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-Obits-
Venezuela Doesn't Have Enough Money to Pay for Its Money!
Posted by: 3dc || 04/27/2016 10:06 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  This is the future of the US in 15-20 years.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/27/2016 11:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Eventually, Venezuela will run out of things to run out of. At that point, the entire country will implode into a black hole.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/27/2016 12:58 Comments || Top||

#3  So it sounds like Venezuela can't kite its credit cards anymore.
Posted by: gorb || 04/27/2016 12:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Late last year, the central bank ordered more than 10 billion bank notes, surpassing the 7.6 billion the U.S. Federal Reserve requested this year for an economy many times the size of Venezuela’s

Ima thinkern less than 15 years meself.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/27/2016 13:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Doesn't the point of #4 temporarily solve the toilet paper shortage? 10 billion sheets seems a start.
Posted by: P2Kontheroad || 04/27/2016 17:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Government now closed down to 6 hours a day, two days a week, so there is a silver lining.

That said, it isn't a draught leading to a looming catastrophic black out, rain in the Caroli Basin is nearly normal , but the Guri reservoir has been badly depleted over the past few years my mismanagement, water is fuel for Guri and they've burned the candle at both ends. Water level is so low now that cavitation may soone be a show stopper,
Posted by: Shipman || 04/27/2016 22:22 Comments || Top||


Frederick Mayer dies at 94
[WAPO] Frederick Mayer was a person, a friend once observed, whose "fear nerve is dead." A German-born Jew, he fled his home in the Black Forest in 1938 and made a new life in the United States, then ventured back into Nazi Europe as a U.S. spy.

His exploits -- parachuting onto an Alpine glacier, infiltrating enemy lines, posing as a German officer to gather vital intelligence, and enduring lengthy torture sessions before essentially negotiating the surrender of the city of Innsbruck, Austria -- seemed in hindsight the stuff of movies. "Inglourious Basterds" (2009), director Quentin Tarantino’s historical fiction about justice-seeking Jewish American soldiers during World War II, could have been modeled after Mayer and his comrades.

Mr. Mayer, who was described at times as a "real inglorious bastard," died April 15 at his home in Charles Town, W.Va. He was 94 and had been diagnosed with pancytopenia, a blood deficiency, said a daughter, Claudette Mayer.

Mr. Mayer once told an interviewer that he had a "good combination of hatred and love" -- a "hatred of the Nazis and a love for America." The son of a decorated World War I veteran, he had seen his family pushed from its homeland by a regime that would slaughter six million European Jews in the Holocaust.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Mr. Mayer enlisted in the U.S. Army. "It felt like I had my chance to do what I set out to do -- kill Nazis," he said in the TV film "The Real Inglorious Bastards" (2012). "That’s why all the Jewish boys joined."

Mr. Mayer, disguised in a German uniform. (Frederick Mayer/Courtesy Patrick K. O’Donnell )
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2016 08:52 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  On the morning of May 3, 1945, the American 103rd Infantry Division of the Seventh Army was ordered to take Innsbruck. When the troops got closer to the city, they saw an approaching car with a white banner made out of a bed sheet. Major Bland West, an intelligence officer, saw a young man with a swollen face jumping out of the car. He introduced himself as Lt. Mayer of the OSS, and explained that he was going to take the major with him to accept the German surrender. Later on West found out that Mayer was a sergeant. Thus, the German troops in this area surrendered to an American sergeant, a Jewish emigrant from Germany.

Wik
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2016 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Alternate link - Army Times
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2016 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Photo needs reduction. Your assistance greatly appreciated.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2016 9:24 Comments || Top||

#4  "It felt like I had my chance to do what I set out to do -- kill Nazis," he said in the TV film "The Real Inglorious Bastards" (2012). "That’s why all the Jewish boys joined."

