European Union Imposes Sanctions On Top Russian Officials
BRUSSELS, July 25 (Reuters) - The European Union said on Saturday it had imposed asset freezes on a number of top Russian officials, including the chiefs of Russia's FSB security service and foreign...
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This Is What The World Looks Like, According To Quantum Mechanics
The realm of quantum mechanics tells us that humans experience 40 conscious moments per second. These individual frames, or sequences of "now," amount to the way we perceive time flow. We don't realize...
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A Proud Russkiy Citizen or an Upatriotic Traitor of Mother Russia?
I refuse to be defined by my passport -- both literally and metaphorically. Surely there's more to an individual than his personal identification number and/or the color of his passport? There was a...
View ArticlePassenger Threat On Canada Plane Leads To U.S. Fighter Jets Escorting Flight...
July 25 (Reuters) - Two U.S. F16 fighter jets were scrambled to escort a Panama City-bound flight from Canada back to Toronto on Friday after a man on the plane apparently threatened to blow up the...
View ArticleG'head, Do the Gangs a Favor, Deport the Kids to Central America
Back in the 1980s, due to the civil war in El Salvador, the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and Contra counter-revolutionary guerrillas based in southern Honduras, and the oppressive military...
View ArticleEU Sanctions To Target Russian Businesses, Documents Show
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Friday extended its Ukraine-related sanctions to target top Russian intelligence officials and leaders of the pro-Russia revolt in eastern Ukraine, official...
View ArticleNorth Korea Fires Short-Range Missile Into Sea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile into waters off its east coast on Saturday, a South Korean defense official said, adding to its unusually high number of...
View ArticleCircus Politics Is Alive and Well in the Philippines
Anyone familiar with Philippine politics will recognize the circus-like atmosphere that prevails on an ongoing basis, and how that often manifests itself in the judicial arena. We previously questioned...
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Ramadan: Religious Fervor Taken Over by Media Capitalists?
For the first time in my life, I got an opportunity to spend Ramadan outside my home country, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar and is considered to...
View ArticleGaza Health Ministry: Palestinian Death Toll Tops 1,000
GAZA/JERUSALEM, July 26 (Reuters) - Israel will extend a humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip by a further four hours, a government source said on Saturday, as the number of Palestinian deaths in the...
View ArticleIsrael To Extend Gaza Truce By Four Hours: Minister
JERUSALEM (AP) -- An Israeli Cabinet minister says Israel has agreed to extend a 12-hour humanitarian truce in the Gaza war by four hours. The minister, Yuval Steinitz, spoke Saturday on Israeli...
View ArticleGaza Rockets Hit Israel Despite Truce Extension Offer
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Hamas said it fired five rockets at Israel late Saturday after rejecting Israel's offer to extend a 12-hour humanitarian cease-fire by four hours, casting new doubt on...
View ArticleRodent Feasts On Treat in Subway Vending Machine While We Lose Our Lunch
Public transit has its perks. This isn't one of them. In a video grossing out viewers across the Internet, commuters in a Barcelona subway station are treated to the spectacle of a rodent nibbling on a...
View ArticleFamilies Mourn Victims Of Air Algerie Crash In Mali
By Michel Rose and Tiemoko Diallo PARIS/BAMAKO, July 26 (Reuters) - Family members of those killed on the Air Algerie flight that crashed in Mali were taken to the wreckage to grieve on Saturday as...
View ArticleFirst Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Victim Identified
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government says the first victim has been identified from the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster. The name and sex of the victim, a Dutch national, weren't...
View ArticleObama Banned From Visiting Chechnya
MOSCOW (AP) — Although Russia has not responded to U.S. sanctions by putting a travel ban on President Barack Obama, there's one part of the country he's blocked from: Chechnya. The president of the...
View ArticleIsrael Extends Gaza Truce For 24 Hours As Death Toll Tops 1,000
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas resumed rocket fire Saturday on Israel after rejecting Israel's offer to extend a humanitarian cease-fire, the latest setback in international efforts to negotiate...
View ArticleVideo Of First American Suicide Bomber In Syria Emerges
BEIRUT (AP) — An al-Qaida-linked group fighting in Syria has released video of the first American to carry out a suicide attack in the country's civil war, showing him smiling and saying he looked...
View ArticleTaliban Making Military Gains In Afghanistan
Taliban fighters are scoring early gains in several strategic areas near the capital this summer, inflicting heavy casualties and casting new doubt on the ability of Afghan forces to contain the...
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Shocking Photos Of Destruction In Gaza As Thousands Return Home During Truce
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A brief cease-fire Saturday in the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas militants allowed thousands to return home to see the destruction. Palestinians walked through the...
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