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Caller to Colorado police threatens to start shooting officers
(CNN)Denver area law enforcement agencies are on alert after someone called the Aurora police department’s 911 center and threatened to start shooting officers.…
More than 200,000 in camps as India hit by flooding
Authorities in northeast India have been struggling to respond to massive floods which have affected more than 1.5 million people and forced more than 200,000…
China marks Tibet anniversary with rallying cry against Dalai Lama
BEIJING (Reuters) – China celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region on the roof of the world on Tuesday with a rallying cry…
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi calls for election scrutiny as campaigning starts
Yangon: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi kicked off campaigning for the first free general election since the end of military rule saying…
Amanda Knox murder conviction a result of glaring errors: court
Rome: Italy‘s highest court threw out a conviction of American Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of her British flatmate because of “glaring errors” in…
US Open 2015: Andy Murray bombs out to Kevin Anderson after foul-mouthed tirade
Andy Murray has made an explosive exit from the US Open, the Scotlosing his cool in a tense four-set fourth-round loss to South African Kevin Anderson.…
Merkel demands EU partners share burden of migrant influx
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, reflecting on “a moving, in some parts breathtaking weekend behind us,” said Monday that all EU countriescould help to…
Report: Dentist Walter Palmer, who killed Cecil the lion, to return to his practice
(CNN)Walter Palmer, the American dentist vilified worldwide for killing a prized Africa lion, broke his silence Sunday in an interview with theAssociated Press…
Tesco sells South Korea stores for £4bn
Image copyright Getty Images Tesco has sold Homeplus, its South Koreanbusiness, for £4.2bn as the troubled supermarket chain seeks to shore up its balance…
Depp’s wife’s Australia dog-smuggling case adjourned
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ms Heard attended theVenice Film Festival over the weekend with her husband A case to hear dog-smuggling charges…
Experts dismiss Mexico’s account of apparent student massacre
MEXICO CITY – Mexico‘s official account of the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 students last year does not add up, a team of international experts said on…
Asia’s smartphone addiction
Image copyright Goh Wei Choon Nomophobia – or no mobile phone phobia – the onset of severe anxiety on losing access to your smartphone has been talked about for…
Warm welcome for thousands of exhausted migrants who crossed from Hungary to Austria overnight
Thousands of exhausted, surprised and relieved migrants reached Austria on Saturday, clambering off a fleet of Hungarian buses to find a warm welcome from charity workers offering beds and hot tea. The pre-dawn…
Serena Williams’ comeback extends Grand Slam try at US Open, Nadal eliminated by Fognini
Even if her latest troublesome first set had finished only an hour earlier, it seemed a distant memory by the time Serena Williams smacked a cross-court…
US and Saudis seek common ground
Image copyright EPA Image caption The message the US and Saudileaders wanted to send was one of a resilient relationship Washington will remember the first…
Pope Francis thanks US nuns after ‘radical’ claim
Washington: Pope Francis thanked American nuns in a television special to be aired Friday, defusing tensions that arose after an investigation under the…
India among few bright spots in global economy, says IMF
ANKARA: The IMF today said India is among the few bright spots in the global economy as G20 Finance Ministers began their two-day meeting here against the…
Police: Burglary suspect reveals plans with 911 ‘butt dial’
BRANCHBURG, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man has been indicted on burglary charges after police say he inadvertently dialed 911 and let authorities…
NYPD: Teacher arrested for allegedly flying drone at US Open
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City teacher was arrested early Friday for allegedly crashing a drone into an empty section of seats at the U.S Open, police said.…
Plastic bag use down 71% since 5p charge was introduced
Image copyright Getty Images The number of single-use carrier bags handed out by shops in Wales has fallen by 71% since charges were introduced in 2011,…
Hungary Allows Migrants Into Train Station, Blocks Travel West
VOA News Migrants hoping to travel westward have flooded into the main train station in Budapest after it was reopened by police, butHungarian officials say…
Confirmed: Wing Part Is From Missing Malaysian Flight
French authorities confirmed today (Sept. 3) that a piece of debris that washed up on an island in the Indian Ocean in July came from the Malaysia Airlines…
The Feds Need a Warrant to Spy With Stingrays From Now On
The federal government can no longer use controversial stingray devices to track mobile phone users without a warrant. The post The Feds Need aWarrant to Spy…
