Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Family of Beheaded Canadian Backs No Ransom Policy and other top stories.

  • Family of Beheaded Canadian Backs No Ransom Policy

    OTTAWA, Ontario — Relatives of a Canadian man beheaded by Islamic militants in the Philippines said Tuesday that they agree with Canada's policy of not paying ransom for hostages.Robert Hall had been held hostage by the militant Abu Sayyaf group since September 2015. The deadline for a ransom payment passed Monday, and Abu Sayyaf released a gruesome video of Hall's beheading. It shows Hall in an orange shirt kneeling in front of a black Islamic State-style flag in a jungle area before he was..
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  • Norman Reedus appears in video game naked, holding a baby

    Norman Reedus appears in video game naked, holding a baby
    In one of the most cryptic video game trailers ever created, "Walking Dead" star Norman Reedus wakes up completely nude on a black beach populated by dead crustaceans in the trailer for the videogame "Death Stranding." Also, there's a baby.
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  • If returned to office, Brazil's Rousseff favors new election

    If returned to office, Brazil's Rousseff favors new election
    CORRECTS PLACE OF PRESS CONFERENCE - Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff speaks during a press conference for foreign journalists at the Alvorada residential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, June 14, 2016. Rousseff blasted the impeachment process against her as “fraudulent” and promised to fight what she characterized as an injustice more painful than the torture she endured under a past military dictatorship. (Eraldo Peres/Associated Press) By Mauricio Savarese | AP June 14 ..
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  • Is Trump India's 'savior' as one Delhi group says?

    Is Trump India's 'savior' as one Delhi group says?
    It looked like a normal party for Donald Trump's 70th birthday. There were colorful balloons, signs that wished the presumptive Republican nominee happy birthday, and a three-tiered chocolate cake with white frosting. Mr. Trump wasn't there, though, and his stand-in was a cardboard cutout of him holding a rifle. Oh, and the party was in New Delhi, India.Hindu Sena, a fringe nationalist political organization in India that has endorsed Trump for his hard-line against Islamic terrorism, hosted th..
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  • NATO to send troops to deter Russia, Putin orders snap checks

    NATO to send troops to deter Russia, Putin orders snap checks
    BRUSSELS Britain, Germany and the United States advanced plans on Tuesday to spearhead a new NATO force on Russia's border from next year, and Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered snap checks on combat readiness across his armed forces.Weeks before a critical NATO summit in Warsaw, three of NATO's biggest military powers said they would each command a battalion across the eastern flank to help deter any show of force such as that deployed by Moscow in Crimea in 2014."Britain will lead one ..
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  • Ghost of Dictator Marcos Hangs Over Philippines' Duterte

    Ghost of Dictator Marcos Hangs Over Philippines' Duterte
    Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippine presidency in a blaze of hard-line rhetoric -- an outsider who will stamp out crime and corruption. But his power base is tied to the nation’s oldest political camps, including that of ex-dictator Ferdinand Marcos.Duterte’s PDP-Laban party won only three of the 297 seats in the House of Representatives while party president Koko Pimentel is its lone member in the 24-seat Senate. That made PDP-Laban what Filipinos call a “motorcycle party.” Yet within days of D..
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  • Politics|DNC Says Russian Hackers Penetrated Its Files, Including Dossier on Donald Trump

    Politics|DNC Says Russian Hackers Penetrated Its Files, Including Dossier on Donald Trump
    Photo The Democratic National Committee’s opposition research against Donald J. Trump was among the files breached. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Two groups of Russian hackers, working for competing government intelligence agencies, penetrated computer systems of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to emails, chats and a trove of opposition research against Donald J. Trump, according to the party and a cybersecurity firm.One group p..
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  • London's New Mayor Bans Tube Ads Featuring Attractive, Bikini-Clad Women

    June 14 2016 London's New Mayor Bans Tube Ads Featuring Attractive, Bikini-Clad Women Charlotte Allen Remember last year’s “Beach Body” flap Easily-angered feminists got so enraged over a London Tube ad featuring an attractive female clad in—horrors!—a bikini that they defaced the posters and threatened to bomb Protein World, the weight-loss-supplement company that the young woman was advertising. They complained that the ad’s slogan, “Are You Beach Body Ready?” amounted to “fat-shaming”—..
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