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Rival political parties hold rallies in Athens as Greeks consider whether to reject EU bail-out terms
Go Set a Watchman, the unpublished second novel by the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, was discovered three years earlier than her lawyer previously revealed, according to new report
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A plane which is attempting to complete the first ever round-the-world solar powered flight lands in Hawaii. The plane took off from Nagoya in Japan on 29 June, meaning the flight has broken the record for the longest non-stop solo journey in history. The previous record was 72 hours; pilot André Borschberg lands after having been in the air for just under 118 hours.
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President Vladimir Putin says Western efforts to split Russian society with economic sanctions have failed to yield expected results.
The main complaint about the rape scene is that it doesn’t sit well with a jaunty Rossini piece. But why, then, are graphic operatic murders acceptable?
The opera world is not very porous. When, on the first night of Guillaume Tell at the Royal Opera House earlier this week, people booed at the rape scene, at one point drowning out the music, and critics busted it from a four-star down to a one-star, and people bemoaned a huge range of things about modern life, from the sensibilities of its major opera players to the attention-seeking traits of its audiences, they were not objecting to the depiction of sexual violence for the reasons that you or I would. Well, not for the reasons I would, anyway.
“I was dreading it, to be honest. Regietheater and all that,” said Juliette after Thursday’s performance. (German for “director’s theatre”, which is opera code for “people making you look at things you don’t want to see” – even their codes are coded through other languages). “I gather they covered her in a sheet, for tonight’s performance. She was naked before. But I loved it.” (I dispensed with the normal practice of asking for people’s ages. When I asked their names, some people looked at me as though I’d asked for their pin number).
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Alwaleed bin Talal: meet the Saudi prince giving away all his money by Saeed Kamali Dehghan
The high-flying royal, who sued Forbes for ‘underestimating’ his fortune just years before handing it all to charity, seems to defy the cliches of a Saudi magnate
There is something that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia badly wants you to know: the exact amount of his wealth.
In 2009, he invited a Forbes reporter to a week-long visit of his 420-room palace in Riyadh and to accompany him and his then wife, Princess Ameera, on a flight to Cairo on board his personal Boeing 747 to make sure the magazine realised the scale of his wealth when compiling the list of the richest people on the planet.
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The 10-month-old was carried out by strong winds and currents after her parents forgot she was in the water
A 10-month-old baby has been rescued by the coastguard after drifting one kilometre off the Turkish coast in a small inflatable, according to reports.
Local media said that the child’s parents forgot she was in the water as the family enjoyed a day on the beach during their holiday.
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Amateur video purports to show fierce clashes between Syrian government forces and rebel fighters in Aleppo. . Report by Asana Greenstreet.
What Greeks think of the referendum wording as crucial Sunday vote on future with Europe nears
As Greeks prepare for crucial referendum, implications of the vote unclear
For July 4th, scholars urge closer look at forgotten founder John Jay, justice, statesman, spy
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Russian MiG fighter jet crashes in southern Russia, its pilot bails out safely
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Greece faces a make-or-break referendum on Sunday where the nation will decide to accept the Eurogroup’s bailout deal.
Referendums are supposed to provide answers. Sunday’s in Greece offers mainly confusion. Greeks will vote on a cash-for-reforms offer from the country’s creditors that is no longer on the table. Creditors say it will be a de facto vote on membership of the euro. Greek ministers insist that a ‘No’ vote will result in a new round of bailout negotiations. Who, if anyone, can be believed?
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Our friends across the pond have something called Independence Day, which is celebrated on the Fourth of July. It’s not just the film that put Will Smith on the map; it’s one of the most significant events in the history of America.
A hotel worker who chased gunman Seifeddine Rezgui away from the beach in Sousse as he killed 38 people, has pleaded with tourists to return visit to Tunisia and not let the killer “win.”
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The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has urged voters to reject "blackmail" ahead of Sunday's bailout referendum.
Not a poster. Not a flag. Given its 25 per cent unemployment rate, its ring roads of empty factories – marble steps overgrown with grass, courtyards piled with garbage – this ancient Ottoman city should be more angry than Athens, certainly tinged with a fear of the violence which journalists in the capital talk about. But Thessaloniki is no revolutionary city. Take a walk along the tree-lined avenues and there’s only one sentence that comes to mind: there will be no civil war in Greece.
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The Tunisian interior ministry received an alert in May of an imminent attack in Sousse, but failed to act on the information, the head of a security watchdog has told The Independent.
The head of the United Nations cultural organization says the loss of ancient artifacts destroyed by militants in Iraq and Syria has long-term implications for security and peace in the region. The official spoke in London, and VOA’s Al Pessin reports.
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Obama Wins Big, Loses Small in Supreme Court Rulingsby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
President Barack Obama's administration was unexpectedly on the winning side in nearly all the close, politically significant Supreme Court cases decided in the term that ended this week, including blockbuster rulings on health care and gay marriage. The run of victories ran counter to the administration's recent mixed record. It lost major cases at the hands of the conservative-leaning court in the two previous terms. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, the Democratic...
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UNESCO Chief Warns of 'Cultural Cleansing' in War Zonesby webdesk@voanews.com (Al Pessin)
The head of the United Nations cultural organization says the loss of ancient artifacts destroyed by militants in Iraq and Syria has long-term implications for security and peace in the region. Militants from the Islamic State group proudly distributed a video of its fighters destroying ancient artifacts at the museum in Mosul, Iraq, in February. The group considers the statues and sculptures blasphemous because they are not in keeping with Islamic tradition. The resulting outcry...
