Maarten de Jonge, Dutch Cyclist, Was Supposed To Fly On Both Doomed Malaysia...
Maarten de Jonge is an incredibly lucky man. He managed to twice cheat death this year by simply changing his plane reservations. According to The Independent, the 29-year-old Dutch athlete who...
View ArticlePutin Demands Access For International Experts At Malaysia Airlines Crash Site
* Putin wants access for experts at crash site * Says crash should not be used for political ends (Adds Putin quotes, background) MOSCOW, July 21 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on...
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Pop-up politics: East Timor's struggle for stability and security
DILI - Timor-Leste's current stability could be undermined by a sharp decline in oil revenues and leadership challenges if the country's first president and current prime minister Xanana Gusmão steps...
View ArticleIraq Attacks Kill At Least 16 As Authorities Struggle To Stop Sunni...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Attacks overnight in two Iraqi cities killed at least 16 people, officials said Monday as authorities struggle to stop the Sunni militants' offensive that has left huge areas in northern...
View ArticleKim Jong Un Really Hates This Video And Wants It Off The Internet
Dictators never seem to have much of a sense of humor, and North Korea's Kim Jong Un is no exception. Kim is trying to get China to pull the plug on a satirical video that, with some not-so-subtle...
View ArticleMalaysia Airlines Plane Crash: Ukraine Workers Find More Bodies Amid Debris
HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — The chaotic Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 recovery effort stumbled again Monday, with more bodies found at the sprawling crash site but a worrisome power outage in the...
View ArticleAccused Killer Of Irish Soldiers Arrested In U.S. On Immigration Charges
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Federal agents have arrested a man the Irish government calls a suspect in the abduction, torture and killing of two Irish soldiers serving as United Nations peacekeepers in...
View ArticleThe U.S. Must Lead on Climate Threat
During a Congressional hearing this year, Texas Rep. Joe Barton (R) invoked Noah's Ark saying, "I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an...
View ArticleRemembering My Friends Joep Lange and Jacqueline van Tongeren, Lost on...
Joep Lange saved my life. Twenty-seven years ago, while I was living in Mexico, I learned that I had HIV, and some friends put me in touch with him. I was given AZT, the only medicine available at the...
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Honoring the HIV/AIDS Activists Killed on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17...
Photo courtesy of International AIDS Society/AIDS2014 As people throughout the world mourn the passengers of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, HIV/AIDS activists are particularly heartbroken over the loss...
View ArticleGrieving Father Writes Open Letter To Putin: 'Thank You For Murdering My Child'
The father of a 17-year-old passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 wrote a heartbreaking public letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Thank you very much, Mr. Putin, separatist leaders and...
View ArticleIf Gaza's Dead Were America's Dead
On the face of it, the casualty figures in Gaza may seem not that horrific to Americans -- unless you transpose that same level of death and mayhem to the United States, 176 times the population of...
View ArticleFugitive South Korea Ferry Businessman Yoo Byung-Un's Body Found Last Month:...
(Adds details from police news conference) SEOUL, July 22 (Reuters) - South Korean police said on Tuesday that a body found last month in the south of the country was that of a fugitive businessman who...
View ArticleNose Deep in Their Own... Prejudice: Hinduism and The New York Times' Sewage...
What might have been an excellent piece of reporting on an important public-health concern in India has turned out instead to be one of the most absurd, far-fetched, and ugly pieces of Hinduphobic...
View ArticleEU Weighs Deeper Sanctions If Russia Fails To Resolve Crisis In Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama sternly called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to compel Kremlin-backed separatists to stop hampering the probe at the Ukraine site of a downed passenger...
View Article9/11 Commission Report A Decade Later: Threats Have Evolved, U.S. Hasn't
WASHINGTON -- The authors of the seminal 9/11 Commission report have produced a new study, a decade after the first, painting an often alarming picture of the country’s vulnerability to another...
View ArticleIsraeli Aircraft Hits Dozens Of Targets In Gaza
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli soldier is missing following a deadly battle in the Gaza Strip, a defense official said Tuesday, as Israeli airstrikes pummeled a wide range of targets along the coastal...
View ArticleIsraeli Soldier Missing And Presumed Dead In Gaza: Reports
(Adds details, military statement, and background) JERUSALEM, July 22 (Reuters) - An Israeli soldier is missing in the Gaza Strip and presumed dead, local media quoted the military as saying on...
View ArticleJon Stewart Learns What Happens When You Criticize Israel
Many have accused Jon Stewart of being pro-Hamas for expressing sympathy for the residents of Gaza, where more than 500 people have been killed -- including at least 100 children -- in recent fighting...
View ArticleEuropean Politicians Condemn Anti-Semitic Demonstrations
BERLIN (AP) — The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Italy on Tuesday condemned the rise in anti-Semitic protests and violence over the conflict in Gaza, saying they will do everything possible...
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