Frost had been giving a speech aboard cruise ship the Queen Elizabeth on Saturday night when he fell ill |
|
World news - world. Syria hails 'historic American retreat' as Obama hesitates BEIRUT/WASHINGTON Sep 1, 2013 (Reuters) - Syria hailed an "historic American retreat" on Sunday, mockingly accusing President Barack Obama of hesitation and confusion after he delayed a military strike to consult Congress. |
As Obama stepped back from the brink, France said it could not act alone in punishing President Bashar al-Assad over a chemical weapons attack, making it the last remaining top Western ally to hesitate about bombing Syria. "Obama announced yesterday, directly or through implication, the beginning of.... |
ALTHOUGH STYMIED by the straitjacket of the laws of libel and slander, talk radio can still proudly celebrate 40 years of its contribution to the form of democracy we practise in Barbados. Today’s reflections are flawed figments of the memory of an observer of the growth of what the late Desmond.... |
Recipients of this year’s national awards expressed surprise yesterday at having been chosen to receive the awards and credited the people they have worked with for the recognition that they have been chosen to receive. |
Pope Francis appointed on Saturday Archbishop Pietro Parolin as the Vatican's new secretary of state.
Archbishop Pietro Parolin arrives at Hanoi's museum of ethnology on February 19, 2009. Pope Francis appointed Parolin the Vatican's Secretary of State on August 30, 2013. |
By Banji Ojewale. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor polite, not popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right” Martin Luther King Jr (1929 1968) If it is supposedly presumptuous for puny man to attempt to trap in a short newspaper.... |
Archbishop Pietro Parolin, a 58-year-old Italian and currently the Vatican's ambassador in Venezuela, will become the Holy See's Secretary of State.The appointment marks the start of an overhaul of the Vatican government in the wake of the ethical and financial scandals that surrounded the previous Pope, Benedict XVI. |
Pope Francis has named a new "deputy" in his most significant appointment to date, the Vatican announced yesterday. |
When a major political party decides to hold its leadership election in public, we should hear something of substance from the candidates. They are, after all, competing for the votes of party members, a more sympathetic electorate... |
Environmental protesters greeting Prime Minister Jack Marshall on a visit to Te Anau in 1972. They didn't want the lake level raised as part of a hydro-electricity project. ODTJohn Hanlon now, left, and at the height of his success.His... |
|
|
|
|
Page 9750 of 10021 |