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2014-02-13

London City Banker tried to put neighbour in mental hospital over 12 inches of land.

Italy court overturns law equating cannabis with heroin

Venezuela anti-government rally turns deadly

Slaughtered for Ivory: 65% of Forest Elephants Killed Since 2002 - which means only 35% remain. Annual mortality rate is exceedingly high, at 9% a yr. By the time you eat breakfast, another elephant has been slaughtered to produce trinkets for the ivory market.

Massive Protests in Venezuela ignored by local media.

The risk of reporting US drone strikes: Yemen researcher says he received a death threat after investigating deadly wedding-convoy attack.

Mexican Tycoon Becomes First Foreigner to Exploit Citizens United to Influence U.S. Elections

Britain warns Scotland: Forget the pound if you break away

UK launches 500,000 fund to help male victims of rape and sexual abuse

German postwoman sacked for taking too much time off work while undergoing chemotherapy

Tepco hid record-level radiation data last July

Union apologises for censoring atheist 'Spaghetti Monster' poster.

The jobless rate in Greece reached a record high of 28% in November, according to newly released government figures.

Venezuelan Radio Host Post Soundbyte about Marshall law in Mrida, Venezuela. The Government has ordered all radio stations to seize broadcasting of any live content. (Rough translation in comments)

The Chinese moon rover Jade Rabbit has awaken; comms signal strength now reinstates to a normal level; tech team is trying to identify and fix issues with control system

EU tells Britain to include Prostitutes And Drug Dealers in GDP

Venezuela: One Wounded, Two Dead after Opposition Protest. (Video. NB: Graphic)

Chinese villagers attack factory after reports of polluting

Strange "S"-shaped phenomenon appears off Western Australia coast on weather bureau radar; bureau says it's not a cloud and doesn't know what it is

China announces $1.6B air pollution fund

The Bank of England has confirmed that economic forecasting is basically impossible

Male prostitution on the rise in Lebanon

Indian Parliament erupts in chaos after MP uses pepper spray

Spain makes abortion a criminal offense

Nuclear fusion breakthrough raises hopes for ultimate green energy source | Scientists have moved a step closer to achieving sustainable nuclear fusion and almost limitless clean energy.

2014-02-14

The UK Government U-Turns on Election Promise; dropping plans to give voters the ability to dismiss Members of Parliament for serious wrongdoing.

Russian MPs seek nationwide ban on child beauty pageants

Islamic fundamentalists in Syria have started to destroy archaeological treasures, such as Byzantine mosaics and Greek and Roman statues, because their portrayal of human beings is contrary to their religious beliefs

Silk road 2 hacked. All bitcoins stolen.

Twitter is being blocked in Venezuela by the Government

"No banks should be promised eternal life" - Norwegian governor of the Norwegian federal reserve says.

Belgium's parliament removes age limit on euthanasia

Russia Expands Adoption Ban -- Russia is now "forbidding single people (gay or straight), who live in any country where gay marriage is legal, from adopting Russian children"

Volcano erupts in Indonesia, 100,000 evacuated, airports closed

ISIL Stones Syrian Girl to Death for Facebook Membership. Says It Is Tantamount To Adultery

Australian politician who has never heard of VPN's; let alone understand what they are for; believes internet file downloads can be stopped by legislation of ISP's

Mexican officials introduce bills seeking to relax marijuana laws

Four African nations pledge to end all sales of ivory: Botswana, Gabon, Chad and Tanzania won't sell their ivory stockpiles to protect elephants from poaching

TEPCO latest readings detects record levels of radioactive cesium near Pacific, 600 times higher than allowed to be released into the ocean

Britain's hundred years of conflict. If withdrawal from Afghanistan is successful, it will be the first time in 100 years that nation has not been at war.

Snowden 'left in the lurch' by EU Parliament | An EU parliament's committee has issued a damning report about the scale and the impact of mass surveillance. But there is no consensus on an amendment to give asylum to intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.

Belgium now the first country to legalize euthanasia for minors under 18.

Al Jazeera: 70 men and women executed in DR Congo "mainly by armed groups to spread terror among the population"

9 Die in Fire Destroying Argentine Bank Archives

Kerry says China willing to pressure North Korea on nuclear plans

Hamas blocks UN textbooks in Gaza, saying they focus too much on peaceful conflict resolution

Crimes against humanity in NKorea, UN panel finds: A U.N. Commission of Inquiry has found that crimes against humanity have been committed in North Korea and recommends that its findings be referred to the International Criminal Court

Big Brother HSBC bank wanted to know what I'd spend my money on

Penguin Books India has reportedly agreed to recall and destroy all copies in India of a book about Hinduism by a U.S. religious scholar in response to a civil case filed by a nationalist organisation, raising concerns over the increasing sway of interest groups over freedom of expression.

Last-Place Speed Skater Wins Gold Medal After Everyone Else Falls Down

2014-02-18

Glenn Greenwald: Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal for the first time how the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert surveillance to prosecution.

"At the end of the Second World War so many people said 'if only we had known... if only we had known the wrongs that were done in the countries of the hostile forces"- Michael Kirby (UN) on how the world must act on North Korea rights abuse

Saudi Arabia: women banned from visiting hospitals without male guardian

Another JP Morgan Banker Suicide.

Policeman who shot and killed a pregnant restauranteur for not serving him milk tea gets the death sentence

News Corps $882m blew the Australian budget: 'The single largest factor in the underlying deterioration of the federal budget announced by Treasurer Joe Hockey in December was a cash payout of almost $900 million to Rupert Murdochs News Corp'

No Swiss fighter jets were scrambled Monday when an Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked his own plane and forced it to land in Geneva, because it happened outside business hours, the Swiss airforce said.

Another huge violent clash is happening in Ukraine right now. This is all being streamed live online.

Killer starfish are eating the Great Barrier Reef by smothering and digesting its flesh. Scientists are blaming the problem on fertiliser from nearby sugar cane farms.

An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaeda is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, US officials say, and the Obama administration is weighing up whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally

Angela Merkel: Let US spies keep their internet. The EU will build its own

Venezuela: Intelligence Officials Burst Into Opposition Headquarters. Lacking a Warrant, Agents Enter with Guns Drawn (video)

NSA, and GCHQ, deployed Internet surveillance technologies against Wikileaks in a campaign that also encouraged international governments to take action against the websites founder, according to newly leaked documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

North American leaders called upon to save monarch butterfly

Kazakhstan: Lace underwear ban sparks protests

Qatar World Cup toll: More than 450 Indian migrant workers in Qatar have died in the last two years, media revealed on Monday. Another upcoming report will show that 400 Nepalese have lost their lives scrambling to get the Gulf state ready for the 2022 World cup.

Ukraine: Maidan Protests Escalate Once Again

Five dead in Ukraine clashes

Iran's interior minister has warned it may send forces into Pakistan if it does not act to free five Iranian border guards seized 10 days ago

North Korea: 'You are brainwashed from the time you know how to talk' - UN dossier of regime's human rights abuses contains appalling stories of how state brutally enforces 'racial purity'

Heavy clashes near Parliament in Kiev, Ukraine 18.02.2014

Israel boycott movement is antisemitic, says Binyamin Netanyahu | World news

Venezuela expels three U.S. diplomats accused of spurring protests

"Venezuela gave three US diplomats 48 hours to leave the country Monday as Washington rejected as "baseless and false" accusations it was aiding protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro."

U.K. drafting legislation to expand porn filter to include 'Extremist' websites

2014-02-19

Left-wing Mexican senators on Tuesday presented an initiative to Legalize Medical Marijuana, saying a new approach was needed to speed up drug liberalization and help end a cycle of cartel violence that has killed tens of thousands

At least nine reported dead, over 100 injured in Kiev as violent clashes break out near Ukraine's parliament

Thai court bans use of violence against protesters.

Pussy Riot attacked with whips by Cossack militia at Sochi Olympics

Edward Snowden Elected Rector of Glasgow University

Ukraine Revolt: sticky post

Ukraine's bloodiest day of protests, 18+ dead

South Africa Parliament Introduces Bill To Legalize Marijuana

Rioters seize over 1,500 guns in Ukraine, Government pledges "anti-terrorism" measures

Ukraine: Police shooting and throwing granades to people in Kijev Live stream

China plans to spend 2 trillion yuan, or $330 billion, on an action plan to tackle pollution of its scarce water resources, state media said on Tuesday.

Tony Blair gave advice to newspaper executive Rebekah Brooks on handling the phone-hacking scandal six days before her arrest, a court has heard.

Jane Goodall: China Is Colonizing Africa

IOC bans Ukraine's athletes from wearing black armbands at Sochi

13 People Believed Killed as Police Storm Ukrainian Protest Camp

Greece posts first current account surplus: Greece has reached a current account surplus for the first time in 66 years, according to figures released on Wednesday by the Bank of Greece.

David Miranda detention at Heathrow airport was lawful, high court rules | Detention of former Guardian journalist's partner was justified by 'very pressing' interests of national security, judges say

Tensions Rise as Thousands of Venezuelans March in Protest

Venezuela opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez surrenders

UK High Court Dismisses Miranda Claim - Supports Terrorism interpretation

The Battle for Kiev Begins

Head of one of Russia's few independent radio stations is ousted in favor of wife of a Putin crony, fueling concerns that Putin's crackdown on civil liberties and free journalism is intensifying.

Ukrainian regime launches a deadly attack on the protesters

Tony Blair allegedly offered to advise Rupert Murdoch, phone-hacking trial told

Venezuela Opposition Leader was arrested Tuesday, after emerging from days of hiding and making an impassioned speech to thousands of supporters, saying he hoped his detention will open Venezuelans' eyes to the increasingly authoritarian bent of their government.

2014-02-20

Ukraine: Video of police shooting AK-47 and sniper rifles at people

600 year old Voynich manuscript partially decoded by University of Bedfordshire professor

22-year-old student dies from bullet wound after being shot in the head during a protest, 5th fatality of unrest in Venezuela

Keystone Pipeline struck down by Nebraska Judge

Truce crumbles amid gunfire in Ukraine that kills 21

Iraq offers $17,200 reward for killing jihadists: Iraq's government has offered a reward of $17,200 for each foreign militant killed from al-Qaeda or ISIS, a former affiliate. A larger reward of $25,800 is being offered for the capture of militants belonging to the two groups.

CNN cameras taken at gunpoint in Venezuela-

The Russian government evicted 2,000 people out of their homes to build a $9 billion highway just for the Olympics. Further investigation found Russian did not systematically implement a fair and transparent process to repay them.

Wild bumblebees worldwide are in trouble, likely contracting deadly diseases from their commercialized honeybee cousins, a new study shows.

New highly radioactive leak at Japan's Fukushima plant.

A hobby archaeologist with a metal detector has discovered a trove of gold and silver in a German forest dating back to late Roman times, fuelling speculation that it could be the legendary Nibelung treasure which inspired composer Richard Wagners operatic Ring Cycle.

Brazilian Senate will discuss the legalization of Cannabis.

Bill to legalize medical marijuana proposed in Mexico

North and South Koreans hold rare family reunions

Women join the Kurdish fight in Syria: Syrian Kurds are fighting for an autonomous region in the northeast of the country. They have largely managed to drive out Assad's troops. Now they're fighting Al-Qaeda terrorists. A third of the fighters are women.

Nigerian Mafia running wild in Japan. Brokering heroin sales with yakuza members, forcing Filipino women into prostitution, performing money laundering, committing car theft and arranging fake marriages are among the common illegal schemes

Food Scam: Tons of Fake Food, Drinks Seized in Interpol Bust Environmental offenses were uncovered as over 1,200 metric tons of fake or substandard food & nearly 430,000 liters of counterfeit drinks seized across Europe, Asia, & the Americas.

After highly likely bugging uncovered at the Irish police oversight office, things keep getting stranger. Justice Minister, implicated by recorded conversation in trying to silence police whistleblowers, sacks his own appointee and associate.

China training for short, sharp war, says senior US naval officer

US investigates illegal military equipment shipments from Israel to Iran

China To Spend $330 Billion On Cleaning Up Polluted Water

Report: Deadly drone strike in Yemen failed to comply with Obamas rules to protect civilians - The Washington Post

A German professor at a top Swiss university has quit over rampant 'xenophobia' in his host country

Mexico lawmakers introduce marijuana legalization bill [x-post /r/LegalNews]

Nigeria's central bank governor Lamido Sanusi has been suspended after he alleged that $20bn (12bn) in oil revenue had gone missing.

2014-02-21

Ukrainian Skier Pulls Out of Olympics To Join Protestors In Kiev

Polish minister warns protest leader 'you'll all be dead.' The Polish foreign minister has been filmed telling a protest leader: "If you don't support this [deal] you'll have martial law, you'll have the army. You will all be dead."

Footage captured of clearly marked medic being shot by police snipers in Kiev.

The People Have Won: Ukraine President Yanukovych calls early vote

Footage of the massacre in Kiev, Ukraine today from Twitter (new images every 15 minutes, video of snipers)

Venezuela threatens to expel CNN over protest coverage

US investigates illegal military equipment shipments from Israel to Iran: US Homeland Security says Israeli arms dealers have been sending spare military jet parts to Iran in breach of sanctions

EU to impose sanctions on Ukrainian officials responsible for killings in Kiev

Kyiv sees deadliest day in 3 months of protests: Medic says at least 70 killed, 500 wounded

"Russia is prepared to fight a war over the Ukrainian territory of Crimea to protect the ethnic Russian population and its military base there, a senior government official has told the FT."

Ukrainian parliament voted for ceasefire, the return of police to their bases and prohibited gun use.

South Korea has announced it is developing offensive cyberwarfare capabilities to cripple North Korea's nuclear and missile facilities.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's Allies Start Deserting Him

Venezuela's poor join protests as turmoil grips Chvez's revolution - "This country can't stay like this for much longer. If it's not lack of food, it is the fear of being killed when you step out of your house to go to work", Jorge Farias said. "I would like to wake up without this fear,"

Sticky Post: Ukraine & Venezuela

While protests rage in Ukraine and Venezuela, they are also occurring in Bosnia

"Ukraines parliament just threw President Yanukovych under the bus. Thats great news."

Libyan rape victims of Gadaffi forces to be recognized as war victims, receive compensation like that of wounded ex-soldiers

No Protester Is Safe From Snipers Or AK-47s In Ukraine (GRAPHIC VIDEO)

President Yanukovich announces Ukraine to hold early Presidential election

Canada joins EU in slapping sanctions on Ukraine as death toll rises in Kyiv

Ukraine president says deal has been reached to end days of bloodshed

The Ukrainian President has agreed to hold early elections, and to the formation of a national unity government, according to the Polish Prime Minister, following talks earlier today.

Tough austerity measures in Greece leave nearly a million people with no access to healthcare, leading to soaring infant mortality, HIV infection and suicide

"Chinese government officials have quietly become more sceptical about foreign banks' research reports and are avoiding senior economists at global banks, partly because of growing mutual distrust over the scale and seriousness of the country's debt problems."

2014-02-24

The Egyptian government has resigned.

President Yoweri Museveni has signed the Ugnada anti-gay bill. The new law punishes first-time offenders with 14 years in jail, and allows life imprisonment as the penalty for acts of "aggravated homosexuality". The law makes it a crime not to report gay people.

Venezuela: how photos get manipulated. "This article provides graphic evidence of how some postings on social and other media have reproduced images culled from elsewhere and portrayed them as depicting events in Venezuela..."

Russia advises U.S. to watch its own use of force - Interfax

Japanese company proposes to build solar power cells on the Moon to provide clean energy to Earth.

Ex-Venezuelan general in armed standoff at home

Australian gem is 'oldest piece of Earth ever found' - and shows life could have formed on our planet earlier than anyone thought possible

Venezuelas central bank said yesterday that the scarcity index reached 28 percent in January, the highest since the central bank created the measure in 2005, meaning that more than one in four basic goods was out of stock at any given time.

Two suicide bombers killed a senior al-Qaida operative, blowing themselves up inside the militant leader's compound in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo

New Zealand set to raise minimum wage 50c to $14.25/hour from April 1

Sochi Olympic end. Russia takes the most medals

Hospital records of all NHS patients sold to insurers

Diplomats fear Australia will wreck UN probe into Sri Lankan war crimes

Retired Venezuelan general to be arrested following decapitation of motorist at opposition blockade

U.S. imposes visa bans against 20 Ukrainian officials

Pakistan minister offers Taliban cricket match for peace

China Must Reduce Unbearable Smog, Government Adviser Says

American inmate killed after shooting guards in Israeli prison.

Taliban Attack Afghan Army Base, Killing Soldiers in Their Sleep

George Brandis refuses to back up claim that Snowden put lives at risk | Attorney general says he is aware of particular cases on the basis of intelligence briefings but will not reveal the information

Sanctioning Iranians' health - "Before the sanctions reached their full impact over the past two years, the Iranian healthcare system was long considered one of the most advanced in the Middle East, with health standards among the highest in the developing world."

Snowflake malfunction: Russia makes fun of itself in Sochi closing ceremonies.

Mexico hunts for No. 2 after netting cartel boss

My playmate the monster: The man who saw Kim Jong-Un from rock-star boyhood to blood-soaked dictatorship tells his story

Majority of Finns reject NATO membership

2014-02-25

Russia Says It Will Keep Out of Ukrainian Affairs

Ukraine protester falls for policeman at barricades, offered live TV interview about romance, instead rants about corruption in the TV station and shames them with pictures of her dead friends. "It is true that I fell in love with the policeman that I met, but I'm going to tell you another story..."

Was Apple security flaw actually an NSA backdoor?

Turkish main opposition convenes over Erdoan's voice recording regarding $1 billion cash stored in several properties of Erdoan family.

Mt. Gox is dead: Rumors swirl over insolvency of Japan-based Bitcoin exchange as leaked documents show $375 million worth of Bitcoin was stolen from "cold storage" accounts

HSBC hands allowances to hundreds of bankers to avoid EU bonus cap | Britain's biggest bank awards staff 'fixed pay allowances' to side-step restriction on bonuses imposed by Brussels.

Pirate Bay teams up with Swedens Lund University and becomes "Research Bay"

UK: The family of a soldier who was found hanged after claiming she had been raped and bullied have said they fear a possible cover-up by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) after about 1400 new documents emerged on the day the inquest into her death was due to conclude.

Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying

The NSA Has Set Up Shop at the US Embassy in Mexico

China banned outdoor school sports and cookouts as it grappled with a fourth straight day of thick, choking smog, a pollution problem that a recent report says makes Beijing "barely suitable" for living

Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox disappears. "Website down, it's founder unaccounted for, and a Tokyo office empty"

Mass arrest of protesters at rallies in Russia

Ukraine votes to send Yanukovych to The Hague to face trial

Iraq signs arms deal with Iran - Deal to buy arms and ammunition worth $195m violates UN arms embargo on Iran, Reuters news agency says

Turkish opposition calls for Erdogan to be investigated for corruption

Brunei: 19 Islamic words banned for non-Muslims

Seven Egyptian Christians found dead near Benghazi

Developing: Israel shells Hezbollah post in east Lebanon

Biggest meteor ever recorded hits Moon (VIDEO)

After anti-gay law is signed, Uganda tabloid publishes list of the country's 'top' homosexuals

Rebekah Brooks 'did not know hacking was illegal'

Erdogan Resignation Demanded by Turkish Opposition Over Tape

Yanukovych was planning harsh clampdown, leak reveals

Australian Federal Election Fraud. Police investigate multiple votes in 2013 federal election; one person voted 15 times.

2014-02-26

New Snowden Doc Reveals How GCHQ/NSA Use The Internet To 'Manipulate, Deceive And Destroy Reputations' of activists.

An Italian woman with cancer is suing health authorities after she was subjected to grueling radiotherapy 22 times - on the wrong breast

Switzerland could soon have the world's highest minimum wage - at $24.80 per hour, or $4,505 a month.

China's air pollution has reached the level of a "nuclear winter", with even crops and agriculture facing problems. Beijing's pollution concentration is at 505 micrograms, 20 times the World Health limit. The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences says that the city is "uninhabitable for human beings".

Norway, Denmark, Netherlands halt millions of dollars in aid to Uganda

Bush cyberczar: NSA created the potential for a police state

IMF study finds inequality is damaging to economic growth: The International Monetary Fund has backed economists who argue that inequality is a drag on growth in a discussion paper that has also dismissed rightwing theories that efforts to redistribute incomes are self-defeating.

UK shells out over $8m to monitor Julian Assange RT News

Brazil champions undersea cable to bypass US

Tepco Says Fukushima Radiation Significantly Undercounted

Ugandan Minister for Ethics & Integrity says men raping girls is natural

Scale of suffering at Syrian refugee camp is revealed by photo of huge queue for food

Greek police enter schools, quiz children on political activities

Ukraine's new rulers disband riot police

Israel Guilty of 'Apartheid', Says Falk in Final Report

Soviet monument in Bulgaria vandalized...again

Couple finds $10million in gold coins while walking their dog

Spanish Flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia dies at 66

White House Clears Way For Complete Withdrawal From Afghanistan

Geoengineering side effects could be potentially disastrous, research shows. Comparison of five proposed methods shows they are ineffective, alter weather systems or could not be safely stopped.

Former Hong Kong Newspaper Editor Kevin Lau, who investigated the offshore companies maintained by mainland officials, Stabbed

'Outernet' Project Seeks Free Internet Access For Earth : Discovery News

Killer climate: tens of thousands of flying foxes dead in a day. This summer we have seen one of the most dramatic animal die-offs ever recorded in Australia: at least 45,500 flying foxes dead on just one extremely hot day in southeast Queensland

World begins 2014 with unusual number of extreme weather events. "Next month we will publish a major report showing the likelihood of extreme heatwaves is increased 500% [with climate change]."

'A Perfect Storm': The Failure of Venezuela's New President - He was hand-picked by Hugo Chvez, but Nicols Maduro has lost control of the country's economy. Vast protests are the result, but the govt in Caracas shows no signs of bending.

2014-02-27

UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users

Armed men seize Crimea parliament - reports | World news

Taxing the rich is good for the economy, IMF says - Business

NASA has discovered 715 New Worlds

About $70 billion has been withdrawn from Ukraine's financial system over the last three years.

North Korea launches missiles into sea

Boko Haram attacked a school in Nigeria, setting it ablaze and murdering those who tried to escape the flames.

Ukraine: Former President Yanukovych reportedly found in Russia

Russian jets put on "combat alert" along western border

Royal Bank of Scotland pays out 588m in staff bonuses despite suffering 8.24bn loss

Japan says any bitcoin regulation should be international.

Turkeys main opposition took to the streets...in protest against the latest leaked voice recordings incriminating Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan and his son...The recordings feature Erdoan and his son discussing how to get rid of a sum of cash equivalent to 2.2 billion Turkish Liras.

Russia says it will defend the rights of its 'compatriots' in Crimea after pro-Russia gunmen seize parliament

ISIS imposes rules on Christians in Raqqa: A jihadist group in Syria has demanded that Christians in the northern city of Raqqa pay a levy in gold and accept curbs on their faith, or face death. ISIS said it would give Christian residents "protection" if they agreed to the list of conditions.

Turkish Prime Minister targeted in second audio tape - A second recording, presented as the voice of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan asking his son not to accept an amount of money on offer in a business deal but to hold out for more, was published on YouTube by an anonymous poster on Wednesday

Qatar's foreign domestic workers subjected to slave-like conditions

Lee Rigby murderers sentenced to life in prison | Michael Adebolajo has been sentenced to life in prison for the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby while Michael Adebowale was sentenced to life, with a minimum of 45 years.

