In a stunning revelation, 71 percent of likely voters who identified themselves as Democrats told the Rasmussen survey, published today, that they believe Hillary Rodham Clinton should continue running for the presidency if she is indicted in connection with the use of a private e-mail server while Secretary of State. Today’s Seattle Times fact-checks some of her statements regarding the e-mail scandal ... ....
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingMany Americans are still disappointed over the debate that should have been between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Indeed, feathers flew over the weekend as some called the presumptive Republican presidential candidate a “chicken” and “coward” for making excuses to back out ... Sanders, for his part, immediately responded with “Game On.” ... Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) ... more democratic ... ....
Backlash over the killing of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo has fanned social media anger against the mother of the tot who slipped into a restricted area where he was in danger of being mauled. At the same time, witnesses of the incident are trying to put things in perspective and calm passions against the mother’s “negligence” or the zoo’s decision that led to the shooting of a rare gorilla....
Istanbul. A Turkish court on Tuesday found a former Miss Turkey beauty queen guilty of insulting PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan on social media, handing her a suspended sentence of over one year in jail. The Istanbul court sentenced model Merve Buyuksarac, 27, to one year and two months in prison for "publicly insulting" Erdogan in a satirical poem she posted on her Instagram account, the Dogan news agency reported ... ....
Details are emerging of the horrifying conditions faced by civilians trapped inside the Iraqi city of Falluja and the extreme risks they are taking to escape. One man said a bag of flour in the city - which was taken over by so-called Islamic State (IS) militants in January 2014 - now cost $850. One family reportedly lived off grass during a four-day escape bid ... "Food and medicines are in extremely short supply in the city ... ....
(Source. Fitch Inc). 31 May 2016 10.51 AM EST. Fitch Ratings-London-31 May 2016. US corporates are jostling with their European counterparts to issue cheap euro-denominated bonds and increasingly citing buybacks as a use of proceeds ... Eurobonds issued or announced by US companies amounted to EUR32bn in the year to end-May - just over half the 2015 record total ... Contacts. ... Director ... Athos Larkou, London, Tel ... athos.larkou@fitchratings.com....
(Source. Fitch Inc). 31 May 2016 7.58 AM EST. Fitch Ratings-London-31 May 2016. Fitch Ratings has affirmed Nemus II (Arden) plc's commercial mortgage backed securities due 2020 as follows.. GBP136m Class A (XS0278300487) affirmed at 'AAsf'; OutlookNegative. GBP11.3m Class B (XS0278300560) affirmed at 'Asf'; Outlook revised to Stable from Negative ...KEY RATING DRIVERS ... DATA ADEQUACY ... Athos Larkou, London, Tel ... athos.larkou@fitchratings.com....
(Source. Fitch Inc). 31 May 2016 6.01 AM EST. Fitch Ratings-London-31 May 2016. Fitch Ratings has upgraded Auburn Securities 9 plc (Auburn 9) and RESIMAC UK RMBSNo.1 plc's (RESIMAC) class B notes and affirmed the other notes. A full list of rating actions is at the end of this rating action commentary ...KEY RATING DRIVERS. Pre-crisis BTL Loans ... 0.46% and RESIMAC ... Unhedged BasisRisk ... Athos Larkou, London, Tel ... athos.larkou@fitchratings.com....
(Source. Fitch Inc). 30 May 2016 8.09 PM EST. Fitch Ratings-London-30 May 2016. Fitch Ratings has taken multiple rating actions on Sunrise S.r.l. 2012 following a restructuring follows.. EUR1,343.1m Class A, due June 2037. affirmed at 'AA+sf'; OutlookStable. EUR158.5m Class M, due June 2037. assigned 'A+sf'; Outlook Stable. EUR364.0m Class J, due June 2037. not rated ...KEY RATING DRIVERS ... Athos Larkou, London, Tel ... athos.larkou@fitchratings.com....
Panteleimon Monastery on Athos'. On May 28, 2016, PresidentVladimir Putin visited Holy MountAthos... Upon his arrival on Athos, President Putin visited Karyes, administrative center of Athos, in which the Athonite conciliar authorities including the Holy Kinot (Protatis) are located ... Praying together with him were Father Paul, proto-epistatis of MountAthos, and Athonite monks ... I am happy to visit Holy Mount Athos again....
Share the post 'Patriarch Kirill consecrates a church and celebrates at Old Roussik monastery on Athos'. On May 28, 2016, His HolinessKirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, who is on a pilgrimage to Holy MountAthos, visited the Old Roussik hermitage, the second monastery after Xilourgu to be founded by Russian monks on Athos... The Old Roussik or Upland Roussik hermitage is the second Russian cloister to be founded on Athos....
"This question is closed forever," the Russian leader said. There was no immediate U.S. response to the comments by Putin, who remained in Greece Saturday, touring MountAthos, one of Orthodox Christianity's holiest sites ... Although the U.S ... Putin's visit to Mount Athos Saturday is part of events celebrating 1,000 years of Russian presence there. About 70 Russian, Ukrainian and other Orthodox monks live at the Mount Athos monastery ... ....