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People searching for "n**** house" are shown the residence of Barack Obama - a problem Google is urgently trying to fix.
Israeli PM Calls Off West Bank Bus Segregationby webdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press)
Israel's prime minster has overruled his defense minister and called off a proposed plan to segregate Palestinians from Israelis on West Bank buses. An official in the prime minister's office said Benjamin Netanyahu called Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon Wednesday to tell him he found the proposal “unacceptable” and the two decided to freeze the plan. Earlier on Wednesday, Yaalon launched the three-month pilot program following repeated complaints from Jewish settlers who ride...
A monument dedicated to the liberation of Rezekne, Latvia, after World War II. Latvian soldiers, border troops and the local police held a joint exercise last month in the city.
A 71-year-old working at an antique book dealer in Tokyo was sifting through a stack of old documents recently acquired from a Japanese collector when he came upon a fascinating discovery. According to a Tuesday article in the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's leading dailies, Yoshio Okudaira, the bookstore employee, found a signed 1938 letter from Nazi Germany's then Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.Read full article >>
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday Tehran's reaction to any military action against the country will be "very tough", state television reported.
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Khamenei says Tehran will not give access to nuclear scientists
Jerusalem Post Israel News Iran, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China have until June 30 to reach a comprehensive agreement. Ali Khamenei. (photo credit:REUTERS). Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. ANKARA - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ... Khamenei says Iran's reaction to military aggression will be very tough: ReportEconomic Times Khamenei says Iran will not accept 'unreasonable demands' by six powers: state ...The Daily Star Taliban delegation in Iran for talksTehran Times all 109 news articles » |
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Call it a clinic to restore marred beauty: arms, noses, hands and other appendages missing from sculptures due to vandalism or old age are replaced in a unique Argentine workshop.
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Why is Jerusalem important? You asked Google – here’s the answerby Jonathan Romain, Catherine Pepinster and Usama Hasan
Every day, millions of people ask Google some of life’s most difficult questions, big and small. In this series, our writers answer some of the most common queries
For Jews, Jerusalem is not just a significant physical place in both past and present Jewish history, but is equally important as a religious concept that transcends time. The area itself had been traversed by the first Jew, Abraham (c1800 BCE), during his wanderings throughout “the Promised Land”. According to tradition, the place where Abraham nearly sacrificed his son Isaac but was commanded by God not to do so, was the spot on which Jerusalem was later built.
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George Orwell’s son battles to preserve Spanish Civil War trenches by The European Union Times
Eight decades after George Orwell was wounded by a fascist bullet while defending a Spanish Republican trench, his son Richard is attempting to save the Civil War-era fortifications.
After visiting the trenches in which his socialist father fought fascism, Richard Blair is calling for the Spanish government to rescind policies that have seen them fall into disrepair, and instead preserve them for posterity.
Orwell, whose real name was Eric Blair, was wounded in the neck in these trenches during Spain’s vicious civil war.
He eventually made his way out of the country as an internal battle between Stalinists and revolutionary socialists raged.
Amidst the violent purge by Moscow-backed communists, Orwell lost his notes. They now reside in a Kremlin-based museum. Orwell eventually wrote his famous account of the period, “Homage to Catalonia,” from memory.
His experiences made him a staunch opponent of Stalinism, helping to inform another of his most famous works, the socialist fable “Animal Farm” that indirectly praised Stalin’s adversary, Leon Trotsky.
Orwell’s son thinks that maintenance of the trenches has fallen foul of an ongoing political battle between right-wingers and history itself, given that the center-right Spanish Popular Party froze funding after winning a regional election in 2011.
The trenches had been given funding by a previous left-of-center Spanish government to maintain the legacy of the war, which split the country between 1936 and 1939. They remain a controversial political topic to this day.
On Tuesday, Richard Blair said the Spanish public deserves transparency on the matter. He insisted that funding for preserving the trenches had been cut as part of an effort to obliterate the memory of a troubled chapter in Spain’s recent history.
“I think the Spanish people deserve to understand what really happened between the 1930s to the death of Franco in 1975,” he told The Times.
“Without a doubt there is an ideological war going on here over financing projects like the Orwell trenches,” he said. “The civil war is still being fought in Spain.”
