Police hurl tear gas at protesters in Ferguson
Police marched on protesters in the St Louis suburb wracked by race riots since police shot dead an unarmed black teenager.Read More ...
Report: Teen shot 6 times, including twice in head
NEW
YORK (AP) — An unarmed black teenager killed by a white officer in
Missouri was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, a
preliminary private autopsy has found.Read More ...
New York Times reporter describes crash on Mt. Sinjar
Alissa
J. Rubin, the New York Times foreign correspondent who suffered broken
wrists and a fractured skull in a helicopter crash that killed the pilot
and injured dozens of other passengers on Mount Sinjar last week, gave a
chilling account of the incident Sunday.Read More ...
Thailand avoids recession with 0.9 percent Q2 growth
Thailand
dodged recession as its economy grew 0.9 percent in the second quarter,
data showed Monday, after the military ended months of political
deadlock with a coup and promised to unshackle state spending. Between
April and June the economy grew 0.9 percent after shrinking a revised
1.9 percent in the first quarter, the National Economic and Social
Development Board reported. The junta, under coup-leading Army Chief
Prayut Chan-O-Cha, has pegged its legitimacy to improving the economy
after months of political protests paralysed government spending, scared
off tourists and battered consumer spending.Read More ...
13 children among Afghan Sikhs found in UK shipping container
The
frail survivors found inside a shipping container at a British port at
the weekend following a "horrific ordeal" are Sikhs from Afghanistan and
include 13 children, police said Sunday. Staff at Tilbury Docks east of
London on Saturday discovered one dead man and 34 others alive after
hearing banging and screaming coming from the container. The survivors
were nine men and eight women aged between 18 and 72, and 13 children
aged between one and 12. Four people are still in hospital, and the
local Sikh community has been helping meet the survivors' religious and
clothing needs.Read More ...
Pope leaves South Korea after urging peace
SEOUL,
South Korea (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up his first trip to Asia on
Monday by challenging Koreans —from the North and the South — to reject
the "mindset of suspicion and confrontation" that clouds their relations
and find new ways to forge peace on the war-divided peninsula.Read More ...
Camps take cystic fibrosis patients surfing
SAN
CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — For three of Rob and Paulette Montelone's five
kids, spending the summer surfing is more than just a fun activity. It
could also extend their lives.Read More ...
Twin protests suspend life in Pakistani capital
ISLAMABAD
(AP) — Twin protests demanding the Pakistani government step down have
wreaked havoc in the capital, Islamabad, where commuters must circumvent
shipping containers and barbed wire to get to work, protesters knock on
people's doors to use the bathroom, and garbage is piling up.Read More ...
Nepal floods death toll climbs to 101
The
death toll from landslides and flooding in Nepal has risen to 101 after
rescuers recovered four more bodies, officials said Monday, as fears
grew of a possible cholera outbreak. Torrential rain last week triggered
multiple landslides and flooding, devastating entire villages,
stranding thousands and damaging roads across the country's western
plains bordering India. As the weather cleared Sunday after three days
of incessant rain, the government deployed more than 3,400 workers and
four helicopters to rescue stranded people and deliver emergency
supplies, said Jhankanath Dhakal, chief of Nepal's National Emergency
Operation Centre. "We have found three more bodies this morning,
bringing the total death toll to 101," Dhakal told AFP, adding that
another body had been recovered overnight.Read More ...
Criticism for India's capitulation in England
NEW
DELHI (AP) — Sunil Gavaskar described India's capitulation against
England as traumatic and embarrassing, while Sourav Ganguly called for
"harsh decisions" to be made on team selections.Read More ...
Mexican billionaire offers advice for Latinos
HOUSTON
(AP) — Increasing workers' earning power and offering Latino-owned
companies easier access to funding that can be used for growth and
expansion can help improve the social and economic status of Latinos in
the U.S. and throughout Latin America, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim
told a group of religious and community leaders.Read More ...
Federal autopsy ordered in Missouri teen's death
FERGUSON,
Mo. (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday ordered a federal
medical examiner to perform another autopsy on a black Missouri teenager
whose fatal shooting by a white police officer has spurred a week of
rancorous and sometimes-violent protests in suburban St. Louis.Read More ...
When companies flee U.S. tax system, investors often don't reap big returns
By
Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON August 18 (Reuters) - Establishing a tax
domicile abroad to avoid U.S. taxes is a hot strategy in corporate
America, but many companies that have done such "inversion" deals have
failed to produce above-average returns for investors, a Reuters
analysis has found. Among them was the first of these companies to
invert, McDermott International Inc , which moved its tax home-base to
Panama in 1983. Drugmakers are dominating the latest wave of inversions
and most of them have outperformed the benchmark index. So far in 2014,
five U.S. pharmaceutical firms have agreed to redomicile to Ireland,
Canada or the Netherlands.Read More ...
