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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has briefed allies during a gathering of NATO foreign ministers in the southern Turkish town of Antalya, a day after holding lengthy talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kerry: Now Is ‘Critical Moment’ for Ukraine Conflictby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said now is a "critical moment" for Russia and pro-Russia separatists to fulfill a peace deal meant to end violence in eastern Ukraine.
"There was strong agreement among all of the NATO members that this is a critical moment for action by Russia and by the separatists to live up to the Minsk agreement," Kerry said, referring to a ceasefire accord that has been regularly broken. The Minsk agreement calls for the withdrawal of all...
"There was strong agreement among all of the NATO members that this is a critical moment for action by Russia and by the separatists to live up to the Minsk agreement," Kerry said, referring to a ceasefire accord that has been regularly broken. The Minsk agreement calls for the withdrawal of all...
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Amtrak Train Derails in Philadelphia, Killing at Least 5 and Injuring Dozens
New York Times PHILADELPHIA — At least five people were killed and dozens more were injured when an Amtrak train carrying 243 people derailed here on Tuesday, shutting down service in the Northeast region, the authorities said. The train was headed to New York from ... From calm to catastrophe: Amtrak train crash victims tell their storiesCNN |
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In 1791, the slaves of France's most profitable Caribbean colony, Saint Domingue, revolted. The uprising was kindled by the appalling exploitation and abuse of the colony's enslaved African population, and stoked by the same Enlightenment values championed by white anti-monarchic revolutionaries in the United States and France itself.Read full article >>
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters launched an attack on Syrian army-held areas in Homs province overnight, a Syrian military source and an organization tracking the war said, part of the group's efforts to expand beyond its strongholds in the east.
George Zimmerman awaits police probe in shooting on road
WGME ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- George Zimmerman had moved out of Florida, but is now sticking around as police officers investigate his role in a confrontation with a man who shot at him as they were driving. Zimmerman's attorney said Tuesday that the former ... and more » |
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LONDON — Prince Charles’ secret letters to government officials are set to be released to the public after a long court battle.
The 27 contested letters have been called the “black spider” memos because of Charles’ handwriting style. The memos to be published Wednesday have long been sought via a Freedom of Information Act request by Guardian newspaper journalist Rob Evans.
Britain’s Supreme Court in March supported a lower court ruling that the letters be published. The government has sought for years to keep the letters out of the public domain for fear that publishing them might damage public perceptions of Charles’ neutrality.
As heir to the throne, Charles is expected to stay out of political matters. He has in the past expressed views about architecture, genetically modified food and climate change.
Video from Janelle Richards posted to Twitter, shows passengers on board crashed Northeast Region 188 train escaping the wreckage of the train after it derailed on Tuesday night en route from Washington DC to New York. Further footage posted to YouTube channel NoticiasProceso OnIinepurports to show people crying and crawling from the wreckage of the train. Five people have been killed in the incident Continue reading...
President Peña Nieto deploys military forces to confront the New Generation Jalisco Cartel after it kills soldiers, officers and politicians and wreaks havoc in an economically important state.
A white police officer in Wisconsin won't be charged for fatally shooting an unarmed 19-year-old biracial man in March. The announcement of that decision Tuesday led to protests in Wisconsin’s capital city. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports from Madison, the victim's family is appealing to the public to keep demonstrations peaceful.
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Cops shoot hammer-wielding suspect in Midtown
May 13, 2015 | 10:26am
Police on Wednesday shot the hammer-wielding maniac who has been randomly attacking Manhattan pedestrians, law enforcement sources said.
Two officers recognized the suspect from pictures released by the NYPD and stopped to question him, law enforcement sources said.
A short time later, the man pulled out his hammer and took a swing at Officer Lauren O’Rouke with the claw end of the tool, sources said.
He missed, as O’Rouke’s partner, Officer Geraldo Casaigne, pulled his weapon, fired and struck the suspect.
He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was reported in critical condition, law enforcement sources said.
Both officers are stationed at the Midtown South precinct.
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The Queen was driven to Kensington Palace three days after Princess Charlotte's birth to be introduced to her new great-grandaughter
The Queen gushes over the arrival of Princess Charlotte
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Five shot dead in Arizona home in possible murder-suicide: newspaper
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Kerry Fills in NATO Allies on Putin Meeting
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Over 40 Killed as Gunmen Attack Karachi Busby webdesk@voanews.com (Ayaz Gul)
Pakistani authorities said gunmen attacked a bus in Karachi Wednesday, killing at least 43 people, including
16 women, all of whom belonged to the minority Shi'ite Ismaili Muslim community. Provincial police chief Inspector General Ghulam Haider Jamail said six men riding motorbikes ambushed and entered the bus and sprayed the passengers with bullets.
Witnesses told police the passengers thought the gunmen wanted to rob them so they immediately offered their belongings, including...
16 women, all of whom belonged to the minority Shi'ite Ismaili Muslim community. Provincial police chief Inspector General Ghulam Haider Jamail said six men riding motorbikes ambushed and entered the bus and sprayed the passengers with bullets.
