The year was 1969. The turbulent time in America saw troops fighting in Vietnam, and a nation dealing with the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, killed in 1963, and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., both murdered in 1968. Then came that one small step. Forty-five years ago today, 500 million people around […]
International teams of investigators and monitors moved gingerly Saturday through fields littered with debris and decomposing corpses of the victims of a Malaysia airliner shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, as they try to secure the sprawling site in hopes that a credible investigation can be conducted. Malaysia Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said at […]
Almost four years after Venezuela enacted a law to bar the U.S. from funding groups frequently critical of the socialist government, millions of the American dollars the administration tried to ban still flow to these organizations, an analysis by The Associated Press shows. Much more U.S. support is under consideration. The State Department and the […]
Kiev (AFP) – Social media posts by pro-Russian insurgents — most of them hastily removed — suggest the rebels thought they had shot down a Ukrainian army plane before realising in horror that it was in fact a packed Malaysian airliner. The Twitter and blog messages were immediately publicised by top Kiev officials in their […]
A day after a proposed ceasefire fell short, Israel intensified its offensive today, targeting senior Hamas officials with airstrikes in Gaza. The Egyptian-sponsored ceasefire briefly raised hopes that the week long slugfest between Israel and Hamas would come to an end Monday morning, but Hamas balked at the terms and fired 47 rockets at Israel. […]
Mexico’s National Electoral Institute has granted registration to three new political parties, including one led by former leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Lopez Obrador’s National Regeneration Movement, or MORENA, registered with a half million members, many of whom are former members of the Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD. READ MORE:ย http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mexico-registers-political-parties-24514957