Mourinho eyes strong start from improved Chelsea
Jose
Mourinho's belief that Chelsea are better equipped to challenge for the
Premier League title faces an immediate test when his side travel to
Burnley in their season opener on Monday. Last season Blues boss
Mourinho maintained Chelsea were not ready to launch a sustained title
bid and he was proved right when his players faltered in the final
stages and eventually finished third. Key to Chelsea's failure was their
inability to overcome teams from the bottom half of the table, with
away defeats at Aston Villa and Crystal Palace proving particularly
costly. The visit to Burnley will present a similar challenge as Sean
Dyche's fired-up side are determined to start the new campaign in a
positive manner after unexpectedly securing automatic promotion from the
Championship last season.Read More ...
Europe's best swimmers look for Olympic boost in Berlin
A
host of Olympic and world champions will compete in the European
championships from Monday looking to land crucial early blows just two
years out from the 2016 Rio Olympics. In recent times, the French team
have been very strong, but they will be without Olympic 400m freestyle
champion Camille Muffat who has retired. Also out is backstroke
specialist Camille Lacourt, the three-time world champion, who has a hip
injury as well as sprint freestyler Frederic Bousquet, the six-time
world medallist. The 22-year-old is both Olympic and world champion over
in the 200m freestyle although he faces home favourite and world record
holder Paul Biedermann in Berlin.Read More ...
U.S. Treasuries set to storm on as EU yields drop, conflicts threaten
Conflicts
in Ukraine and the Middle East, and record low bond yields in Europe,
have unleashed a stampede into Treasuries, knocking benchmark 10-year
yields to 2.30 percent, a 14-month low at one stage on Friday. The U.S.
bond rally, which accelerated on Friday after Ukraine claimed its
artillery destroyed part of a Russian armored column that entered its
territory, has shown earlier market calls from some leading bond
investors, such as DoubleLine's Jeffrey Gundlach, to be on the money.
"The falling yield levels are a reaction to panic, as U.S. Treasuries
continue to play the role that they have always played, the favorite
asset in a flight-to-quality environment." U.S.-based funds that invest
primarily in Treasuries have attracted inflows for four straight weeks,
accumulating more than $4.5 billion of new investor cash in that run,
according to Lipper, a unit of Thomson Reuters. The latest week's
Commitments of Traders data from the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission showed speculators were net long by about $374 million after
being net short by $616 million the week before.Read More ...
Brazil makes progress on saving forests, Indonesia risks setbacks-report
Brazil
has made good progress in safeguarding the Amazon rainforest but
Indonesia's plans for its forests could face setbacks under a new
government, a report commissioned by top forest aid donor Norway said on
Monday. Norway, rich from offshore oil and gas, paid 10.3 billion
crowns ($1.7 billion) to slow tropical deforestation from 2008-13,
according to the report by the state-funded Norwegian Agency for
Development Cooperation (Norad). "Brazil’s deforestation rate and
corresponding greenhouse gas emissions have strongly decreased," the
report said of progress in protecting the Amazon, the biggest tropical
forest.Read More ...
The one map you need to understand tonight's Ferguson protests
The
reports coming out of Ferguson, MO, tonight show protests erupting into
chaos on the ninth night since Michael Brown's killing. SB Nation's
Travis Hughes built a map of the Ferguson protests, using Google Maps
data. The map explicitly refers to tonight's protests, but it's also a
good map of the area where protests have been concentrated since Brown's
death on August 9th:Read More ...
Autopsy finds unarmed teen killed by police was shot six times: NYT
(Reuters)
- A preliminary private autopsy report found that Michael Brown, the
black teen killed by a police officer in the suburban St. Louis city of
Ferguson, was shot at least six times, the New York Times reported on
Sunday night. Citing Dr. Michael M. Baden, former chief medical examiner
for the City of New York who was asked to perform the autopsy by
Brown's family, the newspaper reported that Brown, 18, was shot twice in
the head, and that the bullets that hit him did not appear to have been
fired from very close range. The bullets, some of which left as many as
five wounds, did not appear to have been fired from very close range,
the Times reported, because no gunpowder was detected on his body. Brown
was shot by white police officer Darren Wilson.Read More ...
