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Hamas accused of torturing and killing Palestinians in ‘spine-chilling and brutal campaign’, says Amnesty

27 May 2015
Hamas has been accused of “spine-chilling actions” including abducting, killing and torturing its own people in Gaza by Amnesty International. In a report entitled ‘Strangling Necks’: Abduction, torture and summary killings of Palestinians by Hamas forces during the 2014 Gaza/Israel conflict, released today, the human rights group details more than

A Palestinian member of Hamas's armed wing on patrol during an anti-Israel rally in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 13, 2014.

President Barack Obama talks about health care reform as he announces his nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, not pictured, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 13, 2009

A US appeals court on Tuesday dealt another blow to President Barack Obama‘s efforts to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. The USCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans rejected a request from theObama administration

 Palestinian members of the Hamas security forces attend a graduation ceremony in Gaza March 25, 2007. wn Ali Omar  AO1.

The Islamist group Hamas used its 2014 Gaza war with Israel to “settle scores” with rival Palestinians, executing at least 23 in possible war crimes,Amnesty International said Wednesday. A report by the London-based rights group detailed

 

Sunburn - Skin Cancer /wam2

‘Virotherapy’ uses modified herpes virus to attack melanoma cells and has potential to overcome cancer even when disease has spread throughout the body

 

WHO Executive Board's Special Session on Ebola

Lisa Schlein GENEVA— The numbers of Ebola cases in Sierra Leone and Guinea have been rising and falling since Liberia was declared Ebola-free on May 9. The World Health Organization says that the road to zero will be bumpy, but that for the most

 

An Iraqi soldier uses binoculars to observe the surrounding .

Iraqi forces, backed by Shia volunteer forces, have killed at least 70 militants belonging to the ISIL Takfiri group in the holy city of Samarra inSalahuddin province. Mohammed Abbas, the commander of Badr Corps‘ sixth brigade, made the

 

File - A man walks past a burnt out building following an attacked by Boko Haram in Bama, Nigeria, Thursday, Feb, 20. 2013. The latest attack by suspected Islamic extremists in Nigeria's northeast has left 115 people dead.

By Lanre Ola GUBIO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Boko Haram militants have killed at least 43 people in a five-hour assault on the town of Gubio in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state, witnesses said on Tuesday. Thousands of people have been killed and

 

Boko Haram hostages released VOA.

LAGOS, Nigeria — An “alarming spike” in suicide bombings by girls and women used by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria has children in danger of being seen as potential threats, the U.N. children’s agency said Tuesday. The number of
photo: Creative Commons / Oaktree

 

 

 

 

Senior Security Analyst Sees Foreign Ministry Hacking as Disaster for Saudi Arabia

Saudileaks 4: Senior Security Analyst Sees Foreign Ministry Hacking as Disaster for Saudi Arabia

  

Chief Executive Officer of the IT Security and Consultation firm, Cyberkov Ltd, said the hacking of the servers of the Saudi Foreign Ministry by the Yemen Cyber Army wreaked havoc on the kingdom.

Abdullah Al-Ali confirmed on his Tweeter account the cyber attack, adding that top secret documents have been hacked and released, incurring a huge loss on Riyadh.

He also stressed that the Yemen Cyber Army has heavily breached the internal and external networks of the Foreign Ministry.

The Yemen Cyber Army announced Wednesday evening that it has hacked the website, servers and archives of Saudi Arabia’s Foreign, Interior and Defense ministries and would release thousands of these top secret documents.

The group said that it “has gained access to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) network and have full control over more than 3000 computers and servers, and thousands of users. We also have access to the emails, personal and secret information of hundreds of thousands of their staff and diplomats in different missions around the world”.

Grisly Human Trafficking Discoveries May Doom Obama’s Troubled Trade Strategy

Full ArticleForbes

25 May 2015
Americans of all political persuasions abhor people trafficking. So why is theObama administration pushing a highly controversial trade pact that would reward nations with some of the worst human trafficking records in the

A Malaysian police officer stands guard at an outpost before the entry point to the Malaysia-Thailand border in Wang Kelian, Malaysia on Monday, May 25, 2015.  Malaysian authorities said Monday they have discovered 139 suspected graves in a series of abandoned camps used by human traffickers.
photo: AP / Joshua Paul

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert attends his trial at the Jerusalem District Court, Monday, May 25, 2015.

JERUSALEM: Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to eight months in prison for corruption on Monday, the latest legal blow in a spectacular fall from grace. Lawyers

 

A318-100 Air France

An Air France flight has been escorted by two United States F-15fighter jets to New York after an anonymous threat was made against the flight, military officials say. Air France flight 22, traveling from Charles de Gaulle Airportin Paris,

 

Summer 2011, Primrose Hill London.

LONDON — Britain’s prime minister announced on Monday that non-British citizens who live in Britain will not be able to vote on whether the country should remain in the European Union The question is important because so many non-British EU citizens
photo: WN / Periasamy

An Iraqi Policeman patrols Route Iron as Coalition Forces follow closely behind.

Iraq and Iran pushed back Monday against U.S. DefenseSecretary Ash Carter‘s criticisms over the fall of Ramadi to the Islamic State group, with an Iranian general going as far as saying America had “no will” to fight the extremists. In Baghdad, a

 

 People stand next to their motor bikes as they await fuel to arrive during a nationwide general strike in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, June 21, 2007. The government said it was meeting Thursday with labor unions who called a nationwide general strike to try

Nigeria‘s severe fuel shortage has started to cause widespread disruption to everyday services, with the telecommunications and banking sectors the latest hit hard by the worsening crisis. A major Nigerian bank announced on Monday that it would close

 

Former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 18, 2013. In an interview with The Associated Press, Olmert said he will serve as chairman of the advisory board of "Genesis Angels" _ a venture capital firm focusing on early stage investment in startup companies. The firm looks toward innovations in robotics, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and other cutting edge technologies.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison for unlawfully accepting money from a U.S.supporter, capping the dramatic downfall of a man who only years earlier led the country and hoped to bring about a

 

In this Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014 photo provided by the Presidential Press Service, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a meeting at his new palace in Ankara, Turkey.

ANKARA Turkey‘s ruling AK Party is seen losing its parliamentary majority in a June 7 election and may have to form a coalition government, according to the results of a survey by pollster SONAR seen by Reuters on Monday. The poll put AKP support at

 

 

 

 

 

Greece will continue paying its debts after coalition rejects calls to miss next IMF payment

Full ArticleThe Independent

25 May 2015
Greece will continue to pay its debts, after the ruling Radical Left Coalitionnarrowly rejected a call by party hardliners to miss its next International MonetarGreece will continue paying its debts after coalition rejects calls to miss next IMF paymenty Fund (IMF) payment. Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis, a senior member of the left wing Syriza party, said in a TV interview on Sunday: “The four installments for the

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addresses the audience during a Syriza party central committee meeting in Athens, Greece, on Saturday, May 23, 2015.

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Iraqi Policeman patrols Route Iron as Coalition Forces follow closely behind.

Iraq and Iran pushed back Monday against U.S. DefenseSecretary Ash Carter‘s criticisms over the fall of Ramadi to the Islamic State group, with an Iranian general going as far as saying America had “no will” to fight the extremists. In Baghdad, a

 

Former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 18, 2013. In an interview with The Associated Press, Olmert said he will serve as chairman of the advisory board of "Genesis Angels" _ a venture capital firm focusing on early stage investment in startup companies. The firm looks toward innovations in robotics, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and other cutting edge technologies.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison for unlawfully accepting money from a U.S.supporter, capping the dramatic downfall of a man who only years earlier led the country and hoped to bring about a

 

John Forbes Nash, American mathematician and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 1994.

REUTERS – Mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner whose longtime struggle with mental illness inspired the movie “A Beautiful Mind“, was killed in a car crash along with his wife in New Jersey, state police said on Sunday. The couple

‘Cannibal In The Jungle': Animal Planet Brings The Un-True Story Of American Cannibal Timothy Darrow’s And The Indonesian Hobbit Legend.

Dr. Timothy Darrow is a scientist who is convicted of eating and killing two of his workmates in the Indonesian jungle back in 1977. Dr. Timothy Darrow blames the murders of his workmates on an ape/human-like creature during his trial. The case

 

South Korean army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, March 27, 2013.

PAJU, South Korea — A group of 30 female peace activists, including feminist icon Gloria Steinem and two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, crossed the demilitarized zone from North Korea to South Korea on Sunday and called for an end to the Korean War. It

 

Parliament Speaker, acting president Bronislaw Komorowski casts his ballot, as his wife Anna looks on, in a voting station in Mackowa Ruda, northeast Poland, Sunday, July 4, 2010

WARSAW, Poland: Polish President Bronislaw Komorowskiconceded defeat in the county’s presidential election on Sunday after an exit poll showed him trailing Andrzej Duda, a previously little-known right-wing politician. If the exit poll is confirmed

 

The Roman Harbaqa Dam, a gravity dam in the Syrian desert between Damascus and Palmyra, dating to the 2nd century AD

Islamic State (IS) fighters have killed at least 400 people inPalmyra since capturing the ancient Syrian city last week, Syrian state media said today. It was not immediately possible to verify the account, but it was consistent with reports by

Ireland Says ‘Yes’ to Marriage Equality

Full ArticleThe Daily Beast

23 May 2015
Jubilant scenes on a historic day for Ireland, as the country votes by a sweeping majority to legalize same sex marriage. It’s all over bar the singing. Ireland has become the first country in the world to introduce same sex marriage on the basis of a popular vote, after the ‘Yes’ side scored a stunning victory in the referendum held yesterday. The
Partners Adrian, left and Shane, arrive to vote at a polling station in Drogheda, Ireland, Friday, May 22, 2015. Ireland began voting Friday in a referendum on Gay marriage which will require an amendment to the Irish constitution.

Protester wait for police during clashes in the Nyakabyga neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi, Thursday May 21, 2015. Protests continue against the President's decision to seek a third term.

The leader of a small Burundian opposition party was shot dead on Saturday along with his bodyguard, residents said, the latest violence in a country gripped by weeks of anti-government unrest. Zedi Feruzi, the head of theUnion for Peace and

People, carrying images of late Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, take part in a march honoring him in San Salvador, Saturday, March 20, 2010.

Cheers rang from a crowd of hundreds of thousands Saturday as former archbishop Oscar Romero, whose defense of the poor and repressed divided both his nation and the Church, was beatified. Officials estimated some300,000 worshipers attended the

 

In this photo taken Saturday, April 14, 2012, Tuareg fighters from the NMLA (National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad) sit in their vehicle, in a market in Timbuktu, Mali.

Reuters BAMAKO— A Tuareg-dominated rebel coalition said on Saturday it was holding prisoner 19 Malian government soldiers captured in fighting a day earlier, amid growing violence in the north that threatens to derailU.N.-brokered peace efforts.

 

Headquarters of the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate struggled unsuccessfully to prevent an interruption in critical government surveillance programs early Saturday, blocking a House-passed bill and several short-term extensions of theUSA Patriot Act. The main stumbling

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers a speech on nonproliferation before the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009

WASHINGTON: Top aides to former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton fretted over how she would be portrayed after the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, emails released on Friday showed. The

 

Traders swirl around fellow trader Kevin Coulter, second from right, as they work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, April 5, 2010

US stocks ended weaker on Friday after Federal Reserve ChairJanet Yellen indicated that the central bank was poised to raise interest rates this year, in line with Wall Street‘s expectations. Lackadaisical trading volume during the session ended a

 

Gunfight in western Mexico

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 39 people were killed on Friday in western Mexico during a fight between armed civilians and security forces, two government

US Senate blocks bill to end NSA phone data collection

Full ArticleBBC News

23 May 2015

23 May 2015 From the section US & Canada The NSA has come under increased scrutiny since the Snowden revelations The US Senate has blocked a bill that would have ended the bulk collection of Americans‘ phone records by the National Security Agency (NSA). It also failed to authorise a temporary extension of the current legislation. Senators are

File - Edward Snowden, shown on a livestream from Moscow, is awarded the Right Livelihood Award ceremony at the Swedish Parliament, in Stockholm, Monday Dec. 1, 2014.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers a speech on nonproliferation before the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009

WASHINGTON: Top aides to former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton fretted over how she would be portrayed after the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, emails released on Friday showed. The

 

Traders swirl around fellow trader Kevin Coulter, second from right, as they work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, April 5, 2010

US stocks ended weaker on Friday after Federal Reserve ChairJanet Yellen indicated that the central bank was poised to raise interest rates this year, in line with Wall Street‘s expectations. Lackadaisical trading volume during the session ended a

 

Gunfight in western Mexico

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 39 people were killed on Friday in western Mexico during a fight between armed civilians and security forces, two government

 

Ivan Marquez, center, chief negotiator for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, is accompanied by fellow members of his team, from left, Marco Leon Calarca, Ricardo Tellez, Pablo Catatumbo, Tanja Nijmeijer and Jesus Santrich, during the peace talks with Colombia's government in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, May 26, 2013.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have called off a five-month-old unilateral ceasefire in response to an airstrike by the government forces, which killed 26 of its members. “We didn’t plan to suspend the ceasefire,”

 

File - UN Police at the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) lead a security sweep of the UN Tomping compound, currently serving as a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) escaping the ongoing violence throughout the country, 14 January, 2014.

South Sudanese government tanks backed by helicopter gunships have pushed back rebels from a key oil town, state television showed, as the UN condemned an “entirely man-made catastrophe.” Tanks are shown firing as a helicopter gunship on Friday –

 

A demonstrator faces police in the Musaga neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi, Wednesday May 20, 2015.

Thousands of anti-government protesters in Burundi marched on the streets of the capital Bujumbura Friday, defying one of the heaviest pushes by police to end weeks of demonstrations. Protesters also torched election materials in two separate attacks

 

Thai police officers line up in the shade as they provide security at the business district in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, April 29, 2010

Police in Thailand have taken into custody several people protesting against the military government in the country on the first anniversary of a coup that saw the rise to power of incumbent Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha. According to an AFP report

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers a speech on nonproliferation before the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009

WASHINGTON: Top aides to former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton fretted over how she would be portrayed after the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, emails released on Friday showed. The

 

Traders swirl around fellow trader Kevin Coulter, second from right, as they work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, April 5, 2010

US stocks ended weaker on Friday after Federal Reserve ChairJanet Yellen indicated that the central bank was poised to raise interest rates this year, in line with Wall Street‘s expectations. Lackadaisical trading volume during the session ended a

 

Gunfight in western Mexico

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 39 people were killed on Friday in western Mexico during a fight between armed civilians and security forces, two government

 

Ivan Marquez, center, chief negotiator for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, is accompanied by fellow members of his team, from left, Marco Leon Calarca, Ricardo Tellez, Pablo Catatumbo, Tanja Nijmeijer and Jesus Santrich, during the peace talks with Colombia's government in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, May 26, 2013.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have called off a five-month-old unilateral ceasefire in response to an airstrike by the government forces, which killed 26 of its members. “We didn’t plan to suspend the ceasefire,”

File - UN Police at the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) lead a security sweep of the UN Tomping compound, currently serving as a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) escaping the ongoing violence throughout the country, 14 January, 2014.