Elaborate ancient coffin discovered in Israel
Construction workers unearthed “one of the most important and beautiful” such relics ever found – and tried to hide it……
Russian ship off the coast of Florida
Research ship, called the Yanter, making its way down the East Coastheading towards Cuba; equipped with submersible……
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Kevin Frayer via Getty ImagesChina Puts On A Huge Parade For World War II Anniversary… Unprecedented Display Of Military Might… Putin In Attendance… Chinese Officials: 84 Percent Of Arms On Display Never Before Seen… ‘Ignoring Commemoration Is A Foolish Mistake’… ‘An Act Of Transparency’… War Victim: ‘Enough Apologies. We Need More Truth From Japan’… Why China’s Making Its Parade Into An Extravaganza
Guatemala’s President Otto Perez Molina resigns
Image copyright AP Image caption Otto Perez Molina had been in power since January 2012 Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina has resigned hours after a judge…
Lots of trees to hug: Study counts 3 trillion trees on Earth
WASHINGTON: More than 3 trillion trees now grow on Earth, seven times more than scientists previously thought. But it’s also trillions fewer than there used to…
World’s biggest selfie to be taken in Australia
(CNN)The trouble with selfies… OK, one of the troubles with selfies, is it’s so hard to see anything past that grimacing face bang, slap in the center.Step…
California moves to end unlimited solitary confinement
California agreed Tuesday to end its unlimited isolation of imprisoned gang leaders, restricting a practice that once kept hundreds of inmates in notorious…
James Holmes told psychiatrist of wish to ‘kill as many people as possible’
More than a month before James Holmes‘ rampage on a Colorado movie theater, the head of his neuroscience graduate program called a campus police officer with…
Red Cross says 2 staff members shot dead in northern Yemen
DUBAI (Reuters) – Two Red Cross employees were shot dead in the northern Yemeni province of Amran by an unknown attacker on Wednesday, the international aid…
Chinese shares fall over four percent
Chinese stocks nosedived more than four percent after the opening bell on Wednesday over deepening downward pressure on the world’s second largest economy. The…
Manhunt under way for suspects in police shooting north of Chicago
SWAT teams, K-9 units, FBI, U.S. Marshals, and all available law enforcement officers are combing an area around Fox Lake, Illinois, for three men suspected of…
Palestinians: Abbas says won’t seek top PLO, Fatah posts
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Two officials say Palestinian PresidentMahmoud Abbas has told confidants he won’t seek re-election to…
Turkey Arrests 3 Vice News Journalists on Terrorism Charges
Media rights groups denounced the ruling, which said the men had “knowingly and willingly helped an armed terrorist organization,” news reports said….…
Tyler, the Creator on being banned from the UK: ‘I’m being treated like a terrorist’
The rapper was turned away from the UK last week for ‘posing a threat to public order’. He speaks exclusively to the Guardian about what happened…
Google accused of abusing search dominance in India
Preliminary findings of three year old probe submitted to country’s competition commission includes allegations of illegal self-promotion…
UN: Satellite images show Temple of Bel in Syria “destroyed”
DAMASCUS: A satellite image on Monday shows that the main building of the ancient Temple of Bel in the Syrian city of Palmyra has been destroyed, a United…
Viewpoint: Ghani is running out of options in Afghanistan
Image caption A wave of Taliban attacks and offensives have left the country reeling in recent weeks Afghanistan is in dire crisis as the Taliban battle a weak…
Ukraine’s pro-Russian bill sparks deadly clashes outside Kiev parliament
A bill granting autonomy to Ukraine‘s restive eastern regions cleared its first parliamentary hurdle on Monday but sparked a violent right-wing protest that…
VMAs 2015: Kanye West reveals plan for 2020 presidential run
The rapper reveals plan for presidential run in 2020 at MTV Video Music Awards as fresh ruckus erupts when Nicki Minaj calls Miley Cyrus a ‘bitch’…
A Palestinian-Israeli Teachable Moment for the World
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling A video showing a Palestinian boy with a broken arm being held in a chokehold and at gunpoint by an Israeli soldier is a teachable moment for the world. Indeed, the young…
Saudi women allowed to register as local election candidates
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia allowed women to register to stand in local elections on Sunday, in a historic first for the conservative kingdom. In a country where women…
Nigeria claims arresting Boko Haram chieftain
ABUJA: Nigeria’s secret police said on Sunday they had arrested notableBoko Haram suspects, including a ‘commander’ linked with several suicide attacks across…
White House renames Mount McKinley as Denali on eve of trip
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will change the name ofNorth America‘s tallest mountain peak from Mount McKinley to Denali, the White House said Sunday,…
Why does South Sudan matter so much to the US?
