Iran’s Supreme Leader on Wednesday kept up the verbal broadsides against Saudi Arabia, threatening it with “tough and harsh” retaliation because Iranian stampede victims weren’t being repatriated swiftly enough. Interior Ministry spokesperson Major General...
Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in contemporary time. Harry Potter series author JK Rowling, with over 5.6 million Twitter followers, has actively addressed readers through public...
Here’s a brief introduction to know about the author, whose “polyphonic writings” were dubbed “a monument to courage and suffering in our time” by Sara Danius, the Nobel chair, when the prize was announced. Her work has captured events spanning World...
In the face of its brutal offensive through northern Iraq in June, 2014, Mr Obama asked Congress for an initial $500 million to “train and equip” Syria’s opposition fighters, whom he later described as “the best counterweight” to Islamic militants...
Seehofer has been at loggerheads with Merkel for weeks over the refugee crisis, criticising the chancellor on an nearly daily basis for her apparent lack of a plan and blaming her for the huge numbers who have been arriving in Germany, most of which have entered at the Austrian...
Activists from the main opposition party, the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG), gathered at an electoral rally Thursday night featuring presidential candidate – and former prime minister – Cellou Dalein Diallo in the capital of Conakry. In 2008, after the...
Tight ends Garrett Celek and Blake Bell would be in line again to get all the snaps on offense for the 49ers at the position if Davis and McDonald are still unable to make a go of it against the Giants.
Spain’s 4-0 success at home to Group C minnows Luxembourg secured top spot with a game to spare and Del Bosque’s side will be chasing an unprecedented third straight continental crown at the tournament in France next year.