Europe migrant crisis predictable: Putin
AFP, Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called Europe’s migrant crisis a predictable result of its policies in the Middle East and said he had personally warned of the consequences. “I consider that this crisis was absolutely expected,” Putin said in comments broadcast on national television.
World’s shortest man dies aged 75
AFP, London
The world’s shortest man, as verified by the Guinness Book of Records, has died of an undisclosed illness in American Samoa, a hospital spokeswoman said on Friday.
Nepal’s Chandra Bahadur Dangi, who was 21.5 inches tall (54.6 cm), died late on Thursday at the Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center in Pago Pago.
The 75-year-old lived in a remote village around 400 kilometres (248 miles) from Kathmandu but travelled the world after he was officially declared the world’s smallest man, posing for a photograph with world’s tallest man Sultan Kosen in 2013.
Frustration growing at UN climate talks
Reuters, Bonn
The “snail’s pace” of progress on an accord to combat climate change caused widening unease at UN negotiations on Friday, with time fast running out before a Paris summit at which a global agreement is due to be reached.
The United Nations said the talks were still on track for that meeting in December following a week of discussions in Bonn to clarify options about everything from cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to ways to raise aid to poor nations.
Morocco’s ruling Islamists trailing in local polls
AFP, Rabat
Morocco’s ruling Islamists were on course Saturday to finish second behind the liberal opposition in local polls seen as a gauge of the political climate ahead of next year’s general election, partial results showed.
AFP, Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday called Europe’s migrant crisis a predictable result of its policies in the Middle East and said he had personally warned of the consequences. “I consider that this crisis was absolutely expected,” Putin said in comments broadcast on national television.
World’s shortest man dies aged 75
AFP, London
The world’s shortest man, as verified by the Guinness Book of Records, has died of an undisclosed illness in American Samoa, a hospital spokeswoman said on Friday.
Nepal’s Chandra Bahadur Dangi, who was 21.5 inches tall (54.6 cm), died late on Thursday at the Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center in Pago Pago.
The 75-year-old lived in a remote village around 400 kilometres (248 miles) from Kathmandu but travelled the world after he was officially declared the world’s smallest man, posing for a photograph with world’s tallest man Sultan Kosen in 2013.
Frustration growing at UN climate talks
Reuters, Bonn
The “snail’s pace” of progress on an accord to combat climate change caused widening unease at UN negotiations on Friday, with time fast running out before a Paris summit at which a global agreement is due to be reached.
The United Nations said the talks were still on track for that meeting in December following a week of discussions in Bonn to clarify options about everything from cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to ways to raise aid to poor nations.
Morocco’s ruling Islamists trailing in local polls
AFP, Rabat
Morocco’s ruling Islamists were on course Saturday to finish second behind the liberal opposition in local polls seen as a gauge of the political climate ahead of next year’s general election, partial results showed.
With around 80 percent of the ballots tallied, the Party of Authenticity and Modernity (PAM), a liberal opposition party founded by a politician close to the king, was leading with 20.7 percent of the votes, the interior ministry said.
