THE WORLD'S TODAY HOT NEWS ON MARCH 10TH 2015 - TIN NÓNG THẾ GIỚI NGÀY HÔM NAY 10-3-2015

When he's mad, President Barack Obama gets...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in broadcast remarks on Tuesday there was a "huge, worldwide effort" to ensure he loses next week's closely contested election. Army Radio, which aired what it said were comments he made on Monday to activists of his right-wing Likud party, interpreted…

The Islamic State group has publicly beheaded three men in northern Iraq, two of them for allegedly engaging in homosexual acts, according to photos shared by sympathisers on social media Tuesday. The jihadist group, which controls swathes of Iraq and neighbouring Syria, has carried out hundreds of…

Ukraine's military said on Tuesday pro-Russian rebels were amassing heavy weapons in depots around separatist-held Donetsk city despite a ceasefire deal. Attacks have fallen in the past week, but accusations from both sides of violations show the fragility of the peace deal agreed in Minsk last…

Like Germans after defeat in World War I, Russians are mourning the loss of empire.

Surveillance camera footage from the Boston bombings shows Tamerlan Tsarnaev's younger brother setting down his backpack just a few feet away from the youngest victim. Tsarnaev then made a phone call for 19 seconds, after which the first bomb went off. Don Dahler reports on the latest in the trial.

Ukraine accused pro-Russian separatists Monday of using mortars and a tank to fire on government positions near the eastern port of Mariupol in clashes that lasted several hours, violating a nearly month-old ceasefire. The militants fired on Ukraine's positions and were attempting to "force our…

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has published an official response to the Republican letter to Iran's leaders, signed by 47 Senators, warning that Congress or a future president might overturn a nuclear deal if they dislike the terms. Asked about the open letter of 47 US Senators to Iranian…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been campaigning for sanctions relief from traditionally friendly Southern European countries in what appears to be a strategy of dividing the European Union and undermining its alliance with the United States. Moscow responded to last year's U.S. and European…

Just before she was struck down by the second explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon, 23-year-old Lingzi Lu’s terror-stricken face was captured in a photograph shown in court today, a friend of Lu’s testified. “The first bomb just happened and she’s looking panic,” Danling Zhou, Lu’s friend, told…

Russian actions in Ukraine are undermining the security of nations in Eastern Europe, British foreign secretary Philip Hammond is to warn in a speech on Tuesday. His remarks come as NATO prepares for a major exercise in the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, where Russian involvement…

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden is furious.Biden, who also serves as president of the Senate, Monday night blasted Senate Republicans in a long, angry statement for their letter to Iran's leaders, which he described as "beneath the dignity of an institution I revere."Forty-seven Republicans…

When L. Ron Hubbard founded the Church of...

By Allyn Fisher-Ilan JERUSALEM (Reuters) - In the past, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party could count on Israelis like 50-year-old shopkeeper Yossi Levy when it came to election day. Levy, who describes himself as a lifelong Likud voter, is a member of Israel's Sephardic…

More than half of Russians would vote for President Vladimir Putin if a snap presidential election were held, a survey published last Thursday showed. Out of 1,600 adults polled by the independent Levada Center last month, 55 percent said they would cast their ballot in favor of Putin if a snap…

WASHINGTON -- After sparking a furor in Washington Monday with a letter signed by fellow Republican senators warning Iran against nuclear diplomacy with the Obama administration, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) went to the extra trouble of having his message translated into Farsi for Iranian leaders.…

This raises the question of whether Russia will take further military action to secure its interests in Ukraine. To answer this question, Stratfor examined six basic military options that Russia might consider in addressing its security concerns in Ukraine, ranging from small harassment operations…

Barack Obama pilloried Republicans over an incendiary letter to Iran's leaders that warned a nuclear deal with the United States could be scrapped by the next president. Forty-seven Senate Republicans -- including several potential 2016 presidential candidates -- made the unprecedented move of…

President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia took over Crimea because it had to protect Crimea's mostly ethnic-Russian population after pro-Western Ukrainian nationalists came to power in Ukraine. In the latest preview of an upcoming documentary called "Homeward bound" on state-run Rossiya-1…

Elizabeth Hurley will return to television as a queen — a title she deserves in real life as well. At 49, her skin is flawless, body as fit as her 20-something costars, and can still wear a tight bodycon dress with the best of them.  At a special screening of her new show The Royals on Monday night…

According to the Latvian Ministry of Defense, The United States on Monday delivered over 120 heavy military equipment to the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in order to prevent Russian aggression and not let Mr. Putin advance further into Europe. The equipment, including M1A2 Abrams…

Iraqi troops and militias drove Islamic State fighters out of the town of al-Alam on Tuesday, the local mayor told Reuters, clearing the way for an offensive to retake the city of Tikrit from the radical militants. "I am speaking now from al-Alam and I announce officially that the town is under the…

