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2016-08-27
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'British' boy in Islamic State group execution video

The Islamic State group has released footage showing five boys, including one it identifies as British, carrying out the killing of prisoners in Syria. The children appear to be

Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

US, Russia move closer to new Syria cease-fire after talks

Washington and Moscow made key steps towards agreeing a new cease-fire in Syria, but a final deal has not been reached, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart said after talks Friday. ...

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Spring Storms Seen Cutting French Wine Production By 10 Percent This Year

Fierce storms that hit France in April will help to push wine production down by more than 10 percent this year, the ministry of agriculture has said, according to The Guardian. Unseasonably cool weather through the spring and into the summer will drag overall production down to 42.9 million hectolitres (940 million gallons) from 47.8 million a year ago, the ministry’s

Standing in front of an Orion mock-up in the Johnson Space Center's Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility, the eight-member 2013 class of NASA astronaut candidates, poses for a group portrait during a special media-day event on Aug. 20, 2013

NASA Finalizing Splashdown Tests For Sending Humans to Mars

NASA announced that their second to last splashdown test for the Orion spacecraft that will hopefully one day send humans to Mars according to ABC News. The Langley facility tested the spacecraft using a pendulum and explosives to launch the 11-foot test capsule into a pool of water at about 25 mph before it bounced bouyantly against the safety netting."A capsule hitting the

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Russian Parliament Member's Son Convicted Of Hacking Scheme in US

The son of Valery Seleznev, a member of the Russian Parliament, Roman Seleznev but who goes by the name "Track2" was convicted on U.S. charges saying he schemed to hack into businesses in order to steal and sell credit card numbers, according to Reuters. A federal jury convicted on 38 of 40 counts including wire fraud and intentional damage to a protected computer on top of

Police officers stand by the gates as protesters stage a die-in to dramatize the rising number of extra judicial killings related to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's "War on Drugs" Friday, Aug. 26, 2016 outside the Philippine National Police headquarters in suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines.

2016-08-26
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The woman who kills drug dealers

The BBC's Jonathan Head explores the Philippines' dark underbelly of police raids, dealers and assassins through the story of one woman trapped in a chilling predicament. ...

Elephant Tranquilizer Tainted Heroin Causes Dozens of Overdoses in Ohio

Dozens have been sent to the hospital and the morgue due to tainted heroin that was mixed with the powerful opioid carfentanil according to CBS News. A medical examiner has issued a public warning about the drug being laced into heroin, which is usually not even prescribed for humans but to tranquilize large animals like elephants. Authorities say that over 30 have died from

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking at the Brown & Black Présidentialisme Forum at Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, 11 January 2016.

Hillary Clinton is Spreading Islamist Extremism

If the West in general, and the United States in particular, left the Arab and Muslim world alone and in peace, we would most likely never see all those terrorist attacks, which are rocking the world from Indonesia to France. There would be no Mujahedeen and its mutation into al-Qaida; in Afghanistan or elsewhere. There would be no traces of the ISIS (or ISIL or I.S. or Daesh

Explosion Rocks Sports Center in Belgium

A blast has destroyed half a sports center in Chimay, Belgium on Thursday night according to The Guardian. At least one person has died and four have been injured from preliminary reports from the scene at the complex known as Le Chalon in Chimay.“It is probably a gas explosion,” an official at the country’s Crisis Centre. There was only a small amount of people in the people

Bolivian Deputy Interior Minister Reportedly Killed by Striking Miners

Rodolfo Illanes was beaten to death by mineworkers after being kidnapped reports by local media said after a radio station director reported the death according to Reuters. "We have been able to see close up that vice-minister Illanes was dead. Colleagues told us that he had died of a beating," Moises Flores, the director of a mining radio station, told local radio. However,

2016-08-26
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Under-18 terror detainments triple in two years

The number of under-18s detained under the Terrorism Act when entering or leaving the UK has more than tripled over two years, new figures suggest. Forty-six were detained in 2015, compared with 13 in 2013, with the youngest aged only 13. Attempts to prevent young people travelling to Syria could be a factor in the rise, said independent terror legislation reviewer David

This undated image posted online on July. 18, 2016, by supporters of the Islamic State militant group on an anonymous photo sharing website, shows Islamic State fighters fire their weapons during clashes with the Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces in Manbij, in Aleppo province, Syria.

