Day: December 31, 2016

Sri Muda Umno members leave for Pribumi

SHAH ALAM: Some 200 former Umno members from Sri Muda are claimed to have left their party for Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Pribumi supreme council member Abu Bakar Yahya said that he had received more than 200 applications to join the party from various Umno divisions in Taman Sri Muda.

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Scores of people died and the Rwenzururu king, Charles Wesley Mumbere and over 160 of his subjects arrested in the incident. Joint prayers for the families of the people killed and arrested in the November bloody clashes in Kasese district were held in Kasese town.

Fake celeb encounter top fake news for Medicine Hat

Way back when, this column challenged readers to get Medicine Hat on the map in 2016, nudging eyeballs toward application and nomination forms for halls of fame, committees and other enterprises of renown. The most notable, but absolutely unconfirmed mention of the Hat comes via a series of Facebook posts that portend that actor Hugh Jackman got a flat outside town.

UNSC Resolution 2334 Takes Israel’s Shackles Off

At first, the resolution knocked the wind out of Israel and the Jewish nation, worldwide, as well as those who support the Jewish state and the Jewish nation. The gathering storm has not moved on and is not totally over; there are 22 more days for Obama’s disastrous reign during which, after he stabbed Israel in her back he may go for the jugular and declare a “Palestine” state, a member of the putrid United Nations Organization .

Pacific islands first to welcome in new year

Islands in Polynesia and the Central Pacific have ushered in the new year as the UK counts down to the start of 2017. Cities in the island nations of Samoa, Tonga and Kiribati were the first to welcome the new year as the clock hit 10am on New Year’s Eve in London.

Here are the best and worst investments from 2016

With the S&P/TSX composite index up roughly 18 per cent, the S&P/TSX venture up 44 per cent and the major U.S. indices all hitting record highs, you had to have a really good year in 2016 to stand out from the pack. And, from the Russian ruble to the mighty marijuana plant, there were plenty of assets that did just that.

Turning Iraq history to rubble, leaving the mess to looters

Iraq archaeologist Layla Salih, left, confers with UNESCO’s representative in Iraq Louse Haxthausen, right, at the ancient site of Nimrud, Iraq, in this Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016 photo. Days after Iraqi forces drove the Islamic State group from Nimrud in November, Salih arrived to survey the damage they wreaked on the nearly 3,000-year-old site.

Agatha Christie had little-known role in ancient Nimrud

This 1949 photo taken by British mystery author Agatha Christie shows a statue of a lamassu, a winged bull from Assyrian mythology who guarded the royal court from evil, at the ancient site of Nimrud, near modern day Mosul, Iraq. Christie had a little-known link to Nimrud: She accompanied her husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan, as he excavated the onetime capital of the Assyrian Empire, and she assisted by piecing together some artifacts and chronicling the dig in photos and film.

Bravo, you saved $4: Why your New Year’s Eve fill-up to avoid…

While the rest of Canada was quietly stocking up on champagne and sparklers for the New Year’s countdown, in Alberta and Ontario there were long lineups as drivers queued for one last fill-up before 2017. The reason? New climate change legislation that, once in force on January 1, would jack up fuel prices by about five cents per litre.