July2017
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Rooney at Everton for transfer talks
Jul 8, 2017News Hour: Manchester United’s former England captain Wayne Rooney has pictured at Everton’s training ground on Saturday ahead of a proposed transfer back to the boyhood favorites he first joined aged nine. Sky Sports News reported... -
William Lacy Swing accepts Jacques Diouf Award for global food security
Jul 8, 2017News Hour: William Lacy Swing, the Director General of IOM, the UN Migration Agency, accepted the Jacques Diouf Award on behalf of the Organization. The Award was jointly granted to IOM and the Rabobank Foundation. The... -
ADB, FSM, RMI Sign Grant Agreements to Improve Education Quality
Jul 8, 2017News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Government of the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) have signed 3 grant agreements worth $16.8 million to improve... -
Aztec golden wolf sacrifice yields rich trove in Mexico City
Jul 8, 2017News Hour: A sacrificial wolf elaborately adorned with some of the finest Aztec gold ever found and buried more than five centuries ago has come to light in the heart of downtown Mexico City, once home to... -
Brussels celebrates annual Ommegang festival
Jul 8, 2017News Hour: Revelers wearing Renaissance helmets, feathers and striped pantaloons paraded through Brussels on Friday in a tradition stretching back five centuries to the zenith of the city’s cultural and political power. The annual Ommegang festival... -
Japanese restaurant in New York limits waste
Jul 8, 2017News Hour: Chef Yuji Haraguchi serves and stands by “Mottainai” – the Japanese concept of avoiding waste – and makes it known at his restaurant in New York by throwing away as little as possible. Haraguchi,... -
Swiss museum readies for Nazi-era art trove show, seeks works’ heirs
Jul 8, 2017News Hour: A Swiss museum director preparing for a Nazi-era art collection’s long-awaited public unveiling later this year said Friday that her goal remains finding heirs to any works that may have been looted from Jewish... -
Assam flood situation worsens
Jul 8, 2017News Hour: The flood situation in Assam of northeast India slowly worsens as more places got inundated and increase the tally of casualty to 24 till Friday. Brahmaputra and Barak along with their tributaries are flowing... -
Ervine blitz helps Zimbabwe draw level in ODI series
Jul 8, 2017News Hour: Batsman Craig Ervine hit a quickfire 69 to help Zimbabwe pull off a four-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the rain-shortened fourth one-day international and level the five-match series at 2-2 in Hambantota on... -
Islamic State vows ‘fight until death’
Jul 8, 2017News Hour: Islamic State militants vowed to “fight to the death” in Mosul on Saturday as Iraqi military commanders said they would take full control of the city from the insurgents at any moment. Dozens of...
