Rhode Island College President Nancy Carriuolo is urging students to support the upcoming AIDS Walk for Life. The 29th annual event is slated for Saturday, September 27, 2014 starting and ending on the Rhode Island State House lawn. The event benefits AIDS Project RI, which provides education, prevention and testing programs, and a range […]Load more...
Hurricane Katrina makes landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, as a Category 4 hurricane on this day in 2005. Despite being only the third most powerful storm of the 2005 hurricane season, Katrina was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. After briefly coming ashore in southern Florida on August 25 as […]Load more...
Comedian Joan Rivers is «resting comfortably» in a New York hospital after apparently suffering cardiac and respiratory arrest during a procedure at a medical clinic Thursday. Her daughter, Melissa Rivers, issued a statement Thursday night after arriving at the hospital following a flight from Los Angeles. «I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love […]Load more...
Now witness the firepower of this armed and fully operational movie production. Filming resumed this week on “Star Wars: Episode VII” at Britain’s Pinewood Studios after a two-week hiatus spurred by Harrison Ford’s leg injury, Entertainment Weekly reported. Director J.J. Abrams had been forced to rearrange the schedule to account for the absence of star […]Load more...
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the «root cause» of the terrorist threat in the United Kingdom is «Islamist extremism.» He said the killing of U.S. journalist James Foley is clear evidence that ISIS’ fight in Iraq and Syria «is not some foreign conflict thousands of miles from home that we can hope to ignore.» […]Load more...
A Syrian man accused in a plot to attack U.S. troops in Iraq has been extradited to the United States. Authorities say Ahmad Ibrahim al-Ahmad made his first courtroom appearance on Thursday in Arizona, where he faces multiple federal charges, including the provision of material support to terrorists. Al-Ahmad is accused of supplying bomb components […]Load more...
NATO has called on Russia to cease its «illegal military operations» in eastern Ukraine, which it says are aimed at destabilizing the country. The comments by NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Friday followed an emergency meeting in Brussels to discuss the worsening crisis. Rasmussen, referencing satellite images released by his organization Thursday, said it […]Load more...
Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday condemned the stigmatization of Nigerians travelling abroad, due to the recent outbreak of Ebola in the country. In a meeting with David Nabarro, Special Envoy of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, Jonathan said there was no justification for such stigmatization, since his administration has made significant efforts to contain the […]Load more...
HELSINKI—Finland’s Defense Ministry said it suspected a Russian aircraft entered its airspace without permission on Thursday, in third such violation in the past week.The Finnish border guard was examining the data for possible violations, the ministry said, without giving further details.The ministry said the plane was state aircraft, a term which refers to aircraft used […]Load more...
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN—Afghanistan’s U.N. representative told President Hamid Karzai on Thursday that the audit of a disputed election would not be finished by Sept. 2, when Karzai had hoped to see a new leader inaugurated. The United Nations is supervising the audit of votes from a run-off ballot between the two candidates, Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf […]Load more...
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