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The three soldiers were traveling in a vehicle Sunday in Bamiyan province, a once comparatively stable part of the country that has seen a recent increase in violence. Two New Zealand soldiers were killed in the same area during a firefight with insurgents earlier this month. |
New Zealand has stationed a small group of 145 soldiers in Afghanistan since 2003, a contingent it plans to withdraw by the end of next year. Ten New Zealand soldiers have now died during the conflict. |
Prime Minister John Key said Monday the deaths "underscore the gravity" of the situation the soldiers face there each day, adding that he would release further details of the incident later in the day. |
Apple CEO Tim Cook has called on the US government to adopt tough new data protection laws inspired by GDPR. |
Speaking to the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners on Wednesday, Cook warned that “deeply personal” data was being “weaponised against us with military efficiency”. |
The intervention marks Cook’s latest attack on his ad-funded rivals in Silicon Valley, and is the latest in a series of attempts to distinguish Apple as a pro-privacy company. |
Apple was one of the US tech giants that pledged to roll out its GDPR privacy protections to consumers worldwide earlier this year. Microsoft was another. Shortly after Cook’s speech, the software giant’s privacy chief, Julie Brill, tweeted her support. |
Cook’s warm embrace of EU data protection regulation comes in stark contrast to his approach to the Union’s antitrust rules. Last year, Cook described Margrethe Vestager’s decision to order Ireland to collect billions of euros of tax from his company as “total political crap”. Apple paid the Irish government €14bn (£12... |
In light of GDPR, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and a summer of data breaches, the annual gathering of data protection commissioners has enjoyed a higher profile this year. Microsoft’s Sundar Pichai, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and web inventor Tim Berners-Lee are among those speaking alongside Cook at the event. |
Romeu Lukaku reportedly favours a return to Chelsea if he leaves Everton in the summer. |
The Belgian striker has turned down a new deal from the Toffees and after scoring 24 league goals, is a transfer target for Chelsea and Manchester United. |
But the Telegraph say that unfortunately for United, the 23-year-old has told friends he is keen to rejoin Chelsea, who he left in 2014. |
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been offered £5million a season to join new MLS side Los Angeles FC. |
The Swedish striker is yet to trigger his one-year extension clause with United. |
And that has allowed other clubs to register their interest in the 35-year-old. |
According to the Daily Mail, Los Angeles are desperate to make Ibrahimovic their marquee player for when they begin their debut season in MLS next March. |
Real Madrid are ready to pay £60m to sign David de Gea. |
The Manchester United goalkeeper is once again being courted by the Spanish giants and The Sun say they are ready to shatter the previous record for a goalkeeper set by Juventus when they bought Gianluigi Buffon in 2001. |
De Gea nearly joined Madrid in 2015 but the deal collapsed late on in the transfer window. |
Headlining sets from The Rolling Stones, Muse and Snow Patrol helped ensure the Isle Of Wight Festival‘s status as a major summer event this weekend (June 9-11). |
Though smaller than rivals likes Glastonbury and V Festival – the Seaclose Park event has just a single stage – the Isle Of Wight again managed to secure a series of bill toppers that the larger events would evny. |
Playing the festival’s opening night, Snow Patrol‘s set contrasted with their fellow headliners with its simplicity, relying on a spartan stage set and their anthemic songs to do the work. |
Muse might have been using their slot to iron out any issues ahead of their Wembley Stadium shows next weekend (16,17) as they headlined the second night (June 9), but they still delievered a bar-raising rock show. |
Combining their spaceage stage show with a growing cannon of material that has been crafted to be played in front of thousands of people, the band marked frontman Matt Bellamy‘s 29th birhtday with a dynamic and absorbing set. |
Finally The Rolling Stones were called upon to provide the event’s climax on the final night (10). |
Playing their first festival in 31 years, Mick Jagger and co proved that underneath all the bluster and branding they remain a very useful rock ‘n’ roll band. |
Though their early set selection might have raised eyebrows, The Rolling Stones ended the festival with the kind of songs that the word classic was devised for. |
Where perhaps the Isle Of Wight Festival falls behind the summer’s other major events is its supporting bill. |
While boasting a curious mix of mainly radio friendly acts that it was often hard to get too excited about, several gems shone out. |
Kasabian were their usual life and soul of the party and Keane, Amy Winehouse and even Mick Jones‘ fledgling Carbon/Silicon all provided sound highlights. |
Plus get this week’s issue of NME – on UK newsstands from June 13 – for exclusive festival coverage. |
See notable quotes from the Republican presidential candidates who debated in prime time at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Ohio Gov... |
QUOTE 1: "Serious times require strong leadership. That's what's at stake right now." |
QUOTE 2: On rival Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States: "Donald is great at the one-liners, but he's a chaos candidate, and he'd be a chaos president. He would not be the commander-in-chief we need to keep the country safe." |
QUOTE 3: "Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS." |
QUOTE 4: On Trump's criticism of his candidacy: "Donald, you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. That's not going to happen. And I do have the strength. Leadership -- leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with t... |
