Thursday, August 11, 2016

Inquiry could build on reconciliation steps - The Kingston Whig and other top stories.

  • Inquiry could build on reconciliation steps - The Kingston Whig

    Inquiry could build on reconciliation steps - The Kingston Whig
    I did a documentary back in 1999 about some students who were part of a theatre group known as the Circle of Voices. Among this group was a young woman, Daleen Muskego. She was like any other young woman starting out in life -- full of ambition, promise and dreams. Sadly, she would never realize her dreams. She would marry and change her name to Daleen Bosse, and she would become one of the missing and murdered indigenous women. Her killer was sentenced to life in prison, but Daleen's life was ..
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  • Anglican Church response to abuse: 'we'll sue'

    Anglican Church response to abuse: 'we'll sue'
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  • Malaysia: MH370 Pilot Simulated Indian Ocean Path 1:28

    Malaysia: MH370 Pilot Simulated Indian Ocean Path 1:28
    Malaysia: MH370 Pilot Simulated Indian Ocean Path 1:28Malaysia's transport minister confirmed for the first time that the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had simulated a flight over the remote southern Indian Ocean, where the jet is believed to have crashed. Photo: Zaharie Ahmad Shah Seeking answers ... Friends and families of MH370 passengers and crew call for search to go on until the plane is found. Picture: AFP/Mohd RasfanRobyn IronsideNews Corp Australia NetworkMALAYSIA AIRLI..
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  • 'Untold devastation' in South Sudan triggers grave humanitarian crisis

    'Untold devastation' in South Sudan triggers grave humanitarian crisis
    South Sudan is reeling from an unprecedented humanitarian crisis a month after deadly clashes between government and opposition forces set off a fresh cycle of violence and displacements, the UN has warned. About 6 million South Sudanese – more than half of the country’s population – are now in need of humanitarian assistance, with 4.8 million facing severe hunger. Related: Hunt for food drives South Sudanese back across border to Sudan “I am extremely concerned as the humanitarian crisis i..
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  • London knife attack trial in February

    London knife attack trial in February
    A teenager charged with carrying out a knife attack in London that left an American woman dead and five people injured, including two Australians, will go to trial on February 6.Zakaria Bulhan, 19, appeared in London's Old Bailey court on Tuesday accused of murdering retired teacher Darlene Horton, 64, of Florida at Russell Square in central London last Wednesday evening.He is also charged with the attempted murder of an Australian man and an Australian woman who were released from hospital soon..
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  • Is Britain in ISIS's target line? - Al

    Is Britain in ISIS's target line? - Al
    For a few painful hours, the fear was that a brutal stabbing in Russell Square in the heart of London last week was possibly an ISIS-inspired attack. That it appears not to be so, as stated by the police, will be of no relief to the family and friends of Darlene Horton, an American tourist who was killed, or the others injured.Yet this incident highlights the jumpy, worrisome states of affairs in Britain. The newly elected mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, flew back from his holiday early. The shee..
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  • Henry, Jeanette De Lange die minutes apart after 63 years of marriage

    Henry, Jeanette De Lange die minutes apart after 63 years of marriage
    Henry and Jeanette De Lange from South Dakota, died within minutes of each other in the same room on the same day. Picture: SuppliedStaff writersNews Corp Australia NetworkA US couple who were married for 63 years has passed away just minutes apart on the same day in the same room. Henry and Jeanette De Lange from South Dakota, were married in 1953. They had five children together. He was a Korean War Veteran, and she was a musician.Both were at the Platte Care Center, a South Dakota-based nursi..
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  • Prices steady as Kim leaves markets alone

    Prices steady as Kim leaves markets alone
    James Pearson and Ju-min ParkAAPFood and fuel prices in North Korea have remained largely stable under leader Kim Jong Un, despite tightening international sanctions to punish the North for its nuclear and ballistic missile tests, rare data from inside the isolated country shows.The relative stability of both prices and the currency - in contrast to the volatility seen under his father Kim Jong Il - is partly attributable to the younger Kim's hands-off approach to an increasingly market-based ec..
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  • Calls for nuclear ban on Nagasaki anniversary

    Calls for nuclear ban on Nagasaki anniversary
    Calls for nuclear ban on Nagasaki anniversary
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  • Israel arrests UN Gaza employee 'for aiding Hamas'

    Israel arrests UN Gaza employee 'for aiding Hamas'
    Israel arrests UN Gaza employee 'for aiding Hamas' Posted August 09, 2016 21:08:34 Israel said it had arrested a United Nations employee for allegedly providing "material assistance" to the Islamist movement Hamas.Engineer Waheed Borsh, who has worked for the UN Development Program (UNDP) since 2003, was arrested on July 16 and indicted in a civilian court in Israel, a government statement said.He is the second humanitarian worker Israel has recently charged with aidi..
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