Turkey calls out Canada on human rights over Quebec secular charter

Militias form in Crimea, Ukraines Russian bastion

Syrian troops reportedly kill more than 150 Al Qaeda-linked rebels

Ontario Liberals are thinking about letting cities ditch first-past-the-post voting

North Korea fires four short-range missiles into Sea off the Coast of South Korea

George Brandis refuses to back up claim that Snowden put lives at risk | Attorney general says he is aware of particular cases on the basis of intelligence briefings but will not reveal the information

Slovenian journalist Anushka Delic indicted for revealing government connections to neo-nazi group

Amongst 715 new planets discovered by NASA today, there are a few that may lie in zones habitable by humans

2014-02-28

Scotland to offer gay Ugandans asylum

Jamaica will decriminalise possession of small amounts of marijuana this year

Ukraine says it has repelled "Russian invasion" and has retaken territory seized by Russians earlier. An official has said that Ukraine repelled a combination of Russian soldiers and pro-Kremlin militias- the country continues to appeal to the West for protection against Russia.

Monsanto's Roundup may be linked to fatal kidney disease. A heretofore inexplicable fatal, chronic kidney disease that has affected poor farming regions around the globe may be linked to the use of biochemical giant Monsantos Roundup herbicide in areas with hard water.

The World Bank has postponed a $90 million loan to Uganda over its anti-gay law that has drawn widespread criticism from Western governments, the United Nations and rights groups

A man who beheaded a fellow passenger on a Canadian bus has been granted the right to leave his mental hospital without an escort.

Ukraine's interior minister says Russian military have seized airport in Sevastopol.

Worlds biggest cyber attack detected. 360 million accounts detected , 1.25 billion email addresses hacked.

UK welfare cuts: woman in a coma told "get back to work" by the Department for Work and Pensions

Russia forces "block Crimea airport", Ukraine's interior minister calls their presence "armed invasion"

Russia gives all its gold medalists $120,000, a new Mercedes

Chinese police have arrested 1,094 people and rescued hundreds of infants in a crackdown on baby trafficking.

Pastor of Korean Megachurch Convicted for Embezzling $12 Million

Police to press charges against vice president of the European Parliament who reportedly drunk two bottles of wine before yelling "Heil Hitler" at officials in German airport

New Zealand's Customs Service are concerned people will use 3D printers to "create gold, gems, food or drugs in their living rooms".

Sevastopol airport in Ukraine taken over by armed men

Fugitive Ukrainian president shows up in Moscow

Russia is building a "rural Berlin wall" in Georgia. The wall separates South Ossetia from Georgia, and Russian forces are detaining Georgian citizens who near the wall.

Turkish PM admits that the trials he used to jail military officers were a sham, now that the same courts are targeting him

Doctors Without Borders says it has been expelled from Myanmar, thousands of patients at risk

Wild beavers seen in England for first time in centuries | Environment

Confusion over Uganda's 'miniskirt ban' leads to public attacks on women - Mobs are taking an interpretation of the proposed law as an excuse to target and strip people they consider to be improperly dressed.

Unidentified armed men seize Crimea airport

Report: U.K. Spy Agency Stored Millions of Webcam Images. Many of them were sexually explicit in nature.

Leaks show GCHQ captured ordinary internet users webcam images

2014-03-03

At least 10,000 people bearing Russian flags marched freely through Moscow on Sunday in a pro-invasion rally, while dozens of people demonstrating on Red Square against an invasion of Ukraine were quickly detained by Russian riot police.

G-7 Leaders Statement: we (the G-7: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) have decided for the time being to suspend our participation in activities associated with the preparation of the scheduled G-8 Summit in Sochi in June

Poland says Russian appeasement not an option: "History shows that those who appease all the time in order to preserve peace usually only buy a little bit of time." Warsaw fears Russia will push west through Ukraine and threaten Poland now.

Russia deploys 3500 troops and heavy equipment on Batlic coast in Kaliningrad Oblat near Polish and Lithuanian borders

Russian stocks are tanking after Putin mobilizes tanks in Ukraine. Losses over 20% for state-owned mining company. All state-owned sectors (finance, gas, minerals, steel, coal) tumbling in biggest plunge of last 5 years.

Merkel tells Putin Russia has broken international law in Ukraine

Obama: U.S. won't be able to defend Israel if peace talks fail.

Russia Delivers 3am 'Storm' Deadline

Russian Ruble is weakening fast; "We don't have foreign cash, the last was taken five minutes ago. Now we are only buying foreign currencies but not selling," said an operator at an exchange office in Moscow.

Putin like Hitler in 1930s: former Czech foreign minister

The Russian military set an ultimatum Sunday for Ukrainian army and navy units to surrender weapons and leave their bases in the Crimean peninsula

The UK will boycott the Paralympics in Sochi over Russia's decision to take military action in Ukraine.

Russian Parliament proposes bill to allow annexation of Crimea (scanned copy included in article)

Ukraine Navy Chief 'defects': Newly appointed head of Ukrainian Navy swears allegiance to Crimea

Ukraine conflict: Russian troops break into Sevastopol Navy base

Russia blocks web pages linked to Ukraine protests

Japan Pledges $200 Million in Aid for Palestinians

Ukraine fires navy chief for 'treason' after surrendering HQ

US concedes Russia has control of Crimea and seeks to contain Putin.

Russian Prime Minister ordered Russian Highways to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait, connecting Crimea with Russia

Loyal to Ukraine, Tatars lie low as Russia seizes Crimea: "If there is a conflict, as the minority, we will be the first to suffer"

Mount Everest litter targeted by Nepalese authorities: climbers will have to bring down 8kg of extra waste or face legal action as government tackles rubbish mountain in Himalayas

Reports that Ukraine Flagship is at a NATO Mediterranean base, and not defected as RT claims.

Putin ready to invade Ukraine; Kiev warns of war

Russia And China 'In Agreement' Over Ukraine

2014-03-04

David Cameron's aide on child internet policy has been arrested for child pornography

Russian President Putin accuses U.S. of double standard in criticizing his nation's incursion into Crimea.

"A Kremlin aide was quoted on Tuesday [4 March 2014] as saying that if the United States were to impose sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, Moscow might be forced to drop the dollar as a reserve currency and refuse to pay off any loans to U.S. banks."

Obama promises to protect Poland against Russian invasion

US Anti-gay evangelist Scott Lively to stand trial for 'crimes against humanity', is being sued by the organization Sexual Minorities Uganda, which alleges that his actions in Uganda over the past ten years led to the persecution, torture, arrest and murder of gay people in the country.

Turkey scrambles jets after Russian plane flies near its Black Sea coast

Poland requests NATO consultations under Article 4

"Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told Mr. Obama by telephone on Sunday that after speaking with Mr. Putin she was not sure he was in touch with reality, people briefed on the call said. In another world, she said."

A far-right candidate for Paris elections says France's Roma population should be "concentrated" in "camps"

President Barack Obama has said that Russia is "on the wrong side of history" and in violation of international law for sending troops into the Ukranian region of Crimea. He also promised America will make Russia face consequences for its actions.

Chinese baby-trafficking ring busted wide open, leads to rescue of 382 babies and arrest of over 1,000

Ukraine tells UN Russia has 16,000 troops in Crimea; Russia says Yanukovych requested them (3/3/14 5:22 pm)

Russia is Looking for a Hot War, Says Georgias Former President

Ukraine and Russia: the military imbalance [infographic]

Russia use the same group of "protesters" in different regions of Ukraine

Ukraine loses it's 204th Tactical Aviation Brigade To The Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Secret document suggests UK will not support trade sanctions against Russia

Russia's First Targets in Ukraine: Its Cell Phones and Internet Lines

French scientists revive 30,000-year-old virus, say it "serves as a warning that unknown pathogens entombed in frozen soil may be roused by global warming"

Moscow intends to discuss the Ukraine crisis with the West on two key conditions. The source says the 21 February agreement - signed by ousted President Yanukovych and the Ukrainian opposition - must be implemented, and that all Ukrainian political forces must take part in negotiations.

US urges N Korea restraint after two more test missiles

Former Ukraine PM Yulia Tymoshenko urges superpowers to use force against Russia

Ukraine crisis: Russia stands firm despite rebukes, sanctions threats

Two women who represented 'opressed citizens of Odessa' in Sevastopol were previously seen during the storm of Kharkiv Regional Government

Putin: Russia has no plans to annex Ukraine's Crimea region

2014-03-05

Venezuela: In 17 days of protest: 18 dead, 261 wounded, 1044 arrests and 888 precautionary measures

Senator Scott Ludlam coolly tells Prime Minister Tony Abbott to go ram his "heartless, racist exploitation of peoples fears"

Russia and US Still Friends in Space, NASA Says

Sweden stops aid to Uganda over anti-gay laws

Vancouver Police Department to feds: We wont enforce new pot law

First LSD-assisted psychotherapy research published in 40 years in Switzerland, Dr. Peter Gasser

Russian oligarchs lost 13 billion yesterday. Money may be more at play than being talked about.

Tony Abbott pledges support to loggers and moves to remove National park statuses from forests

Russia Today anchor who went off script to criticize Russian invasion to Crimea sent to the region to be educated, refuses, keeps her job

Wealthy Residents Depart Chinese Mainland in Search of Clean Air - The term 'environmental refugee' has taken on a new meaning in China.

Rich Chinese Mad Over Cancelled Canadian Immigrant Program - Threatening legal action against govt after Ottawa cancelled popular program offering way to buy entrance to those with net worth of $1.6m & able to lend Ottawa $800,000 interest-free for 5 yrs

Yanukovych funneled money through the Netherlands; Dutch Ministers silent on the issue

Israel halts 'Iran weapons ship' to Gaza

Scottish leader calls on all Britons to back independence - Scottish leader Alex Salmond called on all Britons on Tuesday to back his campaign for an independent Scotland to help create a northern economic counterweight to stop London from sucking the life out of the rest of the country

UN Report Identifies 30 Drone Strikes That Require Public Explanation | Common Dreams

Russia has revealed it sold a record $11.3bn in foreign currency to support the rouble on March 3, during a "Black on Monday" of panic selling over the crisis in Ukraine | The Russian central bank sold foreign currency to buy roubles and prevent the Russian currency from falling further in value.

Russia Threatens to Seize US Assets if Sanctions are Made

No more national parks as Tony Abbott pledges to support loggers as the 'ultimate conservationists'

"It is not appropriate to invade a country and at the end of a barrel of a gun dictate what you are trying to achieve. That is not 21st-century, G-8, major-nation behavior."- John Kerry

Ukraine crisis: Ukrainians rush to join military - Ukraine has called up its reserves even though Russian invasion has so far been bloodless

A US drone strike in northern Yemen on Wednesday killed four suspected Al-Qaeda members, including an Iraq veteran, a military official said.

Commander of the Ukrainian Navy threw a Russian Vice Admiral into a stupor : "Russians do not surrender!"

Hamas Outlawed By Egyptian Court

Russia says cannot order Crimean 'self-defense' units back to base

China to increase military spending by 12.2 percent.

2014-03-06

Russia Today Anchor Resigns Live On Air: I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government which whitewashes the actions of Putin.

Obama Signs Order Declaring Ukraine Crisis an Extraordinary Threat to National Security

Marijuana decriminalization is under "serious consideration": Canada's conservative party

Turkey grants US warship permission to enter Black Sea

A Second Baby seems to have been Cured from HIV. A Clinical Trial with 50 Infected Babies will Start within 3 Months.

U.S., China officials agree Ukraine's territorial integrity important

UN Envoy Not Kidnapped But Threatened By Armed Men In Crimea, Agrees To End Visit

Viktor Yanukovych had heart attack. He's in a hospital in serious condition.

Poor 'live like animals' says Boris's privately educated sister after going on 'poverty safari'

NATO to cancel activities with Russia, step up military cooperation with Ukraine

Rhino with Bullet in its Brain & Hacked Off Horn Wanders for Days Before Being Put Out of its Misery in South Africa, Which is in the Midst of a Rhino Poaching Epidemic

Advanced Heavy Water Reactor is the latest Indian design for a next-generation nuclear reactor that will burn thorium as its fuel

U.S. imposes new sanctions on Russian officials it blames for Ukraine crisis

RT Anchor Quits on Air: An anchor on state-owned television station RT quit on Wednesday. Liz Wahl, an American working in the network's D.C. bureau, said she was born to Hungarian refugees who fled Soviet oppression, and could no longer be "part of a network that whitewashes the actions of Putin."

Russian Federation Council Considering Bill to Confiscate US and European Company Assets in Russia in Case of Sanctions

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has likened Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions on the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine to those of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.

Kyiv University invites Russian professor who was fired by Putin

Estonia denies leaked call implicates Ukraine protesters in killings

UK, US, Ukraine insist on direct talks between Moscow and Kiev

US drone strike kills 5 Afghan soldiers and wounds 8 at a military post near Kabul

Tim Flannery says coal communities are being kept in dark about dangers. Our government is doing an inquiry into the health impact of wind [turbines], but here weve got this risk with coal. If the federal government expanded their inquiry that would be good start, he said.

Climate Change? Not in Australia..... - Top Bureaucrats in Victorian State Government told not even to use the terms.

Crimean Tatar leader calls on UN forces to intervene and for Crimean Tatars to boycott upcoming referendum

Ukraine signs $10 billion shale gas deal with Chevron

'If we sign up Russia will see Ukraine is determined to defend itself'

2014-03-07

Russian soldiers training in Canada given 24 hours to leave country

Court in Lebanon rules that Homosexuality is "not a crime, nor against nature" in historic ruling

China "concerned" after North Korean missile test comes dangerously close to hitting Chinese airliner with 200 passengers onboard

Uganda president wants poachers 'shot on sight'

IKEA is in trouble for cutting down 600-year-old trees

India became the first country, supports Russia interests in Crimea

Norway will cut through an island in tribute to massacre victims

Amid Crimea Crisis, Russia Proposes Expanding Citizenship in Ex-USSR - The Russian government has proposed legislation that would grant citizenship to anyone who speaks fluent Russian and had once lived, or who had relatives who lived, on the territory of the Soviet Union [x-post /r/LegalNews]

A group of Japanese historians Friday stood behind their governments 1993 apology over wartime sex slavery, slamming Tokyos possible move to revise it as unforgivable.

Saudi Arabia designates Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist group: Interior Ministry

Edward Snowden delivers testimony to the European Parliament

Russia says new troops weren't deployed to Crimea, but this soldier's social media photos suggest otherwise

Russia Starts Massive Air Defense Drills Amid Crimea Standoff

Moscow: Bill Criminalizing 'False Anti-Russian Information' in the Works

Great Barrier Reef Faces 'Irreversible' Damage: Report

Russian soldiers training in Canada given 24 hours to leave country

After 12 years of war, labor abuses rampant on US bases in Afghanistan: More than a year after Obamas executive order outlawing forced labor on US military bases, exploitation remains

Turkey's prime minister has given warning that his government could ban social media networks YouTube and Facebook after a number of online leaks added momentum to a growing corruption scandal.

Ukraine crisis: US sends F-16 fighter jets to Poland

EU slaps initial sanctions on Russia

EU and US start Russia sanctions, call Crimea referendum illegal

EU urges to investigate cases of people killed by snipers in Kiev

Interpol says Ukraine seeks wanted notice for Yanukovich arrest

Your porn is not Canadian enough, Canadian Radio & Television Commision warns erotica channels

Malaysian couple to hang for starving Indonesian maid to death

2014-03-10

Russian troops fire at Ukraine military post

The man who witnessed Steve Irwin's dying moments has described for the first time how a massive stingray wildly stabbed the conservationist 'hundreds of times'.

Kim Jong-un calls for execution of 33 Christians

Ukraine may have to go nuclear, says Kiev lawmaker

Ukraine crisis: US will not recognise Crimea referendum, says ambassador: Washington threatens further action against Russia if Vladimir Putin uses poll to legitimise military occupation, says Kiev envoy

Ukraine Sticky Post

Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Passengers' Mobile Phones Ring But Not Answered

Mexico kills drug kingpin reported dead years ago: official

26 Disquieting Photos Of Armed Russians Still Surrounding Ukrainian Soldiers In Crimea.

Desmond Tutu: Israel guilty of apartheid in treatment of Palestinians | JPost

[Ukraine] A hotel and two cars belonging to Crimean Tatars have been burned down in Russian-occupied Crimea [Photos + Video]

Russia Welcomes the US Destroyer Truxtun, by Moving Bastion Anti-Ship Missiles to Crimea

Chinese courts acquitted a total of 825 people out of almost 1.16 million verdicts last year, a conviction rate of 99.93 percent.

Limbs broken, forced to eat feces, Chinese officials say they were tortured into false graft confessions

Kenya's President declares to cut his salary by 20% and to cut cabinet ministers salaries by 10%

Abuse Victims Should Be Able To Sue Catholic Church, Says Cardinal Pell

Massive Bombing near Baghdad; 97 Killed 237 Wounded Across Iraq -- Antiwar.com

Sex Workers Have Labor Rights Just Like Any Other Employee, Confirms NZ Court

Low levels of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster likely will reach ocean waters along the U.S. West Coast next month, scientists are reporting.

UN warns of genocide in Central African Republic

Forty-two African migrants have drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Yemen

Global Debt Exceeds $100 Trillion as Governments Binge, BIS Says

Taiwanese Intelligence received warnings of possible terrorist attacks on Beijing's airport days prior to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines 307

Malaysias civil aviation chief clarifies the stolen passport passengers looking like "Mario Balotelli"

US transfers $429m to Israel for Iron Dome - Globes English

2014-03-11

Swedish reporter shot dead in Afghanistan

ABC News reports a satellite imaging company out of Denver, Colorado is crowdsourcing the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Help search for the missing plane using satellite images shot this weekend.

Anti-war protest in Moscow: "Ukrainians, forgive us" [video]

Israeli troops shoot dead a Palestinian-Jordanian judge at border crossing

Venezuelans Are Marked With Numbers To Stand In Line At Government Supermarkets:It's hard to get a sense of what a food shortage is like unless you've lived through one, but this tidbit from Venezuela serves as a chilling illustration.

Saudi Arabia has threatened to blockade neighbouring Qatar by air, land and sea unless Doha cuts ties with Egypts Muslim Brotherhood, closes global channel al-Jazeera, and expels local branches of the US Brookings Institution and Rand Corporation think tanks.

Snowden has shown the 'huge disparity of surveillance and power', says Gellman | Government needs reminding that they work for us, says Pulitzer-winning reporter Barton Gellman, who describes Edward Snowden as ending an era of indifference to surveillance.

MH370 detected above Malacca Straits at 2.40am

A report by the United Nations Human Rights Council has called for independent investigations to be carried out into drone attacks after a series of strikes that result in unexpected civilian deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere. Most of the attacks involved US drones.

New Zealand plans vote on changing national flag

Malaysian Military official tells Reuters plane flew for more than an hour after vanishing from air traffic control screens

PILOT: I'm Not Surprised There Was No Mayday Call From The Missing Malaysia Plane

Turkey clashes after 15 year old boy hurt at Istanbul Gezi Park protest dies

Two Russian cosmonauts, U.S. astronaut head back to Earth

Live: China deploys satellites to find missing Malaysian plane

Malaysia military tracked missing plane to west coast: source

Explosion at Power Plant in Novokuznetsk, Russia, video in link.

UN warns world must produce 60% more food by 2050 to avoid mass unrest

A Chilean woman was shot dead while clearing a barricade put up by anti-government protesters, the first foreign fatality during a month of civil unrest in Venezuela, authorities said on Monday.

Palestinian refugees starving to death in Syrian camp, human rights groups say

Chinas billionaire politicians quadruple their wealth - "Despite their low official government salaries, at this weeks National Peoples Congress annual meeting, there will be 86 renminbi billionaires and Chinas richest politicians have quadrupled their wealth in the past eight years."

Four suspended after video shows workers bludgeoning turkeys with shovel [Canada]

Kim Jong-Uns sister, Kim Yo-Jong, makes first official appearance

Thousands protest after Swedish activist stabbed

North Korea reportedly tries to sell border-town land to Chinese investors

2014-03-12

220,000 troops, 1,800 tanks, 400 helicopters on Ukraine border as Russia launches exercise of 4000 elite paratroopers and 36 planes.

Australian makes protesting illegal and fines protesters $600 and can gaol (jail) up to 2 years

A girl who was kidnapped 7 months ago in Spain has turned up alive in the depths of the Amazon rainforest

Russia has lost more money in one day as a result of the Ukraine crisis than it spent preparing for the Sochi Games

Gay sex just got decriminalized in Lebanon

Poland moves to reduce dependence on Russian gas

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, calls for a global Digital Bill of Rights to protect Internet users from surveillance.

Body wearing lifejacket reported found off MalaccaThe Beijing News reports a source claiming to be a local volunteer assisting in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has found a dead body wearing a lifejacket

How the NSA Plans to Infect Millions of Computers with Malware

Masked guards seized computers from three Norwegian journalists and labelled them as spies as they attempted to leave Crimea

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 turned 290 degrees and headed to Indonesia for at least 2 hours after contact lost near Vietnam

A photographic view of how a faceless militia is operating in Ukraine right now. They are, "Believed to be Russian soldiers."

Venezuelan student leader shot dead at protest

Chinese ridicule Malaysias recruitment of witch doctor to track missing plane

Barrage of rockets launched from Gaza to Israel | i24news

Japan wants to dump radioactive water from Fukushima in sea

Malaysias air force chief denies saying MH370 detected over Malacca strait

Turkey: thousands gather at funeral of Berkin Elvan, 14, who died after being wounded by a police tear gas canister

Russian oligarchs and Vladimir Putin are likely to escape sanctions over the occupation of Ukraine, UK government admits

Missing MH370: Hopes as fishermen find life raft

Israel ends ultra-Orthodox military service exemptions

'Tell us the truth': Chinese families hurl water bottles at Malaysian airline staff before clueless officials admit the plane is anywhere within a 27,000 square nautical mile area and change their mind over when it was last seen again

Turkish boy hurt in anti-government protests dies nine months later | Berkin Elvan, then aged 14, got caught up in street battles between police and protesters after going out to buy bread for his family. He was struck in the head with a suspected police tear-gas canister and went into a coma.

Ukraine says will not fight Russia over Crimea

The World Wide Web is 25 years old today!

2014-03-13

Australia: Coalition Lies to UN in Order to Strip Tasmanian Forest of Heritage Listing so it Can be Developed - Photos show 90% of the 74,000 hectares the govt claims is degraded are ecologically pristine forests

Uncovered in Jerusalem, 9 tiny unopened Dead Sea Scrolls

U.S. Investigators Suspect Missing Airplane Flew On for Hours

MH370: BBC have just broadcast this satellite image which Chinese officials believe could be wreckage from Flight MH370.

A man who found his computer infected with ransomware demanding payment of 13,000 or face jail decided to take his own life and that of his four-year-old son | The report comes from the Romanian commune of Movila Miresii, made up of three small villages and located in the east of the country.

Misbehaving bankers and their bosses will have to hand back bonuses up to six years after they pocketed the cash under a proposed rule from the Bank of England to prevent excessive risk-taking

One of VICE's journalists, Matthew Power, has died in Uganda.

WWF reports a full year without a single incident of poaching in Nepal

Israel ends military exemption for ultra-Orthodox

Europe says US-made cheeses can't use Old World names

Europe Passes Deal to Enforce Standard Mobile Phone Charger

After Crimea, Sweden Flirts With Joining NATO: "Sweden's top general estimated in 2013 that the country could only defend itself for a week if attacked."

Three EU Countries Hit 2020 Renewable Benchmarks Early | Sweden leads the way for all EU members with 51 percent of its energy coming from renewables.

