Pro-Assad militants killed in Israeli strike, Hezbollah-allied TV station says - Wednesday July 29th, 2015 at 11:31 AM
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BEIRUT — An Israeli airstrike killed at least two pro-government fighters in the volatile border zone in southern Syria on Wednesday, according to a report by a television station affiliated with Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia.Read full article >>
Pakistan’s military said that images and other data retrieved from a drone shot down earlier this month prove its assertions that the small aircraft was being used by India to spy in the disputed region of Kashmir.
Former Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, one of India’s most distinguished scientists and an architect of the country’s missile program, died on Monday.
In photos picked Monday by Wall Street Journal editors, a firefighter works in the aftermath of a blaze in Spain, a man ponders stock prices in China and more.
Russia has led a fresh push for diplomacy to resolve the Syrian conflict in recent months and Syrian opposition leaders say they have detected a shift in Moscow’s long-standing support for President Bashar al-Assad.
Spiraling German labor costs are starting to undermine the country’s famed competitiveness, threatening to hurt economic growth and investment in Europe’s largest economy.
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A senior member of the U.K.’s House of Lords said he was resigning after a tabloid newspaper published images and video footage that it alleged showed a peer using cocaine with what it said were prostitutes in his London apartment.
The Swedish military said it was investigating a report that a wrecked submarine, possibly from Russia, has been found just off the country’s east coast.
Ambassadors to NATO met in Brussels to consult with Turkey following a series of terror attacks in the country and Ankara’s decision to step up strikes in Syria and Iraq.
A court in the Libyan capital has sentenced a son of Moammar Gadhafi to death over killings during the country’s 2011 uprising.
A French appeals court said that the vote organized by the National Front to strip Jean-Marie Le Pen of his post of honorary chairman violated the party’s internal rules.
The number of attempts by migrants to sneak into the Eurotunnel terminal near the French port city of Calais reached 2,000 during the night between Monday and Tuesday, said a spokesman for the company operating the railway tunnel linking the U.K. and the continent.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad lost more territory on Tuesday to Islamist insurgents and Kurdish militias, bolstering Turkey’s push to create a rebel-controlled buffer zone along the two countries’ shared border.
The preponderance of Russian currency and products in rebel-held areas is deepening separation from the rest of Ukraine and muddying the prospects for a European-brokered peace plan.
Some Arabs and members of an ethnic minority accused the Kurdish militia YPG of forcing them from their homes in northern Syria.
President Nicolás Maduro is cracking down on comedians who joke about rising crime, skyrocketing inflation and corruption in Venezuela, as the his socialist government shows less tolerance for dissent.
Mullah Mohammad Omar, the spiritual leader of the Taliban, is dead, according to Afghan officials and a person close to the group.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius was in Tehran to upgrade diplomatic relations with Iran, marking the most high-level visit to the country by a French official in 12 years.
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A Sudanese man was found dead in the French port town of Calais after about 1,500 migrants attempted to enter the Channel Tunnel railway terminal in a desperate bid to cross over to the U.K.
Turkey’s renewed fight with Kurdish militants intensified as the government launched a new wave of airstrikes in northern Iraq and a blast temporarily crippled a key oil pipeline in southeastern Turkey.
Jan Kulczyk, a controversial symbol of Poland’s transformation from communism to market economy, has died from surgery complications.
Former Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, a scientist who was known as the father of the country’s military missile program, died July 27 after collapsing while delivering a lecture. He was 83.Mr. Kalam fell sick while addressing students at the Indian Institute of Management in the Meghalaya state capital, Shillong, said P.B. Warjri, chief secretary of the state. He was rushed to a hospital but was declared dead after doctors could not revive him, Warjri said. India Today reported that the cause was a heart attack.Read full article >>
CAIRO — They’ve cheered for officials at news conferences. They’ve smeared government critics. Egypt’s reporters threw their support behind a 2013 coup, becoming a mouthpiece for the new, military-backed regime. Read full article >>
Afghan officials called a news conference Wednesday amid unconfirmed reports that the leader of the Taliban has died.Various Afghan and Pakistani media outlets, citing Afghan government sources, said that Mullah Mohammad Omar was dead, possibly years ago.Read full article >>
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The hostility of many Muslims toward homosexuality has little basis in the Quran.