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UBS agrees to pay $545M in manipulation probes
USA TODAY Swiss banking giant UBS agreed Wednesday to pay $545 million to settle a probe by U.S. authorities into its role in manipulating interest and currency rates. In a statement, the bank said it agreed to plead guilty to one count of wire fraud regarding allegations ... UBS to Pay Over $500 Million in Fines for Manipulating Currencies and LiborNew York Times Swiss bank UBS settles US legal cases for $545 millionWashington Post UBS pays $545 million to settle FX rigging claims; others to followFortune Bloomberg -Reuters UK all 108 news articles » |
US Regulators Warn of Cyber Threat to Financial Systemby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
U.S. regulators highlighted concerns about the potential for a cyber attack that could "significantly disrupt the workings of the financial system" as they presented an annual look at the challenges facing the economic sector. The report from the Financial Stability Oversight Council, released Tuesday, cited large-scale data breaches during the past year that hit U.S. retailers and the high-profile attack that crippled computers at Sony, and stressed the need for having plans in...
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The logo of the Swiss bank UBS on a building in Zurich. “The conduct of a small number of employees was unacceptable and we have taken appropriate disciplinary actions,” UBS said.
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Burundi poll postponed over unrest
Irish Independent Burundi president Pierre Nkurunziza has signed a decree to postpone parliamentary elections for a week. Ads by Google. Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. Go To. Comments. Mr Nkurunziza's decision to delay the elections from May 26 until early ... Burundi Parliamentary Vote Delayed After Opposition ProtestsBloomberg Burundi's president delays parliamentary elections by a weekReuters Africa all 225 news articles » |
White widow Samantha Lewthwaite (pictured), the widow of 7/7 suicide bomber Jermaine Lindsay, commands an army of up to 200 female jihadis who spy for her and Somali terror group Al-Shabaab.
Italian Police Arrest Tunisia Museum Attack Suspectby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Italian police say they have arrested a Moroccan man suspected of involvement in the March 18 attack on a Tunisian museum that left 22 people dead. Police told reporters Wednesday that a 22-year-old suspect was arrested in the Italian town of Gaggiano, near Milan. Anti-terrorism police made the arrest. More details are expected later Wednesday. The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the March 18 attack, in which gunmen opened fire on busloads of foreign tourists...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday Tehran would not accept "unreasonable demands" by world powers during negotiations over its disputed nuclear programme, and ruled out letting inspectors interview its atomic scientists.
Searches using a racist slur return results pinpointing the White House in Washington DC
Google has apologised after searches which include the racist slur “nigger” were shown to find the White House in Google Maps.
Searches for “nigger house”, in a global view of the world, and for “nigger king”, when focused on in the Washington DC greater area, return with the home of the US president Barack Obama as either the primary search result or one of three.
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Obama: Climate change is a national security threat
USA TODAY WASHINGTON — President Obama will use a commencement speech at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Wednesday to argue ever more forcefully that climate change is a threat to America's national defense. "Climate change will impact every country on the ... Obama Recasts Climate Change as a More Far-Reaching PerilNew York Times Obama: climate change poses risk to US military, national securityReuters Obama to sound alarm on climate changeCBS News The Hill -U-T San Diego all 17 news articles » |
It’s often hard for clergy to hold the attention of the congregation and a good joke can work wonders. But comedy is a weapon that must be deployed with care
With Victorian-style public lectures now a rarity, listening to anyone speak to a crowd, for most of us above school age, occurs only when the best man tells stories of the groom’s indiscretions. “Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking” is as much a case of “unaccustomed as I am to public listening”.
Pity the preacher then, who, as well as the regular Sunday gig, is drafted in for school assemblies, the Women’s Institute and the odd Rotary dinner.
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Canadian police arrest 10 youths suspected of trying to join ISIS
Fox News TORONTO – Canadian police arrested 10 youths at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport last weekend who are suspected of wanting to go to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State group, a government official said Tuesday. The official ... Quebec police arrest suspects planning to join jihadist groupsCTV News all 157 news articles » |
If the weapons development is true, it means the rogue state's leader can order deployment of a nuclear-armed missile.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led air strikes are pressing an attack on Islamic State in northeastern Syria that has killed at least 170 members of the jihadist group this week, a Kurdish official and a monitoring group said on Wednesday.
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian police said on Wednesday they had arrested a 22-year-old Moroccan man suspected of involvement in the March 18 attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis which killed 20 tourists.
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The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change, possibly the only museum specifically devoted to the issue, may offer inspiration for a group seeking to build a similar site in Manhattan.
US Reaffirms Support for Iraqi Offensive to Retake Ramadiby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
U.S. President Barack Obama reaffirmed his government's support for Iraq's prime minister and the decision to plan an operation to retake control of Ramadi, as Iraqi forces and Shi'ite militias gathered outside the western city. The troops and militias have had prior success in recapturing Tikrit, but Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said Tuesday that taking back Ramadi is more challenging given that Iraqi forces abandoned a vast array of American military equipment...
