DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- The hostages were given a test. recite verses from the Quran, or be punished, according to a witness. Those who passed were allowed to eat. Those who failed were slain ... The attack marks an escalation in militant violence that has hit the traditionally moderate Muslim-majority nation with increasing frequency in recent months, with the extremists demanding the secular government revert to Islamic rule ... Gen ... Col ... ....
WASHINGTON. Following its historic first-ever flyby of Pluto, Nasa's New Horizons mission will fly deeper into space towards an ancient object considered to be one of the early building blocks of the solar system. The spacecraft's planned rendezvous with the object located deeper in the Kuiper Belt, known as 2014 MU69, is January 1, 2019 ... RELATED. From around the web....
It has become something of a maxim that the Chilcot Inquiry, set up in 2009 to consider the UK’s role in the Iraq war, has taken longer to conclude than the war itself. And at an anticipated 2.6million words, the resulting report – to be published on Wednesday – is longer than War and Peace, the Complete Works of Shakespeare and the Bible combined. The question on everybody’s lips is whether it will be worth the wait – and the weight....
Novak Djokovic is out of Wimbledon before the second week after Sam Querrey defied the odds and an overnight rain delay to cause a huge shock in the third round on Saturday. World number one and defending champion Djokovic has been near enough unbeatable over the last two years but Querrey found a way on Court One... Wimbledon. Angelique Kerber grinds out third-round win Wimbledon ... ... ....
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingPerhaps a more fundamental question than to why politicians change their positions on certain issues is what gives a person the right to make binding decisions on behalf of the future ... Indeed, what would the United States be like if politicians never changed their views on slavery, civil rights or economic policies that included more people ... (Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501....
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In the meeting, Committee members Natasa Vuckovic, Zarko Micin, Dusica Stojkovic, Elvira Kovacs, Marinika Tepic, Zvonimir Djokic and BrankoRuzic, as well as Vladimir Orlic, co-chairman of the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee from the ranks of National Assembly members from the previous legislature, commended the EU's......
How pathetic. Now that he he’ll vote for Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders’ idea of “political revolution” has devolved into urging his supporters to vote for Hillary Clinton and her neoconservative backers ...Branko Marcetic of In These Times in March, “But some neocons are so disgusted with [Trump’s] rejection of foreign policy establishment thinking that they’ve declared the unthinkable ... sanctions ... Ms ... ....
Globalization was the driving force behind the growth miracles in emerging markets, lifting millions of people out of poverty over the past few decades ... A chart first published in a by EconomistBranko Milanovic details which segments of the global population saw a rise in real incomes from 1988 to 2008..Source. Branko Milanovic ... Source. Twitter ... "We equate the same malaise in the U.K. with that in the U.S ... Source. Twitter ... ....
If Europe’s cup of woe is overflowing, the United States has a wacky presidential candidate, Donald Trump, who shares much in common with the angry, insular and navel-gazing mindset that is setting the post-Cold War liberal order ablaze ...EconomistBranko Milanovic has shown how the “losers” of globalisation in the past 25 years vastly outnumber the “winners” ... ....
Behind the Technicolor masks worn by Peruvian tropical bass duo Dengue Dengue Dengue are Felipe Salmon and Rafael Periera ...It’s a fusion borne out of conquistadors, imperialists and spice traders melding African and Asian rhythms with the tribal Afro-Peruvian sounds of the Andes ... We invited Sara Van for the vocals of “Guarida,” the second single of the album, and there’s also a track with Branko and Toy Selectah ... Do you agree? ... Rafael. ... ....
24 dogs, all deceased and piled in a narrow corridor in a mass of fur and paws have been photographed and the image is going viral on the internet. The dogs, who were all trained to sniff out explosives, had been massacred on the grounds of a US security company in Kuwait, according to a story by the New York Post...Hired by Eastern Securities as a veterinarian in July of 2013, Branko Przar had no medical training ... Someone in Louisiana....
Many people on the left seem to believe that the global economy has the same problems as the economies of the U.S and Europe. For example, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders recently tweeted. “The global economy has simply failed when so many have so little and so few have so much.” ... The most important and dramatic illustration of this comes from City University of New York economist Branko Milanovic ...Follow him on Twitter ... ....
The Brexit vote on Thursday ends that story, at least in its current volume. Voters will soon tell us what sort of sequel they'd prefer ... Advertisement ... The second highest was immigration ... But across the West, the Serbian-American economist Branko Milanovic argues, the rise of populism corresponds to a decline in the income share held by the broad middle classes of those countries ... Either seems possible ... Washington Post ... ....
Facebook. On June 17th, a horrific image began circulating on Facebook ... “Um . ... When hired by Eastern Securities as a veterinarian in July of 2013, Branko Przar had served as a K9 handler in the Bosnian Army, but he had no medical training ... ‘Dogs were dying there because of bad, bad care… That company is full of a–holes who do terrible things.’ - Branko Przar, former Eastern Securities 'vet' ... ....