In the wake of the test on Wednesday, the two Koreas have settled into the kind of Cold War-era standoff that has defined their relationship over the past seven decades.
By executing a senior Shiite cleric, Saudi Arabia effectively lit a match to set off regional sectarian tensions and its rivalry with Iran, threatening to derail already-shaky peace efforts over the wars in Syria and Yemen.
The "Paris agreement" aims to keep global temperatures from rising another degree Celsius between now and 2100, a key demand of poor countries ravaged by rising sea levels and other effects of climate change.
Last Tuesday night, Air France Flight 55 from Dulles International Airport outside Washington was diverted to Halifax after an anonymous bomb threat was phoned in after the plane had taken off.
Prime Minister Charles Michael, speaking at a news conference after the emergency government meeting, said "We urge the public not to give in to panic, to stay calm. We have taken the measures that are necessary."
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer says Air France Flight 65, an Airbus A-380, landed safely in Salt Lake City on Tuesday night and the passengers were getting off and being bused to a terminal.
There was a moment — just a moment — when the concert hall was eerily quiet. The rock band had stopped playing, and people had dived to the floor after realizing the sudden explosions hadn’t been part of the show. Everything was silent. Then the attackers started again, strafing the crowd with automatic gunfire. There […]
"If the euro exists, we owe that to Helmut Schmidt," said French President Francois Hollande, adding that "it's a great European whose life has just ended.
The military, which took power in a 1962 coup and brutally suppressed several pro-democracy uprisings during its rule, gave way to a nominally civilian elected government in 2011 -- with strings attached.
The NLD is widely expected to finish with the most seats in Parliament. A two-thirds majority would give it control over the executive posts under Myanmar's complicated parliamentary-presidency system.
The pope underlined that the leaked documents were the result of the reform course that he began and that measures had already been taken to address problems, "with some visible results."
Sunday's vote was billed as the freest ever in this Southeast Asian nation, which was under military rule for almost a half-century and a quasi-civilian government for the last five.
