LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27(NsNewsWire) — “Moonlight” received an unexpected surprise by winning the Best Picture of the 89th Academy Awards here on Sunday, after “La La Land” had been presented the award in error. The award presenters, Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, first presented “La La Land” as the winner, but later realized they had […]

PARIS, Feb. 26 (NsNewsWire) — In response to unfavorable comments over Paris, French President Francois Hollande on Saturday warned his American counterpart Donald Trump over showing “defiance towards an allied country.” “There is terrorism and we must fight it together. I think that it is never good to show the smallest defiance toward an allied […]

MOSCOW, Feb. 26 (NsNewsWire) — Russia will upgrade five military airports in the country’s southwest and the Far East in the coming three years, Russian Aerospace Forces Commander Viktor Bondarev said Saturday. The infrastructure overhaul comes amid increased military presence of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization near Russian borders and renewed Pacific islands disputes with […]

GENEVA, Feb. 26 (NsNewsWire) — A top diplomat from Syrian government delegation Saturday called for taking combating terrorism as a top priority in the ongoing intra-Syrian negotiations. The words came after two suicide attacks took place in Syria’s central province of Homs, killing at least 42 people on the same day, reports Xinhua. “Combating terrorism […]

TOKYO, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been grilled in parliament recently over the government’s sale of a plot of state-owned land to an educational entity for far below the valuation price. According to local reports, Moritomo Gakuen, a private-school operator, bought the 8,770-square-meter piece of land last June in Toyonaka, […]

BEIJING, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) — The latest U.S. ruling to remove heavy duties on truck and bus tires imported from China was “in line with the objective facts,” the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) determined Wednesday that the tires from China did not materially injure or threaten to […]

MOSUL, Iraq, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) — Iraqi security forces on Thursday started an assault to retake the Mosul international airport and a military base nearby from Islamic State (IS) militants, the military said. Federal police and elite Interior Ministry units, known as Rapid Response, started in the morning a new push into Mosul airport, the […]

SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) — Residents living in South Korea’s southeast regions, where the U.S. missile shield is set to be deployed, came up to the capital city Seoul on Thursday to rally against the decision to install one Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery in their hometown. Setting works for bread and butter […]