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Erdogan says efforts to contest Turkish referendum are futile

Istanbul (dpa) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday snuffed critics’ hopes that a referendum result to give his office more powers could be overturned, confirming that any attempts to annul the vote were futile. Opposition parties had filed petitions to annul the outcome of the referendum, which in preliminary counting saw 51.4 per […]

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International, Middle East

Duterte Tells Jobless Filipinos To Kill Addicts

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has some career advice for the almost 40 million Filipinos currently unemployed—go out and kill drug addicts. The Phil Star newspaper reported that Duterte was overheard at Ninoy Aquino International Airport while speaking to workers that had returned from Saudi Arabia, where around 2.4 million Filipinos live and work. Thousands of

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Lenin’s Approval Peaks Ahead of Revolution Centennial

Russian approval of Vladimir Lenin is peaking as the centennial of his rise to power approaches, independent pollster the Levada Center has found. The majority of Russians (56 percent) view the founder of the Soviet Union’s role in history either entirely positively or largely positively—the highest such figure since Levada started running the survey in

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Oprah Winfrey helps ‘Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ come alive on HBO

One day, circa 2000, Rebecca Skloot was riding in a car with Deborah Lacks, whose late mother, Henrietta, had posthumously and unwittingly contributed to some of the most important medical research of the 20th century. At the time, Skloot was a scrappy but barely published young journalist, and it would take a decade for her

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Antarctica is covered in hundreds of meltwater rivers and streams, and we had no idea this was happening

The first continent-wide survey of meltwater on Antarctica found alarming high numbers of pools, ponds, channels, rivers, and streams flowing across all sides of the continent. Scientists have always known that the Antarctic Western Peninsula is melting at an alarmingly high rate but they didn’t expect the whole continent to be awash with meltwater during

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International, The World We Share

Jehovah’s Witnesses Banned by Russia

Russia’s Supreme Court has declared Jehovah’s Witnesses an extremist organization, ordering its assets liquidated and banning all activities in the country, Russian state media reported Thursday. The ban will not come into force until after the group’s appeal is heard. The ruling upholds a claim made by Russia’s Ministry of Justice. Related: Russia: Jehovah’s Witnesses

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International

Movie review: ‘The Promise’ has real relevance

In the years around World War I, Turkey’s Ottoman government committed genocide against 1.5 million Christian minority Armenians, setting an example for Hitler to follow similar lines to exterminate European Jews. It’s a tragedy rarely observed in feature films but too important to ignore. It receives a powerful, overdue accounting in “The Promise,” a historical

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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Tucker Carlson Replaces Bill O’Reilly At Fox News

After Bill O’Reilly’s ouster from Fox News on Wednesday, host Tucker Carlson is all set to take the 8 p.m. slot on the channel, starting Monday, the channel said. The decision came soon after 21st Century Fox announced that O’Reilly would not return to the network amid sexual harassment allegations. Carlson began hosting the show

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

US reviewing possibility of relisting N. Korea as terror sponsor: Tillerson

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday the U.S. is looking into the possibility of adding North Korea back to the list of states sponsors of terrorism as a way to bring pressure on the communist nation. “We’re reviewing all the status of North Korea both in terms of state sponsorship of terrorism as

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International, USA