Новости за 27.12.2015

By Ahmed Rasheed Iraq’s army said on Sunday it had defeated Islamic State fighters in a provincial capital west of Baghdad, the first major victory for the U.S.-trained force since it collapsed in the face of an assault by the militants 18 months ago. Victory in Ramadi, capital of mainly Sunni-Muslim Anbar province in the […]

By Lisa Maria Garza At least 11 people were killed in the Dallas area from a storm system packing torrential rains and unleashing a string of tornadoes that toppled homes, cut power lines and snarled transport for people returning from the Christmas holidays. The worst-hit area was in Garland, northeast of Dallas, where eight people […]

British soldiers helped evacuate hundreds of people from rising floodwaters in the historic city of York on Sunday, after heavy rainfall inundated towns and cities across northern England. Prime Minister David Cameron pledged more military help for the region as the army was deployed to move 300 to 400 people from their homes in York, […]

Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and a senior Bavarian politician criticised Greece on Sunday over the way it is managing its role in Europe’s biggest migration crisis since World War Two. Schaeuble, who has clashed repeatedly with Greek officials this year over economic policy, told Bild am Sonntag that Athens has for years ignored the […]

By Alix Norman Hallyu shouldn’t appeal to me. I’m a minimalist, classical music loving thirty-something, with a wardrobe of neutrals. Whereas this is an assault on the senses, all eye-watering colour and hyper energetic music that appeals to those in their teens and twenties. Plus, it’s all in a foreign language! But the more Crystal […]

Saudi Arabia said it intercepted a Scud ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Saturday, according to a statement on the Saudi state news agency SPA, an attack which threatens a fragile ceasefire ahead of renewed U.N.-backed peace talks next month. “Saudi Air Defense Forces intercepted at about 11 P.M. (2000 GMT) yesterday a Scud missile […]

Eighteen refugees of African and Asian origin were arrested yesterday evening and detained by police on charges of illegal entry into the territory of the Republic. The eighteen refugees were located last night at around ten by members of the Kiti police force in Kiti Mazotos. They were taken to the Kiti Police station where […]

The Force remains strong with the new “Star Wars” movie, which is on track to top $1 billion in global ticket sales this weekend, making it the fastest-ever film to reach that level. Walt Disney Co said in a statement on Saturday that “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” had generated box office receipts of $890.3 […]

More than 100,000 people have had to evacuate from their homes in the bordering areas of Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina due to severe flooding in the wake of heavy summer rains brought on by El Niño, authorities said on Saturday. In the worse affected country, Paraguay, around 90,000 people in the area around the […]

Vienna police said on Saturday that a ‘friendly intelligence service’ has warned numerous European capitals of the possibility of a shooting or bomb attack in Europe before the New Year. “Several possible names of potential attackers were mentioned, who were checked and the investigation based on (these checks) has so far yielded no concrete results,” […]

Arsene Wenger acknowledged Southampton were the sharper team as they crushed Arsenal 4-0 on Saturday but he also blamed the defeat on bad luck and a second goal that should have been disallowed by referee Jonathan Moss. Cuco Martina opened the scoring with a curling long-range effort. Shane Long then added the second goal when […]