Indian opposition activists rallied for a third day on Sunday to demand the election commission chief’s resignation, alleging wrongdoing during a large-scale revision of voter rolls in the world’s largest democracy. Protests began Friday demanding the Election Commission of India chief Gyanesh Kumar step down after concerns at the revision that has removed millions of […]
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Das beispiellose Scheitern der Hinrichtung der US-Todeskandidatin Christa Pike hat personelle Konsequenzen: Der Chef der Strafvollzugsbehörde im Bundesstaat Tennessee hat seinen Rücktritt eingereicht. Gouverneur Bill Lee teilte am Samstag (Ortszeit) mit, Behördenleiter Frank Strada werde sein Amt noch in diesem Monat abgeben. Pike hatte am Mittwoch zwei Injektionen mit dem normalerweise tödlichen Mittel Pentobarbital überlebt. Der […]
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Wissenschaftler haben in den peruanischen Anden eine neue Eidechsenart entdeckt. Sie misst zwischen sechs und acht Zentimetern und weist je nach Geschlecht eine unterschiedliche Färbung auf, wie das Naturkundemuseum der Universität San Marcos am Samstag mitteilte. Weibchen haben demnach quadratische Flecken auf dem Rücken. Männchen haben schräge Flecken und weiße Schuppen, die ihnen helfen, sich […]
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Iran’s top diplomat insisted on Sunday that there would be no military solution to the United States’ war against the Islamic republic, with talks on ending the conflict apparently at an impasse. A campaign of heavy bombardment failed to bring a decisive close to the war launched by the US and Israel in late February, […]
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As federal Ethiopian troops patrolled the streets of Mekelle on Sunday, a day after having seized the regional capital from Tigrayan rebels, Tewodros found himself torn between cautious optimism and the fear of further fighting. “The fact that the war is beginning to wind down quickly brings relief,” the Mekelle resident, who wished to remain anonymous, […]
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Ethiopian federal forces were in full control of the Tigray rebels’ regional capital, a local journalist said on Sunday, while Ethiopia’s regional rivals gathered in Egypt to discuss the risk of a wider war. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and federal forces began fighting again on September 23, sparking fears of a return to […]
Read MoreUp to 500 schools across France will be totally or partly closed on Monday because of a wave of student protests that has shaken the country, the education minister said. Lessons will be “totally or partly suspended” in some “400-500” high schools as the security conditions “have not been fulfilled”, said Education Minister Edouard Geffray […]
Read MoreThe bookish thriller “Verity” cleaned up in its North American box office debut this weekend while Tom Cruise flopped in “Digger” playing a rich old guy who thinks he can save the world.”Verity,” an MGM film starring Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett, took in $32.6 million in its first weekend, industry monitor Exhibitor […]
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The UK’s left-wing Green party voted Sunday to define Zionism as racism at the party’s annual conference, drawing sharp backlash from three British Jewish groups, the ruling Labour Party and Israel’s government. Members of the Green party, which has five MPs in Britain’s 650-seat parliament and which enjoyed a boost in recent local and special […]
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