These women in Turkey saw the need for a different kind of news, despite the danger
Fingers tap at keyboards and brows furrow. A woman in Istanbul has just hurled herself from a 10th-floor apartment window, a frantic attempt to escape two male attackers.The reporters and translators at the Jinha Women’s News Agency hasten to get out their report, which takes a different approach than that taken by other Turkish media. “Most reports focus on that she was an actor in television series,” says 32-year-old Guler Can, head of news at Jinha’s office in Diyarbakir. “They are covering ..>> view originalAbortion and 10 other Donald Trump flip-flops
Women, he said, should face "some form of punishment" for getting an abortion if the procedure were outlawed.Several hours of bipartisan outrage later, Trump did an about-face, releasing a statement in which he said those who perform abortions, and not the women who undergo them, should be punished.But Trump's flip-flop on Wednesday was just the most recent one. Here are 10 examples:"Biggest problem, to me, in the world, is nuclear, and proliferation," Trump told the New York Times last week.But..>> view originalWhite House Assails Donald Trump Proposal to Let Asian Allies Get Nuclear Weapons
PhotoPresident Obama with President Park Geun-hye of South Korea at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington on Thursday.Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — A White House official said on Thursday that it would be “catastrophic” to adopt a proposal by Donald J. Trump, the Republican front-runner, that Japan and South Korea manufacture their own nuclear bombs to deter North Korea. Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser and one of President Obama’s closest aides, ..>> view originalRescue crews frantically searching for 150 believed trapped after deadly overpass collapse in India
Rescue crews and army troops were in a race against time Thursday in India to save 150 people believed trapped in a pile of crushed vehicles and concrete girders after a road overpass under construction collapsed in a crowded neighborhood, leaving at least 21 people dead. The collapse occurred in Bara Bazaar, a busy residential and shopping area in Kolkata -- a city of approximately 4.5 million people -- and left scores injured. Rescuers were using saws, small cranes and their bare hands to d..>> view originalUN court acquits Serb nationalist Seselj; Croatia shocked
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — In a rare courtroom victory for a Serb defendant, a U.N. war crimes tribunal on Thursday acquitted ultranationalist politician Vojislav Seselj of atrocities and pronounced him a free man. The decision inflamed simmering tensions in the Balkans, sparking joy in Serbia and horror and deep anger in Bosnia and Croatia. Prosecutors had charged Seselj, 61, with crimes including persecution, murder and torture and had demanded a 28-year sentence for his support of Serb paramil..>> view originalExclusive: EgyptAir Co-Pilot On His Ordeal Left Alone With Hijacker
On the morning of Tuesday March 29, Hamad el Kaddah woke up and ate a quick breakfast before leaving his hotel for the Borg El Arab Airport in Alexandria, Egypt. It was an unexceptional morning for the EgyptAir pilot, who has made this journey hundreds of times in his five years with the company. The day would end with Kaddah being the final person on the plane—other than a hijacker—before the world’s media pictured him dramatically jumping out of the Airbus 320’s cockpit window onto the tarmac..>> view originalBombo Beach Surfer Mauled By Shark
Paramedics rush to the aid of Kiama surfer Brett Connellan, 22, whose thigh and right hand were gored whiled fending off a shark at Bombo Beach. The improvised use of a leg rope saved the life of Australia’s latest shark attack victim after he was bitten on the thigh while surfing off Bombo Beach, in southern New South Wales. Local media reports Brett Connellan, 22, was surfing about 300 feet off the northern end of the popular beach shortly after 7:00 PM last night (AEST) when the attack occur..>> view originalIn A Flashback To Cold War Days, Pentagon Announces Plan To Deploy Troops Along Russian Border
As tensions continue to escalate between Russia and the West, the Pentagon has announced plans to deploy U.S. troops, armed with modern equipment and heavy artillery, full time along NATO’s eastern borders. The so-called “European Reassurance Initiative,” will be the first such deployment since the Cold War ended, The Wall Street Journal reported. Its purpose: To deter Russian aggression while serving to reassure Western allies of U.S. commitment to the region. General Philip Breedlove, the top..>> view originalSalah Abdeslam to be extradited to France, says Belgian court
Belgian and French authorities will now consider how to carry out the transfer. It was unclear Thursday when the extradition would occur. Abdeslam was the most-wanted man in Europe following the terror attacks at several sites in Paris on November 13. Belgian authorities captured him this month after a shootout in Molenbeek, an impoverished suburb of Brussels that has also been home to several other terror suspects.Abdeslam, 26, is being held in Belgium under a European arrest warrant issued Mar..>> view original
Thursday, March 31, 2016
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