Man charged with killing Texas sheriff's deputy by AP Sunday August 30th, 2015 at 9:09 AM
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Shannon Miles, a 30-year-old charged with murder of Darren Goforth, a father of two in Houston on Friday night
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Former president urges people of New Orleans to celebrate their achievements over the past decade
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Man in early 60s plunges from upper tier during a match between Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees
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After months playing down former first lady's status of clear favourite, her campaign signals plan to crush opponents and stop the vice president launching White House run
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Alleged smuggler arrested in Austria after 26 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are discovered
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Government says organisers could face charges and police 'empowered to take action', as thousands demand departure of Najib Razak over corruption allegations
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A Hungarian court said four men could face up to 16 years in prison for alleged people trafficking in connection with the deaths of 71 migrants found in a midsize truck abandoned in neighboring Austria.
On the island of Lesbos, volunteers shore up efforts to house and feed tens of thousands of migrants.
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Malaysia’s capital over the weekend to rally against Prime Minister Najib Razak, but analysts say the leader of the resource-rich nation is still in a strong position.
Hungarian police said that a fifth person had been detained for alleged human trafficking in connection with the death of 71 migrants found earlier this week in a truck abandoned in neighboring Austria.
Arab sources: First Russian officers in Syria
DEBKAfile August 30, 2015, 3:20 PM (IDT)
Russian army officers have arrived in Damascus and Jablah in the Latakia district, where they are building a new military base on the Mediterranean coast, Arab sources reported to the Al Watan newspaper Sunday. Under the caption: “Russian Army Engages in Syria,” they also revealed, “Russia has begun to supply Damascus for the first time with satellite imagery… a decision that will turn the military situation on its head.” Neither report is confirmed from other sources.
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In a Venezuelan Border Town, a State of Emergency Is Barely Perceptible
New York Times SAN ANTONIO DEL TÁCHIRA, Venezuela — President Nicolás Maduro has declared a state of emergency in this Venezuelan border town in what he says is nothing less than a fight for national survival. More than 1,000 Colombian immigrants have been ... Colombian president to visit tense border cityThe Guardian Nigeria (satire) (press release) (blog) More than 8K Colombians left Venezuela due to border crisis, 10 crossings now ...Fox News Latino Residents take canoes as Venezuela expands border closureNew Zealand Herald BBC News -Venezuelanalysis.com -Washington Post all 167 news articles » |
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Jeb Bush's Campaign Makes Appeal Amid Fund-Raising Woes
New York Times Jeb Bush's presidential campaign, which to date has raised significantly more than his Republican rivals', is encountering difficulties maintaining its torrid pace as Mr. Bush slips in the polls and top party donors continue to withhold their commitments. Bush loses top fundraisers due to 'personality conflicts'CNN International Bush fundraisers exit campaign amid sagging poll numbers, Miami says move ...Fox News Three Jeb Bush fundraisers depart campaign: ReportCNBC TheBlaze.com -WDAM-TV -American Spectator (blog) all 23 news articles » |
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Skywatch: A full harvest moon with a total lunar eclipse
Washington Post Forget July's blue moon. For September's full moon, you'll probably see red. Catch a compelling, cosmic treat on Sept. 27 and 28: It's a full harvest moon featuring a total lunar eclipse. As Earth travels around the sun, the planet always casts a ... Watch the Sky for Tonight's 'Supermoon'ABC News Supermoon: When and where to see itChristian Science Monitor First of three Supermoons rising tonightOrlando Sentinel Sky News -Design & Trend -myfox8.com all 245 news articles » |
Norwegian TV series Occupied shows Russia taking control of Scandinavian country
A Norwegian TV channel says it will air a TV drama depicting a Russian invasion of Norway after environmentalists seize power and freeze the nation’s oil and gas industry. TV2 says the production company has already sold Occupied – a 10-episode, £7m drama by thriller writer Jo Nesbø – to European stations.
Vyacheslav Pavlovsky, the Russian ambassador in Oslo, told Russia’s Tass news agency that “Russia, regrettably, has the role of the aggressor. In the worst traditions of the cold war, [this show] decided to scare Norwegian viewers with a nonexistent threat from the east,” he said. TV2 drama chief Christopher Haug said he was “surprised by the reaction”. “It is obviously a fiction, everyone can see that,” he said, adding that the Russian embassy had been told about the series “at an early stage, three years ago, I believe”.