South Sudanese government tanks backed by helicopter gunships have pushed back rebels from a key oil town, state television showed, as the UN condemned an “entirely man-made catastrophe.” Tanks are shown firing as a helicopter gunship on Friday –

A demonstrator faces police in the Musaga neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi, Wednesday May 20, 2015.

Thousands of anti-government protesters in Burundi marched on the streets of the capital Bujumbura Friday, defying one of the heaviest pushes by police to end weeks of demonstrations. Protesters also torched election materials in two separate attacks

 

Thai police officers line up in the shade as they provide security at the business district in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, April 29, 2010

Police in Thailand have taken into custody several people protesting against the military government in the country on the first anniversary of a coup that saw the rise to power of incumbent Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha. According to an AFP report
photo: AP / Apichart Weerawong

Court documents: Turkish intelligence helped ship arms to Syrian Islamist rebels

21 May 2015

A court ruling calling for the arrest of three people in connection with the truck stopped in November 2013 said it was loaded with metal pipes manufactured in the Turkish city of Konya which were identified as semi-finished parts of mortars. The document also cites truck driver Lutfi Karakaya as saying he had twice carried the same shipment and

In this Friday, Jan. 30, 2015 file photo, Kurdish peshmerga fighters surround extremists inside a hotel near police headquarters in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Kenyan Defence Forces tank on a road outside the Garissa university college, Thursday, April 2, 2015, following a deadly Al-Shabab attack.

Kenyan security forces have thwarted a raid on a village in northeastern Kenya by militants with the al-Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group, al-Shabaab. Kenya’s Interior Ministry reported the terrorist

 

Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) und der franzoesische Praesident Francois Hollande (r.) unterhalten sich zu Beginn ihres Treffens am Donnerstag (23.08.12) auf der Dachterasse im Bundeskanzleramt in Berlin

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that greater efforts are needed to unlock bailout funds for Greece after late-night negotiations with GreekPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras failed to yield any sign of a breakthrough. With time running out for a

 

File - Cho Hyun-ah, who was head of cabin service at Korean Air and the oldest child of Korean Air chairman Cho Yang-ho, speaks to the media upon her arrival for questioning at the Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board office of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 12, 2014.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? A South Korean court Friday suspended the prison term of the former Korean Air executive whose onboard “nut rage” tantrum delayed a flight last year, immediately ending her incarceration. Cho Hyun-ah, who is the daughter of

 

Soldiers stand guard by communications towers in Corinto in southern Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009

An air strike carried out by the Colombian army has killed at least 18 members the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group in the western part of the country. A senior official from the Colombian Defense Ministry said on condition

 

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, left, stand next to Israeli soldiers at a military outpost during a visit at Mount Hermon in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights overlooking the Israel-Syria border on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015.

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon is a holdover from Netanyahu’s previous extremist coalition regime. He’s part of Israel‘s lunatic fringe running things. He addressed a Shurat Hadin (Israel Law Center) conference inJerusalem titled Toward a

 

Meeting between David Cameron, British Prime Minister, and Jean-Claude Juncker, President-elect of the EC

British Prime Minister David Cameron takes his case for far-reaching reform to his EU peers Friday as they meet six former Soviet states, some of whom would gladly swap places with London in the bloc. The Eastern Partnership summit in the Latvian

 

In this image from TV, US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cuban President Raul Castro at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, South Africa, in the rain for a memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela, Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013.

Washington, May 21: The US and Cuba on Thursday ended their latest round of talks on normalising relations and reopening embassies without results, but agreed to continue the negotiations on Friday, a State Departmentspokesperson said. “Talks

 

 

 

 

 

Gap between rich and poor ‘keeps growing’

Full ArticleBBC News

21 May 2015

By Anthony Reuben Head of statistics, BBC News 21 May 2015 From the sectionBusiness The gap between the rich and the poor is at its highest in 30 years, theOrganisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says. In its 34 member states, the richest 10% of the

File - Protesters stands in a downtown Miami walk-up windown giving a gesture to the ATM machine, Tuesday, May 1, 2012.

 

 

 

 

Crews from Patriot Environmental Services collect oil-covered seaweed and sand from the shoreline at Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta, Calif., Wednesday, May 20, 2015. A broken onshore pipeline spewed oil down a storm drain

Environmental damage was anticipated, but dead fish and oily birds had not been found in the calm seas or rocky coast by late morning, said Capt. Mark Crossland of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. The department closed fishing and shellfish

UN raises projections for India's growth, making it the fastest-growing economy

United Nations, May 20 (IANS) The UN has now raised its projections for the Indian economy‘s growth this year by 1.7 percent to 7.6 percent and by 1.4 percent to 7.7 percent next year from the estimates it made in January. The Mid-Year Update to

 

	UN official says building laws need to be enforced in Nepal

Add comment Reprints + – A Nepalese walks past a damaged house supported by wooden beams in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Nepal is facing billions in reconstruction costs with almost 745,600 buildings and homes damaged or destroyed,

 

Tornadoes hit Texas and Oklahoma, at least one person hurt

n”>Tornadoes spun through parts of northern Texas and southern Oklahoma on Tuesday, damaging buildings and injuring at least one person, officials said. The National Weather Service said several twisters were reported in the region and at least one

 

7,000 Somali refugees flee war-torn Yemen to home country

A United Nations official says some 7,000 Somali refugees in war-torn Yemen have fled back to their country since Saudi Arabia started pounding the impoverished Arab country in late March. The refugees have joined the 10-million-plus Somali

 

Nepal fears centuries-old heritage will be lost in rush to rebuild as post-quake demolition process begins

Kathmandu: Thousands of centuries-old homes could be demolished in Nepal‘s historic cities as the government begins the long process of tearing down buildings rendered unsafe by last month’s 7.8 earthquake. More than 600 temples, statues and museums

 

 

 

 

 

Malaria: can we eradicate one of the world's deadliest diseases?

Unprecedented money and global attention has saved 3.3 million lives since 2000, but the momentum to eradicate the disease must be sustained

 

UN raises projections for India's growth, making it the fastest-growing economy

United Nations, May 20 (IANS) The UN has now raised its projections for the Indian economy‘s growth this year by 1.7 percent to 7.6 percent and by 1.4 percent to 7.7 percent next year from the estimates it made in January. The Mid-Year Update to

 

	UN official says building laws need to be enforced in Nepal

Add comment Reprints + – A Nepalese walks past a damaged house supported by wooden beams in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Nepal is facing billions in reconstruction costs with almost 745,600 buildings and homes damaged or destroyed,

Tornadoes hit Texas and Oklahoma, at least one person hurt

n”>Tornadoes spun through parts of northern Texas and southern Oklahoma on Tuesday, damaging buildings and injuring at least one person, officials said. The National Weather Service said several twisters were reported in the region and at least one

 

7,000 Somali refugees flee war-torn Yemen to home country

A United Nations official says some 7,000 Somali refugees in war-torn Yemen have fled back to their country since Saudi Arabia started pounding the impoverished Arab country in late March. The refugees have joined the 10-million-plus Somali
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas

Nepal fears centuries-old heritage will be lost in rush to rebuild as post-quake demolition process begins

Kathmandu: Thousands of centuries-old homes could be demolished in Nepal‘s historic cities as the government begins the long process of tearing down buildings rendered unsafe by last month’s 7.8 earthquake. More than 600 temples, statues and museums

 

Gov. Mary Fallin will seek disaster declaration for three Oklahoma counties hit by storms

From Staff Reports • Gov. Mary Fallin on Tuesday requested a federal disaster declaration for Cleveland, Grady and Oklahoma counties as a result of tornadoes, severe storms and flooding that have occurred since May 5. Gov. Mary Fallin PAUL B...

Former Thai PM in court on negligence charges

19 May 2015
BANGKOK Ousted former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra appeared at aBangkok court on Tuesday for the start of her trial on negligence charges over amulti-billion dollar rice scheme that anti-corruption authorities alleged was plagued with graft. It is the latest in a slew of cases that have been brought against the former premier, cases
File - Thailand's former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, center, talks to reporters on her arrival at parliament in Bangkok, Thailand  Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015.

Homeless Nepalis sleep in the open as monsoon rains approach

THALI, Nepal Nepali tea shop owner Phurba Sherpa has spent four nights cramped under a tarpaulin with his wife and nine others on a school field outside Kathmandu since falling rocks triggered by an earthquake last week demolished his distant

 

Civilians at Syria’s Yarmouk camp highly vulnerable: UN

The UN has voiced concern over the dire humanitarian crisis in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria’s capital, Damascus, saying the civilians are highly vulnerable. “The vulnerability of civilians in Yarmouk remains of the

 

Edwin M. Rose, 89, of Taunton, veteran

Edwin M. Rose of Taunton, a veteran, died Saturday at MortonHospital after a brief illness. He was 89. Mr. Rose was born in Taunton, where he was a lifelong resident. He attended Taunton schools. A

WHO chief announces shake-up of organisation after Ebola crisis

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation will dramatically reform its emergency response operations this year, its chief said on Monday, after the UN agency faced blistering criticism for its slow Ebola response. WHO Director General Margaret Chan told

Thailand's former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra answers a question at parliament in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. Thailand's military-appointed legislature began impeachment hearings Friday against Yingluck, a move analysts say is aimed at ensuring the ousted leader stays out of politics for the foreseeable future.

BANGKOK: Thailand‘s first female prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is expected to appear in court today for the start of a negligence trial which could see her jailed for a decade. It is the latest legal move against Yingluck, sister of fugitive

 

The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Radio Telescope (GBT) focuses 2.3 acres of radio light. It is 485ft tall, nearly as tall as the nearby mountains and much taller than pine trees in the national forest. The telescope is in a valley of the Allegheny mountains to shield the observations from radio interference.

By Emile Holba and Sara Jane Hall Green Bank, West Virginia 19 May 2015 From the section Magazine Anyone driving west from Washington DCtowards the Allegheny Mountains will arrive before long in a vast area without mobile phone signals. This is the

 

Pro-Russian masked activist waves a Russian national flag above Ukrainian police at the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, April 6, 2014

18 May 2015 From the section Europe Ukraine says it also seized rifles made for use only by Russia‘s special forces Ukraine says it will prosecute two men it claims are elite Russian soldiers captured fighting in eastern Ukraine. The two wounded men

Iraqi officials say Ramadi captured by IS militants

Full ArticleBBC News

18 May 2015

18 May 2015 Last updated at 06:14 BST In Iraq, officials say the city of Ramadi has been captured by Islamic State militants. Ramadi is the capital of Iraq’s largest province, Anbar, and is just 70 miles (112km) west of Baghdad. Government forces withdrew from the city after a heavy day of fighting. Keith Doyle reports. Read more Islamic State

Iraq security forces withdraw from Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad, Sunday, May 17, 2015.

Smoke rises from an area due to Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, March 30, 2015

Saudi-led coalition air strikes targeting Shiite rebels resumed early yesterday in the southern port city of Aden after a five-day truce came to a close following talks on the war-torn country’s future that were boycotted by the rebels. Coalition air

clashes between Iraqi army soldiers and Sunni gunmen in Fallujah, 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. Iraqi police took down tents and cleared a Sunni protest camp sit-in in Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad

BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State militants likely killed up to 500people – both Iraqi civilians and soldiers – and forced 8,000 to flee from their homes as they captured the city of Ramadi, a provincial official said Monday, while the government-backed

Iraqi soldier

Baghdad: Shi’ite paramilitaries were preparing to deploy toIraq‘s western province of Anbar on Monday after Islamic State militants overran the provincial capital Ramadi in the biggest defeat for the Baghdad governmentsince last summer. The

In this Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 photo, an American Airlines passenger jet takes off as another taxis to the runway at Miami International Airport in Miami. American Airlines parent company AMR says Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, it lost $238 million in the third-quarter on employee severance costs and other charges related to its bankruptcy.

Security researcher Chris Roberts made headlines after an FBIreport alleged he had hacked a plane mid-flight and taken over the controls — but now serious doubts are growing over the entire affair. In an interview with a special agent earlier this

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., talks on a phone in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 in Washington.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry singled out North Korea as a violator of Internet freedom and took the reclusive country to task for November’s hacking attack on Sony Pictures in a speech on cyber security in Seoul on Monday. Kerry called

Piaggio P.166 aircraft used by Italian Coast Guard. In Italy, the Guardia Costiera is part of the Italian Navy under the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.

A European Union naval operation to go after the trafficking networks that send thousands of migrants across the Mediterranean into Europecould be launched in the coming weeks and NATO stands ready to help if needed, officials said Monday. EU’s

Aruna Shanbaug  a junior nurse at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, was sexually assaulted by a ward boy, Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki and has been in a vegetative state since the assault. She died from pneumonia on 18 May 2015, after being comatosed for 42 years.

18 May 2015 From the section India An Indian nurse who was in a vegetative state for 42 years after being raped by a hospital ward attendant while on duty has died. Aruna Shanbaug was left with severe brain damage and paralysed after her rape in a
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Islamic State militants ‘smuggled to Europe’

Full ArticleBBC News

17 May 2015

17 May 2015 From the section Africa Smugglers hide IS militants on boats filled with migrants, Abdul Basit Haroun says Islamic State (IS) fighters are being smuggled into Europe by gangs in the Mediterranean, a Libyan official has told theBBC. Government adviser Abdul Basit Haroun said smugglers were hiding IS militants on boats filled with

Islamic State militants 'smuggled to Europe'

File - President Barack Obama offers a toast to President Xi Jinping of China during a State Banquet at the Great Hall of People in Beijing, China, Nov. 12, 2014.

China’s relations with the United States remain stable,President Xi Jinping said on Sunday, as he sought to defuse tension over a territorial dispute in the South China Sea that has pitted Washington against

Mr. Mario Ruales Carranza (Ecuador), the Chair of the tenth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests and Co-Chair of the ministerial segment addresses the plenary session  of the UNFF10 Conference in Istanbul, Turkey, 2013.

Thousands of people in Ecuador have collaborated in planting 647,250 trees in a single day, setting a new world record in reforestation, said the president of the Latin American nation. On

EU members should do more to help Syrian refugees: German FM

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier address the media during a statement at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, Germany, Friday, July 11, 2014. Steinmeier says he will meet his U.S. counterpart John Kerry at the weekend to discuss allegations the U.S. spied on Germany. Steinmeier told reporters in Berlin on Friday that the meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State will take place at the weekend on the sidelines of talks in Vienna about Iran’s nuclear program.

The European Union should do more to help Syrian peopledisplaced by the prolonged crisis in the Arab country, German Foreign MinisterFrank-Walter Steinmeier says. At a Saturday news conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Nasser Judeh, in the

Pope Francis waves to faithful after celebrating his first Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2013.

