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Disappointed With Europe, Thousands of Iraqi Migrants Return Home - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Disappointed With Europe, Thousands of Iraqi Migrants Return Home
  • Last year, beckoned by news reports of easy passage to Europe through Turkey, tens of thousands of Iraqis joined Syrians, Africans and Afghans in the great migrant wave to the Continent. Now, thousands of Iraqis are coming home.
  • Many Iraqis have stayed in Europe, of course, especially those who were displaced from lands controlled by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
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  • Now, some Iraqis in Europe are turning to social media to warn their countrymen away
  • The International Organization for Migration said it helped almost 3,500 Iraqis return home last year — just a portion of the overall number coming back
  • He quickly spent the $8,000 he brought, mostly paying smugglers, and found himself almost broke. He hated the food (milk and toast for breakfast, he said, and cheese sandwiches for lunch). And obtaining residency and finding a decent job would take months
  • “It was 99.9 percent different from Baghdad. People here all talk in a sectarian way: He’s Sunni, he’s Shiite, he’s Kurdish.”
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Taliban Gun Down 10-Year-Old Militia Hero in Afghanistan - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Taliban Gun Down 10-Year-Old Militia Hero in Afghanistan
  • Wasil Ahmad was 10 years old.
  • enrolling in school as a fourth grader.
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  • his commission continues to receive reports of child soldiers in the Afghan forces, particularly in the Afghan Local Police militias
  • But he also condemned the Taliban’s killing of Wasil because the boy had moved to a civilian life.
  • The Taliban claimed responsibility on their website, saying they had killed a stooge militiaman.
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Little Separates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in Tight Race in Iowa - The New Yor... - 0 views

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  • Little Separates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in Tight Race in Iowa
  • results were deeply unnerving to Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, as well as her advisers, some of whom had expressed growing confidence in recent days that they had recaptured political momentum
  • The virtual tie between the two candidates instantly raised the stakes for their next face-off, the primary next Tuesday in New Hampshire
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  • The voters sent a clear message that income inequality weighed on their minds, with more than one in four Democratic voters saying the issue was the most important facing the nation, according to surveys of voters leaving the polls.
  • Mr. Sanders’s strong performance in Iowa was a significant milestone in a campaign in which he began 40 percentage points behind Mrs. Clinton when they both declared their candidacies last spring
  • While she long said that Iowa would be a tight race, and improved upon her 2008 performance when she won 29.5 percent and fell to third place behind John Edwards, Mrs. Clinton nonetheless hoped that she would start exorcising the ghosts of 2008 with a victory here
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Zika Virus a Global Health Emergency, W.H.O. Says - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Zika Virus a Global Health Emergency, W.H.O. Says
  • An outbreak of the Zika virus, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, was detected in Brazil in May and has since moved into more than 20 countries in Latin America
  • Officials said research on the effects of Zika in pregnant women was underway in at least three countries: Brazil, Colombia and El Salvador.
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  • The virus was first identified in 1947 in Uganda, and for years lived mostly in monkeys. But last May in Brazil, cases began increasing drastically. The W.H.O. has estimated that four million people could be infected by the end of the year.
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Will the Olympics Finally Embrace Trans Athletes? - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • Will the Olympics Finally Embrace Trans Athletes?
  • The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which previously required transgender athletes to undergo gender-reassignment surgery in order to compete, is now expected to recognize that distinction by allowing all transgender men to compete in the male category “without restriction” and allowing transgender women to compete in the female category after a year of hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
  • To date, no openly transgender athlete has competed in the Olympics,
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  • In spite of this, the Stockholm Consensus, which was adopted by the IOC in 2004, required transgender Olympic hopefuls to wait “two years after gonadectomy [removal of the gonads]” to be eligible for competition.
  • the Women’s Sports Foundation, and the It Takes a Team! campaign noted that “any athletic advantages a transgender girl or woman arguably may have as a result of her prior testosterone levels dissipate after about one year of estrogen therapy.”
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Pardon Plea by Adolf Eichmann, Nazi War Criminal, Is Made Public - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Pardon Plea by Adolf Eichmann, Nazi War Criminal, Is Made Public
  • other original documents from the case, were made public for the first time on Wednesday by Israel’s current president, Reuven Rivlin, during an event to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
  • Mr. Rivlin, whose audience in unveiling the documents at his official residence included Holocaust survivors and people who played a role in the Eichmann case, asserted in a statement: “Not a moment of kindness was given to those who suffered Eichmann’s evil.”
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  • For many Israelis, the 1961 trial of Eichmann — who had been captured by Israeli agents in Argentina the year before — was the first time they were exposed to the shocking testimonies of Holocaust survivors.
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World's 'doomsday' clock will stay at three minutes to midnight | The Verge - 0 views

