Day: September 16, 2020

Cyprus: EU sanctions an option to halt Turkey’s gas search

8:15 pm September 16, 2020

Nicosia: The European Union shouldn’t discard imposing tougher sanctions to get Turkey to give up an “unlawful” hydrocarbons search in the eastern Mediterranean that has ratcheted up tensions, the president of Cyprus said Wednesday. President Nicos Anastasiades said the EU should weigh using “all means at our disposal” while responding to Turkey to avoid setting “a double standard” in how the 27-member bloc chooses to deal with […]

Former IAAF head Lamine Diack sentenced to 2 years in prison

8:13 pm September 16, 2020

Paris: Former track federation president Lamine Diack was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for his role in a scheme that allowed Russian athletes who paid hush money to keep competing when they should have been suspended for doping. The guilty verdict in a Paris court represented a spectacular fall from grace for the 87-year-old Diack, who was the powerful […]

Feds outline sweeping plan to provide free COVID-19 vaccine

8:06 pm September 16, 2020

Washington: The federal government outlined a sweeping plan Wednesday to make vaccines for COVID-19 available for free to all Americans, even as polls show a strong undercurrent of skepticism rippling across the land. In a report to Congress and an accompanying “playbook” for states and localities, federal health agencies and the Defense Department sketched out complex plans for a vaccination […]

PM to inaugurate Kosi rail mega bridge in Bihar on Friday

8:02 pm September 16, 2020

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation the “historic” Kosi rail mega bridge through video-conference on Friday and also inaugurate 12 rail projects related to passenger facilities in Bihar, his office said. Modi has either inaugurated or laid the foundation stone of a number of development projects in the poll-bound state in the last few days […]

Experts cite ‘crimes against humanity’ in Maduro’s Venezuela

7:59 pm September 16, 2020

Geneva: Independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body have alleged the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro committed crimes against humanity. The experts issued a scathing, in-depth report on Wednesday that said the people responsible for crimes that include extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture must be held to account, in part to ensure […]