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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras speaks with the media after a meeting of eurozone heads of state at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday, July 13, 2015.

24 Aug 2015
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Greek election confusion raises fresh fears over ability to pay debts

Political mood becomes even more poisonous as former PM Antonis Samaras accuses Alexis Tsipras of acting like ‘drunk captain of a rudderless ship’

File - Competitors gather for a last chance qualifier spot in the Pokémon trading card game for the 2014 Pokémon World Championships in Washington, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014.

Police seize firearms, arrest two men who promised to 'kill the competition' at Pokémon World Championship

Two men were arrested by police after they allegedly made violent threats on social media aimed at attendees of the Pokémon World Championship. Kevin Norton, 18, and James Stumbo, 27, were arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition and several more firearm related charges. Members of the Boston Regional Intelligence Center

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IS 'blow up' Palmyra's ancient temple of Baalshamin

24 August 2015 Last updated at 04:51 BST Islamic State militants have destroyed Palmyra's ancient temple of Baalshamin, Syrian officials and activists say. IS took control of Palmyra in May, sparking fears the group might demolish the Unesco World Heritage site.

A huge blaze broke out Monday at steel plant near Tokyo's Haneda airport, a fire department official said, as television images showed plumes of thick black smoke and flames shooting up into the air.

Huge blaze breaks out at steel plant near Tokyo's Haneda airport: official

Tokyo: A huge blaze broke out Monday at steel plant near Tokyo's Haneda airport, a fire department official said, as television

File - Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed listens to questions from reporters at his residence in Male, Maldives, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.

Ex-Maldives President Nasheed sent back to prison

Males, Aug. 24 (ANI): Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed has been sent back to prison following completion of two months of house arrest. The late night police action in Male comes amidst

Jamaica's Usain Bolt smiles after winning the men’s 100m final at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015.

Usain Bolt wins 100-meter world championship, proving he is still the fastest man alive

>>(REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach) Bolt nips Gatlin at the line. Usain Bolt is still the fastest man in the world. The 100-meter world-record holder defended his title as the world's fastest man on Sunday, winning the

In this photo provided by the Italian Navy, migrants are approached by an Italian Navy dinghy boat, in the Mediterranean sea, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

23 Aug 2015
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The European Union’s migrant ‘emergency’ is entirely of its own making

Amid all the panic over the EU’s mounting “migrant crisis”, let’s remember that we have been here before: in fact, a near-perpetual emergency has gathered force ever since the EU started closing its common external borders in the 1990s. Since that time, migration has come to be colonised by interior ministries and security forces as their field of action – with predictable results.

File - A North Korean soldier stands watch on the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone as U.S. Sailors assigned to the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group tour the DMZ in Panmunjom, South Korea, July 17, 2008.

23 Aug 2015
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Rival Koreas pull back from brink with try at diplomacy

For the moment, North and South Korea have pulled back from the brink, agreeing Sunday to continue their first high-level talks in nearly a year and temporarily pushing aside vows of imminent war. The first round of marathon talks, however, came to nothing, and as they prepared for a second session Sunday, it was still unclear whether diplomacy would defuse what has become the

British hostage Douglas Robert Semple freed from Al-Qaeda in military strike

A British oil worker held by Islamic militants for more than 18 months has been freed in a military operation. The United Arab Emirates has reported its military freed Douglas Robert Semple, 64, who was kidnapped by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen while working as a petroleum engineer. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond confirmed the release of a British hostage by UAE

File - Palestinian children, whose houses were destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50- day-war last summer, play outside a container used as temporary replacement for their damaged homes, on a stormy day in the east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip January 8, 2015.

23 Aug 2015
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Petition to arrest Netanyahu gains momentum in UK

An online petition urging the arrest of Israel's prime minister for alleged war crimes over the 2014 Gaza war is on course to hit the 100,000 signatures needed to have it debated in the UK parliament. "I honestly don't expect him to get arrested because of the universal jurisdiction laws," said Damian Moran, who created the petition in response to Benjamin Netanyahu's

U.S. Navy Capt. Jeffery James, Joint Base Pear Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH), commander gives remarks to service members and civilian first responders near the

23 Aug 2015
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Air crash death toll 'rises to 11'

The death toll from the Shoreham air crash where a vintage jet plummeted into traffic is thought to have risen to 11, police say....

A member of the police forensics team takes part in an investigation next to a Thalys train on the platform at Arras train station, northern France, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

Thwarted French train attack highlights rail security against terror acts

Authorities are questioning the man accused of Friday’s attempted attack on a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris. Moroccan Ayoub El-Khazzani, who is suspected of storming a passenger Thalys train with an automatic Kalashnikov-style rifle, is said to have ties to the “radical Islamic movement,” according to the BBC. Officials continue to investigate whether Mr.

