Tag: united
-
Berlusconi has heart check-up in U.S., misses trial hearing: lawyers
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has flown to the United States for tests on his heart condition, meaning he could not attend the start of a new trial on Monday tied to his “bunga bunga” parties, his lawyers said. The lawyers said Berlusconi had checked into the Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center in New…
-
Berlusconi has heart check-up in U.S., misses trial hearing: lawyers
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has flown to the United States for tests on his heart condition, meaning he could not attend the start of a new trial on Monday tied to his “bunga bunga” parties, his lawyers said. The lawyers said Berlusconi had checked into the Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center in New…
-
Jewel thieves put gun to Kim Kardashian’s head, tie her up in Paris bathroom
By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) – Masked men put a gun to reality TV star Kim Kardashian's temple, left her tied up in the bathroom of her luxury residence in Paris and stole millions of dollars' worth of jewelry in the early hours of Monday, police and her publicist said. Kardashian, wife of rapper Kanye…
-
Jewel thieves put gun to Kim Kardashian’s head, tie her up in Paris bathroom
By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) – Masked men put a gun to reality TV star Kim Kardashian's temple, left her tied up in the bathroom of her luxury residence in Paris and stole millions of dollars' worth of jewelry in the early hours of Monday, police and her publicist said. Kardashian, wife of rapper Kanye…
-
Greek police fire teargas at pensioners during Athens protest
Greek police on Monday fired teargas to control a demonstration of pensioners protesting over cutbacks to their benefits, part of an austerity drive dictated by international lenders. About 1,500 pensioners attempted to march to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s office. Riot police blocked their path.
-
World leaders must show us the money to hit goals on poverty, inequality: U.N. adviser
By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – World leaders need to ramp up investment to achieve a set of global goals agreed a year ago to combat poverty, inequality, and make the world a safer place by 2030, according to a key adviser on the United Nation’s blueprint for the future. Jeffrey Sachs, a…
-
World leaders must show us the money to hit goals on poverty, inequality: U.N. adviser
By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – World leaders need to ramp up investment to achieve a set of global goals agreed a year ago to combat poverty, inequality, and make the world a safer place by 2030, according to a key adviser on the United Nation’s blueprint for the future. Jeffrey Sachs, a…
-
How have the U.N.’s global goals fared one year on?
By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – World leaders one year ago agreed on an ambitious set of global goals designed to tackle the world’s most troubling problems such as extreme poverty and inequality by 2030 at the United Nations. Described as a blueprint for the future, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…
-
How have the U.N.’s global goals fared one year on?
By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – World leaders one year ago agreed on an ambitious set of global goals designed to tackle the world’s most troubling problems such as extreme poverty and inequality by 2030 at the United Nations. Described as a blueprint for the future, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)…
-
Tribal leaders meet with feds in push against opioid abuse
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — American Indian tribal leaders from northern New Mexico — an area of the country devastated by heroin and opioid addiction — met with the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday over ways to combat opioid abuse amid high overdose deaths among Native Americans.