London zoo celebrates birth of rare Sumatran tiger cubs (around 300 left in wild)

Animals See Power Lines as Glowing, Flashing Bands, Research Reveals - Pylons & wires that stretch across many landscapes are having a worldwide impact on wildlife

Russia Massing Military Forces Near Border With Ukraine

US NSA: stop mass surveillance now or face consequences, MEPs say

Uruguay planning to sell legally cloned marijuana by years end

Russian President Vladimir Putin's approval rating has soared to a three-year high following the political crisis in Ukraine and an upcoming regionwide referendum on whether Crimea should secede from Ukraine and return to Russia.

Philippines Military evades Chinese sea blockade to airdrop food to soldiers on a tiny and remote shoal claimed by both countries

Russia and Iran agree: Russia will build 2 Nuclear plants in Iran

Google has given UK security services 'special access' to monitor YouTube including power to "flag swaths of content at scale instead of only picking out individual videos"

Canadian soldiers formaly end mission in Afghanistan after 12 years.

Vietnam searchers find nothing at the debris site marked by the Chinese

Unidentified gunmen seized the bank in the center of Kiev

2014-03-14

A draft European law requiring all phones sold in the EU to be compatible with a common charger was approved by the European Parliament yesterday.

Russia Is Preparing to Invade East Ukraine, Estonia Says

MH370: US officials said that because two separate communication systems were shut down separately, the plane did not suffer a catastrophic accident.

Sri Lanka bans Monsanto herbicide citing potential link to deadly kidney disease

Russia blocks internet sites of Putin critics

A Ukrainian army colonel has threatened to open fire on Russian marines unless given new and formal instructions to hold off by his nation's defense ministry.

Radar data suggests missing Malaysia plane flown deliberately toward Andamans

Kerry Gives Russia until Monday to Abandon Crimea. Threatens 'Serious Steps' If They Refuse.

US Army to proceed with planned exercise in Ukraine

Pentagon says flight came down in Indian Ocean.

MH370 transmitted its location repeatedly to satellites over the course of five hours after it disappeared from radar, people briefed on the matter said, as searchers zeroed in on new target areas hundreds of miles west of the plane's original course.

France: Paris makes all public transport free in bid to cut spiralling pollution

Algerian freed from Guantanamo after being held for 12 years without charge.

Malaysian plane: India to search uninhabited islands in Andaman Sea | World news

UN human rights committee criticizes US for long list of human rights abuses from Guantnamo, drone strikes and NSA surveillance, to the death penalty, rampant gun violence and endemic racial inequality

Russia Wipes Opposition Sites From The Internet

Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary Sign Military Pact (x-post /r/europe)

Flamboyant billionaire in India jailed amid heightened scrutiny: Last week, Indias Supreme Court locked up billionaire Subrata Roy in Tihar Jail in New Delhi and demanded at least $3 billion, to be returned to investors, to set him free.

Japan hit by 6.3-magnitude earthquake

Serbian Paramilitaries Join Pro-Russian Forces in Crimea

Toronto doctor smacks down U.S. Senate question on Canadian waitlist deaths

Former Berlusconi secretary arrested with 24 kg of cocaine

UFO sightings soar to new heights in Canada

Over 900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatars World Cup Facilities - The 'International Trade Union Confederation' says that if conditions dont improve, at least 4,000 migrants will die before kick-off

Philippines agrees to let US forces have access to its military bases under new security deal

2014-03-17

A 100-year-old Saudi beggar died leaving a million-dollar fortune behind, secretly amassing a fortune and real estate portfolio over 50 years of begging on the streets of Jeddah that rivaled those of the citys millionaires.

Eight days after Flight MH370 vanished, Malaysian authorities are seeking diplomatic permission to investigate a theory that the Boeing 777 may have been flown under the radar to Taliban-controlled bases on the border of Afghanistan and North West Pakistan, The Independent has learnt.

UN report on North Korea finds 'atrocities like WW2'

Britain's five richest families worth more than poorest 20%

Ukraine Is Training Young Protesters to Fight the Russian Army

Unregulated mining in rural northern Nigeria is causing blindness and paralysis among children and making adults infertile. Farmers are forced to choose between poverty and a slow death by lead poisoning.

Modern civilisation is heading for collapse within a matter of decades because of growing economic instability and pressure on the planets resources, according to a scientific study funded by Nasa.

Ukraine: Neo-Fascist Leader and presidential candidate Dmitry Yarosh Vows to Destroy Russia's Trans-Siberian Pipeline, which supplies Europe with the majority of its gas imports, to Stop 'World War III'

EU votes in favor of universal mobile charger -- 550 votes to 12 says that chargers need to be standardized

Ukrainian radical leader threatens to sabotage Russian pipelines

UN's North Korea Crimes Against Humanity Report Rejected By China

U.S. Navy SEALs Take Control of Oil Tanker Hijacked in Libya

McCain: 'Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country'

Crimea exit poll: Around 93% back Russia union

Crimea Parliament Declares Independence After Vote

Finland condemns 'illegal' Crimean vote

State TV says Russia could turn US to 'radioactive ash'

BBC News - Russia 'planned Wall Street bear raid'

MH370 flew as low as 1,500m to avoid detection, says paper

Civilians stopped a Ukrainian military convoy from entering a city in Donetsk region

Paris makes public transportation free due to smog crisis

EU imposes sanctions over Crimea

Government of Japan refuses to acknowledge Crimea joining Russia

Russia might quit WTO in case of economic sanctions

Obama Says U.S. Will Never Recognize Crimea's Secession Vote

2014-03-18

Putin announces that Russia will annex Crimea into the Russian Federation

Taliban denies MH370 involvement; "We wish we had an opportunity to hijack such a plane," commander says.

Russia Suspended From G8

Birth of the Universe detected by scientists.Proving that the universe expanded by 100 trillion trillion times, in less than the blink of an eye.

Western powers begin process to hold Kim Jung Un accountable for crimes against humanity.

Turkey Warns Russia it Will Blockade Bosphorus if Violence Occurs

Shots fired, officer taken from Ukraine base in Crimea

BBC: A Russian ex-minister Alexander Pochinok dies aged 56, shortly after commenting that annexing Crimea would cost Russia trillions

Japan to impose sanctions on Russia

France warns Russia it could cancel warships deal: France might cancel a controversial deal to sell two state-of-the-art warships to Russia if Britain acts against Russian oligarchs in London, according to the French foreign minister .

NSA surveillance program reaches into the past to retrieve, replay phone calls: 'a surveillance system capable of recording 100 percent of a foreign countrys telephone calls, enabling the agency to rewind and review conversations as long as a month after they take place'

Doku Umarov, anti-Russian Chechen rebel leader, is dead

Qatar World Cup 2022 investigation: former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner and family paid millions by Qatari firm.

Australian Vaccination-Skeptics Network loses its charity status for fundraising over misinformation claims

Russian parliament mocks sanctions - asks US, EU to sanction all its members

First Dozen U.S. Warplanes Arrive In Poland... Russia Deploys 6 SU-27 fighters & 3military Rransport Jets to Belarus

U.S. and U.K. Marked Enemies of the Internet. Press freedom group denounces spy agency surveillance in report.

Burning fireball seen off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes overnight. "It was a bright light and it lit up the whole sky [...] it was almost like a meteor but not the same."

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree recognising Crimea "as a sovereign and independent state"

Armed men, believed to be Russians,dig trenches near the Ukrainian military base in Perevalnoye

'It's great to be back': Last of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan return home

Russian truck manufacturer Kamaz has appealed to Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakhstan authorities for help in recovering a convoy of new trucks, intended for Kazakhstan, which was hijacked in Ukraine yesterday.

Malaysia opposition leader Anwar admits MH370 pilot is his relative

Voice of Russia announces that the chairman of the Transnistrian Parliament asked Russia to allow the breakaway Moldovan republic into the Russian Federation

"Absolutely certain" Russia will invade rest of Ukraine - Ukrainian Admiral

2014-03-19

More Than 900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatars World Cup Facilities | The International Trade Union Confederation says that if conditions dont improve, at least 4,000 migrants will die before kick-off

Putin's top aide mocks US sanctions: 'The only thing that interests me about the US is Tupac, and I don't need a visa for that'.

Putin on Western criticism: "They tell us that we are violating the norms of international law. First of all, it's good that they at least remember that international law exists"

TED Prize winner: Rip veil off corporate criminals - Charmian Gooch, the anti-corruption crusader who co-founded Global Witness, called Tuesday night for action to lift the veil on who owns corporations around the world.

MH370 families dragged away from press conference amid claims they are being imprisoned in hotel rooms

Ukrainian Defense Ministry: military allowed to use arms to protect their lives after serviceman killed in Simferopol

Russia has told the US that Western sanctions over the Crimea dispute are unacceptable, and has threatened consequences.

Ex-dolphin fisherman says Japans hunt and slaughter not age old tradition

China cuts power to North Korean island (X-post /r/NorthKoreaNews)

A man once believed to be one of Sweden's worst serial killers has been freed after spending two decades confined in a mental institution after a string of false murder confessions.

Crimean Tatars Will Have to Vacate Land

Russians reportedly attack two Ukrainian naval units in Crimea

Taiwan's Parliament Building now occupied by citizens (xpost from r/taiwan)

Israels defense minister (Moshe Yaalon) has signaled that his country has abandoned any hope that the United States will solve the Iranian nuclear crisis diplomatically and that he in a reported reversal would now support Israel taking unilateral military action against the Islamic Republic.

Canadian Govt is Forcing Medical Marijuana Patients to Destroy Their Weed - Starting April 1, Canada's 40,000 medical marijuana patients will no longer be able to grow their own weed. Instead, they'll have to turn to the big-time grow ops that are being built & regulated all across the country.

German high-speed trains to be be delivered to five US states - German conglomerate Siemens has won a multi-million-dollar US contract to build high-speed locomotives. Siemens outbid major US rivals in a tender aimed at establishing the first high-speed train services in the US.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatseniuk has said the conflict in Crimea has moved from political to military stage. He has asked the defence minister to organize urgent meeting with Russian, British, US counterparts.

Britain halts military cooperation and arms exports to Russia. In related news, Britain was selling arms to Russia

American Film Crew Escapes Death in Ukraine (with video)

London hospitals have treated 4000 patients for female genital mutilation since 2009

Moldova tells Russia: don't eye annexation here

Full EU Net Neutrality Proposal [pdf]

Kazakhstan recognizes Crimean independence

Turkish Airlines allegedly ships arms to Nigeria, tape reveals. An assistant executive of the airline is allegedly heard saying "I do not know whether these (weapons) will kill Muslims or Christians. I feel sinful" to Prime Minister Erdogan's advisor.

The Great War is still killing: two people dead and another two wounded in Ieper (Belgium) when a WW I shell explodes.

2014-03-20

Guy buys golden egg for $13,000. Turns out to be a Faberge egg worth $33.3 million.

Tech Giants Knew About Prism All Along, the NSA's Top Lawyer Says

Man in his early 20s 'woke to find MP Nigel Evans raping him'

BP wins new US oil contracts four years after Deepwater Horizon disaster - wins 24 bids to begin exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, just days after authorities lifted a year-long ban

Exclusive: Uruguay may import marijuana from Canada. While it waits for weed to grow, the South American country could turn to Canadian pot producers to kickstart its newly legalized marijuana industry.

AMSA (Australian Maritime Safety Authority) has identified two possible objects that might be connected to missing Malaysian plane MH370.

China indicates it may block future action against its staunchest ally, North Korea, slamming human rights critics as "divorced from reality". Furthermore, China will continue deporting Korean refugees to North Korea, even though many of the deported are sent to prison camps and killed.

President Obama: No U.S. Military Action in Ukraine

The Venezuelan government is removing city mayors who oppose President Nicolas Maduro's administration. Yesterday, the mayor of San Cristobal was arrested and the mayor of San Diego removed from office and jailed.

"It's no longer unthinkable to prepare for a major war in Europe, officials and analysts say."

US funding ghost workers across Afghanistan: "I am writing to express my concern that the US may be unwittingly helping to pay the salaries of non-existent members of the Afghan National Police" wrote the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction.

NASA: In 2012 Earth dodged a Solar blast by a mere nine days that would have taken out satellite communications systems, a big chunk of the GPS network, and possibly crashed power grids and computer systems down on the surface.

Moscow signals concern for Russians in Estonia: Russia signaled concern on Wednesday at Estonia's treatment of its large ethnic Russian minority, comparing language policy in the Baltic state with what it said was a call in Ukraine to prevent the use of Russian.

North Korea says UN report on human rights "fabricated"

Uganda's First Lady says she doesn't know any gay cows, so homosexuality doesn't exist...

Australia sees possible plane debris: Two pieces of debris possibly linked to Malaysia flight MH370 seen off Western Australia - Australian PM Tony Abbott

International scholars say that the Canadian government's Elections Act threatens Canadas global reputation as a guardian of democracy and human rights

"Dont pay too much attention to the rhetoric that originates from Washington and Moscow and at meetings between their high-level officials.Trust me as a former Kremlin and government adviser: Behind the scenes it is mostly all handshakes and smiles."

South African president, Jacob Zuma will need to pay back millions for upgrades to personal home in long awaited anti-corruption probe

"Russia's Reality Check": Ruble Bonds Drop Second Day on Sanctions | Markets are reacting in real time to Russias incursion into the Crimea section of Ukraine and plans to annex the Black Sea peninsula.

Fortune magazine names Pope Francis the world's greatest leader "His hardest work lies ahead. And yet signs of a 'Francis effect' abound: In a poll in March, 1 in 4 Catholics said they'd increased their charitable giving to the poor this year. Of those, 77% said it was due in part to the Pope"

U.S. Boycotts U.N. Drone Strike Talks

Russia warns West it may change its stance on Iran

One of the world's largest and most knowledgeable scientific bodies wants to make one point very clear: Just as smoking causes cancer, so too are humanity's greenhouse gas emissions causing the planet to change, with potentially unknown and unalterable impacts.

France has banned the sale, use, and cultivation of Monsanto GMO maize crops

2014-03-21

Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Gets Ready to Run for European Parliament

Microsoft sells your Information to FBI; Syrian Electronic Army leaks Invoices

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Will "Significantly" Restrict Online Freedoms

We Need Three Planets to Keep the Human Race Alive, NASA Scientist Says

The last U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, argues that Russian President Vladimir Putins actions in Ukraine are a response to years of hostility from the United States, including the eastward expansion of NATO, the bombing of Serbia and the expansion of American military bases in Eastern Europe.

First ever female genital mutilation prosecutions announced in UK

Putin calls on billionaires to pay taxes in Russia

Putin orders Russias central bank to help his billionaire friends after U.S. targets them for sanctions

Desalination plant to be built in Gaza - The European Union and UNICEF launched a project Thursday to build a desalination plant in the Gaza Strip to provide 75,000 Palestinians with drinking water

Russia raids Ukrainin factory in southern Russia, halts production. The factory is owned by pro-European MP Petro Poroshenko.

The underlying message from the head of Russia's biggest oil company, Rosneft, was clear: If Europe and the United States isolate Russia, Moscow will look East for new business, energy deals, military contracts and political alliances.

A video of a female Egyptian university student walking through the Cairo University campus while being whistled and shouted at by male students has caused an international and viral backlash against sexual harassment in Egypt

A member of Russia's parliament who voted against annexation of Ukraine's Crimea might be expelled from the Duma

A number of gunman, alleged to be teenagers, enter the five-star Serena Hotel in Kabul with guns in their socks, hide out in the washroom for three hours, then storm the restaurant. Nine diners were killed, including women from Canada and New Zealand. Elite Afghan forces soon dispatched all of them.

In Saudi Arabia, Indonesian maids are on death row for sorcery

Head of Ukraine TV slapped around by politicians, forced to resign on camera

An entire city in Sweden is being relocated to a new site 2 miles away, all thanks to the destructive impact of local mining that is already spreading cracks through the ground Kiruna is built upon.

Ukraine guarantees rights, status of Crimean Tatars | Ukrainian parliament passes bill granting Crimean Tatars status as national minority, regional indigenous population.

The first Ukrainian soldier killed in Russias invasion of Ukraines Crimean peninsula is Serhiy Kokurin, 37, a warrant officer from the Simferopol military unit | Kokurin was on the observation tower and shot in the heart when Russian-backed forces attacked his military unit.

Russia Bewildered by US Sanctions, Warns Retaliation Will Not Take Long

Russian troops have taken over three Ukrainian warships in Crimea, a Ukrainian navy official said, after Moscow's seizure and annexation of the peninsula | V. Seleznyov, a Ukrainian military spokesman, said the Russian forces used stun grenades as they stormed the corvette Ternopol in Sevastopol.

Iraqi cleric who spoke out against terrorism gunned down in Mosul

Satellite images show Iran is building a fake aircraft carrier

Russia to refrain from retaliatory moves against US, Ukraine: Putin

Orange shares all its call data with France's intelligence agency DGSE, according to new Snowden leak

2014-03-24

Egypt court sentences 529 to death

Malayisan PM: "Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean"

Russia ready to annex Moldova region, Nato commander claims

Norway's army is making women share bedrooms with their male colleagues. This has led to a drop in reports of sexual harassment

Two more colossal pharaoh statues unveiled in Egypt

Poll shows half of Finns would support a military union with Sweden

MI5 warns British officials to beware of Russian 'honey traps' as relations worsen over Ukraine

Pope Francis announces the first eight members of a new 'commission for safeguarding minors.' One was abused by a priest in the 1960s and has become a prominent activist working to hold the church accountable.

Russia slams Germany for halting arms deal

Turkey becomes first country ever to ban Google DNS (x-post from /r/Turkey)

China is now claiming parts of Indonesia as its sovereign territory.

Japan to Let U.S. Assume Control of Nuclear Cache

Ukraine fears Russian invasion imminent

Chinese man jailed after he applied for permission to protest on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

India Beats The Odds, Beats Polio: "Rukhsar Khatoon is... a last in a country of 1.2 billion people. Rukhsar, 4, is the final documented case of polio in India."

Ebola outbreak in Guinea kills dozens, spreads to capital

Hamid Karzai announces support for Russia's annexation of Crimea, making Afghanistan the third country (after Syria & Venezuela) to publicly back Russia's actions.

As many as 32,000 kids infected with drug-resistant TB: report

Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde to run for European Parliament from Finland

Students storm the Executive Yuan (executive branch of gvmt.), an escalation of events surrounding the protest of the Trade Agreement with China, one of the biggest student movements to date in Taiwan.

Brazil set to send army into Rio slums as violence escalates before World Cup

MH370: Australian ship trying to recover 'objects' - live updates

Norwegian ex-PM to be next NATO Secretary General

Russia moves in to take over a 3rd military base in Crimea

Anti-Chinese propaganda on display at North Korean military academy

2014-03-25

Solar Power Is Now Just As Cheap As Conventional Electricity In Italy And Germany

Russian thugs beat up St Patricks flashmob after mistaking it for gay activists

U.S., other powers kick Russia out of G8

Jimmy Carter: "I have become convinced that the most serious and unaddressed worldwide challenge is the deprivation and abuse of women and girls."

Australia, Tony Abbot says, has too much locked-up forest. Mr Abbott wants to open up a swathe of Australias most fought-over forest and hand it to loggers.

Qatar 2022 World Cup expected to take more lives than 9/11

Ukraine to take Russia to the International Court...

Head of Public Relations for the 2022 Qatar World Cup sent an angry letter to Deadspin regarding their "Report: Qatars World Cup will Take More Lives Than 9/11" article

Bloomberg editor quits over China story. Editors did not publish an investigative article on Chinese elites due to fears that Bloomberg would be expelled from the country. Bloomberg relies heavily on sales of its financial data terminals in the country.

Genocidal War in Darfur Revealed in New Satellite Photos - Latest images taken from space are grim indeed.

UK To Start Buying Gas From Russia Despite Threats Of Sanctions Over Crimea

Most Face Masks In China Don't Work And Pollution Is Getting Worse

Sweden has designed a warplane so sophisticated it is being heralded as the world's first "sixth-generation" fighter.

Russian TV Anchor Accuses Jews Of Bringing Holocaust On Themselves

Russia Gets Ready for Life Without Visa and MasterCard

UN calls on Turkey to stop blocking Twitter

Russia's Economy Ministry releases expected first quarter figures. GDP growth of "around zero", 7% inflation, capital flight of $65-70 billion. Mostly due to lost investor confidence, not sanctions.

WHO Report: 1 in 8 of all global deaths in 2012 was linked to polluted air

More Allies Are Cutting Orders for the Pentagon's Costly New Fighter Jet

Russia offers India crude oil supplies, stakes in blocks in the Barents Sea (Arctic Ocean)

G-7 to hold June summit in Brussels instead of G-8 meeting in Russia

Time to grab guns and kill damn Russians Tymoshenko in leaked audio recording

'I have been beaten': The Uzbek president's daughter smuggles a letter to the BBC

UK: HMRC criticised for using terror laws against tax whistleblower | Public accounts committee chair says tax official's use of powers to track down journalist had 'shocked her to the bones'.

Egyptian television celebrates mass death sentence

2014-03-26

Brazil passes Internet governance Bill: Brazil has made history with the approval of a post-Snowden Bill which sets out principles, rights and guarantees for Internet users.

Kenya to use drones to fight elephant, rhino poachers

Icelanders can now each claim $400 worth of Auroracoin, the country's new digital currency "The goal is to decentralize power and revive Iceland's local economy, given that the kroner has fallen dramatically in value in recent years. Iceland was hard hit by the 2008 global financial crisis ..."

As Turkey censors Internet, Tor adds 10,000 new users per day - Turkeys online censorship and banning of Twitter is fueling mass adoption of Tor, the most popular anonymity network online, as a tool to circumvent government obstruction

The head of Russia's largest bank, the state owned Sberbank, has warned that Russia is now at risk of recession

Guardian threatened with closure over Snowden leaks, conference told.

Pope Francis has formally accepted the resignation of a senior German Church leader suspended over his alleged lavish spending.

Ukrainian Women Have Launched a Sex Strike Against Russian Men

Swedish hotel denies breakfast to Roma guest | A Swedish expert invited by the government to speak at the release of its white paper on Roma discrimination was on Tuesday denied entry to the breakfast room at Stockholm's Sheraton hotel. She had to drink her coffee in the lobby.

Female polio vaccinator, mother of 5, has been found dead after being kidnapped and tortured in Peshawar, Pakistan.

The Ecuadorian lawyer representing small farmers trying to force Chevron to pay damages for pollution in the Amazon rainforest says he has received death threats

NSA, FBI, DIA Sued over Refusal to Disclose U.S. Role in Imprisonment of Nelson Mandela

A Contiguous 12-Country Coalition is Building the 'Great Green Wall of Africa' to span 5,000 Miles Across the Continent and Slow Desertification

Something rotten in the Metropolitan Police: Corrupt officers may escape justice thanks to mass shredding of evidence

Comet lander set to wake up: A fridge-sized robot lab hurtling through the Solar System aboard a European probe is about to wake from hibernation and prepare for the first-ever landing by a spacecraft on a comet.

New York Times report: Pakistani officials knew about bin Ladens whereabouts

India tests new underwater nuclear missile

Russian military holds exercises in breakaway Moldova region

Catalonia independence vote ruled unconstitutional

The war in Syria is not only a war without end. It is a war without international humanitarian law - statistics tell their own story. Out of a population of 22 million, 9 million Syrians have been displaced from their homes. 130,000 are dead

Missing plane hunt for 'new objects': A further 122 objects potentially from missing Malaysian flight identified by satellite, Malaysian minister says. The images, taken on 23 March, showed objects up to 23m (75 ft) in length, he said.

