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A US Army vet is suing a gun range for declaring itself ‘Muslim-free’
Getty ImagesA US Army veteran and reservist is suing a gun range in Oklahoma that declared itself “Muslim-free” last summer, after the owners refused to allow him to use the facility and accused him of planning to murder them as an act of “jihad,” according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The news of the lawsuit against Save...
A US Army vet is suing a gun range for declaring itself ‘Muslim-free’
Getty ImagesA US Army veteran and reservist is suing a gun range in Oklahoma that declared itself “Muslim-free” last summer, after the owners refused to allow him to use the facility and accused him of planning to murder them as an act of “jihad,” according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The news of the lawsuit against Save...
The Pentagon went $106 million over budget to build Afghanistan’s defense headquarters
Thomson ReutersThe United States has spent $154.7 million, three times the original estimate, to build the Afghan Ministry of Defense headquarters in Kabul, according to a top federal watchdog. The price tag for the five-story building was initially set at $48.7 million but because of “problems with the contract from the outset,” the cost...
IAN BREMMER: Ukraine’s government will fall apart ‘by the end of this year’
Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group. See more video by Ian Bremmer about oil, the global economy, politics and the news on his Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ianbremmer …read more Source: Business...
One of Putin’s most prominent critics is refusing to leave Russia despite numerous death threats
Thomson ReutersMOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian opposition politician Mikhail Kasyanov has said he fears for his life after fellow activist Boris Nemtsov was gunned down in Moscow last year, leaving him as the most high-profile Kremlin opponent inside the country. Kasyanov, who served as prime minister under President Vladimir Putin from...
The world’s jet setters have noticed some of their people are missing
ReutersThere are people in the world who rarely stay in one place. They’re the executives, the entrepreneurs, and the global citizens who feel just as comfortable in Dubai as they do in Shanghai. Call them your global jet setters, if you like. And in 2016 they’ve started to notice that some members of their group have gone missing —...
Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Church leader hold historic meeting in Cuba
Vatican Pope Francis arrived in Havana on Friday to meet the head of the Russian Orthodox Church nearly 1,000 years after Eastern Orthodoxy split with Rome, marking the first encounter in history between a Roman Catholic pope and a Russian Orthodox patriarch. The two religious leaders, guests of a Communist government, will address the...
The leaders of Christianity’s two biggest churches will meet for the first time in 1000 years
REUTERS/Alexandre MeneghiniVatican City (AFP) – Pope Francis heads to Cuba on Friday looking to heal a 1,000-year-old rift in Christianity before embarking on a tour of Mexico dominated by modern day problems of drug-related violence and migration. The Argentinian pontiff is due to spend around two hours in private conversation with Russian...
Two superpowers were responsible for a big chunk of last year’s increase in military spending
The 2016 edition of The Military Balance, the Institute for International and Strategic Studies’ definitive annual report on the state of the world’s various armed forces has some encouraging and not-so-encouraging news about global defense spending. On the one hand, growth in military spending is slowing down in the volatile Middle...
