(Reuters) – Tariq Aziz, who was foreign minister of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, has died in prison, Iraqi officials said on Friday. Aziz surrendered in April 2003 to a U.S. invasion force which overthrew Saddam. Dr. Saadi al-Majid, head of the health department of Dhi Qar governorate where Aziz was being held, confirmed Aziz’s death to Reuters: “Tariq Aziz arrived at al-Nasiriya Educational hospital suffering from a severe heart attack.
By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A Pakistani court has freed eight out of 10 men charged with organizing the shooting of schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai, police said on Friday, a move that will raise further questions about the nation’s heavily criticized justice system. Pakistani Taliban militants claimed responsibility for attacking Malala in 2012 as she traveled home from school in Swat, northwest of the capital Islamabad. Malala became
The security situation in eastern Ukraine has deteriorated in recent days as both sides of the conflict persist in putting civilians at risk by positioning military forces alongside civilian areas, a senior international monitor said on Friday. The deputy head of the special monitoring mission of the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Ukraine, Alexander Hug, made the remarks at an emergency meeting of the United
An explosion apparently caused by an electrical fault injured several people at an opposition party rally in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Friday, days before parliamentary elections. Television footage showed people being carried out on stretchers as organizers of the rally for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) announced on loudspeakers that the explosion had been caused by a fault in a power generator and urged people to
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Police in Florence wondered where all the money was going. Italy’s economy was heading off a cliff, but its Chinatowns were booming. Luxury cars snaked past Chinese betting parlors and garment factories that hummed into the night. Chinese immigrants were buying up Italian coffee bars and real estate. But their prosperity was not reflected in local tax records. “What do they do with the money?” said
The death toll from a suicide bombing at a market in the northeastern Nigerian town of Yola rose to 45 on Friday, authorities said. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack but it bore the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram. “Ten more people died this morning,” police spokesman Othman Abubakar told Reuters, adding to the 35 bodies that a senior policeman, who wanted to remain anonymous,
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A physics professor at a Philadelphia university has pleaded not guilty to charges he gave U.S. technology secrets to China.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Jury deliberations have begun in the case against a former BP executive accused of lying to federal investigators about the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
NEW YORK (AP) — A strong jobs report knocked U.S. government bond prices down as investors bet that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates later this year. Stocks drifted mostly lower.
It turns out that most people have been exposed to about 10 different species of virus, including ones that cause colds, flu, and gastrointestinal illnesses.