Ferguson’s Fifty-Year Fire
On August 5, 1966, Martin Luther King Jr., and about 700 protesters marched through an outer Chicago neighborhood called Marquette Park to protest housing segregation, an ignominious endeavor in which...
View ArticleWhite House: Obama Authorized U.S. Strike to Free Mosul Dam
EDGARTOWN Mass. (Reuters) - The White House said on Sunday that President Barack Obama had informed Congress he authorized U.S. air strikes in Iraq to help retake control of the Mosul Dam, which it...
View ArticleSharpton, Captain Johnson Give Moving Speeches at Ferguson Memorial for...
Community members in Ferguson, Missouri, united for an evening of worship, peace and praise tonight at the Greater Grace Church in memorial of slain black teen Michael Brown. Speakers included Missouri...
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Crowd Shouts 'Death to the Arabs' at an Israeli Wedding of Jew and Muslim
RISHON LEZION Israel (Reuters) - Israeli police on Sunday blocked more than 200 far-right Israeli protesters from rushing guests at a wedding of a Jewish woman and Muslim man as they shouted "death to...
View ArticleTear Gas Used as Protests Erupt in Ferguson, Missouri
Police fired canisters of tear gas into crowds of protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, on Sunday night, the second night of a midnight curfew imposed in the tense St. Louis suburb where unarmed black teen...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange to Leave London Embassy 'Soon'
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent over two years in Ecuador's London embassy to avoid a sex crimes inquiry in Sweden, said on Monday he planned to leave the building "soon", but Britain...
View ArticleNational Guard Steps in After Missouri Riots Over Ferguson Shooting
Missouri's governor said on Monday he would send the National Guard into theSt. Louis suburb of Ferguson to restore calm after authorities forcibly dispersed a crowd protesting last week's fatal...
View ArticleCameron Promises Britain Will Not Send Ground Troops to Iraq
Britain will not send ground forces to intervene in the crisis in Iraq, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday.Britain has so far carried out aid drops and surveillance and transported military...
View ArticleRefugee Convoy Hit by Rocket Fire in Eastern Ukraine
Ukraine accused pro-Russian rebels on Monday of hitting a refugee convoy of buses with rocket fire near the eastern city of Luhansk, killing people trapped in the burning vehicles, but the separatists...
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Protests Turn Violent Once Again in Ferguson
After a brief return to calm, police once again clashed with protesters in Ferguson Sunday night after protesters threw molotov cocktails and shot at police, Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway...
View ArticlePetition Asking for Robin Williams Zelda Character Tops 100,000 Signatures
A petition calling for the actor Robin Williams, a longtime Nintendo fan, to be immortalised as a non-playable character in the next edition of the Legend of Zelda video game series, has garnered over...
View ArticleDam Retaken From Militants, Iraqi Kurdish Forces Say
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish forces said they had recaptured the country's biggest dam from Islamic State militants on Monday, although an employee at the site said jihadist fighters still...
View ArticleGermany Spied on Turkey, Eavesdropped on Top U.S. Diplomats, Media Reports Say
BERLIN/ANKARA (Reuters) - The German government faced an angry reaction from Turkey and accusations of hypocrisy from its own opposition on Monday after media reports that its intelligence agency spied...
View ArticleWhy Militarized Police Departments Don’t Work
Here’s a pop quiz for all you media junkies: Which of the following took place in Ferguson, Missouri, recently, and which transpired during the 1968 Democratic National Convention (hint: both involved...
View ArticleWith an Eye on Rising Tides, Solomon Islands Will Move an Entire Town
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Under threat from rising sea levels and tsunamis, the authorities of a provincial capital in the Solomon Islands have decided to relocate from a small island in...
View ArticleNewspaper: Russia Might Ban Car Imports if Sanctions Escalate
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia may tighten retaliatory sanctions against Western nations to include a ban on car imports, if the United States and the European Union impose additional sanctions on Moscow,...
View ArticleGermany Spied on Turkey, Clinton and Kerry, Newspaper Claims
Turkey’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Germany’s ambassador in Ankara Eberhard Pohl, today following a report in German newspaper Der Spiegel that German intelligence has consistently been...
View ArticleUp From Ferguson: A Harvard Law Graduate Reflects on His Hometown
For recent Harvard Law School graduate Ryan Hatten, the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri hits close to home. Hatten,...
View ArticleSuicidal Woman Denied Abortion, Forced to Give Birth in Ireland
A woman in Ireland pronounced suicidal by doctors has given birth to a baby in Ireland after being refused a termination under the country’s anti-abortion laws.The woman, who cannot be named for legal...
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What We Learned from an Independent Autopsy of Michael Brown
An independent, preliminary autopsy performed on the body of Michael Brown shows that the 18-year-old was shot “at least six times,” according to Dr. Michael M. Baden, formerly the chief medical...
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