New York plans to open 90 new shelters as city officials struggle to get a handle on homelessness, which has risen over the past few decades to its highest level in almost a century, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday. The move is intended to ease crowding in current shelters and allow the city to move away from housing people in so-called “cluster sites,” which have been criticized as expensive and unsafe.
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‘Mr. Big’ drugs dealer is jailed
Police have welcomed the jail sentence imposed on a man who is described as a major figure in illegal drugs supply in Coleraine and Ballymena. Mark Dunford , of Ballylagan Lane, Coleraine has already been behind bars for 7 months and today at Dungannon Crown Court was sentenced to an additional 4.5 years, half of which will be spent in custody and the other half on licence after admitting supplying amphetamines.
The United Kingdom Linguistics Olympiad, Christian Ilube, Hampton School
The United Kingdom Linguistics Olympiad is a competition open to school students of any age or level. The Linguistics Olympiad originally started in 1965 in Russia but since then it has spread across the World and the UK started their own Olympiad recently in 2010.
OPEC compliance with oil curbs rises to 94 pct in Feb -Reuters survey
A flag with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries logo is seen before a news conference at OPEC’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, December 10, 2016. OPEC has cut its oil output for a second month in February, a Reuters survey found on Tuesday, allowing the exporter group to boost already strong compliance with agreed supply curbs on the back of a steep reduction by Saudi Arabia.
We cannot allow America to hate again
There has been a huge wave of terror that has hit over 100 of our nation’s Jewish institutions since January. We cannot allow America to hate again There has been a huge wave of terror that has hit over 100 of our nation’s Jewish institutions since January.
Australian Authorities Nab Man For Trying To Help ISIS Develop Missile Warning Systems
Iraqi pro-government forces hold an Islamic State group flag in the al-Dhubat II neighbourhood of Fallujah as they try to clear the city of IS fighters still holed up in the former jihadi bastion on June 19, 2016. Despite facing less resistance than expected from IS in Fallujah, an emblematic jihadist stronghold, sniper fire, car bombs and booby traps remained a risk for Iraq’s forces as they try to clear central Fallujah of pockets of IS fighters.
Broadway’s Come from Away Cast, Creatives Set for Guggenheim Preview This Weekend
On Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 7:30pm, Works & Process at the Guggenheim presents a discussion with Canadian writing duo Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Tony-nominated choreographer Kelly Devine, and Tony-nominated director Christopher Ashley on the creative process behind the new musical Come From Away , which will open on Broadway on March 12. The discussion will be moderated by Michael Paulson, theatre reporter with The New York Times, and the cast will perform highlights from the show. In a heartbeat, 38 planes and 6,579 passengers were forced to land in Gander, Newfoundland, doubling the population of one small town on the edge of the world.
Colombia protests China’s execution of 72-year-old drug mule
A retired journalist who joined the criminal underworld while researching a book on South America’s drug cartels became the first Colombian, and possibly the first Latin American, to be executed in China for drug The execution Monday night of Ismael Arciniegas occurred amid a last-ditch diplomatic effort by Colombia’s government to save the 72-year-old’s life. Arciniegas was arrested in 2010 arriving by plane to the southern port city of Guangzhou trying to smuggle almost 4 kilograms of cocaine in exchange for $5,000.
Teaching German
This is the first time Birte Kosten has been in the United States. But she has plenty of other experiences from around the globe.Kosten is the new first grade teacher at West Elementary in the Dual Language Immersion program.
King Street is back open after gas leak which shut road for four days
A company working to solve a gas leak on a Plymouth Road have announced that work is now completed and the road is once again open to the public. Wales and West Utilities were repairing a network underneath King Street after the leak was discovered on Friday, February 24 and the road closed at its junction with Stoke Road and Octagon Street.
‘Will kill lawyers who defend Gujarat IS suspects’
RAJKOT: A lesser known right-wing outfit in Jamnagar has issued a brazen threat to murder lawyers and their families who defend the two arrested ISIS suspects in the court. On Tuesday, Pratik Bhatt, who calls himself the Gujarat president of Hindu Sena, issued an open threat to lawyer Imtiyaz Koreja in Jamnagar.
Civilians flee as Iraqi forces push deeper into western Mosul
Civilians continue to stream out of western Mosul as Iraqi forces press on with their assault to retake the city from Islamic State. Rough Cut ROUGH CUT Thousands of civilians, many of them wounded, fled Islamic State’s last stronghold in western Mosul on Tuesday , reaching Iraqi forces’ lines after an exhausting march through the desert.
