BitGou: Morning Digest: Syria can meet June 30 chemical weapons deadline: U.N. chief

2014年2月6日星期四

Morning Digest: Syria can meet June 30 chemical weapons deadline: U.N. chief

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02/6/2014

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Syria can meet June 30 chemical weapons deadline: U.N. chief

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he was confident Syria would meet a June 30 deadline to eliminate its entire chemical weapons program under a US-Russian plan..

Egypt army chief Sisi says he will run for president: report

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who deposed the country's first freely elected leader, has said he will run for president, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Thursday..

Global stocks edge higher; euro ticks down before ECB

LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks edged up from this week's four-month lows in cautious trade ahead of a euro zone monetary policy decision later on Thursday, supported by relative calm in vulnerable emerging markets..

Friends, fans mourn Philip Seymour Hoffman at candlelight vigil

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of friends and fans of Philip Seymour Hoffman gathered for a candlelight vigil on Wednesday evening outside his New York theater company, paying homage to the acclaimed actor who died of a suspected drug overdose..

Parrot perched on top after slopestyle heats

ROSA KHUTOR, Russia (Reuters) - Canada's Maxence Parrot scorched the competition in the second heat of the men's snowboard slopestyle on Thursday to book his place in the Sochi Olympic final..

Turkey tightens Internet controls as government battles graft scandal

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament has approved internet controls enabling web pages to be blocked within hours in what the opposition decried as part of a government bid to stifle a corruption scandal with methods more suitable to "times of coups"..

Disappearance of wildflowers may have doomed Ice Age giants

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Flower power may have meant the difference between life and death for some of the extinct giants of the Ice Age, including the mighty woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros..

'Don't whiz on the Alamo,' Texas tells man facing jail

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - An El Paso man faces up to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to urinating on the Alamo, the iconic structure seen by many as the symbol of the Texas spirit..