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CHESAPEAKE BAY (Oct. 5, 2016) Sailors haul down the American flag aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19) at sunset while the ship loads food, first aid, and medical supplies.

Record Number Of People Renounce US Citizenship

Figures for 2016 show a record number of people renounced their U.S. citizenship. The main reason for many of the 5,411 people who decided to give up their citizen status was to avoid paying tax in the country, The Huffington Post reported. The election of President Donald Trump may have had some

The Smithsonian National Zoo's Giant Panda Mei Xiang, mother of panda youngster Bao Bao who was born Aug. 23, 2013, sleeps in the indoor habitat at the zoo in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015.

China preparing for return of U.S. born panda

Giant panda Bao Bao eats sugar cane in the yard in the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington. Panda breeders in Southwest China's Sichuan province are preparing for the return of

Demonstrators chant outside Tom Bradley International Terminal during a protest by airport service workers from United Service Workers West union Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at Los Angeles International Airport.

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Donald Trump considers issuing new travel ban

The US president tells reporters on Air Force One that a "brand new order" may be issued next week. ...

Experts check the location where an unexploded World War II bomb was found 5 meters (over 16 feet) deep, at a gas station in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2016

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Thessaloniki starts evacuating 70 000 over WWII bomb

Authorities in Thessaloniki have begun evacuating about 70 000 residents ahead of an operation to defuse a 250kg unexploded World War II bomb. ...

Westminster College diversity in student body with their countries flags, Fulton, Missouri, USA.

Report: 'New Global Order' Will Shake Up The West

A new report showed that the economies of Egypt and Pakistan could surpass Canada by 2050. The findings, which were summarized in a report conducted by management consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers, showed that such emerging economies as

Interior of 11 November stadium in Luanda, Angola, with Tribunes and running track

Soccer stampede in Angola claims 17

At least 17 people died in a stampede at a stadium in northern Angola on Friday, police said, adding that scores of spectators were injured, many of them seriously. Panic spread through the crowd at the match in the town of Uige between Santa Rita de Cassia and Recreativo de Libolo in Angola’s domestic league season. “There was a blockage at the entrance to the

File - A police van parks as refugees queue outside a refugees center in Paris, France, Friday Aug.5, 2016.

'Get out of France': Paris police tear gassing refugees and stealing blankets in freezing conditions, report reveals

Refugees sleeping on the streets in freezing conditions in Paris are having their

Alexis Tsipras Prime Minister of Greece on the right, and Jean-Claude Juncker, President of EC meet in Brussels for the European Council

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Greece won't accept "illogical" demands from lenders, PM says

Greece's prolonged bailout review will be completed positively, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said today, but he added Athens will not accept "illogical" demands from lenders. Speaking to his leftist Syriza party, Tsipras said the review would be completed "without concessions

File - Apple CEO Tim Cook giving the keynote address at the Apple 2012 World Wide Developers Conference.

Apple's Tim Cook: Fake news is 'killing people's minds'

LONDON (AP) " Apple chief executive Tim Cook says fake news is "killing minds," and governments and tech firms must act to stop it.Cook told the Daily Telegraph newspaper that falsehoods are being spread by people who want "to get the most clicks, not tell the most truth. It's killing people's minds in a way."Tech companies have been criticized for doing too little to weed out

In this Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump sits at his desk after a meeting with Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, left, and members of his staff in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Donald Trump just lost, bigly

President Trump has been on an 18-month winning streak. That streak ended Thursday night when a federal appeals court upheld a lower-court ruling lifting Trump's travel ban on refugees and all visitors from seven predominantly Muslim states. “The Government has taken the position that the President’s decisions about immigration policy, particularly when motivated by national

Iranians attend an annual rally commemorating the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, which toppled the late pro-U.S. Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017.

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Iranians pour onto streets to mark 1979 revolution

Traditional celebration of US-backed Shah's toppling comes after Donald Trump sparked war of words with Tehran . ...

A young Syrian child evacuated from the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo during the ceasefire arrives at a refugee camp in Rashidin, near Idlib, Syria, early Monday, Dec. 19, 2016.

Britain Has Sullied Its Proud History of Helping Child Refugees

A statue of five young children, gathered around their suitcases and looking a little lost, sits outside London’s Liverpool Street Station. It’s a gift to the people of Britain on behalf of the children of Kindertransport, the rescue effort that brought 10,000 refugee children, mostly Jewish, to the United Kingdom during World War II. Expand A statue in front of London’s

Nana Akufo-Addo, opposition presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party during a press conference on election in his compound in Accra Ghana

Ghana: More than '200 State Cars Missing', ...President Akufo-Addo to Use his Personal Vehicles!

Over two 208 vehicles are said to be missing from the presidential fleet at the Flagstaff House, a situation which has compelled President Akufo-Addo to use his personal vehicles for some of his official duties, especially during his inter-city trips. Even the account of vehicles bequeathed to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration by the Mahama-led National Democratic

Native Americans from left, Eugene Sanchez, Jason Umtuch, Martan Mendenhall, and Hugh Ahnatock, all of Portland, Ore., drum and sing at the Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016.

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Since reality first exists in the mind and nowhere else, in the Age of Trump and Liberal Fascism some warn it’s become more difficult to tell who the real Brownshirts are. But one thing is sure, since Donald Trump was sworn in as the new President of the United States, not only have Trump supporters been attacked and beaten by

File - A man takes photos of the damage caused by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016. Yemeni security and medical officials say at least 45 people have been killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike that targeted a funeral hall in the capital, Sanaa.

Boris Johnson urged UK to continue Saudi arms sales after funeral bombing

Boris Johnson pressed Liam Fox to continue exporting weapons to Saudi Arabia after the bombing of a funeral in Yemen last October that killed over 140 people and was condemned by UN monitors.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the President of Uruguay, Tabare Vazquez Rosas, left, talk during a joint press conference as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017.

Merkel to testify before German parliament panel probing NSA

BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to testify before a German parliamentary panel investigating U.S. intelligence activities in the country. The

An Iraqi security forces soldier practices a prone shooting position at Besmaya Range Complex, Iraq, Feb. 1, 2017.

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ISIS' enemies line up to take Raqqa, but when -- and how?

(CNN)The "caliphate" declared by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) will lose its last two cities of any consequence -- Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria -- within months, according to the senior U.S. general in the region. Speaking on a tour north of Baghdad this week, Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force, said the next phase of the

In this file photo taken Tuesday, July 15, 2014 with a mobile phone through a car windshield, a fighter with the Islamic State group takes control of a traffic intersection in central Mosul, Iraq. Iraq’s government is setting its sight on Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city that has been under IS control since June 2014, as its next major target in the fight against IS. The assault is likely months away, but fierce fighting has already been raging as Iraqi forces try to clear the militants from villages and towns south of the city

ISIS Reportedly Loves Donald Trump's Travel Ban

President Trump's controversial executive order which banned refugees worldwide and visitors from seven Muslim-majority nations, has been praised by ISIS as “the Blessed Ban." As New York Times correspondent Rukmini Callimachi notes, the reaction of ISIS is similar to Al Qaeda's reference to the 2003 invasion of Iraq as

Trump and Japan's Abe share high-five on Florida golf course

Bhutan PM wants world to prioritse people's happiness

Theresa May faces public backlash over hard Brexit, poll finds