QUOTE 5: On why he'd be more qualified than Trump to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin: "I know what I don't know. I would seek out, as I have, the best advice that exists. I won't get my information from the shows. I don't know if that's Saturday morning or Sunday morning." |
QUOTE 1: During his introduction: "America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorism. We have a president who is unwilling to utter its name." |
QUOTE 2: On the Syrian conflict and Syrian President Bashar Assad: "If we topple Assad, the result will be ISIS will take over Syria, and it will worsen U.S. national security interests." |
QUOTE 3: On border security: "We will build a wall that works, and I'll get Donald Trump to pay for it." |
QUOTE 1: "Our country is out of control. People are pouring across the southern border. I will build a wall. It will be a great wall." |
QUOTE 2: "ISIS is recruiting through the Internet. ISIS is using the Internet better than we are using the Internet, and it was our idea." |
QUOTE 3: Asked whether he would be open to closing parts of the Internet: "I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody." |
QUOTE 4: Referring to ISIS while responding to rival Rand Paul's statement that closing the Internet would go against the First Amendment: "So they can kill us, but we can't kill them? That's what you're saying?" |
QUOTE 5: On rival Jeb Bush's candidacy: "Honestly, I think Jeb is a very nice person. He's a very nice person. But we need tough people. We need toughness." |
QUOTE 6: After a sharp exchange with Bush: "I know you're trying to build up your energy, Jeb, but it's not working very well." |
QUOTE 7: "The Middle East is totally destabilized, a total and complete mess. I wish we had the 4 trillion dollars or 5 trillion dollars. I wish it were spent right here in the United States, on our schools, hospitals, roads, airports, and everything else that are all falling apart." |
QUOTE 8: On rival Ted Cruz's temperament: "He has a wonderful temperament. He's just fine. Don't worry about it." |
QUOTE 1: After rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio's heated exchange on U.S. foreign policy, including airstrikes against ISIS: "If your eyes are glazing over like mine, this is what it's like to be on the floor of the United States Senate." |
QUOTE 2: Explaining why he would shoot down a Russian plane if it flew into a no-fly zone in Syria: "A no-fly zone means a no-fly zone, Wolf. That's what it means. Maybe because I'm from New Jersey, I have this plain language hang-up." |
QUOTE 3: On why there should be a pause in allowing new refugees to enter the United States: "I'm not going to allow any Syrian refugees in this country. And it was widows and orphans, by the way." |
QUOTE 1: "Citizens, it's time to take our country back. Bombastic insults won't take it back. Political rhetoric that promises a lot and delivers little won't take it back." |
QUOTE 2: On whether Silicon Valley companies should help the FBI obtain encrypted communications to spot terror threats, citing examples such as the Tsarnaev brothers in the Boston Marathon bombings and a husband and wife behind the San Bernardino, California, fatal shootings: "We have a lot of argument about laws but ... |
QUOTE 3: "To take our country back, to keep our nation safe, we have to begin by beating Hillary Clinton." |
QUOTE 4: Responding to rival Donald Trump's statement that he wished a huge amount of money spent in the Middle East had been spent in the United States: "That is exactly what President Obama has said. I'm amazed to hear that from a Republican presidential candidate." |
QUOTE 1: On President Barack Obama's Oval Office address on the Islamic State group and the San Bernardino, California, terror attacks: "He spoke the other night to the American people to reassure us. I wish he hadn't spoken at all. He made things worse." |
QUOTE 2: Speaking to moderator Wolf Blitzer of CNN on Syrian refugees: "It's not that America doesn't want to accept refugees, Wolf. It's that we may not be able to, because this is an issue we have to be 100 percent right on." |
QUOTE 3: During his closing statement: "For over 200 years this has been a special country. A unique place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything. But now millions of Americans feel like they're being left behind. Insecure in their future and unsafe in the face of terrorism." |
QUOTE 1: Alluding to in-flight announcements asking passengers to secure their own oxygen masks before helping others in an emergency: "We need oxygen right now, and we need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems." |
QUOTE 2: On Kim Jong-un: "I definitely believe that he is unstable, and I do, in fact, believe that China has a lot more influence with him than we do." |
QUOTE 3: During his closing statement: "My mother told me if I work hard and I really believed in American principles and I believe in God, anything is possible. I believe that is true, and that's why I'm not anxious to give away American values and principles for the sake of political correctness." |
QUOTE 1: On world leaders' recent climate change talks a few weeks after the Nov. 13 Paris terrorist attacks: "First and foremost, we need to go and destroy ISIS. And we need to do this with our Arab friends and our friends in Europe. And when I see they have a climate conference over in Paris, they should have been ta... |
QUOTE 2: On the Syrian conflict and Syrian President Bashar Assad: "I do not support a civil war, I don't want to be policeman of the world, but we can't back off of this." Kasich said Assad "must go. It will be a blow to Iran and Russia." |
QUOTE 3: On Russia's foreign policy, including disputes with U.S. allies in Eastern Europe: "Frankly, it's time we punched the Russians in the nose." |
QUOTE 4: After rivals Jeb Bush and Donald Trump attacked each other during the debate, Kasich said "all the fighting and arguing is not advancing us." He added, "It is not the way we're going to strengthen our country. We will strengthen our country when we come together." |
