Saturday, March 12, 2016

Auschwitz survivor is world's oldest man, Guinness World Records says and other top stories.

  • Auschwitz survivor is world's oldest man, Guinness World Records says

    Auschwitz survivor is world's oldest man, Guinness World Records says Posted: Saturday, March 12, 2016 9:48 PM EST Updated: Saturday, March 12, 2016 9:49 PM EST A representative of the Guinness World Records organization confirmed Friday that Israel Kristal of Haifa, Israel, is now the world's oldest living man. A 112 year-old Israeli man, who is an Auschwitz survivor, has become the world's oldest living man, the Guinness World Records organization said Friday.Israel Kristal, who is..
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  • French teenage girls on terror charges for alledged concert hall attack plot

    French teenage girls on terror charges for alledged concert hall attack plot
    French teenage girls on terror charges for alledged concert hall attack plot Last updated 12:55, March 13 2016 MAL LANGSDON/Reuters A police patrol keeps watch at the Eiffel Tower after a series of deadly attacks in Paris. French authorities have handed two teenage girls preliminary terrorism charges for allegedly plotting an attack against a Parisian concert hall.The Paris prosecuto..
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  • Six killed in Italian Alps avalanche

    Six killed in Italian Alps avalanche
    ROME: Six climbers were killed in an Alpine avalanche on Saturday that struck a group of a dozen people in the area of Monte Nevoso, close to Italy’s border with Austria, rescuers said. “Rescue operations are ongoing. The assessment is incomplete,” said Italy’s alpine rescue service, according to the AGI news agency. Several other climbers were injured in the incident, the source added.A huge flow of snow engulfed the group who were close to the top of Monte Nevoso, also known as the Schneebige..
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  • Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro's inquiry into Russian trolls stirs up a hornet's nest

    Finnish journalist Jessikka Aro's inquiry into Russian trolls stirs up a hornet's nest
    Video will begin in 5 seconds. Russian propaganda video's secret backer A producer of the viral Russian propaganda video I, Russian Invader reveals to Fairfax Media on Thursday that the video was secretly funded by the Russian Orthodox Church. PT1M23S 620 349 Soon after Jessikka Aro poked the trolls, they started to stir.In one of the early calls, someone phoned her mobile and fired a gun. All these horrible things [they say] have given me this feeling of fear sometimes. They..
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  • New find of suspected MH370 to be sent to Australia

    New find of suspected MH370 to be sent to Australia
    SYDNEY: A new piece of debris found by a South African holidaymaker that could be a part of the missing Malaysian flight MH370 will be sent to Australia for analysis, aviation authorities said.Teenager Liam Lotter told local media he had found the metre-long piece of metal on a beach while on holiday in Mozambique in December, and had taken it home.It was only when news broke earlier this month of a suspected piece of the Malaysia Airlines plane was found in Mozambique that the family got in tou..
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  • Government and opposition far apart over Assad before Syria peace talks

    Government and opposition far apart over Assad before Syria peace talks
    BEIRUT Syria's government on Saturday ruled out any discussion of the fate of the presidency at peace talks this week, just as the lead opposition negotiator said a political transition could not even start unless Bashar al-Assad was no longer president.The statements reflected the huge challenges facing diplomats as they prepare for talks to resume in Geneva on Monday, trying to build on a ceasefire deal that has reduced violence sharply since February 27.Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem con..
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  • Trump rally cancelled amid melee

    Trump rally cancelled amid melee
    Demonstrators react after learning that a rally to be addressed by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday at the University of Illinois, Chicago, would be postponed. The Trump campaign decided to postpone the rally, citing safety concerns, after they realised hundreds of demonstrators were given tickets. This happened on a day the GOP front-runner urged the party to unite behind him.— Photo: AFP ith thousands of people already packed into stands and music blaring to warm..
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  • Rubio: I will support nominee, but it's 'getting harder every day'

    Rubio: I will support nominee, but it's 'getting harder every day'
    The comments, made three days before critical primaries in several states, including Florida and Ohio, represent an escalation in Rubio's rhetoric, and follow a Republican debate earlier this month in which Rubio vowed to back Trump were he to become the GOP's standard-bearer."I still, at this moment, continue to intend to support the Republican nominee," Rubio told reporters in Largo, Florida. "But (it's) getting harder every day."Rubio added, "I believe Donald Trump as our nominee is going to ..
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  • Another child dies in Gaza after Israeli strike

    Another child dies in Gaza after Israeli strike
    GAZA CITY: A six-year-old girl wounded in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip on Saturday has died of her injuries, Palestinian medical sources said, naming her as Israa Abu Khussa. Her brother Yassin, 10, died earlier in a raid on a base of Hamas’s military wing near their home in the northern Gaza village of Beit Lahiya. Another brother, Ayub, 13, suffered moderate injuries.Yassin was buried on Saturday afternoon, when hundreds of mourners attended his funeral. The pre-dawn wave of Israel..
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