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JAKARTA – The color of the brackish water running down the drain across Pak Udis’ paddy field changes everyday: it goes from blue to green or red. One only needs to take a look around to understand why. A textile factory was built a few meters away from this Indonesian peasant’s parcel. Over the last […]
REUTERS (UK) AL JAZEERA (Qatar) BBC NEWS (UK), CNN (USA) Worldcrunch KABUL – Fifteen men and two women were found beheaded in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province on Monday. Reuters, Al Jazeera and other news outlets reported that the victims had attended a “mixed-sex” party where men and women were socializing. The bodies were found in […]
Los Angeles 12:53 PM: a steak topped with pieces of pineapple, three girls showing off their necklines, a black convertible sport car and a black mug shot in low-angle. São Paulo, 4:53 PM: a manicure seen close-up, a SpongeBob cup, a diamond tattooed on a thigh and three friends drinking champagne. Tokyo, 4:53 AM: a […]
Worldcrunch THE NORWAY POST (Norway), CNN (USA), BBC NEWS, THE GUARDIAN (UK) OSLO – Anders Behring Breivik, the man who killed 77 people in a bomb attack and gun rampage in July 2011, was sentenced to 21 years in prison, reports CNN. The five judges at Oslo district court were unanimous in ruling that Breivik […]
MAIL & GUARDIAN (South Africa), BBC NEWS (UK), CNN (USA), AL JAZEERA (Qatar), RFI (France) Worldcrunch JOHANNESBURG – Events are taking place across South Africa today to mourn the 44 people killed in recent violence at the northwestern Marikana platinum mine, reports CNN. Politicians, religious leaders, workers and members of the local community are attending […]
LA REPUBBLICA, AGI (Italy), BBC SPORT, REUTERS (UK), EUROSPORT (France) Worldcrunch ROME – An Italian tribunal has confirmed today a 10-month ban for Juventus FC coach Antonio Conte, reports La Reppublica. Football Federation judges rejected his appeal against a verdict handed down earlier this month, adds Reuters. Antonio Conte, who played for Juventus from 1992 […]
CNN, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY (USA), BBC NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch Photo: Diana Nyad MIAMI – US Swimmer Diana Nyad ended her bid to cross from Cuba to Florida after suffering severe jellyfish stings, reports CNN. The endurance swimmer, who will turn 63 on Wednesday, was pulled from the water early Tuesday morning, reports CNN. A […]
THE REPORTER (Ethiopia), THE GUARDIAN, BBC NEWS (UK), CNN (USA) Worldcrunch ADDIS ABEBA – Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is dead, a government spokesman said Tuesday, ending weeks of speculation about his health, reports CNN. Meles, who was 57, died Monday night at 11:40 p.m. from an unspecified infection in a foreign hospital, reports CNN. […]
RIO DE JANEIRO – She carries the weight of her people on her shoulders and that makes her beautiful. With her seashell and pearl necklace around the neck, her tanned tattooed skin, her feathers of different sizes and her bright and vividly colored skeins, Vangri Kaingang is a proud native and she’s not afraid to […]
CNN (USA), BBC NEWS (UK), EL NACIONAL (Venezuela) Worldcrunch CARACAS – Venezuela prison minister Iris Varela has confirmed that at least 20 people were killed after violence broke out in a Venezuelan jail, reports El Nacional. The violence occurred between rival gangs, with one of the dead a relative of an inmate, in Yare prison, […]
CHINA DAILY, XINHUA (China), BBC NEWS (UK), CNN (USA), AL JAZEERA (Qatar) Worldcrunch HEFEI – Gu Kailai, the wife of disgraced Chinese Politician Bo Xilai, has been given a suspended death sentence for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, reports BBC News. Gu’s death penalty has been suspended for two years due to her […]
MAIL & GUARDIAN, SABC (South Africa), BBC NEWS (UK), CNN (USA) Worldcrunch JOHANNESBURG– Thirty-five people were killed Thursday in a shooting between police and miners in Marikana, northwest of Johannesburg, reports the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa, confirmed this figure, bringing the death toll to 45 since the strike started at […]
