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John le Carré's 'The Night Manager' checks into the 21st century

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 17 Apr 2016
FX's The Americans could be set only in the 1980s, when the end of the Cold War was closer than its Russian sleeper agents imagined, and in Showtime's Homeland, the most recent, Syria-focused season was contemporary to the point of prescience....

The Hotsie Totsies

Edit Skiddle 17 Apr 2016
Inspired by true events that occurred in post-war Britain, Soho's illicit and nocturnal escapades from the era are brought back to life ... Cahoots is an exhibition of post-war resourcefulness, from the old fashioned wooden escalators that lead guests downstairs, to the dramatic, tiled, platform bar set alongside vintage train carriages....

‘Bernie really stood up for the Palestinians,’ Rips Hillary for Defending Israel

Edit Breitbart 17 Apr 2016
Speaking to the Daily Beast on Friday, DeVito criticized Israel’s response during the 2014 Gaza War, and ripped into Hillary Clinton for her defense of the Jewish state ... First, let’s not forget why the Gaza War was launched in the first place....

Marvel Cinematic Universe To Look ‘Very Different’ In Phase 4 – These Movies Likely A ...

Edit Inquisitr 17 Apr 2016
Civil War marks the 13th film in the MCU, and they are far from running out of ideas and new movies to make ... Infinity War is going to bring an end to a phenomenal franchise, but also bring about the start of another great one ... While the Marvel contracts of Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, and others may be coming to an end, Infinity War Part 2 may not be the last anyone ever sees them....

Syrian family who fled Homs for safety get a cold shoulder from France

Edit The Guardian 17 Apr 2016
Today, however, the town offers little hospitality to the dispossessed – people such as Malek and Khaldieh al-Elfi and their children, refugees from the war in Syria ... The Elfis’ story is a familiar tale of the misery and exploitation suffered by the estimated one million Syrians who have fled the war in their homeland for safety in Europe ... “And if one day the war stops in Syria we will go back....
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President Barack Obama laughs at a White House event honoring U.S. athletes from the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2014. Pictured with Obama are Julie Chu of Fairfield, Conn, who won silver with the women's Olympic ice hockey team; and (far right) Jon Lujan of Littleton, Colo., Paralympics Alpine Skiing, former Marine Corps sergeant and 2014 Winter Paralympic Games opening ceremony Team USA flag bearer

Should Obama go to Hiroshima?

Edit Denver Post 17 Apr 2016
His statement in the museum guest book was a tribute to the moving nature of the memorial and worldwide yearning not only "to end the threat of nuclear weapons, but to rededicate all our effort to avoid war itself." ... President Harry Truman ordered bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an attempt to end a war that had consumed millions of lives ......

The Clone Roses: The Stone Roses Tribute

Edit Skiddle 17 Apr 2016
The Clone Roses. The Stone Roses Tribute on Sat 23rd April 2016. Alt-rock covers in tribute to the Manchester-formed, Ian ......

Tailwind pushed WW2 vintage Stearman into ditch, snarling Texas airport traffic

Edit World History Online 17 Apr 2016
The pilot, who was practicing for a charity competition, and his passenger, walked away unscathed from the accident ... Activity then resumed at this, the busiest privately owned general aviation airport in Texas ... In 1927, Lloyd Stearman founded Stearman Aircraft Corporation and created the airplane that would become the primary trainer for World War 2 Army and Navy pilots. Many of the heroes of the air war learned to fly in this trainer....

Honor Flight returns tonight

Edit WPTV 17 Apr 2016
A special group of people will be honored at the Palm Beach ... Eighty World War II veterans and two Korean was veterans went to Washington D.C....

Britain's spy chief apologizes for gay bias

Edit Star Tribune 17 Apr 2016
LONDON – The head of Britain’s digital espionage agency has apologized for the organization’s historic prejudice against homosexuals, saying it failed to learn from the treatment of World War II codebreaker Alan Turing ... ....

Syria conflict: Turkish ultra-nationalist suspected of killing Russian pilot may have ties to his country's ...

Edit The Independent 17 Apr 2016
The arrest of Alparsian Celik at a restaurant ... He is not a well known figure - but he is the man accused of a brutal act of violence in Syria’s civil war which has had widespread international repercussions....

Ted Cruz wins all 14 Wyoming Republican delegates

Edit Denver Post 17 Apr 2016
Cruz was the only candidate to address the convention crowd in Casper on Saturday, promising to end what he called President Barack Obama's "war on coal" if he's elected ... Trump still leads the overall delegate race....

Cruz wins all 14 Wyoming Republican delegates

Edit Denver Post 17 Apr 2016
Dennis Smyth accepts paper ballots from voters at the Laramie County Democratic Caucus held Saturday, April 9, 2016, in Cheyenne, Wyo. (Shawn Havel/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle via AP) ... Cruz was the only candidate to address the convention in Casper on Saturday, promising to end what he called President Barack Obama's "war on coal" if he's elected....
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