CAIRO (Reuters) - Local ceasefire monitors arrived at three Yemeni provinces on Wednesday to consolidate a shaky truce, residents and officials said, ahead of U.N.-sponsored peace talks scheduled to start in Kuwait next week.
LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) - A record number of rigs are drilling for oil and gas on the Arabian peninsula even as drilling in the rest of the world tumbles in response to low prices.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Athletes who tested positive for meldonium before March 1 could have their bans overturned less than four months before the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after WADA said it was unable to establish how quickly the drug, outlawed since Jan. 1, cleared the system.
TORONTO, April 13 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index rose on Wednesday to a near four-week high, led by financial and industrial stocks as surprisingly upbeat trade data from China supported sentiment.
The singer, movie star, American Idol judge, and mother of two is unstoppable. See Jennifer Lopez's W Magazine May 2016 cover story here.
PRAGUE, April 13 (Reuters) - Private equity investor Arca Capital, a minority shareholder in Czech coal miner New World Resources (NWR), said on Wednesday it had offered to buy NWR's main operating unit OKD.
PRAGUE, April 13 (Reuters) - Private equity investor Arca Capital, a minority shareholder in Czech coal miner New World Resources (NWR), said on Wednesday it had offered to buy NWR's main operating unit OKD.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mental illnesses are the world's leading cause of disability affecting millions and, even during a humanitarian crisis, treating them is not an optional luxury, experts said before a World Bank/World Health Organization meeting on the issue in Washington this week.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mental illnesses are the world's leading cause of disability affecting millions and, even during a humanitarian crisis, treating them is not an optional luxury, experts said before a World Bank/World Health Organization meeting on the issue in Washington this week.
Two of this generation’s greatest rappers, incidentally, Twitter enemies, dominated the Paradise International Music Festival held
Jones, Isabela – After being taken hostage together with dozens of his supporters, the vice mayor of this town has reportedly been killed by armed men believed to be New People’s Army (NPA) rebels. Jones, Isabela Chief Insp. Noel Patalittan, chief of the Jones police office, confirmed late yesterday afternoon that Vice Mayor Ronolda Lucas has already been killed by her captors. There was no word on the fate of the Lucas’ bodyguards who were abducted with her. It was earlier reported that Lucas and... Читать дальше...
Megaworld Corporation took home its first-ever Best Developer award as well as three more awards and 13 Highly Commended honors
P/$ rate closes at P46.085/$1 The peso exchange rate closed lower at P46.085 to the US dollar yesterday at the Philippine Dealing & Exchange Corp. (PDEx) from P46.015 the previous day. The weighted average rate appreciated to P45.983 from P46.071. The total volume amounted to $723.5 million.
Norzagaray, Bulacan – The level of water at Angat Dam, which supplies 90 percent of raw water requirements for Metro Manila and irrigates 28,000 hectares of farmland in Bulacan and Pampanga, has reached near critical level, according to the Bulacan Provincial Disaster Risk Reducation and Management Office (PDRRMO). According to Bulacan PDRRMO official Liz Mungcal, the water level at the water reservoir was measured Tuesday at 8 a.m. at 196.71 meters, which is way below the normal level of 212 meters. Читать дальше...
Baguio City – The proposed Automated Guideway Transit (AGT) system or monorail project in Baguio City and La Trinidad, Benguet is nearing realization after the Regional Development Council-Cordillera (RDC-CAR) approved a resolution creating the ad hoc committee for the conduct of a full-blown feasibility study for the P7- billion environment-friendly transport system. Baguio City (Photo courtesy of Google Maps) The AGT developed by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), will connect Benguet’s... Читать дальше...
Gerona, Tarlac — The long running struggle of a transport group against colorum vehicles shifted to higher gear with calls for the cancellation of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) memorandum that increased the penalty to P200,000, for being inconsistent with an existing national law. LTO logo (File) Tarlac City-Moncada-Gerona-PaniquiTransport Services Cooperative, Inc. (TAMOGEPA) in a position paper titled “Pananaw at Kahilingan” said DOTC Memorandum issued on June 19, 2014... Читать дальше...
Sustainability. This is a term that we’ve constantly heard over the past few years. Each one of us has contributed to sustainability in
San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte — The “no collection, no segregation waste management policy” started in 2011 and has earned for this town the tag of being the cleanest, safest and greenest town in the province and the region under the first to third class town category. The program requires residents and business establishments to segregate their wastes in three kinds – biodegradable (nabubulok); non-biodegradable (hindi nabubulok) and recyclable before the collection schedule. Garbage collectors go around... Читать дальше...
BUDAPEST, April 13 (Reuters) - Most of Hungary's biggest banks expect to turn a profit this year, the first time the majority will be in the black since Prime Minister Viktor Orban's right wing government took power six years ago, according to a Reuters survey.
MOSCOW, April 13 (Reuters) - Athletes who tested positive for meldonium before March 1 could have their bans overturned less than four months before the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after WADA said it was unable to establish how quickly the drug, outlawed since Jan. 1, cleared the system.
Pope Francis is calling on Catholics to pray for migrants as he tells them of his upcoming trip to the Greek island of Lesbos. Rough Cut - Subtitled (no reporter narration).
Chefs have tried to shame Yelp users by posting their pictures on Instagram, humiliate them by mockingly reading their reviews on YouTube and stop them by suing the online opinion site. But you sometimes get the sense that what they’d really like to do is Yelp about the Yelpers, who have a wretched reputation in the restaurant industry:
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian junior health minister has been put under investigation in a widening influence-peddling scandal that has prompted the resignation of the industry minister and is embarrassing Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European politicians advised on Wednesday that the herbicide glyphosate should only be approved for another seven years, rather than the 15 proposed by the EU executive, and should not be used by the general public.
