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2016-03-23
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John Kerry off to Russia for talks on Syria, Ukraine after Brussels attacks

Secretary of State John Kerry is heading to Moscow for talks on Ukraine and Syria as the terrorist attacks in Brussels underscored the urgency of fighting the Islamic State group. ...

2016-03-23
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US air strike 'kills Yemen militants'

A US air strike kills dozens of fighters from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in a mountainous region of Yemen, the Pentagon said. ...

2016-03-23
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China vaccine scandal: 37 arrested

Thirty-seven people have been arrested in eastern China over a huge vaccine scandal, state media report. It comes after police in Shandong announced last month they had arrested a mother and her daughter accused of buying and selling vaccines

2016-03-23
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Australia PM's slogan mirrors satirical comedy Veep

"Continuity and change" was how Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull chose to describe his relationship to the policies of former leader Tony Abbott on Monday. But he was seemingly unaware that satirical US show Veep had used a strikingly similar phrase to mock the emptiness of modern politics. In Veep, a US presidential hopeful uses the

2016-03-22
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EU referendum: Ed Miliband to warn against EU exit

Ed Miliband is to set out his case for why the UK should stay in the EU, in his first major intervention in the referendum debate. The former Labour leader will argue that social justice and progressive change can only be achieved by staying in a reformed EU. And he will accuse Leave campaigners of wanting a "free-market, low-regulated, race-to-the-bottom offshore Britain".

File - Hulk Hogan watching his daughter Brooke Hogan performing at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise Florida during the Jingle Ball Concert

Hulk Hogan-Gawker jury awards $25M in punitive damages

Moments after a Florida jury hit Gawker Media and its founder with $25 million in punitive damages for publishing a sex tape of Hulk Hogan, the former pro wrestler told a gaggle of reporters that he and his legal team "made history." Hogan said Monday evening that he thought "we've protected a lot of people from going through what I went through." The smiling 62-year-old, who

Donald Trump has no earthly idea what he’d do about libel laws

As this blog has noted before, Donald Trump has reveled in threatening litigation against people who write negative stuff about him. He rails against negative media coverage at every turn, and he has no patience for reporters who aren’t “nice” to him. Consistent with all that, Trump riffed a few weeks back about some vague […] ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference at the Verizon Center, on Monday, March 21, 2016, in Washington.

Donald Trump sells himself as 'true friend of Israel' to Jewish group AIPAC

Donald Trump began his appearance at the annual AIPAC conference in Washington DC by insisting he would not "pander" to his pro-Israel audience, claiming "That's what politicians do." But during a lengthy address designed to demonstrate the Republican front-runner's foreign policy chops to the largest pro-Israel organisation in the US, he did little else. Describing himself as

President Barack Obama waves to people as he enters a restaurant in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, March 20, 2016.

2016-03-22
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Obama’s Historic Visit to Cuba Is the Right Policy

President Obama’s historic opening to Cuba has come under fire from Republican and even some Democratic hawks because Cuban President Raul Castro did not greet him at the airport and because the Cuban government arrested members of a dissident group while Obama’s plane was en route to the island. Those Cuban actions are a reflexive reaction because Obama’s visit is the biggest

Aung San Suu Kyi nominated to join cabinet-parliament speaker

YANGON: Myanmar's president-elect has nominated Aung San Suu Kyi to join the cabinet formed by her National League for

World Water Day - 22 March Two-year-old Ismael Adam receives a drink of water from his kin and caretaker Kariya Mohamed Abbakar, a 50-year-old native of Jebel Saiey, North Darfur, who has been living in the Abu Shouk Camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) near El Fasher for the past 10 years. Mrs. Mohamed Abbakar walks a long distance every week to fetch water from the nearest water point in the camp.

2016-03-22
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World Water Day: How much does drinking water cost around the world?