Yes, indeed. Another good find, Besoeker dear. Thank you.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2016 14:42 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The Target boycott is spiraling out of control
[BUSINESSINSIDER] Target has become the central battleground of a vitriolic national debate
... an expenditure of personal wind at the national level that leads to face-making and other histrionics but can't be shown to have ever solved an issue ...
over transgender rights in the US.

Nearly 700,000 people have signed a pledge to boycott the retailer after it announced last week that it would welcome transgender customers to use any bathroom or fitting room that matches their gender identity.
People sign a lot of pledges without changing their behaviour. Virtue signalling is very satisfying; actually inconveniencing oneself for a principle is so dreadfully inconvenient.
The backers of the pledge -- including Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick -- claim that the policy poses a "danger to wives and daughters" and is "exactly how sexual predators get access to their victims."

Some critics are visiting Target stores across the country and demanding access to bathrooms of the opposite sex to support claims that "perverts" can now gain access to children and women as a result of the policy.

Greg Locke, a pastor at Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee, posted a video outside a Target store saying he got permission to use the women's restroom when he questioned store management.
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why don't they just put up a bathroom with a question mark on the door and let them use that one?
Posted by: gorb || 04/27/2016 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2  If you are a transgendered male then you have seen a penis. What's the big deal about using the men's restroom But I don't care if a chick comes into the men's room because all the female stalls are in use and she has to pee really bad. Curt Schilling was right for the most part, but sometimes the girls don't have enough stalls to pee in at at large venue, so come on over to the mens room. We will all look away. Amen
Posted by: texhooey || 04/27/2016 1:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember that ladies. Unless you know the dude or dudes, the protocol is no talking, no eye to eye contact, and no peeping.
Posted by: P2Kontheroad || 04/27/2016 6:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Port a Potty time for the confused.
Posted by: Dale || 04/27/2016 7:22 Comments || Top||

#5  It's depressing that we're even having this debate. This country is so screwed.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/27/2016 12:41 Comments || Top||

#6  It's easy to boycott Target because I don't like Bruce Springsteen enough to venture into a Target to buy one of his CDs. Over and over again these people try to use economic pressure to cram their twisted views down my throat. But that pressure can work both ways. No more Springsteen, no more Macy's, no more Jennifer Lawrence. You want war, you got it. Hope it hurts. I might even have to buy a pack of cigarettes just to keep North Carolina going.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/27/2016 12:49 Comments || Top||

#7  So, now women who use target restrooms have to sit in the stall, panties around their ankles, hoping some pervert or rapist doesn't come in for some action.

Just to satisfy a minute percentage of the population.

We are so screwed!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/27/2016 14:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Haven't shopped Target since they kicked out the USMC Toys for Tots several years ago.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 04/27/2016 15:41 Comments || Top||

#9  I can tell you...
It is frowned upon to go into the girls room then use a sink because the stalls are all full.
Really frowned upon.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/27/2016 16:42 Comments || Top||

#10  If you won't use the sink you don't have to go bad enough.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/27/2016 16:49 Comments || Top||

#11  Heard that at a Charger game. Sorry.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/27/2016 16:50 Comments || Top||

#12  One of the things stores like this off which the internet cannot is a fitting room. I'm sure I am not the only person here who has ordered a fitted item on-line only to have it not be quite right, or in the case of the kids needing that brand's next larger size.

Once a future wife and I were at a club, where she caught some jackhole who was pretending to drop something, then taking a quick up-the-dress photo while 'picking it up'.

And nor is a person so vulnerable as when sitting on the toilet. Usually, we are concentrating on the business at hand, and clothing has our legs bound.

It is one of my policies; the most intimate relationship we have with our customers is when they use our restroom.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/27/2016 16:55 Comments || Top||

#13  I almost, ALMOST, wish ISIS would insert themselves into the conversation. Just for the sheer madness of it all.

