Olympic boxing events. In his statement issued on July 15, Rakhimov explained his decision to resign […]
102 __share-bar.count.label Date created : 14/07/2019 – 18:57Latest update : 15/07/2019 – 10:58 US President Donald Trump took aim at progressive Democratic congresswomen Sunday, telling them to “go back” where they came from in remarks that sparked yet another firestorm over his views on race and immigration. ADVERTISING Read more Trump – whose comments were […]
Russian police have used force to disperse a demonstration against deforestation near Moscow. On July 15, residents of Likino-Dulevo, a town near the Russian capital, blocked an access road to a planned new landfill in a forest close to the town. Activists say some 50 police officers were deployed to the site and, with the […]
Huawei’s Harmony operating system will power more than just smartphones – if it ever sees the light of day Huawei has registered the trademark ‘Harmony’ in Europe as the name for its own forthcoming mobile operating system. The name was registered on 12 July with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), as well as […]
As the European Union has expanded eastward, hundreds of thousands of children have been turned into orphans in all but name. They grow up without their parents, who have no choice but to work in rich, Western European countries for a lack of job options back home. Maria Feck/ SPIEGEL ONLINE Global Societies All Articles […]
Date created : 15/07/2019 – 05:25Latest update : 15/07/2019 – 07:20 Fans took to the streets of Paris, Marseille and Lyon on Sunday to celebrate the Algerian national football team’s victory over Nigeria in the Africa Cup of Nations semi-final but the festivities were marred by violence. ADVERTISING Read more Scenes of joy descended into […]
Russian and international human rights groups have criticized Russian authorities for failing to bring to justice those responsible for the killing 10 years ago of a top human rights defender in Chechnya. Natalya Estemirova, who worked in the Grozny office of the Memorial human rights center, was abducted on July 15, 2009, near her home […]
Date created : 15/07/2019 – 03:33 U.S. authorities launched small-scale operations to arrest undocumented families over the weekend in a start to President Donald Trump’s plan to deport thousands of immigrants. ADVERTISING Read more The multi-day operation was expected to target around 2,000 recently-arrived families in about 10 cities who have been ordered deported by […]
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic has claimed a fifth Wimbledon title after a marathon match with Roger Federer on July 14. The defending champ Djokovic beat Roger Federer in the first All England Club final to be decided by a tiebreaker, 7-6(5) 1-6 7-6(4) 4-6 13-12(3). The match was the longest Wimbledon singles final ever. Victory took […]