Pope Francis has described Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as “an angel of peace” during a Vatican meeting, just days after the Catholicleadership vowed to recognize Palestine as a state. The Saturday meeting between the pontiff and

Syrian citizens pass by a poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad, in the southern city of Daraa, Syria, on Monday March 21, 2011.

WASHINGTON – American special operations forces killed a senior Islamic State leader in a raid in Syria, US officials said on Saturday, an operation that marked a departure from Washington’s strategy of relying primarily on air strikes to target

Mohammed Morsi sentenced to death

Full ArticleBelfast Telegraph

16 May 2015

Ousted president Mohammed Morsi has been sentenced to death by an Egyptiancourt. The verdict on charges relating to a 2011 prison break was announced inCairo. As is customary in passing capital punishment, Judge Shaaban el-Shami referred his death sentence on Morsi and more than 20 others to the nation’s top Muslim theologian, or mufti, for his

File - In this Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 photo, Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi stands inside a glassed-in defendant's cage during his trial on charges related to the prison breaks at the height of the 18-day 2011 uprising against his predecessor Hosni Mubarak.

The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) holds a memorial ceremony for the Chadian peacekeeper of the Mission who was killed during an attack at the MINUSMA Base in Kidal, Mali, on 8 March 2015.

BAMAKO: Mali’s government and allied fighters signed a peace accord on Friday in a ceremony attended by numerous heads-of-state but missing the crucial backing of the war-scarred nation’s main Tuareg-led rebel groups. TheCoordination of Azawad

NORFOLK (Jan. 30, 2012) French Sailors prepare the French navy amphibious assault ship FS Mistral (L9013) to get underway for Exercise Bold Alligator 2012 (BA2012)

Russia wants €1.163 billion from France in compensation for cancelling a contract to deliver two Mistral helicopter carriers, a Russian source close to the negotiations

Water down's Husky Gas Station, Canada.

TORONTO (AP) — Canada announced Friday it plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 amid international efforts to create a new framework for addressing climate change.Prime Minister Stephen Harper‘s

In this image shot with an extreme telephoto lens and through haze from the outskirts of Suruc at the Turkey-Syria border, militants with the Islamic State group are seen after placing their group's flag on a hilltop at the eastern side of the town of Kobani, Syria, where fighting had been intensified between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab and its surrounding areas have been under attack since mid-September, with militants capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages.

IRBIL, Iraq — The Islamic State on Friday took control of the provincial government center of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s largest province, in a major defeat for the Iraqi government. Islamic State forces launched a fierce assault of..

Boko Haram

At least 55 people were killed in two Boko Haram raids this week near Maiduguri, capital of restive northeastern Nigeria Borno state, a vigilante and two residents said. “Boko Haram fighters raided Bale and Kayamla villages where they killed at

An Indian Air Force (IAF) MI17 V5 helicopter with stranded persons about to land at Kathmandu airport on 26 April 2015 following the relief and rescue operations being carried out  in earthquake hit Nepal

KATHMANDU – The wreckage of a U.S. military helicopter lost on an earthquake relief mission was found on Friday, high on a mountainside inNepal, with three bodies recovered and the other five people on board feared dead. A U.S. search team

Britain's new Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha arrive in Downing Street in London,Tuesday, May, 11 2010

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron is meetingNicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister and leader of the Scottish National Party, for their first talks since Britain’s election. The two leaders
photo: AP / Tim Hales

Yemen’s human suffering fanned by war

Full ArticleBBC News

15 May 2015
By Baraa Shiban Yemini human rights activist 15 May 2015 From the section Middle East Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the fighting Yemen, a country bordering Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s richest economies, has suffered for many years from extreme poverty, high rates of unemployment and severe malnutrition among children.
In this Saturday, May 9, 2015 file photo, a girl waits for her turn to fill buckets with water from a public tap amid an acute shortage of water, in Sanaa, Yemen.

Britain's new Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha arrive in Downing Street in London,Tuesday, May, 11 2010

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron is meetingNicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister and leader of the Scottish National Party, for their first talks since Britain’s election. The two leaders

Cuba's President Raul Castro delivers the closing speech during a session of the National Assembly of Popular Power in Havana, Cuba, Sunday Aug. 1, 2010

(CNN)U.S. and Cuban officials will meet next week with the goal of hammering out an agreement to reopen embassies each other’s capitals as part of efforts to restore diplomatic ties, the State Department announced Thursday. The talks, to be led by

Secret Service officers search the south grounds of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015.

According to the New York Times, a man was detained on Thursday afternoon for flying a drone within a block of the White House, crossing over Lafayette Park at around one in the afternoon. The drone was very small and brightly colored, clearly

This image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq

ISIS released a new audio recording, supposedly of its injured leader, which references recent events such as Saudi military action in Yemen. ISTANBUL — The Islamic State, otherwise known as ISIS, released an audio message today purporting to be from

Israelis wait for transportation under election campaign billboards of Israeli Prime Minister and Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Israel's Labor party candidate Shelly Yachimovichin, in the central Israeli city of Ramat gan, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013.

JERUSALEM (AP) ? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s new government was sworn in late Thursday after a two-hour delay amid heckling by Arab lawmakers and harsh criticism from the opposition, indicating a tough road ahead for his narrow

Tourists in London, United Kingdom.

Jihadi John The infamous masked, black-clad militant seen inIslamic State propaganda videos was identified by the Washington Post as a Briton named Mohammed Emwazi. Photo: Reuters London: More than 700 Britons are thought to have travelled

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party President Shinzo Abe arrives for a press conference at the party headquarters in Tokyo Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, a day after the party's landslide victory over the ruling Democratic Party of Japan led by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in parliamentary elections. Abe stressed Monday that the road ahead will not be easy as he tries to revive Japan's sputtering economy and bolster its national security amid deteriorating relations with China.

Associated Press TOKYOJapan‘s Cabinet endorsed a set of defense bills Thursday that would allow the country’s military to go beyond its self-defense stance and play a greater role internationally, a plan that has split public opinion.
photo: AP / Koji Sasahara

House of Representatives votes to end NSA bulk phone data collection

Full ArticlePress TV

14 May 2015

The US House of Representatives has approved legislation that would end the collection of phone records from millions of Americans by the National Security Agency (NSA) despite opposition from some Senate Republicans. The bill, namedUSA Freedom Act, was passed n Wednesday 338 to 88, with broad bipartisan support. The measure would prevent an

File - Edward Snowden talks with Jane Mayer via satellite at the 15th Annual New Yorker Festival on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 in New York.

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi shaking hands with the Chinese President, Mr. Xi Jinping in New Delhi on September 18, 2014.

XI’AN, China (AP) — President Xi Jinping praised China’swarming ties with India during a meeting Thursday between the leaders of Asia‘s rising powers and rivals, which included a rare touch of personal diplomacy for aChinese leader. Xi met with

International Airport in Bujumbura, Burundi

The leaders of a coup against Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza claim to have gained control of the capital, Bujumbura. “We controlvirtually the entire city. The soldiers who are being deployed are on our side,”Burundi’s

Afghanistan's security forces walk around the French Cultural Center

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? The Taliban attack on a Kabulguesthouse left 14 people dead, including nine foreigners, in the most audacious assault by the insurgents in the Afghan capital since the start of their spring offensive, a government official

In this photo released by the South Korean Unification Ministry, South Korea's Unification Policy Officer Chun Hae-sung, left, and the head of North Korea's delegation Kim Song Hye read statements during their meeting at the southern side of Panmunjom

Doubts surfaced Thursday over the reported execution of North Korea‘s defence chief, as the original source, South Korea‘s spy agency, clarified that it had been unable to verify he had been put to death. Briefing a

Pope Francis celebrates a Mass in Sibari, southern Italy, Saturday, June 21, 2014

Vatican City: The Vatican officially recognized the state ofPalestine in a new treaty finalized Wednesday, immediately sparking Israeli ire and accusations that the move hurt peace prospects. The treaty, which concerns the activities of the Catholic

An M23 rebel stands guard in Rutshuru, which is under their control, some 75kms (48 miles) north of Goma, eastern Congo, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012.

Print 13 May 2015 – A United Nations human rights report released today says that a Uganda-based rebel group has committed grave violations of international humanitarian law in crisis-riven north-easternDemocratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
photo: AP / Jerome

 

Breakup fears for massive Antarctic ice shelf: study

Full ArticleThe Times of India

13 May 2015
PARIS: The largest ice shelf in the Antarctic peninsula is being thinned by warmer seas and air and could catastrophically break up, scientists said on Wednesday. The loss of the Larsen C ice shelf could occur within a century but an earlier collapse cannot be ruled out, with major consequences for global sea levels, they said. “We now know that
File - The Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica viewed from NASA's DC-8 aircraft during the AirSAR 2004 campaign.

 

Uzbek soldiers jump out of a truck during the uprising in the city of Andijan, Uzbekistan in this Friday, May 13, 2005 file photo.

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of protesters jammed intoBabur square in the city of Andijan, relishing a rare burst of defiance as one speaker after another condemned hardship under Uzbekistan‘s despotic government. Hours later, a decade ago

young black domestic cat with white dot on front, Norway

Animal rights activists are blasting a top-ranked Oklahomacharter school after its students were seen on video using dead cats to act out dance moves, set to the jingle used in commercials for Meow Mix cat food. The video, originally posted on

North Korea executes defence chief

SEOUL – North Korea has executed its defence chief on treason charges, Seoul‘s National Intelligence Service was quoted as telling lawmakers, in the latest of a series of high-level purges since Kim Jong Un took power after his father’s death in

Militiamen loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi ride on a tank on a street in Aden, Yemen, Thursday, March 19, 2015.

Sana‘a, May 12: At least 100 people were killed as Saudi-led coalition forces intensified air bombings on missiles warehouse and arms depots in Yemen‘s capital Sana’a, medics said on Tuesday, hours before a planned five-day ceasefire for

Britain's Prince Harry listens as his brother Prince William (not pictured) delivers a speech in west London Thursday Jan. 8, 2009. A British newspaper says it has video footage of Prince Harry allegedly using offensive and racist language. The Sunday tabloid The News of The World reported that Harry, third in line to the British throne, used offensive terms to refer to people from Pakistani and people of Arab descent. Britain's St. James's Palace _ the office of Harry and his elder brother Prince William _ said on Saturday that Harry was sorry for any offense caused. The newspaper said the video was recorded three years ago. It alleged he called one person a "paki" and referred to others as "ragh

Mark Colborne was plotting to kill Prince Charles so that Harrycould become king, court has heard. Photo: Getty Images London: A ginger-haired fanatic wanted to kill Prince Charles in the hope that redhead Prince Harry would become king, a
photo: AP / Toby Melville, pool

Singapore tops OECD's global school rankings list

13 May 2015 Last updated at 00:02 BST The biggest ever global school rankings have been published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), comparing how well teenagers perform in maths and science tests in 76 countries.

Nikola Gruevski, prime minister and leader of the VMRO-DPMNE, and his wife Borkica, celebrate the victory on the parliamentary elections on a street in Macedonia's capital Skopje, late Sunday, June 5, 2011.

By Kole Casule SKOPJE (Reuters) – Macedonia‘s interior minister and its powerful intelligence chief resigned on Tuesday, apparently sacrificed by embattled Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to save his government from months of damaging wire-tap
photo: AP / Boris Grdanoski

White House categorically denies Barack Obama lied over how the US killed Osama bin Laden

Full ArticleThe Independent

12 May 2015

The White House has strongly denied an article by a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist that claims Barack Obama lied to the public about the killing of Osama bin Laden. Seymour Hersh’s article, published in the London Review of Books, alleged that the government of Pakistan played a key role in helping the US assassinate the former

In this April 1998 file photo, exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is shown in Afghanistan.

Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, right, talks with French President Francois Hollande in Havana, Cuba, Monday, May 11, 2015.

12 May 2015 From the section Latin America & CaribbeanFrancois Hollande‘s visit is the first by a French leader since Cuba‘s independenceFrench President Francois Hollande has met Cuba’s 1959 revolutionary leadersFidel and Raul Castro on a

A North Korean soldier looks at the southern side through a pair of binoculars at the border village of the Panmunjom (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 19, 2013.

The startling allegation stems from a North Korean defectoridentified only as Mr. Park, a pseudonym used to protect his family, according toCNN. One of the highest profile defectors ever to make it out of North Korea, Park has related a wealth of

Obama Malaysia Airlines

The Obama administration on Monday announced conditional approval for Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc. to resume its long and troubled efforts to drill in the Arctic Ocean, a decision that drew broad backlash from environmental groups that warned of

UN Mali

BAMAKO (Reuters) – At least nine Malian soldiers were killed in an ambush by separatist rebels near the northern town of Timbuktu on Monday, days before a U.N.-backed peace deal was due to be signed. The ambush highlights persistent tensions and

President-elect Francois Hollande waves from the balcony of the Socialist Party headquarters in Paris Monday May 7, 2012.

HAVANA (AP) ? French President Francois Hollande called on Monday for ending of the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, saying France “will be a faithful ally” as Cuba reforms its centrally planned economy and tries to re-enter the global economic system.

From left to right, Bahraini Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, United Arab Emirates' Vice President Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Oman's Vice President Fahad bin Mahmoud, Kuwait's Emir Sheik Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Saudi Crown Prince Salam bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Qatar's Crown Prince Sheik Tameem Al Thani, and Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, pose for picture during the Gulf Cooperation Council GCC summit in Sekhir, Bahrain, Monday, Dec. 24, 2012.

The Saudi king’s absence from a regional summit to be hosted by President Barack Obama shows how Gulf states, displeased by what they see as US indifference to Iranian meddling in the Arab world, may hesitate to bless any nuclear deal with

General Motors President Dan Ammann, left, CEO Mary Barra, and Executive Vice President Mark Reuss, hold a news conference at the General Motors Technical Center

The death toll from crashes caused by faulty ignition switches in 2.6 million older General Motors small cars has reached 100. The number was updated Monday by attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who was hired by GM to compensate victims. It’s the first
photo: AP / Carlos Osorio
  • Raul Castro so impressed with Pope Francis he ‘may start praying again and return to Church’

    10 May 2015

    Raul Castro is a huge fan of Pope Francis, it turns out – so much so that the Cuban President has said he could be persuaded to return to the Catholic Church. Francis entertained the communist revolutionary for nearly an hour during a “strictly private” meeting at the Vatican, and it seems that one of the more unlikely international bromances has

    Pope Francis meets Cuban President Raul Castro during a private audience at the Vatican, Sunday, May 10, 2015.

    Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, left, greets Irish Taoiseach Prime Minister Enda Kenny outside 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, March 11, 2014.

    U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said London Mayor Boris Johnson will take part in meetings of his new cabinet and Sajid Javid will be business secretary as he promoted Amber Rudd and Priti Patel to senior government posts. “Boris Johnson will be

    Julian Assange in Ecuadorian Embassy United Kingdom

    Stockholm: Sweden‘s Supreme Court said Monday it had rejected an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange against his arrest warrant for alleged rape and sexual assault. Sweden issued the arrest warrant in 2010following

              Pro secular demonstrators, holding Turkish flags , chant slogans againist islamist AKP government in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, July 6, 2008.