NEW YORK TIMES, CNN (USA), THE TELEGRAPH (UK), AL JAZEERA (Qatar) Worldcrunch ISLAMABAD – At least nine men, armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, stormed an air force base in the early hours of Thursday in Kamra, about 80 kilometres northwest of Islamabad, reports Al Jazeera. According to a military spokesperson, the eight attackers […]
ISTANBUL – For the first time in Turkey’s history, the Kurdish armed group PPK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) has kidnapped a Turkish lawmaker. Hüseyin Aygün, an MP for the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) was kidnapped last Sunday in the eastern province of Tunceli. PKK has claimed responsibility for the abduction and has promised to free […]
IRNA (Iran), ABC NEWS, NEW YORK TIMES, ASSOCIATED PRESS (USA), AL JAZEERA (Qatar), XINHUA (China) Worldcrunch TEHRAN – In an apparent change of heart, Iran says foreign aid is now welcome following the twin earthquakes that hit the north western part of the country last weekend, reports ABC news. On Monday, a Turkish rescue team […]
Over 150 years ago the Gold Rush began in California. It made some people very rich, but most people who were a part of it were only enriched by the experience. Today, the state is making people dream again – but this time it’s silicon, not gold, that’s making them see big. The half-metal is […]
HONG KONG STANDARD (Hong Kong), BBC NEWS (UK), AL JAZEERA (Qatar), ASSOCIATED PRESS (U.S.) Worldcrunch HONG KONG – A Hong Kong court on Monday ordered the eviction of the protesters camped around the HSCB headquarters in the center of the city, reports the Hong Kong Standard. Protesters have until August 27 to leave the area […]
The athletic potential of a nation relies on several cultural, social, biological, genetic and environmental factors. These are hard to dissociate and their role only partly explain the current Jamaican hegemony. First let me remind you that dignity, tolerance and respect are the best values and must serve here as guidelines. Exposing the correlations between […]
NEW ZEALAND HERALD, TV ONE, RADIO NZ NEWS (New Zealand), THE AUSTRALIAN (Australia), ASSOCIATED PRESS (USA) AUCKLAND – A mass of small volcanic rocks nearly the size of Belgium has been discovered floating off the coast of New Zealand, reports the New Zealand Herald. The stretch of golf-ball-size pumice rocks was first spotted this week […]
Recent pictures of Kim Jong-un and his wife attending public events is just one sign that has insiders wondering whether North Korea has started to shift toward a ‘post-totalitarian’ regime.
CNN (USA), BBC NEWS, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (UK) Worldcrunch BEIJING – Gu Kailai, the wife of recently deposed top official in the Chinese Communist Party Bo Xilai, raised no objections to the prosecution’s charges as the trial ended on Thursday, reports BBC news. A court official told reporters Gu did not contest the charges. The […]
CAIXIN MEDIA, CHINA DAILY (China), CHINA TIMES (Taiwan) Worldcrunch YONGZHOU – Six years ago an 11-year-old girl was raped and forced into prostitution in Yongzhou, Hunan province. It took three months for the victim’s mother to rescue her. After three judgments, the Hunan Provincial Higher People’s Court has given a final verdict on the seven […]
AL JAZEERA (Qatar), HAARETZ (Israel), CNN (USA) Worldcrunch CAIRO – Egypt launched air strikes in North Sinai early Wednesday killing twenty suspected terrorists in response to a series of attacks by masked gunmen on military checkpoints, reports CNN. Egyptian army Apache helicopters fired rockets at armed militants near the port town of El Arish. Witnesses […]
About a hundred cyclists streamed the streets of Hanoi on August 5 waving rainbow pennants and yelling “Support gay marriage!” Good Lord! Has prudish Vietnam initiated a sort of ‘social coming out,’ even before turning to democracy? The fact is that the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, a tightly controlled single-party state still shaped by Confucian […]