Friday, June 3, 2016

Israel-Palestine Talks 'Blocked', France's Ayrault Says and other top stories.

  • Israel-Palestine Talks 'Blocked', France's Ayrault Says

    Israel-Palestine Talks 'Blocked', France's Ayrault Says
    The foreign ministers of 20 nations including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry who gather in Paris today to discuss the Palestinian-Israeli peace process must find a way out of a dead end, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Friday.“Everything is blocked" at present, Ayrault told France Info radio station, adding that the impasse creates openings for al-Qaeda and IS propaganda. "Everything must be done to create the conditions for dialogue," he said.Ayrault added in the interview t..
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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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  • 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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  • UK isn't welcoming Donald Trump with open arms

    UK isn't welcoming Donald Trump with open arms
    Presidential candidates have long used foreign travel to project a statesman-like image, burnish their foreign policy credentials, divert an unpleasant media storyline or take a break from the hyper-vigilant coverage at home.But for every triumph, there are often pitfalls.While then-presidential candidate Barack Obama basked in the roaring approval of 200,000 Berliners in 2008, Republican nominee Mitt Romney's 2012 trip to the UK was a laundry list of gaffes -- including questioning Britain's ab..
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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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  • 'We want food!', Venezuelans cry at protest near presidency

    'We want food!', Venezuelans cry at protest near presidency
    CARACAS Venezuelan security forces fired teargas at protesters chanting "We want food!" near Caracas' presidential palace on Thursday, the latest street violence in the crisis-hit OPEC nation.Hundreds of angry Venezuelans heading toward Miraflores palace in downtown Caracas were met by National Guard troops and police who blocked a major road.President Nicolas Maduro, under intense pressure over a worsening economic crisis in the South American nation of 30 million, had been scheduled to addre..
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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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  • 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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  • 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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