Washington Post: World
- Czech president nixes Cabinet nominee; move could fold govt
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 12:40 PMThe Czech president has refused to appoint a candidate for a Cabinet post nominated by the prime minister, deepening a political crisis that could cause the current government to fall
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Shard reveals how Cyprus’ ancient kingdoms managed economy
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 12:49 PMAn archaeologist says the discovery of a small clay shard inscribed with a partial inventory of goods at a 2,500 year-old citadel suggests that Cyprus’ ancient city states “more than likely” had a common economic management system
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why Kashmir may see increased violence after the revocation of Article 370
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 07:58 AMHere are the longstanding tensions -- and potential new ones.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New Zealand vowed to silence the alleged Christchurch killer’s hateful speech. But a letter he wrote was posted to 4chan.
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 11:52 AMNew Zealand's corrections department officials said the letter should never have left Auckland Prison.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Syrian troops push closer to major rebel-held northwest town
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 06:32 AMSyrian war monitor, state media: Government forces capture 2 northwestern villages, inching closer to rebel-held town
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Striking Portuguese truckers defy gov’t order to deliver gas
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 06:54 AMStriking tanker truck drivers in Portugal are defying a government order and refusing to make limited deliveries to gas stations
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Riot police armed with pepper spray and batons move on Hong Kong airport
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russian villagers told to leave — no, stay — following missile test explosion
Tuesday - 08/13/2019 - 02:06 PMThe missile, which was carrying nuclear materials, killed five workers when it blew up last week.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - During Afghan elections, schools double as voting places — and become Taliban targets
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 06:00 AMThe Taliban has promised to disrupt the elections, warning civilians to stay away from campaign rallies.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Same-sex penguin couples keep adopting eggs, and the Berlin Zoo is celebrating
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 06:59 AMThe two 10-year-old males are the latest in a long succession of same-sex penguins that have coupled-up to adopt eggs around the world.
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- Ethics commissioner finds Canada PM Trudeau violated ethics
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 12:45 PMCanada’s ethics commissioner says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau improperly pressured the country’s former attorney general to halt the criminal prosecution of a company in a conflict of interest case
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iranian-British anthropologist held in Tehran amid tensions
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 01:04 PMA British-Iranian anthropologist who studies controversial topics in the Islamic Republic has been detained in Iran over unknown charges
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Captured ISIS fighters get short sentences and art therapy in Syria
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 09:00 AMThe Syrian Kurds hope leniency will boost reconciliation and prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - I sacrificed a sheep for feminism — in honor of my mother
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 12:00 PMIt’s hard to celebrate Eid as a woman alone in traditional West Africa.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Inside locked down Kashmir, a reporter finds fear and chaos
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 06:54 AMA reporter returning to his family home in northern Kashmir finds fear and anger dominate life there
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Malaysia conducts autopsy to find cause of death of UK teen
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 06:57 AMMalaysian doctors are conducting an autopsy to determine the cause of death of a 15-year-old London teen whose naked body was found nine days after she disappeared from a nature resort
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How bloody eye patches became the latest symbol of the escalating Hong Kong protests
Tuesday - 08/13/2019 - 12:07 PMFrom the tension, a new rallying symbol was born in Hong Kong.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - China won’t turn Hong Kong’s protests into another Tiananmen Square. At least, not yet.
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 12:59 AM30 years after the Communist regime snuffed out a democratic uprising in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping and the rest of the leadership must wonder how long they’ll let Hong Kong’s young people continue to stand so defiantly against them.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - China is threatening to use force in Hong Kong — and hoping threats will suffice
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 06:11 AMBeijing wants the protests to stop, without the optics of its troops in Asia’s financial capital.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Chinese police chief fired after his Porsche-driving wife explodes in road rage incident
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 04:39 AMVideo showed the woman slapping a hapless driver who got in the way of her illegal maneuver.
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- Italian court rules against Salvini over migrant ship
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 12:41 PMAn Italian court has upheld an appeal by Spanish rescue ship Open Arms, suspending the Italian Interior Ministry’s ban on the vessel from entering Italian waters.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Stones fell from Notre Dame’s ceiling after July heat wave
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 01:06 PMFrance’s Culture Ministry says several stones fell from the vaulted ceiling of the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral after last month’s heat wave, and is urging renewed stabilization efforts to prevent further damage
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Swedish court finds rapper A$AP Rocky guilty of assault but orders no prison time
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 08:55 AMSwedish authorities arrested the rapper and two of his associates in early July.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ex-Treasury chief: Boris Johnson wrecking Brexit deal chance
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 06:23 AMThe man who was Britain’s top finance official until three weeks ago is accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government of steering the country toward a damaging no-deal Brexit that isn’t backed by Parliament or the voters
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Alleged Christchurch gunman sends letter from prison cell
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 06:52 AMNew Zealand officials have admitted they made a big mistake by allowing the man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques to send a hand-written letter from his prison cell
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A ‘vulnerable’ teen disappeared from a Malaysian resort. Police say they’ve found her body.
Tuesday - 08/13/2019 - 10:19 AMMalaysian authorities say they found the missing girl's body a mile from the jungle nature resort where she disappeared.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pint glasses, skateboards and milk crates: How people worldwide have thwarted mass attacks
Tuesday - 08/13/2019 - 11:59 AMAround the world, ordinary people have time and time again faced excruciating choices in the face of extreme danger.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Chinese police chief fired after his Porsche-driving wife explodes in road rage incident
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 04:39 AMVideo showed the woman, dressed like something out of Vogue magazine, yelling at and then slapping a hapless driver who got in the way of her illegal maneuver.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Here’s why Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is still in power
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 06:00 AMMore sanctions aren’t likely to topple him.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Three ways Boris Johnson could become Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 06:00 AMSpeculation is growing over a no-confidence vote, a snap election and possible intervention by the queen.
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