Posted by: Charles || 04/27/2016 19:00 Comments || Top||

#14  Sadly the wife finds the best gluten free bread at Target. So perhaps it's time to open carry there, since they allow mentally unstable people into their restrooms. That would be an amusing protest to make.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/27/2016 21:58 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
South Sudan rebel chief Machar sworn in as vice president
[FRANCE24] South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar was sworn in as first vice president on Tuesday, hours after he returned to the capital of Juba for the first time since conflict erupted more than two years ago.

Machar took up the post under the terms of a peace agreement reached eight months ago, implementation of which had been repeatedly delayed by disputes between Machar and the government of President Salva Kiir.

"Now that Dr. Riek has taken the oath of the first vice president, we will immediately proceed with the establishment of the transitional government of national unity," Kiir said after Machar was sworn in at the president’s office. "I ask you to join me and my brother Riek Machar in peace and reconciliation."

Machar was greeted by government officials, members of his SPLM-In-Opposition party, diplomats and officials from the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, with the airport under heavy guard, a Rooters witness said.
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


World’s longest-serving president just won a sixth term with 99% of the vote
[WASHINGTONPOST] Teodoro Obiang Nguema has never received less than 97 percent of the vote in an election. On Monday, with partial results indicating that 99.2 percent of the vote has gone in his favor, Equatorial Guinea's leader was surely all set for another seven years in a seat that has no doubt molded to his figure.

One-sixth of African countries have an executive who has been in power for more than 20 years — that's nine out of 54. Obiang, who took power nearly 37 years ago in a bloody coup, is in the company of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe (who turned 92 in February), Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea and King Mswati III of Swaziland. But Obiang is most similar to — and most closely followed in terms of the number of years in office by — José Eduardo dos Santos of Angola.

Dos Santos and Obiang preside over Africa's No. 2 and 3 crude-oil producers, respectively, and are accused of embezzling much of the resulting wealth, while not distributing it fairly, if at all, to their citizens. Equatorial Guinea, once a Spanish colony, has the biggest gap of any country worldwide between its per-capita wealth and its human development index — a sure sign that there are a few outliers skewing the per-capita figure way upward.

Obiang triumphed over six other candidates, winning all but 326 of the 40,926 votes counted, according to a government-run website.
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's OK. He followed the rules which had been in place for over a year.
Posted by: P2Kontheroad || 04/27/2016 6:51 Comments || Top||

#2  It just SEEMS like Obama has been here longer.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/27/2016 13:12 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela paves way for petition to recall Maduro
[WASHINGTONPOST] Venezuela’s electoral council on Tuesday took steps to allow opponents of President Nicolas Maduro to try and initiate a recall referendum against the socialist leader.

The electoral authority delivered to opposition representatives the petition sheets needed to collect around 200,000 signatures to schedule a formal petition drive. The decision would normally draw scant attention except that the process had been mired by administrative hurdles that the opposition sees as an attempt by the government-stacked institution to protect Maduro.

Reflecting some of those tensions, a small group of government supporters hurled insults and threats against opposition leaders arriving to the downtown headquarters of the electoral council Tuesday, forcing them to briefly seek cover in the offices of the opposition-controlled congress across the street.

Although Maduro’s approval rating has plummeted amid spiraling triple-digit inflation, a deep recession and widespread shortages, booting him from office won’t be easy.

Just scheduling a referendum requires yet another petition drive, in which the opposition must gather signatures from 20 percent of the electorate, or around 4 million voters. And if the vote were ever held, the president would be removed only if the number of anti-Maduro votes exceeded the 7.6 million votes he received in the 2013 election.
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "I can't see the damn petition with the power off!"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/27/2016 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Self-selected list of enemies, saves on Maduro's ovehead.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/27/2016 8:40 Comments || Top||


Economy
Why Are They Hiding The Good News About Fracking?
Geologists at the University of Cincinnati just wrapped up a three-year investigation of hydraulic fracturing and its impact on local water supplies.

The result? There's no evidence—zero, zilch, nada—that fracking contaminates drinking water. Researchers hoped to keep these findings secret.