    ANKARA, TurkeyKenan Evren, the general who led Turkey’s1980 military coup that ended years of street-clashes between rival left- and right-wing militias and but also unleashed a wave of arrests, torture and extrajudicial killings died on

    Mr. Tony Blair, Patron of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, will speak to reporters following his briefing to the open session of the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the Security Council

    Labour must reclaim the political centre ground if the party is to recover from its crushing general election defeat, Tony Blair has warned. The former prime minister, who led the party to three consecutive election victories, said the party had to

    Parliament Speaker, acting president Bronislaw Komorowski and wife Anna after exit polls indicated him the winner in the presidential elections, during the election night in Warsaw, Sunday, July 4, 2010

    WARSAW Poland votes in the first round of a presidential election on Sunday that opinion polls show will send front-runner and incumbentBronislaw Komorowski into a runoff against a conservative opposition challenger. A comfortable re-election for

    Ebola patient Beatrice Yardolo, celebrates with Ebola health workers as she leaves the Chinese Ebola treatment center were she was treated for Ebola virus infection on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, March 5, 2015

    MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — On the day Mercy Kennedy lost her mother to Ebola, it was hard to imagine a time when Liberia would be free from one of the world’s deadliest viruses. It had swept through the 9-year-old’s neighborhood, killing people house

    File - Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, center, listens to proceedings from inside the defendant cage while flanked by his sons Alaa, left and Gamal, right, in a courtroom in Cairo, Saturday, July 6, 2013.

    CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt‘s deposed leader Hosni Mubarak and his two sons were sentenced Saturday to three years in prison and a fine in a retrial on corruption charges they faced earlier. It wasn’t immediately clear whether it will include time he’s

     

    America Fiddles as Derelict Zones Erupt and Burn

    Full ArticleWorldNews.com

    09 May 2015

    Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Mahatma Gandhi warned that the deadliest form of violence is poverty. But for Gandhi, poverty consisted of not only economic impoverishment but political, social, and cultural. It also included psychological, emotional, even spiritual, neglect and abandonment. Known today as America‘s derelict zones,

    Firefighters battle a blaze, Monday, April 27, 2015, after rioters plunged part of Baltimore into chaos, torching a pharmacy, setting police cars ablaze and throwing bricks at officers.

              Pro secular demonstrators, holding Turkish flags , chant slogans againist islamist AKP government in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, July 6, 2008.

    ANKARA, TurkeyKenan Evren, the general who led Turkey’s1980 military coup that ended years of street-clashes between rival left- and right-wing militias and but also unleashed a wave of arrests, torture and extrajudicial killings died on

    Mr. Tony Blair, Patron of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, will speak to reporters following his briefing to the open session of the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the Security Council

    Labour must reclaim the political centre ground if the party is to recover from its crushing general election defeat, Tony Blair has warned. The former prime minister, who led the party to three consecutive election victories, said the party had to

    Parliament Speaker, acting president Bronislaw Komorowski and wife Anna after exit polls indicated him the winner in the presidential elections, during the election night in Warsaw, Sunday, July 4, 2010

    WARSAW Poland votes in the first round of a presidential election on Sunday that opinion polls show will send front-runner and incumbentBronislaw Komorowski into a runoff against a conservative opposition challenger. A comfortable re-election for

    Ebola patient Beatrice Yardolo, celebrates with Ebola health workers as she leaves the Chinese Ebola treatment center were she was treated for Ebola virus infection on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, Thursday, March 5, 2015

    MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — On the day Mercy Kennedy lost her mother to Ebola, it was hard to imagine a time when Liberia would be free from one of the world’s deadliest viruses. It had swept through the 9-year-old’s neighborhood, killing people house

    File - Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, center, listens to proceedings from inside the defendant cage while flanked by his sons Alaa, left and Gamal, right, in a courtroom in Cairo, Saturday, July 6, 2013.

    CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt‘s deposed leader Hosni Mubarak and his two sons were sentenced Saturday to three years in prison and a fine in a retrial on corruption charges they faced earlier. It wasn’t immediately clear whether it will include time he’s
    photo: AP / Mohammed al-Law

    Election aftermath: A divided nation

    Full ArticleBBC News

    08 May 2015

    Mark Easton Home editor 8 May 2015 From the section UK comments David Cameron‘s greatest challenge is to prevent the union being torn apart by mutual resentment The question uppermost in the prime minister’s mind as he assembles his new government is how to keep the kingdom united. “Above all I want to bring our country together,” he revealed after

    First Minister of Scotland and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon, center, celebrates with the results for her party at the count of Glasgow constituencies for the General Election, Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, May 8, 2015.

    Girls 'stripped naked' at ISIS slave bazaars

    (AhlulBayt News Agency) The United Nations says the TakfiriISIL terrorist group has been offering Syrian and Iraqi girls for sale by putting them on show “stripped naked” in “slave bazaars.” Special Representative of the UN

    Safeguarding property

    Calamities cannot be eliminated altogether. Precautions can, however, reduce the impact. What can be the causes for quakes and floods? Seismologists say that some of the reasons for earth tremors, earthquakes and floods are unplanned growth of

    Cuba Ebola Doctors

    VOA News A medical journal is reporting that the Ebola viruswas detected in the eye of a U.S. doctor who had already recovered from the illness, a rare finding in the study of Ebola. In the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists

    Libya rejects European Union migrant plan, says not asked

    UNITED NATIONS: Libya‘s ambassador to the United Nations is largely rejecting a European Union plan to fight the growing migrant crisis that is centered in his crumbling country, saying his Western-backed government hasn’t even been consulted and

    In this file handout image taken from a 2003 U.S. Department of Defense surveillance video and provided Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by Omar Khadr's defense lawyers, Khadr is shown in an interrogation room at the Guatanamo U.S. Naval Base prison while being questioned by members of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

    Cindy Saine STATE DEPARTMENT— Canada‘s release of formerGuantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr has brought the controversial detention center at the U.S. Naval base in Cuba back into the spotlight. Omar Khadr is the youngest person ever to be held

    Trees are reflected on a board displaying photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the country's successful long range rocket launch outside North Korean embassy in Beijing Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013.

    North Korea says it has test-fired a new underwater ballistic missile, describing it as a “world level strategic weapon.” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was at the site of the event and gave the order of the missile launch from an attack

    British Prime Minister David Cameron with troops during a visit to Forward Operating Base Price in Helmand Province, Afghanistan Thursday Dec. 20, 2012.

    Al Pessin Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to govern as the party of “one nation” and to make his country “greater,” one day after his Conservative Party secured a majority in Britain’s parliamentary vote.
    photo: AP / Stefan Wermuth

    Court Rules Big Brother Is Too Big to Be Legal

    Full ArticleThe Daily Beast

    07 May 2015

    A federal court warns the government’s argument for mass surveillance would let it collect everything on everyone forever. In forceful and at times reproachful language, a federal appeals court on Thursday that the government’s collection of all Americans’ phone records is illegal, and that the Obama administration’s overly broad interpretation of

    File - NSA leaker Edward Snowden appears on a live video feed broadcast from Moscow at an event sponsored by the ACLU Hawaii in Honolulu on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015.

    Response to Nepal emergency 'slow'

    The international response has been slow to an appeal for emergency funds to help the millions of people hit by last month’s earthquake inNepal, a UN official said today. Jamie McGoldrick, the UN’s chief official in the Himalayan nation, said the

    Progress M-27M was a Progress spacecraft used by Roscosmos in an unsuccessful attempt to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015.

    CAPE CANAVERAL: An unmanned Russian spaceship loitering in orbit after a failed cargo run to the International Space Station plunged intoEarth’s atmosphere on Thursday, the Russian space agency reported. The capsule, loaded with more than three

    British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a business seminar in Mumbai, India, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. Cameron is on a two-day official visit to India.

      LONDONBritish voters get to decide on Thursday who they want to rule the world’s fifth-largest economy in a tight election that could yield weak government, propel the United Kingdom towards a vote on EU membership and stoke Scottish desire

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets supporters at the party's election headquarters In Tel Aviv, Wednesday, March 18, 2015.

    Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu managed to cobble together a narrow government tonight, a few hours before a midnight deadline, but only after being forced to make significant concessions to all his coalition partners. Negotiations went on

    Pierre Nkurunziza, President of the Republic of Burundi, joins the General Assembly thematic debate on "Access to education in emergency and post-crisis and transition situations caused by man-made conflicts or natural disasters."

    By Patrick Nduwimana BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Burundi‘s president said on Wednesday that, if elected for a third term in June, it would be his last and he would not run for office again after that, his spokesman said on Wednesday. President Pierre

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses reporters during a news conference with Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on March 5, 2015, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, following a series of meetings with King Salman, Deputy Crown Prince Muhammed bin Nayef, and members of the regional Gulf Cooperation Council.

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerrysought to secure a pause in Yemen‘s war as he arrived in Saudi Arabia Wednesday for meeting with top officials, citing increased shortages of food, fuel and medicine that are adding to a

    Hezbollah supporters raise their hands to great Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah

    Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday said his militant group based in Lebanon plans to launch an attack inside Syria againstMuslim extremist insurgents in the mountain region along the border. Local media outlets and Syrian opposition

    Assad Using Chemical Weapons Again

    Syrians look down at a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (L) and his late father and predecessor Hafez al-Assad in Damascus, as they watch the tourist train pass following the re-opening ceremony of the rail route between two neighbourhoods in the Syrian capital, Raboeh and Dumar, on May 1, 2015. AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA (Photo credit should read LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)

    Britain votes in suspense-filled general election

    Full ArticleThe Times of India

    07 May 2015

    LONDON: Britons voted on Thursday in a knife-edge general election that could put their country’s membership of the European Union in question and raise the likelihood of independence for Scotland. Polls opened at 7:00am (0600GMT) with voters deciding between Prime Minister David Cameron‘s centre-rightConservatives and Ed Miliband‘s centre-left

    Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron and his wife Samantha leave a voting station in Spelsbury, England, as protesters demonstrate outside after they voted in the general election, Thursday, May 7, 2015.

    British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a business seminar in Mumbai, India, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. Cameron is on a two-day official visit to India.

      LONDONBritish voters get to decide on Thursday who they want to rule the world’s fifth-largest economy in a tight election that could yield weak government, propel the United Kingdom towards a vote on EU membership and stoke Scottish desire

     

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets supporters at the party's election headquarters In Tel Aviv, Wednesday, March 18, 2015.

    Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu managed to cobble together a narrow government tonight, a few hours before a midnight deadline, but only after being forced to make significant concessions to all his coalition partners. Negotiations went on

    Pierre Nkurunziza, President of the Republic of Burundi, joins the General Assembly thematic debate on "Access to education in emergency and post-crisis and transition situations caused by man-made conflicts or natural disasters."

    By Patrick Nduwimana BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Burundi‘s president said on Wednesday that, if elected for a third term in June, it would be his last and he would not run for office again after that, his spokesman said on Wednesday. President Pierre

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses reporters during a news conference with Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on March 5, 2015, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, following a series of meetings with King Salman, Deputy Crown Prince Muhammed bin Nayef, and members of the regional Gulf Cooperation Council.

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerrysought to secure a pause in Yemen‘s war as he arrived in Saudi Arabia Wednesday for meeting with top officials, citing increased shortages of food, fuel and medicine that are adding to a

    Hezbollah supporters raise their hands to great Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah

    Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday said his militant group based in Lebanon plans to launch an attack inside Syria againstMuslim extremist insurgents in the mountain region along the border. Local media outlets and Syrian opposition

    In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012.

    Syrian President Bashar Assad acknowledged Wednesday what he said were recent “setbacks” in the war against insurgents trying to topple him, promising a comeback by his troops still entangled in heavy fighting. The rare admission of

    Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 28, 2010

    JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuwas racing against the clock Wednesday to put together a governing coalition or else face an almost unimaginable scenario by which he would be forced out of office. Netanyahu was holding
    photo: AP / //Ronen Zvulun

    CERN’s Large Hadron Collider resumes collisions after upgrade

    Full ArticleDNA India

    06 May 2015

    A model of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel is seen in the CERN (EuropeanOrganization For Nuclear Research) visitors’ center in

    This May 31, 2007 file photo, shows a view of the LHC (large hadron collider) in its tunnel at CERN (European particle physics laboratory) near Geneva, Switzerland.

    Pro-Russian gunmen take positions near the airport, outside Donetsk, Ukraine, on Monday, May 26, 2014

    KIEV (Reuters) – Five Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 12 injured over the past 24 hours despite a ceasefire deal, Ukraine‘s military said on Wednesday, describing a worsening situation in separatist eastern territories. The deaths came

    File - Peacekeepers of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), MONUSCO, are shown on patrol in Bunagana, a town in the country’s North Kivu province, during efforts with Government forces to secure the area against rebel attacks. Much of the Kivu provinces have recently seen intense fighting by the M23 rebel group and other militias, 23 May, 2012.

    6 May 2015 From the section Africa More than 20,000 UN peacekeepers are based in DR Congo Two Tanzanian peacekeepers with the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been killed in an ambush near the city of Beni, the UN has said.

    Garden in Vaugirard, or the Painter's Family in the Garden in Rue Carcel, (1881) Gauguin's relationship with Van Gogh was rocky. Gauguin had shown an early interest in Impressionism, and the two shared bouts of depression and suicidal tendencies

    NEW YORK — A painting Vincent van Gogh created while briefly working side by side with his friend Paul Gauguin in the south of France brought in $66.3 million at auction Tuesday. “The Allee of Alyscamps” was offered atSotheby’s impressionist and

    File - Governor Mike Huckabee speaking at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.

    HOPE, Ark. – Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Tuesday became the sixth Republican to formally enter the 2016 presidential contest, stressing his humble roots and traditional values. Huckabee announced his second bid for the White House here in

    Burundian president Pierre Nkurunziza, right, casts his vote at a polling station in his hometown of Mumba in Ngozi province, northern Burundi.

    Burundi’s Constitutional Court says it has approved PresidentPierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term. The statement came on Tuesday as dozens of protesters marched in the capital Bujumbura to say they would “never accept” a campaign they call

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    Japan‘s meteorological agency yesterday issued a warning to limit access to the popular hot springs resort of Hakone after a nearby volcano became active and began
    photo: Creative Commons / Kentagon

    FBI watched Texas suspect for years

    An FBI crime scene investigator documents evidence outside the Curtis Culwell Center, Monday, May 4, 2015, in Garland, Texas. Two men opened fire with assault weapons on police Sunday night who were guarding a contest for Muslim Prophet Muhammed cartoons.

     

    Diet Pills, Medicine

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    Israel's Jewish Ethiopians block highway during a protest against racism and police brutality in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, May 3, 2015.

    JERUSALEM (AP) — When Israel secretly airlifted waves ofEthiopian Jews in the 1980s and 1990s, saving them from war and famine in theHorn of Africa, it was celebrated as a triumphant show of unity for the Jewish people. Thirty years after the

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses reporters at a news conference following a round of meetings on June 25, 2014, at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, focused on Ukraine and other alliance issues

    By Lesley Wroughton NAIROBI (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of StateJohn Kerry told Kenya on Monday it had an important role in helping resolve conflicts in South Sudan and Somalia and pledged $45 million in new aid to help it deal with 600,000 refugees.

