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6 years ago+24 24 0Iceland Wants To Ban Circumcision Of Young Boys
MP’s from five different political party’s want in Iceland to ban the circumcision of young boys in the country, RÚV reports. The spokesperson for the bill is Silja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir, a member of the Progressive Party, which is in the government coa ...
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6 years ago+17 17 0Russian opposition leader freed after arrest during protests
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released after he was arrested Sunday during anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow, according to his official Twitter account. Navalny wrote that he was released until a court hearing, but did not provide d ...
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6 years ago+16 16 0NFL heiress arrested for felony assault
The wealthy daughter of late Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke has been arrested in New York and charged with a New Year’s Eve assault on a California man who was left bloodied in front of his family. Jacqueline Kent Cooke, 29, was charged wi ...
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6 years ago+17 17 0The Sleeping Bag in a Can Was Real and Fantastic
During the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force issued sleeping bags in “spam cans”—steel cans opened with a metal key. Unintentionally silly by today’s standards, it was part of a serious effort to keep crashed or shot-down airmen alive in cold regions unti ...
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6 years ago+19 19 0Bosnian 'life and death mistress' jailed
A court in Bosnia has sentenced a woman known as "the mistress of life and death" to 14 years in prison for war crimes committed in the 1990s. Azra Bašić was found guilty of crimes during the Balkan war, including the torture of ethnic-Serb ...
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6 years ago+12 12 0Utah officer punches through frozen pond, dives in to rescue 8-year-old boy
A sheriff's officer who threw off his gear and dived into a frozen pond to save an 8-year-old Utah boy on Christmas Day refused to be labeled a hero on Tuesday. The officer, Washington County sheriff's Sgt. Aaron Thompson, responded to the ...
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6 years ago+18 18 02 will go to trial over 36 deaths in Oakland warehouse fire
Two California men will go to trial on involuntary manslaughter charges in the deaths of 36 partygoers in the worst building fire in the U.S. in more than a decade, a judge ruled Thursday. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Horner cited test ...
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6 years ago+27 27 0World is losing the battle against climate change, Macron says
French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a bleak assessment on the global fight against climate change to dozens of world leaders and company executives on Tuesday, telling them: “We are losing the battle”.
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6 years ago+14 14 0Bitcoin pops above $14,000 for the first time
The digital currency has shot above the $14,000 mark for the first time -- the third big barrier it's broken in less than 24 hours. Bitcoin has enjoyed a stunning rise this year, drawing increasing attention from mainstream investors. After star ...
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6 years ago+2 2 0Swiss to return $321 mln in stolen funds to Nigeria
Transparency International, a corruption watchdog, has accused Abacha of stealing up to $5 billion of public money during the five years he ran the oil-rich country, from 1993 until his death in 1998. In 2014, Nigeria and the Abacha family reached an ...
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6 years ago+1 1 0Wolfenstein 2 DLC Roadmap Outlined by Dev
Now that Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is out for the masses, Bethesda has set its sights on what’s to come for the game, and has released a post-launch roadmap for the game to detail it’s Freedom Chronicles DLC. Starring three different heroes, W ...
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6 years ago+10 10 0'X-Men 3' Director Brett Ratner Accused of Sexual Harassment
Director Brett Ratner, known for films like Rush Hour and X-Men: The Last Stand, is now facing allegations of sexual harassment. In a report from by the Los Angeles Times, Ratner has been accused of sexual assault by six women, including Natasha Hens ...
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6 years ago+1 1 0Sonic Forces Gets 35 Out Of 40 From Famitsu
This week’s latest Famitsu scores are in, and one of the biggest games that have been given a score from Famitsu is Sonic Forces. The gaming magazine has given Sonic Forces on Nintendo Switch a combined total of 35 out of 40 points. Out of the 4 revi ...
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6 years ago+1 1 0Utah teen will go to trial on murder charge for allegedly helping friend commit suicide
A Utah teen accused of helping a teen girl commit suicide and filming the act will go to trial on a murder charge, a judge ordered Tuesday. Prosecutors say 18-year-old Tyerell Przybycien’s actions in helping Jchandra Brown, 16, plan her hanging death ...
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6 years ago+16 16 0US knew about Indonesia 1960s massacres
The US knew people were being "delivered for slaughter" during a political purge in Indonesia during the 1960s, declassified documents reveal. At least 500,000 people were killed between 1965 and 1966, after the army and local Muslim militi ...
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6 years ago+2 2 0NVIDIA unveils next-generation platform for fully autonomous cars
Silicon Valley graphics chipmaker NVIDIA unveiled on Tuesday the first computer chips for developing fully autonomous vehicles and said it had more than 25 customers working to build a new class of driverless cars, robotaxis and long-haul trucks. Deu ...
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6 years ago+1 1 0Danish divers find missing body parts of Swedish journalist
Danish police said on Saturday divers had found the head and the legs of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who died in mysterious circumstances on an inventor’s homemade submarine. Peter Madsen has been charged with killing the Swedish journalist who disa ...
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6 years ago+1 1 0US Telco Fined $3 Million in Domain Renewal Blunder
Sorenson Communications, a Utah-based telecommunications provider, received a whopping $3 million fine from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday for failing to renew a crucial domain name used by a part of the local 911 emergency ser ...
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7 years ago+18 18 0Puerto Ricans hunt for precious Wi-Fi and cell signals
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Margarita Aponte and her relatives cleared the road in front of her house with two oxen Sunday, then drove an hour from her devastated hometown in cen
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7 years ago+17 17 094-year old Lithium-Ion battery inventor unveils new ultra-efficient glass battery
John B. Goodenough, an emeritus professor at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, pioneered the lithium-ion battery technology that is now the industry standard, and now the 94-year-old is ready to push the envelope ...