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Climate change skeptics may well find that in Francis they have met their most formidable opponent.

Puerto Rico’s Governor Says Island’s Debts Are ‘Not Payable’by MICHAEL CORKERY and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:55 AM

Gov. Alejandro García Padilla said that his administration would probably seek significant concessions from its creditors on a $72 billion debt load.

Israeli Navy Intercepts Ship Sailing Toward Gaza Stripby DIAA HADID
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:55 AM

The vessel, which was going to protest a maritime blockade on the coastal enclave, was being led to the southern Israeli port of Ashdod, a military statement said.

Roadside Bomb Injures Egypt’s Top Prosecutorby KAREEM FAHIM and MERNA THOMAS
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:55 AM

Hisham Barakat, is among the most senior officials to be targeted in Islamist militants’ violent campaign against Egypt’s military-backed government.

David Cameron Pledges a ‘Full Spectrum’ Response to Tunisia Attack by STEPHEN CASTLE
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:55 AM

The British prime minister sent security officials and ministers to the resort in Sousse, Tunisia, where 18 Britons have been confirmed among the victims.

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Bialowieza National Park Journal: Poland Wants Bison to Multiply, but Others Prefer Subtraction by RICK LYMAN
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:54 AM

What many see as a shaggy national symbol whose numbers should be increased to ensure its survival, others see as a hazard to crops and the country’s economy.

ISIS video shows militants execute Egyptian judges in drive-by shooting
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:54 AM

The brutal video comes just hours after a devastating car bomb injured one of Egypt's top prosecutors, Hisham Barakat.It is thought ISIS have carried out the failed assassination attempt.

Ikar Airlines plane's engine catches FIRE as it takes off from Simferopol Airport
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:51 AM

Eyewitness described a sudden loud explosion and reported seeing something fall off the plane and scatter onto the runway.

Ex-police officer who won £2.2m on lottery is jailed for throttling his partner
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:51 AM

Tony Stubley, of Croydon, London, was sentenced to more than five years in prison after admitting attacking his 51-year-old partner, choking her until she lost consciousness and then tying her up.

Our leaders may be losing the battle against ISIS but we won't be defeated, PIERS MORGAN writes
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:50 AM

I thought of the idyllic scene during my family's beach vacation in France last week as the British death toll in Tunisia reached at least 30 – all shot dead as they did the exact same things we did.

David Sweat had bag containing maps, tools and Pop Tarts
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:50 AM

David Sweat is waking up chained to an Albany hospital bed in critical but stable condition on Monday morning after his 'Shawshank'-style prison break ended Sunday.

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Jackson Pollock review – this is art as nervous breakdown ... and it's majestic by Jonathan Jones
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:50 AM

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This revolutionary new exhibition is proof that Pollock’s life after 1950 was not, as has previously been painted, just one long alcoholic crisis

This is the saddest story you will ever see. In 1950, the great American painter Jackson Pollock stood at the peak of his achievement. His dripped and poured and flicked galaxies of colour attain a majestic beauty in such paintings from that year as Lavender Mist, One: Number 31, 1950 andAutumn Rhythm. Pollock was painting at this moment like his contemporary Charlie Parker played sax, in curling arabesques of liberating improvisation that magically end up making beautiful sense.

There is a grace in this art that belies its radical method of creation. Putting canvases on the ground and throwing paint at them seems a recipe for anarchy. Pollock, however, insisted that his art contains “No chaos, dammit!”

Tunisia attack: arrests announced as UK sends plane to repatriate victimsby Emma Graham-Harrison in Sousse and Patrick Wintour in London
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:50 AM

Downing St says an RAF C17 plane is being sent with medevac teams as Tunisian authorities announce arrests of suspects linked to gunman Seifeddine Rezgui

The government is sending an RAF plane to help bring back all UK citizens injured in Friday’s terror attack on a Tunisian beach, as authorities announced the first arrests since the massacre.

Downing Street said on Monday that the death toll was likely to rise to around 30, and that an RAF C17 was being sent with medevac teams experienced at repatriating injured service personnel. David Cameron also announced a national minute’s silence on Friday 12pm, a week after the attack.Continue reading...

