Monday, July 4, 2016

Turkish Authorities Detain 3 More Over Airport Attack and other top stories.

  • Turkish Authorities Detain 3 More Over Airport Attack

    Turkish Authorities Detain 3 More Over Airport Attack
    ISTANBUL — Turkey's state-run news agency says authorities have detained three new suspects in connection with the attack at Istanbul's airport that killed at least 44 people.Anadolu Agency didn't identify the suspects or specify their nationalities.It said Sunday the total number of those detained in relation to the shooting and suicide attack at the airport is now 27. Thirteen suspects, including three foreigners, have been referred to Istanbul's Bakirkoy Court after undergoing medical che..
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  • Gunmen 'started shooting right away' in Dhaka cafe attack

    Gunmen 'started shooting right away' in Dhaka cafe attack
    They "started shooting right away," Rossini said, so he ran up the kitchen stairs to the roof, where as many as 10 other people had also fled when the shooting began.Shumon Reza, another cafe employee, said the attackers barreled in as diners were readying for their evening meal."They were shooting in the air," Reza told Boishakhi TV. "They didn't shoot or hit anybody. Just to create fear." Customers dove under tables and chairs, Reza said, but staffers, who were more familiar with the restauran..
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  • New Zealand record cocaine seizure in horse's head

    New Zealand record cocaine seizure in horse's head
    Image copyright AFP Image caption Some of the shipment was believed to be destined for Christchurch New Zealand police say they have made their biggest ever seizure of cocaine, hidden inside a novel kind of drug mule.They intercepted the $10m (ÂŁ7.6m) worth of cocaine inside a huge diamante-encrusted statue of a horse's head.The shipment of 35kg (77lb) bricks was air-freighted from Mexico to the city of Auckland in May.An American and two Mexicans wer..
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  • 'Reverse Greenland', anyone? Scots eye post-Brexit EU options

    'Reverse Greenland', anyone? Scots eye post-Brexit EU options
    BRUSSELS/EDINBURGH Could Scots get their wish to remain, effectively, in the European Union even while maintaining their union with England once the United Kingdom as whole leaves the EU?Dubbed the "reverse Greenland" option, that was among ideas kicked around by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon during a flying visit to Brussels after Scots voted heavily against Brexit while their southern neighbours opted to quit the EU.Sturgeon, a pro-independence nationalist, stressed during her visit to the ..
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  • Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel dies at 87

    Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel dies at 87
    Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the life-long voice of millions of Holocaust victims, died on Saturday. He was 87.Wiesel was a philosopher, speaker, playwright and professor who also campaigned for the tyrannized and forgotten around the world. He died at his home in New York City, the New York Times reported.The Romanian-born Wiesel lived by the credo expressed in "Night," his landmark story of the Holocaust - "to..
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  • Iraq: Baghdad car bombs kill 80

    Iraq: Baghdad car bombs kill 80
    The first explosion occurred in a busy commercial street in the central neighborhood of Karrada, killing 79 people and wounding 133 others, police said. Firefighting crews rescued injured and trapped people in adjacent buildings.The second bomb exploded in an outdoor market in the Shaab neighborhood of southeastern Baghdad, killing one and wounding five, police said.ISIS claimed responsibility for the Karrada attack in a statement posted on Twitter. The group said it was targeting Shiite neighbo..
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  • RPT-London bankers face Brexit choice: lobby or leave

    RPT-London bankers face Brexit choice: lobby or leave
    (Repeats Friday item)* Europeans trying to clip City's wings after Brexit* British banks lobbying to keep access to EU market* Finance sector sets up group to decide strategy* But UK government in disarray, some European ties weak* Bankers turn to headhunters for exit strategyBy Sinead Cruise and Lawrence WhiteLONDON, July 1 A week after Britons voted themselves out of the European Union, many London-based bankers and their employers face two options if they are to secure their futures: lobby..
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  • Dozens dead in Pakistan and India after floods and landslides

    Dozens dead in Pakistan and India after floods and landslides
    Image copyright AFP At least 55 people have been killed in northern Pakistan and India in flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains.Floods in the Chitral district of Pakistan damaged houses and a mosque killing at least 30, officials said.Another 25 are now known to have died in floods and landslides in India's Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh states in recent days.Hundreds die in South Asian monsoon season floods every year.Bad weather has hampered rescue efforts in bot..
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  • Australian Election Result Unclear as Gamble on Early Polls Backfires

    Australian Election Result Unclear as Gamble on Early Polls Backfires
    SYDNEY—Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s gamble on early elections appears to have backfired, with his conservatives struggling to secure enough seats in Parliament to form a government outright. The tight election, which won’t be decided until at least Tuesday when vote-counting resumes, comes as many voters defied Mr. Turnbull’s call for political stability in the wake of the global aftershocks of the U.K.’s vote to...
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