Charlotte Guttridge, a tour leader at Young Pioneer Tours and the only outside witness to Warmbier’s detention, said the 21-year-old University of Virginia student was not with other tourists when the events that appear to have prompted his arrest occurred.
Pakistan observed a day of national mourning yesterday for the 21 people killed when heavily armed Taleban gunmen stormed a university in the troubled north-west, exposing the failings in a national crackdown on extremism.
“Cancer is way more complex than anyone had imagined in 1970”, said Dr Jose Baselga, president of the American Association for Cancer Research and physician in chief and chief medical officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
“We are looking for credible and comprehensive action from them to bring all the perpetrators of Pathankot terror attack to justice”, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Vikas Swarup said on Thursday.
“The United States remains concerned about some of the activities that Iran is engaged in in other countries”, Kerry said, pointing to continued US sanctions over Iran’s support for terrorist groups like Hezbollah, its human rights record and its development of...
Gould, for her part, refers to the agreements signed between the Islamic Republic and China during President Xi Jinping’s Saturday visit to Tehran, saying this is a “good sign” for the future of bilateral relations between the two sides.
The SCOTUS agreed to hear the administration’s defense of President Obama’s immigration executive actions, which were challenged by Texas and more than two dozen other states. At the time of the announcement, the New York Times said Obama’s plan “all but...
The first U.N.-brokered meeting among Syrian parties will be “proximity talks” in which representatives of the government and opposition gather separately, Kerry said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Beck said he had never endorsed a presidential candidate in his 40 years of broadcasting, but he made an exception because of the urgency of the moment.
Health officials have warned pregnant tourists to avoid travelling to Brazil for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics after an outbreak of the Zika virus which causes babies to be born with unusually small heads and brains.