It wasn’t so much a collective sigh of relief when President Salva Kiirfinally signed the peace deal this week. It was more a sense of “let’s see” as the US…
Chris Christie wants to monitor immigrants like FedEx packages
WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie pushed back on Sunday against “ridiculous” criticism of his proposal to track foreign…
Chinese journalist ‘confesses’ to causing share market ‘panic’: state media
A financial journalist has “confessed” to causing “panic and disorder” onChina’s stock market and inflicting “huge losses…
Rebekah Brooks return to News UK described as a ‘massive two fingers’ to phone-hacking victims
Rebekah Brooks’s imminent return as chief executive ofRupert Murdoch’s News UK was described as a “massive two fingers” to the victims of phone-hacking, but also a “gift” to campaigners seeking greater regulation of the…
Smugglers who drove migrants to deaths in Europe were part of an extensive web
LONDON — The smugglers responsible for driving 71 migrants to their deaths in the back of a cramped, unventilated truck in Austria were part of a vast international syndicate that has been a subject of multiple criminal…
A Fresh Template for Changing Realities: Creating meaningful structures for Moroccan Jewry’s past and future
Article by WN.com Guest Writer Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir Early in 2015, Mr.Jacky Kadoch, President of the Jewish community of Marrakesh-Essaouira, set out his ideas…
Trump attacks Hillary’s Indian American aide on email saga
Washington, Aug 29 (IANS) As an email controversy continued to dogHillary Clinton, Donald Trump accused her top aide of spilling classified secrets to her…
Kylie Jenner ‘flouts drought’
Kylie Jenner and Tyga have reportedly been cited for wasting water.Following an investigation by the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, the 18-year-old…
‘All thanks to the president’: Michel Platini takes credit for Uefa’s unblemished record
• Frenchman is standing for Fifa president but refuses to discuss election…
Teacher who was late 111 times says he was eating breakfast
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey elementary school teacher who was allowed to keep his job despite being late…
Ashley Madison CEO steps down in wake of hacking
NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of adultery website Ashley Madison is stepping down in the wake of the massive…
Chomsky, 72 other scholars support Iran N-deal
NEW YORK: Seventy three (73) prominent international relations andMiddle East scholars have issued a letter in support of the Iran deal, arguing that it is a…
Top Judge Becomes Greece’s First Female Prime Minister
Vassiliki Thanou, Greece‘s top supreme court judge, was sworn in Thursday as a caretaker head of the government, becoming the country’s first female prime…
Cosmic rays: the search is on
High-energy cosmic rays from across the galaxy will be detected on theInternational Space Station, thanks to a new observatory delivered on Monday. …
Guatemalan Prosecutors Urge President to Resign Amid Scandal
Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY — Pressure grew Thursday on Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina to resign as business and government offices closed,…
Report links hacking scheme to Iran
NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have linked a sophisticated hacking scheme targeting Iranian dissidents and at least one freedom of expression activist back to…
North Dakota police can fire Tasers, tear gas from drones
Local police in North Dakota are the first in the nation to be allowed to deploy drones armed with nonlethal weapons such as Tasers, tear gas and pepper spray.…
Pistorius parole board review set for Sept. 18
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius‘ parole board review will take place on September 18, meaning the athlete…
Donald Trump trounces GOP field, Biden leads general election match-ups
Washington (CNN)Vice President Joe Biden fares better against top GOPcandidates in hypothetical general election match-ups than Hillary Clinton, according to a…
Bryce Williams: A meticulous plan for a live televised murder
(CNN)A disturbed mind brimming with rage, a professional media career and newly purchased guns. Vester Lee Flanagan II combined them into a real-time murder…
Russia ‘accidentally reveals’ number of its soldiers killed in eastern Ukraine
Whilst Russia continues to deny that its troops are fighting in the ongoingUkrainian conflict, a respected news site in Russia seemingly inadvertently…
NASA: Rising Sea Levels More Dangerous Than Thought
The consequences of global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst-case scenarios predicted by the dominant climate models, which don’t fully…
