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House Speaker John Boehner has shut the door on the president's request to use military force
Usman Khalid, who came to the London area in 1979, was said to be the informant whose tip-off led to the assassination in 2011 of the world’s most wanted man.
Number of Chinese fishing boats operating in Africa soared from 13 in 1985 to 462 in 2013, say environmental group, with ships ‘taking advantage of weak enforcement and supervision’
Chinese companies have been illegally fishing off the coast of west Africa, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said in a study Wednesday, at times sending incorrect location data suggesting they are as far away as Mexico or even on land.
The number of Chinese-flagged or Chinese-owned fishing boats operating in Africa has soared in recent decades, from just 13 in 1985 to 462 in 2013, the international advocacy group said.
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US Says It Disrupted Major Heroin-Importing Operation in Bronx
New York Times There were few outward signs of the thriving heroin stash house that federal officials say was being operated on a quiet block in the Bronx across from Van Cortlandt Park. No one seemed to be permanently living in the apartment, 5E, at 210 West 251st Street, ... DEA seizes record amount of heroin in New York bustCTV News 70 kg of heroin snagged in the Bronx is biggest DEA seizure in New York State ...New York Daily News all 90 Feds: Largest heroin seizure in state history disrupts drug pipeline to Long IslandNewsday US Agents Make Record New York Heroin BustNDTV Newsweek-VICE all 79 news articles » |
SEOUL (Reuters) - Photos showing a North Korean missile launched from a submarine were manipulated by state propagandists, and the isolated country may still be years away from developing the technology, analysts and a senior U.S. Navy admiral said on Tuesday.
Diplomatic Ineptitude Makes THAAD Dilemma Worse
The Chosun Ilbo U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with American troops stationed in Seoul on Monday and mentioned the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system as being necessary to deal with an unexpected provocation by North Korea. It is rare for a high-ranking ... and more » |
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Venezuela parliament head Cabello denies drug accusations
Reuters CARACAS The Venezuelan government's second most powerful figure, Diosdado Cabello, denied on Tuesday any involvement in the drug trade after U.S. media reports that he and other officials were under investigation for trafficking and money laundering. Venezuela's No. 2 Denies Any Involvement in Drug TraffickingNew York Times President of Venezuelan Congress Denies Allegations of Drug TiesWall Street Journal Venezuela's parliament boss blasts report of drug traffickingThe Star Online Venezuelanalysis.com all 90 news articles » |
Families living in poverty in the shadow of Azerbaijan's luxury sports stadiumsby Aytac Tapdıq, Sevinc Vaqifqızı and Cahangir Yusif for Meydan TV, part of the New East network
As authorities invest heavily in hosting European Games, residents ask who will benefit from the event. Meydan TV report
Gulnara Suleymanova and her family of five live in a wagon behind Baku’s prestigious new sports stadium, built especially for next month’s European Games.
“On your way here, you might have seen piles of sand, that’s where my husband sieves when there’s no work,” says Suleymanova, who is a cleaner.
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Paramedic Was First To Find His Brother Murdered On Rural Road In Windsor
CBS Local WINDSOR, Colo. (CBS4) – The FBI is now investigating the mysterious murder of a bicyclist in Windsor, according to the Windsor Police Department. A passing motorist found the body of John Jacoby, 48, Monday morning in a ditch near County Road 72 ... FBI Joins Probe Into Colorado Bicyclist's Shooting DeathABC News FBI assisting police in fatal Windsor shooting probeLoveland Reporter-Herald FBI joins investigation into shooting of Colorado bicyclistLompoc Record all 112 news articles » |
Bank launches research unit to analyse information on 30m of its customers
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Boehner doesn't defend NH's Rep. Guinta over contributions
Concord Monitor House Speaker John Boehner stopped short yesterday of defending embattled Rep. Frank Guinta, saying lawmakers must meet “the highest ethical standards” when asked whether the New Hampshire Republican should remain in Congress. Boehner's ... Scandal-plagued Frank Guinta reaped thousands from GOP presidential ...Washington Post (blog) all 5 news articles » |
Authorities say a 73-year-old man, who died after leaping from the Perrine Bridge into the Snake river, deliberately set his parachute on fire
Authorities say a 73-year-old Base jumper who died after leaping from an Idaho bridge had set his parachute on fire as part of a stunt.
A graphic video of the fatal jump, posted to YouTube on Monday, shows someone engulfed in flames and falling from the Perrine Bridge into the Snake river, 500 feet (150 meters) below.
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Analysis of pictures release by Kim Jong-un’s regime indicate they were manipulated
Photos showing a North Korean missile launched from a submarine were manipulated by state propagandists, and the isolated country may still be years away from developing the technology, analysts and a senior US Navy admiral said on Tuesday.
