Saturday, March 19, 2016

Another lion escapes from Kenyan park, injures man in the capital and other top stories.

  • Another lion escapes from Kenyan park, injures man in the capital

    Another lion escapes from Kenyan park, injures man in the capital
    Story highlightsMan mauled by lion is undergoing treatment It's the fourth time in recent weeks lions have escaped from the park in Nairobi The man is undergoing treatment for his injuries, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service. It later tweeted Friday that its units have "taken control" of the lion and returned it to the Nairobi National Park. Video posted on social media showed a black-maned lion sauntering down one of the city's busiest streets. It later disappears from camera view as motor..
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  • Human Rights Watch slams US failure to criminally investigate MSF hospital bombing - Al

    Human Rights Watch slams US failure to criminally investigate MSF hospital bombing - Al
    Medecins Sans Frontieres staff walk in the damaged MSF hospital in northern Kunduz, on November 10, 2015. (AFP/Najim Rahim) Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized the US' failure to criminally investigate senior officials over an airstrike on a Doctors without Borders (MSF) hospital in Afghanistan in October.In a statement released late Thursday, the non-governmental rights organization said the lack of a criminal investigation was "not only an affront to the lives lost at the MSF hospital, bu..
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  • At least 62 dead in Russian plane crash

    At least 62 dead in Russian plane crash
    At least 62 dead in Russian plane crash
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  • EU-Turkey Syrian migrant deal provokes backlash

    EU-Turkey Syrian migrant deal provokes backlash
    A child of a migrant family walks holding a doll in the makeshift refugee camp at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, on Thursday. Photo: Vadim Ghirda Brussels: The European Union and Turkey set aside growing tensions by reaching an agreement to control the flow of refugees through the Aegean Sea, in a large-scale people-moving operation that was immediately denounced as impractical and legally suspect.Syrian refugees who make it to Greece wil..
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  • Key suspect in Paris attacks captured in Brussels raid

    Key suspect in Paris attacks captured in Brussels raid
    The hunt for Europe's most wanted man came to a sudden end in a tough Brussels neighbourhood Friday afternoon when Belgian counterterrorism police raided an apartment building and came away with a suspect who could be the key to unlocking the mysteries of November's massacre in Paris.The success of the operation, after repeated failures to apprehend 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam​, cheered European leaders and law enforcement officials, while offering the tantalising prospect that authorities may s..
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  • UN Blames Saudi-Led Forces For Most Yemen Deaths

    UN Blames Saudi-Led Forces For Most Yemen Deaths
    Details Published on Saturday, 19 March 2016 09:46 The Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen for one year has caused the vast majority of civilian deaths in the conflict, the UN rights chief said Friday.SANAA: The Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen for one year has caused the vast majority of civilian deaths in the conflict, the UN rights chief said Friday, warning international crimes may have been committed. During its campaign against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen there have been repeated c..
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  • US, Philippines agree on 5 base locations under defence deal

    US, Philippines agree on 5 base locations under defence deal
    The United States and the Philippines have agreed on five locations for US military bases in the Philippines under a security agreement inked amid rising tensions with China in the South China Sea, US officials said on Friday. The US State Department ...
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  • Ron Paul says GOP deserves convention rule controversy

    Ron Paul says GOP deserves convention rule controversy
    Story highlightsRon Paul said Friday that the party outsmarted itself in passing a 2012 rule that he said was aimed at blunting his influence on that summer's conventionThe GOP's "Rule 40(b)" requires candidates win the "support of a majority of the delegates from each of eight or more states" in order to have their named placed on the nominating ballotThe GOP's "Rule 40(b)" requires candidates win the "support of a majority of the delegates from each of eight or more states" in order to have th..
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  • Fisherman's dog found on island 5 weeks after it fell into the sea

    Fisherman's dog found on island 5 weeks after it fell into the sea
    When his year-old dog Luna fell off his boat, fisherman Nick Haworth held out hope, but as the days passed he lost faith that she would return to him.  So it came as a surprise when the U.S. navy found her on land more than a month later.  On Feb. 10, Haworth, 20, had been on his boat about three kilometres off the shore of San Clemente Island, which is 110 kilometres west of San Diego. He isn't sure how Luna vanished.  "One moment Luna was there and the next she was gone," Haworth said, accord..
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Dragon boat paddler remembered as a 'one in a million' woman .Crime scene in Qld yard over toddler .
Boat mooring chains scour Rottnest (Australia) seagrass releasing CO2 .Shock report lifts lid on ugly secret in Cairns suburbs .

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