    American Conservative Union : Carly Fiorina

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    In this Feb. 10, 2014 file photo, Kenyan gays and lesbians and others supporting their cause wear masks to preserve their anonymity as they stage a rare protest, against Uganda's increasingly tough stance against homosexuality and in solidarity with their counterparts there, outside the Uganda High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, Feb. 10, 2014.

    NAIROBI – Kenya‘s deputy president has said there is “no room” for homosexuality in Kenyan society, the latest comments from an Africangovernment to anger activists and likely also to annoy Western donors who say gays are targetted on the

    Palestinians take part in a protest calling for end the Israeli illegal blockade on Gaza Strip and against the slow rehabilitation of the strip after damage incurred during the recent Israeli offensive on Gaza Strip, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

    Jerusalem, May 04: The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) policy during last summer’s war in Gaza caused unprecedented harm to Palestinian civilians and infrastructure, an Israeli non-governmental organisation has charged.Breaking the Silence, an NGO of

    European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, right, talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron

    With four days to go till Britain’s election, leaders of the country’s main political parties were using the long weekend to make a final push to win over undecided voters before the vote. Prime Minister David Cameron and his rivals were out Sunday
    photo: AP / Yves Logghe

    Lindsey Vonn And Tiger Woods Call It Quits After Three Years Of Dating

    Full ArticleThe Inquisitr

    04 May 2015

    After three years of dating, the couple announced that they had decided to go their separate ways. Vonn was the first to make the announcement in a post on her personal Facebook page. “After nearly three years together, Tiger and I have mutually decided to end our relationship. I will always cherish the memories that we’ve created

    Lindsey Vonn speaks to Tiger Woods during the Par 3 contest at the Masters golf tournament Wednesday, April 8, 2015, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

    European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, right, talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron

    With four days to go till Britain’s election, leaders of the country’s main political parties were using the long weekend to make a final push to win over undecided voters before the vote. Prime Minister David Cameron and his rivals were out Sunday

    French President Francois Hollande, center, is greeted by Culture minister of Qatar Dr. Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari, right, as French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, left, looks on, at the Doha airport, Qatar, Monday, May 4, 2015.

    DOHA (Reuters) – President Francois Hollande and Qatari EmirSheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani signed on Monday a 6.3 billion euro $7.02 billion) agreement for the sale of 24 Dassault Aviation-built Rafale fighter jets. The contract – the third this

    Afghanistan's flag is seen, top right, as Afghan soldiers stand attention during a hand over ceremony of U.S.- run prison to Afghan government in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012.

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban militants who have been waging war on the Afghan government for more than a decade have expressed a willingness to soften their position on a range of issues that could lead to talks on ending the conflict.

    French far right National Front party leader Jean- Marie Le Pen, right, and his daughter Marine give a press conference in Nanterre, outside Paris, Monday, April 12, 2010. Le Pen, said he will not run in France's presidential election in 2012 and declined to say who should succeed him.

    4 May 2015 From the section Europe Le Pen took to the stage on 1 May while his daughter was addressing supporters in Paris French ex-NationalFront leader Jean-Marie Le Pen will hear if he is to lose his post of honorary president after a series of

    ARCTIC OCEAN - A multi-year ice floe slides down the starboard side of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy Aug. 11, 2009, as the ship heads north into even thicker ice. "You can tell that this is a multi-year ice floe by the light blue melt ponds that have formed on top of the floe," said Pablo Clemente-Coln, chief scientist at the U.S. National Ice Center.(U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Patrick Kelley) (665661) ( )

    David Shukman Science editor 4 May 2015 From the section Science & Environment comments The team braves extreme temperatures during the polar winter Changes in the Arctic Ocean are so profound that the region is entering what amounts to “a new

    South Korea North Korea Party Anniversary

    Pyongyang says it will send a senior diplomat to Russia to attend a World War II commemoration event after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called off his scheduled visit to Moscow. “Kim Yong Nam,

    Philippine Flags

    MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines‘ most wanted Islamist militant, whose death at the weekend could boost peace efforts in the country’s south, was killed by his own bodyguards in pursuit of a bounty offered by theUnited States, the head of
    photo: WN / Dominic Canoy

     

    Royal baby: Princess’s first night at Kensington Palace

    Full ArticleBBC News

    03 May 2015

    3 May 2015 From the section UK The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have spent the first night with their new baby daughter at Kensington Palace. The name of their second child – sister to Prince George – could be announced later and members of the Royal Family and the duchess’s parents may visit. The princess, who is fourth in line to the throne, was

    Britain's Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, hold their newborn daughter as they as they pose for the media outside St. Mary's Hospital's exclusive Lindo Wing, London, Saturday, May 2, 2015.

     

    Citizens inspect the site of a car bomb attack while security forces prepare to tow away a destroyed car in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013.

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least 12 Iraqi soldiers and paramilitary forces were killed on Saturday by suicide car bombs targeting an outpost in western Anbar province, while attacks in the capital killed at least 14 civilians, security and medical

    Royal Baby

    From Prince Charles to royal fans to most of those who put down a bet, millions in Britain were hoping for a girl. The Duchess of Cambridgedelighted her nation and royal enthusiasts around the world Saturday by delivering one such princess. The

    A man kisses the Tunisian flag during a demonstration in Tunis, Tunisia, against high prices and unemployment, Saturday Jan. 8, 2011.

    The Tunisian government has rejected claims by the Israeli prime minister that Jews and Israelis are under the threat of terrorism in the North African Country. “We have nothing on that. There are no threats,” said a Tunisian interior

    Angela Merkel with Nicos Anastasiades in 2007 at the EPP summit.

    Germany has a duty to deal sensitively with the Nazi era,Chancellor Angela Merkel said, citing a debate in Greece about Germanresponsibility for the country’s occupation during World War II. “One can’t draw the line on history,” Merkel said in her

    Titlis Cable car, near Engelberg. he Titlis (3,238 m) is a mountain in the Urner Alps of Switzerland.

    People in Britain are less happy than those in Australia, New Zealand or the US, but more contented than their peers in Germany, France andSpain, the 2015 World Happiness Report has found. According to the new study, which examined factors including

    Thai police officials measure a shallow grave in Padang Besar, Songkhla province, southern Thailand, Saturday, May 2, 2015.

    PADANG BESAR, Thailand (AP) — Police officials in Thailand trekked into the mountains and dug up 26 bodies from dozens of shallow graves at an abandoned jungle camp that’s been linked to human trafficking networks, which activists say are “out of

    Britain's Prince William, right, and his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge speak to each other ahead of a quarterfinals match between Roger Federer of Switzerland and Mikhail Youzhny of Russia at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, Wednesday July 4, 2012.

    Associated Press LONDONKate, the Duchess of Cambridge, has given birth to a baby girl, royal officials said Saturday. Kensington Palace said in a brief statement that Prince William‘s wife “was safely delivered of a daughter” at

     

    Six Baltimore officers charged in death of Gray, one with murder

    Full ArticleReuters

    02 May 2015
    BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Baltimore‘s chief prosecutor charged one police officer with murder on Friday and five others with lesser crimes in the death of a young black man who suffered a critical neck injury in the back of a police van, a case that fueled new anger over police treatment of minorities. The swift decision by MarilynMosby, who has been
    Demonstrators celebrate the announcement of six officers charged in the police-custody death of Freddie Gray before a curfew goes into effect Friday, May 1, 2015, in Baltimore.

    Nepal Earthquake 2015

    As the death toll of Nepal‘s devastating quake climbs to 6,624 with over 14,000 reported injured by the latest official count, authorities rule out the possibility of pulling out any more survivors from the rubble. “The death toll

     

    Death of Freddie Gray - Maryland National Guard

    BALTIMORE – Six Baltimore police officers face charges ranging from assault to second-degree murder in the death of Freddie Gray, who died from injuries suffered in police custody, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby said Friday. In a midmorning

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks to the top during the 'Petersburg Dialogue' in the Munich residence Thursday, July 16, 2009

    BERLIN: The German intelligence service BND, which is accused of helping the United States spy on EU leaders and companies, had actually “deleted 12,000 requests” targeting European officials, according to Saturday’s edition of the Der Spiegel

    A Burundian army soldier tries to extinguish a burning-tyre roadblock erected by opposition protesters in the capital Bujumbura, Burundi Monday, April 27, 2015.

    Two policemen and a civilian have been killed and several others have been wounded in a grenade attack in the Burundian capitalBujumbura, police says. The attack was carried out in the Kamenge district of the capital on Friday amid protests, which

    Death of Freddie Gray - 2015 Baltimore riots

    A prisoner riding in the Baltimore police van that carried critically injured Freddie Gray denies reports that he believed Gray intentionally hurt himself. Donta Allen, speaking to TV station WBAL, contradicted a police document leaked to The

    Flight deck personnel secure aircraft to the deck as the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) transits the Strait of Hormuz and anticipated heavy seas reported in the Gulf of Oman.

    WASHINGTON — U.S. Navy ships will begin accompanying U.S.commercial ships during their transit through the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf to ensure they encounter no interference from Iran, U.S. defense officials said Thursday.

    John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer, is seen during the Global Market Forecast, at the Airbus Factory in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010.

    The European defence and aviation group Airbus is preparing to file a criminal complaint over allegations that the German intelligence service helped the US carry out industrial espionage. It comes after German media reports suggested that the
    photo: AP / Manuel Blondeau

    Why is the US Trying to Replace the Assad Government With al-Qaeda in Syria?

    Full ArticleCounterPunch

    01 May 2015

    A month ago, the fell to opposition fighters, mainly al-Qaeda and its affiliates and allies. It was a major blow to the Syrian army. Last Saturday, the nearby town of also fell, mostly to the same groups. Fighting against the Syrian government and army are a mixture of Syrian and foreign mercenaries from dozens of countries. They are supplied,

    In this picture taken on Saturday April 18, 2015, a displaced Kurdish family sit in the open air field near their house which was destroyed during the battle between the U.S. backed Kurdish forces and the Islamic State fighters, in Kobani, north Syria.

    Death of Freddie Gray - 2015 Baltimore riots

    A prisoner riding in the Baltimore police van that carried critically injured Freddie Gray denies reports that he believed Gray intentionally hurt himself. Donta Allen, speaking to TV station WBAL, contradicted a police document leaked to The

    Flight deck personnel secure aircraft to the deck as the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) transits the Strait of Hormuz and anticipated heavy seas reported in the Gulf of Oman.

    WASHINGTON — U.S. Navy ships will begin accompanying U.S.commercial ships during their transit through the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf to ensure they encounter no interference from Iran, U.S. defense officials said Thursday.

    John Leahy, Airbus Chief Operating Officer, is seen during the Global Market Forecast, at the Airbus Factory in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010.

    The European defence and aviation group Airbus is preparing to file a criminal complaint over allegations that the German intelligence service helped the US carry out industrial espionage. It comes after German media reports suggested that the

    House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio performs a mock swearing in for Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington as the 113th Congress began

    The US House of Representatives has approved legislation designed to put an end to the National Security Agency‘s controversial collection of Americans’ phone records. In a bipartisan vote of 25 to 2 on Thursday, theHouse Judiciary

    Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, right, walks from number 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament in London, Wednesday, April 25, 2012.

    David Cameron came out on top in an Instant poll following the last televised set piece of the General Election campaign. The Prime Minister was speaking on a Question Time general election leaders’ special on BBC1, where he,Ed Miliband and Nick

    Malian soldiers inspect vehicles and arms recovered from Islamist militants during fighting to retake the town of Konna, at the Malian military base in Sevare, central Mali, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013.

    BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The death toll is mounting in Mali following another day of clashes between Malian soldiers and Tuareg separatist rebels. Mali’s government said the violence has left nine soldiers dead along

    German police officers search for evidence in a forest near Oberursel, Germany, Thursday, April 30, 2015.  Police arrested suspects there earlier the day.(AP Photo/Michael Probst)

    BERLIN (AP) — German security officials say they have foiled what they believe was an imminent Boston Marathon-style attack after raiding thehome of a suspected Islamic extremist. The chief of police for western Hesse state says authorities found a

    Nasa’s Messenger Capsule to smash into Mercury and die, ending a life of pioneering discovery

    Full ArticleThe Independent

    30 Apr 2015

    It’s been a wild ride for MESSENGER, the NASA spacecraft that has offered mankind its best insight into the mysteries of Mercury. Just 10 feet long and no heavier than a Friesian cow, the tiny ship has traveled 5 billion miles, flown by three planets and completed the first-ever map of the “first rock from the sun.” That all comes to a crashing

    File - Artist's rendering of NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft. MESSENGER traveled more than six and a half years before it was inserted into orbit around Mercury on March 18, 2011.

    This photo made available by Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, England shows Malala Yousufzai saying goodbye as she is discharged from the hospital to continue her rehabilitation at her family’s temporary home in the area, Friday, Jan. 4, 2013.

    An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan sentenced 10 men to life in prison on Thursday for the 2012 attack on teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai, the BBC reported. Yousafzai was just 15 years old when she was shot in the head while riding her

    In this photo taken Monday, April, 21. 2014, soldiers stand guards in front of government secondary school Chibok, were gunmen abducted more than 200 students in Chibok, Nigeria

    MAIDUGURI, NigeriaA day after the Nigerian army celebrated the rescue of 200 girls and 93 women in the forest stronghold of Boko Haram, the army’s spokesman said more women and children believed to have been abducted by the Islamic extremists were

    Chief Warrant Officer 3 Patrick Halinski gives control to a shooter launching a French F-2 Rafale during combined French and American carrier qualifications aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

    PARIS (Reuters) – Qatar has agreed to buy 24 Dassault Aviation-built Rafale fighter jets in a deal worth 6.3 billion euros ($7.05 billion), the French government said on Thursday, as the Gulf Arab state looks to boost its military firepower amid

    Military personnel take part in a parade celebrating the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War which is also remembered as the "Fall of Saigon," in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Thursday, April 30, 2015

    VOA News Vietnam is holding a parade to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the military victory that ended the Vietnam War and reunified the country under communist rule. As top officials looked on Thursday, thousands of flag-waving Vietnamese

    North Korean soldiers gestures to a Chinese tourist boat from a outpost along the China North Korea border near Hekou, northeastern China's Liaoning province, Tuesday, May 26, 2009.

    BEIJING — A Chinese city has reported the killings of three villagers in an area where North Korean border guards have been accused of crossing over to commit thefts and slayings. The Helong city government said a 55-year-old man surnamed Zhao, his

    Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks with reporters on the economy and high gasoline prices as Senators Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., left, Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., center, and Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., 2nd right, listen Wednesday, May 7, 2008 Capitol Hill in Washingto

    MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Promising to fight what he deems “obscene levels” of income disparity and a campaign finance system that is a “real disgrace,” independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Wednesday he will run for president as a Democrat. In

    In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, French President Francois Hollande addresses the troops at the airport following his two-hour-long visit to Timbuktu, Mali.