NASA Crashes Plane to Test Emergency Beacons (Video)
NASA sent a small airplane plummeting to Earth today (Aug. 26), for safety’s sake. Scientists and engineers at the space agency’s LangleyResearch…
U.S. troops, firefighters from abroad join battle against Washington wildfires
Massive wildfires in the West have led to poor air quality across the region, causing respiratory problems for people far from the fire lines as well as…
Syria’s Assad ‘confident’ of Iranian and Russian support
Image caption The Syrian leader has been backed by Iran and Russiathroughout the country’s conflict The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, has said he is…
Man who jumped White House fence killed at Pa. courthouse after slashing deputy
PHILADELPHIA (Tribune News Service) — The Coatesville, Pa., man arrested in March for climbing over a White House wall was shot and killed by a deputy sheriff…
China sharemarket rout: Asia’s richest man Wang Jianlin loses $5b in one day
Asia‘s richest person lost $US3.6 billion ($5 billion) on Monday, the most among all billionaires worldwide, as China’s stock markets had the biggest…
Cablevision will sell streaming CBS, Showtime to cord-cutters
Need more evidence that cable TV is giving way to internet TV? Cablevision just announced its new TV deal with CBS includes a provision for it to sell CBS All…
Stephen Hawking: Black Holes ‘Are Not The Eternal Prisons’ We Once Thought
2:12 PM ET Eyder Peralta Twitter i Professor Stephen Hawking in Dec. 2014. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP hide caption itoggle caption Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Professor…
Turning cancer into healthy tissue
Scientists believe they may have found a way to turn cancerous cells back into healthy tissue….…
Western Complicity in Yemen Genocide Met With Media Silence
By Finian Cunningham August 24, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “RT” – In the latest atrocity in Yemen, Saudi warplanes bombed a…
Obama may endorse a 2016 presidential candidate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Monday left open the possibility that President Barack Obama would make an endorsement in the 2016 Democratic…
FTC can sue companies with poor information security, appeals court says
Court says Wyndham hotels practices could be considered “unfair” and “deceptive.”...…
Obama, Biden catch up over lunch amid 2016 campaign buzz
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden had a lot to catch up on. Just back from two weeks of vacation on the tony Massachusettsisland of Martha‘s…
Twitter shuts down accounts monitoring politicians’ deleted tweets
After suspending API access to the…
Sensex crashes over 1,200 points; investors lose over Rs 3 lakh cr
In a stock market bloodbath, benchmark Sensex today crashed over 1,200 points — biggest in over seven years — amid a global rout, while more than Rs 3 lakh…
Ex-Maldives President Nasheed sent back to prison
Males, Aug. 24 (ANI): Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed has been sent back to prison following completion of two months of house arrest. The late night…
Huge blaze breaks out at steel plant near Tokyo’s Haneda airport: official
Tokyo: A huge blaze broke out Monday at steel plant near Tokyo’s Haneda airport, a fire department official said, as television…
UN chief arrives in Nigeria to mark bombing, abducted girls
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Nigeria on Sunday to commemorate the Boko Haram bombing of his organization’s headquarters…
Badie receives latest life sentence from Egypt court
A Cairo court has sentenced Mohamed Badie, the spiritual leader ofEgypt‘s Muslim Brotherhood, and 18 other prominent Brotherhoodfigures to life in prison over…
Ashley Madison faces $578M Canadian class-action lawsuit
TORONTO — Two Canadian law firms have filed a $578 million class-action lawsuit against the companies that run Ashley Madison after a hacker group’s data…
Badie receives latest life sentence from Egypt court
A Cairo court has sentenced Mohamed Badie, the spiritual leader ofEgypt‘s Muslim Brotherhood, and 18 other prominent Brotherhoodfigures to life in prison over…
Ashley Madison faces $578M Canadian class-action lawsuit
TORONTO — Two Canadian law firms have filed a $578 million class-action lawsuit against the companies that run Ashley Madison after a hacker group’s data…
Islamic State deputy leader killed in US air strike
The second-in-command of the Islamic State militant group was killed during a US air strike in Iraq on Tuesday, the White House has said, dealing a blow to the…
Dozens killed amid airstrikes and fighting in key Yemeni city
