A Broadway Musical Brings Out Canadian Soft Power
The timing was rich: As Ms. Trump, joined by Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, and Mr. Trudeau, accompanied by his wife, Sophie, watched an artistic tribute to the virtues of embracing foreigners, President Trump was proposing to eliminate federal funding of the arts and to ban travel from parts of the Muslim world. Photo Ivanka Trump, center, arriving to the show. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times Although the musical has been in dev..>> view originalSchool shooting, letter bomb at IMF put France on alert
PARIS — A heavily armed student opened fire and wounded four people Thursday at a high school in the southern French city of Grasse, officials said. Six others were slightly injured in the clamor to escape the school building, officials said. The student, whose identity was not released, was subsequently arrested, a spokesman for France’s National Police confirmed to The Washington Post. An Interior Ministry spokesman, speaking on French television, said the suspect is a 17-year-old male stud..>> view originalMissiles fired from Syria at Israeli jets after airstrikes
By Ian Deitch | AP By Ian Deitch | AP March 17 at 3:40 AM JERUSALEM — Anti-aircraft missiles were launched from Syria into Israeli-controlled territory early on Friday, following a series of Israeli airstrikes inside Syria, the Israeli military said. The military said its warplanes struck several targets in Syria and were back in Israeli-controlled airspace when several anti-aircraft missiles were launched from Syria toward the Israeli jets. Israeli aerial defense systems intercepted one o..>> view originalTrump's aggressive North Korea stance may face backlash in Seoul, Beijing
But that may be problematic for Sino-U.S. ties, which are already strained from Trump's trade and currency rhetoric. Beijing is a traditional ally of Pyongyang and several Chinese firms regularly buy goods from North Korea — a matter that's long been a concern for Washington. In December, Obama's administration sanctioned Dandong Hongxiang Industrial Development for using front companies to avoid sanctions. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang has previously stated that while Beijing ..>> view originalSierra Leone pastor finds huge diamond in Kono
Image copyright Olivia Acland Image caption Artisanal, or freelance, miners are a common sight in Sierra Leone's diamond-rich Kono district A Christian pastor has discovered one of the world's largest uncut diamonds in Sierra Leone's Kono district.The diamond, weighing 709 carats, is now locked up in Sierra Leone's central bank in Freetown. It is one of the 20 largest diamonds ever found.Freelance, or artisanal, miners are common in Sierra Leone's di..>> view originalSean Spicer's angry, lonely defense of Trump's wiretapping claim, annotated
White House press secretary Sean Spicer on March 16 said President Trump "stands by" allegations he made that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap on him in 2016. Trump has provided no evidence for the claims. (Reuters) Things got very contentious in the White House briefing room Thursday afternoon, as press secretary Sean Spicer was confronted with the bipartisan doubts of congressional leaders about Trump's claims that President Barack Obama wiretapped him. At one point, Spicer spe..>> view originalUS Denies Striking Syrian Mosque After Dozens Reported Killed
U.S. forces struck an al Qaeda meeting in Syria, killing several suspected terrorists, and are investigating reports that civilians were killed or injured in a nearby mosque, military officials told NBC News on Thursday night. The officials made the comments after the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a nonpartisan group based in Britain that catalogs military actions in Syria, said at least 42 people were killed in an airstrike on a mosque in the rebel-held village of al-Jinnah in Idlib ..>> view originalLetter Bomb Injures Worker at International Monetary Fund Office in Paris
The explosion wounded the secretary, who suffered injuries to the face and eardrums, but two other people who were nearby were not hurt, Mr. Cadot said. The parcel, he said, contained what appeared to be a handmade “pyrotechnical device,” or a “big firecracker” that caused only limited damage. A spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office said it was opening an investigation into the attack, specifically into attempted murder in relation to a terrorist undertaking, terrorist conspiracy and de..>> view originalBBC crew makes dramatic escape as Mount Etna volcano erupts
Surrounded by steam and with boiling hot rocks pelting down on them, the group sprinted to a nearby rescue vehicle that took them to safety. Ten people were injured, but none seriously, Italian news agency Ansa reports.The volcano, on the island of Sicily, has been particularly unsettled in recent weeks and the group had made the ascent to take a closer look at the ongoing volcanic activity. Rebecca Morelle, the BBC's global science correspondent, described the group's rapid descent."Running dow..>> view original
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