    France is investigating allegations that its peacekeepers sexually abused children in the Central African Republic after a leaked UN report said victims as young as eight were raped in exchange for food and money. The French government “was made
    photo: AP / Jerome Delay

    ‘We are hungry:’ Aid reaches epicenter, Nepal toll tops 5000

    Full ArticleThe Associated Press

    29 Apr 2015
    GUMDA, Nepal (AP) — Hands pressed together in supplication, the Nepalese women pleaded for food, shelter and anything else the helicopter might have brought on an in-and-out run Wednesday to this smashed mountain village near the epicenter of last weekend’s mammoth earthquake that killed more than 5,000people. Unlike in Nepal’s capital, where
    A local Nepalese person waits as he carries an injured victim of the recent earthquake to be evacuated by an Indian Air Force helicopter at Chhintang Phedi village, in Nepal, Wednesday, April 29, 2015.

    Saudi Crown prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz speaks during a press conference after the ceremony of the Saudi forces as they prepare for the influx of people to participate in the annual Hajj, in Arafat 15 kms outside of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011.

    King Salman removes Moqren bin Abdul Aziz bin Saud as heir and deputy prime minister and installs Mohammed bin Nayef, grandson of kingdom’s founder

     

    Nigeria Kidnapped Girls

    LAGOS, April 28 (Xinhua) — Up to 300 unidentified females have been rescued by Nigerian troops in restive northeast Sambisa forest following a daring and precise operation, a military spokesperson said on Tuesday. National defense spokesperson Major

    Nepal Earthquake 2015

    Nepal has declared three days of mourning for the victims of Saturday’s devastating earthquake that left nearly 5,000 dead and thousands more in desperate need of aid. In a televised news conference Tuesday, NepalesePrime Minister Sushil Koirala

    Price Daniel, Sr. State Office Building - Has offices of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Third Court of Appeals.

    A Texas man convicted of fatally stabbing a prison guard in 1999was granted a stay just hours before his scheduled execution Tuesday night. A state trial judge granted 35-year-old Robert Lynn Pruett’s motion for post-conviction DNA testing,

    The Amazon rainforest, the richest and most biodiverse rainforest in the world. Larger mammals include pumas, jaguars, ocelots, rare bush dogs, and foxes; peccaries,

    By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News 28 April 2015From the section Science & Environment The vast tropical forests of Amazoniaaccount for almost one-fifth of the world’s terrestrial vegetation carbon stock About 1% of all the tree

    ferry Sewol

    VOA News South Korean appeals court has handed a sentence of life in prison to the captain of the Sewol ferry that sank last year, overturning a lighter punishment by a lower court. The high court in the southern city ofGwangju on Tuesday convicted

    Nepal Earthquake 2015 aftermath.

    9.00 a.m. (0315 GMT) A Nepal police official says at least 4,352 bodies have so far been recovered after last week’s massive earthquake that struck just outside of capital Kathmandu. Deputy Inspector General of PoliceKomal Singh Bam says the toll
    photo: Creative Commons / Krish Dulal

    Nepal earthquake: Eight million people affected, UN says

    Full ArticleBBC News

    28 Apr 2015

    28 April 2015 From the section Asia Eight million people have been affected by the massive earthquake in Nepal, and 1.4 million are in need of food aid, the United Nations says. International aid has started arriving but there is still a shortage of medical equipment, food and body bags. The 7.8 magnitude quake hit Nepal on Saturday destroying

    Survivors of Saturday's earthquake play outside their tent at a makeshift camp in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, April 28, 2015.

    ferry Sewol

    VOA News South Korean appeals court has handed a sentence of life in prison to the captain of the Sewol ferry that sank last year, overturning a lighter punishment by a lower court. The high court in the southern city ofGwangju on Tuesday convicted

    Nepal Earthquake 2015 aftermath.

    9.00 a.m. (0315 GMT) A Nepal police official says at least 4,352 bodies have so far been recovered after last week’s massive earthquake that struck just outside of capital Kathmandu. Deputy Inspector General of PoliceKomal Singh Bam says the toll

    James E. Holmes appears in Arapahoe County District Court with Public Defender Tamara Brady Monday, July 23, 2012, in Centennial, Colo.

    5:05 p.m. (MDT) An attorney for the man who opened fire in a crowded Colorado movie theater says James Holmes experienced a break with reality months before the shooting, soon after he turned 24. Defense lawyerKatherine Spengler says Holmes

    Death of Freddie Gray Violent rioting and protests including looting occur near the Mondawmin Mall in Baltimore after the funeral of Freddie Gray with seven Baltimorean police officers injured.

    BALTIMORE — Rioters looted stores and hurled rocks and bricks at Baltimore police Monday, injuring several officers just hours after thousands mourned the man who died after suffering a severe spinal injury in police custody. Several hours later, the

    Palestinian schoolchildren take part in a gathering calling for the rebuilding of their school in Khan Yunis southern Gaza Strip,

    Israel fired on seven United Nations schools during the 2014Gaza war, killing 44 Palestinians who had sought shelter at some sites, whilePalestinian militants hid weapons and launched attacks from several empty UN schools, a UN. inquiry found. “I

    Libyan rebel fighter is silhouetted next to El Malti Mosque on the way to the city of Bani Walid, Libya, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011.

    Islamic State militants have slit the throats of five journalists working for a Libyan TV station in the eastern part of the country, an army commander said on Monday. The reporters had been missing since August, when they left the eastern city of

    Nepal Earthquake 2015

    The death toll from Nepal’s earthquake has risen above 3,700 and is expected to increase as rescue workers struggle to reach remote villages two days after the disaster. Reports received so far by the government and aid groups suggest that many

     

    Nepalis flee capital as aftershocks spread fear

    Full ArticleMail Guardian South Africa

    27 Apr 2015

    Hundreds of Nepalis were fleeing the capital Kathmandu for the plains on Monday, terror-stricken by two days of powerful aftershocks following a massive earthquake that killed more than 3 200 people and faced with shortages of food and water. Roads leading out of the mountain valley city of one million were jammed

    Residents rescue items from debris of a house that was damaged in Saturday’s earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, April 27, 2015.

     

    Nepal Earthquake 2015

    The death toll from Nepal’s earthquake has risen above 3,700 and is expected to increase as rescue workers struggle to reach remote villages two days after the disaster. Reports received so far by the government and aid groups suggest that many

    Zion Square, the annexation of East Jerusalem was met with international criticism. Following the passing of the Jerusalem Law, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution that declared the law "a violation of international law" and requested all member states to withdraw all remaining embassies from the city

    Israeli authorities are reportedly planning to construct more settler units in the occupied Palestinian territories, offering tenders for the construction of 77 homes. Peace Now, an Israeli activist group, said on Monday that 36 of the units are

    File - Australian Andrew Chan, right, and, and Myuran Sukumaran, left, stand inside a holding cell after their trial at a court in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006.

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    German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a media conference after an EU summit of eurogroup members at the EU Council building in Brussels on Thursday, July 21, 2011.

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    Indonesia gives 72-hour executions notice

    Full ArticleBoston Herald

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    Full ArticleStars and Stripes

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    Marchers block the Pratt Street after a march to City Hall for Freddie Gray, Saturday, April 25, 2015 in Baltimore.

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    President Barack Obama talks on the phone with FBI Director Robert Mueller to receive an update on the explosions that occurred in Boston, in the Oval Office, April 15, 2013.

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    A British 60-pounder (5-inch (130 mm)) gun at full recoil, in action during the Battle of Gallipoli, 1915. Howitzers can fire at maximum elevations at least close to 45°, and up to about 70° is normal for modern ones.

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    Inauguration of the new general head office of the direction of the taxes of Togo.     Togo and finance     inauguration du nouveau siège social de la direction général des impôts du Togo. Togo et finance. Faure Gnassingbe en le presidant de l'assemblée nationale Abbas BONFOH durant l'inauguration

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    Full ArticleBoston Herald

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    French President Francois Hollande answers a reporter during his annual news conference, Tuesday, Jan.14, 2014 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Hollande is promising to cut 50 billion euros in public spending over 2015-2017 to try to improve the indebted economy. Hollande, a Socialist, came to office in 2012 on pledges to avoid the painful austerity measures carried out by neighboring Spain and Italy. But France’s economy has suffered two recessions in recent years and growth is forecast at an anemic 0.2 percent in 2013.

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    on friday 27 july, in Citrana, Oecusse, a medical mission was led and coordintaed by MLG together with 2 FFDTL officers, Timorese doctord and cuban doctors as well as a UN nurse and responsible local athorities. The team saw 618 patients in a day and delivered medicine after consultations, did malaria tests and other vaccines when needed provided by the Timor-Leste Ministry of health. Seen here is a young patient.Photo by UNMIT/Martine Perret. 27 Juy 2012

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    File - An MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle and F-16 Fighting Falcon return from an Operation Iraqi Freedom combat mission.

     

    on friday 27 july, in Citrana, Oecusse, a medical mission was led and coordintaed by MLG together with 2 FFDTL officers, Timorese doctord and cuban doctors as well as a UN nurse and responsible local athorities. The team saw 618 patients in a day and delivered medicine after consultations, did malaria tests and other vaccines when needed provided by the Timor-Leste Ministry of health. Seen here is a young patient.Photo by UNMIT/Martine Perret. 27 Juy 2012

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    Gen. David H. Petraeus visits USS Nimitz on Thanksgiving Day, 2009.

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    5th Annual Wildfox Model Beach Volleyball in South Beach, Florida - February 9, 2014

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    Chile volcano erupts after 42 years

    Full ArticleBelfast Telegraph

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    Chile‘s Calbuco volcano has erupted for the first time in more than 42 years, billowing a huge ash cloud over a sparsely-populated mountainous area. Authorities ordered the evacuation of the 1,500 people in the nearby town ofEnsenada, along with residents of two smaller communities. The National Mining and Geology Service issued a high alert,
    The Calbuco volcano erupts near Puerto Varas, Chile, Wednesday, April 22, 2015.

     

    A protester, center, is taken away by police officers after hundreds of protesters staged a peaceful sit-ins

    Hong Kong‘s government unveiled election reform proposals Wednesday, setting the stage for another round of confrontation with pro-democracy activists and lawmakers opposed to Beijing-mandated restrictions on candidates for the city’s top job. The

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    File - This image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq.

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    Drug Enforcement Administration agents.

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    photo: Public Domain / Slick-o-bot

     

    File - This image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq.

    A recent report has uncovered the location of ISIL Takfiri terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, saying he is hiding in a town in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province. “Baghdadi is understood to have been spending much of his time in

    Three Chimpanzee release at an enclosure for public viewing  at Alipore Zoological Garden in Kolkata on Feb 20, 2015

    Two chimpanzees kept in a university laboratory have been given the right to a day in court. Photo: AFP New York: A New York judge has granted two chimpanzees a writ of habeas corpus. In other words, the chimps have the right to a day

    In this Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 photo, Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi speaks from a glassed-in defendant's cage during his trial on charges of over charges related to the prison breaks at the height of the 18-day 2011 uprising against his predecessor Hosni Mubarak.

    Mary Alice Salinas STATE DEPARTMENT— The sentencing Tuesday of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected leader, has raised concerns about the stability of a nation beset by turmoil since a popular

    Indonesian Muslims with the hard-line Islamic group Hizbut Tahrir Supporters of Bali bombers Amrozi Nurhasyim and Ali Ghufron in Lamongan East Java Indonesia Sunday Nov. 9, 2008.

    Petrus Riski SURABAYA, INDONESIA— Thousands of government officials from East Java in Indonesia have attended a workshop on the threats posed by the Islamic State and other radical groups. During the workshop inSurabaya on Tuesday, experts and

    Drug Enforcement Administration agents.

    Associated Press WASHINGTON— The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Michele Leonhart, is expected to resign soon, anObama administration official said Tuesday. Leonhart is a career drug agent who has led the agency since 2007, and is the

    In this Sept. 16, 2008 file photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Nawaf Fares, left, is sworn in as Syria's ambassador to Iraq before Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem in Damascus.

    PARIS (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad says the Frenchand Syrian intelligence services have had “some contacts” over the fight against the Islamic State group but denied that there is any
    photo: AP / SANA
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    War Might Be Health of State, But It’s Hell on Immigrants

    Full ArticleWorldNews.com

    20 Apr 2015

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    In this Sept. 16, 2008 file photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Nawaf Fares, left, is sworn in as Syria's ambassador to Iraq before Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem in Damascus.

    PARIS (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad says the Frenchand Syrian intelligence services have had “some contacts” over the fight against the Islamic State group but denied that there is any

    In this photo taken Sept. 7, 2012, Yanomami Indians dance in their village called Irotatheri in Venezuela's Amazon region.

    A tropical storm over the Amazon‘s Black River, which connectsBrazil, Venezuela and Colombia. Photo: AFP A remote tribe in the Venezuelan Amazon appears to be resistant to modern antibiotics even though its members have had barely any contact with

    Sailors assigned to USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Weapons Department man the rails of the Iowa-class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB 64).

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    In this Feb. 13, 2012 photo, recruits of the Kachin Independence Army, one of the country's largest armed ethnic groups, march during training at a military camp near Laiza, the area controlled by the Kachin in northern Myanmar.

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    (CNN)It’s up there right now — flying about 340 miles over theEarth and circling us every 97 minutes. It’s a telescope — in the sky. Just think about that for a bit. It’s called the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope itself is not really much

     

    UFOs Confront Soldiers During War, Says Ex-Air Force Intelligence Officer

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    Italy searches for 700 migrants lost at sea north of Libya

    19 Apr 2015
    Emergency services mounted a major search and rescue operation Sunday north of Libya after a ship containing hundreds of migrants trying to reach Italy capsized in the Mediterranean. Italy’s ANSA news agency said an estimated 700 people were aboard and only 28 people had been rescued. Barbara Molinario, spokeswoman
    An Italian Coast Guard officer helps migrants disembarking from Italian Coast Guard ship "Dattilo", in Augusta's port, near Siracusa, Sicily, Italy, Thursday, April 16, 2015.

     

    Rand Paul speaking to Tea Party Express supporters at a rally in Austin, Texas. USA

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    NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and William Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator  monitor the Orion spacecraft

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    Turkish and Afghan security personal inspect a damaged vehicle at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015.

    A suicide bomber in Afghanistan‘s eastern city of Jalalabadkilled 33 people and injured more than 100, setting off a blast outside a bank where government workers collect salaries. President Ashraf Ghani blamedIslamic State militants, without

    French frigate Hermione (2012) : Hermione in Bordeaux

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    photo: Creative Commons

     

    Will Washington’s nukes kill us all?