Witnesses told police the passengers thought the gunmen wanted to rob them so they immediately offered their belongings, including...
More Than 40 Killed After Gunmen Attack Bus In Karachiby noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
Pakistani officials say at least
43 members of a minority Shi'ite Muslim sect were killed when gunmen opened fire on their bus in Pakistan's southern
port city of Karachi.
43 members of a minority Shi'ite Muslim sect were killed when gunmen opened fire on their bus in Pakistan's southern
port city of Karachi.
Dozens killed in Karachi bus attack by Agencies in Karachi
Gunmen on motorcycles open fire on vehicle in south Pakistan city, police say
Gunmen on motorcycles have killed 43 people in an attack on a bus in Karachi, police have said.
Officers said at least six armed men stopped the vehicle and fired
indiscriminately at passengers identified as Ismaili Shia Muslims.Continue reading...
indiscriminately at passengers identified as Ismaili Shia Muslims.Continue reading...
Police: 5 found shot to death in Tucson home
USA TODAY TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Police say five people have been found shot to death in a Tucson home in what appears to be a murder-suicide. Sgt. Pete Dugan says officers found the bodies in the single-story home about 6 p.m. Tuesday. He tells The Associated ... and more » |
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The barriers between politicians and ordinary citizens must come down in order to achieve true democracy
When you stand back and draw breath after this dramatic and surprising general election, there is a deficit in true democracy in the United Kingdom as worrying as the economic deficit. It is related to another kind of deficit: trust. Despite a long and vibrant democratic tradition, the “mother of all parliaments” is failing her children.
Voter turnout at this election, at 66.1%, although trumpeted as the highest since 1997, was only marginally higher than 2010’s 65% and was well behind the 71.4% who voted in Blair’s first victory. A depressing 7.5 million people – almost one in six adults – failed to even register to vote.
Most people feel as if they are watching a small body of powerful people make the real decisions behind closed doors
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Kerry fills in NATO allies on Putin meeting
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Motorcycle gunmen kill 41 in bus attack in Pakistan's Karachi - police
Reuters KARACHI, Pakistan Gunmen on motorcycles killed at least 41 people in an attack on a bus in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, police said, in the latest violence directed against religious minorities this year. Television channels carried ... Police: Gunmen kill 43 in attack on Shiite minority in southern PakistanFox News Gunmen kill 41 in bus attack in PakistanCNN Karachi police say gunmen kill 41 on busBBC News Daily Beast all 85 news articles » |
North Korea has reportedly executed its
Defense Minister for falling asleep at a military event that was attended by the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) told lawmakers in Seoul.
Defense Minister for falling asleep at a military event that was attended by the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) told lawmakers in Seoul.
According to South Korean media on Wednesday, Hyon Yong Chol was charged with treason and executed on April 30 in front of a crowd of hundreds of North Korean officials, reports Reuters.
Hyon, who was chief of the country’s People’s Armed Forces, is also said to have talked back to the North Korean dictator several times.
The South Korean intelligence agency briefed a parliamentary committee about the execution on Wednesday.
Hyon’s execution is the latest in a series of purges against senior officials in the isolated country. Last month, the NIS said Pyongyang had ordered the execution of 15 high-ranking officials for undermining
Kim’s leadership.
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In the 7th century, a Chinese monk traversed a ribbon of the Silk Road, through the forbidding Taklamakan desert and over the mighty Tianshan peaks, to India. The Buddhist cleric’s name was Xuanzang, and he spent 17 years abroad before returning home with a cache of sutras and religious relics.
On Thursday, Narendra Modi will make his first visit to China as Prime Minister of India. One of his first stops will be the Wild Goose Pagoda in the central Chinese city of Xi’an, which, legend has it, was originally built to store Xuanzang’s Buddhist treasures from India. With China’s President Xi Jinping at his side — a rare instance in which a Chinese leader will greet a foreign leader outside of Beijing — Modi is expected to pay respects to one of the first devotees of globalization. It’s no small irony that an ancient Buddhist pilgrim will bring together a Hindu nationalist and a Communist princeling.
Yet for all the feting of Xuanzang, India and China’s relations remain tenuous. The world’s two most populous nations comprise more than one-third of humanity. Yet bilateral trade hovers around $70 billion, less than half the dollar figure of commercial ties between China and Australia. Memories of border battles — the most recent in 1962 — fester, and the 4,000-km frontier, which cuts through disputed territory, remains tense. “The bilateral relationship cannot be very good unless the border dispute is solved,” says Zhao Gancheng, a South Asia expert from the Shanghai Institute for International Studies.
Imagine: there is not a single direct flight between two of Asia’s financial capitals, Shanghai and Mumbai. Between Beijing and New Delhi, nonstop flights only run three times a week. In 2013, 175,000 Chinese went on holiday in India, according to the Indian Ministry of Tourism. Thailand, meanwhile, attracted 4.6 million Chinese visitors last year.
