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U.S.-led coalition aircraft unleashed a series of airstrikes targeting Islamic State’s stronghold of Raqqa in eastern Syria, killing at least 10 militants and wounding many others, the coalition and the group said.
Voting ended in Greece’s referendum Sunday, with several opinion polls taken during the day predicting a narrow victory for the “no” side.
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Shoe factory collapses in eastern China, killing 9 people and injuring more ...
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On nervous border, Turks welcome army but fear Syria incursion
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Greek foreign minister visits Israel amid crisis at home
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Donald Trump comments still dominating the GOP debate, dividing the field
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Inside the makeshift town-come-refugee camp outside Calais that aid agencies compare to a war zone
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A series of attacks, mainly car bombs, in Iraq killed at least 19 people and wounded dozens on July 4.
U.S.-led coalition forces carried out a series of 16 air strikes on July 4 on the Islamic State in its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, in one of the biggest assaults yet on the militant group.
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Iran's Nuclear Program A Child Of Washingtonby support@pangea-cms.com (Tony Wesolowsky)
Nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran have witnessed more collision than fusion. What may have been forgotten, however, is that the United States played a key role in the creation of Iran's nuclear program.
Former Insurgent Elected Chechen Parliament Speakerby support@pangea-cms.com (Liz Fuller)
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Thankfully, the gods came good and so did the lilies. I knew Lilium martagon well in its dusky mauve form, which I had first seen naturalised at Sissinghurst. As a teenager I was already obsessed and dreamed of having them myself one day, but my commitment to do so was cemented when I initially saw them growing in the wild. I was on my first plant-hunting trip to the Pyrenees and came upon them where nut wood thinned to meadow. They were growing in the exact same combination as atSissinghurst, reaching up through pale astrantia.
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Tim Adams was invited to hang out at Google’s California HQ, where some of the world’s brightest minds are working on innovations, such as driverless cars, that will transform our lives. But is society ready to go along for the ride?
Whatever happened to wonder? The most unnerving thing about sitting in the back of a driverless car is how quickly you get used to it. After 10 minutes cruising Californian streets in the rear seat of one of Google’s “autonomous” Lexus 4x4s, the “look, no hands!” miracle of the Google “driver” in the front already feels old hat. Approaching a complicated four-way junction, every nearby moving or stationary object – lorries, wheelie bins, birds, trees, pedestrians – mapped and colour-coded instant-by-instant on the car’s computer console, I find myself thinking not, “Look out!” but rather, “Speed up!”
The car, one of 24 that have now done a collective million miles on the roads around Google’s campus in the city of Mountain View, and further afield on freeways, and even out in San Francisco, behaves – not surprisingly – somewhat like a cautious learner driver. Its sensors, bolt-on radar and lasers and cameras, are twitchily hyperactive. They can monitor unexpected movements two football pitches away. Now they are calculating from memory what the dad and his toddler passenger on a bike on the right are likely to do next, now processing the probabilities that the car approaching the stop sign at some speed is actually going to stop.
Continue reading...US-led air strikes on Isis stronghold leave dozens dead including civilians by Agence France-Presse in Beirut
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 30 people have been killed in air strikes on Raqqa in Syria, including six civilians, among them children
A US-led coalition has carried out some of its heaviest air strikes yet on Islamic State’s de-factoSyrian capital, killing at least 30 people, including six civilians, according to a human rights monitor.
The strikes on Saturday night and Sunday morning also damaged infrastructure in Raqqa, the group’s bastion in northern Syria.
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Road Haulage Association warns of potential for fatal attacks and suggests deployment of French military to boost security
Someone will end up being killed if more is not done to protect lorry drivers from desperate migrants in Calais trying to get to the UK, the Road Haulage Association has warned.
Industrial action by ferry workers over the past two weeks, which at times has brought lorries to a standstill on both sides of the channel, has led to chaotic scenes with migrants trying to clamber on to vehicles at the northern French port.
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Egypt journalists face jail for reporting non-government terrorism statistics by Patrick Kingsley and Manu Abdo in Cairo
New law awaiting presidential approval outlaws the publication of ‘false news or data about any terrorist operations that contradicts official statements’
Egypt was accused of making a savage assault on free speech on Sunday, after its cabinet drafted a law that criminalises the reporting of terrorism statistics that differ from those the government provides.
Under an article in the new terrorism law presented to the president for his final approval, journalists face at least two years in jail if they publish figures that contradict those that state institutions such as the army release.
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Rare targeting of ISIS stronghold hits city center, going after ISIS' "ability to move"; Iraq claims to hold off latest ISIS assault on key dam
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State suicide bombers on Sunday blew up an explosive- laden truck near a power plant that serves the northeastern city of Hasaka, the latest attack after their expulsion from most parts of the city, the Syrian army said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State suicide bombers and fighters attacked the center of Iraq's northern oil refinery town of Baiji overnight, forcing the army and Shi'ite fighters to pull back, military sources and the local mayor said on Sunday.
July 5, 2015, 4:46 PM (IDT)
Sources in Ankara report that Turkish military chiefs have ordered commanders of the armored brigades of Syrian border troops and commando brigades to attend a meeting at military headquarters to discuss a possible cross-border operation in Syria. The air force's role in a possible intervention will also be discussed. A plan to have more than 400 armored vehicles, which will carry military personnel and be protected by jammers, to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) planting mines across Syria's Turkey border, is also on the agenda,
A total of 54,000 members of Turkey's land forces have reportedly been deployed on the country's Syria border. DEBKAfile’s military sources: Some Western sources say that the Turkish military build-up on the Syrian border is smaller than described and most probably limited to the Gaziantp region of eastern Turkey.
A total of 54,000 members of Turkey's land forces have reportedly been deployed on the country's Syria border. DEBKAfile’s military sources: Some Western sources say that the Turkish military build-up on the Syrian border is smaller than described and most probably limited to the Gaziantp region of eastern Turkey.
July 5, 2015, 4:56 PM (IDT)
The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group said Sunday it had carried out a series of 16 air strikes in Syria on its main stronghold, Raqqa, calling this one of its largest assaults in Syria so far. US military spokesman Lt Col Thomas Gilleran said: "The significant air strikes tonight were executed to deny Daesh [IS] the ability to move military capabilities throughout Syria and into Iraq." DEBKAfile: This number of air strikes was too small to have the effect claimed. The raids followed the release ofan ISIS video showing young teenagers shooting dead 25 Syrian men in the ancient Syrian city ofPalmyra..
July 5, 2015, 5:13 PM (IDT)
Brig. Gen. Farzad Esmaili, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' (IRGC) air defense force, unveiled the Ghadir phased-array radar in Ahwaz city in southwestern Khuzestan province near the Iraq border, state television said late on Saturday. Iran says the Ghadir unit is designed and manufactured entirely inside the country and can detect a plane at 600 km (373 miles) and a ballistic missile at 1,100 km.
DEBKAfile’s military sources: If what the Iranian general said is true, then Tehran has set up a radar system capable of identifying Israeli ballistic missiles potentially on the way to Iran - moments after they are launched. The distance between the two points is 1,200 km.
"Discovering and tracking micro aerial vehicles (MAV) ... is one of the special qualities of the Ghadir radar system,” the general added, as in Vienna, the nuclear talks reached their final, uncertain stage. He did not explain the rationale for deploying the new radar system at Ahwaz, where Iran’s southwestern oil fields are located.
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