MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, March 17 (Reuters) – At least 23 people were killed and 108 injured in suspected triple-suicide bomb attacks in Maiduguri city, capital of Nigeria’s insurgency-hit northeastern state of Borno, the state police command said in a statement late on Monday. (Reporting by Ahmed Kingimi; Writing by Bate Felix; Editing by Tom Hogue) Copyright …
March 17 (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund has raised concerns that Ukraine may be unable to tap its $8.1 billion aid as the country’s lawmakers stall on measures needed to release the financing, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday citing an IMF representative. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. (Reporting by Mihika Sharma in …
WASHINGTON (AP) — An advocacy group hoping to expand support for child and elder care plans to spend $50 million to back Democrats in congressional races, tying the costs of caregiving to the nation’s affordability debate. The Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, created a decade ago, aims to make caregiver issues more salient in …
ATLANTA (AP) — Hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed Tuesday, one day after powerful storms swept across the eastern half of the country and upended air travel in a cross-section of cities. Travelers have been facing additional jams at airport security checkpoints as a partial government shutdown strains screener staffing. The disruptions come at …
MANILA, March 16 (Reuters) – The Philippines said on Monday it rejected Beijing’s assertion of sovereignty over the entire South China Sea, disputing a claim by China’s embassy that a Filipino diplomat had once conceded the disputed Scarborough Shoal was not part of Philippine territory. “China must be reminded that maritime and territorial claims are …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Should Sen. Markwayne Mullin be approved as the next secretary of Homeland Security, he will walk into the department’s sprawling Washington, D.C., campus with his work cut out for him. Immigration enforcement is at a crossroads. Disaster-hit states and their lawmakers are angry at delayed federal assistance. Frustrated travelers face long airport …
The Suspicious Death of Megan Parra – CBS News Watch CBS News When a mother of two is found dead in her home, her father obtains death scene photos that help solve the case. “48 Hours” contributor David Begnaud reports.
SYDNEY, March 17 (Reuters) – The family of a man accused of killing 15 people at a Jewish festival on Sydney’s Bondi Beach last year fear for their safety after a spate of alleged vigilante attacks, a court heard on Tuesday. Naveed Akram, 24, is accused of opening fire on a Hanukkah celebration on December 14 …
A drone attack in the United Arab Emirates sparked a fire at an oil tank farm Tuesday in Fujairah, an emirate on the country’s east coast with the Gulf of Oman that has been repeatedly targeted, the state-run WAM news agency reported. It said no one had been injured in the blast. This came after …
The idea sounds outlandish, if not downright impossible. A few coming up are as big as they get: this summer’s World Cup; the LA Olympics in 2028; the Winter Games in Utah in 2034. This is not a fight of Trump’s choosing, but rather one being pursued by WADA itself, which has been the subject …