Why would a public research university boasting a top-100 geology program
"So, how many geology programs are there in the U.S.?"
"Um, about 102. I think."
"Does that include junior colleges?"
"Maybe. They got any rocks?"
deliberately hide its work? Because, as lead researcher Amy Townsend-Small explained, "our funders, the groups that had given us funding in the past, were a little disappointed in our results. They feel that fracking is scary and so they were hoping our data could point to a reason to ban it."

That an environmentalist ideologue would see evidence of fracking's safety as "disappointing" is to be expected. But that a university would so flagrantly put politics before science is deeply troubling.

Hydraulic fracturing has significantly bolstered America's energy independence by unlocking an abundance of domestic oil and gas. In fact, our country has officially surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia as the global leader in natural gas and oil production, respectively. Just as important, these newfound energy resources have delivered economic benefits to Americans. In 2012, the average U.S. household had an extra $1,200 thanks to the energy boom. The oil and gas industry, meanwhile, supports more than 2 million jobs—a number that is expected to grow to nearly 5 million by 2025.

This energy renaissance has also helped the environment since fracking provides a cheaper, cleaner alternative to coal. Last April, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions hit a 27-year low, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, thanks largely to a widespread transition from coal to natural gas.

None of these benefits would matter if fracking endangered drinking water. So the University of Cincinnati's report comes as good news. Of course, the findings only confirm what experts and policymakers have been saying for years.

Back in 2011, for instance, former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson admitted that there hasn't been a "proven case where the fracking process itself has affected water." Two years later, current EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy affirmed Jackson's remark, stating, "I am not aware of any definitive determinations that would contradict those statements."

A review of the available research bears out both claims. Consider the Ground Water Protection Council's recent study on gas exploration in Ohio, from 1983 until 2007, and in Texas, from 1993 until 2008. According to that report, neither officials in Texas nor those in Ohio "identified a single groundwater contamination incident…at any of these horizontal shale gas wells" during those periods.

Similarly, a 2013 U.S. Geological Survey study on the Fayetteville Shale in north-central Arkansas found "that shale gas development, at least in this area, has been done without negatively impacting drinking water resources." A 2015 EPA draft report confirmed these findings.

Fracking's impressive safety record is partly due to the energy industry's own vigilance; it has worked aggressively to improve the safety of oil and gas production.

The University of Cincinnati's fracking research further establishes what myriad studies have already shown: Concerns about groundwater contamination are baseless. As Townsend-Small stated, "We haven't seen anything to show that wells have been contaminated by fracking."

This might be "disappointing" to certain environmentalists, as Townsend-Small suggests. And it may interfere with the university's fundraising efforts. But for the rest of us, the study demonstrates that fracking is a safe source of jobs, prosperity and low-cost energy.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It is only 'good news' when it's your lease, your drilling company, or your well servicing firm.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2016 1:36 Comments || Top||

#2  But that a university would so flagrantly put politics before science is deeply troubling.

‏ROFLMAO
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/27/2016 5:06 Comments || Top||

#3  And you are shocked that in todays America a university would suppress a research paper that provides results that it considers politically incorrect. I'm not.
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 04/27/2016 6:24 Comments || Top||

#4  "...a public research university boasting a top-100 geology program." Yeah,like 99th of 100. The U. of C is a glorified junior college.
Posted by: Black Charlie Gloluque7156 || 04/27/2016 9:44 Comments || Top||

#5  The U. of C is a glorified junior college.

Do you have a basis for that statement? The trailing daughters chose to do their undergraduate work there, though as National Merit Scholars they had many other opportunities.

Separately, I consulted with Mr. Wife on this one, because he negotiates university research contracts as part of his responsibilities, and he pointed out several things:

First of all, a research contract might forbid publication of the results, if the sponsor wants exclusivity. If that is the case, the scientists cannot discuss the results in a public forum or publish the results, because the data belongs to the sponsor, not the university, the researcher, or the public. The sponsor bought it, just like we might buy a book or gasoline for the car.