Ebola Outbreak in Guinea is Suspected to be the Deadly Zaire Strain, Which Kills Approximately 80 Percent of Hosts

The Russian Navy Now Controls Ukraine's Combat Dolphin Program

Greece seeks war reparations from Berlin Move to claim $7bn awarded to Greece in 1946 over Nazi crimes comes amid growing anti-German sentiments over austerity

War without weapons: Russia singles out Canada over tough line

2014-03-27

Turkey bans YouTube

Estonias President suggestion on how to deal with Russia: go after the Kremlins banks like youd go after a terrorists, question the legitimacy of Russian passports, and never doubt Putins taste for territory.

Catholic bishop who blew $300,000 on a fish tank and $900,000 on LED lighting blames his deputy for lavish spending

Prepare for War in 2015, Kim Jong-un Tells Officers

In Turkey, leaked recording surfaces on Syria war policy

G7 warns Russia of more sanctions if Ukraine crisis escalates

Monsanto Forced to Withdraw Unsubstantiated Advertising Claims on Benefits of GM Crops in South Africa

Barack Obama, the US president, has expressed concerned about cutbacks in European defence spending, telling NATO members in Brussels that "everyone has to be chipping in" to defend the continent's borders, sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Dwarf planet discovery hints at a hidden Super Earth in solar system - The body, which orbits the sun at a greater distance than any other known object, may be shepherded by an unseen planet

Japanese court has decided to release a man on death row for more than 30 years in a high-profile murder case based on new DNA evidence.

Liberia declares Ebola outbreak a national emergency

Soyuz rocket carrying expedition 39 to the ISS has had technical difficulties. An engine burn did not occur as planned and the 6 hour trip will now take 2 days

South Korea Seizes North Korean Boat Amid New Tensions

World now 80% polio free, World Health Organization says: The World Health Organization has declared its South East Asia region polio-free. The certification is being hailed a "historic milestone" in the global fight to eradicate the deadly virus.

North Korea Calls South Korean President 'Blabbering Peasant Woman' In Unhinged Rant

Swiss decide against Russian sanctions

Obama Defends Iraq Invasion: At Least America 'Sought' To Get UN Backing

(Norway)Planned military activities with Russia suspended

UN Human Rights Committee Says International Human Rights Treaty Applies to US Worldwide Surveillance

IMF agrees to $14-18 billion bailout for Ukraine, to rise to $27 billion over the next two years.

Russian officials dump iPads over spy fears

Canadian Mayor Rob Ford Says Scandals are Old News During Debate - Says people no longer interested in the drug scandal surrounding him after the front-runners trying to replace him said he has embarrassed Toronto & ruined its reputation

Ukraine agrees to 50% gas price hike: Ukraine's interim gov't says it will raise gas prices for domestic consumers by 50% in an effort to secure an IMF aid package. An official at Naftogaz state energy company said the price rise would come in on 1 May ... further rises would be scheduled until 2018

Pakistan court sentences Christian man to death for blasphemy

Black money: India threatens to take action against Switzerland

2014-03-28

UN Slams US for torture, NSA spying

Russia to raise price of Ukrainian gas 80%

UK Government: DVD and CD ripping will be legalized this summer

Ukraine says 100,000 Russian troops near border

Russia is "growing concerned" about well-being of Germans, Czechs, Hungarians and other minorities in Ukraine.

A senior military academic is warning Europe is staring down the barrel of its biggest war since 1945. And it could start in days, as Russian forces mass on the border with Ukraine

Sochi Resembles a Ghost Town Just Weeks after Olympics

Russia agrees to turn over some weapons, military equipment in Crimea to Ukraine

If Wolves are Protected in France, Why are They Being Hunted? - Wolves were originally hunted to extinction by farmers in France back in the 1930s. In 1992 a mating pair crossed the border from Italy. It is now estimated there are around 300 individuals in 25 packs across France.

WHO declares India a polio-free nation

Russian Border Buildup Stokes Worries - "Russian troops massing near Ukraine are actively concealing their positions and establishing supply lines that could be used in a prolonged deployment."

Recording posted on YouTube in which officials heard discussing plot to establish a justification for military strikes in Syria rattles Turkey.

Obama urges Russia to pull back troops from Ukrainian border

U.S. Tries To Stop India's Solar Policy While Pushing Fight Against Climate Change

Turkey YouTube Ban: Full Transcript of Leaked Syria 'War' Conversation (FALSE Flag Plan) Between Erdogan Officials

Denmark offers F-16 patrols to Baltic states, in response to Russian incursion.

Pentagon: Russian Forces on Ukraine's Border Not Conducting Routine Exercises

Kenya: Muslim MP says "homosexuality just as serious as terrorism"

World's Biggest Coal Company, World's Biggest PR Firm Pair Up To Promote Coal For Poor People. In the 1990s, Burson-Marsteller was involved in forming a "smoker's rights" front group known as the National Smokers Alliance, funded by the tobacco industry

Norway's Former Premier Jens Stoltenberg to Be New Chief of NATO

Pakistani Christian gets death in blasphemy case

'The Guardian' reporting of Snowden leaks threatened with closure, conference told

President Obama announces plan to dismantle NSA phone record database | The Verge

Yanukovich calls for referendum on each Ukrainian region

Turkish foreign minister calls Syria security leak a declaration of war

2014-03-31

The UN's International Court of Justice has ruled that Japan's Antarctic whaling programme is not for scientific purposes

BBC News - North and South Korea exchange fire across western sea border

10,000-year-old settlement found in Cork

NSA Infiltrated RSA Security More Deeply Than Thought

Germany ready to reinforce Nato-Russia borders

World court says Japan's Antarctic whaling program is not for scientific purposes

No proof torture helped US find Osama bin Laden, Senate report concludes

Israel bulldozes Palestinian homes, mosque

Silk Road closure fails to dampen illegal drug sales online, experts say

India creates own drug to treat gangrene, to be available in a year

Members of the UN's climate panel say that their report provides overwhelming evidence of the scale of global warming

UN court rules against Japan whaling

Obama weighs sending shoulder-fired missiles to Syrian rebels

Moving quickly to envelop Crimea in the Russian bureaucracy and economy, the Kremlin announced plans on Monday to nearly double retirement pensions paid to the elderly on the peninsula, raising them to the average levels paid in Russia.

South African President Jacob Zuma refuses to pay back hundreds of millions on upgraded personal residence

Poland seeks to avoid Russian 'gas blackmail'

Russia returns captured submarine to Ukraine, says that sub stopped being relevant on the battlefield since the 80-s. Sub will have to be towed to Ukraninan side by tugboat.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister tweets photo in Crimea saying, "Crimea is ours, and thats that."

2 Morsi supporters sentenced to death. They are accused of throwing a kid and a young man off a building in Alexandria.

Pilots daughter says UK tabloid made up MH370 report

Health authorities in Guinea are facing an "unprecedented epidemic" of Ebola, an international aid group warned Monday as the death toll from the disease that causes severe bleeding reached 78.

India, Russia sign Rs 2,600 crore (USD 430 million) deal for anti-tank ammunition

Ebola outbreak spreads to Liberia after killing 70 in Guinea

Germany Mulls Military Support for NATO's Eastern European States

MH370: Hopes dashed as orange objects turn out to be fishing equipment

2014-04-01

Opposition ballots found in trash bags in southern Turkey

Mexican marines kill leader of Knights Templar drug cartel

Saudi Arabia Doubles Down on Atheism; New Laws Declares It Equivalent to Terrorism -- "non-believers are assumed to be enemies of the Saudi state"

Lithuania bans Russian TV station over 'lies'

New Leaks Show NSA, GCHQ Infiltrating Private German Companies

Germany returns art stolen by Nazis in 1939 to Poland

Chinas high-speed rail is so popular, its hurting the domestic airline industry.

British sniper in Afghanistan kills six Taliban with one bullet

Lufthansa pilots strike. 3,800 flights cancelled.

Russia warns Kiev against NATO integration: Russia warned Ukraine against integration with NATO on Tuesday, saying Kiev's previous attempts to move closer to the defence alliance had had unwelcome consequences.

Campaign calls for Paris love locks to be banned. An estimated 700K padlocks now attached to locations across French capital; weight could risk structural integrity of the citys architecture.

US accuses China of provoking Philippines

Nato plans stronger military ties to ex-Soviet states: Ministers consider joint exercises with Azerbaijan, Armenia and Moldova after annexation of Crimea

Ocean Garbage Thwarts Flight 370 Search - "The ocean is like a plastic soup, bulked up with the croutons of these larger items. It's like a toilet bowl that swirls but doesn't flush." Australian PM pledges search will continue indefinitely, despite obstacles.

'Torture was not essential to find bin Laden, US Senate report will find

Ukraine crisis: No sign of Russian troop pullout - Nato

Afghanistan: 7 militants blown up while making roadside bombs in mosque

Gazprom hikes Ukraine gas price by a third: "The company's CEO says the change was because Kiev has failed to pay its bills. ... the price of Russian gas for Ukraine has gone up to $385.5 per 1,000 cubic metres in the second quarter of 2014 from the previous rate of $268.5."

Ehud Olmert, former Israeli prime minister, found guilty of bribery: Israel's former prime minister is expected to go to jail after a judge convicted of him of receiving 190,000 in bribes and accused him of lying in court

The potential threats posed by coal and natural gas projects to the Great Barrier Reef are sparking everything from lawsuits to tweets from Hollywood stars. Theyre also prompting close scrutiny from investors as a global campaign against fossil fuels gains momentum.

To replace drone strikes, US to give Yemen Hellfire-armed crop dusters

Unidentified drone crashed on South Korean border island, suspected to be of North Korean origin

Russia Raises Salaries and Pensions for Crimeans

U.S. ambassador to India resigns after diplomatic row

Journalists increasingly under fire from hackers: Google researchers show 21 out of 25 top news organizations hit by state-sponsored attacks.

2014-04-02

An 8.0 magnitude earthquake has struck offshore Northern Chile - Live coverage inside.

Japan Halts Whaling Program in Response to International Court Ruling

Putin Divorces Wife after 30 Years

A suspected World War II bomb exploded in the Thai capital as scrap metal workers tried to cut it open with a blow torch

March Was First Month Without U.S. Fatalities in Iraq or Afghanistan In 11 Years

MPs criticise BBC over climate change reporting. "Some editors appear to be particularly poor at determining the level of scientific expertise of contributors in debates, for instance, putting up lobbyists against top scientists as though their arguments on the science carry equal weight."

Exxon Mobil says climate change unlikely to stop it selling fossil fuels: oil giant issues report on risks that climate policies could pose to the value of its assets and future profitability

Bombs explode outside of Cairo University

Pro-gov suppliers, not cats, cut off electricity on election night in Turkey

Researchers testing a real-life human-to-dolphin translator have reported the first successful use of their technology in the wild, with a bottlenose dolphin pointing out a piece of nearby seaweed to a scientist in the water.

Ukraine crisis: Poland asks Nato to station 10,000 troops on its territory

Ebola virus has spread from Guinea into Liberia and possibly Sierra Leone, as well as Guinea's capital, Conakry, which has a population of two million people. Senegal has closed its land border with Guinea.

Turkey's Riot Police Use Water Cannons on Vote Fraud Protesters

A newspaper editor in Vologda posted a tongue-in-cheek letter to Putin, asking him to help topple the Russian city's 'corrupt oppressors.' He now faces 6 years in prison under charges of extremism.

Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych: Crimea a part of Ukraine: Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraines ousted president, calls Russias annexation of Crimea a tragedy and says he hopes the Black Sea peninsula can come back under Ukraines fold someday.

Bulgaria wary as Russia steps up military flights over Black Sea

Russia's Last Independent TV Channel Is Fighting For Its Life, Asks For Help to Raise Funds

Turkish Constitutional Court ruled that Twitter ban is unconstitutional The high court issued same ruling, deeming the ban unlafwul, one week ago, only to be dismissed by the Turkish government

Russia has threatened to retaliate against US diplomatic missions after JPMorgan Chase blocked a money transfer from a Russian embassy, in the clearest political fallout so far from sanctions imposed over the annexation of Crimea last month

Amnesty Reports Dozens of Venezuela Torture Accounts

Five days of rowdy protests in a southern Chinese city against a planned chemical plant have forced the authorities onto the back foot and underscored that breakneck economic growth no longer rides roughshod over public opinion in the world's second largest economy.

Evacuations as Peru volcano rumbles to life, occurs just hours before 8.0 earthquake near Chile

1/4 of Europe's Bumblebee Species Risk Extinction: Largely because of climate change & intensive farming, says the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

China "prefers to negotiate with countries individually, rather than in international forums", accounting for Chinese action in Pacific. China says it was "provoked" by Philippines' request for UN arbitration- calls international dispute resolution "illegal and unreasonable".

Nigeria: Muslims torch Christian church

2014-04-03

European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law, along with major roaming reforms

Australia's government is considering making it illegal to boycott a company for environmental reasons

EU votes net neutrality into law, abolishes mobile roaming charges "Blocking and throttling Internet traffic will become illegal in the European Union following a parliamentary vote on Thursday ... The package also abolishes roaming charges for mobile phone use in the EU."

Massive 7.8 earthquake (aftershock of yesterdays 8.2 quake) just hit 40km from Iquique, Chile. Damage and injuries are very likely to occur. [Live updates in article]

Norwegian skydiver almost hit by a meteorite (caught on tape)

US secretly created 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest and undermine government

US Food Aid Already Being Sold on Black Market Websites in Ukraine - US sent 300,000 food rations to the Ukrainian army, some of which are now going for a dollar a meal on the web.

NASA suspends collaboratation with Russia (except for ISS) over the situation in Ukraine

Russia signs economic development and trade deal with North Korea

North Korean intelligence official tells of aborted coups and assassination attempts: One of only a handful of North Korean intelligence officials ever to have escaped the country paints a dark portrait of plotting and factions in Pyongyang

Billionaire Ukrainian industrialist indicted in Chicago on bribery charges for "participating in an international racketeering conspiracy involving at least $18.5 million in bribes to government officials in India to allow the mining of titanium minerals"

1/4 of Europe's Bumblebees, Vital to Crops, Face Extinction

NATO's Europe plans alarm Russia.

Majority of Russians and Americans View Each Other's Country Negatively, Polls Show

Syria says Russia re-establishing multipolar world

Switzerland snubs U.S. effort to sanction Russian billionaires

Saudi Arabia labels atheists as terrorists

South Africa's government will distribute coloured and flavoured condoms among students to end "condom fatigue", the health minister has said.

Iran, Russia working to seal $20 bln oil-for-goods deal - sources

The FBI has completed of review of the in-home flight simulator that belonged to the captain of the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet and found nothing suspicious whatsoever.

Despite having been given $50 million in aid by Russia back in 2009, in retaliation for Russia taking over Crimea, the tiny Pacific microstate of Tuvalu scrapped its recognition of the Russian protectorates of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and established diplomatic relations with Georgia.

South Korea investigates two suspected North Korean drones, containing a camera which has aerial pictures of Seoul and military bases along the west of the border

Mexico's government has taken down almost the entire leadership of one of the country's most vicious drug cartels, but it can barely savor victory amid rising violence around the capital

Armed men abduct Chinese, Philippine women from Malaysia resort: reports

Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson banned from flying to US after admitting drug use

2014-04-04

NASA detects ocean inside Saturn Moon, potential home for extraterrestrial microbes

McDonald's Closes Crimea Restaurants - Offers to relocate staff who wish to move to Ukraine.

Ukraine detains 12 riot police on suspicion of 'mass murder'

The White House confirms a US government aid agency was behind a text-message service that was allegedly designed to foment unrest in Cuba

On Sunday, Nigeria will overtake South Africa and become Africa's biggest economy.

Russia furious at Hitler comparison - The German finance minister's comparison of Crimea's takeover with the Nazi annexation of Sudetenland in 1938 has incensed Russia. German Chancellor Angela Merkel distanced herself from the statement.

CIA torture report: Dianne Feinstein called its findings "shocking" and the CIA's behavior "in stark contrast to our values as a nation"

Crimea: no more McDonald's or methadone after annexation: Russia's annexation of Crimea sees shutdown of fast food chain and discontinuation of methadone programme for drug users

U.S. Pushes Canada to Loosen Privacy Laws

North Korean drones are analyzed, they contained pictures of Seoul, military bases in Baekryong island, and the Presidential residence. South Korean military denied their origins in March 24th, when one of the drones were initially found.

Report: FIFA threatens to expel Israel over restrictions on Palestinians

Germany opens hearings on U.S. spying

Over 10,000 march in Montreal against austerity; pre-election protest was declared illegal as it began

Korea's Largest Broadcaster Bans Pop Group Song For Using A Japanese Word

South Korean Chaebol buying vast swathes of land in Canada to resurrect the extinct Mammoth

U.S. warns China not to attempt Crimea-style action in Asia

Japan's biggest online retailer, Rakuten, ends whale meat sales

Turkish court lifts YouTube ban

A Mongolian-flagged cargo ship has sunk off the southern coast of South Korea, with most of the 16 North Korean crew members on board missing, and two dead bodies recovered.

Apparently separate outbreak of Ebola discovered in Liberia; reports of infection spreading to Mali.

Canadian-born journalist Kathy Gannon wounded, AP photographer killed on assignment in Afghanistan | CTV News

Ocean discovered on Enceladus may be best place to look for alien life

US allegedly denies VISA to german activist for criticism of the TTIP free-trade agreement.

"China should not doubt the U.S. commitment to defend its Asian allies and the prospect of economic retaliation should also discourage Beijing from using force to pursue territorial claims in Asia in the way Russia has in Crimea, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday [3 April 2014]."

Cambridge University Press refuses to publish book on Putin and his 'cronies' because of libel fears

2014-04-07

India losing 70% voice and call centre business to Philippines

Norway refuses holiday visa to Russian TV's Dmitry Kiselyov, the anchor who recently said Russia was the only country that could reduce US to radioactive rubble

French organic winegrower fined for refusing to spray grapes with pesticide "Giboulot refused to comply with the official instructions on crop spraying on the ground that the insecticide caused collateral damage among pollinating insects, including bees."

Syria's Assad says political Islam project has failed there should be no mixing between political and religious work

UK: Gay conversion therapy should have no place in NHS, says health minister.

Artists install massive poster of childs face in Pakistan field to shame drone operators

Dmitry Medvedev: If the Americans like to eat GMO products, let them eat it then. We dont need to do that; we have enough space and opportunities to produce organic food, he said.

Serious Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, Rumored to be Airborne.

North Korea issues warning, "If a U.S. missile or the South Korean puppet forces' missile falls on any part of the DPRK (North Korea), it will pound all the strongholds of the enemy with merciless shower of missiles to reduce them to ashes"

Italian diplomat arrested for child trafficking

Russian Soldier Kills Ukrainian Naval Officer in Crimea, Ukraine's Defence Ministry Says.

Pro-Russian separatists declare east Ukrainian region independent

Russia regrets NASA halting cooperation, warns of impact on ISS

Russian Court Declares Ban on LGBT Rights Protests Illegal...Appeal to Follow

Ukraine says Putin behind protesters' seizure of state buildings

Snowden to Receive Truth-Telling Prize

Siberia's biggest city turns Red as Communists win mayoral election

FIFA turns down U.S. request to ban Russia from hosting the 2018 World Cup

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a crackdown on "destructive" non-government organisations, saying such groups were behind the mass protests that brought down Ukraine's government.

Legislature of just proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic asks Putin move in peacekeepers

Nigeria becomes Africa's biggest economy

Rwanda on Sunday told France to face up to the "difficult truth" of its role in the 1994 genocide, amid a major diplomatic spat on the eve of commemorations marking the 20th anniversary of the killings.

China Warns US To Stay Out Of Hong Kong Over Democratic Reform

Merkel ally says U.S. assurances on NSA spying 'insufficient'

India to kick off world's biggest election on Monday

2014-04-08

Swedes to give six-hour workday a go: Municipal staff in Gothenburg will act as guinea pigs in a proposed push for six-hour workdays with full pay, with hopes that it will cut down on sick leave, boost efficiency, and ultimately save Sweden money.

School in Canada makes non-vaccinated students stay home to halt the spread of measles

Ukraine Turmoil Leaves Zoo Animals Starving Over 6,000 in dire straits. 114-yr-old Nikolaev Zoo survived 2 world wars, but likely not this. Only enough left for carnivores to eat today & tomorrow. Herbivores will last 1 more week. No medical supplies.

A man with total amnesia has turned up in Norway. He speaks 4 languages, including Russian, and calls himself John Smith.

"No legal means exist to challenge mass surveillance", says NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden

Plane Search Shows World's Oceans Are Full of Trash

Leading environmental scientists say Australia's Tony Abbott has engineered, in less than one year in office, and "environmental train wreck," that could potentially cause irreversible damage to some of the world's most fragile ecosystems.

Philippine top court approves birth control law: "The Philippines highest court approved Tuesday a birth control law that supporters said would transform the lives of millions of poor Filipinos, in a stunning defeat for the powerful Catholic Church."

Quebec has voted the separatist Parti Quebecois out of office. A new majority government will be formed by the Liberal Party.

South Korea, U.S., Japan issue joint warning to North Korea, "If North Korea goes ahead with another nuclear test, we, along with the international community, will make it pay the price for that"

Japan's Biggest Drugmaker Is Hit With $6 Billion Penalty For Concealing Cancer Risks

Edward Snowdens Testimony to European Parliament on NSA [Full Transcript]

Overwhelmed by crime, Argentina declares emergency in Buenos Aires

EU top court rules EU data retention law invalid

Edward Snowden: US government spied on human rights workers

Liechtenstein bank chief shot dead

Ukraine has launched an "anti-terrorist" operation in the eastern city of Kharkiv and about 70 "separatists" have been arrested for seizing the regional administration building

Ebola still spreading, World Health Organisation expects outbreak to last 2-4 months

Anti-semitism on the rise in Europe- Hungarian far-right anti-semitic party wins 20% of the votes

BBC News - Ukraine crisis: Violent brawl at Kiev parliament

EU, Russia, Ukraine and US will hold joint talks in next 10 days, as EU diplomat blames "Russian lobby" for lack of action in Europe

Polish MP is living in London on 100 a week budget to see why so many Poles prefer Britain to their homeland

Tasmanian Forests Set for Logging as Govt Pushes Ahead to Repeal Protection - State plans to tear up historic deal between industry & greens protecting 400,000 hectares of forest, some pristine.

China has surpassed the USA in porn consumption.

Ukraine fears 'Crimea scenario' in east

2014-04-09

Shark fin trade from Hong Kong to China drops almost 90 per cent in one year

Carbon Dioxide Levels Climb Into Uncharted Territory for Humans. The amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has exceeded 402 parts per million (ppm) during the past two days of observations, which is higher than at any time in at least the past 800,000 years

German Chancellor Angela Merkel denied access to her own NSA file

Edward Snowden: Whistleblower 'did complain to NSA' before leaking classified US Government documents

Iraq ready to legalise childhood marriage

Ukraine vows to use force if pro-Russian protesters dont leave occupied buildings

Kim re-elected as North Korean leader

Turkey reports Russian missile systems radar-locked on its F-16s near Syrian border

Voters in South Africa told "those who receive social welfare grants but vote for opposition political parties are stealing from government"

Ukraine's Jews dismiss claims of antisemitism, say Kiev is not in the hands of Neo-Nazis

Kerry focuses blame on Israel for collapse of talks - "The prisoners were not released by Israel on the day they were supposed to be released and then another day passed and another day, and then 700 units were approved in Jerusalem and then poof that was sort of the moment, Kerry said

Syrian insurgents reveal they are using US-made anti-tank missiles. TOWs are likely acquired from regional supporters of the opposition, either Saudi Arabia or Turkey.