Fierce fighting in the crossroads city of Taiz in Yemen killed dozens of people, officials and aid groups said Friday, with deaths blamed on airstrikes by a…
Tests show mustard gas traces in ISIS attack
Officials have been looking into reports that ISIS militants used chemical weapon in the August 11 attack in Makhmour……
AMISOM admits troops killed Somali civilians
The African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) has admitted that its troops killed several civilians in the war-ridden country last month. On Friday, the…
Islamic State deputy leader killed in US air strike
The second-in-command of the Islamic State militant group was killed during a US air strike in Iraq on Tuesday, the White House has said, dealing a blow to the…
Dozens killed amid airstrikes and fighting in key Yemeni city
Fierce fighting in the crossroads city of Taiz in Yemen killed dozens of people, officials and aid groups said Friday, with deaths blamed on airstrikes by a…
Tests show mustard gas traces in ISIS attack
Officials have been looking into reports that ISIS militants used chemical weapon in the August 11 attack in Makhmour……
AMISOM admits troops killed Somali civilians
The African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) has admitted that its troops killed several civilians in the war-ridden country last month. On Friday, the…
Turkish President, with no majority, calls for new elections in November
(CNN)Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Friday for new parliamentary elections on November 1 in an effort to break an impasse left by inconclusive…
Blind man tasered by cops who thought he had a samurai sword
British police tasered a 61-year-old blind man after they mistakenly believed his white stick was a samurai sword. ...…
North Korea orders troops on war footing
Related articles North Korea executes vice-premier for discontent with leader, say reports North Korea says it is suffering worst drought in 100 years South Korea spy agency says Kim Jong-un executed 15 top officials…
Will fresh plea for justice take Gujarat riot probe to Modi’s doorstep?
The quiet steel in Zakia Jafri’s eyes hasn’t dimmed despite her 76 years, nor has her quest for justice. Around 13 years after her husband, formerCongress MP…
Regal Cinemas to Check Bags Nationwide in Wake of Theater Shootings
Movie theater chain Regal Cinemas has begun checking the bags of all patrons entering their movie theaters, following a rash of high-profile, brutal theater…
Caitlyn Jenner could face manslaughter in crash, police say
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sheriff‘s investigators plan to recommend that prosecutors file a vehicular manslaughter charge against Caitlyn Jennerfor her role in a…
Ashley Madison Hackers Release an Even Bigger Batch of Data
The latest data dump is twice as large as the first and appears to contain an entire email spool from the company’s top executive. The post Ashley Madison…
Greek leader Tsipras calls elections after party rebellion
ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced his government’s resignation and called early elections Thursday, an attempt to get a new…
Israeli army: 4 rockets from Syria hit Israel; no injuries
Militants in Syria fired several rockets into northern Israel on Thursday afternoon, prompting Israeli retaliatory fire, the military said — the first time…
$1B Nazi gold train claimed to be found in Poland
A long-lost Nazi train from World War II has claimed to have be found with a possible billion-dollar hoard….…
Britain and France to Announce Measures to Contain Migrant Crisis in Calais
Under plans to be formally declared later on Thursday, British police and border protection forces will work with their French counterparts at a “command and…
Rival Koreas trade artillery fire at border
South Korea‘s military fired dozens of shells Thursday at rival North Korea after the North lobbed a single artillery round at a South Koreanborder town, the…
Health before wealth: Study links working long hours to heart strokes
Washington DC, Aug 20 (ANI): Working extra hours in office? Well it’s time to take a pause for a cause as a new study has linked working long hours to…
US proposes UN arms embargo on South Sudan
UNITED NATIONS — The United States is proposing that the U.N.Security Council impose an arms embargo on South Sudan after its president shocked rebels and…
Serena Williams wins Cincinnati opener in straight sets
MASON: Serena Williams pumped her fist after each important point and screamed as she smacked another emphatic shot. The defendingCincinnati champion wasn’t…
UK approves e-cigarettes as healthier alternative
Smokers in the UK could be prescribed e-cigarettes to help.