North Korea, heavily sanctioned by the United States and United Nations for its missile and nuclear tests, said on 9 May it had successfully conducted an underwater test-fire of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) which, if true, would indicate progress in its pursuit of building missile-equipped submarines.
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With nuclear deal in sight, Iran drives harder bargain in Indian trade talks
Reuters NEW DELHI Iranian trade negotiators have become more assertive with Indian counterparts as hopes rise of international sanctions on Tehran easing later this year, sources said, and Indian companies fear they may lose business as more countries bid for ... Washington, Jerusalem discussing massive compensation for Iranian nuclear dealHaaretz Latest from IranPress TV Everything Is Awesome, Mideast EditionWall Street Journal all 330 Tehran Times all 307 news articles » |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S government charged six Chinese nationals with economic espionage, saying they stole secrets from two companies that develop technology often used in military systems, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday.
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Tensions With Russia Hang Over EU Partnership Summit
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty European Union leaders are set to meet with their counterparts from six eastern countries in Riga on May 21 and 22, amid concern that the meeting could further inflame tensions with Russia. The main question at the two-day meeting in the Latvian capital will ... EU, ex-Soviet states meet in Putin's shadowBangkok Post Georgia's Leader Warns of Russian ExpansionThe Moscow Times all 155 news articles » |
(SEOUL) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that North Korea had withdrawn an invitation to visit a factory park in the country, a day after he announced he would travel to the last major cooperation project between the rival Koreas.
Ban said Wednesday he wanted to go the Kaesong industrial park just north of the heavily fortified Korean border on Thursday as part of an effort to help improve ties between North and South Korea, which jointly run the park.
He would have been the first U.N. chief to visit the factory park, which opened in 2004 in the city of Kaesong. He would also have been the first head of the U.N. to visit North Korea since Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 1993.
Ban told a forum on Wednesday that North gave no reason when it informed the U.N. of its decision to cancel his trip.
“This decision by Pyongyang is deeply regrettable,” Ban said, adding he will spare no effort to encourage the North to work with the international community for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and beyond.
Ban’s cancelled trip comes as relations between the Koreas remain strained following the North’s continuation of missile and other weapon tests that South Korea views as provocations. There are also worries about North Korea after South Korea’s spy agency said last week that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had his defense chief executed by anti-aircraft gun fire in late April.
Analysts had said Ban’s trip won’t likely bring any major breakthrough in ties between the two Koreas.
The park opened during a period of warming ties between the Koreas and has been considered a test case for unification, pairing cheap local labor with South Korean know-how and technology.
It has survived periods of animosity, including the North’s artillery bombardment of a South Korean island in 2010, while other cross-border projects, such as tours to a scenic North Korean mountain, remain deadlocked.
In 2013, however, the park’s operations were halted for five months after North Korea withdrew its 53,000 workers amid tension over the North’s torrent of threats to launch nuclear attacks on Seoul and Washington.
The complex is a rare, legitimate source of foreign currency for the impoverished North.
The Korean Peninsula remains in a technical state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
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The left should embrace all allies – even architects of austerity – in the fight to expose our cliquey elites
‘Democracy is in crisis: it seems to serve the people no longer, but rather vested interests.” The more money you have, “the more government pays attention to your concerns”. And, of course: “Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.” No, I’m not regurgitating quotes from old columns: these are the ruminations of Steve Hilton, David Cameron’s former adviser, a man who left the prime minister’s court in 2012 with a demand to slash £25bn from social security.
The radical left and the libertarian right are both critiques of the same thing: socialism for the rich
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Diosdado Cabello dismisses US reports of trafficking and money laundering investigations as efforts to destabilise socialism
The Venezuelan government’s second-most powerful figure, Diosdado Cabello, denied on Tuesday any involvement in the drug trade after US media reports that he and other officials were under investigation for trafficking and money laundering.
Stories in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times outlined long-simmering accusations from the US that the governments of president Nicolas Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez have facilitated cocaine shipments.
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Eastern Partnership project: EU, ex-Soviet states meet in Vladamir Putin's shadow
Economic Times WARSAW: European Union leaders and six ex-Soviet states hold a summit Thursday focussed on the bloc's Eastern Partnership project, which was designed to bolster mutual ties but has been undermined by Russia's intervention in Ukraine. The number one ... and more » |
Swiss bank announces expected penalties, signalling further huge fines for others including Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland
Major banks are braced for a fresh wave of punishments and fines for rigging foreign exchange markets after Swiss bank UBS revealed on Wednesday it had avoided prosecution by the US Department of Justice because it alerted the prosecutor to the manipulation of the £3.5tn-a-day markets.