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“Of course we want to listen to the radio and hear the news from Kiev,” said Bardan, a Ukrainian infantryman based in a devastated neighbourhood on the northern fringes of Donetsk. “Out here, though, we just tend to pick up stations from Russia and Novorossiya Rock FM.”
Goforth leaves behind a wife and two children.
Tony Blair tells Labour party members to come to their senses and reject the "Alice in Wonderland" politics of Jeremy Corbyn.
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HOUSTON (AP) -- Here are the latest developments regarding the fatal shooting of a suburban Houston sheriff's deputy (all times local):...
Paul Royle briefly escaped from Stalag Luft III in 1944 with 75 other Allied soldiers, an episode that inspired the 1963 Steve McQueen movie “The Great Escape.”
CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced three Al Jazeera TV journalists to three years in prison on Saturday for operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt, a case that has stirred an international outcry.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters waving Lebanese flags and chanting "revolution" took to the streets of Beirut on Saturday for an unprecedented mobilization against sectarian politicians they say are incompetent and corrupt.
Tropical Storm Erika Dissipates After Killing 21by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Tropical Storm Erika has weakened over Cuba, after bringing death and destruction in the Caribbean to Dominica and Haiti. At least 20 people were reported killed in Dominica and one in Haiti, while several were still missing. Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said Erika brought "monumental destruction" to the tiny island (751 square kilometers, or 290 square miles) of nearly 75,000 people. "The visual damage I saw today, I fear, may have set our...
Money would be used to encourage home states to repatriate citizens who fail to gain asylum when they arrive in Europe
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Turkish warplanes join allied forces in air strikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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Israeli is keeping a “very sharp eye” on Iran’s modernized ballistic missile arsenal
More ID, bag checks on Europe’s trains after foiled attackby Thomas Adamson, Angela Charlton
PARIS — European countries will increase identity checks and baggage controls on trains after three American passengers and a Briton thwarted an attack on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris, France’s interior minister said Saturday.Read full article >>
Undocumented Colombian immigrants waited Friday to be escorted back to Colombia from the Venezuelan side of the border crossing at San Antonio del Táchira.
Sheriff: 30-year-old man charged with capital murder in killing of suburban Houston deputy
Nearly 40 girls and young women are reported to have been killed in a road crash in Swaziland while travelling to a famous traditional festival.
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(JOHANNESBURG) — At least 38 girls and young women were killed in a crash while travelling toSwaziland’s most famous traditional festival, a rights group said on Saturday.
About 20 others were injured when the truck they were in collided with another vehicle on Friday, the Swaziland Solidarity Network said in a statement. The young women and girls were travelling on the back of an open truck, the rights group said.
The girls and young women were on their way to the Swazi king’s royal residence for the annual reed dance.
About 40,000 young women participate in the eight-day reed dance ceremony in which they sing and dance, usually bare-breasted, as they bring reeds to reinforce the windbreak around the royal residence. During the reed dance, the king often selects one of the young women to become one of his wives. Swaziland is polygamous and the king has more than a dozen wives.
“We all have heard about the dark cloud that has befallen the ‘imbali,'” said King Mswati III, using the Swati language word for flower, used to refer to the groups of women dancers. Speaking Saturday at the opening of an international trade fair in Swaziland’s economic center Manzini, the king promised that the affected families would be compensated. He added that an investigation into the accident was underway.
Police in Swaziland, a small mountainous country of 1.4 million people bordering northeastern South Africa and Mozambique, discouraged reporting on the accident, said the rights group. Press photographers were prevented from taking pictures at the scene, said a Swazi journalist who insisted on anonymity for security reasons. However some people managed to take photographs of the aftermath of the crash with their cell phones.
A high-ranking police officer contacted by The Associated Press refused to comment on the accident,saying the matter was related to the “highest authority,” and no details could be disclosed to the media.
“You don’t hide a death,” said Lucky Lukhele, spokesman for the Swaziland Solidarity Network. Members of the Swaziland Defense Force alerted the rights group to the accident, Lukhele said, adding that he expected the death toll to rise.
The females were travelling on a highway between the Swazi cities of Mbabane and Manzini, when the truck carrying them smashed into a vehicle and was then hit in the rear by a second truck, the Times of Swaziland reported.
