Terrorist Attacks Will Continue to Soar and Here's Why WorldNews.com Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | The world must come to terms with hard truths instead of pleasant sounding euphemisms and soundbites. Indeed, just as the so-called "Global Village" will always contain conflict and community, or the "Modern Age" is actually a continuation of a diverg...
Kurdish forces besiege Isis fighters in Kobani after massacre of civilians The Guardian Islamic State militants infiltrated Syrian town on Thursday, killing at least 154 people and taking more than 100 hostage | Smoke rises in the Syrian town of Kobani. Photograph: Murad Sezer/Reuters | Kareem Shaheen in Beirut | Friday 26 June 2015 16.40Â BST Last modified on Saturday 27 June 2015 00....
‘ Information Clearing House We Ain’t Found Shit’ | Scott Ritter explains why Iran shouldn’t accept ‘no notice’ inspections of its nuclear sites | By Scott Ritter | Nuclear negotiations between Iran and what’s known as the P-5 + 1 group of nations (the United States, the United ...
Fund for activist who took down Confederate flag raises $75,000 in eight hours The Daily Telegraph Campaign to raise money in support of Bree Newsome, who scaled a flagpole to remove the "stars and bars", gathers pace | 1:15AM BST 28 Jun 2015 | An online fundraiser for Bree Newsome, the activist who is in custody after climbing a flagpole outside ...
Pope Francis recruits Naomi Klein in climate change battle The Guardian Social activist ‘surprised but delighted’ to join top cardinal in high-level environment conference at the Vatican | Naomi Klein on a earlier visit to Rome Photograph: REX Shutterstock | Rosie Scammell | Sunday 28 June 2015 00.11 BST | She is on...
Euthanasia debate: 'We have to agree on dignity' Stuff Euthanasia. Such a big word right? Know what it means? | It is the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or cond...
Crystal meth - Hong Kong in denial over drug addiction epidemic South China Morning Post Fifty years ago this month, a radical book about Hong Kong's deep-rooted drug problem was published by a young English academic. Under the Rug made front-page headlines and shook the colonial establishment from its entrenched complacency about drug a...
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Is the West Abandoning Globalization? Huffington Post As China establishes a new infrastructure investment bank for Asia and builds out the new Silk Road trading route westward to Turkey, the U.S. Congress is balking at trade agreemen...
Happy Birthday, Aung San Suu Kyi? Huffington Post Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi turns 70 on Thursday. That's the age when many people around the world think about retiring, cashing out, calling it a day. But the Burmese demo...
Tom Eblen: History will remember this month of seismic social changes Lexington Herald-Leader Social progress can seem painfully slow. And then, almost out of nowhere, events bring public opinion and the law together to produce head-spinning change. | This month will go down in history as one of those epic tipping points on several issues tha...
Long struggle, quick endgame as same-sex marriage prevails Times Union NEW YORK (AP) — Back in 1996, President Bill Clinton signed a law stipulating that the federal government would not recognize marriages between same-sex couples. On Friday night, the White House was illuminated with rainbow colors in celebration of...
Tunisia attack: Identities of dead revealed as up to 23 Brits killed in worst act ... The Daily Telegraph Isil release smiling image of gunman responsible for Tunisia attack that left at least 15 British tourists dead on popular beach resort in Sousse | By Camilla Turner, Josie Ensor and Barney Henderson | 11:34PM BST 27 Jun 2015 Follow | 30000 | 2015-06...
Lena Dunham hints at marriage after same-sex marriage ruling Canberra Times Is Lena Dunham on the verge of wedlock? In a possible hint at marriage, timed to mark the US's historic ruling on same-sex unions, she has tweeted boyfriend Jack Antonoff, "Get on it, yo..." | In a series of tweets Dunham expressed her joy at the United States' Supreme Court's ruling on Friday that marriage ...
Malaysia Airports apologises after man's shorts deemed inappropriate for retrieving lost luggage Jakarta Post Malaysian Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) has apologised to a male passenger who was forced to wear long black pants and shoes because his knee-length pink shorts and sandals was deemed inappropriate at Kuala Lumpur International Airport's baggage services' Lost and Found area. | On May 7, businessman Wilson Ng, who had gone to pick up his luggage ...
