Assad demands US leave Syria, vows to retake US-backed lands by force if needed
President Bashar al-Assad said the United States should learn the lesson of Iraq and withdraw from Syria, and promised to recover areas of the country held by U.S.-backed militias through negotiations or force.
businessinsider.com
US tariffs: Steel and aluminium levies slapped on key allies
The US said a 25% tax on steel and 10% tax on aluminium from the EU, Mexico and Canada will start at midnight.
bbc.com
Trump pardons conservative writer Dinesh D'Souza
President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to conservative writer Dinesh D'Souza, who was convicted in 2014 of violating campaign finance laws.
bbc.com
Lithuania and Romania complicit in CIA torture - European court
European judges have ruled that Lithuania and Romania violated the rights of two al-Qaeda terror suspects by allowing the CIA to torture them.
bbc.com
Greece: Tens of Thousands Strike Against Austerity Measures
Over ten thousand Greek workers, including youths and pensioners, took to streets on Wednesday holding banners reading "No!" and "They have crushed our lives!" to protest a wave of austerity measures that have gripped the country for several years now.
telesurtv.net
Friends in Ethnic Cleansing: Myanmar and Israel Sign Education Deal to Rewrite History
Controlling how history is taught also gives you control over how people think about their past and present, and the Israeli and Myanmar governments are well aware of that.
telesurtv.net
Mexico: 20,000 Suffer Physically, Financially from MS: Experts
Multiple Sclerosis (MS), an incurable neurological disease, affects 2.3 million people around the world, between 50,000 to 100,000 Latin Americans, and as many as 20,000 Mexicans, experts say.
telesurtv.net
Protesters in San Francisco dumped a huge pile of scooters in the street and blocked 11 tech buses — and then things got tense
Anti-tech demonstrators in San Francisco on Thursday used piles of electric scooters to block shuttles carrying Google employees to protest what they see as the failure of the tech industry and lawmakers to address the city's income inequality and sizable homeless population.
businessinsider.com
A small military contract started an internal war at Google that's tearing the company apart
A senior Google scientist once warned in an email that winning a military artificial-intelligence contract would spark a controversy beyond the company's control.
businessinsider.com
Jury clears deputy in fatal shooting, awards victim's family $4
A federal jury has cleared a deputy of using excessive force in the 2014 shooting death of Gregory Hill Jr. and awarded $4 to Hill's family, a family lawyer said.
bigcountryhomepage.com