“We were about 50 on board the first truck that smashed into the Toyota van,” said Siphelele Sigudla, 18, a survivor quoted by the Times of Swaziland.
Swaziland is Africa’s last absolute monarchy, ruled by King Mswati since 1986. Swaziland held parliamentary elections in 2013, but many international observers say the electoral process is manipulated to prolong the king’s hold on power. According to the king, Swaziland’s image has been damaged by misinformation.
The country has one of the world’s highest rates of HIV infection.
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With warming seas creating new opportunities at the top of the world, nations are scrambling over the Arctic. But Russia may be beating the United States to the punch.
This photo of Abdul, a Syrian refugee, trying to sell pens on the streets of Beirut while his daughter lay sleeping slumped over his shoulder captured hearts around the world so much that it raised more than £80,000 in two days via a crowdfunding campaign. But now, instead of using the money for himself to build an entirely new life, Abdul says he wants to use the money to help other displaced Syrians.
Europe rethinks train security after Americans thwart attackby By ANGELA CHARLTON and THOMAS ADAMSON
PARIS (AP) -- European countries will increase identity checks and baggage controls on trains after American passengers thwarted an attack on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris, France's interior minister said Saturday....
From Neil Gaiman to Marcus Zusak to Suzanne Collins to Oscar Wilde, we share some of the best ‘dangerous books’ quotes from novels, authors and campaigners defending our right to read any book we want to, as part of our dangerous books weekend we’re running with Amnesty International
A surprising range of children’s books have faced censorship even in the 21st century. JK Rowling’sHarry Potter series has been banned in many schools in the US (and even in one UK school) and on six occasions the books were publicly burned on the grounds that they promoted witchcraft.
Adults have often tried to stop children reading books they considered unsuitable or dangerous: in 1973, a school board in North Dakota confiscated all the copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five which were being used for English lessons. Many of the students refused to give up their books, so the school ordered a search of their lockers and burnt all the the copies of Slaughterhouse Five that they found there.
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Turkish fighter jets carried out operations against Islamic State targets in Syria late Friday, as part of the United States-led coalition to fight the group, the Foreign Ministry said.
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Attacks on targets in northern Syria follow agreement on the ‘procedures and technical details’ of cooperation between the two nations
Turkish fighter jets have carried out their first air strikes as part of the US-led coalition against Islamic State in Syria. A Turkish foreign ministry statement said that late on Friday the jets began attacking Isis targets across the border in Syria that were deemed to be threats to Turkey.
After months of hesitation, Turkey agreed last month to take a more active role in the fight against Isis. Turkish jets used smart bombs to attack Isis positions in Syria without crossing into Syrian airspace, and later Turkey granted US jets access to an airbase close to the Syrian border.
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More ID, Bag Checks on Europe's Trains After Foiled Attack
New York Times PARIS — European countries will increase identity checks and baggage controls on trains after American passengers thwarted an attack on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris, France's interior minister said Saturday. Bernard Cazeneuve said the ... European Officials Want More Security Checks on TrainsWall Street Journal European ministers agree more railway security, urge Schengen changesReuters Armed patrols and spot checks planned for European trainsTelegraph.co.uk BBC News all 252 news articles » |
VIENNA (Reuters) - Three young children suffering from dehydration and close to death have been rescued from a van crammed with 26 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, Austrian police said on Saturday.
Rowan County clerk closes office ahead of gay rights protest, asks Supreme Court for 'asylum'
Russians vacationing in their home country has become more common since the ruble’s fall late last year put foreign vacations out of reach of many in the middle class.
Authorities annnounce arrest in "cold-blooded assassination" of uniformed sheriff's deputy at gas station
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Special-operations units are trying to get their local counterparts ready for combat before American troops leave Afghanistan.
Brazil’s economy sank into a technical recession in the second quarter, as falling commodity prices, high inflation and political turmoil combined to decimate consumer and business confidence, sending output well below expectations.
The power-sharing lineup unveiled by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu also includes several independent appointees.
President Nicolás Maduro’s campaign to deport Colombians he blames for his country’s deepening economic woes generates fear and panic in frontier municipalities.
The stock market fall pierced the party’s mystique of omnipotence. In an interwoven world, the crisis should spur Beijing to prefer compromise to bullying.
The latest deaths of migrants both on land and at sea are shedding light on the brutal tactics of the people-smuggling operations that stretch from across the Mediterranean to deep within Europe’s borders.
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