President Barack Obama is slated to speak to students at Georgia Tech on Tuesday about how he wants to make the process of repaying student loans easier to understand and manage. Obama will sign a “student aid bill of rights” and will speak about an assortment of policy tweaks and projects to try…

Iran's Navy took delivery Monday of what a top admiral said was a "faster and more agile" domestically produced destroyer which will be used in the Caspian Sea. The ship, named Damavand after the country's highest mountain, is 90 metres (yards) long, weighs 1,300 tonnes and is armed with cruise…

Discussions ricochet around Pope Francis’ ability to reconcile the Catholic Church’s bureaucracy, theology and practitioners. There are 1.3 billion followers of Islam scattered around the world, and an ambitious Gallup poll of Muslims in 35 heavily Muslim countries found that the vast majority of…

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday that a solution to the crisis in Ukraine was still a long way off, and that Ukraine will need significant support given the dire state of its economy. "And I need to underline again the financial engagement which we will have to…

Few thought it was possible for a jumbo jet seemingly to vanish mid-flight until Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, never made it to Beijing. “That idea is not outlandish, but the probabilities of that are extremely low,” Nance said.

WASHINGTON -- An open letter from Senate Republicans to Iranian leadership, released Monday, ended up sparking scorn about its ultimate value and flak over the authors' adherence to protocol. Drafted by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and co-signed by 46 Republican senators, the letter was a not-so-subtle…

Sorry: The Justice report doesn’t prove disparate treatment, let alone discrimination. In fact, it looks more like something ginned up to distract from the embarrassing fact that Justice (in another report released the same day) wound up fully validating the findings of the Ferguson grand jury.…

A Chinese man who sold 500 pictures of the country's first aircraft carrier has been detained in a spying investigation, local media reported, the latest web user allegedly exploited by foreign intelligence agencies. The man, surnamed Zhang, began taking pictures of the Liaoning -- a Soviet-era…

Western arguments about how to counter President Vladimir Putin's support for east Ukraine separatists are leading to clashes over the question of how deeply involved Russia's military is in the conflict. The latest salvo between Nato allies came in a German government briefing to Spiegel magazine…

The Germans are a polarizing people, and so are their products. Sort of like when journalists review a BMW — people either love ‘em or hate ‘em. This is because Germany’s engineering prowess is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it enables Volkswagen, BMW, Porsche, etc., to lead the pack when it…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama agreed last month not to send lethal defensive aide to Ukraine, a top German diplomat said Monday, as lawmakers from both parties continued to press the president to shore up Ukraine's beleaguered military in its fight against Russian-backed separatists.

At the Donetsk Airport, a handful of Ukrainian military men by Jan. 19 had been fighting off the Russian-backed Donetsk People’s Republic, or DPR, for months. A small eight-rotor drone rose up form the ruin and ascends out toward the battlefield, sending live video of DPR artillery positions to the…

A man wanted in connection with the killing of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov took his own life on Saturday.According to Russia's Interfax news agency, Beslan Shavanov, 30, was holed up in an apartment building in Grozny. When police arrived on the scene, he threw a grenade at officers and then blew…

Pakistan test-fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile on Monday, the military said, less than a week after the first high-level talks with arch-rivals India for nearly a year. "The test launch, with its impact point in the Arabian Sea, was aimed at validating various design and technical…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has described a secret meeting with officials last year when Russia decided it would take the Crimean Peninsula, the Black Sea region that Moscow annexed from Ukraine last March.

Not every Senate Republican signed on to Sen. Tom Cotton’s extraordinary letter to Iran’s leaders, and several of those who didn’t are fuming about the freshman senator’s Monday-morning foray into nuclear diplomacy. Some of the seven dissenters told POLITICO they have doubts about Cotton’s move,…

Shikhar Dhawan hit an aggressive century as defending champions India recorded their fifth victory in a row at the 2015 World Cup with a thumping eight-wicket win over Ireland in Hamilton on Tuesday. Chasing a modest 260-run target, Dhawan notched his second century of the tournament with an…

The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, which controls a chunk of Iraq and Syria the size of Britain, is facing pressing internal problems, according to multiple reports. "The key challenge facing ISIS right now is more internal than external," Lina Khatib, the director of the Carnegie…

The passenger, Ada Ng, was traveling from Taipei to Hong Kong on Feb.26 when she was invited to sit in the cockpit behind the pilot.

For the first time, jurors saw images that led the FBI to the Tsarnaev brothers, and more witnesses shared emotional testimonies about injuries and their loss. Don Dahler reports from outside the federal courthouse in Boston.

Forty-seven Republicans, including Senate leaders and several potential 2016 presidential candidates, wrote an open letter to Iran's leader, warning any deal with President Barack Obama might not be honored in future. "It raises significant questions about the intent or the aims of the authors,"…