Source: The Daily Beast In 79 C.E. Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in thick layers of volcanic ash. There was no time to suffocate; most died not from the poisonous gas but were instead flash-heated into immediate rigor mortis. The eruption froze the final […]
Source: BBC By Renuka Rayasam 12 October 2016 About fifteen years ago, when entrepreneur Michael Stausholm started a business with a friend, his partner painted a rosy picture of the […]
Source: Time The pioneers are daring to cross boundaries, forge new paths, take their crafts to unexpected places—and also improve the world. These are TIME’s 2016 Next Generation Leaders 2016 […]
Source: Time By Zeke J Miller Trump has said the election is “rigged” against him by “globalist elites” Speaker of the House Paul Ryan issued a rebuke of GOP presidential nominee […]
Source: T of Israel A US defense official said the altercation took place starting around 1930 GMT. It was unclear how many of the surface-to-surface missiles were fired at the USS Mason, USS Nitze and USS Ponce.The USS Mason destroyer, which was sailing in international waters off Yemen’s coast earlier […]
Source: T of Israel Various Israeli assessments say that the organization that calls itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — Islamic State for short — has lost more than one-third of its fighting members over the past 18 months. Israeli and other Western officials estimated the number […]
Source: Times of Israel GOP nominee suggests Democratic rival was ‘pumped up’ on performance-enhancing narcotics in last face-off, casts himself as victim of ‘smear campaign. More:
by GRAIN Staff, originally published by GRAIN | JUL 13, 2016 Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, which put the issue on the international agenda, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world. In October 2008, GRAIN published a […]
The 39th president of the United States, humanitarian and peanut farmer talks about money and politics, race relations and marriage By Charles Green, AARP Bulletin, June 2015 Last October, you […]
Posted by indy100 staff in offbeat Russian news presenter Dmitry Kiselyov has warned the United States that any “impudent behaviour” towards Moscow could have “nuclear” implications. The remarks came after US Secretary of State John Kerry said that Russia and Syria mustface a war crimes investigation for recent […]
White Helmets receive much less coverage in Russian media By AP – Oct 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian man carries a child as they await treatment at a hospital in the regime-held part of Aleppo on Thursday (AFP photo) MOSCOW — While Western media are filled with grim […]
Oct 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI A UNESCO draft resolution recognising Palestinian rights in Jerusalem was passed this week by a vote of 24 in favour, six against and 26 abstentions. The UNESCO’s executive body will decide whether to adopt the draft text, but the Israeli education minister, Naftali […]
Source:ET India is today under a party with an ideology, which is called Hindutva. This ideology has three demands: The abolishing of Article 370 of India’s constitution, the construction of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple at Ayodhya and the enforcement of a Uniform Civil Code. All the three issues require something […]
Source:ET In the appeal, Sardar Adnan Saleem, through his counsel Raja Saimul Haq Satti, said that such an elevation is an emergent need in the present circumstances. He has made the federation through the cabinet division secretary, the prime minister through the secretary of the PM Secretariat and defence ministry […]
ON OCTOBER 15, 201612:23 Only 104 of the girls not married off Some died, some married off, radicalised into sect • Boko Haram tables demands to free 83 more […]
10/14/2016 Sophia von Bonin Co-founder of Re:Start CARSTEN KOALL VIA GETTY IMAGES What if we viewed the influx of refugees into Germany as an opportunity rather than a crisis? This was the question I asked myself, together with a group of young Berliners, when over 800,000 refugees arrived in Germany last […]
Thursday, October 13, 2016 Two orphans from Burma – image TCT Pope Francis has made an urgent call for action to be taken against those who profit from the exploitation of child migrants. In a strongly worded message released ahead of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, the Pope […]
Aisha Dow Local council elections have traditionally revolved around the three Rs: rates, roads and rubbish. But for Casey Council, a rapidly expanding and multicultural municipality in Melbourne’s south-east, a new R appears to be taking centre stage: religion. It came to a head in April. With police officers […]
Number of Muslim travellers expected to grow to 168m in 2020, spending more than $200b Published: 16:51 October 13, 2016 Sarah Algethami, Staff Reporter Dubai: More Muslims are travelling, but there is a lack of accommodation and trained hotel staff catering to them, according to industry experts at the […]
October 14, 2016 Indonesian protesters demonstrate against Jakarta’s Christian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as “Ahok”, in Jakarta on October 14, 2016 (AFP Photo/Goh Chai Hin) More Thousands of Muslim hardliners protested in Jakarta Friday demanding the Indonesian capital’s Christian governor be executed for allegedly insulting Islam, as he faces […]