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UK Civil Aviation Authority issues update on Shoreha...
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of the United Kingdom yesterday issued an update detailing progress on its response ...

Women's March becomes largest protest in U.S. history
Though different publications are providing different figures, The Independent reports that between 3.3 and 4.6 million...

Germany legalises medical use of cannabis
ss="published">Friday, January 20, 2017 Germany Related articles 20 January 2017: Germany legalises medical use of cannabis 17 January 2017: Robben signs contract extension with Bayern 13 January 2017: Putin calls US troops in Poland 'a threat' 11 January 2017: Roman Herzog, former German president, dies aged 82 23 December 2016: Borussia M'Gladbach sacks...

File photo of a refugee camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria. (Image: Voice of America.)

Nigerian jet attacks refugee camp, killing dozens
A Nigerian Air Force jet fighter mistook refugees for rebels yesterday, Nigerian military said, firing on a camp in Rann, Borno State. Dozens of refugees and aid workers died. File photo of a refugee camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Image: Voice of America. The lowest estimate from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is of 50 dead. The BBC estimates at least 52 d...

Prime Minister Theresa May. (Image: UK Home Office.)

Theresa May's Brexit speech rules out single market ...
UK Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday announced the government's plans for how to proceed with the United Kingdom's exit, or "Brexit" (British exit), from the European Union. May stated the government would not seek to be a member of the European single market and would instead seek a new trade relationship. May said the UK government would seek access to th...

Artist's rendition of Manning as she views herself. (Image: Alicia Neal.)

Obama commutes whistleblower's sentence: Chelsea Man...
The information Manning released to the public through WikiLeaks and The Guardian in 2010 included diplomatic accounts, videos, military incident logs, and battle plans, including footage of an American Apache helicopter firing on suspected Iraqi insurgents, reports of prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay without trial, and records of detainees abused by the Iraqi...

Cargo plane crashes in Kyrgyzstan, killing over 30
A Turkish cargo plane crashed just outside of Manas Airport in Kyrgyzstan en route from Hong Kong to İstanbul early on Monday morning. The crash destroyed approximately fifteen buildings and resulted in the death of over 30 people, including four crew members, according to the Kyrgyz emergencies ministry. A Kyrgyz official tentatively ascribed the crash to pi...

At least 26 killed in another Brazil prison riot
Prison authorities said that some victims were decapitated. Prison coordinator Zemilton Silva witnessed this happen to three men, and forensic report that there have been more. The Ministry of Justice and state-run news outlet Agência Brasil said the latest riot started at around 5:00 p.m., local time, on Saturday. It continued until the security forces quell...

Polish PM Beata Szydło welcomes US troops
"Each Polish family must feel safe", Szydło said. "It is the duty of the Polish state, the government to provide security. Today we have made a big step in this direction". Outgoing US President Barack Obama authorised the move in response to Russian intervention in Ukraine in 2014, in which Crimea was annexed. It was agreed at a NATO summit in Warsaw last yea...

The Capitol Building, home to the Senate. (Image: Scrumshus.)

Late-night vote sets Obamacare up for filibuster-fre...
"We're working with legislative leaders at this very moment to begin to craft legislation that will repeal the most corrosive elements of Obamacare — the individual mandate, the taxes, the penalties — but at the same time, moving separate legislation that will allow us to introduce the kind of reforms in American health care that'll lower the cost of health in...

Three Thai JAS 39C Gripens in flight, from file. (Image: Pia Ericson/Försvarets Materielverk (My News Desk).)

Fighter jet crashes during Children's Day airshow in...
A fighter jet crashed, killing the pilot, at Hat Yai International Airport, Songkhla, Thailand this morning during an annual Children's Day airshow. Three Thai JAS 39C Gripens in flight, from file. Image: Pia Ericson/Försvarets Materielverk (My News Desk). The JAS 39C Gripen crashed onto a runway at around 9:30am local time (0230 UTC) and exploded, clo...