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  • World’s 'doomsday' clock will stay at three minutes to midnight
  • World’s 'doomsday' clock will stay at three minutes to midnight
  • The clock has been set at 11:57PM since January 2015, when it was moved down from five minutes to destruction. It's the closest the clock has been to midnight since the Cold War in the 1980s.
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  • Notably, tensions between the United States and Russia are fairly high, reminiscent of their Cold War-era levels
  • Many other countries are also increasing their nuclear weapons arsenal.
  • The clock has been updated just 22 times in its 70-year history.
  • Instead, the Bulletin scientists say the number is reflective of existing statistics and trends related to nuclear technologies, climate change, biotechnologies, and cybersecurity.
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Putin 'Probably Approved' Litvinenko Poisoning, British Inquiry Says - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Putin ‘Probably Approved’ Litvinenko Poisoning, British Inquiry Says
  • The report could revive strains in relations between Britain and Russia, which were plunged into a chill reminiscent of the Cold War by the death of Mr. Litvinenko
  • a former K.G.B. officer turned critic of the Kremlin, concluded in a report released on Thursday that his murder “was probably approved” by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and the head of the country’s spy service.
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  • Mr. Litvinenko died 22 days after ingesting green tea laced with polonium 210 — a rare and highly toxic isotope — in the company of two Russian associates
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How to Make Sense of Plummeting Global Markets - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • How to Make Sense of Plummeting Global Markets
  • What makes these falling prices unnerving is that it’s hard to tell a simple story about what is driving them. It could be that the markets are moving according to their own internal logic, driven by money managers’ psychology, with their habitual toggle between fear and greed turning back toward the former.
  • Oil prices are down so much that profits of oil companies will suffer mightily, and some will surely go bankrupt.
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  • One piece of evidence for this theory: Bank stocks have fallen even more in 2016 than the stock market over all
  • Financial markets are always more volatile than the underlying economy; the stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions
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Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 10 in Istanbul District of Sultanahmet - The Ne... - 0 views

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  • Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 10 in Istanbul District of Sultanahmet
  • President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a Syrian suicide bomber was behind the attack, the latest in a series of terrorist assaults on Turkey.
  • A deputy prime minister of Turkey, Numan Kurtulmus, said at a news conference that the assault on Tuesday had been carried out by a Syrian man born in 1988.
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  • Last January, a suicide bomber, a Russian citizen with possible ties to the Islamic State, blew herself up at a police station in the Sultanahmet area, killing an officer.
  • Many analysts have attributed those attacks to the Islamic State, saying the terrorist network was trying to touch off a civil war in Turkey.
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Iran, Emerging From Sanctions, Faces Crisis After Saudi Arabia Embassy Attack - The New... - 0 views

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  • Iran, Emerging From Sanctions, Faces Crisis After Saudi Arabia Embassy Attack
  • a Saudi state executioner beheaded the prominent Shiite dissident Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday
  • Within hours of the execution, nationalist Iranian websites were calling for demonstrations in front of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and its consulate in the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad
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  • Iran might have capitalized on global outrage at the executions by Saudi Arabia, but instead it finds itself once again characterized by adversaries as a provocateur in the region and abroad.
  • The moves formalized the Sunni-Shiite polarization that has fueled the chaotic proxy wars
  • Now, some Iranians are wondering whether Saudi Arabia has again gained the upper hand in the new diplomatic crisis.
  • Sheikh Nimr was not only a leading opposition figure in the Saudis’ Sunni kingdom but also a symbol of Shiite activism abroad. After he was sentenced to death by the Saudi judiciary in 2014, Iran warned of “dire consequences” if Sheikh Nimr were to be executed.
  • The act of cutting ties seems a simple one, but the consequences can be far-reaching.
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Donald Trump tops 40% in new national poll - CNNPolitics.com - 1 views

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  • Donald Trump at 41% in new national poll
  • Trump is at 41% in a Monmouth University poll out Monday
  • His support was up from 28% in October.
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  • Trump has led in nearly every national poll for months, though his solid lead in the key early state of Iowa is being threatened by Cruz
  • margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
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Tales From Ukraine's Surreal Front Lines - The Daily Beast - 1 views

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  • Tales From Ukraine’s Surreal Front Lines
  • On a second level, the book is a work of analysis and history, as Judah delves into the post-WWII past of Western Ukraine, the heartland of Ukrainian nationalism, as well as that of Donetsk, the key rebel stronghold, which has always had closer ties to Russia.
  • allows Judah to understand the arguably fundamental issue at stake in the Ukraine conflict: the deep cognitive dissonance present within the country that allowed the violence to take root
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  • So on the one hand the pro-Russians believe they are fighting fascism once more—Donetsk is Stalingrad and the Ukrainian Army is the Wehrmacht
  • The Ukrainians, meanwhile, see themselves (correctly) as once again battling the imperial ambitions of a Russian dictator while conveniently forgetting the nastier elements of their own side and parts of its history.
  • When Russian forces occupied Eastern Ukraine they switched off Ukrainian TV channels and replaced them with Russian ones.
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Saudi Arabia Elects 17 Women | Al Jazeera America - 0 views

