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  • World becoming dangerous for refugees, warns Amnesty World becoming dangerous for refugees, warns Amnesty

    LONDON - Global rights body Amnesty International has said that the world is "increasingly" becoming "dangerous place" for refugees due to inaction on human rights. The London-based group in its annual report cited the increasing number of refugees around the world, and highlighted the lack of support for them, as the key human rights issue for the past year. It said that the number of ...

  • Obama Urges Military to Stamp Out Sexual Assaults

    U.S. President Barack Obama says sexual assaults in the U.S. military undermine trust in the armed forces. The president used a commencement speech at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland Friday to tackle recent reports of widespread sexual violence in the military. "Those who commit sexual assault are not only committing a crime, they threaten the trust and discipline that ...

  • Lacazette called up to join Frances squad

    French coach Didier Deschamps picked Lyon's striker Alexandre Lacazette to replace Jeremy Menez from Paris Saint-Germain for friendly matches against Uruguay and Brazil. "Didier Deschamps endorsed (Menez) withdrawal after an exchange between the medical staff of the Parisian club and the France's team doctor, Franck Le Gall," the French Football Federation (FFF) said Thursday, reports ...

  • Brazil to hold oil auction

    Brazil's first auction of contracts to develop offshore oil and gas reserves in the pre-salt region will be held in October, or earlier than previously scheduled, the government said Thursday. The government's National Council for Energy Policy authorized the change. Rights to develop blocks in the Libra field, which is estimated to hold between 8-12 billion barrels of recoverable oil, will be ...

  • Five Venezuelan cops die in chopper crash

    Five members of Venezuela's PNB national police force died Thursday when the helicopter they were using to pursue a group of kidnappers in a rural part of Caracas crashed, PNB director Luis Karabi said. The helicopter crashed in an uninhabited area near the Antimano neighbourhood in the northeastern part of the capital in conditions of very low visibility due to a thick fog that covered the ...

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The Muppets [Blu-Ray]

The Muppets [Blu-Ray]

The Muppet Show has been off the air since 1981, and the various Muppet characters that populated it, while having starred in more than a dozen feature films and television movies, not to mention various spin-offs in other media, havent graced the big screen since 1999s ill-received < ... ...

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  • Ecuadors Correa wont run again in 2017

    On the eve of his inauguration for another four-year term, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said Thursday that he will not run again in 2017. "We are all necessary, but nobody is indispensable," the 50-year-old head of state said in a television interview, expressing confidence that his Alianza Pais movement will have found a new leader by the time the next presidential election rolls ...

  • Ecuadorian satellite escapes collision with Russian rocket

    Ecuador's first satellite avoided a direct collision with the remains of a Russian rocket, but whether the device is still operating remains unclear, the head of the country's EXA space agency told EFE. The US-based Joint Space Operations Center, which had alerted EXA to the possible threat to Pegaso, informed the Ecuadorian agency Thursday that the Russian wreckage did not hit the satellite ...

  • Soldiers Place US Flags in Arlington Cemetery for Memorial Day

    ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA -- On Memorial Day - Monday, May 27 this year - Americans remember those in the military who died while serving their country. Ahead of that day, soldiers place American flags in front of the more than 360,000 gravestones in Arlington National Cemetery, outside Washington. Army Colonel James Markert places a flag at the tombstone of Christopher Henderson, who was killed in ...

  • Ecuador’s Correa begins third presidential term with high popularity

    Ecuador's Rafael Correa began his third term as president on Friday under seemingly ideal conditions: extremely high popularity, a more than two-thirds majority in Congress, a stable economy and a badly splintered opposition.The combative leftist economist used the opportunity to bash a few of his favourite targets: The Organization of American States, the Inter-American Commission on Human ...

  • Andres Oppenheimer While Pacific Alliance thrives Mercosur withers

    Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos may not have been hallucinating when he said last week that the Pacific Alliance — the bloc made up of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile — “is the new economic and development engine of Latin America and the Caribbean.”Indeed, the Pacific Alliance, which was officially launched only one year ago, is growing rapidly and becoming a ...

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