World - Part 43

Bangladesh’s Creeping Islamism
When Bangladesh became independent from Pakistan in 1971, secularism was one of the new country’s founding principles. It soon came under siege — first in the 1970s, under Ziaur Rahman, the founder of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (B.N.P.), who reh ...[Read more]
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Are The NY Times, Guardian, And WaPo Buying Clicks? China Jumps From Trickle To Half Of All Traffic In Two Months
Last week the Failing New York Times published an article crediting Donald Trump and the controversial election for "more subscribers in three months than all of 2015," claiming the addition of 276,000 new "digital-only" customers. The beleaguered publica ...[Read more]
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Can Bernie Sanders’ secret weapon save the Democrats?
As the Democratic Party struggles to regain its footing following its disastrous November election, one vestige of the 2016 campaign has taken on much importance: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' email list. Sanders, who raised $218 million online from a reco ...[Read more]
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Kremlin Confirms Accidental Russian Airstrike Kills Turkish Soldiers in Syria
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed to Sputnik that Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over an accidental Russian airstrike that had killed Turkish soldiers in Syria. Peskov said that Rus ...[Read more]
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Enjoying President Trump? Then Blame Democrats For Cheating Bernie Sanders
The “most” qualified Hillary Clinton, complete with FBI criminal investigations and abysmal favorability numbers would eventually lose to a reality show star. Republicans now own Congress and the White House, all because Democrats and liberal media pu ...[Read more]
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Air Force Caught Repainting Several Jets To Appear Russian
US Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley spoke last week to those "who oppose the United States",€ warning them they they would be "stopped and beaten €œharder" than have ever been beaten before. Moments later, he directly named Russia as an enemy of ...[Read more]
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Donald Trump: Lots of shouting, tiny stick
Hre we go again. General “Mad Dog” Mattis, the US Secretary of Defense, declares Iran “is the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.” National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn puts Iran “on notice.” President Trump says ...[Read more]
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Tens of thousands of Russians claim free land in Far East
48,000 requests have been received this week from Russian citizens responding to a state-backed program giving away a free hectare of land in the Far East. Over 48,000 requests have been received this week from Russian citizens responding to a state-backe ...[Read more]
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‘I didn’t think of Iraqis as humans,’ says U.S. soldier who raped 14-year-old girl before killing her and her family
Steven Green, a former 101st Airborne soldier, is challenging the constitutionality of his conviction, claimed that his crimes were fuelled in part by experiences in Iraq's violent 'Triangle of Death'. Prosecutors sought a death sentence, but a federal ju ...[Read more]
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“You think our country is so innocent?”€™€“ Trump asks after O’Reilly calls Putin “€˜a killer€”
The US is not as innocent as it may seem, according to President Donald Trump. When Fox News host Bill O’Reilly called Vladimir Putin “a killer,” Trump responded: “We’ve got a lot of killers.” In an interview to be aired ahead of the Super Bow ...[Read more]
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US deploys guided missile destroyer off Yemeni coast after attack on Saudi warship
The US has deployed an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer off the coast of Yemen, according to media reports. The battleship will protect US interests in the region following an attack on a Saudi military vessel which killed two sailors. The USS Cole, which wa ...[Read more]
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