Pharaonic seal found in ancient coffin in Israel: Israeli archaeologists unveiled on Wednesday a 3,300-year-old coffin containing a signet ring bearing the name of an Egyptian pharaoh among the remains of what they believe was a local nobleman.

60 People Taken Hostage In Ukraine's East

Dutch priest who refused to leave Syria assassinated at his monastery

"Tensions between China and the United States were on full display on Tuesday [8 April 2014] as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel faced questions in Beijing about America's position in bitter territorial disputes with regional U.S. allies."

US accuses Russia of sending spies into eastern Ukraine to 'create chaos'

WHO says Ebola outbreak in West Africa one of "most challenging"

Italy has rescued 4,000 migrants from boats trying to reach European shores in the past 48 hours in a deepening immigration crisis

'I Will Tear His Head Off': How the Italian Mafia Is Infiltrating Germany - A trial currently underway in Cologne showcases the extent of the Italian Mob's infiltration of German society and the construction business. Critics claim authorities have been far too lax in cracking down on Mafia activity

3rd confirmed North Korean drone found, this time in Samcheok, a town 130 kilometers away from the Border. Drone was found by a herb harvester, who kept his findings to himself until the 2 drones were originally found. North Korea, however, denies involvement.

India's Mars mission crosses half the distance

Crimeans Made Homeless by Annexation Seek Solace in Kiev Asylums

Catalonia independence vote rejected by Spanish MPs

Nordic countries condemn Russia

2014-04-10

Australia rules homeopathic remedies useless

Burger King Expands Into Crimea After McDonald's Exit

Satellite images show Russian military hardware and Spetznaz (special forces) massing at Ukrainian border

Uruguay Wants to Give Marijuana to Prisoners - A leading health official tells UN the country is interested in experimenting with medical marijuana to treat prisoners suffering from cocaine addiction.

MH370 Tragedy: Experts confirm pulse signals are from a black box. Air Chief Marshal (Rtd) Angus Houston, said Wednesday the experts... had confirmed that the 33.31 kHz signals were from the flight data recorder of a black box.

Last Minute Dash to Keep Big Oil from National Park In 2007, for US$3.6 billion investment, Ecuador offered world chance to save 10% of all species on earth by keeping bio hot spot from oil. If enough signatures collected by April 12, voters can decide its fate instead of politicians.

UN piracy experts shot and killed in Somali airport

Netherlands Must Criminalize Downloading, EU Court Rules - It can no longer permit its citizens to freely download copyrighted movies & music without paying. Court rules current system of a "piracy levy" to compensate rights-holders is unlawful.

5 banks sued for gold price manipulation

The biggest swarm of genetically modified mosquitoes ever has been set free in Brazil to combat infectious disease.

Portuguese galleon "Flor de la Mar", which is estimated to have billions of dollars in gold inside, is reported to be found in Indonesia

US troops may be sent to Eastern Europe

Americas overtake Africa as region with most murders: UN report finds nearly 40% of world's murders were committed in Americas in 2012

Russia claims NATO is concerned over an "imaginary threat" that Russia does not pose; the Russians counter-accused NATO of using the Ukraine crisis against Russia and also accused NATO of "Cold War mentality."

UN report details comprehensive country-by-country murder rates. Safest is Singapore, with just one killing per 480,000 people in 2012. In the worlds most violent country, Honduras, a man has a 1 in 9 chance of being murdered during his lifetime.

The second Category 5 cyclone to hit Far North Queensland, Australia in 3 years is less than 24hrs away from hitting land. Wish us well!

Britain wasted 600m of taxpayers' money on useless flu pills stockpiled by Government in case of pandemic - "[the drugs] are no better than paracetamol in relieving flu symptoms and are next to useless in preventing a pandemic."

Russian Duma calls for criminal prosecution of Gorbachev for the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Plane passengers refuse to put on seatbelts, halt deportation of Iranian man

Tamiflu: Millions wasted on bogus drug, claims major report

Russia takes Voice of America radio off air

Secret WW1 spy files have been made available online

Netanyahu Orders Israeli Ministers To Stop Meeting Palestinian Counterparts

Mexico overtakes Japan as No. 2 car exporter to US

Car bomb detonated outside Bank of Greece in Athens

2014-04-11

China Finds Nearly 2,000 Firms in Breach of Anti-pollution Rules - Ministry trying to improve enforcement by using real-time monitoring that'll give govt regulators direct access to data. To invest 40 billion yuan ($6.45 billion) to boost monitoring capacity.

Pastafarians rejoice as Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is granted permission to register as a religion in Poland

'Cherry tree from space' mystery baffles Japan

"State of Palestine" allowed to join Geneva Conventions

Drinking water in China's Lanzhou city unsafe to drink, say authorities - Water in city found to contain levels of benzene, a cancer-inducing chemical, at 20 times above safety levels

German Law professors demand cannabis legalization: Over 120 German professors of criminal law are supporting an initiative to legalize cannabis.

Moscow laying landmines in Ukraine: Kiev

Archbishop of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu is saying their is no longer any excuse for not doing everything humanly possible to fight climate change and called on Thursday for an international "anti-apartheid-style boycott" against the fossil fuel industry.

North Korean Defector talks about her struggle getting out of North Korea.

BBC News -Israel impose tax sanction against Palestinian Authority in retaliation for signing a number of international treaties

Massive 7.4 earthquake hits Papau New Guinea

Japan has asked for U.S. President Barack Obama to meet the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korean agents when he visits Japan in late April.

Law professors demand cannabis legalization. Over 120 German professors of criminal law are supporting an initiative to legalize cannabis. They have called on the Bundestag to discuss the issue. Merkel's coalition is skeptical.

BBC News - Russia TV stations air 'impostor' protester in two guises

President Vladimir Putin warned European leaders on Thursday Russia would cut natural gas supplies to Ukraine if it did not pay its bills and said this could lead to a reduction of onward deliveries to Europe.

NATO released satellite photographs on Thursday showing Russian military equipment, including fighter jets and tanks, that it described as part of a deployment of as many as 40,000 troops near the border with Ukraine.

Syrian rebels say that Obama admin pursues "a dark strategy aimed at prolonging the war" in Syria

Al-Jazeera trial dismissed as 'joke' - 3 Al-Jazeera journalists are on trial for terrorism in Egypt, prosecutors used video filmed by the defendants, including wildlife scenes and a news conference as evidence

U.N. Report Hints Russia and Its Allies Rigged Crimea's Secession Vote. Activists and critics of Crimea's secession were threatened, detained and tortured.

The US Department of Energy has blocked access for Russian scientists to its major physics research centers

Spain: A human-rights avenger no longer? -- Madrid is trying to end Spain's universal jurisdiction law, which proponents say has helped human rights victims find justice but has also caused major diplomatic headaches.

Putin Says Further Violations by Ukraine Will Compel Russia to Cut Off Gas

Somalia in high speed internet 'culture shock'

Estimates of illegal and unreported fish in seafood imports to the USA - Between 20% and 32% of wild-caught seafood US imports are illegal

Thai Tanker Sinks, Spilling Oily Sludge - It was carrying 40 times the volume of spilled sludge, headed to shore to deliver it to oil recycling facilities. While spill appears small, escaped oil has already fouled coastal fishing areas & mangrove forests.

2014-04-14

Looks Like Rome is Even More Ancient than Thought - As Italian capital approaches 2,767th birthday, excavation reveals wall built long before official founding year of 753BC. It seems to have channeled water. Around it, are pieces of ceramic pottery & remains of food.

Ukraine says it can prove that Russia coordinated weekend attacks

Russian fighter jet makes multiple, close-range passes near an American warship in the Black Sea

Glow-in-the-dark roads make debut in Netherlands -- They look beautiful, but they could also save a lot on streetlight power. The glow lasts up to eight hours once powered throughout the day.

3 EU Countries Back Ukraine's Use of Force - Sweden, Lithuania, & Luxembourg explicitly back Ukraines right to use force against pro-Russian separatists.

Russian TV Propagandists Caught Red-Handed: Same Guy, Three Different People (Spy, Bystander, Heroic Surgeon)

Russia has ~65,000 troops bordering the rest of Ukraine; 40,000 on the Russian Border, 25,000 in Crimea. This is in addition to "pro-Russian" armed protesters already in Ukraine; Russia said attempts to expel those pro-Russian forces are "criminal" and warned it would "protect Russian-speakers".

This is war, Ukraine declares as mob ignores ultimatum to surrender, takes police chief prisoner

Hong Kong women 'being kept in slave-like conditions in Sydney brothels'

Worlds Highest Minimum Wage on Ballot in Switzerland: The Swiss will vote in a national referendum May 18 on whether to create a minimum wage of 22 francs ($25) per hour, or 4,000 francs a month

Israel demolishes Bedouin village for 68th time | Palestine

Anti-Kremlin protest draws thousands in Moscow

Ukraine Forces Storm a Town, Defying Russia

White House Warns Russia Not to Invade as Biden Plans Ukraine Trip

Russia prepared to let tanks roll across borders - German minister: German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel warned on Monday of an escalation of the crisis in Ukraine, saying "Russia was clearly prepared to allow tanks to roll across European borders".

UN scientists: The world needs to triple the energy it gets from renewables, nuclear reactors, and power plants that use emissions-capture technology to avoid dangerous levels of global warming

West approves $3.2 billion package for Ukraine

World must end 'dirty' fuel use.

Biggest drug bust in Saudi Arabian History: $267 million US dollars worth of amphetamine. (other source with pictures in comments)

Japan says it's not decided on whaling in Southern Ocean next year - Tokyo deeply disappointed UN declared its whaling a commercial activity disguised as science. Has filed US court briefs saying it intends to hunt whales 2015-16 with new research program.

U.S. Troops May be Sent to Eastern Europe

Ukraine to fight pro-Russia forces

The UK, Poland, and Sweden have proposed sending an EU police mission to Ukraine to build up its law enforcement bodies

Nigeria: Boko Haram kills at least 60 in new atrocity

President of Ukraine Turchynov offers to hold referendum on status of Ukraine

2014-04-15

Billionaire Takes Up Fight Against African Poachers Pledges to provide a helicopter & a multi-million dollar investment to protect South Africas rhinos.

Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations | Media

Russian paramilitary leaders in eastern Ukraine caught on tape communicating with Moscow

Ukraine has asked the UN for troops

Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline bribed doctors to boost sales, says whistleblower

Russian forces spotted on ground in eastern Ukraine: Bloomberg

Canadians' mental-health info routinely shared with FBI, U.S. customs

Poland: NATO should send troops to east Europe, ignore Russia's objections

Russian economy may see zero growth this year because of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's finance minister has admitted

Guantnamo hearings halted amid accusations of FBI spying on legal team | World news

Russia on brink of financial crisis as showdown with West escalates - Country's private companies shut out of global bond markets, raising prospect that they may need state support.

Red Hot Chili Peppers music used to torture prisoners in Guantnamo Bay

Smog-hit China is set to pass a new law that would give Beijing more powers to shut polluting factories and punish officials, and even place protected regions off-limits to industrial development

A survey released Tuesday -- the first comprehensive one of its kind - says that only 10 killers of 908 environmental activists slain around the world over the past decade have been convicted

Malta legalises same-sex civil unions/marriage

U.S. Is Considering Sending Arms To Ukraine

Nigeria unrest: 'Attackers abduct 200 schoolgirls'

Chernobyl Sarcophagus Jeapordised by Crisis in Ukraine: The political crisis in Ukraine is severely hampering efforts to build a new radioactive containment structure over the site of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown.

Russia says Ukraine on brink of civil war

North Korean officials visit salon in London over Kim Jong-un 'bad hair' advert

CIA chief visited Kiev over the weekend: White House

Russia Tests Multi-Warhead ICBM

Pro-Russian Ukrainian police help foil Ukraine crackdown in east

Morocco Women March to Demand Gender Equality - Ccarried banners demanding "equality as a right, not a privilege".

Russia warns against use of force against protesters in Ukraine: Russia's foreign minister has said intervention by Ukrainian authorities to stop pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine would set back diplomatic talks. Ukraine has announced an "anti-terrorist" operation in the east.

2014-04-16

South Korea ferry carrying 350 sinking.

Several armoured personnel carriers have reportedly entered the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk, with the lead vehicle showing the Russian flag

U.S. drone strike kills New Zealander, Australian in Yemen

China's president urges greater militarization of space

Brunei's new law permits stoning gay people to death

Spanish judge defies pressure to scrap Guantanamo torture case against Bush | The Raw Story

Combat Vehicles in East Ukraine Switching Sides

Swiss president greeted with Danish flag in Ukraine

Switzerland pushes for minimum wage of $25 per hour, maximum in the world

SARS: French scientists lose 2,300 samples of potentially deadly virus

A majority of Ukrainiansin all regionscondemn the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine (93 percent of people in the west and center held this opinion, 73 percent in the South, and 68 percent in the East).

Ukraine says it reclaimed airport seized by pro-Russia separatists

5 Dead in Calgary's Worst Ever Mass Murder

Greece's Golden Dawn party describes Hitler as 'great personality': Cementing its credentials as an unapologetic neo-nazi force, Greece's increasingly combative Golden Dawn party has hailed Hitler as a "great personality" and denounced homosexuality as a "sickness".

Ukraine troops blocked in Kramatorsk as tension rises

Jordanian air force fighter jets have destroyed an undetermined number of vehicles trying to enter the kingdom by crossing the border from war-torn Syria.

Ukraine crisis: NATO to bolster forces in eastern Europe | World news

Citizen scientists prepare to test West Coast for Fukushima radiation

Six Kiev's APCs sent to Kramatorsk join forces with anti-Maidan activists - eyewitness

Ukraine pushes tanks and troops into separatist east

Japan population drops for third year straight; 25% are elderly

'We Will Shoot Back': All Eyes on Russia as Ukraine Begins Offensive in East

Ukraine Says Russian Forces Among Separatists as Battles Ensue

N Korea formally complains over British barber's Kim Jong Un poster

German Law Professors Are Rebelling Against Their Country's Drug Laws

2014-04-17

Putin admits Russian forces were deployed to Crimea.

Jimmy Carter and Nobel Laureates Urge President Obama to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline: "History will reflect on this moment..."

Ukraine submits proof of Russian covert action

Putin Asserts Right to Use Force in Eastern Ukraine - '[He] stressed Russias historical claim to the territory, repeatedly referring to it as new Russia'

Ukrainian Oligarch Offers $10k for Each Captured Russian Invader

Donetsk Pro-Russians Order Jews to 'Register or be Deported' for Supporting Kiev Rule

Kim Dotcom can have seized assets returned New Zealand High Court

Putin: Russia may invade Ukraine to protect locals

Kiev says Russian males aged 16-60 banned from entering Ukraine

300 people attacked a Ukrainian military base in the country's southeast on Thursday

Ukrainian military surrounded by pro-Russians

Snowden asks Putin: "Does Russia intercept millions of citizens data?"

Crimeans find their new lives in Russia harder than expected

Russia Economy Worsens Even Before Sanctions Hit: With inflation rising, growth stagnating, the ruble and stock market plunging, and billions in capital fleeing the country for safety, the economy is teetering on the edge of recession, as the countrys minister of economic development acknowledged

West Slams Russia 'Fantasy Narrative' on Ukraine: Western countries on the Security Council said the new report undermines Russia's claims about the events that led to its recent annexation of Crimea, and they warned of a similar situation unfolding now

Vkontakte Founder: Russia Wanted Personal Data of Euromaidan Protesters

S. Korean Ferry Captain Was One of the First Off the Sinking Ship: I cant raise my face before the passengers and family members of the missing, he said.

Students kidnapped by suspected Islamic militants in Nigeria are freed

$10,000 for separatist head and $1,000 for the machine-gun - the reward promised by the governor of Dnipropetrovsk region

Iranian Officials and Bankers Warn Russia Not to Dismiss U.S. Sanctions Threat

A labor group says a strike at the world's biggest athletic shoe maker is snowballing, with about 30,000 of its Chinese workers protesting over insufficient benefits

Moldovas Breakaway Region Asks Putin to Recognize Sovereignty

Obama warns of "consequences" for Russian actions destabilizing Ukraine

Canadian arrested for Heartbleed hacking

Ukrainian Parliament Recommends Resumption Of Mandatory Conscription

2014-04-21

Twitter bans two whistleblower accounts exposing government corruption after complaints from the Turkish government

Jamaica sees green in ganja -- After more than a century, the island of music and marijuana seems ready for legalization

Canadians rally to legalize marijuana

Japan defence chief puzzled by Russian warplanes: The country's air defence force scrambled fighter jets for seven days in a row after spotting Russian military planes. "They are continuing flights, which we deem as abnormal and were unseen even in the Cold War era," - Defence Minister

China has seized a Japanese ship over "debt" from 1936.

Malaysia Airlines MH192 has made an air turn back to KUL, but is currently circling round burning fuel and unable to land due to problems with its landing gear and burst tyres.

India and Georgia have made it compulsory for Pakistani travellers to get anti-polio vaccine prior to entering their territory; several other countries may follow suit

Snowden reporter promises more NSA revelations are coming. And Greenward hits back after Rep. Peter King denounces the Pulitzer Award calling it 'disgraceful'.

North Korea accuses US and allies of "worst human rights abuses"; says defectors to South Korea who exposed human rights abuses are "terrorists" and that North Korea's masses are leading happy lives. The North said that human rights investigations would only make it achieve "Final Victory" faster.

Photos Link Masked Men in East Ukraine to Russia and suggest that many of the men who have seized Ukrainian government sites are indeed Russian military and intelligence forces.

Abuse of veal calves unveiled by hidden camera: "Baby calves... are kicked, punched, slapped and yelled at by barn employees. Some are grabbed by the testicles to force them into narrow wooden stalls. Several lie gasping for air on slats stained with urine and feces." [Canada]

Spains Robin Hood takes from the banks and gives to the disenfranchised - They call him the Robin Hood of the banks, a man who took out dozens of loans worth almost half a million euros with no intention of ever paying them back.

David Cameron fuelling sectarian division by bringing God into politics'

Russia stares at recession as Ukraine crisis scars economy

Ukrainian synagogue reportedly firebombed

Bangladesh Factory Owner Charged With Murder: Its been almost a full year since the tragic Bangladesh factory collapse killed 1,135 garment workers in the capital of Dhaka.This week, authorities announced that Rana [the negligent owner of the factory] would stand trial for his role in the disaster.

Scottish independence poll:Yes on brink of victory

Tesla poised to start delivery of Model S to Chinese motorists

Unease in Vatican over cardinal's 'luxury flat': An Italian cardinal is moving into a 600-square-metre (6,500 square foot) Vatican apartment in apparent contradiction with Pope Francis's call for a "poor Church"

Botswana bushmen: 'If you deny us the right to hunt, you are killing us'

Ukraine Conflict Becomes Hostage Crisis as Separatists Take Prisoners

Ukrainian journalist and activist Irma Krat arrested by pro-Russian separatists for 'war crimes'

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed laws simplifying procedures for Russian speakers in the former Soviet Union to obtain Russian citizenship and on obligations for migrant laborers working in Russia.

Nigeria: Latest Boko Haram massacre; over 150 dead

India Wants To Take On 'US Hegemony' Over The Internet... By Renaming It The Equinet

2014-04-22

China: Violent Government Thugs Beaten To Death By Angry Crowds After They Killed A Man Documenting Their Brutality

North Korean new generation losing faith in the regime: After decades of absolute control, Pyongyang's iron grip on the lives of ordinary citizens is finally slipping

Arab royal hunts down 2,100 internationally protected houbara bustards in three week safari

Bolivia raises minimum wage by 20%

CEO Of Russian Facebook Says He Was Fired And That The Social Network Is Now In The Hands Of Putin Allies - So ends the slow unravelling of independence at VKontakte, Russias most popular social network.

China's new environment law submitted to parliament... will give legal backing to Beijing's newly declared war on pollution and formalise a pledge made last year to abandon a decades-old growth-at-all-costs economic model that has spoiled much of China's water, skies and soil.

DSL router patch merely hides backdoor instead of closing it - Researcher finds secret knock opens admin for some Linksys, Netgear routers.

North Korea erupts with anti-gay tirade against UN Human Rights Chair

Ultra-Orthodox Jews are resisting new laws which force them to join the army

US releases photos of Russian special forces soldier operating in eastern Ukraine.

Russia bans Tatar leader from Crimea after Putin signs decree

Spanish Congress rejects Catalan independence referendum

Sri Lanka to deport British tourist with Buddha tattoo

US ordered to release memo in Anwar al-Awlaki drone killing

Everest's Sherpas Issue List of Demands

Chinese hackers are stealing our secrets - US Admiral

It is a significant shift in how Russian ground forces approach a problem, - James G. Stavridis, the retired admiral and former NATO commander.

Leaflets Given To Donetsk Jews Made Waves Worldwide, But Not In Donetsk

Extremist Hindu leader in India calls to evict Muslims and loot and burn their properties

First sign of South Korea ferry disaster was call from a frightened boy who is among the missing - The Globe and Mail

Hundreds of people were killed because of their ethnicity after South Sudan rebels seized the oil hub of Bentiu last week

Rockets from Gaza hit Israel, army launches airstrikes in Passover clash

Trial of Al Jazeera journalists resumes: Correspondent Peter Greste and producers Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed appear in court in Egyptian capital Cairo.

Fukushima disaster: Tokyo hides truth as children die, become ill from radiation - ex-mayor

Activity has increased at North Korea's nuclear test site ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama to the region

2014-04-23

British people by 2:1 ratio say it was good for society, not bad, that newspapers reported the materials given to them by Edward Snowden

Mission to Mars is necessary for survival of human race

Pope Francis told divorced and remarried woman there is nothing wrong with her taking Communion: Pope Francis reportedly told a divorced and remarried woman that there is nothing wrong with her taking Communion, in what would be a huge departure from current Catholic teaching.

"Russian Facebook" founder flees country after being forced out as CEO: Russian social network is now effectively under state control

North Korea offer condolences to South for Sewol Ferry disaster

Report: Vice Journalist Captured in Eastern Ukraine

Poland is about to engage in a massive military spending spree to replace Soviet-era equipment

Ukraine: VICE journalist held by separatists, TIME reporter released

US deploying troops to Eastern Europe

For the first time Turkey PM Erdogan offers condolences over mass WWI killings of Armenians

Saudi prince kills about 2,000 endangered birds on safari

Russia Warns Ukraine of Potential Military Response

Founder of biggest Russian social network VKontakte flees Russia, claims Persecution

'Don't behave like gangsters,' Ukrainian PM tells Russia

Pro-Russian Insurgents Identified: The Green Men of VKontakte

Russia begins extracting oil in the Arctic despite Greenpeace efforts

Suspected mass grave, believed to contain at least 250 bodies of ethnic Albanians killed in the 1998-99 Kosovo war, excavated in Serbia

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been convicted of libel in a ruling that could potentially lead to the jailing of one of President Vladimir Putins most prominent critics.

Russia Bans Military and Police from Traveling Abroad

In Russia, a Soviet revival grips leadership

Acting Ukraine president calls for relaunch of anti-terrorist operation in east after politician "tortured to death"

Nearly 90 percent of the chemicals in Syrias weapons arsenal have now been removed from the war-torn country, with only two or three shipments left for export, the group responsible for policing the global treaty that bans chemical munitions reported on Tuesday.

Violent protests have broken out in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro following the death of a young man allegedly beaten by police.