    Full ArticlePress TV

    18 Apr 2015

    By DR PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Did you know that Washington keeps 450 nuclearICBMs on “hair-trigger alert”? Washington thinks that this makes us “safe.” The reasoning, if it can be called reason, is that by being able to launch in a few minutes, no one will try to attack the US with nuclear weapons. US missiles are able to get on

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    File - Health workers in Monrovia, during the visit of Hervé Ladsous, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, to assess how the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) can further support the fight against Ebola, 11 September, 2014.

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    File - President Barack Obama listens to Dr. Nancy Sullivan, Senior Investigator, Chief Biodefense Research Section, explain the investigational Ebola vaccine candidate currently being tested on humans during a lab tour at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Dec. 2, 2014.

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    photo: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics

     

    Yemen’s new vice-president ‘hopes to avert Saudi invasion’

    Full ArticleBusiness Day

    17 Apr 2015

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    World Water Forum needs to be more than just a trade show for privatisation

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    Pope Francis, second right, talks with a delegation of The Leadership Conference of Women Religious during an audience in the pontiff's studio at the Vatican, Thursday, April 16, 2015.

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    Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis speaks at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Thursday, April 16, 2015.

    WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) – Greece cannot simply sign up for an existing agreement on its debt that will not solve its economic problems,Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund meetings on

    Bodies of drowned migrants are lined up in the port of Lampedusa Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013.

    Italy‘s migration crisis took on a deadly new twist Thursday, as police in Sicily reported that Muslim migrants had thrown 12 Christians overboard during a recent crossing from Libya, while aid groups said another 41 were feared drowned in a separate

    Sony Pictures Entertainment : Sony Pictures Plaza in Culver City, California .

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    View of Sitia Crete is the most populous island in Greece with a population of more than 600,000 people.

    ATHENS (Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck around 50 km (30 miles) off the eastern tip of the Greek Mediterranean island ofCrete, the U.S. Geological Survey said. USGS located the quake 152 km (95 miles) east-southeast of the island’s
    photo: Creative Commons / Marc Ryckaert

     

    Are Those Who Defy the U.S. Irrational or Mad?

    Full ArticleWorldNews.com

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    File - Detainees walk around the exercise yard in Camp 4, the medium security facility within Camp Delta at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In Camp 4, highly compliant detainees live in a communal setting and have extensive access to recreation.

     

     Time for Americans to rebel against a hypocritical government and their irrational  wars that are never actually won…..read more

     

     

    Security Council Holds Meeting on Yemen Jamal Benomar, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Yemen, briefs the Security Council on the situation in that country. 04 December 2012

    The United Nations‘ special adviser on Yemen Jamal Benomar has resigned, diplomatic sources have told Al Jazeera. James Bays, Al Jazeera’sdiplomatic editor, said the envoy has told Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that it was time for him to end his

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    The US Capitol two days before the public 2013 Presidential Inauguration

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    President Dilma Rousseff receives members of the Movement Free Pass, at the Presidential Palace

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    Jean Claude Trichet, President of the european central bank, left and Mario Draghi, governor of the bank of Italy speak together during the informal meeting of the ministers in charge of economy and finance ECOFIN, in Nice (Foto vom 13.08.08).

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    A Canadian flag

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    A Malian soldier takes cover behind a truck during exchanges of fire with jihadists in Gao, northern Mali, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013.

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    Iraqi Prime Minister: Don’t Call The Militia “Militia”

    Iraqi Prime Minister al-Abadi plays word games during his first visit to Washington as Iraqi leader.

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    Scientists find ‘dark matter’ interacts with more forces than just gravity

    Full ArticleThe Independent

    15 Apr 2015

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    The Moldovan-flagged Blue Sky M carrying hundreds of migrants arrives at the southern Italian port of Gallipoli, some 170 kilometers (108 miles) south of Bari, Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014.

    ROME: Almost 400 illegal migrants trying to reach Europe died after their boat capsized off the Libyan coast on Sunday, said survivors who were saved and brought to Italy. The Italian coastguard had previously said that they managed to rescue 144 of

    Asiana Airlines Flight 214

    OSAKA – A passenger plane of South Korea‘s Asiana Airlinesskidded off the runway when landing at the Hiroshima Airport in Japan late Tuesday, leaving at least 22 people slightly injured. The Airbus A320 ran halfway through the runway

    Houthi Shiite Yemenis chant slogans during a rally to show support for their comrades in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015.

    UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council imposed on Tuesday arms embargo on the Houthi rebels in Yemen and blacklisted a Houthi leader and a son of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The vote was 14-0, withRussia abstaining. The Russian

    President Barack Obama addresses the nation in a live televised speech from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013.

    President Barack Obama will remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House announced on Tuesday, a key step in his bid to normalize relations between the two countries. The terror designation has been a stain on

    	Sierra Leone: it's back to school after Ebola crisis

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    Mogherini says Europe must show flexibility on Greece

    LUEBECK, Germany, April 14 (Reuters) – Europe must show flexibility in dealing with the Greek debt crisis not just out of a sense of solidarity but to defend the common interest as well, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on

    Somali refugees lead their herds of goats home for the night, inside Dagahaley Camp, outside Dadaab, Kenya, Sunday, July 10, 2011.

    Reuters GENEVA, SWITZERLANDThe United Nations refugee agency urged Kenya on Tuesday to reconsider an order to close the teemingDadaab refugee camp, saying it would not be part of any transfer of Somalis back to their homeland that violated

    ‘Dwarf planet’ Ceres spawns giant mystery

    Full ArticleThe Times of India

    14 Apr 2015

    VIENNA: First classified a planet, then an asteroid and then a “dwarf planet” with some traits of a moon — the more scientists learn about Ceres, the weirder it becomes. And new observations of the sphere of rock and ice circling our Sun between Mars and Jupiter have added to the mystery, researchers said Monday. Astrophysicists have been looking

    The slim crescent of Ceres smiles back as the dwarf planet awaits the arrival of an emissary from Earth. This image was taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on March 1, 2015.

    Alan Turing memorial statue in Sackville Park, 18 Sep 2004. He is holding the forbidden fruit, the apple. Photograph taken by en:User:Lmno 18 September 2004

    NEW YORK — A handwritten notebook by British World War IIcode-breaking genius Alan Turing, who was the subject of the 2014 Oscar-winning film “The Imitation Game,” brought more than $1 million at auction on Monday. The 56-page manuscript

    Iraqi soldier front statue of  Iraqi martyr in Baghdad

    A court in the United States has sentenced 4 former guards with private security firm Blackwater to lengthy prison terms over their roles in the2007 killing of 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians. One of the four, Nicholas A. Slatten, who fired the first

    Palestinian Hamas security stand guard near an Egyptian watch tower on the border with Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on July 5, 2013. Egyptian official said the country's border crossing with Gaza Strip in northern Sinai has been closed indefinitely, citing security concerns. The decision comes hours after suspected Islamic militants attacked four sites in northern Sinai and Egyptian soldier was killed early today, targeting two military checkpoints, a police station and el-Arish airport, where military aircraft are stationed. Photo by Ahmed Deeb /  WN

    It has been occupied and fought over, fuelled accusations of lawlessness and neglect, and seen promises made and broken to its people. But ongoing concerns about security in Egypt‘s troubled Sinai Peninsula have been answered with

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    Police officers secure the area at the entrance of sub-governor office of coal miners' town of Soma, Turkey

    Dozens of suspects will stand trial today over the mining disaster last year in the Turkish town of Soma that left 301 miners dead and tarnished the image of the government under Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Forty-five people are to stand trial, including

    File - A Nigerian girl carrying greens walks past a row of oil pipes running through her neighborhood which pump to a Shell flow station in Port Harcourt, Nigeria Monday, March 30, 1998.

    The number of children fleeing the Boko Haram insurgency inNigeria doubled in the past year to about 800,000, with women and girls targets of abduction for sexual abuse by the militants, according to a United Nations Children’s Fund report. Boko

    A United States Capitol Police police patrol car

    TULSA: Authorities have released video showing the fatal encounter of a black suspect with a white reserve sheriff’s deputy who police said thought he was holding a stun gun instead of his handgun when he shot the man during a recent arrest in Tulsa,
    photo: Creative Commons / Mifter

    History now made, U.S. and Cuba face bumpy road ahead

    Full ArticleYahoo Daily News

    13 Apr 2015

    By Daniel Trotta and Matt Spetalnick PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Cuba and the United States just made history. Now comes the hard part. In the first meeting of its kind in nearly 60 years, U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro sat down together for over an hour on Saturday at a regional summit in Panama, moving a step closer to

     US President Barack Obama with Cuban President Raul Castro during their meeting at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, Saturday, April 11, 2015.

    Police officers secure the area at the entrance of sub-governor office of coal miners' town of Soma, Turkey

    Dozens of suspects will stand trial today over the mining disaster last year in the Turkish town of Soma that left 301 miners dead and tarnished the image of the government under Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Forty-five people are to stand trial, including

     

    File - A Nigerian girl carrying greens walks past a row of oil pipes running through her neighborhood which pump to a Shell flow station in Port Harcourt, Nigeria Monday, March 30, 1998.

    The number of children fleeing the Boko Haram insurgency inNigeria doubled in the past year to about 800,000, with women and girls targets of abduction for sexual abuse by the militants, according to a United Nations Children’s Fund report. Boko

    A United States Capitol Police police patrol car

    TULSA: Authorities have released video showing the fatal encounter of a black suspect with a white reserve sheriff’s deputy who police said thought he was holding a stun gun instead of his handgun when he shot the man during a recent arrest in Tulsa,

    Germanwings Airbus A319-100 wearing the former livery

    After the take-off was aborted, the plane was evacuated and was thoroughly searched for traces of explosives. The aircraft was an Airbus A320and all passengers on board the flight were evacuated in an orderly fashion, Germanwings authorities

    Nigerian former Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, center, shakes hands with party officials after speaking to journalists in Abuja, Nigeria

    By Julia Payne and Anamesere Igboeroteonwu LAGOS/ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) – The party of Nigeria’s president-electMuhammadu Buhari has retained the Lagos state governorship, the electoral commission said on Sunday, consolidating his

    UN official visits Syria to plead for inhabitants of refugee camp

    A Syrian government-escorted visit to Yarmouk camp this week shows the extent of the ruin in the neighbourhood after years of fighting. Photo: AP New York: The top United Nations official for aiding Palestinian refugees visitedSyria on Saturday as

    Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton speakings

    Hillary Clinton would make a fine US president, Barack Obamatold reporters on the eve of the expected launch of her candidacy for theDemocratic Party‘s nod in 2016. Obama beat Clinton – who is vying to become the first woman president of the United

    Pope calls Armenian slaughter ‘1st genocide of 20th century’

    Full ArticlePhiladelphia Daily News

    12 Apr 2015

    VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis on Sunday honored the 100th anniversary of the slaughter of Armenians by calling it “the first genocide of the 20th century,” a politically explosive pronouncement that will certainly anger Turkey. Francis, who has close ties to the Armenian community from his days in Argentina, defended his declaration by saying it

    Pope Francis, left, is greeted by the head of Armenia's Orthodox Church Karekin II, during an Armenian-Rite Mass on the occasion of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 12, 2015.

    UN official visits Syria to plead for inhabitants of refugee camp

    A Syrian government-escorted visit to Yarmouk camp this week shows the extent of the ruin in the neighbourhood after years of fighting. Photo: AP New York: The top United Nations official for aiding Palestinian refugees visitedSyria on Saturday as

    Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton speakings

    A Russian SU-24 Fencer fighter jet flies above the Aegis class, guided missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) during the maritime exercise Baltic Operations 2003 (BALTOPS).

    The U.S. RC-135 plane was flying what the Pentagon said was a routine information-gathering mission, gathering data on Russia’s military moves in the region. The Russian military has a heavy presence in the western part of the country, and a

    US Capitol at night. A mosaic image of around 10 segments

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A man shot himself dead in front of the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, police said, sparking a temporary security lockdown at the complex on one of the busiest days for tourists in Washington. The man, who was wearing a backpack and

    Italian Coast Guard patrol boat U. Diciotti, CP-902

    (CNN)Desperate migrants from Africa and the Middle East keep heading to Europe, with 978 rescued Friday in the Mediterranean Sea, the ItalianCoast Guard said Saturday via Twitter. The

    Mexico Iguala Students Missings

    MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican authorities say another man has been arrested in the September disappearance of 43 students from a rural teachers’ college in the southern state of Guerrero. Federal police say suspectMiguel Angel Landa Bahena was an

    A scene in Hatton Garden, London. Hatton Garden is a street and area near Holborn in London, England. Its name is derived from the garden of the Bishop of Ely, which was given to Sir Christopher Hatton by Elizabeth I in 1581, during a vacancy of the see.

    The gang members, dressed in fluorescent vests and hard hats, calmly carried bags and wheeled garbage bins into a high-security storage facility in London’s diamond district. After two nights of work, they left with the contents of dozens of

     

    Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader, others to death

    Full ArticleYahoo Daily News

    11 Apr 2015

    CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Badie, the leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and 13 other senior members of the group to death for inciting chaos and violence, a

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    Pont routier entre Rabat et Salé P1060408.

    At least 40 people have been killed and nine others injured when a bus carrying a delegation of young athletes rammed into a truck head-on in southern Morocco. The accident occurred near the district of Chbika, which lies about 1,000 kilometers (600

     

    Afghans carry the body of a suicide attack victim at the hospital in Maymana, Faryab province north west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012.

    KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A suicide car bomber targeting a convoy of U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan killed three Afghan civilians and wounded four on Friday, while in another eastern province, 10 people died when their minivan hit a roadside

     Hokkaido,Japan - Beach - Ocean - Sea - Nature- Environment - Ecology. (ps1)

    (JAPAN TODAY) HOKOTA — Around 150 melon-headed whales, a member of the dolphin family usually found in the deep ocean, beached in Japanon Friday, sparking frantic efforts by locals and the coast guard to save them.

    Police inspect the site of an explosion at Dadar in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, July 13, 2011.

    ISLAMABAD – A Pakistani court freed on bail on Friday a man accused of plotting a 2008 militant assault on India‘s financial capital that killed 166 people and seriously strained ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours, his lawyer said. Indian

    Pro-Russian gunmen take positions near the airport, outside Donetsk, Ukraine, on Monday, May 26, 2014

    Ukraine’s military and pro-Russian rebels accused each other on Friday of intensifying attacks in separatist eastern territories despite a two-month-old ceasefire deal. The conflict has reached stalemate in recent weeks with the truce, brokered in

    ARABIAN SEA (April 12, 2007) - A French Rafale from the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier FNS Charles de Gaulle (R 91) completes a touch-and-go landing on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).

    The Indian government has more or less decided to scrap the medium-multi role combat aircraft (MMRCA) selection process in favour of direct purchase of 63 Rafale aircraft from France in a government-to-government deal, says India Strategic magazine.

    Poles and world leaders attend Kaczynski's funeral.

