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By Mohammed Ghobari and Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA/SANAA (Reuters) – A fistfight erupted on the sidelines of peace talks in Geneva on Thursday between supporters of different warring factions in Yemen, underlining the divisions that have thwarted United Nations efforts broker a truce in the near three-month conflict. Yemeni opponents of the Houthi forces that drove the government into exile interrupted a news conference by Houthi officials, throwing shoes and insulting
By Oksana Kobzeva and Polina Devitt ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – A former finance minister proposed on Thursday bringing forward the next presidential election to give his ally, Vladimir Putin, a stronger mandate to reform the economy and guide Russia through a financial “storm”. Russia is sliding into recession, with economic sanctions imposed by the West over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine conflict taking a toll and lower global oil
Pomp, pageantry and a vast array of elaborate hats make Royal Ascot a truly English affair –- but Britain’s most prestigious horse race meeting is attracting a growing international contingent. More than 300,000 people are expected during the course of the five-day extravaganza in Berkshire, southeast England, attended yearly by Queen Elizabeth II — with Ladies Day on Thursday a sartorial highlight of the upper class social calendar. Taiwanese couple
Geneva (AFP) – The number of people forced to flee war, violence and persecution has soared to a record 60 million, half of them children, the United Nations said Thursday, warning that the situation was raging out of control.
A 21-year-old white gunman accused of killing nine people at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested on Thursday, said U.S. officials, who are investigating the attack as a hate crime. Law enforcement officials caught alleged gunman Dylann Roof, whose rampage on Wednesday came in a year that has seen months of racially charged protests across the United States over killings of black men. U.S. Attorney General
The UN’s refugee chief on Thursday urged the world including Western states to open up their borders and follow Turkey’s example in hosting Syrian refugees. Turkey, which has taken in some 1.8 million Syrian refugees since the conflict started in 2011, has repeatedly said that it has been left to shoulder a disproportionate burden as Western states stand by. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres told reporters in Istanbul
FBI investigating attack on historic black church as a hate crime.
By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Thursday once again invalidated a patent held by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd on its top-selling multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone, clearing the way for the launch of a cheaper, generic version. The decision is the second time the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reviewed the Teva patent and comes after the U.S. Supreme Court in
The charges are based on a variety of alleged fraud schemes, the government said, including submitting claims to Medicare and Medicaid, the healthcare program for low-income individuals, for treatments that were medically unnecessary and often never provided. The nationwide sweep, led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force and the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is the largest in its history, both in terms of the number of those
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ending years of wait, the government agreed Thursday to provide disability benefits to as many as 2,100 Air Force reservists and active-duty forces exposed to Agent Orange residue on airplanes used in the Vietnam War.