Sweden to beef up air force to counter Russia

China issues veiled warning to N. Korea not to conduct nuclear test

2014-04-24

FCC Abandons Net Neutrality

Iran's President Rouahani calls for gender equality

American troops now en route to Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in response to Russian troop movements and European concerns over "Russian aggression". Yesterday, US soldiers arrived in Poland.

Putin calls the internet a 'CIA project'.

Four physicists have announced their resignation from the academic council of one of Russia's top research institutes, accusing it of failing to defend a prominent colleague who was fired for "truancy" after attending a workshop at Stony Brook University in the U.S.

Ukraine forces kill up to five rebels, Putin warns of consequences

China Is Shutting Down Porn Websites En Masse

Swearing in films banned by Russia's lower house: The Russian parliament's lower house has passed a bill that bans swearing from films, music and other works of art. "In addition, members of the public could face penalties of up to 2,500 roubles for swearing in public ... "

Chemicals killing smartphone chip factory workers: Samsung and Apple factories accused

Facebook, Gmail, Skype face Russia ban under 'anti-terror' data snooping plan

Ukraine crisis: Army moves to retake Sloviansk

[Preliminary] Magnitude 6.7 earthquake just hit off the coast of Vancouver, Canada.

Brazilian Congress passes Internet bill of rights

China says more than half of its groundwater is polluted | Number of groundwater sites of poor or extremely poor quality increases to 59.6%, Chinese government says

Brazil's new Internet 'Bill of Rights' protects privacy, ensures net neutrality

Dutch fighter jets intercept 2 Russian bombers in its airspace

Researchers unravel the works of a bishop who theorised multiple universes 800 years ago

106,000 Signatures in Support of Pirate Bay Founder Delivered to Danish Govt. - After amassing 106,000 signatures a petition aimed at improving the prison conditions of Gottfrid Svartholm has been delivered to the Danish government.

RAF Jet Chases Russian Planes Away From UK

Russia orders troops to south and west borders after Ukrainian soldiers kill five

United States likely to impose sanctions against India over drug IP issue

US President Barack Obama has reaffirmed his support for Japan in its row over islands with China, after talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.But he confirmed that the islands fell under a security treaty that commits the US to act if Japan is attacked.

Canada under increasing pressure to come up with co-ordinated NATO response to Russia in Arctic

Norway has been severely punished for the Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision to award the prize to Liu Xiaobo, one of the leaders of the 1989 uprising in Tiananmen Square.

Russia, India Planning $30 Billion Oil Pipeline Through Xinjiang

2014-04-25

China to jail eaters of rare wild animals

In the past 24 hours, Saudi Arabia has reported four new deaths from a Middle East virus related to SARS and 36 more cases of infection, including a Turkish pilgrim in Mecca.

Reclusive owner of South Korean ferry dubbed the millionaire with no face is raided by police as its revealed the doomed vessel was THREE times over its maximum load

Ukraine warns Russia is bent on World War Three

Simon Ostrovsky Has Been Released

Two of the most popular English-language proficiency tests in Japan can no longer be used to obtain student visas to Britain after a British TV program exposed fraud in the test-taking process.

North Korea arrests 24 year old American citizen trying to claim asylum in DPRK

S&P Cuts Russia to Just Above Junk Status

John Kerry Just Gave Russia A Final Warning

McDonald's Canada CEO calls foreign worker controversy 'bullshit' - Scandal reaches upper echelons of government

OSCE Slams Putin For The 'Height Of Hypocrisy' "In the OSCE, the Russians are always alleging double standards, but this is ridiculous because in Russia, anybody who calls for separatism is a criminal. So, that means that the people in Ukraine under Russian standards would be criminals."

Spanish team finds hidden 'tomb of Jesus': Spanish Egyptologists have discovered what could be one of the oldest images of Jesus Christ, painted on the walls of a mysterious underground structure deep in an ancient Egyptian tomb.

Mi-8 helicopter explodes at Kramatorsk airport in Ukraines east

Russia makes internet bloggers with over 3000 daily views register with the Roskomnadzor (state body of media)

Ex-Soviet Officials Call on Russia to Pull Troops: Officials from five ex-Soviet republics called on Russia to withdraw its troops from border areas near Ukraine, and they backed a free and fair Ukrainian presidential election on May 25.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the West of wanting to "seize" Ukraine, amid escalating rhetoric between Russia and the US.

US suspends tax talks with Russia as a form of 'unofficial sanctions'. In the coming weeks, a 30% tax penalty will hit US payments going to over 800 Russian banks.

Australia to Purchase 58 More F-35 Fighters for $12.4 billion

3 russian helicopters are said to have violated Ukrainian airspace

McDonald's boycott threatened over use of temporary foreign workers - British Columbia - CBC News

North Korea's Got a Big Crystal Meth Problem

Four major tech companies including Apple and Google have agreed to pay a total of $324 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to hold down salaries in Silicon Vall

Another U.S. warship enters Black Sea

Sweden wants cruise missiles 'for defence'

Armenians are protesting today at Turkish embassies, all across the world, for recognition of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, where 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered.

2014-04-28

More than Two-Thirds of Afghanistan Reconstruction Money has Gone to One Company: DynCorp International

683 Muslim Brotherhood Supporters Sentenced to Death in Egypt

Hitler's former maid Elisabeth Kalhammer breaks her silence after 71 years

Cold War Spy-Satellite Images Unveil Lost Cities. Photos triple number of known archaeological sites across the Middle East, revealing thousands of ancient cities, roads, canals, and other ruins.

China bans "The Big Bang Theory" and other American shows from the internet; analysts say government censors are concerned with "ideological issues."

Desmond Tutu has said he is happy Nelson Mandela is dead - so he does not have to see what South Africas current leaders are doing to the country

BP and Shell exposed as US prepares first warning shot against Russia's oil and gas industry

John Kerry told the Trilateral Commission that Israel risks becoming "an apartheid state" if it doesn't make peace

China releases trove of Japanese sex slave records

Australian State Government urges boycott of Ben & Jerrys ice cream over WWF propaganda on Great Barrier Reef

60,000 Chinese Workers Continue Historic Strike

Human Rights Watch report: Israel structurally shooting unarmed Gaza civilians.

Pro-Russia forces free Swedish military observer held in Ukraine: It wasn't immediately clear why only Johansson was released, but the pro-Russian insurgents had accused the group of being NATO spies and Sweden isn't a member of the trans-Atlantic alliance.

Missing Flight MH370: Exploration company believes it may have found MH370

Food Prices In Russia Grew 40 times faster than in Europe for 1st quarter of 2014

Mayor of eastern Ukrainian city shot

Hungarians march against anti-Semitism after far-right poll gains

Ukraine crisis: EU set to intensify Russia sanctions

US judge rules search warrants extend to overseas email accounts

Mayor of Kharkov, Ukraine shot in back, hospitalized

Syria's Assad to run for third term as president

Russian vice-premier visits North Korea to discuss economic ties

The Toll Of 5 Years Of Drone Strikes: 2,400 Dead

Russia Unexpectedly Raises Main Rate as S&P Lowers Rating

Ukraine: kidnapped observers paraded by pro-Russian gunmen in Slavyansk

2014-04-29

Snowden to reveal secrets of Arab dictators

Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge admits using drugs and enjoying it, slams Sweden for "deranged" and "destructive" drugs policy that leads police to "arrest anyone on any bullshit suspicion"

Turkey to require pet owners to undergo mandatory certification. A new law also will forbid the sale of most animals in pet shops.

U.S. Taped Moscow Plotting Chaos

Ukraine loses at least $80 billion since Russia takes Crimea: Ukraine has lost at least $80 billion since Russia annexed its southern Crimea region and the price tag will be much higher when Kiev includes lost profits and the value of possible energy reserves in the Black Sea.

The Chernobyl arch alone will end up costing about $1.5 billion, financed largely by the United States and about 30 other nations.

The Pentagon says Russia's defense chief has assured Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that Russia will not invade Ukraine

Rio Olympics preparations 'worst' I have ever seen, says IOC vice-president

Dispatch 31 - Simon Ostrovsky describes his kidnapping

Saudi Arabia criticises Norway over human rights record

Israel okayed nearly 14,000 settler homes

Prosecutor General: Yanukovych took $32 billion to Russia, financing separatism in Ukraine

A television debate show in northern India has ended in horror after a spectator set himself ablaze and embraced a local politician

30,000 Chinese Factory Workers Strike Against Maker of Nike Sneakers

IED kills one Ukrainian soldier, injures one.

Stop using Microsoft's IE browser until bug is fixed, US and UK warn

Several wounded when pro-Russian separatists attacked a rally in support of Ukrainian unity

US senators remove requirement for disclosure over drone strike victims | World news

No sign of Russian troops withdrawing from Ukraine border-NATO official

European Union moves to end smartphone patent wars

Video of South Korean ferry's captain being rescued in his underwear, and speakers telling students to not move.

Israel's High Court rules in favor of Palestinians in the West Bank Area C

Russian says was 'irresponsible' to send monitors to east Ukraine

Russia, Iran In Talks To Sign $10 Billion Energy Deal

Ukraine's Pro-Russian Candidate Quits Presidential Race

2014-04-30

Afghan couple hack off nose, ears of cleric who sexually assaulted their daughter

WHO says world poised for 'post-antibiotic' era

U.S. would react immediately if Russia invaded Ukraine, says American ambassador

US offers $5 million bounty for China executive accused of trying to sell missile technology to Iran

Afghans repel attack by 300 militants on base, kill 60 militants

Japan to refuse entry to 23 Russians due to sanctions over Crimea annexation

Fukushima Nuclear Plant Operator Tepco announces $4.3 Billion Profit

Scorpions drummer James Kottak jailed in Dubai for insulting Islam

Russian Deputy Prime Minister says: "After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline"

Ukraine 'on full combat alert' against possible Russia invasion

Explosion at Xinjiang's largest train station, cause and casualties still unclear

China poised to pass US as world's leading economic power this year

American Abu Ghraib Prisoner Disappears: Shawki Ahmed Omar "disappeared" around the time the others were transferred. Repeat requests for information on his whereabouts by his family have fallen on the deaf ears of the Iraqi authorities; the US authorities claim to know nothing as well.

Russia parliament approves Internet-restricting bills

Gunmen have stormed Libya's parliament and started shooting, according to officials.

Kiev says security forces "helpless" to restore order in east, as more buildings seized

Prosecutor: Yanukovych's 'Mafia' Government Stole Up To $100 Billion From Ukraine And Some Of It Is Funding Rebels.

Pakistan's spy agency ISI accused of kidnapping and killing journalists | Amnesty International details journalists' claims of harassment, intimidation and attacks at the hands of military intelligence.

New satellite imagery confirms continued activity at North Korea's main nuclear test site that is consistent with preparations for an atomic detonation

David Cameron has pledged to step down as Prime Minister after next years general election if he could not deliver on his promise to hold a referendum on Britains membership of the European Union.

1.4 million workers are employed on zero-hours contracts in Britain annually

Hess and Mercuria Added to Crude Oil Price-Fixing Suit; joining BP, Shell, and Statoil in alleged conspiracy [Bloomberg]

Real-life Atlantis? The world's megacities that are sinking 10 times faster than water levels are rising - Scientists have issued a new warning to the worlds coastal megacities that the threat from subsiding land is a more immediate problem than rising sea levels caused by global warming.

Pro-Russia separitists seize control in another Ukrainian city

Guardian obtains footage of police officer firing Taser at naked man

2014-05-01

France agrees workers can give days off to colleagues with sick children: France has passed a law allowing workers to give some of their days off to a colleague with a seriously ill child. The idea came from the case of a man whose colleagues donated 170 days while his son was battling cancer.

Germany blocks Edward Snowden from testifying in person in NSA inquiry: The German government has blocked Edward Snowden from giving personal evidence in front of a parliamentary inquiry into NSA surveillance, it has emerged hours before Angela Merkel travels to Washington for a meeting with Obama.

New video emerges of Rob Ford smoking crack in his sister's basement last Saturday

Google breaks Canadian privacy laws with ads based on personal health information

Egypt mass death sentences: 60% of defendants have evidence that proves they were not present at the scene of the crime. One woman reveals her son, who died three years ago, has also been convicted in the case.

Vladimir Putin demands Ukraine withdraw troops from troubled eastern regions

UK slips down global press freedom list due to Snowden leaks response | British government's draconian response to the Guardian's reporting sees UK drop five places on Freedom House list

Hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian school girls reportedly sold as brides to militants for $12

Declassified documents reveal that Thatcher's government dismissed Ronald Reagan as a bumbling, homophobic "bozo"

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams arrested over murder of widowed mother abducted from her home in 1972

A surreptitiously taped video clip that surfaced Tuesday shows the mayor of Mexicos busiest cargo port seemingly receiving instructions from the chief of the Knights Templar crime group.

Edward Snowden: NSA Spies More on Americans Than Russians - "We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world."

The death of Clayton D. Lockett in Oklahoma produced more than the usual horror in Europe, with Britain and France condemning the execution and calling for the abolition of the death penalty.

Outdoor grills banned in Beijing

UN asks Australia to reconsider dumping on Great Barrier Reef

Merkel rules out military intervention over dispute in Ukraine

Putin 'to visit Crimea' for May 9 military parade

Moscow revives Red Square Soviet-era May Day parade

Australian government to advocate for the end of universal healthcare

Kindergartens In China Suspected of Drugging Students To Boost Attendance

Antibiotic resistance now 'global threat', WHO warns

German officials demand justice after exchange student killed in Montana

Afghan opium production explodes despite billions spent, says US report. Report by DC's Afghanistan war watchdog found opium cultivation unaffected by $7.5bn US spent to combat it

World Bank: India Overtakes Japan as Worlds Third Largest Economy

U.S. general: Corruption, not Taliban, the worst threat to Afghanistan

2014-05-02

Billionaire dies and leaves $3.3 billion to charity

'Many dead' in Ukraine offensive, rebels killed, injured and arrested in Ukraine offensive

Neo-Nazis spark first church alarm since WWII: The churches in Jnkping, Sweden, rang their bells in warning for two hours on May Day as neo-Nazis took to the streets. The alarm marked the first of its kind for the central Sweden town since World War II broke out."

Top 1% taking lion's share of global growth, OECD says

Australia to raise the retirement age to 70

SpaceX gets injunction preventing US jet manufacturers from buying Russian rocket engines.

1,000 native women murdered, missing in Canada over 30 years: RCMP

Denmark leads the charge in renewable energy | By 2020, the country aims to produce 70 percent of its energy from renewable sources and to make the switch to renewables completely by mid-century. "Today, we're already at 43 percent," said Kristoffer Bttzauw

Russia to Ukraine: Your military actions are criminal

North Korea releases list of U.S. human rights abuses: The U.S. is a living hell

NATO official: Russia now an adversary

Putin says Geneva agreement no longer viable after Ukrainian military action: A spokesman for the Russian president has said the Geneva agreement to defuse the situation in eastern Ukraine is no longer viable after Kiev launched a military operation against the rebel-held city of Slavyansk.

Ukraine reinstates conscription to deal with problems in the East

Ukrainian Ambassador to NATO: We do not want any country or organisation to deploy military forces on our territory...if Ukrainian borders are crossed by Russian troops, we will protect our country.

UNESCO condemns dredge waste dumping in Barrier Reef waters: Recommends Australian marine park be considered for inclusion on the World Heritage in danger list.

Ukraine helicopter shot down in Slovyansk

New Virus Related To Smallpox Is Found In Republic Of Georgia

Kremlin Says Ukraine Clashes Destroy All Hope for Diplomatic Agreement

Ethiopian Security Forces Open Fire on Oromo Student Protesters, Killing 28

Ukraine says Russian 'saboteurs' attempted to cross border

Pro-Russian rebels in Slaviansk say Ukraine tries to retake town, gunfire heard

US troops head to Latvia as Ukraine crisis continues, us troops to train with live fire and 50 lbs of gear.

Russia demands Security Council meeting on Ukraine

Merkel asks Putin's help in freeing European hostages in Ukraine

Belgium just signed into law saying that chronically ill minors can be euthanized.

2014-05-05

Tokyo hit by 6.2 magnitude earthquake (May 5th, 2014, 5:16 am)

New nature preserve will be the largest on Earth - At more than 500,000 square miles, the marine park is twice the size of Texas and three times the size of Germany

Young blood rejuvenates brains and muscles of old mice: If three discoveries in mice reported on Sunday are applicable to people, making old brains and old muscles perform like young ones may require simply a blood transfusion.

Ukraine: Civilians gearing up to face civil war, learning to handle weapons

Chinas military has initiated a number of measures in preparation for a possible regime collapse in North Korea, a leaked military document suggests

Russian Stocks Decline Second Day as Ukraine Clashes Spread

Switzerland has frozen $193 million in Ukrainian assets

Ireland's murder rate rockets by 66%, standing at 20 people killed after the first 4 months of 2014.

WHO declares Polio spread "International public health emergency"

German IT expert hacks NSA homepage

Ukraine Is Nearing State of War, Says Former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow

Russia to Prosecute Crimean Tatar Protesters Over Unrest

Infusions of young blood may reverse some effects of ageing, studies suggest

40 Maps That Explain The Middle East

Netanyahu pushes to define Israel as nation state of Jewish people only

Netanyahu pushes to define Israel as nation state of Jewish people only | World news

In Ukraine, separatists seize one of last government sites in Donetsk

First Ever Charge for Female Genital Mutilation in UK After 28 Years of Law Top Gynecologist Warns Do Not Prosecute

Turkish opposition: 'Erdoan will become 'dictator' with de facto presidential system'

China gives 10-year sentence to leaker of military secrets

Side deals with Moscow thwart drive to wean Europe off Russian gas [Reuters]

Polio Spreading at Alarming Rates, World Health Organization Declares

Claims 220 Australian child sailors raped, brutalised in the '80s

Indonesian Villagers Driven from Villages in Palm Oil Land Theft

Polio cases: WHO recommends travel restrictions on Pakistan - Pakistan,Somalia and Iraq

2014-05-06

Putin outlaws denial of Nazi crimes -Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday making the denial of Nazi crimes and distortion of the Soviet Union's role in the World War Two a criminal offence punishable by up to five years in jail.

Vladimir Putin mounting a slow-motion invasion of Ukraine, Stephen Harper tells NATO

Morocco wind farm, Africa's biggest, starts generating power. The North African kingdom has no hydrocarbon reserves of its own and hopes to cover 42 percent of its energy needs with renewable sources by 2020.

Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA

Russian Governments Own Civil Society Organization Finds Crimean Referendum Falsified

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Parts of the vast ice sheet of East Antarctica which collectively holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 53 metres could begin an irreversible slide into the sea this century, causing an unstoppable process of global coastal destruction, scientists have warned.

Communists expelled from Ukrainian parliament

Ukraine open discussion thread (Sticky Post #9)

'Swearbot' to root out online obscenities: A computer programme to seek out swear words on the internet should go live in the autumn, to enforce a Russian law against online obscenity

Venezuela Introduces Food Rationing

Ukraine close to war, says Germany

Al-Jazeera journalist loses third of body weight in Cairo jail, says family | Abdullah Elshamy, on hunger strike in notorious Tora prison, is one of at least 16,000 held since Morsi's overthrow last year.

Ukraine troops ambushed by pro-Russia gunmen in Slovyansk; 14 die

NATO top commander: Russian troops won't enter eastern Ukraine

Wind energy surges to record share as coal ebbs. Two-thirds of the emissions drop has been because renewable energy increased its market share by 25 per cent in the first 12 months of the carbon taxs start, he said.

New kind of bird flu found in penguins in Antarctica~ The virus is unlike any other avian flu known to science

Coca-Cola to remove controversial drinks ingredient

US sends Air Force to rescue injured Chinese sailors

Ebola virus disease, West Africa (Situation as of 5 May 2014) - 231 cases with 155 deaths

French forces have fought an armed group in northern Central African Republic that is blamed for killing health workers from Doctors Without Borders.

Australian Political show Cut from Air as students begin Protesting

Dennis Rodman: Kim didn't kill his uncle or his ex. "The last time I went there, when they said they killed his girlfriend, they killed his uncle, they just fed him to the dogs ... They were standing right behind me."

Venezuela has violated the rights of opposition protesters through beatings, illegal detentions and failure to follow due process, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Monday.

Vatican defends its handling of abuse before a U.N. panel on torture

2014-05-07

End The War On Drugs, Say Nobel Prize-Winning Economists

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Indonesia is not a Muslim country and any efforts to turn it into one must be resisted

Great Barrier Reef's 'unprecedented' threat from Australian PM Tony Abbott's decision to dredge and dump

Ukrainian girl gunned down as she was delivering sandwiches to pro-Russian activists

Putin 'backs' Ukraine election: Russia's Putin says Ukraine presidential poll is a step "in the right direction" and urges halt to all violence

We will take on horrendous Boko Haram to find 200 kidnapped schoolgirls: Barack Obama

U.S. Sending Team To Help With Search For Abducted Nigerian Girls

Russia is fomenting disorder in Ukraine to disrupt election: "They [Ukrainians] cannot be bullied out of having their elections by disorder that is deliberately fomented and co-ordinated from another country in this case from Russia. "

Intelligence officials to Congress: Israel 'crossed red lines' in spying on U.S.

Europe softens stance on Canadas oil sands as relations with Russia sour

Russia demands $3.8bn security deposit from Visa and Mastercard

Russia Will No Longer Tell Lithuania about Kaliningrad Weaponry, which May Include Nuclear Weapons

For the first time, the Vatican unveils how it punished thousands of pedophile priests " ... It had protected pedophile priests. 'Well-known child sexual abusers have been transferred from parish to parish or to other countries in an attempt by the church to cover-up such crimes,' the U.N. alleged."

Ukraine intel audio shows Russian involvement, plan to falsify Donetsk referendum

A Thai court has ruled that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra must step down over abuse of power charges.

Air pollution 'too high' in most of world's cities. The World Health Organization says air pollution in many of the world's cities is breaching its guidelines.

A mob of nearly 3,000 attacked Hindu households and a temple in eastern Bangladesh after two youths from the community allegedly insulted Prophet Muhammad on Facebook

Russia to send first batch of Yak-130 jets to Syria

NATO troops in East Europe could be permanent after Crimea crisis: NATO will have to consider permanently stationing troops in parts of Eastern Europe in response to the crisis in Ukraine and Russias annexation of Crimea, the organisations top military commander said Tuesday.

Israel's Peres says Netanyahu blocked 2011 peace deal.

Russia imposes "bloggers law".

Putin says Russian troops have pulled back from Ukraine border.

Philippine police confirm detention of Chinese fishing boat in waters close to the disputed Spratly Islands over haul of 500 turtles

Israel mulls internment for Arab hate crimes - Israel plans to use detention without trial against Jewish extremists suspected of anti-Arab hate crimes, a minister has announced, amid mounting criticism over government failure to secure prosecutions.

MSF (Doctors Without Borders) halts most Central African Republic work as government fails to condemn killing of 16 people at one of its clinics

2014-05-08

Fast-food workers announce global protest, walkouts set for 33 countries

Vietnamese government shows reporters footage of Chinese Coast Guard ramming and using water cannons on Vietnamese ships after they attempted to block illegal drilling rigs in disputed waters of the South China Sea. Vietnamese claim 80 Chinese ships were deployed including 7 military vessels.

War on drugs is a failure.

German NSA investigative panel to allow Snowden to testify

Tony Abbott has proposed to cut out 74,000 hectares of forest in Tasmania from World Heritage status in order to allow industrial logging

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced the editor of an Internet forum he founded to discuss the role of religion in the conservative Islamic kingdom to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes

NATO says no evidence Putin pulled back troops from Ukrainian border

Syria: the capital of Syrias revolution surrenders to Assad

Russia Plans to Colonize Moon by 2030, Newspaper Reports

Almost 100 IRA fugitives who were given "letters of comfort" from Tony Blair's government stating they were no longer wanted for past crimes are suspects in nearly 300 murder cases, a senior police commander has admitted.