--> Papua New Guinea is the most difficult and expensive place in the world to access clean water, forcing the poor to spend more than half their income on this essential resource, a charity said on Tuesday. Some 650 million people do not have access to clean water, and often have to make do with much less than the 50 litres per person per day

President Barack Obama talks with Cuban President Raul Castro

White House pours cold water on Obama-Fidel Castro meeting

HAVANA: The White House has all but ruled out a meeting between Barack Obama and veteran Cuban leader Fidel Castro during the US president's trip to Cuba. Senior Obama foreign

Hillary Clinton speaking at the Brown & Black Presidential Forum

Hillary Clinton Lays Out Her Own Middle East Approach -- And It's Not Obama's

WASHINGTON -- After her landslide loss in the New Hampshire primary last month, Hillary Clinton responded by tying herself tightly to President Barack Obama and slamming her opponent, Bernie Sanders, for past criticism of the president. That embrace, though, has not extended beyond U.S. shores. On Monday, Clinton used her speech before the American Israel Public Affairs

File - Poor Indian women beg outisde of a temple in Pune, India.

2016-03-22
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Vidya Das: Fighting for poor women in India

- In a large, airy classroom in the village of Kashipur in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, there unfolds a scene rich in contrasts and ironies. A reading and writing class for the five-year-olds of prathama sreni, or first grade, proceeds alongside a parent-teacher meeting. The children are all girls, for this is a primary school run by a local NGO, Agragamee, exclusively

Bashar Ja’afari, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the UN, addresses the press following today's intra-Syrian talks taking place in Geneva, Switzerland, 16 MArch, 2016.

Assad’s Future Will Not Be Discussed at the Syrian Peace Talks, Damascus Says

The ongoing peace talks to negotiate an end to the civil war in Syria will not include a discussion on the future of embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad, his government’s top representative said Monday. Bashar Ja’afari, the head of the

File - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of the sun setting at the close of the mission's 956th Martian day, or sol (April 15, 2015), from the rover's location in Gale Crater.

2016-03-22
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New Mars Gravity Map Reveals Chilling Details

Researchers have developed a new map of Mars' gravity with three NASA spacecraft that is the most detailed to date, providing a revealing glimpse into the hidden interior of the Red Planet.

Victoria Azarenka, left, of Belarus, speaks to Serena Williams, as tournament director Raymond Moore stand by after Azarenka defeated Williams in a final at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament, Sunday, March 20, 2016, in Indian Wells, Calif. Azarenka won 6-4, 6-4

Indian Wells director Raymond Moore resigns after comments about women's tennis

Raymond Moore has resigned as BNP Paribas Open tournament director after his comments that women's tennis "rides on the coattails" of the men's game. Moore said ahead of Sunday's women's final at Indian Wells that female players should "go down every night on (their) knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born". Indian Wells owner Larry Ellison said in a

France's Hollande calls emergency meeting after Brussels blasts

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande called an emergency meeting of senior government ministers on Tuesday after a series of explosions in

File - Bleached Acropora (branching) coral (foreground) and normal colony (background), Keppel Islands, Great Barrier Reef.

Climate change warnings for coral reef may have come to pass, scientists say

As coral bleaching threat is raised for Great Barrier Reef, experts say events on show that dire projections for reefs under global warming were not alarmist

The blown out windows of Zaventem airport are seen after a deadly attack in Brussels, Belgium, Tuesday, March 22, 2016.

The Brussels Attacks and the New Normal of Terrorism in Western Europe

As emergency services are still digging through the rubble of Zaventem Airport and Maelbeek Metro Station in Brussels, it is clear that the full scale of the devastation will take days if not weeks to assess. At this point there are 21 confirmed deaths and many more injured. While no organization has claimed responsibility yet, the terrorist attacks seem most likely related to

Australian Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Student Suspected Of Raising Funds For Islamic State

Taiwan Presses Case For Territorial Claim To Island Designated A Rock by Philippines

What is the Value of a Woman?

FBI's New Unlocking Method May Resolve Terrorist's iPhone 5C, But Scares Apple

Islamic State issues statement promising ‘dark days’ ahead

Palestinian Syrians: Twice refugees

Malaysia Political Spat Escalates as Former Premier Sues Najib

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