- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from msnbc.com Latest Headlines
The two leaders held their first formal meeting in more than 50 years on Saturday, clearing the way for a detente that had seemed unthinkable for generations.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World on HuffingtonPost.comDHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities in Bangladesh on Saturday executed a senior Islamist party official convicted of crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 independence war against Pakistan, two officials and TV stations said...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business Insider" The World Is As Big Or As Small As You Make It " is a documentary by Loki films about local kids in North Philadelphia that gather in a rec center to participate in an innovative program by the Global Nomads Group where they forge frie...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderQassem Suleimani has been called the single most powerful operative in the Middle East today. Take a look at his resume and it's no surprise why. As the commander of Iran’s Quds Force — the foreign branch of the Iranian Revolution...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World on HuffingtonPost.comEvery week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. To gain insight on the conflict in Yemen, we turned to analyst Dr. April Longley Alley. Yemen is currently in a state of crisis as figh...
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- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from NYT > WorldThe “urgent mission” by Pierre Krähenbühl was intended to call attention to what is seen as impending calamity at the camp, where some 18,000 Palestinian and Syrian civilians are trapped.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World news and comment from the Guardian | theguardian.comCapitol police say suspected shooter ‘neutralised’, lockdown lifted ‘Federal official’ tells NBC incident is not related to terrorism Police reported shots being fired on the west front of the Capitol in Washington on Saturday, and said ...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Reuters: World NewsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister will seek President Barack Obama's help to acquire billions of dollars in drones and other U.S. arms to fight Islamic State during a U.S. visit next week but wants to defer payment for the pur...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World - latimes.comPresident Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday held their first in-person meeting since announcing their bid to restore diplomatic ties, a historic break from the nations’ Cold War past that Obama said could be a “turning po...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderClick here to see the story » Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Beautiful drone video of epic trip across South America
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from NYT > WorldA decade ago, the doors were swung wide open to allow public scrutiny into agencies, bureaus and councils, and the result has been both gratifying and slightly alarming.
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The U.S. Capitol Building was locked down for about two hours Saturday afternoon after a man killed himself outside, officials said. - Saturday, April 11, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalLatest on Americas Summit: Obama, Castro hold historic meeting at Americas Summit.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World on HuffingtonPost.comWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama sat down with Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday, the first substantial meeting between the country's leaders in more than 50 years. According to a White House pool report from the Summit of the ...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderUS President Barack Obama had what he described as "obviously an historic meeting" with Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday in Panama. The talks between Obama and Castro were the first in-person meeting of American and Cuban leaders ...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington PostPANAMA CITY — President Obama and President Raúl Castro symbolically ended more than a half-century of official estrangement between the United States and Cuba here Saturday in a historic-face-to-face meeting that Obama said put them on ...
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- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderIstanbul (AFP) - A Muslim cleric has for the first time in 85 years recited the Koran in the Hagia Sophia, the world famous landmark of Istanbul which is now a museum after serving as a church and a mosque, reports said Saturday. The Hag...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalEgypt court sentences dual US-Egyptian citizen on monthslong hunger strike to life in prison
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Reuters: World NewsADEN (Reuters) - Local militiamen in the Yemeni city of Aden said they captured two Iranian military officers advising Houthi rebels during fighting on Friday evening.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from BBC News - WorldArsenal close the gap on league leaders Chelsea as Aaron Ramsey secures a narrow away win at Burnley.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington PostCAIRO — An Egyptian American citizen has been sentenced to life in prison for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in the wake of a military coup that ousted the group from power in 2013.A Cairo criminal court issued the verdict against Ohi...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderXiaomi, the red-hot startup often referred to as the "Apple of China," sold more than 2 million smartphones in a 12-hour flash sale. The company on Wednesday held a "Mi Fan Festival" to commemorate its fifth birthday and managed to shift...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World news | Mail OnlinePresident Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shook hands on Friday,as the pair seek to restore ties between the Cold War foes.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World news and comment from the Guardian | theguardian.comFive PKK militants killed and four soldiers wounded in fighting near Iranian border as fragile peace process is strained before parliamentary election in June Five Kurdish insurgents were killed in a clash with Turkish forces in the east...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Reuters: World NewsDHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh hanged Islamist opposition leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman on Saturday for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, a move met with an angry reaction from his supporters who called...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from BuzzFeed - WorldVenezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says he will hand U.S. President Barack Obama a petition with more than 11 million signatures asking him to repeal sanctions. Karla Zabludovsky reports from Panama City, Panama. Carlos Garcia Rawlins /...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderThere’s at least one distinct advantage of startups having a billion dollar-plus valuation, says Marc Andreessen, the famed venture capitalist behind companies like Facebook, Airbnb, and Lyft. “I think where it helps a lot is on recruiti...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - WorldChina has apparently deployed a "Great Cannon" in an effort to shut down websites that circumvent the firewall. Researchers believe the Chinese government is behind the attacks.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderSeason 5 of "Game of Thrones" premieres on Sunday, April 12 at 9PM ET on HBO. To get you ready for the big event, we put together an economic update of the Seven Kingdoms through season 4 of the HBO show. The analysis is based on informa...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Top NBCNews headlinesObama and Castro are holding historic face-to-face discussions, marking the first time leaders of the nations have sat down since the Cold War.