But Professor Townsend-Small has in fact been talking about this study (I googled it). Among others, in February she made a presentation summarizing the research and their findings to a Carroll [County] Concerned Citizens meeting, which subsequently posted PDFs of the presentation and a master's thesis written about the study. (See here for links to both in the right-hand column). There is also apparently a video of the presentation, as mentioned in an article about it all here.

Still, there's been no announcement of formal publication of the results. It could be, according to Mr. Wife, that the publication is in process, either being written up or undergoing the usual back and forth with the journal editors in response to peer review, which often takes months, and then the wait to actually get a place on the journal's pages. Or it could be that no journals were interested in publishing the study. Or, though useful as a teaching tool on how to conduct geologic research, the study results are not strong enough or important enough to be worth writing up. The EPA concluded from their own studies that fracking does not impact groundwater according to a draft circulated almost a year ago, so the UC results are not exactly groundbreaking.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2016 11:23 Comments || Top||

#6  UMass- Boston is a glorified community college. I don't know if I could say the same about U. of Cincinnati.
Posted by: Raj || 04/27/2016 13:12 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Two young ‘rapists, serial killers’ held trying to bury fifth victim
[DAWN] BADIN: Two youths travelling in a bus were jugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
when the hand-carry ’luggage’, wrapped in a cloth sheet, they possessed turned out to be the body of an eight-year-old girl.

The suspects, Shahid and Ghulam Hussain aka Sawan, had boarded the bus coming from Chambarr town on Monday morning. A policeman travelling in the same bus noticed their suspicious movements and attitude. He along with some other passengers came to them and insisted on unwrapping the luggage. Finding the girl’s body in their possession, the policeman called out the area police who took the two suspects and the body into custody.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Christian Woman Gang-Raped in Pakistan as Attacks Against Believers Escalate
[CHRISTIANPOST]
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Justice is a major tenant of the Christian faith, so is the premise that the man is the head of the home. Therefore it is his responsibility to see that justice is served by any means necessary.
Posted by: Spike Spusoling4742 || 04/27/2016 0:11 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Discovery: The Moment Of Conception Marked By Stunning Flash Of Light [VIDEO]
[Daily Caller] The moment of human conception is marked by a bright flash of light, scientists have discovered.
Most interesting! Both coming and going it might seem.
In amazing new footage from Northwestern University of the moment a human sperm makes contact with an egg, a bright flash of light is seen, which scientists found is the result of an explosion of zinc from the egg triggered by the sperm.

"It was remarkable," Northwestern professor Teresa Woodruff, one of the study’s two senior authors, told The Telegraph. "We discovered the zinc spark just five years ago in the mouse, and to see the zinc radiate out in a burst from each human egg was breathtaking."

The flash of light was brighter in some of the eggs than others, which Woodruff and the other study authors think indicates a healthier egg, since zinc is a major factor in the catalyst of growth and change into a new organism. They are hopeful the discovery could help doctors choose the right embryo to implant into a woman trying to get pregnant by in vitro fertilization.

"It’s a way of sorting egg quality in a way we’ve never been able to assess before," Woodruff added. "All of biology starts at the time of fertilization, yet we know next to nothing about the events that occur in the human."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2016 17:40 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A more accurate headline: Moment Of Conception Marked By Release of Zinc Ions Which Can Be Made To Fluoresce Under Laboratory Conditions.

And yes, the video microscopy totally rocks.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/27/2016 20:04 Comments || Top||

#2  I was working in a home darkroom centuries ago, and was sucking on some hard candy. I had already noticed that peeling the paper backing off the undeveloped film gave off a lot of light right as the film separated from the paper. I could only see this when my eyes were completely dark adapted. I also saw a lot of light when I bit down to crack the candy between my teeth in that darkness, it seemed to be emitted from the cracks as they formed, very short flash & then dark again.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/27/2016 20:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Crushing wintergreen lifesavers with a pair of pliers gives off light flashes, too.
Posted by: Grunter || 04/27/2016 22:19 Comments || Top||

#4  ^It do! It really do!