The Obamas and Bidens, pictured together from file, have enjoyed an unusually close and warm relationship. (Image: Daniel Schwen.)

Obama surprises 'brother' Joe Biden with Presidentia...
In a ceremony described by the press as highly emotional, Obama cited his choice of Biden as a running mate as one of the best of his career and described their few arguments as the sort that brothers would have and Biden himself as "a lion of American history." This made only the fourth time in U.S. history that this modified form, the Medal of Freedom with ...

Esteban Santiago mug shot, January 7, 2017. (Image: Broward County Sheriff's Office, Florida.)

Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting suspect appears in ...
Police drove Santiago from the Broward County main jail to the court building in the morning. At the hearing, Santiago attended handcuffed and also cuffed at the ankles, guarded by at least eight police officers. The Magistrate, Judge Alicia Valle, questioned Santiago on his finances. The prosecutor also sought a detention order for public safety and flight ri...

President Barack Obama in 2010. (Image: John Kees.)

U.S. President Obama's farewell address focuses on a...
ss="published">Thursday, January 12, 2017 United States Related articles 12 January 2017: U.S. President Obama's farewell address focuses on accomplishment 12 January 2017: Artist who changed Hollywood sign to 'Hollyweed' surrenders to authorities 9 January 2017: U.S. Congress confirms electoral college vote for Trump presidency 4 January 2017: Slow-cooki...

The Hollywood sign as it normally appears. (Image: Oreos.)

Artist who changed Hollywood sign to 'Hollyweed' sur...
According to LAPD, Fernandez went to the police station accompanied by his lawyer, where he confessed to have changed the sign and was bailed out shortly thereafter for $1,000. LAPD charged Fernandez with trespassing; earlier reports indicated vandalism charges were ruled out as he used black and white tarps to alter the letter "O" to read lowercase "e". The s...

Herzog on a 1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state election poster. (Image: Christian Democrats.)

Roman Herzog, former German president, dies aged 82
Roman Herzog, seventh president of Germany, who was in the office from 1994 to 1999, died yesterday in Bad Mergentheim, current president Joachim Gauck confirmed. He was 82. Herzog on a 1975 Rhineland-Palatinate state election poster. Image: Christian Democrats. Born on April 5, 1934 in Landshut, Bavaria, Herzog studied law at Munich University. His fat...

Vice President Joe Biden presided over the U.S. Congress as they counted the electoral votes from the 2016 presidential election. (Image: Wikimedia Commons.)

U.S. Congress confirms electoral college vote for Tr...
Friday, the U.S. Congress completed the official counting of the electoral college votes, confirming Donald Trump's pending U.S. presidency under their own authority. In most years, this is a formality, but amid concerns about Trump's losing the popular vote by a considerable margin, Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and allegations that ...

Rafsanjani in 2015. (Image: Siamak Ebrahimi.)

Former Irani president Rafsanjani dies, aged 82
Yesterday, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president of Iran from 1989 to 1997, died in hospital in Tehran after a heart attack, Iran's state television reported. He was 82 years old. Rafsanjani in 2015. Image: Siamak Ebrahimi. Born in 1934, Rafsanjani studied theology in Qom. He was one of the leaders of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran which overthre...

Indian actor Om Puri dies
Indian film actor Om Puri died this morning of heart failure at his Mumbai home, according to reports. He was 66. Born in Haryana in 1950, Puri trained at the Film and Television Institute of India. He starred in both arthouse and conventional movies, making his début in Ghashiram Kotwal in 1976. He gained national prominence in the 1980s and 1990s. Internati...

At least 56 killed in Brazil prison riot
According to Amazonas state Public Security Secretary Sergio Fontes, members of two criminal organisations, the Família do Norte (FDN) and the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), were involved. The conflict started on Sunday. It lasted at least seventeen hours until the authorities quelled the riot on Monday at 7 a.m. local time, according to Fontes. Accordin...

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