UK deploys a destroyer to track Russian aircraft carrier

Chinese police will soon patrol the streets of paris

Ukrainians Favor Unity, Not Russia, Pew Polls Find

USAF General: Russian Long-Ranged Aircraft Skim California Coast

Obama Withdrawing Trade Preferences for Russia

Japanese Man Arrested For Possession of 3D Printed Gun Claims A gun makes power equal

Fast-food restaurant employees are to hold a global day of protest and strike action next week. Planned under the banner of an international trade union, the workers agreed to launch their movement on May 15 with strikes in 150 US cities and protests in 33 countries.

336 massacred by militants in Nigeria

Huge blast reported near secret Iran nuclear site; City of Qazvin closed

Northern Ireland women not entitled in free abortions in England, court rules | Pro-choice campaigners dismayed at ruling that will affect hundreds of women who cross Irish Sea for terminations.

Obama Removing Special Trade Benefits for Russia

The internet will have almost 3 billion users by the end of the year, UN report says

United States warns of 'imminent' North Korea nuclear test

North Korea making final preparations for nuclear test

Moscow: U.S., NATO Missile Shield is 'Anti-Russian'

2014-05-09

Rio 2016 so far behind schedule the IOC considering using London 2012 sites instead.

Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey has attacked wind farms as utterly offensive and a blight on the landscape in the latest sign that the Abbott government intends to cut back on renewable energy

Pope Francis Calls For 'Legitimate Redistribution' Of Wealth To The Poor.

Beijing to the US by train: China outlines plans to connect world by high speed rail network

Soviets saved Europe from fascism, says Vladimir Putin on war anniversary

Israel sends more spies to unearth US secrets than any other ally: Newsweek

China is considering plans to build a high-speed railway line to the US

Casualties as fighting breaks out in Ukraine port city of Mariupol

A newly discovered, 3,100-year-old Egyptian tomb includes intricate hieroglyphics describing the afterlife

Defector: Shadowy organization, not Kim Jong Un, controls North Korea Amanpour

Coca-Cola to close two Russian juice plants as market shrinks

Australian Government Wants to Selectively Slaughter Sharks for Three More Years

6.8 Earthquake - 40 miles NW of Acapulco, Mexico

Putin Arrives in Crimea for First Visit Since Annexation

Honest Sri Lankan student gets to keep $80,000

Turkey caught shipping weapons to terrorists in syria

US voices 'concerns' at sale of French warships to Russia

Canadian Government snooping on social media may breach Privacy Act

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang unveiled extra aid for Africa totalling at least $12 billion and offered to share advance technology with the continent

Spanish and Portuguese fishing boats targeting sharks after collapse in tuna catches

Muslim world scholars condemn Nigeria kidnapping

Putin visits annexed Crimea, hails its return to the Motherland

Russia bars Canadian, U.S. officials as Ukraine separatists rebuff Putin

Ukraine PM says he suspects Putin plot for victory day: "Yatseniuk said he feared Moscow was planning an incident involving veterans who fought with the Soviet army in defeating the Nazis."

Islamic officials from around the world unanimously condemn and denounce Boko Haram's abduction of girls

2014-05-12

Govt to axe Australian Renewable Energy Agency

Russia blogger bill authorized today, requires bloggers to publicize identity, all posts will be inspected by government officials and any "terrorist or propagating posts" are subject to fines and imprisonment.

Japanese whalers have restarted operations in the north-west Pacific only weeks after the United Nation's highest court banned Japan's so-called scientific whaling program in the Antarctic

Brazil Police warn visitors, 'Don't scream if robbed'

Cocaine use in Britain so high it has contaminated our drinking water, report shows

Over 540 million people (66.4% of electorate) just finished voting in India's month-long general election, the largest democratic exercise in the world to date

The Pirate Bay to be Blocked by Australian Government

IEA: Decarbonising the economy will save $71 trillion by 2050

2,000 tons of whale meat arrives in Japan from Iceland

Lost Vincent van Gogh painting found in bank safe

Photos of dead turtles in Chinese ship anger Filipinos

Ukraine Guardsmen open fire on crowd.

Nereus deep sea sub 'implodes' 10km-down

David Cameron: Taxes will rise unless we can raid bank accounts

400 US mercenaries 'deployed on ground' in Ukraine military op

One billion people still defecate in public despite health risks-UN

France to redraw nations map to save money

Ukrainian troops open artillery fire at village of Adreyevka, Donetsk region - headquarters of Donetsk region's self-defense forces

Obama aims oil weapon at Putin but will he pull the trigger? Oil prices heading for major correction after Russia's attempt to use crude as a weapon to bully Western powers backfires

Brazil Built The World's Second-Most Expensive Soccer Stadium In A City With No Pro Team

Court orders Turkey to pay Cyprus over invasion: Europes top human rights court on Monday ordered Turkey to pay 90 million euros ($123 million) to Cyprus over the 1974 invasion of the island and its subsequent division, in one of the largest judgments in its history.

Russian officials(Rogozin) attempted to smuggle lists calling on independence of Transnistria. The lists were confiscated by Moldavian officers.

Mexico: A Zetas founder among 6 dead in shootout

Girl who escaped Boko Haram abduction speaks publicly about ordeal

Ukraine crisis: National guardsmen fire into crowd - World

2014-05-13

Found after 500 years, the wreck of Christopher Columbuss flagship the Santa Maria

Right to be forgotten: EU court rules Google must amend results on request. Individuals have right to control their data and can ask search engines to remove results, says European court.

13 arrested for cutting buffalo milk with cheaper cow milk in Italian cheese scandal.

British police ask blogger to remove legitimate tweet criticising UK political party

Joe Biden's son joins the team of Burisma Holdings, Ukraines largest private gas producer

How the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers & servers heading overseas

Seven car bombs went off almost simultaneously in Baghdad killing at least 21 people

There are now more than 100 billionaires living in Britain, the highest number per capita of any other country in the world.

The current Australian Government proposes a budget that would make egregious cuts to funding for social services, the Health/Science/Education/Arts & Entertainment industries, and much more.

World Health Organization finds alcohol causes one in 20 deaths globally

Canada orders extradition to India of mother and uncle for their role in 'honor' killing of a young Sikh woman

Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert handed six-year jail sentence

Western Antarctic ice sheet collapse has already begun, scientists warn. Loss is inevitable and will cause up to four metres of additional sea-level rise.

Isabel Carrasco, a top female politician in the northern Spanish town of Leon, is shot dead on a public street

Beijing just handed out the citys largest-ever fine for air pollutionto a US joint venture

Egypt To Put Six Homosexual Men On Trial For Organizing Gay Party

ICC to examine claims that British troops carried out war crimes in Iraq

Sharp rise in French Jews leaving for Israel

United Nations: "It is difficult to reconcile Canadas well-developed legal framework and general prosperity with the human rights problems faced by indigenous peoples in Canada that have reached crisis proportions in many respects."

Canadian Special Forces on the ground in Nigeria.

A Future Of Thirst: Water Crisis Lies On The Horizon -- "The next time your throat is as dry as a bone and the Sun is beating down, take a glass of clean, cool water. Savour it. Sip by sip. Vital and appreciated as that water is, it will be even more precious to those who will follow you."

Donetsk Peoples Republic will start its own anti-terrorist operation in Donetsk region against Ukrainian military forces if they dont leave in 48-hours

Romania seeks explanation from Russia over TU-160 threat

Former IRA activists are to sue Boston College over its decision to hand tapes of their stories from the Troubles to the police.

Former CIA director: We kill people based on metadata

2014-05-14

British Government to release 1.2 million illegally held documents to the public - some over 200 years old

Ukraine Stops Water Supply to Crimea

Germany Sets New Record, Generating 74 Percent Of Energy Needs From Renewable Energy. With wind and solar in particular filling such a huge portion of the countrys power demand, electricity prices actually dipped into the negative for much of the afternoon

Silvio Berlusconi's links with Italian organised crime confirmed

Some 20 miners are reported to have been killed after an explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey. Up to 300 other workers are believed to be trapped underground at the mine in Soma, Manisa province

Death toll in Turkey's coal mine disaster jumps to 157.

VP Biden's Son Joins Ukrainian Gas Company's Board

Samsung offers 'deep apology' and compensation to workers who've contracted incurable diseases

Anti-cyberbullying bill could harm internet privacy rights, Amanda Todd's mother warns

Philippines says China appears to be building airstrip on disputed reef

Kiev rejects Donetsk's referendum results

Turkey ordered to pay 90m Euros compensation to Cyprus - Turkey refuses as they do not 'formally recognise Cyprus as a country'.

The dominance of India's most famous political dynasty may be finished: Exit polls suggest the hold of the Nehru-Gandhi family over Indian politics is over, as Narendra Modi draws closer to win

WWF staff receive death threats for opposing Virunga oil exploitation | "The callers said that they had missed killing de Merode, but would not miss WWF's employee,"

10 factories set on fire in anti-China protest in southern Vietnam, official says.

Turkish PM cites 19th-century Britain to prove mine accidents are typical

Uruguays President Mujica Offers to Host Guantnamo Prisoners

238 dead in Turkey coal mine explosion

201 killed, hundreds trapped by coal mine explosion: Turkish Energy Minister

Israel demolishes 28 illegal outposts, including a Synagogue.

Chinese authorities accuse a senior executive of the global pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline of orchestrating a long-running bribery and fraud scheme that involved making secret payments to doctors, hospital staff and government officials to bolster drug sales

UK Government Willing To Block EU Net Neutrality Deal

German Official Says It Was Wrong to Make Ukraine Pick Between EU and Russia

Mexican Vigilante groups begin accusing each other of working for drug cartels.

Pakistan's Chief Justice says all religions come under the blasphemy law, calls for strong action against those who target Hindus

2014-05-15

Alberta government is planning to sell off crucial caribou habitat to the energy industry just days after a federal scientific panel said the herds were in immediate danger of vanishing completely

Sudan woman sentenced to be hanged for apostasy for refusing to return to Islam, after marrying a Christian man

The biggest fast food strike in the history is happening around the world today

Saudi Arabia: Farmers flout Mers warning by kissing camels - People are taking photos and videos of themselves kissing camels in defiance of a warning from Saudi health authorities not to go near the animals, which have been linked to the deadly Mers virus.

US plans nearly $1 billion arms deal with Iraq

Turkish PM Erdoans adviser sparks outrage for kicking mourner amid Soma protests

Google ruling 'astonishing', says Wikipedia founder Wales

Australia's Minister For Education Just Called The Opposition Leader A Cunt In Parliament

Train from Kaliningrad, Russia Halted at Lithuanian Border for Bearing Soviet Symbols

Turkish mine disaster: PM Erdogan's car attacked

South Korea Officials Enact De Facto SOPA Regime to Block Foreign Websites -- Its takedown system mirrors the SOPA provision on copyright holders being empowered to compel ISPs to block foreign sites through a simple allegation of copyright infringement

Russia Scores Massive Gas Pipeline Deal With China

Anti-China riots turn deadly in Vietnam | 20 or more killed

Brazil laundering illegal timber on a 'massive and growing scale': Greenpeace investigation uncovers evidence that illegally logged timber is being sold on to buyers in the UK, US, Europe and China

German undercover agent dies in mysterious circumstances: Corelli was due to appear in the Munich court to give evidence on the workings of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground.

Fast food workers strike for higher wages: Protesters in several dozen countries join in a united call for wages of $15 an hour and the right to form a union

Turkish miners who took shelter inside the only refuge chamber available at the Soma mine used oxygen masks in turns before perishing

Road Work Reveals Ancient Treasure Trove of 9,000 Years of Scottish History

Kuwait, a U.S. ally on Syria, is also the leading funder of extremist rebels

Atlantic Current Strength Declines - The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is part of the great ocean conveyor belt that ceaselessly circulates sea water, heat and nutrients around the globe.

Afghan Taliban commander linked to Pakistani spy agency

News of the World royal editor: I hacked Kate Middleton 155 times

Trade unions in Turkey have announced a one-day strike in protest at the country's worst ever mine disaster which has claimed at least 274 lives.

China and Russia beat US in new corporate transparency report

Ecuador's Plan to Drill in the Amazon Is Moving Ahead, Despite Opposition

2014-05-16

FIFA head calls Qatar 2020 World Cup a "mistake"

Villagers Kill 200 Boko Haram Insurgents With Dane Guns, Arrows; Catch 10 Alive.

Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for' "Almost a third of long-term unemployed young people have contemplated taking their own lives."

Steel Workers in Mariupol, Ukraine seize the city and out Pro-Russian Militants

Bosnia and Serbia emergency after 'worst ever' floods

Russian Proton rocket carrying advanced satellite crashes

UK's oil, coal and gas 'gone in five years'. In just over five years Britain will have run out of oil, coal and gas, researchers have warned.

Turkish PM Erdogan punches a citizen of Soma, where 300+ miners died in an explosion, because he was protesting along with the rest of the town for him to resign.

Google swamped by takedown requests after court ruling: European ruling on 'right to be forgotten' prompts numerous requests to remove personal info

The remains of a teenage girl who fell to her death in an underground cave system in Mexico 12,000 years ago have thrown fresh light on the origins of the first Americans | DNA recovered from 12,000-year-old skeleton help to dispel claims that first Americans came from Australia, Asia or Europe.

Pro-Russian insurgents retreat in eastern Ukraine city as steelworkers begin patrols

NATO Chief Says Russia Can't Be Trusted Over Ukraine

Report: Russian space rocket breaks apart after launch in Kazakhstan

Police tear gas Turkey mine protest: Turkish police fire tear gas at thousands of protesters in town of Soma where some 300 miners died on Tuesday

NATO's Secretary General Tells Europe To Stop Relying On The US And Provide Its Own Defense

UN report documents alarming deterioration in human rights in eastern Ukraine

China blames Vietnam, says will not cede inch of disputed territory

Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoan filmed slapping civilian protesting about the Turkey Mine Explosion.

Modi on brink of power as India vote count begins

Hong Kong begins burning its entire stockpile of illegal ivory, joining the US, China & France in combating the illicit trade

Australia: Flaming Ball Falls from Sky and Crashes 'Like a Bomb'

A paralysed Saudi kid's tweet about him being abandoned by family goes viral. He ends up getting 1000s of visitors and over US $100K in donations from strangers to royal family.

A photograph of an aide kicking a protester may be just the beginning of Erdogans problems

The leader of a Chinese baby trafficking ring that brought 23 boys and pregnant women from Vietnam was sentenced to death Friday, a state news agency reported.

Australian Opposition Leader calls Tony Abbott a coward and says "Try Us" when threatened with Double Dissolution after negative backlash from recent budget

2014-05-19

Tens of thousands gather in Australian capital cities to protest the Abbott government's cuts against health, welfare and education, the Murdoch press runs with "The Ferals Are Revolting".

Chilean activist destroys student debt papers worth $500m

Food should be regulated like tobacco, say campaigners: The food industry should be regulated like the tobacco industry as obesity poses a greater global health risk than cigarettes, say international groups.

U.S. to Sue Chinese Military for Digital Espionage

Thousands flee record flooding in Bosnia, Serbia: 'Everything is destroyed'. Three months worth of rain has fallen on the region in three days this week, creating the worst floods since records began being kept 120 years ago.

25 tons of tetrachloroethane spilled in Fuchun River, China~ drinking water shut-off

NYU promises workers constructing their Abu Dhabi campus will be treated fairly and humanely. Evidence has surfaced that those promises were overwhelmingly false.

Credit Suisse to admit running a criminal enterprise' helping US tax dodgers

Kremlin says President Putin has ordered troops near Ukraine to return to their home bases.

Italian airline Alitalia has announced that it is suspending all flights to Venezuela "due to the ongoing critical currency situation" in the country," which is "no longer economically sustainable."

Scientists finally hope to turn light into matter - after 80 years of trying

Russia's President Putin orders troops near Ukraine border to return "immediately" to their permanent bases

Venezuela vowed yesterday to accuse the United States of meddling in its political crisis at the United Nations and other international organisations.

Pope to visit Palestinian refugee camp, Western Wall

No signs of Russian troops' withdrawal along Ukrainian border, NATO says

South Korea is to break up its coastguard in the wake of the ferry disaster in which nearly 300 people died, says President Park Geun-hye.

Palestine urges EU to blacklist Jewish 'terrorists'

Fukushima Seawater Radiation Rises To New All Time High

Israel to use drones to track West Bank hate crime perpetrators

Putin to India: Together we'll scale new heights

Manmohan Singh resigns as Prime Minister of India, says his tenure is 'open book'

Poisoned Sheep in Australia Its like dealing with a thousand heroin addicts.

Sir Jack Brabham, three-time Formula One world drivers' champion and icon of world motorsport, dies aged 88

Since last Monday, the German army has been conducting its largest military exercises since the 1980s.

Russia seizes accounts of Ukraine chocolate tycoon/politician

2014-05-20

Thailand's army has declared martial law.

WikiLeaks said it would reveal within 72 hours the name of a second country where the NSA is said to be using a cyber-espionage programme to record the content of all phone calls made, despite a warning from journalist Glen Greenwald that revealing the name of the nation could lead to deaths.

Aussies To Slash 90% Of Global Warming Funding From Budget

Tesla promises electric car revolution : Tesla electric car owners will be able to drive 300 miles without stopping and restore almost half of battery life in just 20 minutes, company claims

Poll shows Germans want smaller role in military missions, favouring instead a foreign policy promoting human rights and environmental causes

500 Nigerian hunters with homemade weapons ready to rescue kidnapped girls

NASA says International Space Station will keep operating even as Russia threatens to withdraw co-operation

Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas

China rules out Windows 8 for government computers

'Planes Don't Just Disappear': Former Malaysian Prime Minister Accuses CIA of Covering Up What Really Happened to Flight MH370

As the Israeli government prepares to welcome Pope Francis on his first visit as Pope, vandals have scrawled hate-filled graffiti at some Christian sites. Jesus is garbage, Death to Christians and We will crucify you.

Australian spies are helping the United States secretly monitor telephone calls across the Philippines, leaked US intelligence documents reveal.

China Angry Over US Spy Charges 'Hypocrisy'.

VTB - among Russia's largest banks - has signed a deal with Bank of China to pay each other in domestic currencies, bypassing the need for US Dollars for "investment banking, inter-bank lending, trade finance and capital-markets transactions.

17 UK arrests linked to Blackshades RAT malware which captured nude pictures of Miss Teen USA: Hack Forums users raided

Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, who earns 4x more than Obama and is the highest paid country leader in the world , is suing over a blog post. He is even demanding that the blogger to pay for all legal fees incurred.

Emissions from 10 food and drinks companies "higher than Scandinavia": Cereal and softdrinks brands among top polluters singled out in Oxfam report for not doing enough on climate

Ukrainian tycoon, the richest man in Ukraine, confronts rebellion, accuses separatists of leading Ukraine towards "genocide".

Italian women appeal to Pope Francis to end priests' celibacy vow - Telegraph

'A national disgrace': NGOs react to the Australian PM Tony Abbott's budget

European Union antitrust regulators charged Europe's biggest bank HSBC, U.S. peer JPMorgan and France's Credit Agricole on Tuesday with rigging financial benchmarks linked to the euro, exposing them to potential fines

Scientists are creating a whole new class of antibiotics - Danish researchers are developing a new class of antibiotics to fight the growing threat of superbugs.

WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange remains the subject of an active criminal investigation by the United States Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation, newly published court documents reveal

Doubling of Antarctic ice loss revealed by European satellite

Lost snake species rediscovered in Mexico: "The rediscovery of the Clarion Nightsnake is an incredible story"

2014-05-21

France Mistakenly Orders 2,000 Trains Which Are Too Wide For Its Platforms

VIDEO: CCTV footage indicates killed Palestinian youths posed no threat when shot by Israeli forces

Tony Abbott's daughter did not have to pay for 60000 design degree

Russia and China seal historic multibillion gas deal

China Arrests Former CEO Of JPMorgan Asia

Australian PM Tony Abbott has winked and smiled to a radio host while being confronted by an angry pensioner who claims to have been forced to work on a sex line to make ends meet.

UK Green Party rejects millionaire's donation because he is not a full UK taxpayer

Thousands of protesters march to the steps of Parliament during a national day of action against the Australian Government's plan to deregulate student fees.

The silent epidemic - Depression is the top cause of illness and disability among adolescents globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed last week.

Russian planes violeted Finnish air space. Fighters were scrambled to the area causing a sonic boom.

Eight church leaders detained for refusing to leave Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbotts electoral office

4 dead, 21 injured in stabbing on Taipei metro

Australian PM winks during question from pensioner 'forced to work on sex line'

Not a coup, says Thai general on television channel he has seized control of

Drone strikes are justified - even if innocent civilians are mistakenly killed, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key says. Key confirmed yesterday that intelligence collected by New Zealand might be passed to the controversial US program.

China and Russia fail to reach agreement on gas deal

India's Modi extends olive branch to Pakistan, invites Sharif to inauguration

US to Israel: Investigate killing of Palestinian teens

Jean-Marie Le Pen suggests Ebola as solution to global population explosion | Virus 'could sort out demographic explosion' and by extension Europe's 'immigration problem', says founder of Front National

Study: Diaspora Jews say occupation, Orthodoxy threaten Israel

Russia And China Sign Gas Pipeline Mega-Deal

A Nazi salute isn't illegal racial discrimination provided it's intended as a personal statement, Switzerland's top court ruled

Iranians arrested by government for dancing to Pharrell's "Happy"

E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit, Study Says'

Modern slavery generates $150 billion in profits globally per year for those who exploit them, the International Labour Organisation has said.

2014-05-22

All three matadors gored in opening of San Isidro festival. Event cancelled.

India's new PM to Use Solar to Bring Power to Every Home by 2019

Uruguays President Jose Mujica wants to host Syrian children victims of war in his summer residence

US Govt "does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage"

North Korea fires artillery, misses South Korea ship near disputed sea border

Egyptian doctor to stand trial for female genital mutilation in landmark case

Official Japanese government report estimated that the Fukushima disaster has so far released 75% more radioactive cesium than the Chernobyl disaster.

Manga about Fukushima cleanup operation becomes hit in Japan: Kazuto Tatsuta, who worked on cleanup at nuclear plant, hopes his work 'tells people about things that the media never see'

Pentagon report: scope of intelligence compromised by Snowden 'staggering'

We will not tolerate any demands or right to apostasy by Muslims, or deny Muslims their right to be governed by Shariah Courts and neither will we allow Muslims to engage in LGBT activities" - Malaysian PM

Good news: Warming waters extend swim season. Bad news: Theyre full of monster jellyfish

China proposes security alliance to counter U.S. influence

Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution referring the Syrian crisis to the International Criminal Court for investigation of possible war crimes.

China's Xinjiang Uygur:31 dead, 94 injured in Urumqi terrorist bombing

World Bank and aid donors accused of enabling land grabs: Millions of smallholder farmers worldwide have been left homeless and hungry because of private investment promoted by policies such as tax breaks and cheap loans

Sweden: Five extreme-left militants were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for politically motivated and "unfathomable" crimes, after they mistook two Slovak guest workers for Swedish neo-Nazis and attacked them.

'My job is not to win a popularity contest': Tony Abbott shrugs off disastrous poll results as state premiers promise to inflict more political pain over budget cuts

Russia has launched a government-owned search engine

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he decided to cancel a university visit today because he did not want to give students "an excuse for a riot".