    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is marking the fifth anniversary of the plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 members of his presidential entourage on a visit to Russia, the worst catastrophe to strike thePolish state since World War
    photo: WN / Marzena Jazowska

    Historic Encounter With Cuba’s Castro Awaits Obama In Panama

    Full ArticleHuffington Post

    10 Apr 2015

    PANAMA CITY (AP) — Turning the page on a half-century of hostility, President Barack Obama signaled Thursday he will soon remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, boosting hopes for improved ties as he prepared for a historic encounter with Cuban President Raul Castro. Hours before his arrival inPanama for a regional summit,

    File - President Barack Obama talks on the phone with Alan Gross, who was en route to the United States from Cuba, in the Oval Office, Dec. 17, 2014.

    Far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen delivers his New Year address at his party headquarters in Paris suburb Saint Cloud, Friday Jan. 11, 2008.

    PARIS (Reuters) – French National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen rejected on Friday a call from his daughter, the party’s leader, to leave politics over comments he made that she fears will hurt her push to widen the right-wing party’s appeal.

    Rudy Hermann Guede, from Ivory Coast, center, a suspect in the slaying of a British student, is escorted by Italian penitentiary police officers from court following a hearing, in Perugia, central Italy,

    Rudy Guede apparently believes that an injustice has been committed with the acquittal of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. After all, they were all three convicted together, and the longstanding belief has been that three people participated in

    Ocean  -  Sea  -  Body of Water

    MIAMI: Ocean acidification was a key driver of the greatest mass extinction on Earth some 250 million years ago, scientists said today. The changes to the Earth’s waters were caused by a rash of

    U.S. President Barack Obama gestures as he answers a question from the media during a press conference at the conclusion of the G-20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014.

    KINGSTON (Jamaica): President Barack Obama said Thursday that he soon decide whether to remove Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism now that the State Department has finished a review on the question as part of the move to reopen

    Child - Kid - Doctor - Hospital - Health

    9 April 2015 Last updated at 11:24 BST Researchers have discovered that the shorter you are, the greater your risk of heart problems. A study by the University of Leicester looked at nearly 200,000 people, and found sections of DNA that control both

    Turkey's new President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a ceremony where he formally took charge of the presidency from his predecessor, Abdullah Gul, at the Cankaya Palace in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. Erdogan said that as the first president to be elected by the people _ instead of parliament _ his tenure would usher in an era of a “new Turkey, a great Turkey.”

    DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AP) — The peace process to end decades of violent strife between Turkey and Kurdish rebels has been one of Turkish leaderRecep Tayyip Erdogan‘s signature achievements. But with key parliamentary elections looming in June, the

    French far-right leader and National Front Party, Marine Le Pen speaks to the media after a news conference at party headquarters, Sunday, March 22, 2015, in Nanterre, western France. For Le Pen, today's election for more than 2,000 local councils is an important step in building a grassroots base critical to her ultimate goal: the 2017 presidency. Local elections takes place today and the second round on March 29.

    8 April 2015 From the section Europe Ms Le Pen said she was taking the measures against her father “with deep sadness” The head of France‘s far-right
    photo: AP / Jacques Brinon

    UN urged to ban ‘killer robots’ before they can be developed

    Full ArticleThe Guardian

    09 Apr 2015

    Fully autonomous weapons should be banned by international treaty, says a report by Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School

    File - Jean-Hugues Simon Michel (France), Chair of a four-day meeting of experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems, held in Geneva under the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), briefs journalists on the meeting, 16 May, 2014.

     

    Child - Kid - Doctor - Hospital - Health

    9 April 2015 Last updated at 11:24 BST Researchers have discovered that the shorter you are, the greater your risk of heart problems. A study by the University of Leicester looked at nearly 200,000 people, and found sections of DNA that control both

    Turkey's new President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a ceremony where he formally took charge of the presidency from his predecessor, Abdullah Gul, at the Cankaya Palace in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. Erdogan said that as the first president to be elected by the people _ instead of parliament _ his tenure would usher in an era of a “new Turkey, a great Turkey.”

    DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AP) — The peace process to end decades of violent strife between Turkey and Kurdish rebels has been one of Turkish leaderRecep Tayyip Erdogan‘s signature achievements. But with key parliamentary elections looming in June, the

    French far-right leader and National Front Party, Marine Le Pen speaks to the media after a news conference at party headquarters, Sunday, March 22, 2015, in Nanterre, western France. For Le Pen, today's election for more than 2,000 local councils is an important step in building a grassroots base critical to her ultimate goal: the 2017 presidency. Local elections takes place today and the second round on March 29.

    8 April 2015 From the section Europe Ms Le Pen said she was taking the measures against her father “with deep sadness” The head of France‘s far-right

    Yemeni People flee after a gunfire on a street in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi fled the country by sea Wednesday on a boat from Aden

    A humanitarian organization has warned of an aggravating situation in the Yemeni southern city of Aden as Saudi Arabia‘s deadly airstrikes against the impoverished Arab country continue unabated. Médecins Sans

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, bows to Emperor Akihito, second from right, and Empress Michiko, right, before giving a speech during a ceremony to mark the day Japan recovered its sovereignty under the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1952, in Tokyo Sunday, April 28, 2013.

    By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Emperor Akihitoheaded on Wednesday for the island nation of Palau where he will visit a World War Two battlefield, the latest journey in his efforts to soothe the wounds of a conflict that haunts Asia 70

    U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter addresses officers and crew members of the USS Blue Ridge in Yokosuka, Japan, July 21, 2012. Japan is Carter's third stop during a 10-day Asia Pacific trip to meet with partners in Hawaii, Guam, Thailand, India and South Korea.

    The first revision of the U.S.-Japan Defense Guidelines in 17 years will “transform” the bilateral alliance, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday. The guidelines,

    President Barack Obama receives information from John Brennan, assistant to the President for Homeland Security, about the plane crash in Austin, Tex., Feb. 18, 2010.

    The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency has slammed opponents of a recent nuclear framework agreement between Iran and the P5+1group of countries. John Brennan told an audience of students and faculty atHarvard University on Tuesday that
    photo: White House / Pete Souza

    When Tsipras meets Putin: an opportunity for fruit diplomacy?

    08 Apr 2015

    As Greek and Russian leaders prepare for talks today, The Moscow Times weighs up their relationship – and the prospects of a meaningful deal

    Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with visiting Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Alexis Tsipras is in Russia on an official visit.

    Turkey's new President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a ceremony where he formally took charge of the presidency from his predecessor, Abdullah Gul, at the Cankaya Palace in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014. Erdogan said that as the first president to be elected by the people _ instead of parliament _ his tenure would usher in an era of a “new Turkey, a great Turkey.”

    DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AP) — The peace process to end decades of violent strife between Turkey and Kurdish rebels has been one of Turkish leaderRecep Tayyip Erdogan‘s signature achievements. But with key parliamentary elections looming in June, the

     

    French far-right leader and National Front Party, Marine Le Pen speaks to the media after a news conference at party headquarters, Sunday, March 22, 2015, in Nanterre, western France. For Le Pen, today's election for more than 2,000 local councils is an important step in building a grassroots base critical to her ultimate goal: the 2017 presidency. Local elections takes place today and the second round on March 29.

    8 April 2015 From the section Europe Ms Le Pen said she was taking the measures against her father “with deep sadness” The head of France‘s far-right

    Yemeni People flee after a gunfire on a street in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi fled the country by sea Wednesday on a boat from Aden

    A humanitarian organization has warned of an aggravating situation in the Yemeni southern city of Aden as Saudi Arabia‘s deadly airstrikes against the impoverished Arab country continue unabated. Médecins Sans

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, bows to Emperor Akihito, second from right, and Empress Michiko, right, before giving a speech during a ceremony to mark the day Japan recovered its sovereignty under the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1952, in Tokyo Sunday, April 28, 2013.

    By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Emperor Akihitoheaded on Wednesday for the island nation of Palau where he will visit a World War Two battlefield, the latest journey in his efforts to soothe the wounds of a conflict that haunts Asia 70

    U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter addresses officers and crew members of the USS Blue Ridge in Yokosuka, Japan, July 21, 2012. Japan is Carter's third stop during a 10-day Asia Pacific trip to meet with partners in Hawaii, Guam, Thailand, India and South Korea.

    The first revision of the U.S.-Japan Defense Guidelines in 17 years will “transform” the bilateral alliance, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday. The guidelines,

    President Barack Obama receives information from John Brennan, assistant to the President for Homeland Security, about the plane crash in Austin, Tex., Feb. 18, 2010.

    The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency has slammed opponents of a recent nuclear framework agreement between Iran and the P5+1group of countries. John Brennan told an audience of students and faculty atHarvard University on Tuesday that

    Opposition candidate Antonio Ledesma celebrates being elected mayor of Caracas after the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced the results of state and city elections in Caracas, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008.

    The mayor of the Venezuelan capital city of Caracas has formally been accused of attempting a US-funded coup d’état against the South American country’s President Nicolas Maduro. “The prosecutors’ office on Tuesday
    photo: AP / Carlos Hernandez

    ‘We don’t buy panda products – so the Chinese should get their hands off our elephants’

    Full ArticleCNN

    07 Apr 2015

    (CNN)Elephants could be extinct in the wild within a few decades, leading experts warned late last month in Botswana at the Kasane Conference on the IllegalWildlife Trade, which gathered 150 delegates from countries that are sourcing, transiting and demanding ivory. The participants signed onto 15 new commitments to stop the slaughter of elephants

    File - An African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) and calf in Tanzania, Africa.

    Afghan women chant slogans during a protest demanding justice for a woman who was beaten to death by a mob after being falsely accused of burning a Quran last week, in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Men and women of all ages carried banners bearing the bloodied face of Farkhunda, a 27-year-old religious scholar killed last week by a mob.

    (CNN)An Amnesty International report released today is calling for authorities to address the number of attacks on women’s rights activists inAfghanistan. The report, entitled “Their Lives on the Line,” examines the persecution of activists and

    President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton attend the dignified transfer at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, Sept. 14, 2012, of J. Christopher Stevens, U.S.

    WASHINGTON — After months of anticipation, Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to launch her presidential campaign sometime in the next two weeks with an initial focus on intimate events putting her in close contact with voters. Clinton wants to

    Greece's lawmakers attend the second round of voting to elect a new Greek president at the Parliament in Athens on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014

    ATHENS, April 6 (Xinhua) — Germany owes Greece about 278.7 billion euros (about 307 billion U.S. dollars) in reparations for WWII, Greek DeputyFinance Minister Dimitris Mardas said on Monday, addressing a special parliamentary committee set up to

    File - President Barack Obama talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the South Portico following their meetings at the White House Monday, May 18, 2009.

    WASHINGTON: The US State Department has rejected Israel’s demand that the Obama administration should persuade Iran to recognise theJewish state before signing a final nuclear deal with it. “This is an agreement that is only about the nuclear

    U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter speaks with U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Scott H. Swift, left, commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, and U.S. Navy Capt. Daniel C. Grieco, commanding officer, USS Blue Ridge, in Yokosuka, Japan, July 21, 2012.

    PHOENIX: The United States is “deeply concerned” by some ofChina’s behavior but the top world powers do not need to be adversaries, US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said on Monday as he prepared to head to Asiafor key talks with regional allies.

    A TV screen shows the news of Edward Snowden, former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a restaurant in Hong Kong Wednesday, June 12, 2013.

    NEW YORK (AP) — Suddenly, in the middle of the New Yorknight, Edward Snowden‘s face appeared — deep in a public park. A 4-foot-high, 100-pound sculpted bust of the whistleblower now exiled in Russia was sneaked into Brooklyn‘s Fort Greene Park on

    Obama casts Iran talks as part of broader foreign policy

    Full ArticleThe Miami Herald

    06 Apr 2015

    President Barack Obama is casting the Iran talks as part of a broader foreign policy doctrine that sees American power as a safeguard that gives him the ability to take calculated risks. Obama staunchly defended a framework nuclear agreement with Iran as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to prevent a bomb and bring longer-term stability

    President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, with members of the national security team, participate in a secure video teleconference from the Situation Room of the White House with Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and the U.S. negotiating team in Lausanne, Switzerland, to discuss the P5+1 negotiations with Iran, March 31, 2015.

    Artist concept of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) 70-metric-ton configuration launching to space. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built for deep space missions, including to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars. The first SLS mission -- Exploration Mission 1 -- will launch an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to a stable orbit beyond the moon and bring it back to Earth to demonstrate the integrated system performance of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft’s re-entry and landing prior to a crewed flight.

    Armed with an asteroid hunter, lunar flashlight and DNA kit,NASA will launch the unmanned Orion spacecraft using the Space Launch System(SLS) — its largest, most powerful rocket booster ever built — in 2018. The USspace agency plans to

    Secretary-General meeting with H.E. Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority and delegation

    Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas today threatened to turn to the International Criminal Court over Israel‘s refusal to fully release hundreds of millions of dollars in tax monies owed the Palestinian Authority. In early January, Israel froze the

    Migrants rest inside a sports center after they were rescued by the sea rescue service at the Strait of Gibraltar near the coast of Tarifa

    ROME, April 5 (Reuters) – Italian navy and coast guard ships rescued around 1,500 migrants aboard five boats in the southern Mediterranean in less than 24 hours,

    US Sailors - Atlantic ocean

    Washington, April 04: US sailor Louis Jordan was released on Saturday from a Virginia hospital, where he had been admitted after being lost on the Atlantic Ocean for 66 days and later rescued by the US Coast Guard off the coast of North Carolina. The

    President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One during his departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Tuesday, March 19, 2013.

    Washington, April 04: US President Barack Obama on Saturday turned to the public for support to continued nuclear talks with Iran toward a final deal, two days after a framework pact was reached. In his weekly radio and online address, Obama

    Foreign Minister of Iran, Mohammad JAVAD Zarif talking with his colleagues from Pakistan and Turkey Sartaj Aziz and Ahmet Davutoglu on the occasion of 21ist Ministerial Conference of ECO in Tehran on November 26, 2013

    TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s foreign minister said Saturday thatTehran would be able to return to its nuclear activities if the West withdraws from a pact that is to be finalized in June. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister and chief nuclear

    Fishermen oar boats off Sangihe beach in Menado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tuesday, May 12, 2009.

    After the 17-hour trip at sea, the men smiled, clapped and sung while they were transported to another, more accessible island and were, “talking about the new lives they were about to start,” the report said. 3 countries investigate

    Britain's Queen Elizabeth II declares games opened during the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Summer Games at the Olympic Stadium in London, Friday, July 27, 2012.

    LONDON, April 4 (Xinhua) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and senior members of the Royal family are to lead events next month to commemorate the 70th anniversary of VE Day, or Victory in Europe Day, Buckingham Palace has announced. The Queen, her

    US Sailors - Atlantic ocean

    Washington, April 04: US sailor Louis Jordan was released on Saturday from a Virginia hospital, where he had been admitted after being lost on the Atlantic Ocean for 66 days and later rescued by the US Coast Guard off the coast of North Carolina. The

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    Washington, April 04: US President Barack Obama on Saturday turned to the public for support to continued nuclear talks with Iran toward a final deal, two days after a framework pact was reached. In his weekly radio and online address, Obama

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    Full ArticleThe Guardian

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