May 2, 2015
Airport Customs holding up aid in Nepal
The United Nations has urged Nepal to relax customs controls which it says are holding up deliveries of aid to survivors of last week's earthquake. UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Nepal had a duty to provide faster customs clearance for…
April 28, 2015
Official mourning declared for victims in Nepal
Nepal has declared three days of mourning for the victims of Saturday's earthquake in which more than 5,000 people are now known to have died. Prime Minister Sushil Koirala says the government is doing all it can but is overwhelmed by the scale of…
April 28, 2015
President Obama says, ‘No Excuse’ for Riots in Baltimore
U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday said there's “no excuse” for Monday night's violence in the eastern U.S. city of Baltimore and called for those who looted and burned buildings "to be treated as criminals." Riots erupted in the city after the…
April 28, 2015
US Official Confirms Iran Intercepted Cargo Ship
A senior U.S. official says Iranian naval ships and patrol craft fired shots at a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz before escorting it into Iranian territorial waters. The official said the container ship, the MV Maersk Tigris, was tansiting the…
April 22, 2015
EU Must Help With Migrant Crisis says Italian PM
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Wednesday pressed the European Union to help shoulder the burden of curbing migrant trafficking in African countries, after more than 800 migrants drowned when a ship capsized Sunday in the Mediterranean Sea.…
April 21, 2015
Indian Minister Says 2,000 Girls Killed Every Day
Two thousand girls are killed every day due to a preference for sons in India, with most aborted or murdered just after birth, the country's minister for women and child development said. Despite laws that ban parents from having tests to determine…
April 17, 2015
Argentina launches lawsuit against Falkland oil drillers
Argentina has begun legal proceedings against three British and two US companies for drilling oil near the Falkland Islands. Daniel Filmus, Argentina's minister for the islands - called the Malvinas locally - announced the case in London. The…
April 17, 2015
‘US Cannot Be in Isolation’ says Obama
In a sweeping defense of his expansion plans for enhanced American trade worldwide, President Barack Obama on Friday said the U.S. cannot be in isolation. "We cannot stop a global economy at our shores,” he told reporters during a news conference…
April 15, 2015
Iran’s Leader Dismisses US Congressional Role in Nuclear Deal
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Iran is in talks to reach a final nuclear agreement with six world powers, not with U.S. lawmakers. Rouhani's remarks on Wednesday were an apparent reaction to developments Tuesday in Washington, where President…
April 12, 2015
Obama Meets With Maduro, Other Latin American Leaders
Cuban President Raul Castro was not the only Latin American leader to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama at the Americas Summit in Panama. Obama met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who wants the U.S. to lift sanctions recently slapped on…