Bullets trump rehab as Asia quickens “failing” war on drugs

Edit The Himalayan 11 Sep 2016
In mid-July, as drug war killings escalated in the Philippines, one survey put President Duterte’s approval rating at 91 percent ... In March, US President Barack Obama said drug dependency should be seen as “a public health problem and not a criminal problem”, part of a bid to roll back a “war on drugs” begun in the 1970s and now widely seen as a failure....

Cats desperate to claw back title

Edit Irish Independent 11 Sep 2016
... to derail another triple bid in Croke Park this afternoon....

It Was On ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ When J.J. Abrams Lost His Signature Momentum

Edit Inquisitr 11 Sep 2016
Star Wars The Force Awakens has almost had an entire year to settle since it was released in theaters in December of 2015. Since then, we’ve seen and have anticipated a new Star Wars story trailer or us to be excited about, which fills in the gaps of what J.J ...STAR WARS 8’ NEWS ... And there is no doubt that a movie like Star Wars ... ‘STAR WARS 8’ ... Star Wars directors J.J ... Star Wars ... It Was On ‘Star Wars....

Puig's incredible catch preserves perfect game

Edit MLB 11 Sep 2016
Puig took off at contact, racing into the left-center gap and was all-out with a dive to glove Martin Prado's bid for extra bases with two out in the bottom of the seventh ... Jeff Francoeur ended the bid ......

Francoeur breaks up bid for combined perfect game

Edit Springfield News-Sun 11 Sep 2016
The Miami Marlins' Jeff Francouer lined a single to left field with two outs in the eighth inning against Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Joe Blanton on Saturday night, ending a bid for a perfect game ... seventh to preserve the bid....

Children who lost fathers in First World War also died younger

Edit ITV 11 Sep 2016
Children who lost their fathers or whose fatheres were seriously wounded in the First World War died a year younger than their counterparts on average, new research shows ... The French study was designed to investigate the impact of "early negative adversities" (ELAs) on children born during the First World War ... their father during the war....

Alliance Trust PLC : Net Asset Value(s) (Alliance Trust plc)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Sep 2016
(Source. Alliance Trust plc). ALLIANCE TRUST PLC. At the close of business on Thursday 8 September 2016.. The Company's NAV per ordinary share, valued on a bid price basis with Debt at Par, was ... The Company's NAV per ordinary share, valued on a bid price basis with Debt at Fair Value, was ... Alliance Trust PLC....

Fifteen years after 9/11, America in perpetual war

Edit The Times of India 11 Sep 2016
The 9/11 attacks of 2001 forever changed America and upended its foreign and national security policy, leaving the country for the past 15 years in a war against jihadists, without ending the upheaval in the Middle East ... "The thinking of the Obama administration is that big wars make things worse," Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, told AFP....

Children who lost fathers during war also died younger

Edit Belfast Telegraph 11 Sep 2016
Children whose fathers were killed or seriously wounded in the First World War had their own lives shortened by a year on average, research has shown ... The French study aimed to investigate the potential impact of early negative experiences, or "early life adversities" (ELAs), on children born during the First World War ... a war victim father....

15 years after 9/11, America in perpetual war

Edit Deccan Chronicle 11 Sep 2016
The 9/11 attacks of 2001 forever changed America and upended its foreign and national security policy, leaving the country for the past 15 years in a war against jihadists – without ending the upheaval in the Middle East ... "The thinking of the Obama administration is that big wars make things worse," Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, told AFP ... looks like a continuous war."....

Woman kissed by sailor in famous V-J Day photo dies aged 92

Edit The Guardian 11 Sep 2016
Greta Friedman, whose photograph in Times Square came to symbolise end of second world war, had been suffering from pneumonia. Greta Friedman, the woman in white kissed by a sailor in New York’s Times Square in a photograph symbolising the end of the second world war, has died aged 92 ... our memories of the second world war and the day it ended....

Feinstein Statement on Syria Agreement (Dianne Feinstein)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Sep 2016
Washington-Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today released the following statement in reaction to the agreement between the United States and Russia regarding the civil war in Syria.. 'The agreement announced between the United States and Russia is an encouraging step toward ending the horrific civil war ......

Comment on Fact checking Trump’s claim of opposing Iraq War by klastri

Edit Star Advertiser 11 Sep 2016
No matter what Wikileaks does, it will not erase the fact that Mr. Trump is a total ignoramus. He (like a lot of his supporters) is completely ignorant about economics and world affairs – to the unbelievable point that just last night, he said that hand gestures from Iranian Navy crews constitute an act of war for which the U.S. should retaliate with force to sink war ships. That is obviously the ranting of a psychotic ... ....
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