Jakarta (dpa) – Families were granted last visits on Thursday as executions loomed for 14 people on death row for drug trafficking in Indonesia, a lawyer said. The convicts could face a firing squad at the Nusa Kambangan prison complex off the coast of Java at midnight Thursday, said Antonius Badar Karwayu, who represented two […]
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InternationalOn April 13, 2016, barely a month after I started observing hijab, I attended an event called “Conversations with Bill.” It was a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, one of the first I had attended, and I was so excited to hear from the former president. Unfortunately, before the event could even get going I was
PHILADELPHIA – Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, the Democrats’ 2016 vice presidential nominee, said the party is more unified than it was at this point eight years ago and that supporters of Sen. Bernard Sanders understand that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is “a threat to everything they care about.” “I actually think where we
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USAIt’s crystal clear that Hillary Clinton stands a very good chance at becoming the next president of the United States. But win or lose, now is the time for her to act like the president she hopes to be. She’ll begin, of course, Thursday night as she makes her first and fullest statement yet as
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USAPope Francis has begun a five-day trip to Poland by taking on the government and implicitly criticising its anti-immigration stance. He urged them to welcome those fleeing wars and hunger in the spirit of Christianity. Pope Francis tells cheering crowds of young pilgrims to “make some noise” as he kicks off #WorldYouthDay in Poland https://t.co/mVwOr8dMIk—
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InternationalDonald Trump said Thursday morning that he was being “sarcastic” about asking Russians to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails from her tenure as secretary of state. He also said that he didn’t know who had hacked into the Democratic National Committee’s emails. “Of course I am being sarcastic,” Trump told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade in
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International, USAVisitors to a landmark skyscraper in Shanghai can put their nerves to the test by walking, leaning off of or sitting down on the outside of one of China’s tallest buildings – 340.6 meters above the ground. The Jinmao Tower, in the Lujiazui area of Shanghai’s Pudong New Area, will launch a program on Thursday
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International, Travel and FoodPeru’s Independence Day or “Fiestas Patrias” is celebrated on July 28, to commemorate the anniversary of Peru’s independence from Spanish rule in the year 1824. The Peruvian independence was first declared in 1821 by the Argentine liberator, General José de San Martín but absolute independence was gained only until in 1824. On their Independence Day,
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International, Travel and FoodHere is the full transcript of Barack Obama’s speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia: So 12 years ago tonight, I addressed this convention for the very first time. You met my two little girls, Malia and Sasha—now two amazing young women who just fill me with pride. You fell for my brilliant
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USAPHILADELPHIA (Press Release) The following are former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s remarks as delivered at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 27, 2016: “Let me thank all of you for welcoming an outsider here to deliver what will be an unconventional convention speech. I am not here as
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By Ken Stone and Chris Stone Using #NeverHillary hashtags, some in the “Bernie or Bust” movement are swearing allegiance to Jill Stein of the Green Party. That sends shivers up the spine of Rep. Juan Vargas, the two-term San Diego congressman whose 51st District borders Mexico. “I understand that some people are disappointed,” Vargas said
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Ken Stone, USAIt’s a long way from where I grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, to the dining room in Vice President Joe Biden’s home at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. Yet that’s where I found myself one day last December, along with a handful of other cancer specialists. We had been invited to offer our perspectives
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Utah State Senator Mark Madsen has announced his switch from the Republican party to the Libertarian party and his endorsement of Gary Johnson for president. Madsen held a press conference at 1:30 Monday afternoon in Salt Lake City, stating, “Today I announce that I am joining the Libertarian party and will
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USAEntering the Wells Fargo arena to “City of Blinding Lights” by U2, President Barack Obama took one of his final primetime bows on Wednesday. The event marked perhaps the last of the soaring speeches that have defined his unlikely rise to the White House, his defiant re-election and his place in history as the first
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