LAS VEGAS – Hillary Clinton stopped at a union rally outside Donald Trump’s hotel on the Strip here, taunting the Republican front-runner on the eve of the first Democratic presidential debate. “Some people think Trump is entertaining, but it is not entertaining to insult immigrants and women,” Clinton said. Clinton joined about 500 members of…
ANKARA – Thousands of people have gathered in the centre of Turkey’s capital, Ankara, to pay tribute to the victims of bomb blasts which killed at least 95 people. Brief scuffles broke out between the crowd and the police after some mourners tried to lay carnations at the site of the bombings. There is anger…
ZURICH – Fifa president Sepp Blatter is appealing against his 90-day ban from football’s world governing body. The 79-year-old Swiss has been suspended from all duties while Fifa’s ethics committee investigates corruption claims against its leader. He was suspended on Thursday along with secretary general Jerome Valcke and vice-president Michel Platini. Platini will contest the…
ZURICH – Fifa has provisionally suspended its president Sepp Blatter, secretary general Jerome Valcke and vice-president Michel Platini for 90 days. The punishments were handed out by the ethics committee of football’s world governing body, which is investigating the three over corruption allegations. It also banned ex-Fifa vice-president Chung Mong-joon for six years. Issa Hayatou,…
ZURICH – Cameroon’s Issa Hayatou and Spain’s Angel Maria Villar are in line to take over as interim heads of soccer’s world and European governing bodies following the suspension on Thursday of Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini. In the latest twist in the corruption scandal engulfing the sport, Blatter and Platini were both handed 90-day…
HARARE – Four people have been detained in Sydney, Australia, in relation to the killing of police worker Curtis Cheng. More than 200 officers swooped on several properties early on Wednesday, police said, arresting males aged between 16 and 22. A fifth man was held over unrelated fraud charges. Mr Cheng, 58, was shot dead…
WASHINGTON – The secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization condemned Tuesday in strong terms the violation of Turkish airspace by Russian planes, as he said a second incursion by Russian planes had been confirmed. “Russian combat aircraft have violated Turkish airspace,” Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, according to the NATO website. “This is…
DAMASCUS – Turkey has warned the EU that millions more refugees could flee Syria as the civil war intensifies, European Council President Donald Tusk has said. He said Russian and Iranian engagement in Syria was making a victory for President Bashar al-Assad more likely. According to Turkish estimates, it could mean another three million refugees…
PARIS – Violent storms and flooding have hit southeast France, killing at least 10 people with six more missing, officials said. Three elderly people drowned when their retirement home near the city of Antibes was inundated with floodwater. Another five people are reported to have died as they tried to park their cars under shelter…
MOSCOW – Russian forces bombed targets in Syria for a fourth day despite international concerns over Moscow’s intentions in the war-torn nation. The Russian defense ministry said its soldiers bombed nine ISIS positions Saturday near the terror group’s de facto capital in Raqqa. In the past 24 hours, the air force conducted 20 airstrikes near…
