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Missing AirAsia Flight: 6 Bodies Recovered In Java Sea
PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) — A massive hunt for the 162 victims of AirAsia Flight 8501 resumed in the Java Sea on Wednesday, with six bodies, including a flight attendant identified by her trademark red uniform, recovered. But wind, strong currents and high surf hampered recovery efforts as distraught family members anxiously waited to...
Merkel Urges Germans To Welcome Refugees Despite Growing Anti-Muslim Movement
BERLIN, Dec 31 (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to turn their backs on a growing grass-roots movement of anti-Muslim protesters, calling them racists full of hatred, and said Europe’s biggest economy must welcome people fleeing conflict and war. In an unusually strongly worded New Year address that also condemned...
Search Operation For AirAsia Wreckage Continues After Bodies, Debris Found
SURABAYA, Indonesia/JAKARTA, Dec 30 (Reuters) – Indonesian rescuers searching for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people pulled bodies and wreckage from the sea off the coast of Borneo on Tuesday, prompting relatives of those on board watching TV footage to break down in tears. Indonesia AirAsia’s Flight QZ8501, an Airbus A320-200, lost...
The Most Influential Acts Of Street Art Around The World This Year
Banksy may have cornered the street art chatter in 2013, but this year was all about the many other artists claiming their spot in the limelight. From Los Angeles to Afghanistan, guerrilla artists across the world proved there’s no public canvas quite like a wall. Below, 21 of our favorite tags from 2014.1. Blu: This is the year the Italian...
Fox News Contributor Calls Vladimir Putin ‘Al Sharpton With Nukes’
Vladimir Putin has been called a lot of names over the years, but chances are this is a first. Responding to comments President Barack Obama made concerning the annexation of Crimea and Russia’s recent economic woes in an interview with NPR, Fox News contributor Ralph Peters offered viewers his thoughts on the Russian president, drawing a...
The INF Treaty and the Crisis In US-Russia Relations
The public acknowledgment by the Obama administration that Moscow has indeed violated the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty comes amidst a serious deterioration of U.S.-Russia relations primarily related to the Russian annexation of Crimea and continuing intervention in Ukraine. While a premeditated violation of the INF Treaty would...
Alexei Navalny Breaks House Arrest To Join Moscow Rally
By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW, Dec 30 (Reuters) – A Russian court gave Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a suspended sentence on Tuesday for embezzling money but jailed his brother for three and a half years in a case seen as part of a campaign to stifle dissent. As hundreds of his supporters gathered in front of the Kremlin, Navalny broke house...
Here’s to a Better and Peaceful New Year
Our poor old world lurches from crisis to crisis: Ebola. Ferguson. Syria. ISIS. So New Year’s most welcome. Let’s start again With peace on earth and goodwill toward men. Putin and Ukraine; a nuclear Iran. We can’t even get out of Afghanistan. Yet no matter the weapons our enemies deploy We may sow in tears but we will yet reap...
AirAsia Crash Relatives Break Down In Grief After Bodies Found
PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) — Family members of those aboard AirAsia Flight 8501 collapsed in agony Tuesday as images of debris and a bloated body flashed across Indonesian television screens, proof that the plane crashed into the sea two days earlier with 162 people on board. The low-cost carrier vanished Sunday halfway through a two-hour...
This City Eliminated Poverty, And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It
An aerial view of the city of Dauphin, Manitoba. Forty years ago, a groundbreaking experiment provided checks to Dauphin’s poorest to raise their incomes to a livable wage. (Photo: Dauphin Economic Development/Facebook)On a December afternoon, Frances Amy Richardson took a break from her quilting class to reflect on a groundbreaking...
