Qatari sisters robbed of $5.3 million in valuables near Paris
Story highlightsWomen were being driven from Paris-Le Bourget Airport north of the cityRobbery is just the latest in a spate of high-profile crimes in the French capitalThe women were being driven from Paris-Le Bourget Airport to Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport when two masked men intercepted their car Monday, Flavien Fouquet, general secretary of the Bobigny prosecutor, told CNN.Forcing the vehicle to stop, the robbers sprayed tear gas at the driver and manhandled the women before taking their ..>> view originalEgypt's High Court Overturns Life Sentence Against Ousted President Morsi
CAIRO—Egypt’s highest court overturned a life sentence against ousted president Mohammed Morsi and cleared 18 other senior Muslim Brotherhood officials, some facing the death penalty, in a long-running espionage case. In its verdict Tuesday, the court dropped all life and death sentences against the group, found guilty in June 2015 of spying for Hamas, the Islamist political and military group that controls the Gaza Strip. It...>> view originalNigel Farage for US ambassador? Trump tweet has UK squirming
Trump caused diplomatic ripples when he said on Twitter that Farage, interim leader of the anti-immigrant UK Independence Party (UKIP), would "do a great job" in the post.A spokesman for the office of British Prime Minister Theresa May blocked the idea, telling CNN the UK appoints its own ambassadors and that the position was filled. Trump's expression of a preference for UK ambassador to Washington was a startling break with diplomatic protocol. It is unheard of in recent years for any US offic..>> view originalEU Leaders Blast May Government's State of Brexit Preparedness
European Union policy makers intensified their criticism of Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to leave the bloc, saying that the U.K. appeared clueless about the implications of Brexit.The pound sank to an intraday low after Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said it’s not clear that the U.K. knows what it wants and European lawmaker Manfred Weber demanded May’s government produce “clear proposals” as it prepares to trigger Brexit negotiations by the end of March. Weber made the comments after ..>> view originalPope Francis extends permission to forgive 'grave sin' of abortion to all priests
Pope Francis is now allowing all priests to forgive the “grave sin” of abortion, placing an indefinite extension on the special permission he granted for the Holy Year of Mercy, which lasted from Dec. 8, 2015, until Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016. In his Apostolic letter, which was released Monday, Francis wrote, “There is no sin that God’s mercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a repentant heart seeking to be reconciled,” but added, “I wish to restate as firmly as I can that abortion is a grave..>> view originalDonald Trump Cancels New York Times Meeting and Pursues Battles With the Press
Meeting with The Times is abruptly canceled.With reporters and editors set to go, the president-elect announced via Twitter around 6 a.m. that he would not be taking questions from The New York Times, which were to be mostly on the record, unlike his meeting with television news executives on Monday. I cancelled today's meeting with the failing @nytimes when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice — Donald J. Trump (@realDo..>> view originalNew Quake Tests Resilience, and Faith, in Japan's Nuclear Plants
Photo Officers at the Fukushima prefectural office gathered data on Tuesday following an earthquake that hit the area. Credit Jiji Press/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images TOKYO — There was no avoiding fearful memories of the Japanese nuclear disaster of 2011 on Tuesday morning after a powerful earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Fukushima caused a cooling system in a nuclear plant to stop, leaving more than 2,500 spent uranium fuel rods at risk of overheating.But ..>> view originalScenes of Flight From Mosul's Front Lines
Mr. Ponomarev, a New York Times photojournalist, and Mr. Arango, The Times’s Baghdad bureau chief, are in northern Iraq covering the Mosul offensive and the intensifying humanitarian crisis surrounding it.Each day, dozens of families pick their way out, some carrying white flags even as they come under mortar or sniper fire from the Islamic State. Billowing black clouds from oil wells set on fire by militants provide a dystopian background to the scenes of flight; it is so bad south of Mosul th..>> view originalWith Trump win, China looks to seize Asia free trade leadership
By Michael MartinaBEIJING (Reuters) - China will position itself as free trade's new champion at an Asia-Pacific summit this weekend, with the Communist government seeking to project economic leadership as a U.S.-led Pacific Rim trade pact languishes under President-elect Donald Trump.Beijing aims to capitalize on the Trump-induced coma of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), with President Xi Jinping selling alternate visions for regional trade at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) me..>> view original
Friday, December 9, 2016
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