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In a first, anti-IS flags make debut in Kashmir

Edit DNA India 24 Apr 2016
A banner, showing an IS commander wearing a bushy beard with the outfit's black flag with Kalima (the first basic fundamental of Islam) in the backdrop, was waved by the small group of youth after they scaled a small wall ... The banners were put up in the area which is notorious for waving IS, Pakistan and other flags, mostly after the Friday prayers ... "These IS flags were shown by certain anti-Kashmir elements....

NFL teams weigh risks vs. rewards for players with red flags

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 24 Apr 2016
rewards for players with red flags There are a lot of talented defensive players with serious question marks in this year’s NFL draft, and many will have a red mark — teams don’t actually wave a flag — on draft boards next weekend ... teams might overlook the strange pet idea if they haven’t red-flagged Nkemdiche by now....

Michelle Obama urges grads to vote to protect civil rights

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 24 Apr 2016
JACKSON, Miss ... "Congress will still be gridlocked ... She also noted that in 1962, the stadium was the site of "what was essentially a pro-Jim Crow rally" with University of Mississippi fans waving Confederate flags and singing a song called, "Never, No Never" to protest the admission of the university's first black student ... She and President Barack Obama socialized with members of the British royal family Friday in London ... "Hey, y'all ... ....

Man's Pictures Of Hearse In Fast Food Parking Lot Sparks Outrage (Photos)

Edit Opposing Views 24 Apr 2016
A Virginia man was outraged after spotting a hearse with an American flag-draped coffin parked outside of a fast food restaurant. David Disch told WTKR he was in line at the drive-thru of a Hardee’s Saturday morning when he saw a hearse drive by ... “After I got my food I went around behind it to confirm what I had seen, a flag-draped coffin inside,” Disch said ... Photo Credit....

British Cycling under the spotlight after Jess Varnish allegations

Edit The Observer 24 Apr 2016
Since taking over from Sir Dave Brailsford in April 2014, the mantra of Shane Sutton, British Cycling’s technical director, has been for his riders and staff to be ready for Rio ... British Cycling under the spotlight after Jess Varnish allegations ... The bigger question that needs to be asked is whether British Cycling has a specific problem with women ... David James has three daughters on different British Cycling programmes....

Gurugram plan a misdirected govt move from history to myth

Edit The Times of India 24 Apr 2016
Two other neighboring villages had significant British presence. Hiyadatpur housed a cantonment for British cavalry; and Bharawas, the public offices of British civil officers and a regiment. In 1836, after Begum Samru's death, the pargana passed into the British hands. The British civil officers were shifted to a new colony, Jacobpura, established near Gurgaon to house their residential quarters and offices....

Europeans watch our referendum debate with fascination and fear

Edit The Observer 24 Apr 2016
When David Cameron first promised a referendum on British membership of the EU if he were re-elected as prime minister, the idea baffled most Germans. They could not believe that the British could be contemplating leaving the EU ... They worry that a British vote to leave on 23 June would strengthen the “centrifugal forces” within the EU and prompt ......

Aung San Suu Kyi must stand up for embattled minorities

Edit The Observer 24 Apr 2016
Bob Ward ...   ... In the 1960s and 1970s, ethnic minorities were quite content to organise themselves on the basis of their national origin such as British-Indians, British-Pakistanis etc. It was multiculturalism that placed religion at the centre of their identity, thereby turning them into British-Hindus, British-Sikhs and British-Muslims and unwittingly encouraging them to celebrate what follows rather than what precedes the hyphen....

Adding heft to diplomacy, India to send flotilla of warships to Persian Gulf

Edit The Times of India 24 Apr 2016
While defence minister Manohar Parrikar is slated to visit Oman in May, IAF's Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jets and IL-78 mid-air refuelling aircraft will also touch down in UAE for an exercise while returning from the Red Flag exercise at the Eielson airbase in Alaska (US) being held from April 28 to May 13....

Little ‘white power,’ but Stone Mountain counter-protest turns violent

Edit Atlanta Journal 24 Apr 2016
... prompting worried officials to close popular park attractions, about two-dozen white power demonstrators were left waving flags behind barricades in a remote parking lot, ringed by police in riot gear....

Islamic State Says They’re Holding Pilot of Crashed Syrian Warplane

Edit Breitbart 24 Apr 2016
Citing a Syrian military source, Russian news agency Interfax said the plane belonged to the Syrian Air Force and crashed because of a technical fault ... The footage showed Islamic State fighters around burning plane wreckage, part of which had a Syrian flag painted on it....

It was once Britain’s motor city. Now Coventry’s wheels are turning again

Edit The Observer 24 Apr 2016
The first ever British car was built in Coventry nearly 120 years ago ... After the first British car was built by Daimler in 1897, Coventry’s manufacturing industry grew until it reached a peak in the 1950s and 60s ... the British Motor Corporation (maker of the Mini), Jaguar and Rootes Group, which later became part of Chrysler and then Peugeot....

Much ado about Shakespeare, live, filmed, streamed on 400 year anniversary

Edit The Examiner 24 Apr 2016
On April 23, the British Royal Ballet is celebrating as well with a live-streamed event about opera and ballet adaptations of Shakespeare's work ... Lives, a dynamic, ongoing, six-month online festival available to audiences in the UK and across the globe provided by the BBC and the British Council that also includes a film tour....
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