I miss the smell of acetic acid in the evening
And my Enlarger yes I do,
I dream of days gone by with out the Photoshop,
When I got by with a burner and a brush or two.

Babies, next to fishing, darkroom time is, or was, the most life extending hobby. Watching an 8x10 in the developer come out correctly is a religious experience. Hummm
Posted by: Shipman || 04/27/2016 22:39 Comments || Top||

#5  #4 Babies,

Is that a Conroy reference? Who cares... to the boneyard!

Before volunteering for Muskie,
Con...RACK went to rescue Daufuskie,
But milking the rodent...
Well, really, one couldn't,
When all of one's students were dusky!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 04/27/2016 23:52 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Why vote for Trump
h/t Instapundit
Donald Trump has a message for celebrities who say they'll leave the country if he's elected president: Pack your bags.

The Republican presidential front-runner said Tuesday on 'Fox & Friends' that purging the United States of Rosie O'Donnell, Whoopi Goldberg and Lena Dunham would be a pot sweetener if he wins the White House.

'We'll get rid of Rosie? Oh, I love it. Now I have to get elected!' he said during an early morning phone-in interview.

'Now I have to get elected because I'll be doing a great service to our country. I have to. Now it's much more important. In fact I'll immediately get off this call and start campaigning right now.'
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/27/2016 05:50 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hopefully rents will be coming down a bit soon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2016 8:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Escape route to Canada? You mean Cuba, right?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/27/2016 13:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Canadiens don't want them either.
Posted by: texhooey || 04/27/2016 13:45 Comments || Top||

#4  What does the mans humor tell us about the man?
I think he assumes if you're listening you agree, he also doesn't appear to make jokes for laughs but for maximum shock effect, which I personally kind of like.
Posted by: teapot || 04/27/2016 14:10 Comments || Top||

#5  So if Rosie leaves the ground under her will rise up right?
or will the lack of Rosieballast cause it to flip over????
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 04/27/2016 15:42 Comments || Top||

#6  or will the lack of Rosieballast cause it to flip over?

Only if she's lives in Guam USN...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/27/2016 16:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Psh, they'll never leave. Just trying to get out the vote with Hillary supporters/their fans.
Posted by: Charles || 04/27/2016 19:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Whoever picks Mattis, I vote for in the GE.
Posted by: Shipman || 04/27/2016 22:27 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2016-04-27
  Turkish artillery shells missile launchers, kills 11 ISIL militants
Tue 2016-04-26
  Islamist militants behead Canadian man in Philippines
Mon 2016-04-25
  Top Taliban leader killed in a special military operation in north of Afghanistan
Sun 2016-04-24
  Islamist militants suspected in slaying of professor in Bangladesh
Sat 2016-04-23
  Mali arrests suspected criminal mastermind of hotel terror attack
Fri 2016-04-22
  U.S. Ups Pressure on IS with first B-52 Bomber Strike
Thu 2016-04-21
  Taliban military commission chief killed in Afghan intelligence operatives raid
Wed 2016-04-20
  Chotoo gang surrenders to Army, releases hostages
Tue 2016-04-19
  Hundreds wounded in Kabul suicide attack
Mon 2016-04-18
  Ivory Coast Attacks 'Number Two' Arrested in Mali
Sun 2016-04-17
  Dozens of Hezbollah militants 'accidentally' killed in chemical attack
Sat 2016-04-16
  UK police arrest 5 in terror probe
Fri 2016-04-15
  Sharia police preacher faces terrorism charges
Thu 2016-04-14
  SSS announces arrest of another ‘top Boko Haram terrorist’
Wed 2016-04-13
  Belgian police arrest 3 in Paris terror attacks investigations

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