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Did 65 million people get an iPhone 6 for Christmas?
Tech Week continues today, with Apple and Yahoo! releasing their quarterly earnings – and the big question is how many iPhone 6s Apple just sold (the average estimate: 65 million.) Tomorrow, Facebook reports their quarterly earnings – following a brief outage this morning that prompted panic among many a social-media addict. Today’s also...
Auschwitz survivors mark 70th anniversary of camp’s liberation
Around 300 survivors of the Auschwitz death camp gathered Tuesday to mark 70 years since its liberation by Soviet troops, joined by world leaders for a commemoration held in the shadow of war in Ukraine and a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe. …read more Source:...
Russia announces anti crisis plan after junk credit rating
MOSCOW – After a top ratings agency cut Russia’s credit grade to “junk” status, the government in Moscow on Tuesday announced a plan that will see the economy return to a budget surplus in 2017. Standard & Poor’s downgraded Russia’s rating to BB-plus late on Monday, a non-investment grade, for the first time since 2004,...
Survivors mark 70th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz
OSWIECIM, Poland – When the Soviet army entered Auschwitz exactly 70 years ago, finding piles of corpses and prisoners close to death, a Russian soldier took a small and hungry 11-year-old girl into his arms and rocked her tenderly, tears coming to his eyes. That girl, today the 81-year-old Paula Lebovics, doesn’t know who that soldier was,...
EU threatens more sanctions against Russia over crisis in Ukraine
European Union leaders are threatening fresh sanctions against Russia because of what it sees as “growing support” of Moscow for separatists in eastern Ukraine during intensified fighting over the past days. …read more Source: Global...
Leaders mark Auschwitz liberation 70 years on without Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be among other European leaders Tuesday on the anniversary of the death camp’s liberation, his absence coming amid a deep chill between Russia and the West over the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine. …read more Source: Global...
Deadly attack on Ukrainian city of Mariupol could be a war crime: UN
Deadly rocket attacks on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol this weekend that “knowingly targeted civilians” violated international humanitarian law and could amount to war crimes, the U.N. political chief said Monday. …read more Source: CTV...
Lax safety allowed before scaffolding collapse
TORONTO – A man who survived a deadly scaffolding collapse in Toronto in 2009 has told his project manager’s trial that construction workers were allowed to get on a swing stage that day without everyone being attached to a safety lifeline.Shohruh Tojiddinov says he was among a crew making repairs to balconies at a high-rise apartment...
Harrowing dashcam footage shows view of the terrifying artilery strike that killed 30 in Mariupol, Ukraine
Mariupol, a strategic port city on the Black Sea still controlled by Ukrainian forces, has been a symbolic bulwark against the separatist advance …read more Source: Vancouver...
Harrowing dashcam footage shows view of the terrifying artilery strike that killed 30 in Mariupol, Ukraine
Harrowing video showing the shelling of Mariupol emerged on YouTube, showing dashcam footage from part of the attack that left 30 people dead. The video shows a driver going down a back road behind a few other cars. Soon, the sounds of explosions echo outside and the driver starts to yell. Then, an orange explosion ignites a building on the side...