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has signed a decree to postpone parliamentary elections for a week, after a failed coup that was triggered by protests over his bid for a third term in office.
Hatton Garden heist: police raid north London propertiesby Jamie Grierson and Vikram Dodd
Police investigating robbery in capital’s jewellery district over Easter weekend search addresses in Enfield days after stolen property was recovered
Police continue to search homes in Enfield, north London, for a second day in the hunt for information relating to the Hatton Garden heist.
A man called Hugh Doyle is registered on the electoral roll as living at Riverside Gardens, while a plumbing and heating business is also linked to the property.
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A contentious plan introduced this week
prohibited Palestinians returning to the West Bank from riding on the same buses as Israelis.
prohibited Palestinians returning to the West Bank from riding on the same buses as Israelis.
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President delays Burundi elections, more shooting in capital
Reuters BUJUMBURA Burundi's president pushed back parliamentary and local elections to June 5 on Wednesday and further clashes between police and protesters broke out in a power struggle threatening to unleash more ethnic bloodshed in Africa's Great Lakes ... and more » |
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said Moscow is ready to develop mutually beneficial cooperation with the West.
US president to say that climate change will change how armed forces work and train, and highlight flood risk to navy and air bases
Rising seas, thawing permafrost and longer wildfires caused by warmer global temperatures threaten US military bases and will change the way the US armed services defend the country, President Barack Obama is set to say on Wednesday.
In his commencement address at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, the White House said Obama will underscore the risks to national security posed by climate change, one of his top priorities for action in his remaining 19 months in office.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ruled out allowing international nuclear inspectors to visit military sites in Iran or to question scientists.
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Italian Police Arrest Suspect in Tunisian Museum Attack
Wall Street Journal MILAN—Italian police arrested a man suspected of taking part in the assault on a museum in the Tunisian capital in March that left more than 20 people dead. Police identified the man as Abdel Majid Touil, a Moroccan national born in 1993 who arrived in Italy ... Moroccan Touil Abdel Majeed Arrested in Italy Over Tunis Bardo Museum AttackNBCNews.com Tunisia attack suspect 'arrived in Italy by boat'The Local.it all 71 news articles » |
JERUSALEM/TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Concerns about Israel's commitment to competition in the telecoms sector have grown after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the director-general of communications and took over the ministry himself.
Soldiers bake for the masses in Bolivia after the country's bakers went on a 48-hour strike in a protest over government cuts to wheat subsidies. Troops were assigned the task of baking tens of thousands of bread rolls to cover shortages in La Paz. The soldiers used baking facilities in barracks which they already use in their mess halls but stepped up production to cover demand Continue reading...
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Endangered Antelope Death Toll Nears 20,000 In Kazakhstanby noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Kazakh Service)
The death toll in a sudden die-off of critically endangered saiga antelope is nearing 20,000, according to authorities in northern Kazakhstan who are still unsure of the cause.
Photos showing a North Korean missile launched from a submarine were manipulated by state propagandists, a top U.S. military official said on Tuesday.
North Korea, heavily sanctioned by the United States and United Nations for its missile and nuclear tests, said on May 9 it had successfully conducted an underwater test-fire of a submarine-launched ballistic missile. If true, it would indicate progress in its pursuit of building missile-equipped submarines.
On Wednesday, the North warned Washington not to challenge its sovereign right to boost military deterrence and boasted of its ability to miniaturize nuclear warheads, a claim it has made before and which has been widely questioned by experts and never verified…
MOSCOW — The lower chamber of Russia’s parliament approved a bill Tuesday to prevent “undesirable” foreign and international organizations from operating within the country, a measure that could enable the Kremlin to further stifle dissent.Read full article >>
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BAGHDAD — As Islamic State militants repeatedly attacked Ramadi this year, police solicited cash from local families and businessmen to buy weapons, one officer recalled. The Iraqi government didn’t pay the police for months, he said. Read full article >>
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An uninvited bike gang showed up to a meeting, someone's foot got run over, and then a deadly gun battle erupted, according to the investigation so far
A Brief Guide to the Islamic State [2015], written by British fugitive Abu Rumaysah al Britani, describes the so-called advantages of living in the caliphate and likens it to a 'plush holiday resort'.
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Despite the defeat of Iraqi forces by Islamic State fighters at Ramadi, White House officials say President Barack Obama does not plan to discard his strategy against the militant group in Iraq. VOA White House correspondent Luis Ramirez reports.
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