Everyone In Beijing Freaked Out Over This Enormous Mushroom Cloud That...
A giant mushroom-like cloud resembling an atomic bomb explosion and sparking fears of Armageddon appeared in Beijing last week. The most likely explanation was a weather phenomenon known as a giant...
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Three Assassins Shot At A Controversial Russian Businessman Last Week
An attempt on the former CEO of one of the Basic Element’s subsidiaries, owned by the billionaire and aluminum king Oleg Deripaska took place in the Moscow region. The senior manager’s career was...
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Ex-Mossad Chief Reveals That An Israeli Attack Could Help Iran Go Nuclear
Gen. Benny Gantz, the chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, spoke out last week against ex-military and intelligence officials who are expressing doubts about the efficacy of a preemptive...
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What We Just Saw In Egypt Was Not A Coup By Tanks, But A Coup By Judiciary
CAIRO, Egypt — No mutinous troops stormed the presidential palace. Nor were there late-night executions of civilian politicians, or the dramatic seizure of the state-run broadcaster. Still, what has...
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This British Politician Just Launched A Twitter Clone Named After Herself
Louise Mensch, the Conservative backbencher who has gained a high profile thanks in part to her prolific tweeting, has created a rival to Twitter that aims to cut out the irrelevant chatter that she...
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Israel Could Be The New Switzerland For Tax Evaders
It looks like Israel is going to be the next Switzerland — at least as far as the Department of Justice’s investigation into offshore tax avoidance is concerned. On June 14, the Department of Justice...
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G20 Summits Don't Actually Achieve Much, But They All Talk A Good Game
G-20 summits have a checkered history of accomplishments though they don’t lack in grandiose announcements. At the summit in London in April 2009, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced with...
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Female Olympians May Be Banned For Having Too Much Testosterone
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is reportedly considering new rules that would ban female Olympians who are not "feminine" enough. The IOC argues that women with high testosterone levels...
View ArticleFrançois Hollande On Collision Course With ... France
During the French presidential election, it became clear that François Hollande, if he were to win the presidency, would try to align other Eurozone countries, particularly Italy and Spain, into a...
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Protestors Created A Human Shield Around This Tibetan Teen As He Burned...
Lobsang Lozin, a teenage Tibetan Buddhist monk, died after setting himself on fire in China's Sichuan province, one of many self-immolation protests against Chinese rule. The 18-year-old monk set...
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Even Counterfeiters Are Giving Up On The Euro
In December 2001, when I was in Germany on business, bank showcases were filled with euro feel-good agitprop. Euro bills and coins would enter circulation on January 1, and this was part of the...
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40% Of Health Care Workers Still Smoke Cigarettes In China
Everyone knows that China has a huge problem with smoking, and I would guess that many of my readers already know, from first-hand experience, that the health care profession and hospitals are not...
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Iran Suspected Of Planning At Least Nine Terror Attacks Against Israel This Year
LONDON (Reuters) - New York police believe Iranian Revolutionary Guards or their proxies have been involved so far this year in nine plots against Israeli or Jewish targets around the world, according...
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The FBI Just Recovered A Matisse Painting That Disappeared From A Caracas...
An FBI sting operation in Miami led to the recovery of a Matisse painting entitled “Odalisque in Red Pants” owned by the Sofia Imber Museum of Modern Art in Caracas. The FBI agents posed as customers...
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Explosion Shuts Down Turkey-Iraq Oil Pipeline
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An explosion and fire has shut down twin pipelines that carry oil from Iraq to the Mediterranean, an official said Saturday. No one was hurt in the blast. The explosion late...
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Only Rich Chinese Tourists Can Save Greece Now
"We had a splendid time at the Villa Paradiso," we wrote in the visitor's book after a fortnight of hot, cloudless days and warm nights, tickled by the villa's name and keen to see it on the page....
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Europe Plans To Use Drones To Track Illegal Immigrants
It’s summer in the Mediterranean. Sunseeking holidaymakers lounge on sandy beaches, glittering yachts glide into and out of quaint old harbors and packed cruise ships hop between idyllic islands. But...
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Deadly Riots Shutter Production At Suzuki Factory In India
NEW DELHI (AP) — An official of India's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki, says production at a factory hit by rioting during a labor dispute cannot be resumed until an investigation is completed into...
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How I Was Busted By The O------ Advertisement Enforcement Office
"Visiting athletes enjoying their first taste of an East End curry have just discovered a new purpose for their Olympic Rings!" That was the tweet that started it all. Fans of me and my comedy work...
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International Cocaine Gang Busted After Smuggling $85 Million Of Drugs On A...
Investigators have broken up an international drug-trafficking ring that smuggled bricks of cocaine among crates of bananas being shipped from Ecuador to St. Petersburg. Nine Russians, two Latvians...
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