Doctors say a worsening health crisis in East Timor is causing hundreds of preventable deaths, including those of many children. Their call for assistance coincides with the Australian Federal Government's decision to cut the aid budget to East Timor by AUD$15 million this financial year. |
JOHN Kerry and Chuck Hagel will press in talks today for more US fighter jets and bombers to be rotated through Darwin. |
Quebec cleric challenged Catholic church policies, advocated for rights of gays and women |
AUSTRALIAN MINISTER OF DEFENSE DAVID JOHNSTON: (off-mic) discussions and we've had a roundtable discussion with some strategic commentators in Australia. Can I say this is the fourth time we've met? I'm very pleased that Secretary Hagel is here in Australia. I'm delighted to welcome him. I'm hoping he's having a good time. |
Lingua spoke plaintively of the ordeals faced by an estimated 100,000 Christian refugees from northern Iraq many of whom, he said, are children to account for his view of the American campaign. “You can see these kids sleeping on the streets,” Lingua said, adding, “[there is so much] suffering. |
Reverend Dr. James David Manning has made another sensational prediction about ‘Mr. Long-Legged Mac Daddy’ The chief pastor at the All The Land Anointed Holy (ATLAH) Missionary Church has “prognosticated” that, within 100 days, Vladimir Putin or “someone from within the Russian government” will out Barack Obama as gay. |
Author(s): Dan Alexe belgaimage_61004847_preview.jpg EU ambassadors to Brussels will tomorrow, Tuesday 12 August, discuss the situation among growing outrage at the exactions committed against non-Muslim civilians by the Islamic militants. In the UK, Pressure mounts for Prime Minister David Cameron.... |
Christians from the town of Qaraqosh were fleeing today after it was taken by fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) on Wednesday night. |
Monrovia, Liberia: Riot police raced to quell a demonstration blocking Liberia’s busiest highway on Saturday as an angry crowd protested the government’s delays in collecting the bodies of Ebola victims.
In Guinea, where the deadly Ebola outbreak emerged in March, health officials announced on.... |
Mayday PAC tells TIME which three candidates it plans to support, and reveals plans to back three more |