Turkey’s decision to take a more active role in the fight against the Islamic State has won broad backing, but its renewed conflict with Kurdish opponents has raised thorny questions.
Mr. Pollard, an American convicted of spying for Israel, will be released in November after serving 30 years, a government panel decided on Tuesday.
Turkey’s Fight Against ISIS Explainedby THE NEW YORK TIMES
Questions and answers about Turkey’s cooperation with the United States in confronting the Islamic State militant group and trying to address the Syrian conflict.
Group after group of migrants made their way to the Eurotunnel compound in Calais overnight on Monday, climbing over fences and other barriers in a desperate bid to board freight trains bound for Britain.
The visit by Laurent Fabius was one of the first in what was likely to be a string of trips by European officials seeking closer ties with Iran.
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For a second consecutive night, hundreds of people living in squalid camps in northern France sought to force their way through the Channel Tunnel to reach Britain.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday it was impossible to continue a peace process with Kurdish militants and urged parliament to strip politicians with links to them of immunity from prosecution.
PARIS (Reuters) - A French court on Tuesday blocked French National Front leader Marine Le Pen's efforts to strip her maveric father Jean-Marie Le Pen of the title of honorary president of the party, in a new setback to the far-right leader.
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's leftist Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Tuesday he will be on holiday from Wednesday until Aug. 9, weeks before he is to face hearings by prosecutors conducting a criminal investigation against him.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish fighter jets launched their heaviest assault on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq overnight since air strikes began last week, a government official said, hours after President Tayyip Erdogan said a peace process had become impossible.
LONDON (Reuters) - A migrant died trying to cross to Britain from France early on Wednesday, French police said, adding to a number of recent deaths in the Channel Tunnel as British ministers and security chiefs were to meet over the crisis in Calais.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has recovered 38.7 billion yuan ($6.2 billion) in losses from graft, state media reported, as the leadership pursues a campaign against pervasive corruption.
KIEV (Reuters) - From a basement billiard club in central Kiev, Dmytro Korchynsky commands a volunteer battalion helping Ukraine's government fight rebels in the east. A burly man with a long, Cossack-style moustache, Korchynsky has several hundred armed men at his disposal. The exact number, he said, is "classified."
BEIRUT (Reuters) - An air strike by an Israeli surveillance plane hit a car in Quneitra province in southwestern Syria, killing two members of a militia fighting alongside the Syrian military, Hezbollah's al-Manar TV reported on Wednesday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Wednesday defended a move to bar a U.S.-funded pro-democracy group from Russia after it was declared "undesirable", saying Russians could still get access to such organizations.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he opposed the creation of an international tribunal to prosecute those who shot down a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine, hours before a U.N. vote on such a proposal.
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) -- One high roller requests a refrigerator full of bananas that he squeezes and throws as he gambles. Another urinates against a wall. Other high-stakes players described by a pit manager at Mohegan Sun, one of the world's largest casinos, throw chairs, scream at dealers and expect rules to be bent at the tables....
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ATLANTA (AP) -- A former high-ranking corrections officer at a southeast Georgia women's prison used his position of power to prey on inmates, targeting their vulnerabilities and forcing them to have sex with him, according to investigators....
From rents to haircuts, Americans start to feel price hikesby By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Apartment rents are up. So are prices for restaurant meals, haircuts, gym memberships and a cup of coffee....
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- A Georgia man who wrote he was "ready for jihad" before buying a one-way ticket overseas to try joining the Islamic State group was sentenced to federal prison Tuesday after he sobbed to the judge, "I am an American."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Turkey's dramatic air campaign against the Islamic State and Kurdish forces has created a bit of a conundrum for President Barack Obama, who is leading the fight against one of Turkey's targets while relying heavily on the other target....
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Ukraine Must Be Armed to Counter Putin's Advance
Newsweek In many quarters, it is now axiomatic that a refocusing and enhancement of Western assistance will “provoke” Putin into a dramatic escalation of the conflict. The risk exists. Yet there is nothing in Putin's record to support this assumption. What has ... and more » |
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