Monday, August 15, 2016

ISIS loses control of Syria's Manbij, may be using 'human shields' and other top stories.

  • ISIS loses control of Syria's Manbij, may be using 'human shields'

    Jubilation broke out in many neighborhoods after ISIS militants lost control of Manbij to U.S.-backed rebels, and the Pentagon said the center of the city was liberated. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces backed by the United States, has battled to take control of Manbij in northern Syria since May and hundreds have been freed in this latest mission, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Many can hardly believe they are finally rid of the I..
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  • How Did Trump's and Clinton's Economic Policy Speeches Compare?

    How Did Trump's and Clinton's Economic Policy Speeches Compare?
    Donald Trump, left, and Hillary Clinton, right, delivered competing economic speeches this week. Mary Altaffer and Chuck Burton/AP hide caption toggle caption Mary Altaffer and Chuck Burton/AP Donald Trump, left, and Hillary Clinton, right, delivered competing economic speeches this week. Mary Altaffer and Chuck Burton/AP ..
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  • Mother finds hacked live-stream of daughters' bedroom online

    Mother finds hacked live-stream of daughters' bedroom online
    Krystal Johnson - Yahoo7 News on August 13, 2016, 2:45 pm A mother has discovered that a webcam aimed at the bedroom of her two daughters had been hacked and was being live-streamed online for thousands of strangers to watch.The mother, only known as Jennifer, described the situation as her "worst nightmare" and says she feels as though she has "failed".Jennifer was shocked after finding a webcam aimed at two daughters' bedroom had been hacked and was being live-streamed acr..
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  • Fires ravage southern Europe

    Fires ravage southern Europe
    Firemen battle blaze in southern France1:10Firemen battle wildfires have ravage more than 3,000ha, injured seven in southern France, local authorities say. A member of a wildfire brigade looks on as flames of a fire burned in Arbo, northwestern Spain.Staff writer and AFPNews Corp Australia NetworkFIREFIGHTERS are making progress in quenching forest fires that have devastated parts of Portugal and France, officials say, as Spain faced a rash of possibly deliberately lit blazes. The situation ha..
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  • Ice cream bandits: Billionaire offers reward for serial dessert thieves in New York

    Ice cream bandits: Billionaire offers reward for serial dessert thieves in New York
    Ice cream bandits: Billionaire offers reward for serial dessert thieves in New York Posted August 13, 2016 09:07:25 Ice cream thieves are on the rampage in New York and one billionaire has reached melting point, offering a $US5,000 ($6,500) reward leading to their arrests and prosecution. Key points:Owner of Gristedes grocery chain fed up with thieves cleaning out his freezersBiggest single theft was 100-125 tubs of ice creamPolice confirmed 250 complaints of ice cre..
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  • Cuba's Fidel Castro: Survivor to turn 90

    Cuba's Fidel Castro: Survivor to turn 90
    He has lived much of his long life in the spotlight -- and much of it in the crosshairs -- surviving a half century of assassination plots and attempts against him. His would-be assassins are alleged to have plotted to kill him in a variety of ways, including poisoning him, dosing his dive suit with fatal botulism and blowing him up during a speech. Many of the plots were spectacular failures. More Wile E. Coyote than Jason Bourne."More people have tried to murder the world's most famous sociali..
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  • Thai police hoping to quickly identify bombing suspects

    Thai police hoping to quickly identify bombing suspects
    Thai police hoping to quickly identify bombing suspects By Associated Press Published: 09:28 EST, 13 August 2016 | Updated: 09:28 EST, 13 August 2016 BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand said Saturday that they were hoping to identify suspects over the next couple of days in a series of bombing and arson attacks that struck several tourist towns, killing four people and wounding dozens, including 11 foreigners.The attacks, which hit Thursday and Friday, came days after a referendum was ..
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  • Turnbull commits to bolstering WA's GST share

    Turnbull commits to bolstering WA's GST share
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  • The Nauru files: Labor pushes for parliamentary inquiry into abuse allegations

    The Nauru files: Labor pushes for parliamentary inquiry into abuse allegations
    Labor will move to establish a parliamentary inquiry into allegations of sexual assault and child abuse at Australia’s detention centre on Nauru following the Guardian’s publication of more than 2,000 leaked incident report from inside the immigration regime. On Wednesday the Guardian published the Nauru files, a cache of leaked reports which set out as never before the assaults, sexual abuse, self-harm attempts, child abuse and living conditions endured by asylum seekers held by the Australian..
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  • Turkish men jailed for 42 years after smuggling cocaine worth £500m

    Turkish men jailed for 42 years after smuggling cocaine worth £500m
    Two Turkish men convicted of smuggling £500 million worth of cocaine on board a ship in the North Sea have each been jailed for at least 20 years. Mumin Sahin and Emin Ozmen were found guilty after a trial at the High Court in Glasgow after three tonnes of the Class A drug were discovered inside the MV Hamal about 100 miles off the coast of Aberdeen. The 2015 seizure is said to be the biggest single cocaine haul ever recovered at sea in Europe. Read more: Two men guilty of smugglin..
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Illegal psychoactive drugs seized from Perth stores, 18 people charged .Breastfeeding mum nearly killed baby .
'Tinder is bad for your mental health' .Sawfish research just got easier thanks to testing for DNA in estuaries .

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