Ahead of his China trip, Modi joined Weibo, the Chinese social-media service that has flourished partly because Twitter is blocked by Chinese censors. Modi may be a Twitter rock star, with 12.2 million followers, but he has attracted fewer than 50,000 fans on Weibo. By comparison, Apple CEO Tim Cook garnered 300,000 Weibo acolytes within 3½ hours of joining the Chinese microblogging network this week. Modi’s Weibo feed was seized upon by Chinese nationalists who demanded that India return “South Tibet,” as they refer to the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. “South Tibet belongs to China,” went one comment. “Give it back to us. Otherwise we will take it back by force sooner or later.”
Such incendiary rhetoric notwithstanding, Modi spoke on the eve of his China trip of resetting the Sino-Indian relationship, focusing on economic pragmatism over troublesome politics. “I look forward to working out a road map for qualitatively upgrading our economic relations and seek greater Chinese participation in India’s economic growth,” he told Chinese media in New Delhi, “especially in transforming India’s manufacturing sector and infrastructure.”
Still, the stumbling blocks are hard to budge. China’s historic friendship with Pakistan hasn’t helped, nor has India’s decades-long hosting of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader whose political counterpart Modi invited to his inauguration last year. Asked to comment on Sino-Indian ties, several India experts from leading Chinese universities refused to talk to TIME, citing the sensitivity of the bilateral relationship.
The Global Times, a daily affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, published an editorial on Monday accusing Modi of “playing little tricks over border disputes and security issues, hoping to boost his domestic prestige while increasing his leverage in negotiations with China.” The editorial, written by an academic at the Institute of International Relations at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, went on to criticize the “Indian elites’ blind arrogance and confidence in their democracy,” as well as “the inferiority of [India’s] ordinary people.”
When Xi visited India last September, the trip was hailed as groundbreaking — the first time a Chinese President had stepped on Indian soil in eight years. Yet Xi’s visit resulted in an underwhelming $20 billion in promised Chinese investment over a five-year period. By contrast, Xi vowed $46 billion in infrastructure spending for ally Pakistan during a trip there last month. (India’s trade deficit with China reached $45 billion last year.) The bonhomie of Xi’s India trip was also marred by a strategic joust by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, which reportedly dispatched hundreds of soldiers past the Line of Actual Control to a remote section of the India-China frontier.
Fourteen centuries ago, Xuanzang so impressed his countrymen that his travels inspired one of the most treasured classics in the Chinese literary canon, Journey to the West. Later during Modi’s China tour, in Shanghai, the Indian PM is slated to preside over the signing of a movie project celebrating Xuanzang’s life that will be jointly made by Chinese and Indian film studios.
But it’s also worth remembering that Xuanzang’s journey west was forbidden by the Chinese Emperor, who was battling Turkic nomads on the Middle Kingdom’s periphery and had therefore banned most Chinese from venturing abroad. By the time Xuanzang returned to China, his spiritual exploits trumped any imperial embargo. Still, even China’s most celebrated pilgrim was, for a time, an outlaw for visiting India.
— With reporting by Gu Yongqiang / Beijing
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Police: 5 found shot to death in Tucson home
Scottsbluff Star Herald TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Police say five people have been found shot to death in a Tucson home in what appears to be a murder-suicide. Sgt. Pete Dugan says officers found the bodies in the single-story home about 6 p.m. Tuesday. He tells The Associated ... and more » |
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French President Hollande Makes Historic Visit to Haitiby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
French President Francois Hollande visited Haiti Tuesday and pledged to help the impoverished Caribbean nation recover from the 2010 earthquake that left much of the
country in ruins. The trip is the first official state visit by a French president to Haiti, the former crown jewel of French colonialism until 1804, when it became the world's first independent black republic after a slave revolt. But Haiti is now the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, due in
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country in ruins. The trip is the first official state visit by a French president to Haiti, the former crown jewel of French colonialism until 1804, when it became the world's first independent black republic after a slave revolt. But Haiti is now the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, due in
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Police: 5 found shot to death in Tucson home
Montana Standard TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Police say five people have been found shot to death in a Tucson home in what appears to be a murder-suicide. Sgt. Pete Dugan says officers found the bodies in the single-story home about 6 p.m. Tuesday. He tells The Associated ... and more » |
ANTALYA, Turkey (Reuters) - Defining a clearer security arrangement between Gulf countries and the United States is critical to fighting terrorism, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday.
Dramatic images of the fatal train crash in Philadelphia show the extent of the damage after an Amtrak service derailed en route to New York. Report by Cara Legg.
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Trade illustrates divide between Obama, Democrats
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ANTALYA, Turkey (Reuters) - NATO foreign ministers meeting in Turkey on Wednesday will look at how the alliance can do more to fight Islamic State, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said.
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The Queen's remarks at the Buckingham Palace garden party are the first time she has expressed any public opinion about the birth of the new princess, born just over a week ago.
Police: 5 found shot to death in Tucson home
La Crosse Tribune TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Police say five people have been found shot to death in a Tucson home in what appears to be a murder-suicide. Sgt. Pete Dugan says officers found the bodies in the single-story home about 6 p.m. Tuesday. He tells The Associated ... and more » |
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