2015 ECOSOC Youth Forum Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrives to address the 2015 Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum on the theme, “Youth Engagement in the Transition from the Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals:

UN chief arrives in Nigeria to mark bombing, abducted girls

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Nigeria on Sunday to commemorate the Boko Haram bombing of his organization's headquarters

Police officers work on a platform next to a Thalys train at Arras train station, northern France, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris Friday, wounding three people before being subdued by two American passengers

French train shooting: Hero passengers foil gunman's attack on Amsterdam to Paris service

An incredible act of heroism by two American passengers foiled a gunman armed with an automatic rifle and knife who attacked passengers on a high speed train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris. Three passengers were injured, two critically, in the attack which is being treated as a terrorist incident. The suspect is a 26-year-old Moroccan who was armed with a Kalashnikov rifle

File - A checkpoint at the Demilitiarised Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea.

22 Aug 2015
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North Korea prepared to risk 'all-out war' as Kim Jong-un puts troops on alert

Tensions have flared on the Korean peninsula following propaganda broadcasts across the border from the South and an exchange of artillery fire

Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he leaves for lunch after being summoned for jury duty in New York, Monday, Aug. 17, 2015.

Night of Broken Immigrants and Politics of Liberation Psychology

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Sitting across the table confined to a wheelchair, Miguel spoke fondly of El Salvador. But his fond memories turned to anguish and grief when he spoke of Ignacio Martin-Baro, and five other Jesuit brothers assassinated by U.S.-trained Salvadoran death squads in 1989. Martin-Baro, a Jesuit psychologist, not only mirrored the popular

A migrant man holding a boy reacts as they are stuck between Macedonian riot police officers and migrants during a clash near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015.

22 Aug 2015
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Thousands of migrants trapped on Macedonian border

Thousands of rain-soaked migrants, including many women and children, remained trapped in a no man’s land between Greece and Macedonia as Macedonian police continued to block the frontier on Saturday, preventing them from heading north to the European Union. Overnight, police allowed only small groups of families with children to cross the border by walking on railway

5**Andre Senecal is silhouetted behind a Canadian flag at the University of Vermont Canadian Studies building, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004, in Burlington, Vt.. For a quarter of a century, Senecal has been trying to get Americans to understand that Canada is more than polar bears, red-coated constables, hockey and long winters. Senecal introduces students to Quebec literature and leads delegations to Ottawa where they visit the Gothic revival Parliament building and learn some of the intricacies of the European style of governm

Ashley Madison faces $578M Canadian class-action lawsuit

TORONTO — Two Canadian law firms have filed a $578 million class-action lawsuit against the companies that run Ashley Madison after a hacker group's data breach exposed some 39 million memberships in the adultery website earlier this week. Charney Lawyers and Sutts, Strosberg LLP, both of Ontario, said Friday that they filed the lawsuit on behalf of Canadians who

Youngster tries on helmet of National Guardsman who mans a machine gun position in entrance to a store in the Hough Avenue riot area in Cleveland, Ohio, July 24, 1966. The riot-scarred neighborhood remained quiet for the first time since the violence and vandalism erupted last Monday.

22 Aug 2015
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Race in the US: The colour of Cleveland

In 1966 the Hough Riots broke out in Cleveland, Ohio. Several days later, the Ohio National Guard was called in. By the time the riots came to an end, four African Americans had been killed, 30 people had been injured and close to 300 had been arrested. Many neighbourhood homes and businesses lay in ruins, burnt down in arson attacks. Accounts of just what triggered the riots

People wait for a train in the foreground as members of a police forensics team take part in an investigation next to a Thalys train on the platform at Arras train station, northern France, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015.

Three Americans praised for subduing gunman on European train

ARRAS (France): One serves in the Air Force, another recently served in Afghanistan in the National Guard, another is studying physical therapy in California — and all three Americans are being hailed as heroes for tackling and disarming a gunman they happened to encounter on a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris. Air Force serviceman Spencer Stone remained

Obama, Biden catch up over lunch amid 2016 campaign buzz

Seoul to halt broadcasts as N. Korea shows regret for blast

Dow cuts losses after 1,089 drop

Ashley Madison hack might have led to suicides

Major automakers are forming an alliance to tackle cybersecurity

Palestinian Authority Is Ordered to Post $10 Million Bond in Terror Case

U.S. Unveils Measures to Encourage Solar Power Use

Report: Documents reveal nearly 700 close calls between drones and planes