Even so the Swiss bank – already fined by other US regulators and the Financial Conduct Authority for forex offences – admitted it was facing $545m (£350m) of fresh fines. It was forced to admit to fresh wrongdoing relating to the manipulation of Libor rates. The US authorities also tore up a non-prosecution agreement with UBS that dated back to the Libor rigging scandal in 2012..
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition carried out the most sustained bombardment of Yemen's capital Sanaa in nearly two months of air strikes on Tuesday night, residents of the city said, hitting army bases and weapons depots.
US prosecutors say the haul is so big it could have supplied "a dose of heroin to every man, woman and child in New York City".
President Petro Poroshenko has said Ukraine was now in a "real war" with Russia, and that Ukrainians should prepare for a Russian offensive.
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EU, ex-Soviet states meet in Putin's shadow
Bangkok Post WARSAW - European Union leaders and six ex-Soviet states hold a summit Thursday focussed on the bloc's Eastern Partnership project, which was designed to bolster mutual ties but has been undermined by Russia's intervention in Ukraine. An orthodox ... and more » |
Canadian police arrest 10 at airport on suspicion of leaving to join Isis by Associated Press in Toronto
Passports confiscated from group of young people apprehended at Montreal Trudeau international airport and charges may result, say Mounties
Canadian police have revealed they arrested 10 young people at Montreal’s Trudeau international airport last weekend on suspicion of wanting to go to Iraq and Syria to join Islamic State.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement late on Tuesday night that no charges had yet been brought but the investigation was continuing. All 10 involved had their passports confiscated.
Continue reading...Is it ok to pick on fat people? – videoby Deborah Coughlin, Maya Wolfe-Robinson, Leah Green, Caterina Monzani and Bruno Rinvolucri
Deborah Coughlin has been fat and thin loads of times, going from a size 18 to 14, then 22 to eight, and 14 back up to 22 again. Many businesses and individuals alike seem to think it's acceptable to discriminate against big people because of their weight. But, she argues, it's about time attitudes towards fatties – and even perhaps the law – began to change Continue reading...
Police in Detroit are hunting a robber who held up a pharmacy at gunpoint and stole cash - while dressed as an old woman. Report by Claire Lomas.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The prevailing images of protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, over police killings of black men were of police in riot gear, handcuffed protesters, tear gas and mass arrests. The main images of a fatal gun battle between armed bikers and police in Waco, Texas, also showed mass arrests - carried out by nonchalant-looking officers sitting around calm bikers on cell phones....
Prince Charles to visit scene of 1979 Mountbatten murderby Caroline Davies in Sligo
Charles’s great-uncle died in Provisional IRA bombing off coast of Irish village of Mullaghmore in 1979
The Prince of Wales is to visit the Irish village where his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten and three other people were killed by a Provisional IRA bomb 36 years ago.
In a highly personal and public pilgrimage of remembrance, Charles will travel to Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, in the Irish Republic, where the 1979 bombing began one of the bloodiest days of the Troubles.
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RICHMOND, Texas (AP) -- Four-year-old William Cole saw his father's face and reached out to touch it during a jail visit. But he could only feel a video screen....
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police shot dead a driver in a Palestinian neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Wednesday after he rammed them with his car, injuring two of them, a police spokesman said.
North Korea said Wednesday it has the technology to make nuclear warheads small enough to be mounted on missiles, a day after a top U.S. military officer said the country was many years away from such an ability.Read full article >>
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A Pakistani antiterrorism court has jailed a prayer leader for five years in prison for making a speech against the Shi’ite minority.
As if their hands were bonded together by Superglue, the prince and the man who denies he was ever a terrorist simply cannot prise their hands apart
I quickly became fascinated by the video, playing it over and over again. It was the sound that got me - noisy, bland, impenetrable as it was. If not for an imminent deadline I might have spent hours trying to crack that enigmatic soundtrack, like a character in Brian de Palma’s Blow Out or Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation. As it was I played the clip at different volumes, through different speakers, but the brief dialogue between Prince Charles and Gerry Adams never got any clearer. The most you can catch is the deep intonation of Adams’s voice, but the words are lost.
A bland greeting? It does not look like one. It looks as if he is saying something emotional and deliberate
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The governor of the Japanese island of Okinawa said on Wednesday he will travel to the United States next week to press his demand that a U.S. military base be removed from his island to lighten the burden of a people weary of hosting U.S. troops.