Two killed as trains collide in southern US
Two
people were killed and two injured when freight trains collided in the
US state of Arkansas early Sunday, officials said. A fire which erupted
following the collision involved a tank car that the National
Transportation Safety Board said was carrying alcoholic beverages. Some
500 people were evacuated from a 1.5-mile (2.5-kilometer) radius around
the crash due to an initial report of a hazardous material release, but
had since returned home, the NTSB said late Sunday.Read More ...
Asian stock markets subdued after Ukraine clash
Asian
stocks drifted Monday as caution lingered after markets tumbled at the
end of last week on reports Ukraine destroyed a Russian military convoy
that had entered its east.Read More ...
Strong earthquake shakes western Iran: US monitors
Washington
(AFP) - A strong 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Iran on
Monday, the US Geological survey which monitors quakes worldwide
reported.Read More ...
US strikes in Iraq aimed at helping reclaim dam
EDGARTOWN,
Massachusetts (AP) — The U.S. has expanded its air campaign in Iraq
with attacks aimed at helping Iraqi forces regain control of the
strategic Mosul dam.Read More ...
Mexico female jockeys vie for spot in horse racing
MEXICO
CITY (AP) — Elisabeth Garrido stacks bales of hay into the shape of a
horse, straps reins around a mock head and sets off on an imaginary but
energetic ride, whipping the hay with a riding crop.Read More ...
AP PHOTOS: Mexico track seen as step for US career
MEXICO
CITY (AP) — Mexico's only major horse racetrack comes to life at 5 a.m.
each day as hundreds of stable workers begin to take the 1,400
racehorses out of their stalls and gallop them around the track before
washing and feeding them.Read More ...
Novice matadors' hunger strike over bullfight ban
BOGOTA,
Colombia (AP) — Two years after Bogota's leftist mayor suspended
bullfights at the capital's history-steeped bullring, a clutch of
apprentice matadors is pressing for their reinstatement with a hunger
strike.Read More ...
The East is wed: China seeks brides for richer, for poorer
Their
marriages were arranged for cash, but some of the Vietnamese women who
have found unlikely Prince Charmings in remote Chinese villages say they
are living happily ever after. "Economically, life is better here in
China," said Nguyen Thi Hang, one of around two dozen women from Vietnam
who have married men in Linqi. The township is a patchwork of hamlets
spaced among cornfields deep in the mountains of Henan, one of China's
poorer provinces. It is some 1,700 kilometres (1,060 miles) away from
Vietnam, but is a new market for an expanding -- and sometimes abusive
-- marriage trade with Southeast Asia.Read More ...
Another night of unrest in Ferguson
Police fire tear gas into a crowd of protesters, hitting at least one child, reports say.Read More ...
Obama heading back to D.C. in rare vacation break
EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama is getting off the island.Read More ...
Despite 7 arrests, Gov. Nixon sees 'solid step forward' in Ferguson
One person critically wounded during five-hour curfew in Missouri community.Read More ...
Kurdish forces retake parts of Iraq's largest dam
Kurdish
forces took over parts of Iraq's largest dam on Sunday less than two
weeks after it was captured by the Islamic State extremist group,
Kurdish security officials said, as U.S. and Iraqi planes aided their
advance by bombing militant targets near the facility.Read More ...
Liberia: Ebola fears rise as clinic is looted
MONROVIA,
Liberia (AP) — Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through
the capital's largest slum after residents raided a quarantine center
for suspected patients and took items including bloody sheets and
mattresses.Read More ...
Ukraine says troops entered rebel-held city
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Army troops have penetrated deep inside a rebel-controlled city in eastern Ukraine in what could prove a breakthrough development in the four-month-long conflict, the Ukrainian government said Sunday.
Read More ...
Palestinian divisions emerge in Gaza truce talks
CAIRO (AP) — The Palestinians appeared divided Sunday as the clock was winding down on the latest Gaza cease-fire, with officials saying Hamas was still opposed to a compromise Egyptian proposal that would ease the closure of the territory, while other factions, including delegates representing President Mahmoud Abbas, were inclined to accept.
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'Some progress' in difficult Ukraine, Russia talks: Germany
The
Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers ended "difficult" talks on the
Ukraine crisis with no concrete advances but "some progress", hosts
Germany said, as clashes continued on the ground. "Difficult talks, but I
think and I hope that we have made some progress on certain points,"
Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after a
five-hour meeting with Russia's Sergei Lavrov, Ukraine's Pavlo Klimkin
and French counterpart Laurent Fabius. The nature of the progress was
not disclosed by either Steinmeier or the French source.Read More ...
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