Israeli authorities granted some one million visas to vacationers from the West Bank to cross the border during the recent Ramadan holiday. Some had never set foot in Israel before.
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BBC, O GLOBO (Brazil), LA RAZÓN (Bolivia) Worldcrunch BRASILIA — Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota resigned last night in the wake of a diplomatic row with Bolivia, the BBC reports. He sent his resignation to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff after it emerged that a Bolivian senator accused of corruption who had been sheltered in the […]
Spat on and kicked out of his job running a top Cairo theater company, Tamer Abdel Moneim, a bona fide *fulul*, says he’s proud he always stuck by the deposed former strongman.
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Magazines, Mapped! Week Of August 23-29
What has the world been reading this week? Check out our selection of covers from top magazines around the world…
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REUTERS, BBC, RUSSIA TODAY, AFP Worldcrunch BEIRUT — Israel’s Air Force bombed a militant target south of Beirut Friday in retaliation for rockets fired into Israel from Lebanon the day before, Reuters reports. “Israel will not tolerate terrorist aggression originating from Lebanese territory,” military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner said in a statement. According to […]
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In Syria, The Time To Act Is Now
The images of an apparent chemical attack in Syria mean that the West’s wait-and-see approach is simply no longer viable.
BBC, LE MONDE (France), RUSSIA TODAY, SANA (Syria) Worldcrunch NEW YORK — Calling this week’s alleged chemical attack in Syria “a serious escalation with grave humanitarian consequences,” United Nations Deputy Chief Jan Eliasson called an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council Wednesday and urged an investigation “as soon as possible,” Russia Today reports. Eliasson […]
LE TEMPS (Switzerland) Worldcrunch BASEL – The nuclear accident of Fukushima is already leading to a surge in the number of cases of thyroid cancer, according to research being presented this week in Switzerland by Japanese scientist Toshihide Tsuda. The Swiss daily Le Temps reports that Tsuda, professor of environmental epidemiology at the University of […]
REUTERS, SKY NEWS (UK), SANA (Syria) Worldcrunch DAMASCUS — Two Syrian opposition groups claim that government forces launched rockets with poison gas Wednesday morning in an attack they say killed more than 200 people in a rebel-held area near Damascus, Reuters reports. Syrian officials denied the claims on state television, calling the allegations “completely baseless.” […]
GUARDIAN (UK), BBC, WASHINGTON POST, RUSSIA TODAY Worldcrunch LONDON — Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has accused the British government of raiding the newspaper’s London offices last month to destroy hard drives and computers in a attempt to prevent further reporting on the documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. “A little over two months […]
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A Visit To The “Greek Guantanamo”
Greece has been repeatedly criticized for its treatment of undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers. One its harshest detention centers in the city of Corinth, south of Athens.
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Speeding Train Kills 37 In India
BBC, PARDA PHASH (India), INDIA TIMES Worldcrunch PATNA — At least 37 Hindu pilgrims were killed after being hit by a train as they tried to cross tracks at a train station in the Northeastern Indian state of Bihar. The accident, which left another dozen injured, sparked furor among locals and other pilgrims who assaulted […]
AL JAZEERA (Qatar), AFP, REUTERS, RUSSIA TODAY (Russia) Worldcrunch CAIRO — Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in an Egyptian security forces operation meant to disperse protest camps in Cairo’s streets, where supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi were demanding his reinstatement. The exact number of casualties remains unclear, as reports […]
HAARETZ (Israel), AL JAZEERA (Qatar), AFP Worldcrunch EILAT — Israel says it intercepted a rocket fired from Sinai, Egypt over the southern city of Eilat early Tuesday. The attack, first reported by Israeli public radio, was later confirmed by an army spokesman. The Mujahideen Shura Council, an Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group, claimed responsibility for the attack, […]
BEIJING — For more than 100 years now, the food additive commonly known at MSG (monosodium glutamate) has been used all over the world to make dishes more savory. But the Chinese in particular are losing their taste for the ingredient, having embraced an irrational fear of what authorities around the world regard as a […]
Even President Dilma Rousseff has now chimed in on the fate of the “E.T. of Varginha.”
MTI, BORS (Hungary), BBC Worldcrunch BUDAPEST – Laszlo Csatary, one of the world’s most wanted Nazis and war crimes suspects, has died at the age of 98. The death, first reported by Hungarian tabloid Bors, was confirmed Monday by Csatary’s lawyer, Gabor Horvath. Hovarth said his client had died on Saturday morning, BBC reports. “He […]
-Op-Ed- Andrés Gioeni, a 41-year-old Argentinian man, served as a priest in Mendoza, Argentina, for more than two years before giving up the cassock. Now working as an actor, director and writer of children’s plays, he lives with his boyfriend of more than nine years, Luis, in Greater Buenos Aires’ San Isidro. He recently wrote […]
AP Worldcrunch DES MOINES – Powerball luck has struck three times — once in Minnesota and twice in New Jersey — for the multistate lottery’s latest massive jackpot. Sue Dooley, senior drawing manager production coordinator for the Multi-State Lottery Association, said late Wednesday night that three tickets matched all six numbers and would split the […]
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Christopher Tolkien gave his first ever press interview with Le Monde, shedding light on his father’s vision and sharing his own deep dismay with Hobbit director Peter Jackson.
