2014年8月23日 星期六

2014-08-24 Canada English World

  NBCNews.com   
White House orders review of police 'militarization' programs  CBC.ca
The White House is conducting a review of programs that have equipped local police departments with military gear from the Pentagon, urged by President Barack Obama's call for more separation between the nation's armed forces and civilian law ...

Obama orders review of military equipment supplied to police   Washington Post
Barack Obama orders probe of police use of military hardware   Telegraph.co.uk
Obama Sends White House Aides to Ferguson Funeral   Boston.com
Los Angeles Times   
Aljazeera.com   
Battle Creek Enquirer   
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  BBC News   
Libya crisis: Tensions rise as Tripoli airport changes hands  BBC News
Libya's newly-elected parliament has condemned as terrorists the militia alliance which says it has captured Tripoli's international airport. It said the alliance was now a legitimate target for the armed forces. The alliance includes Islamists and fighters from the ...

Forces from Libyan city of Misrata say they seized Tripoli airport   Reuters
Egypt, UAE involved in Tripoli airstrikes: Libyan Islamists   Zee News
Tripoli airport seized in fight between Libyan militias   CNN
Gulf Daily News   
DAWN.com   
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  The Hindu   
Israeli airstrike collapses Gaza apartment building  Washington Post
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel bombed an apartment tower in downtown Gaza City on Saturday, collapsing the 12-story building in an unprecedented strike, while Hamas kept up heavy rocket fire that sent more Israelis fleeing border areas close to Gaza.
Egypt calls for Gaza ceasefire as fighting rages   Reuters India
Gaza crisis: Violence continues despite Egyptian call for ceasefire   CBC.ca
Israel airstrikes destroy apartment building, business mall in Gaza   Xinhua
Irish Independent   
Newsweek   
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  Reuters India   
Magnitude 6.6 quake hits central Chile, no major damage  Reuters India
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A strong, magnitude 6.6 quake hit central Chile on Saturday, shaking buildings and prompting power outages in the capital, Santiago, but not causing any major damage. The epicenter was 31 miles (50 km) north-northeast of the port ...

Magnitude-6.4 earthquake shakes Chile   The Hindu
Strong Earthquake Hits Central Chile   Voice of America
6.6 earthquake in Chile, US Geological Survey says   USA TODAY
Businessweek   
Zee News   
Stuff.co.nz   
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  The Guardian   
Ebola outbreak: British national tests positive for deadly virus in Sierra Leone  ABC Online
A British national living in Sierra Leone has tested positive for the deadly Ebola virus, according to Britain's health department. Some 1,427 people have died in the world's worst outbreak of the highly contagious hemorrhagic fever, that has spread across west ...

Briton in Sierra Leone tests positive for Ebola: London   Business Standard
WRAPUP 1-British national contracts Ebola in Sierra Leone   Reuters
Briton with Ebola could be flown to UK for treatment   Telegraph.co.uk
Reuters Africa   
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  Irish Independent   
Iraqi parliament speaker condemns deadly attack on Sunni mosque  Xinhua
BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraq's parliament speaker has condemned a deadly attack on a Sunni mosque, calling it an act to 'thwart the country's political process'. At least 68 people have been killed in the attack, which happened in a village in Diyala ...

Iraq's Shiite militias confront extremists and frighten Sunnis   The Seattle Times
30 killed in Iraq bombings   Gulf Daily News
Response to Attack Reflects Iraq's Sectarian Divide   New York Times
Washington Post   
Businessweek   
Reuters UK   
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  New York Daily News   
Parole denied yet again for John Lennon's killer  SCNow
This June 1, 2013 photo provided by the New York State Department of Corrections shows Mark David Chapman at the Wende Correctional Facility in Alden, N.Y. Chapman, who killed John Lennon in 1980, was denied release from prison in his eighth ...

Lennon's assassin fails in parole bid   New Zealand Herald
Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman denied parole   Fox News
Murderer of John Lennon denied parole again   Fox News Latino
The Independent   
KHOU   
Huffington Post   
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  BBC News   
A convoy carrying aid for Ukraine returns to Russia  BBC News
All trucks belonging to a Russian aid convoy that travelled to rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Friday have returned to Russia. More than 200 trucks drove to Luhansk on Friday without permission from the Ukrainian government, after Russia said it was tired of ...

Merkel and Poroshenko call for “decentralised” Ukraine   euronews
UN's Amos Warns Against Politicizing Russia's Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine   RIA Novosti
Unauthorized aid convey into Ukraine returns to Russia, amid rising tensions   Toronto Star
Los Angeles Times   
Irish Independent   
Herald Scotland   
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  CTV News   
CSIS head says Canadians radicalized overseas also pose threat to national ...  CTV News
The head of Canada's spy agency says radicalized Canadians who have joined the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations overseas still pose a real threat to Canada's security. CSIS director Michel Coulombe says Islamic State recruits from the West ...

Canada's intelligence head says returning Islamist militants pose threat   euronews

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  Xinhua   
US zoo celebrates first birthday of panda Bao Bao  Xinhua
Panda cub Bao Bao plays during a traditional "Zhuazhou" ceremony at her first birthday celebration at the National Zoo in Washington D.C., Aug. 23, 2014. Some 20,000 visitors are expected to attend the celebration for the first birthday party of the female ...

What's black and white and cuddly and marking a birthday?   CNN
TOP PHOTOS: August 23, 2014   San Angelo Standard Times
What Bao Bao shares with over 1-year-olds   Stuff.co.nz
UPI.com   
Voice of America   
Santa Fe New Mexican.com   
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