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REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Authorities in Puerto Rico are reportedly pumping water from a well at a federally designated Superfund site, CNN said late Friday night, citing Superfund documents and interviews with federal and state officials. It is the latest indication of the growing humanitarian crisis in the US territory, three weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated the […]
Enlarge / Clouds hover above the surrounding geothermal waters at the Blue Lagoon near Reykjavik, Iceland in 2008. (credit: Matt Cardy / Getty Images) For the last six weeks, the neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer has struggled to find a permanent domain name. The site lost its original .com address last month after site editor Andrew […]
Cash is still king IN MOTIJHEEL, the main business district in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, an iron fence and terrible traffic divide two branches of the country’s oldest private bank—a “conventional” one and an Islamic one. Abdus Sattar, manager of the Islamic one, says that when he joined AB Bank, in 2005, his was “a loser […]
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Investigators in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have questioned the account of a woman who said that she had been attacked with acid by her alleged gang rapists for a fifth time despite police protection, hours after the story of the attack made worldwide headlines. Following previous allegations, the 35-year-old woman, whose name has […]
It took US authorities a single wiretap order to intercept and record over 3 million phone calls and messages last year, the Wiretap Report 2016, published by the United States Courts, revealed. The intercepts were carried out over the course of two months by an undisclosed government agency, which applied for the wiretap order in […]
The decision to place ‘I’m poor’ signs on the houses of people eligible for government support by the Indian state of Rajasthan has offended residents who accuse the the local government of mocking them while prompting condemnation from the opposition. Between 50,000 and 150,000 households in Rajasthan were recently marked with signs, reading “I am […]
Published time: 19 Jun, 2017 13:40 Edited time: 19 Jun, 2017 13:43 Julian Assange’s highly anticipated “special announcement” on the five-year anniversary of his detention at the Ecuadorian embassy has reportedly been cancelled due to an “imminent meeting” between Assange’s legal counsel and UK authorities. The WikiLeaks editor sought asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy on […]
Right-wing extremists were blamed for most of these incidents, including threatening letters, property damage, attacks on women wearing headscarves and online and verbal abuse. Two of these incidents resulted in injuries – one in Baden-Württemberg and one in Hesse. Read more “There are examples every day,” NOZ quoted Ayman Mazyek, the chairman of the Central […]
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities are investigating dozens of new cases of possible opioid and other drug theft by employees at Veterans Affairs hospitals, a sign the problem isn’t going away as more prescriptions disappear. Data obtained by The Associated Press show 36 criminal investigations opened by the VA inspector general’s office from […]
