‘Justice may be delayed, but will not be denied,’ Security Council told at debate on ... United Nations 2 June 2016 – | At a Security Council debate today on sexual violence in conflict, senior United Nations officials stressed that in the past decade, the world has witnessed a fundamental shift in the way the issue is understood and addressed as a peace and security concern. | “Over the past de...
Across Europe, distrust of mainstream political parties is on the rise The Guardian The far right is gaining support in some corners of Europe, but more marked is the rejection by voters of the political establishment | The narrow defeat – by just 0.6 percentage points – of the nationalist Freedom party’s Norbert Hofer in this week’s Austrian presidential elections has focu...
Building a human genome from scratch: breakthrough or danger? Penn Live Imagine being able to create a human from scratch. | Scientists could develop genes that are resistant to disease. New drugs could be tested without damaging side effects. Organs could be grown, freeing hundreds from the lengthy waiting fo...
Some Experts Say It's Time to Pull the Plug on Rio Olympics Newsweek In August, Rio de Janeiro will host roughly 10,000 Olympic athletes and more than a million spectators, including 500,000 from abroad. A significant number of them will become infected with Zika. The question is: How serious will the consequences be?...
President Mahama attends service to mark nation's worst disaster Modern Ghana By GNA | By George-Ramsey Benamba, GNA | Accra, June 3, GNA - President John Dramani Mahama, on Friday, joined hundreds of mourners at the Ernest Bruce Methodist Memorial Church to commemorate First Anniversary of the fire and flood disaster at the K...
TV review: Cinemax drama 'Outcast' shifts apocalypse from zombies to demons The Miami Herald Isn't it always the way? Just when some of us felt ready for the zombie apocalypse - mountain cabin near lake, water purification system, flame throwers - turns out we've been prepping for the wrong apocalypse. | Zombies out, demons in. | Well, not o...
California doctors uneasy about prescribing lethal drugs Atlanta Journal Terry Petrovich asked her oncologist point blank: "Am I going to count on you to help me achieve a good death?" | To her relief, he told her he would have no problem prescribing a lethal dose of drugs under California's new law allowing such prescrip...
Man who firebombed rabbi's house tops Week in Crime NJ dot com An Ocean County couple allegedly broke into home and sold stolen items on Craigslist | A North Jersey man who firebombed a rabbi's home was convicted of terrorism. A South Jersey man is headed to prison for falsely accusing police of sexually assault...
Chris Petit’s The Psalm Killer – a psychopath in sectarian Ireland The Guardian Petit’s fictional account of the Troubles was not only a perfectly judged slice of nerve-shredding noir, says Alan Moore, it was also a political investigation into a dark period of recent history | In film and writing, noir – not a colour but a ...
The Nice Guys - The Measure of a Man - Versus: The Life and Films ... Huffington Post Shane Black's 'The Nice Guys' is a zany, free-for-all, private eye odd couple, crazy comedy caper with great one-liners - 'The Measure of a Man,' a low key, powerful and compelling social drama won Vincent Lindon the Best Actor Award at the 2015 Cann...
Int'l community condemns Mogadishu hotel bombing as death toll rises to 16 Xinhua by HASHI AND ABDI | MOGADISHU, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The international community has roundly condemned the deadly attack on Wednesday carried out by Al-Shabaab militants on the Ambassador Hotel, Mogadishu as death toll rose to 16. | In separate statemen...
'Armenian genocide' vote: Turkey warns Germany Al Jazeera Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said bilateral relations between Germany and Turkey will be "seriously affected", after the German parliament labelled as "genocide" the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman Empire. | Erdogan, speaking during a visit to Kenya on Thursday, said, as a first step, Turkey was calling its ambassador to Berlin ...
85% of Facebook Videos Are Watched On Silent WorldNews.com | Facebook currently uses a sound system that doesn't automatically require a user to turn on the volume and currently 85% of those viewers don't watch videos with their sound on, according to Breitbart who reported the findings of researchers. | Two popular news websites, Mic and LittleThings, both average similar to 150 million monthly views on t...
