Frida Ghitis says in this era of connectivity, a little complaint can erupt into massive demonstrations.
The accelerating pace of the slaughter of elephants for their tusks has put African elephants at catastrophic risk in the coming decades. To make matters worse, some of the region’s most notorious armed groups are taking tusks to finance their atrocities.
Two men have been charged in the Albany, New York, area in a bizarre plan to use a device loosely described as a ray gun to “target people they didn’t like,” a federal law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said Wednesday.
A mentally disabled woman and child were “locked in rooms, forced to work all the time, threatened, beaten and injured, exploited, used as pawns to get drugs,” a prosecutor says. FULL STORY
Yury Fedotov says progress has been made but not fast enough to help millions of trafficking victims
The accelerating pace of the slaughter of elephants for their tusks has put African elephants at catastrophic risk in the coming decades. To make matters worse, some of the region’s most notorious armed groups are taking tusks to finance their atrocities.
Austerity, spending cuts and deficit reduction.
A film documentary, which includes six members of TWA Flight 800′s crash investigation team, suggests the deadly 1996 explosion was no accident. The filmmakers say they will petition the NTSB to re-open the investigation. FULL STORY
The first lady and girls take in Ireland’s sights and find time to grab a bite with U2′s Bono.
Obama’s nuke deal won’t make us safe
by iefdajqqn on Jun 20, 2013 | No Comments
On Wednesday, President Obama took a meaningful step toward reshaping our nuclear arsenal in line with the reality of 21st-century security priorities. Standing at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, he announced that he would seek negotiated cuts with Russia of up to one-third of strategic nuclear weapons as well as address the issue of nuclear weapons stationed in Europe.
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