Greek F16 crashes in Spain during NATO exercise
The jet crashed on takeoff, hitting other planes on the ground during a NATO training exercise, the officialby custom not namedsaid. Thirteen people were injured.
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Nigeria Fights To Recapture Key Town From Boko Haram
By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Nigerian troops were fighting on Monday with air support to recapture the northeastern town of Monguno from Boko Haram insurgents as…
At Least 10 Dead After Jet Crash At Military Base In Spain
A Greek F-16 fighter jet crashed into other planes on the ground during NATO maneuvers in southeastern Spain Monday, killing at least 10 people, Spain’s Defense Ministry said. Another 13…
Interactive map: Nazi death camps
Auschwitz, where more than 1 million Jews, Roma (Gypsies), Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and others were killed. But as horrific as they were, they were only three camp complexes…
U.S. hits Yemen with drone strike, closes embassy to public amid upheaval
The drone strikethe latest in a long string of them by the Obama administrationis the first since last week’s dramatic events in the capital, Sanaa. – “The U.S. Embassy will…
The History Of Syriza: How A Small Party Came To Power
To understand the historic magnitude of the victory of Syriza, the far-left party that won Greece’s election on Sunday, take a look at their slogan: “For the first time, the…
Liberia: Only 5 People Being Treated For Ebola
Liberia said Monday that there are currently only five confirmed cases of Ebola in the entire country — a dramatic turnaround in the West African nation where the virus has…
Why to postpone Netanyahu invitation
As a proud pro-Israel American, I am grateful that an Israeli prime minister has been invited to address Congress for a third timea high honor shared only by Sir Winston…
Russia’s Lavrov calls for Western criticism of Kiev
At a press conference in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed Kiev for renewed fighting and civilian deaths in Ukraine and questioned the West’s lack of condemnation. Fighting between…
U.S. Embassy In Yemen To Close To The Public
WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) – The United States is closing its embassy in Yemen to the public until further notice, the embassy said in a statement on Monday amid political…
How to catch a glimpse of asteroid flyby
“Close,” of course, is relative. The asteroid, called 2004 BL86 will come about 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from Earth, or about three times as far away as the moon…
Greece election: Syriza shows the failure of ‘cartel politics’
Alexandre Afonso is a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at King’s College London. His work analyzes austerity reforms in southern Europe. The views expressed in this commentary are solely his. As…
Super Rich Planning Escapes Amid Growing Concern Over Inequality: Davos Speaker
With growing inequality and the civil unrest from Ferguson and the Occupy protests fresh in people’s mind, the world’s super rich are already preparing for the consequences. At a packed…
Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac May Help End Homelessness In America
Two organizations synonymous with the 2008 financial crisis could play vital roles in helping America’s most vulnerable residents get off the streets. ThinkProgress reported that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac…
Holocaust Survivor Salutes Liberator In Emotional Meeting Decades Later
A Holocaust survivor recently reunited with the American soldier who helped to save his life decades ago. Joshua Kaufman, 87, a former prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp in Germany,…
Prosecutor Seeks 26 Years For Costa Concordia Captain
Prosecutors asked a court to convict the captain of the Costa Concordia and sentence him to 26 years in prison Monday for the 2012 shipwreck off Tuscany that killed 32…
Toll Of Filipino Commandos Killed In Rebel Clash Rises To At Least 43
At least 43 Philippine police commandos were killed in a fierce battle with Muslim guerrillas after launching an assault in which they may have killed one of Southeast Asia’s most-wanted…
Is Obamacare about controlling our lives?
Journalist Steven Brill has written a new book about our dysfunctional system of health care and it’s getting a lot of attention. In “America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals,…
Survivors Visit Auschwitz A Day Ahead Of 70th Anniversary
The voice of Auschwitz survivors praying for their murdered loved ones reverberated Monday amid the barracks and barbed wire of the former Nazi death camp, with one survivor crying out…
Pro-Russian Rebels Advance In Eastern Ukraine, Fighting Intensifies
By Natalia Zinets and Denis Dyomkin KIEV/ST PETERSBURG, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Russian-backed rebels pushed forward on Monday with a new offensive that has brought all-out war back to eastern…
Auschwitz Survivor Gena Turgel Walked Out Of Gas Chamber Alive – NBC News.com
www.nbcnews.com: LONDON — Of all the stories of survival from the Auschwitz concentration camp, Gena Turgel’s is one of the most astonishing.
Greece forms anti-austerity coalition government
Greece’s left-wing, anti-austerity Syriza party has formed a coalition with the right-wing Independent Greeks party after exit polls showed Syriza was close to a parliamentary majority. Syriza is officially projected…
Kurdish Officials Say They’ve Nearly Pushed ISIS Out Of Kobani
Kurdish fighters backed by intense U.S.-led airstrikes pushed the Islamic State group almost entirely out of the Syrian town of Kobani on Monday, marking a major loss for extremists whose…
Does Davos Actually Do Anything?
A surge of private jets—roughly 1,700—converged on Switzerland’s airports this week. The Swiss Armed Forces even had to open up a military base to accommodate the air traffic jam. That’s…
China to Force Authors to Provide Real Names When Publishing Online
The longstanding Chinese tradition of using pen names persists today on blogs and the Internet, as authors seek to separate their writerly personas from their real identities. In some cases…
Vaginas, As Drawn By The Women Who Own Them
“I know what it is, I just don’t know where it is.” – Read the whole story at Fusion
If You Upload Your Mind To A Computer — Are You Still You?
One of the most mind-bending far future predictions you’ll hear from some futurists is this: Eventually, the technology will exist to copy your brain (every bit of data that makes…
Why is GOP going after Social Security?
So why do Republicans keep sidling up to it and sticking their fingers out? There’s a brewing controversy in Congress over a small part of the program, which is just…
Why we need a North American Passport
In recognition of our shared destiny, the three countries should create a North American passport that would, over time, allow their citizens to travel, work, invest, learn and innovate anywhere…
How Obama will be on the ballot in 2016
Pundits can talk all they want about the President being “more aggressive” in his State of the Union address and report on how he won’t be willing to be passive…