Russia Sanctions Cut EU Exports From Holland by €300 Million
Sanctions Russia has imposed on agricultural products from the European Union will cut Dutch exports by "at least 300 million euros" ($400 million), based on 2013 figures, Statistics Netherlands said...
View ArticleSaudi Prince’s Motorcade Held Up by Masked Gunmen in Paris
A gang of masked gunmen held up the motorcade of a Saudi prince in north central Paris, on Sunday night, French police said yesterday.Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud’s convoy was...
View Article'No' From One Iraqi Villager Triggered Islamic State Massacre
When Islamic State militants stormed into a northern Iraqi village and ordered everyone to convert to Islam or die only one person refused. But that did not satisfy the Sunni insurgents who are even...
View ArticleFighting Erupts Once More in Gaza
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said militants fired rockets from Gaza on Tuesday in violation of a truce and that it struck back with attacks in the Palestinian enclave, fighting that put talks in...
View ArticleThe Top Secret Family Life of Vladimir Putin
Russian president Vladimir Putin lives his life in the ceaseless glare of the world’s regard. At work and on holiday, he is surrounded by a loyal gaggle of Kremlin pool journalists, TV cameras and...
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St. Louis Newspaper's Violent Front Page: 'Streets Flare Up'
The front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was filled with urgent headlines from Ferguson Tuesday morning. The only image was a large photograph of a law enforcement official, clad in full riot...
View ArticleLeader of Homophobic Russian Gang Jailed for 'Racist' Video
Maxim Martsinkevich, the neo-Nazi leader of a homophobic Russian gang known as Occupy Pedophilia, has been sentenced to five years in prison for racist extremism after making a video of himself beating...
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The Last Stand of the Heroic Kurds at Kobani
The nightmare for Kobani’s parents began on Friday 30th May. Every year, high school students from the Kurdish district of Northern Syria take the bus to the provincial capital of Aleppo to take their...
View ArticleTom Hanks's Typewriter App Tops iTunes Chart
A typewriter app backed by actor Tom Hanks has topped iTunes store charts. Titled Hanx Writer, the app aims to recreate the experience of a manual typewriter but with the “ease and spread” of an...
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The Luxury Watch Industry Braces Itself for Apple's High Tech Onslaught
Whenever Nasser Edeeb visits Switzerland, which the 44-year-old businessman from Libya does with some frequency, there are two products he likes to pick up. The first are Swatch watches (for family,...
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Turtles ‘Talk’ to Each Other, Parents Call Out to Offspring
The film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has topped box offices for two weeks in a row, despite poor reviews. It’s no surprise, of course, that the film is wildly scientifically inaccurate—it is about...
View ArticleHow Strong Is the Legal Case Against Darren Wilson?
The search for justice in the death of Michael Brown, the black unarmed teenager killed in Ferguson, Missouri, will eventually move away from the streets and into the courtroom.Darren Wilson, the...
View ArticleBritish PM Brands Scottish Independence Claims 'Desperate' as Polls Narrow
British Prime Minister David Cameron has blasted Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond’s pro-independence campaign claims as a “pretty desperate argument” coming from “a desperate man, recognising the...
View ArticlePhotos: Hamas Offers Glimpse Inside Tunnels Under Israel
Pictures published today show Hamas fighters giving a crew of Reuters journalists a glimpse into the underground network of tunnels they control in the Gaza Strip that have so far eluded Israeli...
View ArticleAdvancing Ukraine Troops Take Fight to Heart of Pro-Moscow Rebellion
(Reuters) - A gun battle broke out in the center of the rebel-held Ukrainian city of Donetsk and residents ran for cover from artillery fire on Tuesday, taking a government military offensive into the...
View ArticleJoss and Roseanne: The Early Career of Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon spent the next year writing more comedy spec scripts. He wrote a script for The Wonder Years, which featured a storyline based on his own experiences of being mugged in New York City, and...
View ArticleRick Perry Will Turn Himself in, Get a Mug Shot
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry plans to turn himself in to authorities for fingerprinting and a mug shot on Tuesday after he was indicted by a jury in the state last week on two...
View ArticleHolocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein, Arrested in Ferguson Protest, Says Racism Is...
Hedy Epstein turned 90 on August 15, and she spent much of last week celebrating. Friends and family traveled to her home in St. Louis, Missouri, to join in the festivities—so many of them, in fact,...
View ArticleIraqi Army Advance to Retake Tikrit From Islamic State Fighters
Iraqi government forces are advancing to retake Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s hometown, from Islamic State (IS) fighters, but they’ve been held back by heavy fire from the jihadists. Tikrit, 130 miles north...
View ArticleIslamic State Vows to 'Break the American Cross'
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State, the Sunni militant group which seeks to establish a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, released a video on Tuesday that gave the strongest indication yet it might...
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