Ukraine crisis: 'Many' soldiers die in Donetsk attack

Turkish Gay rights activist sued by Prime Minister Erdoan fined for using word queer in tweet

Painful and rapid spread of new virus in Caribbean

JPMorgan, HSBC and Credit Agricole accused of euro rate-fixes

Visa CEO Charlie Scharf says the company may stop operations in Russia if the international payment systems are obliged to make guarantee payments of hundreds of millions of dollars

Muslim terrorists blamed for market bombings in China that kill 31

2014-05-23

WikiLeaks reveals that NSA spies on almost all of Afghanistan's communications

Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab Accounts Linked To Mexican Drug Cartels: SEC

Twitter's blocking of 'blasphemous' content raises questions over its censorship policy

I was framed: Court outburst by billionaire mining tycoon Liu Han as he is sentenced to death

Footage of Palestinian boys being shot is genuine, says Israeli rights group: B'Tselem contradicts Israeli military claims that CCTV footage showing deaths is either forged or was edited misleadingly

New meteor shower may burst into meteor storm Friday night

Environmental activists protest Japan's killing of thousands of dolphins in a secluded cove by filing a lawsuit

Great Barrier Reef: Deutsche Bank rules out funding for controversial Abbot Point coal terminal expansion

Syria video shows chlorine gas floating in streets: Syrian opposition activists have posted a video of what they say is chlorine gas floating through the streets of a village, the first such footage of they say is a chemical weapon campaign by President Bashar al-Assad.

Russia will recognise outcome of Ukraine poll, says Vladimir Putin

Ecuador Issues Permit To Drill In Pristine Amazon Reserve

Glasgow School of Art is burning down

New Zealand PM John Key Confirms 'Legal' Data-Sharing with U.S.; Justifies U.S. Drone Strikes | Mr Key has confirmed that data gathered by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) may have been used to identify the targets for U.S. attacks using unmanned aircraft.

Cave Paintings Discovered in Spain: The cave's location will only be revealed once security measures are in place, after vandals defaced a 5,000-year-old rock painting in Spains southern Jan province in April.

Catholic Bishop who was forced to resign over building costs gets to live in new $43-million HQ until the Vatican finds new job for him

'Revenge porn' victims receive boost from German court ruling

India slaps anti-dumping duty on U.S., China solar imports.

Dublin Activists Occupied the Bank of Ireland

"Authorities in Bosnia have banned civilians from entering two villages they marked as potential epidemic flashpoints after record floods devastated the Balkan region last week."

Germany's highest criminal court has ruled that the country has jurisdiction over the case of a retired Minnesota carpenter that an Associated Press investigation exposed as a former commander in a Nazi SS-led unit.

US ordered to return seven books from Schneerson collection to Russia ($50,000/day overdue fines)

Airstrikes in Pakistan kill 60

Guatemala's ex-president was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for accepting bribes, as a U.S. judge rejected leniency and said government corruption must be stamped out worldwide

Attack on Indian consulate in Herat, Afghanistan

Vladimir Putin says Russia will respect result of Ukraines presidential election

2014-05-27

The Soma coal mine, where 301 workers lost their lives, received a perfect score in March by an official inspector, who is the brother-in-law of a senior executive of the company

A Pakistani woman has been stoned to death by her family in front of a Pakistan high court for marrying the man she loves.

Pope Francis declares 'zero tolerance' for clergy linked to sexual abuse, says he will meet victims next month.

World Meteorological Organization: Carbon Dioxide hits 400ppm, 'Time is running out'

IMF chief says banks haven't changed since financial crisis. Still resisting reform and taking excessive risks.

Pope Francis says he favors celibacy for priests but that 'door is open to change'

Coca-Cola accused of 'obscene' hypocrisy in 20 million 'anti-obesity' drive

Syrian Rebels Describe U.S.-Backed Training in Qatar

Putin says Kiev must stop military operation in east Ukraine

Elderly Chinese people committing suicide before end of the month to avoid province's looming ban on burials

South Korea offers $500,000 reward for tips about missing billionaire Sewol ferry owner Yoo Byung-eun

Canada needs a Hawaii: Turks & Caicos premier visits Ottawa

Gunman who killed three people at a Jewish museum in Belgium was cold-blooded and very determined, officials said today, leading some security experts to suggest that he may have been a hitman rather than an anti-Semitic lone wolf

Ukraine Retakes Airport, After Airstrikes And Dozens Of Deaths

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered to appear in Iran court

Japan creates new national holiday for overworked population

Palestinians 'to unveil unity government' | President Abbas to announce cabinet by Thursday, ending seven years of rivalry between Fatah and Hamas, official says.

EU Safety Institutions Caught Plotting an Industry escape route Around Looming Pesticide Ban

Bees trained to seek TNT instead of sugary sweets will soon be used to detect left-over landmines

Frances UMP ordered 10m fake invoices to hide Sarkozy campaign spending

Dutch police on Tuesday arrested six Greenpeace activists after they chained a Russian oil drilling platform destined for the Arctic to a dock to prevent it from leaving a Netherlands port

Chinese Boat Attacks, Sinks Vietnam Fishing Vessel, Vietnam Says

A Chinese Internet information body has complained of "unscrupulous" surveillance by U.S. intelligence agencies over the rest of the world, and called for an immediate cessation of the practice, saying that operations have gone "far beyond the legal rationale of 'anti-terrorism'".

Clashes over control of Donetsk airport left at least 30 pro-Russian separatists dead, rebels say

The wives of the two jailed Venezuelan opposition mayors win elections with 88% and 73%

2014-05-28

Judge questions why only the boy is charged in underage sex case

ISS crew from Russia, USA, and Germany, hug and take selfie to say No' to politics and Ukraine tension in Space.

Nobody Wants To Host The 2022 Olympics

There will be no investigation into the alleged mass surveillance of German citizens, nor will there be an investigation into the NSA's alleged spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone, the German federal prosecutor has decided.

Bank of England governor: capitalism doomed if ethics vanish

China: US has breached international laws, infringed human rights and put global cyber-security at risk. Demands halt to unscrupulous' US cyber-spying.

A Bloody War for Water in Mexico - Residents of a town outside Mexico City injured 100 police in a fight to defend their natural spring from being tapped

Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has described himself as a trained spy specialising in electronic surveillance, dismissing claims he was a mere low-level analyst | In an interview with NBC, he reiterated that he had worked undercover overseas for the CIA and NSA.

Over 80 per cent of drug seizures in Europe are for cannabis

Facebook Wants To Listen In On What You're Doing.

Glenn Greenwald: NSA documents on Middle East to be disclosed

Gaza's Hamas government says ready to step aside and hand "full responsibility" to a Palestinian unity government.

Zambian Park Ranger in Charge of Law Enforcement Shot Dead: Was shot to death by suspected poachers while investigating reports of gunshots.

More than 50 rebels killed as new Ukraine leader unleashes assault | Ukrainian aircraft and paratroopers killed more than 50 pro-Russian rebels in an assault that raged into a second day on Tuesday after a newly elected president vowed to crush the revolt in the east once and for all.

Leggings are not pants, Qatar tells tourists

Russia to Offer $327Mln in Free Financial Aid to Syria

Google is to start building its own self-driving cars. The car will have a stop-go button but no controls, steering wheel or pedals

Humpback whale strandings in W Australia: malnutrition a major factor. An unprecedented number of mostly young whales have become stranded on the coast

Brazil anti-World Cup protesters clash with police | Police in Brazil have fired tear gas at anti-World Cup and indigenous demonstrators in the capital, Brasilia.

Bangkok Post reporting Facebook blocked in Thailand

Median CEO Pay Crosses $10 Million in 2013

U.S. tells citizens to leave Libya immediately

Russia sees no business interest in the ISS and is doubtful the mission will continue past 2020.

Racism on the rise in Britain | British Social Attitudes survey finds proportion of people in the UK who say they are racially prejudiced has risen since 2001.

Iran orders 'Zionist' Zuckerburg to appear in court

2014-05-29

Top scientists warn World Health Organization not to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products, arguing that doing so would jeopardize a major opportunity to slash disease and deaths caused by smoking.

Edward Snowden says he would like to return home but not to a "jail cell"

A Third of the World is Now Obese or Overweight

The husband of a Pakistani woman stoned to death for refusing to participate in an arranged marriage told CNN her family had demanded 100,000 rupees if the couple wanted to stay alive.

American carries out suicide attack in Syria

Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan form Eurasian Economic Union

US Secretary of State John Kerry has labelled intelligence leaker Edward Snowden a fugitive from justice who should "man up" and return home | Mr Kerry added that if Mr Snowden, 30, "believes in America, he should trust the American system of justice".

A volcano is Ethiopia is spewing blue lava

Turkey highest court: YouTube ban violates rights: Turkeys highest court has ruled that the countrys ban on YouTube violates the freedom of expression. The ruling is a setback for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had advocated the ban of YouTube.

Germany hit for dropping NSA probe plan

Lithuania's president wins second term on anti-Russia platform

Russians Revealed Among Ukraine Fighters

WikiLeaks claims Google director helped the NSA spy on Afghanistan.

US jails Chinese mastermind of rhino horn smuggling ring for six years

U.N. Chemical Weapons Inspectors Attacked in Syria

Ebola expands in Guinea, sickens more in Sierra Leone

China Middle-Class Protests Turn Violent After Petitions Ignored

Assad Destroyed Syrias Oldest Synagogue

Tritium levels at Fukushima No. 1 top Pacific Ocean dumping limit, Tepco admits

Downed Ukraine Helicopter Had General On Board

MH370 is not in the Indian Ocean search zone, authorities say

A Swedish engine company risks a $75,000 fine for telling an Iraqi-born high school student he could not intern with them, because it put them at odds with US export rules

Reports: At least 30 killed at church in Central African Republic | Muslim rebels have stormed a Catholic church compound in the capital of the Central African Republic, killing at least 30 people in a hail of gunfire and grenades, witnesses said.

Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif orders action on stoning

Crusader against sex trafficking in Cambodia quits amid charges stories were fabricated

2014-05-30

India arrests police officers over gang rape

Siberian fisherman accidentally nets 4,000-year-old pagan god

Thousands rallied in Melbourne tonight against the Australian government's proposed healthcare plans.

Canadian Weather Forecasters Forbidden From Discussing Climate Change

France's largest bank faces record $10-billion fine for helping Sudan, Iran and Cuba elude U.S. sanctions

Report: Israel tapped president Clinton's diplomatic calls

Full account of Tony Blair's exchanges with George Bush on Iraq war to be kept secret. (Chilcot Inquiry)

Privacy call for internet browsing in the wake of Edward Snowden leaks | Survey reveals that more than eight out of 10 internet users believe their search history should be kept private

We are Arkady Ostrovsky, Moscow bureau chief, and Edward Carr, foreign editor, Covering the crisis in Ukraine for The Economist. Ask us anything.

40% of EU citizens can't afford a vacation

Formal countdown begins for Scottish vote that could break up United Kingdom

Australian farmer loses court case suing neighbor for contaminating his organic crop with genetically-modified canola whose seed blew 1.5km inside his property

Researchers have succeeded in deterministically transferring the information contained in a quantum bit the quantum analogue of a classical bit - to a different quantum bit 3 metres away, without the information having travelled through the intervening space: teleportation

Only Chinese-born parliamentarian in UK to quit politics over racist abuse

Turkish Twitter user who created a parody God acoount (similar to @TheTweetOfGod) sentenced to 15 months in prison

Australian PM Tony Abbott to remove secular welfare staff from schools under Christian chaplaincy drive

Arrests over hanged Indian girls

Britain's 1940s propaganda films made available online.

BRICS emerging nations close to launching bank

Israeli force apprehends Palestinian wearing suicide belt in West Bank

CAR: At least 30 killed in Muslim raid on Christian church

Donetsk militants send 34 pro-Russian separatists bodies to Russia

Ebola: Deadly outbreak crosses border as mistrust hampers medical staff

Ukraine's rebels in crisis after Donetsk 'coup'

South Korea Ferry Search: 2nd Diver Dies Inside Doomed Vessel

2014-06-02

Google is building 180 satellites to spread internet access worldwide

King Juan Carlos of Spain abdicates

Authorities 'cover up' radioactive waste dump | A highly radioactive substance, emitting in some places radiation 100 times the permitted amount, has been discovered in the canton of Bern, Swiss media reported on Sunday, adding that authorities had covered it up for 18 months.

7 die in Cambodia after looking for money (equivalent to approx $0.75 USD) in well

Sudan backtracks on pledge to free woman sentenced to death for apostasy

Bilderberg 2014 attendees list released.

One killed, ten wounded after Ukrainian Air Force attack Lugansk administration building

Police Apprehend LGBT Pride Protesters in Moscow

German villagers build own broadband network

World Cup 2014: 'Hacktivist' group Anonymous plan cyber-attack on sponsors including Coca-Cola, Budweiser and Emirates Airline

Former soldiers and intelligence operatives have been sent to infiltrate a network of anti-coal protesters aiming to thwart a multibillion dollar expansion of coal production in Australia.

Oxford university academics support fossil fuel divestment | Fifty-nine University of Oxford academics have signed an open letter urging the institution not to invest in fossil fuel companies. [X-post from /r/divestment]

25 Years Later, Details Emerge of Armys Chaos Before Tiananmen Square

Cameroon troops kills 40 Boko Haram militants

ISIL kills 102-year-old man and family in Syria

Russia takes over UN Security Council chairmanship

YouTube still blocked in Turkey despite top court verdict

Palestinians swear in unity government: Palestinians swore in their first national unity government in seven years on Monday, a move condemned by Israel but not other major players in the Middle East peace process, including the EU and U.S.

Seoul seeks U.S. help with probe into GIs' alleged sexual abuse

Egyptian judge defends mass death sentences on 'demons from hell' - Saeed Youssef says the 720 he sentenced included 'demons disguised in the cloak of Islam' who followed Jewish scripture.

Tony Abbott raises eyebrows after linking WWII D-Day memorial with policies on mining and carbon taxes

India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh has formally split in two, with its northern area carved out to create a new state called Telangana

Israel Condemns Plans for Palestinian Unity Government

Nigeria will cease to exist by December 2015 Biafra Movement Leader

Nigeria: Boko Haram Kills 85, Burns Three Villages in Borno, Adamawa

2014-06-03

Satirist Bassem Youssef (the "Jon Stewart" of Egypt) ends TV show: "The present climate in Egypt is not suitable for a political satire program...Im tired of struggling and fearing for my personal and my familys safety and that of the people around me."

Alexander Shulgin dead: Godfather of ecstasy and pioneering psychedelic pharmacologist dies aged 88

Reset the Net! Reddit, Greenpeace, Amnesty unite in anti-NSA hit campaign | Opponents of mass government surveillance are braced for the June-5 campaign for a free and secure internet, led by some of the worlds largest websites.

Attack of the Russian Troll Army: Russias campaign to shape international opinion around its invasion of Ukraine has extended to recruiting and training a new cadre of online trolls that have been deployed to spread the Kremlins message on the comments section of top American websites.

Sweden proposes a six-hour work day

Fifa ethics head Michael Garcia won't look at new corruption allegations: Fifa's chief ethics investigator will not consider millions of documents underpinning a new wave of corruption allegations surrounding the award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar

Thailands military threatens to arrest people giving Hunger Games salute

80k Palestinians left without drinking water

French president plans to eat two dinners in one night just so he can keep Obama and Putin away from each other

Barack Obama announces plans for a $1bn fund to increase US military deployments to Europ

The Indian miracle-buster stuck in Finland: An Indian man who made his name exposing the "miraculous" feats of holy men as tricks has fled the country after being accused of blasphemy. Now in self-imposed exile in Finland, he fears jail - or even assassination - if he returns

800 children found buried in a silage tank at a disused home for unmarried mothers in Ireland.

Kerry to Israel: U.S. intends to work with new Palestinian government

China Blocks All Google Services Ahead of Tienanmen Square Anniversary

Scientists Have Discovered A Planet They Thought Was Impossible. May have "profound implications for the possibility of life" on extra-solar planets.

China plan to cap CO2 emissions seen turning point in climate talks. China said on Tuesday it will set an absolute cap on its CO2 emissions from 2016 just a day after the United States announced new targets for its power sector, signalling a potential breakthrough in tough U.N. climate talks.

Mining company Idemitsu Australia Resources has admitted it contracted spies to infiltrate protesters opposed to the expansion of coal mining in Australia.

Survey finds broad discontent in World Cup host Brazil | People take the view that the billions of dollars poured into the soccer tournament would be better spent on services such as healthcare, schools and public transportation.

Spain protests call for vote on monarchy | Tens of thousands rally across Spain to demand referendum on removal of royal family after King Juan Carlos abdicates.

Russia calls UN meeting to seek Ukraine ceasefire: Moscow urges Security Council action to end weeks of violence in Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine, a move denounced by U.S. as hypocritical.

Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef ends his TV show

Canada has been dragging its heels on commitments to create marine protected areas, according to new report.

Roman Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Scandal: 19 Accuse Mexican Priest, Activist Estimates as Many as '100 Victims'

Climate Change Is Here: Australia Experiences Hottest Two Years Ever Recorded

Freak sandstorm hits Iranian capital

2014-06-04

Relatives of Chinese citizens gunned down during the 1989 Tiananmen massacre have defied unprecedented Communist Party attempts to silence them to demand the truth about their loved-ones deaths ahead of todays 25th anniversary of the crackdown.

David Cameron's house 'fracked' by protestors

Nigerian military court-martials 15, including 10 generals, for aiding Boko Haram

The mayor of Venice is among 35 people arrested in Italy over alleged corruption in connection with new flood barriers built to protect the city.

Poll: Australians concern about climate change & a desire for the government to take action is on the rise. 45% want action now 'whatever the cost', as survey reveals a 9-point rise in the strongest response since 2012

Obama expected to ask Abbott to put climate change back on G20 agenda

US coastguard releases Chinese boat accused of illegal fishing in North Pacific. Vessel caught with half a tonne of salmon and high-seas net widely condemned as highly destructive to marine life

North Korea asked Japan for food and medical aid

Anti-marijuana candidate loses in Uruguay primary

People 'more negative about Russia': People's views of Russia have strongly deteriorated since last year

The world's leading industrialized nations meet without Russia for the first time in 17 years on Wednesday, leaving President Vladimir Putin out of the talks in retaliation for his seizure of Crimea and Russia's part in destabilizing eastern Ukraine.

Protests for kidnapped girls banned in Nigerian capital

OSCE confirms that deadly explosion at Lugansk HQ which killed civilians was indeed a "non-guided missiles launched from an aircraft. While Ukraine military confirmed they fired 150 missiles in Lugansk area that day

Rouhani: "We shouldn't interfere in people's lives to such an extent, even out of compassion. Let them choose their own path to heaven."

Lithuania is set to adopt the euro on 1 January 2015, after the European Commission said it had met the criteria for joining the single currency.

Heavy fighting is taking place in and around the rebel-held city of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine

Finlands Foreign Ministry has adopted a "corruption trigger" for reporting the misuse of development aid. The online service is the first of its kind to be used by the Finnish public service and is available in Finnish, Swedish and English.

Protestors in Spain Don't Want to Have a King Anymore: Thousands of Spaniards & Mexicans are welcoming new king by chanting pro-Republican slogans like Monarchy Out!, Up With the Third Republic!, & Referendum Now!

Germany investigates alleged NSA Merkel phone tap: Germanys chief federal prosecutor says he has opened an investigation into the alleged monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkels cell phone by the U.S. National Security Agency.

Sweden considers making programming an alternative to shop class

China, once the manual labour workshop of the world, has become the largest buyer of industrial robots

An Uproar in Australia Over Proposal to Deregulate Tuition

Major explosion, fire at Shell plant in the Netherlands

Australias one hundred days of truth-telling: Operation Blame the Victims was in full swing again today as Scott Morrison insisted that it was the unarmed men who received the beating who are to blame

Activists stage fracking protest at David Cameron's home: Signs to drill under PM's cottage in Cotswold put up to protest against tresspass law changes expected in Queen's speech

2014-06-05

The Worlds first waste-to-biofuels facility has opened in Edmonton Canada. The facility converts household garbage into biofuels. By 2016, it is expected that 90 per cent of the city's waste will be diverted out of the landfill because of this facility.

Dont ask for privacy, Take it back: Anti-NSA #ResetTheNet campaign kicks off

Gunman on the loose in Moncton: Unconfirmed reports RCMP officers shot

After 16 hours, gunman who killed three Canadian cops still on the loose, city in lockdown

Pope Francis sacks entire Italian board of the Vatican's financial watchdog

Irish church under fire after research uncovers 796 young children buried in an old septic tank

A major criminal trial involving two men charged with serious terrorism offences could be held entirely in secret for the first time in modern British legal history

Snowden publicly supports Reset the Net campaign: "This is the beginning of a moment where we the people begin to protect our universal human rights with the laws of nature rather than the laws of nations

India state minister on rape: 'Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's wrong'

German NSA-Proof Server Protonet Smashes Crowdfunding Record by Raising $1m in 89 Minutes

Russian to become mandatory in Syrian schools

Witnesses: Boko Haram militants slaughter hundreds

The Guardian launches SecureDrop system for whistleblowers to share files | SecureDrop platform allows sources to submit documents and data while avoiding most common forms of online tracking.

Canada bans government meteorologists from talking about climate change

Thousands gather in Hong Kong to remember Tiananmen killings. Crowds pack Hong Kong's Victoria Park to demand the truth about the Tiananmen crackdown 25 years ago and to call for an end to an assault on Communist Party critics that many view as the worst since 1989

Finns invent promising method for CO2 reduction. Researchers at the Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences have developed a water-based technique for removing carbon dioxide from industrial emissions.

68 U.S. companies procure minerals from North Korea despite Economic Sanctions

Extinct bat found in Papua New Guinea after 124 years.

Putin on Clinton: 'It's better not to argue with women.' He later characterized Clinton's comments as a sign of weakness, which is maybe "not the worst quality for a woman," he added.

Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents

Rebels seize three govt bases in Ukraine

Japan's SoftBank Corp said on Thursday it will start selling human-like robots for personal use by February, expanding into a sector seen key to addressing labour shortages in one of the world's fastest ageing societies.

US Deploying B-52s to Europe

Nearly $190 million in assets linked to ousted Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych and his inner circle have been frozen in Switzerland

Angered by Palestinian unity gov't, Israel to build more settler homes

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Quebec passes 'dying with dignity' bill, allows terminally ill patients be given the choice to end their lives.

Europe to force Google, Facebook to abide by EU privacy rules

Gunman who killed three RCMP officers and wounded two others in Moncton has been captured by police

Irish government now seemingly caught in the act of tapping thousands of phones

Vodafone admits governments use 'secret cables' to tap citizens' phones

Internet users cannot be sued for browsing the web, ECJ rules

(Reuters) An 18-year-old Pakistani has survived being shot and thrown in a canal by her family for marrying the man she loved, police said, weeks after the honor killing of another woman drew worldwide condemnation

Thai military leader: "I want to tell any offenders on social media that police will come get you" for criticizing them.

German intelligence agency confesses to spy stations

Brazil transit strike hits a week before World Cup

"Bill C-24 promises to shred the passports of Canadians who the Minister of Immigration deems terroristsand deport them to countries they may have never seen before."

Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance

CIA drone strikes: embarrassment for US as Pakistan court orders murder investigation - Telegraph

Twelve injured in sword fight between rival Sikhs rowing over who should speak first

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko for first time since election

Israel navy fires on Gaza fishing boats

The Canadian government is expanding its surveillance of public activities to include all known demonstrations across the country