Separate reports this week indicated that Islamic State fighters were smashing cultural relics in the ancient city of Palmyra, once one of Syria's most crowded tourist destinations, but now in the grips of the extremist organization.Read full article >>
(ATHENS, Greece) — Greek voters facing a momentous vote Sunday that may determine the country’s future in Europe can be forgiven for scratching their heads when they read the ballot question that has to be marked with a “yes” or a “no.”
The question does not address the future of the euro currency — which many believe is at stake — or the future of Greece’s relationship with the 28-nation European Union.
Instead, it asks the following:
“Should the plan of agreement, which was submitted by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund in the Eurogroup of 25.06.2015 and is comprised of two parts that constitute their unified proposal be accepted?
The first document is entitled “Reforms For The Completion Of The Current Program And Beyond” and the second “Preliminary Debt Sustainability Analysis.”
To complicate matters, the offer being voted on is no longer on the table, having been linked to a bailout package that expired earlier this week, and it is clear that many Greeks have not read the complex documents referred to.
Critics point out that many people in rural villages with little or no Internet access will not find an easy way to access the documents. Others without special training may find them overly technical and difficult to comprehend.
One person with training, a 21-year-old law student, said she understood the question and had studied the supporting documents, including the tax sections, before deciding to vote “no.” She said Greeks comprehend that the referendum is not just about the matters spelled out on the ballot, but deal with the broader issue of how European Union policy has shaped Greece during the austerity era.
So do most people understand the ballot question? Here is a sampling of responses when the question was read to citizens Friday:
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I UNDERSTAND BUT IT’S STILL CONFUSING
Yanis Koutzouvelis, 19: “I understand the question in general but the question is not clear because we don’t know the consequences of voting ‘no’ and we don’t know if it means going out of the eurozone. I mean I don’t know in the end if the ‘yes’ or the ‘no’ is in reference to the drachma (Greek’s former national currency) or not. I will look at a lot of television and radio news but it’s super-difficult to understand what it really means.”
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THE QUESTION IS MISLEADING
Andreas Simeou, 56: “With that question the government misleads the people. It’s not the fault of the Greek people. Now the government is giving the whole weight to the people and it always says it’s someone else’s fault that everything is a mess here.”
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GREEKS UNDERSTAND WHAT’S AT STAKE
Maria Gaspariatou, 42: “No one really cares what’s written on the ballot and what the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ means. They really know what it means from their lives. Like my grandmother, my granddad, my parents who are pensioners, they really know why they have to vote ‘no.’ The people understand that the whole last five years it was poverty and now we have to decide for ourselves. We have very difficult times and the Greek people know that. And they are ready go through that and have a better future.”
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THE TV TOLD ME WHAT IT MEANS
Maria Koleti, 57: “It’s only difficult for the people to understand if they are silly. There was so much analysis on the TV and in the newspapers explaining the ‘yes’ and the ‘no’ so no one has problems understanding what the ‘yes’ and the ‘no’ means on the ballot. The only people who don’t understand are those who don’t want to understand. We know what it means.”
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DON’T ASK ME, I DIDN’T STUDY ECONOMICS
Stratos Harvis, 46: “I’m not so informed and not so into that stuff so for me it’s difficult to understand that question. But the last years in Greece it was very difficult for the people, so I would vote ‘no’. It’s tricky for someone who’s not involved, the questions are tricky because the way they are written a lot of people won’t understand. You have to have studied economics.”
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IT’S OBVIOUS
Katerina Bakola, 46, laughing as she heard the text of the question: “I don’t think the way it is posed is difficult to understand. For me the question was obvious. At least I understand the questions and I think all the people understand.”
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Doctors Without Borders Hospital Raided in Afghanistanby JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and AHMAD SHAKIB
The humanitarian group condemned a “violent intrusion” that it said had been conducted by Afghan military commandos in Kunduz.
The Greek prime minister’s false assurances have left voters adrift on the eve of a confused – and possible less than legal – referendum
Alexis Tsipras talks so much about democracy that one might think the Greek prime minister is a paragon of virtue when it comes to dealing with the voters. This is not the case. For a start, Tsipras has made a series of wild promises that he cannot deliver. Before January’s election, he pledged that he would tear up the country’s bailout programme while staying in the euro. The two are almost certainly incompatible goals, as the Greek people are now discovering at huge cost.
In advance of Sunday’s referendum, he has given further assurances. One is that savers’ bank deposits are safe. He also said he will have a deal with Greece’s creditors within 48 hours of the plebiscite, if they vote no to the bailout plan. In fact, deposits are at risk and the chance of a deal in two days is virtually nil. A good democrat only promises what he or she can deliver. Tsipras is a demagogue.
Continue reading...Burqa-wearing gang convicted for series of smash-and-grab raids in London by Nadia Khomami and agency
Nine-member gang convicted of carrying out violent smash-and-grab raids on shops including Selfridges, Prada and Jimmy Choo dating back to 2007
A violent “smash-and-grab” gang who wore burqas during a string of high-profile raids in London are facing prison after four members of the group were convicted.
The gang took part in raids dating back to 2007, including a heist at Selfridges department store in which £1.5m worth of watches were stolen.
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No charges for missed GP appointments, says Cameronby Rowena Mason and Nicholas Watt
Prime minister dismisses Jeremy Hunt suggestion that patients may face charges to encourage greater responsibility for use of NHS resources
Downing Street has dismissed a suggestion by the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, that patients who miss NHS appointments could be charged to ensure they take greater responsibility for the use of limited resources.
A spokeswoman for David Cameron said there was “no intention” to charge people if they missed appointments, after Hunt said he was interested in the idea in principle even though it could be difficult to enforce.
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KATONAH, N.Y. (AP) -- The inner circle of founders has been set for as long as anyone can remember - Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton and Madison....
A plane powered by the sun’s rays landed in Hawaii after a record-breaking five-day journey across the Pacific Ocean from Japan.
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