Coroner to deliver conclusions at inquest into deaths of Tunisia attack victims
The coroner at the inquest into the deaths of 30 Britons killed by an extremist gunman in Tunisia is to deliver his conclusions. Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith is expected to reject requests that “neglect” by holiday firms and hotels contributed to their deaths, after Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire in Sousse on June 26 2015, shooting 38 people dead.
Two people killed and another two seriously injured in crash on A142 at Mepal
The collision, involving a Ford Fiesta van and a Vauxhall Meriva, happened at about 5.05pm on the A142 Iretons Way yesterday evening . The driver of the van, a man in his teens, sadly died at the scene.
UN: 8,000 flee as Iraqi forces fight IS in western Mosul
The United Nations says about 8,000 people have fled from the western part of Mosul and surrounding villages since Iraqi forces launched the push to take the western half of the city from the Islamic State group. The U.N. humanitarian aid office said on Tuesday those who fled and reached government-controlled areas south of Mosul “are often exhausted and dehydrated.”
Israeli forces begin evacuating 9 settler homes in West Bank
Israeli forces began evacuating nine homes in the West Bank settlement of Ofra on Tuesday, following a Supreme Court decision that ruled they were built on private Palestinian land. Dozens of settlers and their supporters were protesting on the rooftops as military and police forces handed the evacuation orders to settler leaders and asked them to cooperate peacefully and avoid confrontation.
Malaysia to charge two women with murder of Kim Jong Nam
Two women accused of killing the half-brother of North Korea’s leader with a nerve agent in a Kuala Lumpur airport terminal will be charged with murder on Wednesday, Malaysia’s chief prosecutor has said. Mohamed Apandi Ali said the charges against Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong would bring a mandatory death sentence if they are convicted.
Indian hometown grieves for engineer killed in Kansas bar
A family member waits for the arrival of the body of Srinivas Kuchibhotla from the US next to a garland and photograph in his residence on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. A bartender at the restaurant where a man was arrested last week for an apparently racially motivated bar shooting of two Indian men told a 911 dispatcher that the suspect admitted shooting two people, but described them as Iranian.
Indian hometown grieves for engineer killed in Kansas bar
A family member waits for the arrival of the body of Srinivas Kuchibhotla from the US next to a garland and photograph in his residence on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. A bartender at the restaurant where a man was arrested last week for an apparently racially motivated bar shooting of two Indian men told a 911 dispatcher that the suspect admitted shooting two people, but described them as Iranian.
Afghan official: Policeman turns gun on colleagues, kills 11
An Afghan policeman turned his rifle on his colleagues at a checkpoint in southern Helmand province, killing 11 of them before fleeing the scene, officials said Tuesday. The attack happened late on Monday night in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, said Omer Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor.
Afghan official: Policeman turns gun on colleagues, kills 11
An Afghan policeman turned his rifle on his colleagues at a checkpoint in southern Helmand province, killing 11 of them before fleeing the scene, officials said Tuesday. The attack happened late on Monday night in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, said Omer Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor.
CAMPAIGN: Coaches will set off from Worcestershire this Saturday for a major NHS rally.
ANGRY NHS campaigners from Redditch have helped to fill four coaches to take to a national demonstration on Saturday, fighting against cuts to services. Residents will join hundreds of people and head for London on March 4 to draw attention to the health service crisis in Worcestershire which has afflicted A&E and left community hospital beds under threat.
CAMPAIGN: Coaches will set off from Worcestershire this Saturday for a major NHS rally.
ANGRY NHS campaigners from Redditch have helped to fill four coaches to take to a national demonstration on Saturday, fighting against cuts to services. Residents will join hundreds of people and head for London on March 4 to draw attention to the health service crisis in Worcestershire which has afflicted A&E and left community hospital beds under threat.
Five stories in the news today, Feb. 28
Kevin O’Leary’s boycott of tonight’s Conservative party leadership debate has his competitors crying foul. O’Leary says having all 14 candidates on stage together to answer the same questions – as is planned for the Edmonton event – is unproductive.
Five stories in the news today, Feb. 28
Kevin O’Leary’s boycott of tonight’s Conservative party leadership debate has his competitors crying foul. O’Leary says having all 14 candidates on stage together to answer the same questions – as is planned for the Edmonton event – is unproductive.
NKorea official in Beijing after China’s ban on coal imports
A senior North Korean diplomat arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for talks following China’s ban on coal imports from its neighbor and the killing of the exiled half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Vice Foreign Minister Ri Kil Song will hold talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on “issues of common concern,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a daily news briefing.
