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US to Provide Additional $17.7 Mln in Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine

US to Provide Additional $17.7 Mln in Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine

http://sputniknews.com./politics/20150421/1021151401.htmlThe United States will provide Kiev with $17.7 million in additional humanitarian aid to use towards food, water and shelter, the White House announced in a statement after US Vice President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko spoke over the phone. April 21 2015, 10:52 1 167 просмотрs

27 survivors of Sunday’s Mediterranean shipwreck reach Italy, death toll 800

27 survivors of Sunday’s Mediterranean shipwreck reach Italy, death toll 800

Twenty-seven survivors of Sunday's Mediterranean shipwreck arrived on a coast guard vessel at the Italian port of Catania on Monday night. April 21 2015, 10:19 1 133 просмотрs

Thousands protest government corruption across Hungary

Thousands protest government corruption across Hungary

Thousands of people have gathered in 50 cities across Hungary to protest what many say is an erosion of democratic freedoms and government corruption. April 20 2015, 17:43 1 351 просмотрs

Why OPEC's losing its ability to set oil prices

Why OPEC's losing its ability to set oil prices

OPEC 's glory days of steering global oil prices may be at an end. April 20 2015, 17:04 1 822 просмотрs

Suicide Bombing Kills At Least 35 In Jalalabad; ISIS Reportedly Claims Responsibility

Suicide Bombing Kills At Least 35 In Jalalabad; ISIS Reportedly Claims Responsibility

In what could be the first attack in Afghanistan by the self-proclaimed Islamic State, the extremist group has reportedly said it is behind Saturday's deadly attack in Jalalabad. Media outlets and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani have noted the claim, which has not been independently verified. April 20 2015, 16:33 1 241 просмотрs

EU meets on migrant crisis as shipwreck corpses brought ashore

EU meets on migrant crisis as shipwreck corpses brought ashore

European Union foreign ministers gathered in Luxembourg on Monday under pressure to produce more than words as bodies were brought ashore in Malta among hundreds feared drowned in the latest Mediterranean migrant tragedy. April 20 2015, 16:21 1 163 просмотрs

Nigeria mystery deaths: Pesticides suspected, says WHO

Nigeria mystery deaths: Pesticides suspected, says WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says pesticide poisoning is the probable cause of 18 mysterious deaths in south-western Nigeria. April 20 2015, 00:30 1 371 просмотрs

One million bees killed in French road crash

One million bees killed in French road crash

An estimated one million honeybees were killed after the vehicle that was transporting them crashed into a car in southern France. However tens of thousands survived only to attack emergency rescue teams. April 19 2015, 04:41 1 515 просмотрs

Deadly blast hits US consulate in Erbil

Deadly blast hits US consulate in Erbil

A car bomb at the entrance to the US consulate in the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region, Erbil, killed at least one person and wounded five others, the local mayor said. April 17 2015, 22:46 1 268 просмотрs

Search area for Flight MH370 to double if plane not found

Search area for Flight MH370 to double if plane not found

Government ministers from Australia, China and Malaysia on Thursday said they would double the search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 if wreckage is not found in the current target area. April 16 2015, 15:19 1 180 просмотрs

Iran testing its newest submarine

Iran testing its newest submarine

Iran is carrying out tests on its newest submarine, called "Fateh" (Conqueror), Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Gholam Reza Khadem Biqam said. April 15 2015, 17:10 4 787 просмотрs

Protests in U.S. cities against police violence prompt arrests

Protests in U.S. cities against police violence prompt arrests

Protesters in several U.S. cities blocked highways and swarmed police precincts, leading to at least two dozen arrests in demonstrations touched off by fresh cases of police violence against unarmed black men. April 15 2015, 16:54 1 196 просмотрs

Migrant boat capsizes off Libya coast, 400 hundred feared dead

Migrant boat capsizes off Libya coast, 400 hundred feared dead

Some 400 illegal migrants may have drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Libya on Sunday, according to survivors who were rescued and brought to Italy. April 15 2015, 09:49 2 290 просмотрs