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No, there is no evidence for a link between video games and Alzheimer’s disease by Chris Chambers and Pete Etchells
Another day, another ridiculous headline about the apparently disastrous consequences of playing video games on the brain
Here we go again. In a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of Canadian researchers compared the way a group of regular gamers learn and pay attention to a group of non-gamers. Not surprisingly they found that the gamers behave differently. They also used a technique called electroencephalography to show that a brain wave called the N2PC is different in gamers, which fits with their behavioural results.
So far this is all pretty sensible, so where is the link to Alzheimer’s disease? In fact, the researchers didn’t look at dementia or perform any clinical tests. But they nevertheless embark on a series of logical leaps, which go like this:
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People searching for "n**** house" are shown the residence of Barack Obama - a problem Google is urgently trying to fix.
Israeli PM Calls Off West Bank Bus Segregationby webdesk@voanews.com (Associated Press)
Israel's prime minster has overruled his defense minister and called off a proposed plan to segregate Palestinians from Israelis on West Bank buses. An official in the prime minister's office said Benjamin Netanyahu called Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon Wednesday to tell him he found the proposal “unacceptable” and the two decided to freeze the plan. Earlier on Wednesday, Yaalon launched the three-month pilot program following repeated complaints from Jewish settlers who ride...
A monument dedicated to the liberation of Rezekne, Latvia, after World War II. Latvian soldiers, border troops and the local police held a joint exercise last month in the city.
A 71-year-old working at an antique book dealer in Tokyo was sifting through a stack of old documents recently acquired from a Japanese collector when he came upon a fascinating discovery. According to a Tuesday article in the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's leading dailies, Yoshio Okudaira, the bookstore employee, found a signed 1938 letter from Nazi Germany's then Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.Read full article >>
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday Tehran's reaction to any military action against the country will be "very tough", state television reported.
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Khamenei says Tehran will not give access to nuclear scientists
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Why is Jerusalem important? You asked Google – here’s the answerby Jonathan Romain, Catherine Pepinster and Usama Hasan
Every day, millions of people ask Google some of life’s most difficult questions, big and small. In this series, our writers answer some of the most common queries
For Jews, Jerusalem is not just a significant physical place in both past and present Jewish history, but is equally important as a religious concept that transcends time. The area itself had been traversed by the first Jew, Abraham (c1800 BCE), during his wanderings throughout “the Promised Land”. According to tradition, the place where Abraham nearly sacrificed his son Isaac but was commanded by God not to do so, was the spot on which Jerusalem was later built.
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George Orwell’s son battles to preserve Spanish Civil War trenches by The European Union Times
Eight decades after George Orwell was wounded by a fascist bullet while defending a Spanish Republican trench, his son Richard is attempting to save the Civil War-era fortifications.
After visiting the trenches in which his socialist father fought fascism, Richard Blair is calling for the Spanish government to rescind policies that have seen them fall into disrepair, and instead preserve them for posterity.
Orwell, whose real name was Eric Blair, was wounded in the neck in these trenches during Spain’s vicious civil war.
He eventually made his way out of the country as an internal battle between Stalinists and revolutionary socialists raged.
Amidst the violent purge by Moscow-backed communists, Orwell lost his notes. They now reside in a Kremlin-based museum. Orwell eventually wrote his famous account of the period, “Homage to Catalonia,” from memory.
His experiences made him a staunch opponent of Stalinism, helping to inform another of his most famous works, the socialist fable “Animal Farm” that indirectly praised Stalin’s adversary, Leon Trotsky.
Orwell’s son thinks that maintenance of the trenches has fallen foul of an ongoing political battle between right-wingers and history itself, given that the center-right Spanish Popular Party froze funding after winning a regional election in 2011.
The trenches had been given funding by a previous left-of-center Spanish government to maintain the legacy of the war, which split the country between 1936 and 1939. They remain a controversial political topic to this day.
On Tuesday, Richard Blair said the Spanish public deserves transparency on the matter. He insisted that funding for preserving the trenches had been cut as part of an effort to obliterate the memory of a troubled chapter in Spain’s recent history.
“I think the Spanish people deserve to understand what really happened between the 1930s to the death of Franco in 1975,” he told The Times.
“Without a doubt there is an ideological war going on here over financing projects like the Orwell trenches,” he said. “The civil war is still being fought in Spain.”
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UBS agrees to pay $545M in manipulation probes
USA TODAY Swiss banking giant UBS agreed Wednesday to pay $545 million to settle a probe by U.S. authorities into its role in manipulating interest and currency rates. In a statement, the bank said it agreed to plead guilty to one count of wire fraud regarding allegations ... UBS to Pay Over $500 Million in Fines for Manipulating Currencies and LiborNew York Times Swiss bank UBS settles US legal cases for $545 millionWashington Post UBS pays $545 million to settle FX rigging claims; others to followFortune Bloomberg -Reuters UK all 108 news articles » |
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