UK hereditary lawmaker Richard Fletcher-Vane, better known as Lord Inglewood, will soon no longer commute the few hundred miles from his country house in northwest England to the House of Lords in London — and he is not happy about it.”Anybody who’s sacked doesn’t like it, particularly if you think you’re being sacked for what …
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Australian police said Monday they are hunting for three suspects over an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue, designating it a terrorist act.Mask-wearing attackers set the Adass Israel Synagogue ablaze before dawn on Friday, police said, gutting much of the building.Some congregants were inside the single-storey building at the time but no serious injuries were reported.The …
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President Bashar al-Assad fled Syria as Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus, triggering celebrations across the country and beyond at the end of his oppressive rule.Crowds cheered in the streets of Damascus, where celebratory gunfire erupted as five decades of brutal Baath party rule came crashing to a dramatic end with Assad’s flight from the capital …
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Australian police said on Monday they are hunting for three suspects over an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue, which has been designated as a terrorist act.Mask-wearing attackers set the Adass Israel Synagogue ablaze before dawn on Friday, police said, gutting much of the building.Some congregants were inside the single-storey building at the time but no …
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Survivors of the US atomic bombings of Japan will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday but, after years of anti-nuclear campaigning and showing the world their scars, they still retain the painful memories of the discrimination they have faced.After the 1945 US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki led to Japan’s surrender and the end …
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The European Central Bank is expected to cut interest rates again this week amid a darkening outlook, with political turbulence in the eurozone’s two biggest economies adding to the troubled picture. It would be the ECB’s third straight reduction as it increasingly focuses on spurring lending to boost consumer spending and business investment in the 20 …
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Halfway through marathon climate change hearings at the world’s top court, battle lines are being drawn between developed countries urging judges to stick to current legal obligations and vulnerable nations pleading for more.History is being made at the International Court of Justice, with the largest-ever number of countries and institutions seeking to sway judges crafting …
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Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad fled Syria as Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus Sunday, triggering celebrations across the country and beyond at the end of his oppressive rule.Russian news agencies late Sunday said Assad and his family were in Moscow.Crowds toured Assad’s luxurious home after the rebels declared he had fled, a spectacular end to five …
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Thousands of Syrians in exile the length and breadth of Turkey celebrated the fall of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad in joyous scenes on Sunday.Turkey has become home for millions of Syrians who fled since civil war erupted in their home nation in 2011.Outside the Fatih Mosque in central Istanbul, one of the focal points for …
Roaming the opulent Damascus home of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, Abu Omar felt a sense of giddy defiance being in the residence of the man he said had long oppressed him.”I am taking pictures, because I am so happy to be here in the middle of his house,” said the 44-year-old, showing photographs he took …
