Yemen crisis: Aden's presidential palace and central districts fall despite week-long Saudi air campaign
Full Article The Independent
02 Apr 2015

One week after Saudi Arabia controversially began its aerial bombardment of Yemen, the country’s Shia rebels have captured the palace that last was President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi's last seat of power before he was forced to flee the country. It represents a major blow to the international coalition led by Saudi Arabia, which has offered refuge...

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A Houthi Shiite rebel carries his weapon as he joins others to protest against Saudi-led airstrikes, during a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, April 1, 2015.
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Yemen crisis Fighting intensifies in Aden RAW
updated 02 Apr 2015; published 02 Apr 2015
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Yemen crisis Saudi led coalition Brig Gen speaks to BBC
updated 25 Mar 2015; published 25 Mar 2015
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Yemen crisis President Hadi flees as Houthi rebels advance
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Yemen crisis: Fighting intensifies in Aden
updated 20 Mar 2015; published 20 Mar 2015
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Yemen crisis: Blast at Hudaydah factory 'kills 35'
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Yemen crisis: 'Foreign troops' land in Aden
Could autopilot technology have saved Germanwings Flight 9525?
Full Article CNN
02 Apr 2015

Washington (CNN)The flight voice recorder aboard Germanwings Flight 9525 reportedly captured blaring cockpit alarms, warning co-pilot Andreas Lubitz to "pull up" and that "terrain" was ahead. But that was not enough to stop the aircraft from slamming into the French Alps. With reports that Lubitz apparently ignored those warnings, there are new...

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In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 and provided by the French Interior Ministry, French emergency rescue services work among debris of the Germanwings passenger jet at the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France.
photo: AP / Yves Malenfer, Ministere de l'Interieur

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Lufthansa could have avoided Germanwings crash with this patented technology
updated 02 Apr 2015; published 02 Apr 2015
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Could Autopilot Technology Have Saved Germanwings Flight 9525?
updated 26 Mar 2015; published 26 Mar 2015
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Germanwings Pilot Locked Out Of Cockpit During Crash | NBC Nightly News
updated 27 Mar 2015; published 27 Mar 2015
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Deliberate Plane Crash to Have Lasting Effect on Industry
updated 26 Mar 2015; published 26 Mar 2015
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Sullenberger: Hard to predict "harmful" pilots / Germanwings Flight 9525 crash
updated 25 Mar 2015; published 25 Mar 2015
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Footage of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash site | Mashable
Iran nuclear deal: Complex details delay agreement
Full Article BBC News
02 Apr 2015

2 April 2015 From the section Middle East French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius relays the latest details in Lausanne Negotiations for a deal on Iran's nuclear programme are stretching into a second extended day, with reports of some progress but no final result. Talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, went on all night, breaking off at 06:00 (0400 GMT)...

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European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif sit together in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 31, 2015, before representatives from the United States, Germany, China, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, and the E.U. resume direct negotiations with Iranian officials about the future of their country's nuclear program.
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updated 02 Apr 2015; published 02 Apr 2015
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Iran nuclear deal: Complex details delay agreement
updated 02 Apr 2015; published 02 Apr 2015
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Iran nuclear deal Complex details delay agreement
updated 01 Apr 2015; published 01 Apr 2015
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CNN News -Progress made, but can an Iran nuclear framework deal be reached?
updated 30 Mar 2015; published 30 Mar 2015
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Iran nuclear talks race towards deadline
updated 01 Apr 2015; published 01 Apr 2015
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Iran Backs Away From Key Detail in Nuclear Deal
updated 19 Mar 2015; published 19 Mar 2015
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Kerry, Zarif see progress in 'tough' Iran nuclear talks
What is Al-Shabaab, and what does it want?
Full Article CNN
02 Apr 2015

(CNN)A brutal raid on the Garissa University College in Kenya has left dozens wounded. An unknown number of gunmen early Thursday morning attacked the campus as morning prayers were underway. While no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, the college is in an area where Al-Shabaab militants have sometimes led raids. The harrowing...

