Sydney (dpa) – Four men broke into an Australian high school and set loose three female saltwater crocodiles before ransacking an office, local police said Monday. The incident took place at Taminmin College in the unusually named town of Humpty Doo in the Northern Territory early Sunday, a police spokeswoman said. CCTV video released by […]
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International, The World We ShareClara Rollins was an 18-year-old photography intern at a newspaper in the southeastern United States when a section editor asked her if she’d ever had sex. The editor sent Rollins (not her real name) several flirtatious texts during her two years at the paper, asking her if she would come to his house and whether
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAAn Islamist rebel has said he will plead guilty to destroying religious and cultural sites in the Malian city of Timbuktu, prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) say. Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi made the admission at an earlier closed hearing, prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told ICC judges after they ruled there was enough evidence to put
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InternationalAfter Israel’s rhythmic gymnastics team finished sixth at the Rio Olympic games on Sunday, the squad’s coach said that politics, poor representation in the sport’s governing body, and sub-standard training conditions stacked the odds against winning a medal. After two rounds of ribbon-twirling and club- and hoop-tossing, the team finished with a total score of
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsNorth Korea on Monday threatened to mount a “preemptive nuclear strike” on South Korea and the United States as the allies kicked off their annual military exercise aimed at countering Pyongyang’s potential aggression. The command and control exercise Ulchi Freedom Guardian, began its two-week run on Monday, involving tens of thousands of South Korean and
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International, USAWhen a U.S. State Department spokesman raised concerns about Russia’s surprise use of an Iranian air base to launch air strikes into Syria, the response from Moscow was notable for its snarkiness. “It’s against our rules to provide advice to the leadership of the U.S. State Department,” said Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, referring to suggestions
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International, Middle East, USARepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump launched an assault Monday on the Clinton Foundation, saying that foreign donations and other ethical conflicts made Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s family charity “the most corrupt enterprise in political history.” Mr. Trump called on the Clintons to immediately “shut it down,” after the Clinton Foundation last week announced that it
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International, USATo House Speaker Paul Ryan and James Dobson: In recent months, each of you has endorsed Donald Trump in his campaign to become president of the United States. Mr. Speaker, you undoubtedly took this action in hopes of preserving unity within the Republican Party. Mr. Dobson, because you are the founder of Focus on the
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USA* San Diego Jewish World’s eulogy series is sponsored by Marc and Margaret Cohen in memory of Molly Cohen, and by Inland Industries Group LP in memory of long-time San Diego Jewish community leader Marie (Mrs. Gabriel) Berg. Comments intended for publication in the space below MUST be accompanied by the letter writer’s first and last
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorialsFORT WORTH, Texas — A federal judge in Fort Worth has blocked the Obama administration from enforcing rules requiring public schools to let transgender students use bathrooms and locker rooms that conform to their gender identity. Responding to a lawsuit filed by Texas and joined by 12 other states, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor issued
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USATEL AVIV, Israel (Press Release) — In a landmark discovery, researchers at Tel Aviv University have unraveled the metastatic mechanism of melanoma, the most aggressive of all skin cancers. According to a paper published August 22 in the journal Nature Cell Biology, the scientists discovered that before spreading to other organs, a melanoma tumor sends out
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Russian warplanes took off this week from Iran to hit targets in Syria. Russia has used Iranian bases for refueling and resupply in the past, but this is its first bombing mission from the Islamic Republic — it is also the first foreign military operation to take place from Iranian soil
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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson LONDON, England — Our summer across the channel in Limousin, France, concluded with a short stay farther south, at a Gite in the countryside near the picturesque village of Montcuq. Finding the place called Mondaunet put our GPS under a lot of pressure, as the name did not feature in its database, but eventually,
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Travel and FoodBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Tim Kaine, Democratic nominee for vice-president, recently visited the historic Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. Jeshuat Israel, the congregation that is housed in the Touro Synagogue building, was recently in the news as a result of its winning a lawsuit against Congregation Shearith Israel of New York
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