South Korea has a secret plan to "annihilate" Pyongyang if the North Korean regime shows any sign of mounting a nuclear attack, the country's largest news agency has reported....
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WASHINGTON. The 9/11 attacks of 2001 forever changed America and upended its foreign and national security policy, leaving the country for the past 15 years in a war against jihadists, without ending the upheaval in the Middle East...Bush in the wake of the suicide plane strikes that killed nearly 3,000 people. But Obama's legacy on that front is mixed, with US forces still present in both countries ... RELATED. From around the web....
Airstrikes killed 58 people in northwestern Syria on Saturday, hours after the US and Russia announced a new ceasefire plan, a rights group said. The attack targeted a market in the rebel-held city of Idlib, according to the monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...U.S ... ....
Tensions flare between the CIA and the Senate in the fight to release the report on torture – leading the agency to spy on its own legislative overseers. by Spencer Ackerman in Washington. Tensions flare between the CIA and the Senate in the fight to release the report on torture – leading the agency to spy on its own legislative overseers. by Spencer Ackerman in Washington ... One man's fight to reveal. the CIA's torture secrets ... "> ... "> ... Next....
The woman who was kissed by an ecstatic sailor in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died at the age of 92. Greta Zimmer Friedman's son says his mother died Thursday at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia. She died from complications of old age, he said. Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant in a nurse's uniform on Aug. 14, 1945, known as V-J Day, the day the Japanese surrendered ...Misha Friedman. ....
Stories of valour and divinity unravelled through shadows on the translucent screen, illuminated by oil wick lamps from behind. Through puppets, the artistes presented action-packed scenes that synchronised to the beats of chenda and ilathalam ... "The Bhagavathy was unable to watch the Rama-Ravana war as she was fighting the demon Darika and and hence it was staged as Tholppavakoothu for her ... Click here to download it for your device....
As Keralites gear up to celebrate Onam, RSS has triggered a controversy by questioning the legend behind the festival, arguing that it marks the celebration of birth of 'Vamana' (incarnation of Lord Vishnu) and not the homecoming of demon king Mahabali ... The write-up claimed that Lord Vishnu had actually "blessed" the demon king and not "punished" him by pushing into 'pathala' (netherworld)....
As Keralites gear up to celebrate Onam, RSS has triggered a controversy by questioning the legend behind the festival, arguing that it marks the celebration of birth of 'Vamana' (incarnation of Lord Vishnu) and not the homecoming of demon king Mahabali ... The write-up claimed that Lord Vishnu had actually "blessed" the demon king and not "punished" him by pushing into 'pathala' (netherworld)....
The act commemorates ProphetAbraham’s submission to divine order to sacrifice his son, Ismail. Just before sacrificing his son, God provided Prophet Abraham with a ram to sacrifice instead after he successfully passed the divine test ... ....
The Demon Deacons (2-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) entered just 4-20 in league games during the last three years but outrushed Duke 239-37 ... THE TAKEAWAY. Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons not only earned their first win over Duke since 2011, they might have found their quarterback in Hinton ... Duke ... UP NEXT ... The Demon Deacons will look for its first 3-0 start since 2008 when it plays host to Delaware of the Championship Subdivision. Duke....
"I can get someone live in 12 weeks, trained and ready to start styling - everything it's taken me 11 years to do," says Kelly Lundberg, the chief executive and founder of the Dubai fashion styling firm Style Me Divine, who is now franchising her business internationally. Ms Lundberg, a former air hostess, set up Style Me Divine in 2005....
Two plays later, Hinton found Cortez Lewis down the sideline for 37 more yards, moving the Demon Deacons (2-0, 1-0) from their own 15 to the Duke 15 in four plays ... Hinton was the quarterback that ended up doing most of the damage for Wake Forest, accounting for 196 of the Demon Deacons’ 389 yards on the day....
DURHAM — Cade Carney isn’t the fastest or shiftiest runner in the ACC, and Wake Forest isn’t the flashiest team. But the Demon Deacons found a way to beat Duke... ....