No deal on Syria as Obama and Putin meet
Updated 0724 GMT (1524 HKT) September 5, 2016
US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met Monday as talks between their governments on ending violence in Syria ended without an agreement.
The two leaders conversed on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit here, according to a US National Security Council spokesman. More details about their discussion were expected later Monday, but US officials said before the summit that Syria and Ukraine would likely be on the agenda of an Obama-Putin huddle.
The Russian TASS news agency quoted a Kremlin spokesman as saying the talks lasted longer than planned, and that leaders spent the bulk of their meeting discussing Syria. The spokesman,Dmitry Peskov, said the meeting went well, according to TASS.Hong Kong elections: anti-Beijing activists gain foothold in power
At least four radical candidates are set to take up a place in the Legislative Council in a huge shake-up for the city’s politics
Two years after tens of thousands of young people poured onto the streets of Hong Kong to issue an unprecedented call for political change, a new generation of pro-democracy activists has gained a foothold in power in the former British colony.
At least four radical young activists who support greater political autonomy or outright independence from China claimed seats in Hong Kong’s 70-member Legislative Council, or Legco, after a record 2.2 million people went to the polls on Sunday.
Those elected include Nathan Law, a 23-year-old from the recently founded Demosisto party who was one of the leaders of the 2014 so-called umbrella movement protests.
'We never turn a child away': Helping the young Syrian refugees who don’t make it to Europe
Lebanon has a long history of welcoming refugeesBethan McKernan Beirut
“Je suis Syrienne,” a thin little girl in downtown Beirut says in French, gesturing, eating with one hand while holding the other out for donations. When given some coins and asked what her name is, she runs away, sandals too big for her feet clapping against the pavement.
Refugee children like her – whether selling gum, roses or offering to shine shoes – are an increasingly visual phenomenon on the streets of the Lebanese capital.
“There are so many, and even then it’s hard to grasp the scale of the problem. The past five years have been tragic,” says Arveen Iskandarian, who works at children’s charity Jabid.
Statistics show marked drop in terrorist attacks
ANWAR IQBAL
WASHINGTON: There has been a marked reduction in terrorist attacks and deaths in Pakistan in 2015, but terrorists seem to have become more lethal as the ratio of deaths per attack has increased.
The statistics from a comparative study of the US State Department’s country reports on terrorism for 2014 and 2015 also show a greater decrease in the number of people injured in these attacks.
The comparative study, released recently, coincided with a debate in the National Assembly in Islamabad this week on the law and order situation in the country. The Interior Ministry shared the State Department’s statistics with parliament to prove that the ongoing operations against terrorists had helped improve the situation greatly.
Israel train snafu: just politics or a deeper divide?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu halted maintenance on the country's train system Saturday, affecting thousands of commuters the next day.
It was meant to be routine maintenance on Israel’s rail system Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, when work is ritually forbidden.
But instead, thousands of commuters were left scrambling for seats on replacement buses at the start of the country’s workweek the next morning, after the prime minister suspended 17 of these 20 projects Friday in response to criticism he received from ultra-Orthodox members of his governing coalition he holds by a thin majority.
Benjamin Netanyahu blamed his transportation minister and party secretary, Yisrael Katz, whom it has been speculated will challenge Mr. Netanyahu for Likud Party leadership during the next election cycle, according to the Times of Israel.
Survey: Giant pandas no longer 'endangered' in China
Status of giant pandas upgraded to "vulnerable", but Eastern gorilla gets added to critically endangered list.
Decades of conservation work in China have paid off for the giant panda, whose status has been upgraded from "endangered" to "vulnerable" due to a population rebound, according to officials.
The improvement for the giant panda was announced on Sunday as part of an update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, the world's most comprehensive inventory of plants and animals.
The latest estimates show a population of 1,864 adult giant pandas. Although exact numbers are not available, adding cubs to the projection would mean about 2,060 pandas exist today, the IUCN said.
The latest estimates show a population of 1,864 adult giant pandas. Although exact numbers are not available, adding cubs to the projection would mean about 2,060 pandas exist today, the IUCN said.
No comments:
Post a Comment