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He was charged Friday in an alleged plot to set off a car bomb at an Army installation in Kansas on behalf of the terror group ISIS, federal prosecutors said. - Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderCairo (AFP) - A Cairo court confirmed death sentences for Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 11 other defendants on Saturday, and jailed a US-Egyptian citizen for life over Islamist protest violence. Judge Mohamed Nagy Shehata a...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderMilitaries around the world are creating and testing futuristic guns that are like something you would see in a James Bond movie. From rifles that can shoot underwater to guns that require a fingerprint to fire, here are some of th...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from VICE NewsAt least 25 people were reported killed in ground skirmishes as airstrikes from a Saudi-led coalition continued to pound Houthi strongholds for the third straight week.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderLord Richard Layard is professor emeritus of economics at the London School of Economics. He was founder-director of its Centre for Economic Performance and now heads CEP’s Wellbeing Programme. His work on unemployment, childhood, mental...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Top NBCNews headlinesResidents of a small northern Illinois farming community that took a direct hit from a half-mile-wide tornado were allowed back into the area Saturday.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalSaudi: 3 border guards killed in mortar attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderDunblane (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Tennis ace Andy Murray married his long-term girlfriend Kim Sears at Dunblane's 12th century cathedral on Saturday, bringing his Scottish hometown to a standstill. The newlyweds came under a shower of co...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Reuters: World NewsNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will not receive its first Rafale fighter jet from France's Dassault Aviation for up to two and a half years and tricky issues including pricing must still be worked out, India's defense minister said on Satur...
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- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from NYT > WorldChina’s new development bank will strive to be corruption free, maintain environmentally sound policies and work with a streamlined bureaucracy, the interim head of the institution, Jin Liqun, said in Singapore.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from JPost.com - Headlines
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderRiyadh (AFP) - More than 500 Yemeni Shiite rebels have died in clashes with the Saudi military on the two countries' border since Riyadh launched an air war in late March, the defence ministry said Saturday. It was the first reported dea...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from ABC News: InternationalBangladesh executes Islamist party official for crimes against humanity in 1971 war
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Reuters: World NewsROME (Reuters) - Italian and merchant ships rescued around 1,000 migrants from three overcrowded skiffs near the coast of Libya and found one dead body, Italy's coast guard said.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from The Business InsiderFor the second time this month, SeaWorld is being sued for allegedly "misleading" visitors by claiming its killer whales are healthy and happy, the Guardian has reported. In reality, the lawsuit claims, the orcas are drugged ...
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from Reuters: World NewsBEIRUT (Reuters) - At least two dozen Islamic State fighters have been killed in northeastern Syria in a battle with Kurdish forces supported by U.S.-led air strikes, a Kurdish official and a group monitoring the war said on Saturday.
- Saturday, April 11, 2015 from World News & AnalysisWith some airlines, redeemed travel perks run the gamut from interesting to downright strange.
