Palestinian Teenager Killed in Possible Revenge Attack
By Ammar AwadJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in Jerusalem on Wednesday after the discovery of a body raised suspicions a Palestinian youth had been killed by Israelis...
View ArticleHow Credit Suisse Helped Americans Avoid Taxes and Iran Dodge U.S. Sanctions
When BNP Paribas agreed Monday to plead guilty to skirting U.S. sanctions and pay an $8.9 billion penalty, the French bank became the second global bank fined this year for violating U.S. laws. Earlier...
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The Disaster We’ve Wrought on the World’s Oceans May Be Irrevocable
In the great halls of La Boqueria, Barcelona’s central market, tourists, foodies and cooks gather every day to marvel at the fresh food, like pilgrims at the site of a miracle. The chief shrines are...
View ArticleProtesters Block Buses Carrying Undocumented Migrants in California
MURRIETA Calif. (Reuters) - Protesters shouting anti-immigration slogans blocked the arrival of three buses carrying undocumented Central American families to a U.S. Border Patrol station on Tuesday...
View ArticleWhen Bobby Womack Met Gorillaz
There are dozens of hits (at least on Billboard's Soul Singles chart) by which to remember beloved soul singer and guitarist Bobby Womack, who died Friday at the age of 70. But I'll always remember a...
View ArticleNorth Korea Fires Rockets into the Sea
SEOUL (Reuters) - Isolated North Korea fired short-range rockets into the sea off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korean media reported, the latest in a flurry of tests ahead of this week's visit by...
View ArticleTensions Rise in Israel After Body of Palestinian Youth Found
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The body of an abducted Palestinian youth was found in Jerusalem on Wednesday, raising suspicions he had been killed by Israelis avenging the deaths of three abducted Jewish...
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Inside the Struggle to Preserve the World's Data
When masked gunmen smashed their way into the offices of the Crimean Center for Investigative Journalism, the staff knew what was coming. For years, the center had been a lone crusading voice exposing...
View ArticleNobel Laureate: Boko Haram Worse Than Nigeria's Civil War
ABEOKUTA Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria is suffering greater carnage at the hands of Islamist group Boko Haram than it did during a secessionist civil war, yet this has ironically made the country's...
View ArticleEconomy Bouncing Back After Slow First Quarter
(Reuters) - U.S. private payrolls recorded their largest gain in 1-1/2 years in June as businesses stepped up hiring, reinforcing views the economy has rebounded from its first-quarter slump.Private...
View ArticleFormer Governor of New Mexico Becomes Legal Weed CEO
Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party’s 2012 candidate for the United States presidency and a two-term governor of New Mexico, has become President and CEO of Cannabis Sativa, Inc., the company announced...
View ArticleWorld Cup Fans Flock to Pirated Streaming Sites
Despite the best efforts of FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, millions of viewers around the world are successfully watching World Cup matches on pirated streaming sites, TorrentFreak...
View ArticleUp to 45 People Reportedly Killed in Holy Iraqi City of Karbala
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Up to 45 people were killed in clashes between Iraqi security forces and followers of a radical cleric in the holy Shi'ite city of Karbala on Wednesday, security sources said,...
View ArticleAnti-Government Activists Are Illegally Mining for Gold in a Protected Idaho...
For a group of anti-federalist activists in Idaho, the right to dredge for gold wherever one pleases is fundamental to American freedom, and they are breaking the law to defend it.A group of around 60...
View ArticleNewsweek Rewind: When Amelia Earhart Disappeared
On this day in 1937, Amelia Mary Earhart went missing midflight around the world. Today, a 31-year-old self-described "aviatrix" who shares Earhart's first and last name is attempting to re-create her...
View ArticleU.S. Military Presence in Somalia Disclosed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military advisors have secretly operated in Somalia since around 2007 and Washington plans to deepen its security assistance to help the country fend off threats by Islamist...
View ArticleIsrael’s Latest Threat: Far-Right Jewish Terrorists
As if the Israeli authorities did not have enough on their plate. Long experienced in fighting its numerous enemies, and still reeling from the traumatic killing by terrorists of three of its...
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Weird Al Will Release Eight Music Videos in Eight Days, Because Weird Al
Pop parody poet "Weird Al" Yankovic, who still looks and sounds the same as he did when you were 14 (unless by chance you still associate him with that mustache—it's long gone!), is returning in two...
View ArticleU.S. Indicts Shining Path Leaders
Three leaders of the Sendero Luminoso or “Shining Path,” a Maoist guerrilla group that has operated in Peru since 1980, have been indicted in a U.S. federal court on charges that they conspired to...
View ArticleAre Unmanned Vessels the Future for the Ocean?
“The time is now ripe for a fundamental change in shipping,” says Oskar Levander. From his base at the Norwegian seaport city of Alesund, the vice president for the marine technical wing of British...
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