Comet impacts cook up ‘soup of life’
By Simon Redfern Science writer, Prague 19 August 2015 From the section Science & Environment TheRosetta mission has already demonstrated that Comet67P contains complex organic molecules New results show how…
Actress Yvonne Craig, The Original 1960s Batgirl, Dies At 78
Actress Yvonne Craig, a pioneer of female superheroes on the small screen, died on Monday after a two-year battle with breast cancer. She was 78.…
Clinton says her email controversy ‘has nothing to do with me’
North Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN)A clearly agitated Hillary Clintonanswered another round of questions regarding her email use Tuesday inNevada, telling reporters…
Bangkok bomb blast: authorities wrestle with several theories
BANGKOK: Authorities in Thailand have put forward several theories on the motive behind Monday’s deadly bomb blast at Bangkok’sRatchaprasong tourist area in…
Green fury after Shell is given go-ahead for Arctic drilling
Shell has been granted final permission by the US regulatory authorities to begin exploratory drilling for oil and gas beneath the Arctic seabed. The decision…
Wealthy, white, Oscar Pistorius unlikely to return to prison
For Oscar Pistorius, the five-year jail sentence he received for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of St Valentine’s morning,…
Turkey coalition govt. talks fail, snap elections imminent
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has officially announced his failure to form a coalition government after his talks with opposition parties did not…
Going up? Space elevator will zoom astronauts 20 kilometers above earth
Canadian space firm granted the US patent for an elevator designed to take astronauts up into the stratosphere, so they can then be propelled into space …
Thai junta says suspect identified in deadly Bangkok bombing
Thailand‘s junta leader said Tuesday security forces had identified a suspect in an unprecedented Bangkok bombing that targeted foreigners at a packed religious…
For Africa’s hunted albino children, new limbs and new hope
During summer pool time recently, he used his left hand to toss a ball through a basketball hoop while red arm floaties keep him above water. The joy vanished,…
Calmer weather helps crews fighting Western wildfires
Fire crews stepped up their attack Monday against wildfires that have destroyed dozens of homes and forced hundreds to flee in Western states. Calmer weather on…
200,000 S. Sudanese sheltering in UN bases
JUBA: Almost 200,000 South Sudanese civilians are sheltering in UN bases, the largest number in 20 months of civil war, the United Nationssaid on Monday. A…
US plans to expand drone flights: WSJ
NEW YORK: The Pentagon plans to sharply expand the number of US drone flights over the next four years, giving military commanders access to more intelligence…
Europe’s economic challenge not just about Greece
Gavin Hewitt Chief correspondent 18 August 2015 From the sectionEurope comments Mr Juncker (r) declared: “Greece is and will remain irreversibly a member of…
Migrants gather in Turkey to take shortest route to Europe
Suddenly, almost silently, a group of young men carrying a small plastic dinghy emerges from the darkness, dashes across a road and a dirty strip of sand and plunges into the crystal-clear waters of the Aegean Sea. With…
Sepp Blatter claims Fifa portrayed as a mafia organisation by US investigation
• Blatter critical of the light in which Fifa was shown by Loretta Lynch …
Constantly checking your mobile phone can lead to ‘cognitive failures’
Whether sitting on a train or having dinner at a restaurant, many people find it hard to stop fiddling with their mobile phones – firing off a never-ending…
Republican Candidate Trump: Illegal Immigrants ‘Have to Go’
VOA News Real estate mogul Donald Trump, the frontrunner in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, said Sunday that illegal immigrants will…
Punjabi minister, eight more killed as blast destoys home
A bomb killed one of Pakistan’s provincial ministers and at least eight others when it destroyed the minister’s home yesterday in Prime MinisterNawaz Sharif’s…
Iraq probe finds Maliki, others responsible for Mosul fall: MPs
BAGHDAD: An Iraqi parliamentary investigation holds former premierNuri al-Maliki and 35 others responsible for the fall of second city Mosulto jihadists last…
Hillary Clinton pans Jeb Bush’s claim that Iraq pullout helped ISIS
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has hit back at Republicanrival Jeb Bush’s claim that a “premature” US pullout from Iraq…
