Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Weapons storage blaze fires off rockets in Baghdad, killing four and other top stories.

  • Weapons storage blaze fires off rockets in Baghdad, killing four

    BAGHDAD A blast caused by a fire at a weapons storage depot in eastern Baghdad on Friday set off rockets that hit neighboring districts, killing at least four residents and injuring 14 others, police and hospital sources said.Video footage showed a large plume of smoke rising above the depot. A huge explosion was followed by a massive shockwave. Women and children were heard screaming in the background. Footage of the blast site showed a massive crater almost five meters (15 foot) deep and 20..
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  • Residents Tear Down Infamous Hashish Market in Copenhagen

    Residents Tear Down Infamous Hashish Market in Copenhagen
    COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Residents of Copenhagen's semi-autonomous Christiania neighborhood on Friday tore down the area's hashish market after an alleged drug dealer shot two police officers and a bystander.The 25-year-old gunman escaped after the attack but was arrested after a shoot-out with police. Authorities and his defense lawyer said Friday that he had died from his wounds.The violence marked an escalation in clashes between police and drug dealers who sell hashish openly in Christiania..
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  • Islam Karimov: Turkey announces Uzbek leader's death

    Islam Karimov: Turkey announces Uzbek leader's death
    Image copyright AP Image caption Mr Karimov had governed Uzbekistan since 1989 Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov has died, Turkey says - despite no official confirmation from the Uzbek government. Mr Karimov, 78, was taken to hospital last week after a brain haemorrhage. However, the Uzbek government has only said Mr Karimov is critically ill.On Friday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told a televised meeting Mr Karimov had died. Mr Karimov ..
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  • One Year Ago, Alan Kurdi's Body Washed Ashore And Shocked The World

    One Year Ago, Alan Kurdi's Body Washed Ashore And Shocked The World
    Note: This article contains disturbing images from the beach at Bodrum that will be upsetting to some readers. It has already been one year since heart-wrenching photos surfaced of a 3-year-old boy who, forced to flee his home in Syria and subjected to a grueling journey from the Middle East to Europe, was found facedown, washed up on a beach in the Turkish resort town of Bodrum. The visceral sorrow associated with the images of Alan Kurdi’s lifeless body caused a social media firestorm, unitin..
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  • Gabon Paralyzed as Sporadic Gunfire Marks Post-Vote Unrest

    Gabon Paralyzed as Sporadic Gunfire Marks Post-Vote Unrest
    Shops, schools and businesses were closed for a second day in Gabon’s two main cities as security force members in balaclavas manned checkpoints to deter protesters while the internet remained shut down following disputed presidential elections.At least two shopping centers and an apartment building in the capital, Libreville, were torched, as well as a villa owned by the chairman of the central African nation’s electoral commission, according to residents. Gunfire was heard in the neighborhood..
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  • Brexit minister says UK ideally seeking tariff-free access to EU single ma...

    Brexit minister says UK ideally seeking tariff-free access to EU single ma...
    BELFAST Britain is ideally seeking tariff-free access to the European Union's single market combined with curbs on immigration, the minister in charge of negotiating the country's exit from the bloc said on Thursday. Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday she was seeking a unique relationship with the European Union, in an apparent rejection of suggestions from other EU states that Britain must choose between free trade and migration limits."With respect to access to the single market, w..
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  • Putin says he doesn't know who hacked US Democratic Party: Bloomberg

    Putin says he doesn't know who hacked US Democratic Party: Bloomberg
    MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin said he did not know who was behind the hacking of U.S. Democratic Party organizations but the information uncovered was important, Bloomberg news agency reported on Friday.In an interview two days before a G20 meeting in China with U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders, Putin said it might be impossible to establish who engineered the release of sensitive Democratic Party emails but it was not done by the Russian government."Does it even m..
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  • Mother Teresa's mission lives on in Kolkata, grows worldwide

    Mother Teresa's mission lives on in Kolkata, grows worldwide
    KOLKATA, India On the eve of her canonization as a Roman Catholic saint, and 19 years after her death, the order founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta is going strong - even without her charismatic leadership.The Missionaries of Charity gained world renown, and Mother Teresa a Nobel peace prize, by caring for the dying, the homeless and orphans gathered from the teeming streets of the city in eastern India.They also drew criticism for propagating what one skeptic has called a cult of suffering;..
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  • Pakistan Hit by Attack on Christian Colony and Court Bombing

    Pakistan Hit by Attack on Christian Colony and Court Bombing
    PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Northwestern Pakistan was struck by two separate militant attacks hours apart on Friday, when gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a Christian colony near the town of Peshawar, killing one civilian, and a suicide bomb attack on a district court in the town of Mardan killed 12 people and wounded 54 others.Militants stormed the Christian neighborhood early on Friday morning, triggering a shoot-out in which four attackers were killed and one Christian died, police and the m..
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  • Scottish independence: Sturgeon launches 'new conversation'

    Scottish independence: Sturgeon launches 'new conversation'
    Media captionThe first minister said it was right to keep the option of independence on the table Nicola Sturgeon has launched a "new conversation" on independence as she urged Scotland to "control its own destiny". In a speech in Stirling, Ms Sturgeon acknowledged that choosing independence would be a "big decision" in the wake of the Brexit vote. She said there would be "many issues" for people to weigh up, and she did not presume the case "has yet been won". But she said it was "right" t..
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