Slim to merge oil & gas units

Slim to merge oil & gas units

Carlos Slim plans to merge two of his energy units into one entity, Carso Oil & Gas, according to an advisory posted in a government gazette on Tuesday, as the Mexican telecoms billionaire seeks to benefit from a major sector overhaul. April 15 2015, 09:44 1 487 просмотрs

Kremlin names no date of S-300 delivery to Iran but stresses no restrictions apply

Kremlin names no date of S-300 delivery to Iran but stresses no restrictions apply

The Kremlin names no specific dates when Russia may begin to deliver air defence missile launchers S-300 to Iran but at the same time points out that no restrictions apply any more. April 14 2015, 16:46 1 761 просмотрs

Indonesian Islamic parties seek ban on alcohol consumption

Indonesian Islamic parties seek ban on alcohol consumption

Two Islamic parties have proposed legislation that would ban all consumption of alcoholic drinks and bring jail terms of up to two years for offenders in Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim population. April 14 2015, 15:23 1 119 просмотрs

Israel slams Russia decision to lift Iran missile ban

Israel slams Russia decision to lift Iran missile ban

Israel on Monday denounced Russia's decision to lift a ban on supplying Iran with sophisticated S-300 air defence missile systems as proof of Tehran's newfound "legitimacy" following nuclear talks. April 14 2015, 11:12 1 510 просмотрs

Ukraine to rename towns to get rid of Soviet past

Ukraine to rename towns to get rid of Soviet past

A total of 25 Ukrainian towns may regain historic names following the parliament's ban on the use of Communist symbols, local media reported on Monday. April 14 2015, 06:59 1 354 просмотрs

More than 900 people injured in fires in Russia's Siberian Republic of Khakassia

More than 900 people injured in fires in Russia's Siberian Republic of Khakassia

More than 900 people have been injured in wildfires in the Siberian Republic of Khakassia, the republic's Deputy Health Minister Natalya Kogan said. April 14 2015, 06:28 1 215 просмотрs

History now made, U.S. and Cuba face bumpy road ahead

History now made, U.S. and Cuba face bumpy road ahead

Cuba and the United States just made history. Now comes the hard part. April 13 2015, 17:41 1 118 просмотрs

#WeWillBurnUSAgain: Islamic State Threatens to Unleash 9/11-Like Terror

#WeWillBurnUSAgain: Islamic State Threatens to Unleash 9/11-Like Terror

Islamic State radicals and their supporters have launched a Twitter campaign against Americans under the "WeWillBurnUSAgain" hashtag, referring to the 9/11 attacks, the SITE service, which monitors the online activity of extremist groups, warns. April 13 2015, 11:27 1 196 просмотрs

Germanwings Flight Canceled After Bomb Threat

Germanwings Flight Canceled After Bomb Threat

Germanwings flight was canceled at Cologne/Bonn airport after German police received a bomb threat against the flight, the airline announced on Sunday. April 13 2015, 11:08 1 111 просмотрs

Obama and Maduro meet for first time amid US-Venezuela tension

Obama and Maduro meet for first time amid US-Venezuela tension

President Obama briefly met his Venezuelan counterpart for the first time on the margins of the Summit of the Americas in Panama. April 13 2015, 10:48 1 096 просмотрs

Hillary Clinton announces White House run

Hillary Clinton announces White House run

After years of often-breathless speculation about her future, Hillary Rodham Clinton confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in politics: She's running for president. The former first lady and secretary of state officially entered the 2016 presidential race with a video announcement to supporters Sunday, saying she wants to be the champion of “everyday Americans." April 13 2015, 10:35 1 145 просмотрs

Egypt's Sinai Peninsula hit by deadly bomb attacks

Egypt's Sinai Peninsula hit by deadly bomb attacks

Twelve people have been killed in separate bomb attacks in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, security forces have said. April 12 2015, 20:56 1 102 просмотрs