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World War II veteran, Chicago native honored at White Sox game

Edit Stars and Stripes 08 May 2016
CHICAGO (Tribune News Service) -- Leon Cooper can't forget those who didn't return from World War II. Cooper, 96, is a Chicago native who lives in Malibu, Calif., and an advocate for the repatriation of the remains of thousands of U.S ... He worked for the U.S ... The battle Cooper speaks of most is the Battle of Tarawa, which took place over three days in November 1943, on a tiny atoll about halfway between Hawaii and Australia ... Rep ...  . ....

Philippines' 'Duterte Harry': the would-be president accused of using death squads

Edit The Guardian 08 May 2016
Rodrigo Duterte is the frontrunner for the 9 May elections but his questionable record has the country concerned ... Underneath Rodrigo Duterte’s face is his slogan. “Change is coming.” ... Related ... Twitter ... Investment and tourism are up ... Related ... Related ... For example, the other four candidates, all of them measured politicians, have proposed detailed policies to deal with a territorial dispute with Beijing over atolls in the South China Sea ... ....

Tennis standout Culbertson makes history for Riviera Prep School

Edit The Miami Herald 08 May 2016
Senior Sara Culbertson posted a dominant 6-1, 6-1 victory in the No.1 singles finals of the 2016 FHSAA Class 1A State Tennis Championships in Orlando ... Antonio Longa singled ... Other team members who contributed were Christopher Garcia, Henry Souza, Sebastian Roa, Nicolas Roca, Daniel Mejia, Eric Labrador, Javier Fraga, Gabriel Abril, Carlos Vela, Michael Aparicio, Chris Avallone, Brandon Torricella and Basilio Garcia.Track & field....

Drought is a life-or-death situation for low-lying islands

Edit Grist 07 May 2016
From the vantage point of a boat bobbing on the deep blue waters of Majuro Lagoon, the encircling shores of the Pacific coral atoll are normally verdant with tropical vegetation ... Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean with a land area of about four square miles ... National Centers for Environmental Information, rattled off the rainfall record for Wotje, a hard-hit atoll to the north of Majuro....

Hoteliers sceptical of beef ruling

Edit The Times of India 07 May 2016
Aurangabad ... The court had also ruled that possession of beef slaughtered outside the state will not be a criminal offence ... Deputy commissioner of police (headquarters) Sandeep Atole said, "Of the six cases registered in the city limits since January this year, the suspects in a couple of them have been chargesheeted ... Atole said the future course of police action would be charted out after going through the court's judgment ... ....

2016 Olympic Draw Announced (USATH - USA Team Handball)

Edit Public Technologies 07 May 2016
Before the first match of the Aquece Rio Handball Men's Tournament, which serves as test event for the Olympic handball tournament, Per Bertelsen, Caretaker Chairman of the IHF Commission of Organizing and Competition, and former Brazil national player Zezé Sales drew the women's teams, while Bruno Souza, former player of Brazil's men's team, assisted the 1 Vice-President of the IHF, Miguel Roca Mas, with the draw of the men's teams....

Five islands in Solomons submerged: study

Edit Taipei Times 07 May 2016
Five islands have disappeared in the Solomon Islands due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion, according to an Australian study that scientists said yesterday could provide valuable insights for future research ... It is feared that the rise in sea levels would cause widespread erosion and inundation of low-lying atolls in the Pacific ... “This provides a bit of an insight into the future,” he said ... ....

Sea-level rise claims five islands in Solomons: study

Edit The Times of India 07 May 2016
Sydney, May 7, 2016 (AFP) -. Five islands have disappeared in the Pacific's Solomon Islands due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion, according to an Australian study that scientists said Saturday could provide valuable insights for future research ... It is feared that the rise in sea levels will cause widespread erosion and inundation of low-lying atolls in the Pacific ... "This provides a bit of an insight into the future," he said....

Climate Change

Edit Inquisitr 07 May 2016
Sirilo Sutaroti, 94, is a chief of the Paurata tribe in the Solomon Islands. He and his people recently had to abandon their village. “The sea has started to come inland, it forced us to move up to the hilltop and rebuild our village there away from the sea.” ... Many experts fear the rising seas will erode and swallow low-lying atolls in the Pacific, and now scientists have evidence to suggest their fears are warranted....

Joffrey remounts “Cinderella” as 60th anniversary dances on

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 07 May 2016
The origin story of the Joffrey Ballet is a classic. It all began on Oct ... (Photo. Cheryl Mann). JOFFREY BALLET IN ‘CINDERELLA’ ... Q ... “Cinderella” also gives so many dancers a chance to be seen and we have five different Cinderellas (Victoria Jaiani, Christine Rocas, April Daly, Amanda Assucena and Jeraldine Mendoza), and five Princes (Dylan Gutierrez, Temur Suluashvili, Miguel Angel Blanco, Yoshihisa Arai and Alberto Velazquez) ... ....

Agents of change

Edit Deccan Herald 07 May 2016
Inventions. Recently, a man who’d just recovered his misplaced cell phone told me, “Madam, it doesn’t matter if you lose your wife or kids. But if you lose your cell phone, you’re finished.” I knew just how he felt ... Not possible, we’d have said. Well, inventions have made these possible ... It was named after the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean where the US had recently conducted an atomic test ... ....

Ma urges peaceful resolution to Okinotori atoll dispute

Edit Taipei Times 06 May 2016
President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday reiterated during a meeting with a visiting Japanese politician that Taiwan hopes to seek international arbitration on the Okinotori atoll dispute. Ma told Japanese Legislator Nobuo Kishi that if Taiwan and Japan cannot solve their dispute over the atoll, the two sides should submit the dispute to international mediation and arbitration....

Ma

Edit Topix 06 May 2016
President Ma Ying-jeou said Friday that Taiwan would not back down on the current standoff with Japan on fishing rights in the open waters surrounding the Okinotori atoll, the area in which Japanese vessels seized a Taiwanese fishing boat and its captain late last month. Wearing a lapel bearing both the R.O.C ... ....
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