Friday, June 3, 2016

Germany Arrests Three in Suspected Islamic State Plot to Attack Düsseldorf and other top stories.

  • Germany Arrests Three in Suspected Islamic State Plot to Attack Düsseldorf

    Germany Arrests Three in Suspected Islamic State Plot to Attack Düsseldorf
    Germany arrested three suspected Islamic State members from Syria on suspicion of preparing an attack on the city of Düsseldorf, the country’s top prosecutor said Thursday, detailing allegations of a long-planned plot that could further inflame the German and European debate over migration and security. At least one of the three suspects came to Germany as a refugee, officials said. He was taken into custody at a small-town migrant...
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  • Thai 'Tiger Temple': Five charged with possessing endangered animal parts

    Thai 'Tiger Temple': Five charged with possessing endangered animal parts
    Federal officials filed the charges after 40 dead tiger cubs were found in a freezer at the Buddhist temple, the deputy chief of the country's parks and wildlife department said.Thai wildlife officials brought the five suspects to a local police station in the early hours of Friday morning, Police Colonel Bandit Mueangsukham told CNN. If they're convicted, they face a maximum penalty of four years in prison and/or a fine of $1,100, said Adisorn Noochdumrong, deputy director general of the Depart..
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  • Japan: Father ' very sorry' as son found after week's disappearance

    Japan: Father ' very sorry' as son found after week's disappearance
    Takayuki Tanooka, the father of the boy, said he was "very sorry" for what happened to his son and regretted the punishment. "I told my son that I am sorry that I made him go through a very hard situation. He nodded to me," Tanooka said at a press conference after being reunited with his son. "I never thought the situation would develop in such a way. I thought it would be good for him, but it was too much," he added.Hungry but uninjuredThree soldiers from Japan's Self-Defense Forces found Yama..
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  • German Parliament Recognizes Armenian Genocide, Angering Turkey

    German Parliament Recognizes Armenian Genocide, Angering Turkey
    Video Clash Over Armenian Genocide Recognition Turkey's prime minister said relations between Berlin and Ankara “will be damaged” after Germany's parliament voted to recognize the 1915 killing of Armenians by Turkish Ottomans as genocide. By REUTERS on Publish Date June 2, 2016. Photo by Odd Andersen/Agence France-Presse — Gett..
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  • Paris art museums to close as floodwaters swamp French capital

    Paris art museums to close as floodwaters swamp French capital
    PARIS –   The rising waters of the Seine overflowed riverbanks, roads and rail tracks across Paris on Thursday, forcing authorities at the Louvre to do something they have not done in generations: hurriedly move precious artworks to higher ground. Water levels at the famous river that winds through the French capital are expected to peak Friday sometime about noon. Paris police upgraded their flood warning Thursday to "orange" — the second-highest level — for areas near the Seine, which means t..
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  • UK's Cameron says leaving EU would be 'economic self-harm'

    UK's Cameron says leaving EU would be 'economic self-harm'
    Arenaflowers.com representatives Asta Foufas, left, and Lizzie Tree pose for photographs while making their “Stay or Leaf” EU referendum themed “Brexit Bouquet”, left, and “Stronger In Arrangement” in west London, Thursday, June 2, 2016. British voters will decide in a June 23 referendum whether or not to deal a historic hammer blow to European integration by putting their island nation on an independent path outside the European Union. (Matt Dunham/Associated Press) By Jill Lawless | AP J..
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  • Obama wrong visiting Hiroshima A-bomb site

    Obama’s obnoxious visit to Hiroshima can only be interpreted by the Japanese as an apology. As for the thousands of U.S. servicemen whose lives were spared by President Truman’s decision to use the A-bomb, the visit was an insult. I am one of them, a signalman on board the USS Huntington, a light cruiser built for the invasion of Japan.No Japanese emperor has ever visited Pearl Harbor and none ever will. Their alibi is that Pearl Harbor is a military base. However, when they launched their cowa..
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  • Major Powers Meeting in Paris, Seek to Revive Mideast Peace Talks

    Major Powers Meeting in Paris, Seek to Revive Mideast Peace Talks
    PARIS— U.S., European and Arab diplomats meeting in Paris Friday are hoping to find enough common ground to revive stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Washington's response to the French effort has been tepid, with Secretary of State John Kerry agreeing to attend simply to listen to ideas proposed by France and others.  Still, senior U.S. officials stressed the sense of urgency of working to advance the goal of a negotiated two state solution.  "We're not here to propose any kind of specif..
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  • Venezuela police repel protest near presidential palace

    Venezuela police repel protest near presidential palace
    Caracas, Venezuela — A throng of protesters demanding food made a run for the Venezuelan presidential palace Thursday in a rare, apparently spontaneous outburst of anger at the socialist administration within the heart of Caracas.More than 100 people charged down the main thoroughfare in central Caracas chanting "No more talk. We want food." They got within about a half dozen blocks of the palace before police in riot gear headed them off and began firing tear gas.Police pushed the crowd back ..
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  • British paedophile 'planned to marry victim and abuse foster children'

    British paedophile 'planned to marry victim and abuse foster children'
    A British paedophile who faces multiple life sentences for abusing Malaysian babies and young children dreamed of marrying one of his victims and becoming a foster carer so he could abuse “a cycle of children” coming through his home, a court has been told. Richard Huckle, 30, boasted on an online paedophile forum that he hoped to “mould” the young girl into turning a blind eye to his abuse for fear of losing her “middle class” lifestyle. Huckle, a freelance photographer from Ashford, Kent, has..
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