Brazil's Chance to Save Itself
A defiant Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff left the presidential palace through the front door on Thursday morning after the senate voted to begin her impeachment trial. According to Brazilian lore, the president’s chosen exit was a political statement that she intends to return. The senate vote, in which over two-thirds of 80 senators said yes to the trial, suggests otherwise. Ms. Rousseff’s greatest hope for a comeback lies with Vice President Michel Temer. He is a member of Brazil’s larges..>> view originalUK's Leading Brexit Campaigner Likens EU's Aims to Hitler's bid to Unite Europe
LONDON—Boris Johnson, the leading campaigner for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, likened the bloc’s aims to those of Adolf Hitler, capping a week which has seen the campaign for and against membership shift into high gear ahead of the referendum next month. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr. Johnson said the EU was an attempt to rediscover a golden age of a unified Europe under the Romans that had been tried by Adolf Hitler and Napoleon and had ended tragically, althou..>> view originalISIS claims responsibility for attack on Baghdad gas plant
Baghdad Governor Ali al-Tamimi said 10 people, including seven police officers and three guards, were killed during the assault on the facility in the Taji area, north of Iraq's capital, at 5 a.m. local time Sunday.Police officials said the attack began with a suicide car bomb at the entrance of the plant, then a second suicide bomber detonated an explosive inside the facility.Six ISIS militants then tried to storm inside, but security forces were able to repel them, police said. Two military he..>> view originalSuicide Bombing Kills 25 in Southern Yemen
SANAA, Yemen รข€” A suicide bomber on Sunday detonated his explosives among policemen standing in line outside a police base in the southern Yemeni city of Mukalla, killing 25, security and health officials said. At least 17 more people were injured in the attack and the officials said the death toll was likely to rise further.The Yemeni affiliate of the extremist Islamist State group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on social media networks by IS sympathizers.Sunday'..>> view originalIsrael tells France it's not interested in multilateral peace talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault during a meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on May 15. (Menahem Kahana/AP) JERUSALEM — French officials said Sunday they will continue to press ahead with plans to host a multilateral Middle East peace conference later this year, despite hearing, in blunt language, that Israel doesn’t really like the idea. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault met with Prime M..>> view originalIran's Holocaust cartoon contest: free speech or incitement?
As Israel and the United States condemn Iran for allowing a Holocaust-themed cartoon festival to go on display in Tehran, the Iranian regime says it won't censor what it says is free speech. "Why does the United States have the Ku Klux Klan? Is the government of the United States responsible for the fact that there are racially hateful organizations in the United States?" Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, asked The New Yorker, when asked why the regime has permitted the contest. ..>> view originalBeijing blasts Pentagon report on Chinese military as damaging trust
BEIJING China condemned the U.S. Defense Department's annual report on the Chinese military on Sunday, calling it deliberate distortion that has "severely damaged" mutual trust. In its annual report to Congress on Chinese military activities, the U.S. Defense Department said on Friday that China is expected to add substantial military infrastructure, including communications and surveillance systems, to artificial islands in the South China Sea this year.China's Defense Ministry spokesman Yang..>> view originalPolice: Fake bomb at Man U stadium left in earlier security exercise
AP 6:01 p.m. EDT May 15, 2016 A match between Manchester United and Bournemouth at Old Trafford has been abandoned after a suspicious package was discovered in the North West portion of the stadium, police confirmed. Time_SportsEmpty seats as fans in the West Stand and the Sir Alex Ferguson Stand are evacuated prior to the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Bournemouth. It was called off on police advice because of a suspect package at Old Traf..>> view originalVenezuela's 'state of emergency': How the country slid into crisis
Addressing the nation Friday, Maduro declared a "constitutional state of emergency ... to tend to our country and more importantly to prepare to denounce, neutralize and overcome the external and foreign aggressions against our country." He has also called for military exercises to take place next weekend to prepare for "any scenario," including a foreign invasion. But while some marched in support of the government's push for a "state of constitutional exception and economic emergency," which ..>> view originalSyrian Rebels: Badreddine's Assassination Hezbollah Inside Job
Published: May 15th, 2016 Mustafa Badreddine's funeral (Nusrallah is 4th from left) / Screenshot The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights rejected Hezbollah’s accusation that the assassination of its prominent commander Mustafa Badreddine in Damascus airport had been carried out by “takfiri” (accusers of infidelity) rebel groups. The pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday cited several Syrian opposition members who speculated that Badreddine’s death was an “inside job that reflects t..>> view original
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