Twelve people suspected of planning new terror attacks were arrested in Brussels on Friday and Saturday after police carried out about 40 house searches across Belgium, the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement. It said a total of 40 people had been questioned after the raids. “In connection with a criminal investigation concerning terrorism... ....
A decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) governing body Friday will force Russian track and field athletes to miss the Rio Olympics after the sport's governing body decided unanimously to keep a ban in place ahead of the Games, SkyNews reported.In November, the IAAF provisionally suspended the country’s athletes from competition....
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingRepublicans are giving a whole new meaning to Carl Von Clausewitz’s famous military theory “war is the continuation of Politik by other means.” ... “Groups like ISIS want to claim that they are the true leaders of over a billion Muslims…who reject their crazy notions” said the president ... Indeed, some view it as either a conservative or liberal movement dependent on their notion of Islam....
photo: Public Domain / Facebook/ Attanai Thaiyuanwong
How often do you see a Godzilla-sized lizard knocking your door? On Wednesday a Thai resident captured a video of his encounter with a giant reptile, who was knocking on his door trying to get into his house. Attanai Thaiyuanwong found this huge lizard trying to make his way into his place and within no time shared the photos of it on Facebook ... . ....
Earth's most remote continent has officially caught up to the rest of the planet. That spells disaster for us all. We’re officially living in a new world. Carbon dioxide has been steadily rising since the start of the Industrial Revolution, setting a new high year after year. There’s a notable new entry to the record books. The last station on Earth without a 400 parts per million (ppm) reading has reached it. A little 400 ppm history....
Two minutes into a drive from Davie, where the Miami Dolphins train, to Calle Ocho, where lunch beckons, KikoAlonso — speaking in English and Spanish — admits that when he was younger he didn’t much like the idea of being Hispanic. “I heard Spanish at home but I didn’t want to speak it,” he says ... “But they hit a stage as teenagers that it became kind of cool to know Spanish and be out there ... It is sung in Spanish and English....
After a string of pretty good episodes, Girl Meets World delivered it's first truly great episode this season, as Riley struggled to bring her grade up in Spanish... tough-love approach to Spanish brought about some great moments....
IN REACTION to the destruction of a city, Picasso painted "Guernica", depicting the bombing of the Spanish town in 1937. Though the painting was widely celebrated, Jean-Paul Sartre later expressed scepticism that it had ever "won over a single heart to the Spanish cause" ... ....
Three Spanish fans were arrested for carrying neo-Nazi banners and trying to bring flares into the stadium. (Source. Reuters). Three Spanish “ultras” fans were arrested in the southern city of Nice for carrying neo-Nazi banners and another three for trying to bring flares into the stadium ahead of Spain’s Euro 2016 match against Turkey, regional police said on Friday ... ....
La Roja’s disastrous 2014 World Cup was still fresh on the minds of Spanish fans who turned up to watch the defending Euro champions fall 1-0 earlier this month in Getafe... It also pretty much extinguished lingering questions concerning whether or not this re-tooled Spanish side can win a third consecutive European Championship ... Diego Costa never seemed right in a Spanish side that exploits teams with speed and off-ball movement....
ELEM's streetwise professionals and 1,700 volunteers seek out at-risk youth and then gain their trust ...Please visit ... The Cervantes garden party celebrated Spanish culture with live music, mouth-watering dishes along with refreshing beverages. This event promoted the very best in Spanish heritage as well as to educate guests about culture in Spain ... ....
Spanish renewable energy group Gamesa Corp Tecnologica SA and German engineering giant Siemens AG on Friday said they have agreed to combine their wind power businesses to create one of the world’s largest makers of wind turbines ... “Siemens and Gamesa have signed binding agreements to merge Siemens’ wind business with Gamesa,” the Spanish group said in a statement on its Web site ... ....
Spanish authorities are investigating some Banco Santander SA and BNP Paribas SA employees amid allegations they may have helped shield customers' international transfers from tax authorities, according to a person familiar with the probe ... ....
I have just finished my second year of studying Spanish, Portuguese and European Studies and in a little over a month I'm moving to Belo Horizonte in Brzail to study at a university there. I could also have chosen to try and find a job, but work visas aren't very easy to get for Brazil, and I always wanted to study for my year abroad ... ....