Sunday, October 9, 2016

Polish Women Hold 'Black Monday' Strike To Protest Proposed Abortion Ban and other top stories.

  • Polish Women Hold 'Black Monday' Strike To Protest Proposed Abortion Ban

    Enlarge this image A girl waves a black flag on Monday as people in Warsaw take part in a nationwide strike and demonstration to protest against a legislative proposal for a total ban of abortion in Poland. Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images A girl waves a black ..
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  • Stakes for Iraq's future couldn't be higher as Mosul offensive looms

    Stakes for Iraq's future couldn't be higher as Mosul offensive looms
    It's a race against time: this will be an improvised base for troops from Iraq's 9th Armored Division amid final preparations for the assault to end ISIS' control of Iraq's second largest city and the group's last major stronghold in the country.Iraqi troops were last in this part of northern Iraq in the summer of 2014, when they were fleeing the rampant advance of ISIS fighters. Now, as part of an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government and the United States, they are preparing to reve..
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  • Afghan forces regain control of key city of Kunduz after Taliban raid

    Afghan forces regain control of key city of Kunduz after Taliban raid
    Mahfoz Akhbari, spokesman for the chief of Kunduz police, said battles continued in and around the city where Taliban fighters were using civilian homes to launch attacks. Forty Taliban fighters have been killed, he added. On Monday, the Taliban launched a pre-dawn raid on the city, which it had briefly captured in September 2015. Fatima Aziz, a member of Afghan parliament from Kunduz, described the security situation as "very bad" on Tuesday morning. "They [Taliban] are coming into people's ho..
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  • Philippines President Duterte tells Obama to 'go to hell'

    Philippines President Duterte tells Obama to 'go to hell'
    Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gives  a fist-bump gesture during his visit to the Philippine army's Camp Mateo in Rizal province east of Manila, on Aug. 25. (Bullit Marquez/AP) If it's Tuesday, Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, must be swearing at President  Obama. In a profanity-laced speech in Manila, Duterte lashed out once again at the U.S. for criticizing his self-proclaimed "drug war," saying  Obama can "go to hell." The European Union, he added, "better choose purga..
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  • Middle East|Syrian Government Forces Press Attack on Aleppo

    Middle East|Syrian Government Forces Press Attack on Aleppo
    BEIRUT รข€” Syrian government forces pressed their assault on the eastern, rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo on Tuesday, opposition activists said, while state media reported that rebel shelling of the government-controlled part of the city left six dead at a university campus.Activists meanwhile said the death toll from a suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding in the northeastern city of Hasakah the previous night had risen to at least 34. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State group, whic..
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  • Trump Fans Get Conned Again, But This Time Not By Trump

    Trump Fans Get Conned Again, But This Time Not By Trump
    Good news comes in all sorts of forms. Today it comes from WikiLeaks, which has been promising for a while that it would release devastating new leaks about Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, news that Trump fans have been eagerly awaiting. Well, Der Tag arrived this morning in London, and it turns out that October Surprises aren't what they used to be: Over the course of two hours Tuesday — with the world’s media and bleary-eyed Trump die-hards across the United States tuning in — Assange and other W..
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  • Duterte's latest tirade: Obama 'can go to hell' while the European Union 'better choose purgatory'

    Duterte's latest tirade: Obama 'can go to hell' while the European Union 'better choose purgatory'
    Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told President Obama "You can go to hell" in his latest tirade against the U.S. over its criticism of his deadly anti-drug campaign.He also lashed out anew at the European Union in a speech Tuesday saying the 28-nation bloc, which has also criticized his brutal crackdown, had "better choose purgatory, hell is filled up." Duterte, who took office in June, has been hypersensitive to criticisms over his anti-drug fight, which has left more than an estimated 3,..
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  • Pope Makes Surprise Visit to Earthquake-Hit Towns in Italy

    Pope Makes Surprise Visit to Earthquake-Hit Towns in Italy
    ROME — When Amatrice and several other small Italian towns were ravaged by an earthquake six weeks ago, Pope Francis made a promise to the residents there.On Tuesday, he kept it.Catching even local officials by surprise, the pope made an unexpected trip to the region, following through on a pledge to visit residents so that they could all pray together.“From the first moment, I felt that I needed to come to you. Simply to express my closeness to you, nothing more,” the pope told locals in the a..
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  • US, Philippines launch war games amid uncertainty over ties

    US, Philippines launch war games amid uncertainty over ties
    The United States and the Philippines launched annual joint military exercises on Tuesday, nearly a week after President Rodrigo Duterte said they would be the last between the treaty allies. The nearly weeklong combat exercises designed to increase capability and boost camaraderie between forces involve 1,100 American and 400 Filipino troops. They come as the newly-elected Duterte has gone on a number of verbal tirades against the United States since taking over the presidency for a six-year t..
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