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Kenyan police officers take positions outside the Garissa University College while an ambulance takes the injured to a hospital, during an attack by gunmen in Garissa, Kenya, Thursday, April 2, 2015.
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Somali Terror Group Al-Shabab Threatens Mall Of America
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Militant Somalia: The Fight Against al Shabaab
updated 17 Jun 2014; published 17 Jun 2014
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Islamic terrorists al-Shabab call for attack on West Edmonton Mall
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How technology is taking conservation science to the next level
Full Article The Guardian
02 Apr 2015

Paraguay-based conservation project Para La Tierra are making the most of new tech to increase both environmental impact and reach. Founder Karina Atkinson explains ...

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File - Sunset at Reserva Natural Laguna Blanca, a nature reserve in eastern Paraguay.
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Nature Is Speaking – Julia Roberts is Mother Nature | Conservation International (CI)
updated 08 Mar 2015; published 08 Mar 2015
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Water is Our World - World Water Day 2015 Trailer
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TEDxMontevideo - Gonzalo Tancredi - Nuestro Vecindario
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#13329, Personas admirando la vista de la ciudad [Raw], Lugares y ciudades
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Green Terraces - An Initiative to Prevent Landslides through Urban Agriculture in Colombia

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The government Britain needs most is the one that will do the least
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The Guardian
We won’t touch. We’ll change nothing. We’ve mucked you about long enough and will leave you alone, we promise. These are the least likely pledges to be heard during the coming election campaign. No one will promise to stop fussing, meddling, intervening, legislating, regulating. The only coalition that exists is the “coalition for change”, and it embraces all parties. A politician would no more oppose the concept of action than a priest would oppose the concept of God. ...
Urgent ‘Musts’ Needed for Palestinians
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CounterPunch
Waiting on Israeli society to change from within is a colossal waste of time, during which the suffering of an entire nation – torn between an occupied home and a harsh...
Thailand’s military junta replaces martial law with absolute power
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The Irish Times
Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej has endorsed a request by the country’s prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha to end martial law, leaving the junta chief free to implement a...

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Mexico oil platform fire kills 4, injures 16
A soldier stands guard outside the Pemex headquarters after an explosion in Mexico City, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013.
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Press TV
At least four people have been killed and 16 others injured in a fire that broke out after an explosion on an offshore oil platform operated by Mexico's Pemeon company in the Gulf of Mexico. Mexican state-run oil company Pemex said...
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Thailand junta replaces martial law with absolute power
Thai Army Chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-Ocha, center, and other high ranking Thai officers are shown on television announcing the military takeover in Bangkok
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Dayton Daily News
Thailand's junta lifted martial law in most of the nation, but 10 months after staging a coup, it remains firmly in control — with new laws invoked Wednesday that essentially give it absolute power. The government of former army chief Prayuth...
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ISIL driven from central Tikrit
An Iraqi Army soldier during Operation NANNO II in the southern section of Baghdad.
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The Japan News
ReutersTIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) — Iraqi troops aided by Shiite paramilitaries have driven the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group out of central Tikrit, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said on Tuesday, but the fight to retake all...
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Hackers, Corporate Spies Targeted by Obama Sanctions Order
President Barack Obama speaks at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection in Stanford, Calif.
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Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama signed an executive order Wednesday allowing the use of economic sanctions for the first time against perpetrators of destructive cyber-attacks and online corporate espionage. That will let the Treasury...
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Sarkozy Questioned Over Suspect Campaign Funding
French President Nicolas Sarkozy pauses during a news conference with President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 in Washington
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Reuters PARIS— Doubts over Nicolas Sarkozy's political funding returned to haunt the French ex-president on Wednesday when the prosecutor said investigators had questioned him in an affair that could cloud his chance of a re-election bid in 2017....
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Misao Okawa, the world's oldest person, dies of heart failure aged 117
Japan's Misao Okawa, 116, who is recognized as the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records is celebrated by Ward Mayor Takehiro Ogura at a nursing home in Osaka, western Japan Wednesday, March 4, 2015 ahead of her birthday.
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London Evening Standard
The world's oldest person has died at the age of 117. Japanese woman Misao Okawa, who was born in 1898, died today from heart...
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India police seek cow 'mugshots' to enforce beef ban
Cattle - Cows grazing on a farm, India
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Dawn
MUMBAI: Police in a west Indian township have asked cattle owners to supply photographs of their animals to help enforce the state's tough new ban on beef, an officer said Wednesday. Nearly 100 farmers and other owners in Malegaon have so far...
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