Angola negotiates fishing project in Italy

Angola’s Secretary of State for Fisheries, Antonia Nelumba, is leading the delegation, which will negotiate forms of financing the USD11 million of the project’s budget with IFAD. The program will be

EU supports 16 development projects in Guinea-Bissau

The European Union (EU) has allocated 7 million euros to 16 projects in Guinea-Bissau within the framework of “European aid” to support cooperation and development, the EU delegation in the

Happy New Year: Astrological signs bad for the Sheep Year 

  Chinese were seeing in the Year of the Sheep on Thursday, but with fortune-tellers predicting accidents and an unstable economy and some parents-to-be fretting over the year’s reputation for docile

Beijing protests to India over Modi’s visit to disputed area

China summoned India’s ambassador over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to a disputed border region in the Himalayas, a long-festering irritant in relations between the Asian giants. Modi on Friday visited

Nursing home worker kills 3, injures 15 with brick

A nursing home worker in central China accused of killing three elderly residents with a brick and injuring 15 other people had argued with his boss over unpaid wages, according

Hong Kong | Woolly mammoths invading the city

In the Sheung Wan district of Hong Kong, just across the street from a popular department store, Ming Hing Arts has a newly opened shop selling chopsticks, bracelets, Buddha statues,

Bangladesh | Ferry with 140 passengers sinks; at least 48 dead

A river ferry carrying about 140 passengers capsized in central Bangladesh yesterday, killing at least 48 people, officials said. A rescue operation was underway, but it was not clear exactly how many

Singapore | City’s founder hospitalized with pneumonia

Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding father, has been hospitalized for severe pneumonia, the Prime Minister’s Office said. Lee, 91, was admitted to Singapore General Hospital on Feb. 5, the office said in a statement Saturday.

India | Head of UN climate panel skips meeting amid harassment case

The Indian leader of the U.N.’s expert panel on climate change has pulled out of a key meeting in Nairobi while pledging to cooperate with New Delhi police investigating allegations

Maldives | Authorities arrest ex-president for his move against judge

Maldives authorities arrested former President and current opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed yesterday, ordering him to stand trial for his 2012 decision to arrest a senior judge. Nasheed’s supporters protested in the

Afghanistan | Dialogue with Taliban could begin in March

After more than a decade of warfare, negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban are set to begin, officials, diplomats and experts said as President Ashraf Ghani declared that

Turkey | Military enters Syria to evacuate troops, tomb

  Turkish soldiers launched an overnight raid into neighboring Syria, evacuating dozens of besieged troops guarding an Ottoman tomb and moving the crypt yesterday back to Turkey after ceremonially planting the country’s crescent-and-star

Ukraine | Blast hits march in Kharkiv, killing 2, injuring 8

Two people were killed and about eight others injured in a bomb explosion at a march yesterday in Ukraine’s second-largest city that was commemorating the first anniversary of the ouster of president

This Day in History: 1972 Hijackers surrender and free Lufthansa crew

A group of Palestinian hijackers who took over a Lufthansa jet in the skies over India two days ago has released the crew and surrendered at an airstrip in the

Offbeat | Rudy Giuliani backs off assertion that Obama doesn’t love America

It may be as close as Rudy Giuliani will come to a retraction.  The former New York City Mayor called into Bloomberg Politics’ With All Due Respect on Thursday to

Nascar suspends Kurt Busch, disqualifying him from Daytona

Nascar suspended Kurt Busch indefinitely following a Delaware judge’s finding that he had “committed an act of domestic violence,” and Chevrolet responded by suspending its relationship with the driver. The suspension

Ethiopians seal Tokyo Marathon double

Endeshaw Negesse and Birhane Dibaba claimed a double win for Ethiopia at the Tokyo Marathon yesterday amid tight security in Japan’s capital. Negesse won the men’s race in 2 hours

Boxing | It’s on: Mayweather says he and Pacquiao to fight May 2

  The Fight is finally on. Floyd Mayweather Jr. will meet Manny Pacquiao on May 2 in a welterweight showdown that will be boxing’s richest fight ever. Mayweather himself announced the

Afghanistan does itself proud at the Cricket World Cup

All sentiment aside, Afghanistan’s cricketers showed Sunday why they belong at the World Cup. The Afghanis, making their first appearance at the tournament, came into the event with plenty of

Rear Window : There is always room for one more

The theory in use must be the one about the hypothetical ever-accommodating can of sardines: you squeeze a little and there you go… one more added to the dead school.

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