Thursday, June 2, 2016

Big Win Over ISIS Could Mean a New War and other top stories.

  • Big Win Over ISIS Could Mean a New War

    Big Win Over ISIS Could Mean a New War
    The fight against ISIS is succeeding, but ironically the wins scored by US-backed forces raise tough questions about who exactly will rule when ISIS is gone. Troops fighting ISIS appeared to on the verge of another victory over the self-proclaimed Islamic State Wednesday, as they moved into a city that has served as the main thoroughfare for ISIS foreign fighters and weapons. But the potential seizure of the Syrian city of Manbij by U.S.-backed forces is only likely to set off a new battle for c..
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  • Asia Pacific|China's Foreign Minister Castigates Canadian Reporter for Rights Question

    Asia Pacific|China's Foreign Minister Castigates Canadian Reporter for Rights Question
    Video Chinese Minister Berates Reporter The foreign minister of China, Wang Yi, publicly rebuked a Canadian journalist on Wednesday for asking a question about Beijing’s human rights record. By CTV, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date June 2, 2016. Photo by Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press. ..
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  • Thai Officials Find 40 Dead Cubs in Freezer at Tiger Temple

    Thai Officials Find 40 Dead Cubs in Freezer at Tiger Temple
    Photo The carcasses of 40 tiger cubs were found at Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, a Buddhist site widely known as the Tiger Temple, in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Credit Dario Pignatelli/Getty Images BANGKOK — The Thai wildlife authorities found 40 dead tiger cubs in a freezer on Wednesday at the Tiger Temple, a controversial tourist attraction in western Thailand, and were investigating whether the carcasses were evidence of the temple’s involvement in the illegal wildlife trade.Th..
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  • Rockford-area Muslim families prepare for Ramadan

    Rockford-area Muslim families prepare for Ramadan
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  • Military joins search for missing Japanese boy left in forest as punishment

    Military joins search for missing Japanese boy left in forest as punishment
    Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces have joined the rescue team searching for Yamato Tanooka, the 7-year-old boy who was abandoned in a forest by his parents as punishment. The 75 soldiers joined a group of 130 police, firefighters, rescue personnel and volunteers already searching for the boy.  Despite the added members of the search team, though, there's been no sign of the young boy. A spokesman for the SDF told CNN, "We still have no clue. We just do not know where he went. Our fatigue l..
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  • Three senior Al-Shabaab militants killed in southern Somalia

    Three senior Al-Shabaab militants killed in southern Somalia
    MOGADISHU Somalia (Xinhua) -- At least three senior Al-Shabaab militants including most wanted insurgent leader are believed to have been killed in southern Somalia by Somalia security forces on Tuesday night, officials said on Wednesday. Abdirashid Hassan Abdinur, Minister of security for Jubbaland State said the three were killed during a security operation in Bulo-Gadud location, some 30 km north of the coast town of Kismayo, the administrative c..
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  • French vessel detects signals from EgyptAir jet black box

    French vessel detects signals from EgyptAir jet black box
    CAIRO/PARIS A French search vessel has picked up signals from one of the black boxes of EgyptAir flight MS804, Egyptian and French investigators said, a potential breakthrough in efforts to uncover why it plummeted into the Mediterranean last month.Search teams are working against the clock to recover the two flight recorders that will offer vital clues to the fate of the plane that crashed en route from Paris to Cairo on May 19 killing all 66 people on board. Without the black boxes, say inve..
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