The Guardian view on counter-terrorism after Tunisia: calm resolve required | Editorial by Editorial
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:49 AM

Blood begets fury. That is inevitable. But David Cameron must understand that anger is not the right frame of mind for making sound policy

Leadership is often about finding the right words, and never more so than in the aftermath of tragedy. Faced with a massacre of tourists on a Tunisian beach which represents the largest loss of British life to terrorism since 7/7, a full decade ago, David Cameron had an important task inexpressing a nation’s sense of loss – and its resolve. He acquitted himself well enough in defining the emotional mood, as he often does.

But in the wake of disaster the test for a government is about more than mood, it is about the response – the policy to be pursued. And the words the prime minister selected in connection with that were not a happy choice. He has called for a “full-spectrum response”, echoing the discredited neocon architects of the Iraq war who once demanded “full-spectrum dominance” for the US. He spoke of an “existential” threat to the life of Britain, needlessly reinforcing the terrorists’ self-aggrandising pretensions of reordering the world by borrowing rhetoric that hawks often deploy in connection with Iran and Israel. However, there is at least the rationale that a prospectively nuclear-armed enemy state could theoretically call time on Israel’s very existence. By contrast, any suggestion that murderous bullets on a foreign beach could close the book on a thousand years of British history is absurd.

Sherlock Holmes: examining the evidence – in chartsby Adam Frost and Jim Kynvin
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:49 AM

It’s more than a century since the world’s most famous literary detective made his appearance in the pages of the Strand magazine, but our appetite for his startling deductions is undiminished. Adam Frost and Jim Kynvin go back to the stories in search of data to explain his enduring appeal

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Meet the sergeant who captured escaped inmate David Sweat
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:48 AM

Sgt. Jay Cook - hailed as a hero by the governor - is a 21-year-veteran who was by himself when he spotted fugitive killer

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Escaped N. Carolina convict back in custody
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:48 AM

Convicted murderer Kristopher McNeil allegedly had help from an insider busting out of prison, but he wasn't free for long

Drama of Tunisia massacre caught on camera
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:48 AM

One hotel employee risked his life, following Seifeddine Rezgui around the resort as the gunman mowed down 38 innocent people

Ex-CIA insider: July 4 terror alert is "nothing routine"
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:47 AM

Michael Morell says the "serious" warning about potential holiday weekend attacks is different this year because of ISIS' growing reach

Is the IS caliphate here to stay?
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:47 AM

BBC News - World

One year on from Islamic State's declaration of 'caliphate'

Conservative churches confront new reality on gay marriageby By RACHEL ZOLL
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:47 AM

At First Baptist Dallas, where the pulpit was adorned Sunday with red, white and blue bunting to honor the Fourth of July, the pastor called the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling "an affront in the face of Almighty God."...

AP PHOTOS: Crowds celebrate US same-sex marriage rulingby By The Associated Press
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:46 AM

Hundreds of thousands of people on Sunday packed gay pride events from Chicago to New York City, Seattle to San Francisco, to celebrate a freshly endorsed right to marry. Gay rights activists outside the United States also organized rallies to draw attention to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriages....

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Puerto Rico governor says island can't pay its public debtby By DANICA COTO
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:46 AM

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- The governor is warning that Puerto Rico can't pay its $72 billion public debt, delivering another jolt to the recession-gripped U.S. island as well as a world financial system already worrying over Greece's collapsing finances....

Dangerous men, careful plans and a bold escape for the agesby By JENNIFER PELTZ
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:46 AM

NEW YORK (AP) -- It was dawn in the cellblocks of Dannemora, time for a round of bed checks on the convicted killers, rapists and other criminals held behind stark 19th-century walls. Guards went along the lattice of light-green bars in "A" Block, where well-behaved prisoners are held....

Sputtering start to US military's training of Syrian rebelsby By ROBERT BURNS
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:46 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fewer than 100 Syrian rebels are currently being trained by the U.S. military to fight the Islamic State group, a tiny total for a sputtering program with a stated goal of producing 5,400 fighters a year....

Egypt's state prosecutor dies following bomb attackby By MAGGIE MICHAEL and BRIAN ROHAN
Monday June 29th, 2015 at 11:45 AM