How Isis has established a bureaucracy of rape
One year on from the summit to end sexual violence in conflict, convened by Angelina Jolie and William Haguein London, the self-proclaimed Islamic State has developed a complex bureaucracy of sex slavery that makes a mockery of the summit’s goal to bring about an end to the use of rape and sexual violence in war. …
Contamination fear grips China
TIANJIN (China): New small explosions rocked a disaster zone in theChinese port of Tianjin on Saturday, as authorities pulled out an additional survivor and…
Ecuador declares state of emergency over Cotopaxi volcano activity
View gallery Riot police wearing surgical masks to protect themselves from volcanic ash spewed by the Cotopaxi vo … View gallery Workers sweep the…
Are UN peacekeepers doing more harm than good?
Their job is to protect the most vulnerable people in what are often impoverished and war-torn regions of the world. But the UN’s peacekeepers are facing…
Migrants transiting through Macedonia jam trains
Click photo to enlarge Migrants wait for a train that would take them towards Serbia, at the railway station in the southern Macedonian town ofGevgelija,…
Eurozone approves third Greek bailout
Eurozone finance ministers on Friday approved a third bailout worth up to 86 billion euros (US$95.55 billion) to keep Greece in the single currency in return…
EU fast-tracks funding as migrant crisis worsens
BRUSSELS: The European Union pledged on Friday to fast-track new funding to help debt-hit Greece cope with a surge in migrants, with hundreds coming ashore…
Top American Legal Authority Says New Pentagon War Manual Reduces Us To Nazi Level
Article By WN.com Guest Writer Sherwood Ross The Pentagon‘s new Law of War Manual(LOWM) sanctioning nuclear attacks and the killing of civilians, “reads like it was written by Hitler‘s Ministry of War,” says…
Want to know what Obama’s listening to? Check Spotify
EDGARTOWN, Mass. (Reuters) – If hearing Barack Obama break into song hasn’t satisfied your presidential music needs, you can now listen to his playlists on…
Witty ‘Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ arrives to the big screen with style
Armie Hammer as Illya and Henry Cavill as Solo in Warner Bros. Pictures‘ action adventure “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (Warner…
Al Gore running for president in 2016? Some reports say no, some say… maybe
The ’90s are back: A “Full House” revival is coming to Netflix, Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync members are teaming up for a SyFy movie, and there’s even talk of a…
Royals seek Prince George ‘photo ban’
14 August 2015 From the section UK The Royal Family has issued an appeal to prevent the publication of unauthorised paparazzi photographs of Prince George. In…
Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike slips into coma
A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for the past 60 days has now entered into a state of coma, his lawyer told Al Jazeera.Mohammed Allaan, an…
Speech on World War II: 3 words to watch for from Japan’s Shinzo Abe
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will deliver a speech Saturday on the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender to U.S. forces in World War II. The text…
‘Isis hacking division’ publishes personal details of US targets online urging supporters to attack …
A list of American “targets” – including the FBI and Nasa– has been listed online by a group calling itself theIslamic State hacking division. Details of 1,400 mostlyUS military and government personnel were published…
Royals seek Prince George ‘photo ban’
14 August 2015 From the section UK The Royal Family has issued an appeal to prevent the publication of unauthorised paparazzi photographs of Prince George. In…
Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike slips into coma
A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for the past 60 days has now entered into a state of coma, his lawyer told Al Jazeera.Mohammed Allaan, an…
Reward offered in case of dog found dead with cruel note
Pomeranian‘s owners found his body outside their condo with a note that read: “We beat him 2 death lol HAHAHA!”……
Man arrested on suspicion of robbing two Bay Area news crews on live TV
A San Francisco man has been arrested in the brazen robbery of two Bay Area news crews on live TV as they reported on a pier shooting death, police said…
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Can Pope Francis clean up God’s bank?