NKorea official in Beijing after China’s ban on coal imports
A senior North Korean diplomat arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for talks following China’s ban on coal imports from its neighbor and the killing of the exiled half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Vice Foreign Minister Ri Kil Song will hold talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on “issues of common concern,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a daily news briefing.
Kunio Hoshi, 65, was gunned down in October 2015 by masked men on a motorcycle.
Dhaka: Bangladesh court handed down the death sentence on Tuesday for five militants found guilty of killing a Japanese citizen, court officials said. Kunio Hoshi, 65, was gunned down in October 2015 by masked men on a motorcycle on his way to visit a grass farm project in the northern district of Rangpur.
N. Korean diplomats in Malaysia to seek Kim’s brother’s body
Ri Tong Il, former North Korean deputy ambassador to the United Nations, speaks to reporters outside the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. Ri told reporters Tuesday that North Korea has sent a high-level delegation to Malaysia to seek the return of the body of leader’s Kim Jong Un’s slain half brother and the release of a North Korean arrested in the case.
Kunio Hoshi, 65, was gunned down in October 2015 by masked men on a motorcycle.
Dhaka: Bangladesh court handed down the death sentence on Tuesday for five militants found guilty of killing a Japanese citizen, court officials said. Kunio Hoshi, 65, was gunned down in October 2015 by masked men on a motorcycle on his way to visit a grass farm project in the northern district of Rangpur.
Billed as a “mega trip”, it would be a Saudi king’s first visit to Indonesia in nearly five decades.
University Malaya Vice Chancellor Sultan nazrin Muizzuddin Shah, right, presents the honourary degree of Doctor of Letters to Saudi Arabia’s King Sultan Salman bin Abdulaziz, left, at the University Malaya in Kuala Lumpur on February 27, 2017. Photo – AFP University Malaya Vice Chancellor Sultan nazrin Muizzuddin Shah, right, presents the honourary degree of Doctor of Letters to Saudi Arabia’s King Sultan Salman bin Abdulaziz, left, at the University Malaya in Kuala Lumpur on February 27, 2017.
A contagious common cold is spreading across Oman.
Muscat: A contagious common cold is spreading across Oman, doctors said on Tuesday. Dr Pradeep Maheshwari, specialist of internal medicine at the Atlas Hospital, Ruwi, said patients suffering from cough, cold and fever are crowding the hospital.
A contagious common cold is spreading across Oman.
Muscat: A contagious common cold is spreading across Oman, doctors said on Tuesday. Dr Pradeep Maheshwari, specialist of internal medicine at the Atlas Hospital, Ruwi, said patients suffering from cough, cold and fever are crowding the hospital.
Suspected jihadists attack northern Burkina Faso towns
Authorities in Burkina Faso say suspected jihadists have attacked two communities in the north while an international film festival takes place in the capital. The Monday night attacks in Baraboule and Tongomayel are the latest violence to hit this once peaceful landlocked West African nation.
Saudi Arabia wants oil prices to rise to around $60 in 2017
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Russia and other producers pledged last year to cut production by about 1.8 million barrels per day from January 1. – Times file picture The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Russia and other producers pledged last year to cut production by about 1.8 million barrels per day from January 1. – Times file picture Dubai/London: Saudi Arabia wants crude oil prices to rise to around $60 a barrel this year, five sources from Opec countries and the oil industry said.
FX to follow ‘Bette and Joan’ with ‘Feud: Charles and Diana’
This 1991 file photo shows Prince Charles with his wife Princess Diana. FX has announced a 10-episode series that will spotlight the doomed royal couple Charles and Diana.
Indonesians shocked by Trump, but still admire US values
Indonesians are by turns shocked and bemused b… . In this Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, photo, Maria Kartika Sari, a freelance tour guide, poses for a photo during an interview with The Associated Press in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Mass. ranked top state, but New Yorkers not impressed
The New England Patriots aren’t the only big winners in Massachusetts – the state is also No. 1 in the country, according to a new ranking by U.S. News & World Report.
Starbucks CEO says chain ready to enter Italy after 35 years
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s vision for the chain was largely inspired by the coffee bars he saw on his first trip to Milan more than three decades ago. But it took the company growing to about 26,000 stores in 75 countries in win the credibility he felt necessary to make the leap into the country that gave the world espresso.
Russia pledges to veto UN sanctions resolution on Syria
Russia pledged to veto a Western-backed U.N. resolution Tuesday that would impose sanctions on 21 Syrian individuals, organizations and companies allegedly involved in chemical weapons attacks in the war-ravaged country. The draft Security Council resolution would also ban all countries from supplying Syria’s government with helicopters, which investigators have determined were used in chemical attacks.