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Missing Bedford teen ID'd as body found in landfill
Arlington police Lt. Christopher Cook says the body was discovered Wednesday afternoon by a waste collection worker at a north Arlington landfill. It is unclear whether the medical examiner has determined a cause of death for the girl. Why didn't police issue an Amber Alert? More than 100 people gathered at Central Junior High on Thursday to honor Cargill, who was a seventh grader there, ... [Full Article...]
CBSE 12th result 2017: Application date extended for verification, rechecking extended
The board also has made comprehensive changes in its evaluation system by making the whole process quicker, with the reforms focused on "error-free evaluation". "By April, vacations begin and the experienced teachers are not available". These decisions come in the wake of CBSE being savaged for litany of evaluation-related errors, including incorrect tallying and inconsistent marking. [Full Article...]
PM Nawaz felicitates Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman
Regarded warily by some Saudis and by many foreigners as an unknown quantity in the Middle East's traditional status quo power, Prince Mohammed has over the past year set about building his profile with interviews in some Western media. [Full Article...]
Qatar faced with punitive list of demands by Arab neighbors
The Gulf country plunged into a crisis on June 5, when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates , Bahrain, Egypt and some other countries severed diplomatic ties and closed off sea, air and land links to Doha, accusing it of funding terrorism , hosting terrorists and interfering with their internal affairs. [Full Article...]
Deaths from Venezuelan anti-government protests up to 75
In its harshest dismissal yet of Maduro, it vowed to disavow all actions by the government as it called on Venezuelans to organize themselves in "committees to restore democracy" to block Maduro's plans for a July election to choose delegates to a constitutional assembly under rules that heavily favour the government. [Full Article...]
Iran Condemns Terrorist Attack in Afghanistan's Lashkar Gah
Governor Hayatullah Hayat said by phone that most of those killed were civilians and at least 60 people were wounded. At least three people were killed and many wounded in an attack last month on a bank in the eastern city of Gardez. Soldiers guarding the bank fired their weapons into the air, in apparent panic, prompting reports that gunmen had assailed the building as well, which turned ... [Full Article...]
Iran Warns of Further Missile Strikes but Should Anyone Really Be Scared?
The Guard said it fired six missiles in total from Kermanshah and also from Iran's Kurdistan province into Syria's Deir el-Zour province, where IS has been trying to fortify its positions in the face of a US -led coalition onslaught. As reporter Anshel Pfeffer observes, this is a "major development" and constitutes the "first operational use of mid-range missiles by Iran since war with Iraq". [Full Article...]
Texas sailor among the dead in destroyer-container ship collision
Rehm is one of the seven sailors who died in a collision between the USS Fitzgerald and a container ship off Japan on Saturday, June 17, 2017. Acting Secretary of the Navy Sean Stackley says the Navy is deeply saddened and promised a full investigation. [Full Article...]