Russia: Request Over Baltic Independence Has ‘No Prospects’
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Russia says a request to look into the legality of the three Baltic countries' independence from the Soviet Union has “no legal prospects.”
Have Tajik IS Militants Faked Their Own 'Martyrdoms'?by support@pangea-cms.com (Joanna Paraszczuk)
The concept of "martyrdom," death in battle against "infidels," is a key element of the ideology of the Islamic State (IS) militant group. IS issues photos of dead militants online, hailing them as "martyrs" in propaganda efforts.
President Petro Poroshenko has proposed constitutional changes designed to give broader powers to Ukraine’s regions.
Many Russians -- including top officials -- are having trouble distinguishing between the hyperpatriotic fantasies the regime has been constructing and reality.
As a vocal group rails against a nuclear deal, a seemingly larger group of Iranians long for a deal they say would help them and the country advance.
Aid officials are preparing to add Yemen to the ranks of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises and human rights groups point to what may be war crimes.
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The Bonds That Broke Puerto Rico by MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
A confluence of factors built up the island’s debt: tax exemption, the use of bonds to plug budget holes, and supposed ironclad guarantees.
Greece is losing professionals as they flee for more stable employment elsewhere, and the health care sector has been particularly hard hit.
People’s Liberation Army soldiers at a naval base in Hong Kong on Wednesday. The new security law will not be enacted in the semiautonomous city, a legislative spokeswoman in Beijing said.
In a statement circulated on social media, the group said it had used heavy weapons to attack more than 15 checkpoints and police installations.
The Russian energy giant
said it cut off deliveries because of a pricing dispute amid political tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
said it cut off deliveries because of a pricing dispute amid political tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
A family picture of Nicholas Winton with one of the hundreds of Jewish children whose lives he saved during World War II.
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Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas, hearing appeal regarding reporting restrictions, said constitutional implications of case need to be aired in open court
The decisions that led to a terrorism suspect being prosecuted in conditions of almost unprecedented secrecy raise “really difficult constitutional issues” about the independence of prosecutors from government, the head of the judiciary in England and Wales warned on Wednesday.
The Crown Prosecution Service had initially claimed that it might be unable to proceed with the trial unless Erol Incedal, a London law student, was prosecuted anonymously and in complete secrecy.
That claim was made as a consequence of “representations from the executive”, the Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas pointed out at the court of appeal on Wednesday.
The Crown Prosecution Service had initially claimed that it might be unable to proceed with the trial unless Erol Incedal, a London law student, was prosecuted anonymously and in complete secrecy.
That claim was made as a consequence of “representations from the executive”, the Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas pointed out at the court of appeal on Wednesday.
After an appeal from lawyers representing the media, arrangements were eventually made for a small group of journalists to be present during some of the secret evidence sessions when Incedal went on trial at the Old Bailey. The Guardian and other news organisations are now appealing against the trial judge’s refusal to let those journalists report what they heard.
Continue reading...UK strategy of not attacking Isis in Syria is illogical, says defence secretary by Nicholas Watt Chief political correspondent
Michael Fallon’s comments move Britain a step closer to widening its aerial campaign against Islamic State
Britain has taken a step further towards expanding its aerial bombing of Islamic State forces beyond Iraq to targets in Syria after the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, described the current strategy as illogical.
In a sign that David Cameron is keen to explore parliament’s readiness for a widening of the campaign, Fallon said that MPs needed to think very carefully about how to defeat an organisation that ignores international borders.
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A natural coincidence will see the two brightest planets - Jupiter and Venus - light up the sky as they draw unusually close together. Report by
Asana Greenstreet.
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Death toll rises after military plane crashes in Indonesia. New footage shows the flaming aftermath.Report by Asana Greenstreet.
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Humanitarian almost single-handedly saved more than 650 Jewish children from the Holocaust
Sir Nicholas Winton, who organised the rescue of 669 children destined for Nazi concentration camps, dies aged 106
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