QUOTE 1: "As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America we cannot lose what America stands for." |
QUOTE 2: "To me there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to hold the line on all spending." |
QUOTE 3: On whether ousting Saddam Hussein was a good idea: "There is often variations of evil on both sides of the war. What we have to decide is whether or not regime change is a good idea. ... Out of regime change, you get chaos. From the chaos, you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this prof... |
Dobie: What made this GOP debate different The difference this time was the backdrop. |
As the Category 4 Hurricane Irma blasts towards Florida, people continue to evacuate by the thousands — rendering highways and gas stations a nightmare. |
At a news conference on Thursday, Governor Rick Scott urged those in evacuation zones to get out well before the storm starts. |
And for the past few days, evacuees have been sharing images of gas stations strapped for fuel and backups all the way to Atlanta as they heed advice and make their way north — many of them seemingly at a snail's pace. |
These 6am traffic maps out of Florida tell quite a tale. |
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) projects that Irma will reach the Florida coast on Saturday. |
TAMPA, Fla. - It took nearly five weeks for the Yankees to suffer their first significant injury of the spring. |
Backup shortstop Brendan Ryan was lost Wednesday to a strained right calf, an injury that impacts far more than that position. |
Besides starting shortstop Didi Gregorius, expected back in the lineup Thursday after missing four days with a left wrist sprain, the Yankees do have another shortstop on the roster in Stephen Drew, the starting second baseman. |
"Didi and Drew are healthy so we're probably going to have to look at more of a second baseman than a shortstop," Joe Girardi said of the direction the Yankees will go in to fill Ryan's roster spot. |
Ryan underwent an MRI Wednesday, which revealed a Grade 2 strain after the Yankees' 3-0 loss to the Rays at Steinbrenner Field. |
The Yankees acted several hours later, trading for infielder Gregorio Petit from the Astros for cash considerations. Petit played in 37 games for the Astros last season, hitting .278 with two homers and nine RBIs. The Yankees said Petit would report to major-league camp. |
There are other options, one of which could be Nick Noonan, who replaced the injured Ryan on Wednesday. |
The 25-year-old Noonan is a non-roster invitee who played second, third and short over 62 games for the Giants in 2013, hitting .219 with a .261 on-base percentage. The lefthanded hitting Noonan has hit .212 in 22 games this spring. |
Another option with previous big-league experience is non-roster invitee Cole Figueroa, a 27-year-old who appeared in 23 games -- at second base and DH -- with the Rays last season, hitting .233. Figueroa has hit .280 in 22 games this spring. |
Prospect Jose Pirela would have had an inside track on the job but has been out since he suffered a concussion March 22 against the Mets in Port St. Lucie. |
"He's still not where he needs to be," Girardi said of the 25-year-old Pirela. "I think that would be a long shot." |
Many fans would probably prefer prospect Rob Refsnyder, but he would be an unlikely choice. The 24-year-old, while hitting an impressive .333 this spring, has been a liability in the field, committing a team-high six errors. |
"It's encouraging to see how far I've come since 2013," said Refsnyder, a rightfielder before being switched to second in 2013. "They've said some very nice things. I definitely think I have a future at second base." |
But opposing team scouts have not been kind in their evaluations of Refnsyder in the field. |
"I like the bat but he has no position," one NL talent evaluator said. "None." |
An AL scout was slightly more positive. |
"He may have a position somewhere," he said, "but it's not second base." |
The injury to Ryan occurred in the sixth inning when he ranged to his left and attempted to barehand a chopper hit by Kevin Kiermaier. The ball glanced off Ryan's hand and the shortstop quickly doubled over in pain. |
"It didn't look good," said Drew, who was near Ryan when he got hurt. "I heard him right when he was about to make the play. Just a weird play overall." |
Refsynder said the plan was for Drew to start at short for one of Thursday's split-squad games -- the Yankees have a game in Lakeland against the Tigers and a home contest against the Pirates -- with him starting a game at second. |
The larger concern, of course, is what happens when the real games start Monday. |
"Things can happen quick," Girardi said. "A lot of clubs hold their breath this time of year that you leave camp the way you are. Sometimes it doesn't happen and you have to deal with it." |
The Fortress Real Developments office is in Richmond Hill, Ont. |
A judge has ordered a trustee to take over the operations of the lead mortgage broker for beleaguered real estate developer Fortress Real Developments Inc., just a week after the RCMP raided Fortress’s Toronto-area offices as part of a syndicated-mortgage-fraud investigation. |
Lawyers for the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) appeared before Superior Court Justice Glenn Hainey on Friday to argue that the broker, Building & Development Mortgages Canada Inc. (BDMC), was in default of a February settlement with the Ontario regulator, which came after FSCO launched its own probe in... |
Syndicated mortgages are pools of money provided by private investors to finance real estate-development projects. More than $600-million has been invested in BDMC’s syndicated-mortgage loans, by 11,000 investors, with most of the investments related to real estate development projects across the country involving Fort... |
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