World - Part 28

This 15-year-old Florida shooting survivor was shot 5 times while saving 20 of his classmates — and now his family is trying to raise $1 million for his hospital bills
Anthony Borges saved 20 other students during the Parkland shooting, and was shot five times but survived. Now people are raising funds for his hospital bills. ...[Read more]
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UK Authorities Unable To Prove Novichok Nerve Agent Was Made In Russia
"We were able to identify it as novichok, to identify that it was military-grade nerve agent," Aitkenhead said. "We have not identified the precise source, but we have provided the scientific info to government who have then used a number of other sources ...[Read more]
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Why countries should watch out for Turkey snatching citizens abroad
As the alleged deportations began to look increasingly like outright abductions, they have become a real-time example of the threat posed by Ankara’s flagrant disregard for international norms. Countries that host Turkish citizens all over the world sho ...[Read more]
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US visa applications may soon require five years of social media info
The State Department wants to require all US visa applicants, both immigrant and non, disclose their social media handles to the US government, CNN reports. In documents that the department will file to the Federal Register tomorrow, it proposes that near ...[Read more]
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How The Loss Of U.S. Psychiatric Hospitals Led To A Mental Health Crisis
The evaporation of long-term psychiatric facilities in the U.S. has escalated over the past decade, sparked by a trend toward deinstitutionalization of mental health patients in the 1950s and '60s. ...[Read more]
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Israel: PM Netanyahu Rushed to Hospital
The prime minister is facing multiple corruption allegations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed to hospital Tuesday, Israeli media reported. Netanyahu was suffering from a fever and coughing, several media reports said. Netanyahu's offi ...[Read more]
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‘Affluenza’ teen, who blamed four killings on his wealth, to be freed
Ethan Couch, the rich teen who killed four people when he drunkenly ploughed into them, only it to be blamed on “affluenza” - a imaginary illness that makes wealthy people unable to tell right from wrong - is to be released.... ...[Read more]
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London police fed intel to construction cartel to build illegal blacklist of labour organisers
It's been six years since investigative journalists published their expose accusing London's Metropolitan Police of colluding with the UK's construction cartel to blacklist workers who complained about unsafe working conditions, abusive bosses and wage-th ...[Read more]
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How UK’s May tried to start a Cold War
The week that has just ended was exceptionally rich in events. But no media were able to report it, because they had all deliberately masked certain of their number in order to protect the story that was being woven by their government. London had attempt ...[Read more]
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1.7 million viewers tuned into Bernie Sanders Inequality Town Hall webcast
ack in January, a million people tuned in to Bernie Sanders' town hall on universal health-care; yesterday, 1.7 million people tuned in to watch Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Michael Moore, and a panel of experts discuss inequality. It was 90 minutes of w ...[Read more]
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Why we don’t respect the West anymore
Essentially, the West should be horrified not because 76% of Russians voted for Putin, but because this elections have demonstrated that 95% of Russia’s population supports conservative-patriotic, communist and nationalist ideas. That means that liberal ...[Read more]
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