PARIS (AP) — The Alps are the birthplace of downhill skiing and a crucible for mountain climbing — but now the French government is trying to help their winter tourist towns adapt to a warming world.
Iran demanded Friday that it and other affected countries be represented in the Saudi investigation into the stampede that killed more than 700 pilgrims, including 131 Iranians, at this year’s hajj. “Countries such as Iran, which have suffered so much, should be represented in the inquiry to determine the causes of the catastrophe and to gain assurances that it will not be repeated in the future,” First Vice President Eshaq
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeting the country’s Shiite rebels as well as fighting on the ground between rebels and pro-government fighters in the southern province of Taiz have killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens, Yemen officials said Friday.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday he had “candid” discussions with Chinese President Xi Jinping on disputes in the Asia Pacific, specifically focusing on growing tensions in the South China Sea. “We did have candid discussions on the East and South China Seas and I reiterated the right of all countries to freedom of navigation and over-flight and to unimpeded commerce,” he said.
By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) – At least 10 Muslim worshippers performing Eid al-Adha prayers were killed on Thursday when an Islamic State suicide bomber disguised as a woman blew himself up at a mosque run by Yemen’s Houthi group, security sources said. Islamic State’s branch in Yemen said the attack at al-Balili mosque, just outside the Old City of Sanaa, had killed or wounded dozens of “rejectionists”. “In a
By Zoran Radosavljevic and Matt Robinson ZAGREB/BELGRADE (Reuters) – Former Yugoslav foes Serbia and Croatia turned back the clock on 15 years of reconciliation on Thursday, trading embargoes and insults as Europe’s migrant crisis damaged relations in the fragile Western Balkans. With relations hitting their lowest ebb since Serbia came in from the cold with the ouster of late strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, the Balkan neighbors exchanged tit-for-tat sanctions
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is ready to restart anti-terrorist cooperation with the United States, RIA news agency quoted the Russian foreign ministry on Thursday as saying. Most U.S.-Russia security cooperation has been frozen amid chilly bilateral ties over the conflict in Ukraine but, worried about growing threats posed by Islamic State in the Middle East, Moscow and Washington this month reopened some defense contacts on Syria. (Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska;
Syrian government forces used newly arrived Russian warplanes to bombard Islamic State insurgents in Aleppo province in northern Syria, a group monitoring the civil war said on Thursday, in an attempt to break a siege on a nearby air base. Russia is bolstering its ally Damascus against rebels with military aid that U.S. officials say has included fighter jets, helicopter gunships, artillery and ground forces. The air strikes, which began
U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week while both men are in New York for the United Nations General Assembly at Putin’s request, a senior Obama administration official said on Thursday. “Given the situations in Ukraine and Syria, despite our profound differences with Moscow, the president believes that it would be irresponsible not to test whether we can make progress through high-level engagement with
MADRID (AP) — The Spanish league would be unimaginable without Catalan clubs in it, La Liga’s president said Thursday.