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  • Saudi Arabia elects 17 women in first vote allowing female participation
  • Saudi Arabians voted 17 women into public office in municipal elections in the conservative Islamic kingdom on Saturday, the first to allow female participation
  • a landmark step in a country where women are barred from driving and are legally dependent on a male relative to approve almost all their major life decisions.
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  • Salma bint Hazab al-Otaibi won a seat in the Madrika district of Mecca, the holiest city of Islam
  • In Qassim, traditionally the most conservative part of the country, two women were elected but their names were not immediately released.
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Six Children Drown off Turkey | Al Jazeera America - 0 views

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  • Six children die off Turkey coast trying to reach Europe
  • adding that the migrants on the boat were Afghans
  • The migrants were apparently hoping to make it to the island of Chios from the resort of Cesme
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  • 500,000 people have crossed into Greece this year
  • As many as 600 people have drowned this year in the Aegean Sea, including dozens of children
  • Human right organization Amnesty International criticized last week's detentions, calling them "alarming."
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What Drives Gun Sales: Terrorism, Obama and Calls for Restrictions - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • What Drives Gun Sales: Terrorism,Obama and Calls for Restrictions
  • When a man shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., gun sales did not set records until five days later, after President Obama called for banning assault rifles and high-capacity magazines.
  • Pushing for new restrictions can lead to an influx of new guns.
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  • Gun sales rose in New Jersey in 2013 after Gov. Chris Christie proposed measures that included expanding background checks and banning certain rifles.
  • Gun sales have more than doubled in a decade, to about 15 million in 2013 from about seven million in 2002.
  • when the Supreme Court invalidated a ban on handguns in Washington, estimated handgun sales recorded in the city went from near-zero to about 40 every month.
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Revealed: Assad Buys Oil From ISIS - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • Revealed: Assad Buys Oil From ISIS
  • Who really buys ISIS oil? Turkey doesn’t rank high on that list. The awkward truth is that the Assad regime, which Russia is backing to the hilt, ranks higher.
  • The trucks don’t have to go far to sell ISIS oil. In fact, it’s cheaper and easier for them to sell oil to locals who run basic refineries in the countryside, not far from the main oil fields in eastern Syria.
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  • The public sector—i.e., the Islamic State, emphasis on state—controls oil at the source like a national oil company. It sells oil to private traders who sell it to private refiners who sell their product to consumers, directly or indirectly.
  • The group’s own internal assessment, retrieved by U.S. commandos during the May raid that killed ISIS oil emir Abu Sayyaf, pegged production at 55,000 barrels a day earlier this year.
  • President Bashar al-Assad’s point man for ISIS deals, George Haswani, was first designated by the European Union in March.
  • In April, for instance, Syria’s oil ministry said it refined 106,000 barrels a day, yet trade press could only explain where 85,000 barrels of that oil came from.
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Obama Signs Education Law Rewrite; Power Shift to States - NBC News - 0 views

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  • Obama Signs Education Law Rewrite; Power Shift to States
  • Obama signed a bipartisan bill that easily passed the Senate on Wednesday and the House last week — long-awaited legislation that would replace the landmark No Child Left Behind education law of 2002
  • One key feature of No Child remains: Students will still take the federally required statewide reading and math exams.
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  • The new law gives states flexibility, beyond using testing results, to consider additional performance measures such as graduation rates.
  • The legislation eliminates the federal mandate that teacher evaluations be tied to student performance on the statewide tests.
  • States and districts will now be responsible for coming up with their own goals for schools, designing their own measures of achievement and progress
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Under the cover of fog, the Kurds battle ISIS - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • Under the cover of fog, the Kurds battle ISIS
  • Part of the United States-led coalition, the Kurds have fought ISIS on the ground for months
  • They stretched the enemy's corpses' on the ground and, carefully, removed their shirts to make sure none were wearing suicide belts. Then they quickly buried them.
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  • Rubar told CNN that his soldiers don't have adequate supplies and weapons.
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Tea Party Turns on 'Megalomaniac Strongman' Donald Trump - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • Tea Party Turns on ‘Megalomaniac Strongman’ Donald Trump
  • Now, “may” is the operative word, since rumors of Trump’s demise, as you might have noticed, have been a touch overstated.
  • Rep. Dave Brat, a Virginia Republican who defeated then-Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a shocking primary upset due in large part to his tough-on-undocumented-immigration stance, also criticized Trump’s approach.
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  • Taylor Budowich, executive director of the Tea Party Express, also said the real estate baron’s stance is incompatible with the Constitution.
  • That said, it remains to be seen if Trump supporters will share Tea Party leaders’ views of their idol.
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