Turkey shells Kurdish fighters in Syria after warning

KARKAMIS: Turkey shelled Kurdish militia fighters in Syria on the second day of a major military operation inside the country, saying they were failing to observe a deal with the US to stop advancing in jihadist-held territory. Turkey sent a fresh contingent of tanks Thursday into Syrian territory, a day after a lighting offensive by hundreds of Syrian rebel fighters -- backed

The guided missile destroyer USS Benfold arrives in port in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong Province, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016.

US Navy ship fires warning shots at Iranian vessel

Tensions have increased in the Gulf in recent days despite an improvement in relations between Iran & US. ...

Blatter fights FIFA ban in marathon final appeal

LAUSANNE: Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter fought to overturn his ban from football in a marathon, 14-hour appeal hearing, in a long-shot bid at redemption after his career ended in disgrace. Blatter mounted his defence against the six-year FIFA suspension imposed over ethics violations at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which typically has the final word in major

File - A Somali soldier walks near the wreckage of a car used in a suicide car bomb attack outside the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, July 31, 2016.

2016-08-26
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Somali Forces End Deadly Restaurant Siege

Somali security forces say they have ended a deadly siege of a beach-front restaurant in the capital, with at least seven people killed in the attack along with two assailants, a police official said Friday. Mogadishu's police chief, Colonel Bishar, said the attack ended just before dawn Friday morning. “The security forces have

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with, clockwise from top, Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, United Kingdom Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs Tobias Ellwood, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed, and United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Ismaïl Ould Cheikh Ahmed on August 25, 2016, in the Royal Terminal 1 at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia at the outset of a five-way meeting focused on Yemen.

2016-08-26
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Why US, Britain are key to ending Yemen horror

(CNN)US Secretary of State John Kerry was in the Saudi city of Jeddah this week, with Yemen's brutal civil war high on the agenda as he met officials from Britain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Yemen's warring parties are in the midst of a bloody stalemate: The Zaydi Shia-led Houthi rebels who along with military loyalists of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh have controlled

Czech tourist Pavlina Pizova attends a press conference at a police station in Queenstown, New Zealand

2016-08-26
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Tourist describes death, harrowing month in New Zealand bush

Czech tourist Pavlina Pizova has described the death of her partner and the month she spent in the New Zealand wilderness after the couple set out on an ill-fated hike ...

2016-08-26
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Obama Plans to Create World's Largest Marine Protected Area

The White House says that President Barack Obama will expand a national monument off the coast of Hawaii, creating the world's largest marine protected area. Obama's proclamation will quadruple in size a monument originally created by President George W. Bush in 2006. The Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument will contain some 1.5 million square kilometers, more

Car bomb attack in Turkey kills 8 police; 45 wounded

Turkey's state-run news agency says at least eight police officers have been killed in a car-bomb attack targeting a checkpoint in southeast Turkey. ...

Silver medal Ethiopia's Feyisa Lilesa, crosses his arms as he celebrates on the podium after the men's marathon at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.

2016-08-26
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Endurance test for Ethiopia's Olympic protester Feyisa Lilesa

When Ethiopian marathon runner Feyisa Lilesa crossed the line to take a silver medal in Rio, it should have been the defining moment of his career. His previous best moment had come when winning bronze at the 2011 World Athletics Championships in South Korea. In Brazil on Sunday, he became the first Ethiopian to finish in the top two of a men's Olympics marathon since 2000. But

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Navy Gets $2.7B Attack Submarine Sponsored by Michelle Obama

North Korea threatens to fire on Demilitarised Zone after 'provocation' by South Korean and US troops

More Airstrikes in Syria, One Day After Lengthy US-Russia Talks

Maine Governor Paul LePage criticised for 'racist' remarks

Vatican says it has high hopes of better ties with China

Trump: African-Americans will vote for me after Dwyane Wade's cousin killed in shooting

Micronesia: Couple rescued from desert island after SOS spotted in sand