World - Part 49
Ukrainian helicopter gunships shot at a Ukrainian military checkpoint in Donetsk Region in the aftermath of a night battle, a video presumably shot by one of the soldiers indicates. Apparently, Kiev's troops suffer from gross lack of communications. ...[Read more]
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A Nazi salute may – or may not – land you in jail in Switzerland. Apparently, you are safe if you manage to prove that it was intended as a personal statement and not a marker of political affiliation, the country’s highest court has ruled.
The deci ...[Read more]
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After a mentally ill Bradley Ballard made a lewd gesture to a female guard at the Rikers Island jail in New York, he was locked in his cell alone for seven increasingly agitated days in which he was denied some of his medication, clogged his toilet so tha ...[Read more]
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A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The new “water barons” — the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires — are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace.
Familiar mega-banks and investing powerh ...[Read more]
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit yesterday joined the CIA’s cover-up of its Bay of Pigs disaster in 1961 by ruling that a 30-year-old volume of the CIA’s draft “official history” could be withheld from the public under the “deliber ...[Read more]
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The official trailer for Robert Greenwald's new investigative documentary KOCH BROTHERS EXPOSED: 2014 EDITION. You can watch it free at the link ...[Read more]
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A top UN official has called for a transparent and independent investigation into the fatal shooting of two Palestinian teenagers by Israeli border police during a demonstration in the West Bank. ...[Read more]
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains the target of a multi-subject investigation by the FBI, new leaks have revealed. Assange has been unable to leave London's Ecuadorian Embassy since June 2012 amid fears he will handed over to US jurisdiction. ...[Read more]
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CCTV shows the two boys being shot down in cold blood on Nakba Day about twenty minutes apart. ...[Read more]
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On Mother’s Day Tommy Yancy, father of two, was pulled over for not having a front license plate. What transpired beyond that point is not totally clear, but his injuries resulted in his death later that day. Yancy, 32, was a veteran of both Iraq and Af ...[Read more]
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A conference on the security concerns of the most populous state in Africa was not held on the continent but in France, a former colonial power in the region.
Nigeria, which has recently been designated as having the largest economy in Africa, is the focu ...[Read more]
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