CHINA TIMES (Taiwan) Worldcrunch SHENZHEN – The secret to economic growth? Unmarried women left free to shop, according to one prominent Chinese economist. Jin Yanshi, who has since become the target of outrage and contempt from colleagues and others, recently laid out his theory that “cities where there are more leftover and divorced women should […]
Protests are rising against plans to convert vast tracks of the sprawling Rome movie studios that were at the heart of La Dolce Vita, both in real life and on the big screen.
London 2012 roundup for the week: everything you need to know — and some things you don’t: OK Great Britain. Let’s rock! #olympicceremony #theempirestrikesback — Elizabeth Windsor (@Queen_UK) July 27, 2012 Articles: Welcome To The *Lodnon Oimplycs* Finally A Chance To Shine: Libya’s First Olympics Without Gaddafi Olympic Biz – Why London Is Rolling Out […]
URUGUAIANA – Deportations, detention centers, �coyotes� helping to stow away immigrants in car trunks and boats to try to cross borders undetected. Although it may sound like a scene along the border between the United States and Mexico, this is instead the deep south of Brazil. Uruguaiana, a town in the southern state of Rio […]
Now that scientists have uncovered the elusive Higgs boson particle, it’s time for them to move on to another piece of the puzzle: the mysterious substance that fills one quarter of the universe – dark matter.
LE PARISIEN, L’EQUIPE (France), TELEGRAPH (UK), L.A. TIMES (USA) Worldcrunch LONDON – Just after winning the team gold in the men’s team track sprint, British cyclist Philip Hindes admitted he had deliberately crashed in the heats in order to get a second chance at the race, the Telegraph reported. “We were saying if we have […]
Full statistics aren’t yet available — but even with partial numbers, it is clear that teen pregnancies are on the rise in Burundi. So far this year, 30 students from the Budahunga communal school in the Kirundo province have already been expelled for being pregnant. Ten others from two private schools of Bujumbura have suffered […]
Once an island paradise, Bali is turning into a concrete jungle, threatening its environment, culture, religion, and even language. Can Bali survive tourism, ask the island’s worried inhabitants?
CCTV (China), SIN CHEW DAILY (Malaysia), CHINA TIMES (Taiwan) Worldcrunch BEIJING – A Chinese television reporter looking into accusations that private hospitals were scamming patients with false (and costly) diagnoses applied an unusual undercover trick: he submitted tea as his urine sample. And as it turns out, the CCTV reporter is suffering from quite a […]
EFE, EL COLOMBIANO (Colombia) MEDELLIN – The luxurious “prison” that infamous Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar built for himself and lived in for a year starting in the summer of 1991 is now going to become a home for the poor elderly, EFE reports. The palatial “prison,” called La Catedral, boasted splendid rooms, a gym […]
A new demography study shows that the much ballyhooed rise in the retirement age to 67 simply delays the hard questions about how to finance pensions as Germany’s population ages.
If the Olympics are showing the British all dressed up for public viewing, other activities going on now show the ever pragmatic UK approach to business.
YAHOO! (USA), NEW ZEALAND HERALD (NZ), THE AUSTRALIAN (AUS) LONDON – New Zealand taekwondo athlete Logan Campbell has rejected being labeled “a pimp” after it was known he had financed his dream to take part in the London Olympics by running a brothel. The Kiwi athlete came under fire for opening a 14-room brothel in […]
IL GIORNALE (Italy), WALL STREET JOURNAL (USA) Worldcrunch Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale chose a deeply provocative headline for Friday’s front page: “Quarto Reich” – Fourth Reich, to comment on Germany’s refusal to give the European Central Bank more leeway. Il Giornale is a right-wing newspaper owned by Silvio Berlusconi“s brother Paolo. “Since yesterday, Italy […]
BBC NEWS, THE GUARDIAN (UK), BLOOMBERG (USA) Worldcrunch PYONGYANG –North Korea has requested immediate aid from the United Nations, including food supplies, after being hit by devastating floods last month. The aid also includes fuel and clean water to avoid diseases, as wells have been strongly damaged by the floods. UN officials in Pyongyang said […]
ROMANIA LIBERA, REVISTA 22 (Romania) Worldcrunch BUCHAREST – The political crisis in Romania worsens, threatening the country’s already fragile economy. On Thursday, the Constitutional Court was expected to invalidate the results of July 29’s referendum on the impeachment of President Traian Basescu, Romania. Eighty-eight percent of those who participated in the referendum voted to dismiss […]
BBC (UK), CNN (US), FINANCIAL TIMES (UK) Worldcrunch The UN General Assembly is set to vote on a resolution to increase pressure on the UN Security Council in a bid to resolve the Syrian conflict, reports the BBC. Drafted by Saudi Arabia’s government, who openly support the rebel forces in the country, the resolution condemns […]
24HORAS (Costa Rica), CLARIN (Argentina), CNN EN ESPAÑOL SAN JOSE – Costa Rican Vice-Minister of Youth Karina Bolaños is in hot water after a ‘hot” video of her, lying in bed wearing only lingerie and flirting with the camera began to circulate on the Internet, 24Horas reported. Adding to the controversy, the video was meant […]