The arrest of a key Vatican banker on charges of money-laundering pushed corruption in the bank to the top of the new pope’s agenda. But his reforms are meeting ferocious resistance …
Can music relieve the pain of surgery and help recovery?
13 August 2015 Last updated at 09:49 BST New research suggests playing music during operations can have a positive effect on both surgeons and those they treat.…
Firefighters gain some ground as California fire grows
LOWER LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling a wind-stoked blaze that has forced evacuations gained ground even as the blaze burned through bone-dry rugged…
Greek rescue package expected to pass through parliament
Deal must still be approved by the other other eurozone member states at a meeing of finance ministers in Brussels on Friday afternoon …
US warplanes launch first strikes from Turkey against Islamic State targets in Syria
US warplanes have carried out their first air strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria after taking off from a Turkish base, kicking off a key new phase…
F-16s fly first missions against Islamic State from Turkish base
WASHINGTON — Piloted American warplanes Wednesday launched airstrikes from Turkey against Islamic State fighters in Syria, the first American manned…
Reporting From Iran, Jewish Paper Sees No Plot to Destroy Israel
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Federal judge denies pair bail over Islamic State charges
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Greece and lenders agree on bailout terms
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Sundar Pichai: Google’s new boss from humble roots
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China’s black market for organ donations
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State of Emergency Declared After Violence in Ferguson, Missouri
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China hit by typhoon after 10 dead or missing in Taiwan
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Police: Cannibalism suspected in Russian ‘Granny Ripper’ case
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Trump Reacts to Misogyny Accusation by Being Misogynist at GOP Debate
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Feds foil armed resistance plot to Jade Helm 15
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Picasso painting worth $27m seized from boat in Corsica
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Greece may seek up to 24bn euros in first new aid tranche
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Athletics faces new doping crisis after ‘biggest leak’ of test results
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Report: Joe Biden considering bid for US presidency
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Cecil the lion’s brother Jericho shot dead in Zimbabwe, conservationists say
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Chinese Company Replaces Humans With Robots, Production Skyrockets, Mistakes Disappear
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“The robots have produced almost three times as many pieces as were produced before. According to the People’s Daily, production per person has increased from 8,000 pieces to 21,000 pieces. That’s a 162.5% increase.”
Myanmar floods: President declares state of emergency
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Former CEO of Mt Gox bitcoin exchange arrested: Report
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Ryo Ishikawa moves one ahead as Tiger Woods shows form in Virginia
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Charleston killer pleads not guilty to hate crime charges
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Saudi Arabia and Egypt sign ‘Cairo Declaration’
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North Korea: Canadian pastor admitted ‘subversive plots’ in public interrogation
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Saudi Arabia conducts fresh attacks on areas across Yemen
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MH370 Hunters Probe Aircraft Part Found on Reunion Island
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Top Gear’s Clarkson, Hammond and May sign Amazon deal
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Facebook now used by half of world’s online users
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Taliban leader Mullah Omar ‘is dead’
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‘Strong evidence’ of Israeli war crimes in Gaza
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US, Turkey agree to create ‘IS-free zone’ in Syria
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British newspaper ‘used app to track Prince William’
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Turkey strikes militants in Syria, Iraq
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