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Merkel's GroKo in danger after Nahles' SPD resignation
Germany's troubled Social Democrats (SPD) on Monday discussed appointing three caretaker leaders after Andrea Nahles quit, with members appalled by plummeting popularity agitating for the party to leave Chancellor Angela Merkel's scrappy coalition. [Full Article...]
97-year-old army vet marks D-Day anniversary with parachute jump
In 1944, he'd jumped with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division. His jump on Wednesday was an altogether different story. He also had an American flag waving behind him. As for how his fallen comrades would have felt about his jump Wednesday, he said, "They would love it". "Some of them couldn't handle it". More than 13,000 US paratroopers left England and descended upon the beaches of Nor... [Full Article...]
Injured woman (74) 'spun at high speed' in helicopter rescue terror
The video has tens of thousands of shares. The woman can be seen spinning at a violent and accelerating pace, strapped into a stretcher and unable to move (which is probably a good thing). "In the past we've kind of learned some of the techniques to get rid of it". "They start to lower the load, it does actually start to stop", Derek Geisel, the pilot during the rescue, told reporters. [Full Article...]
Donald Trump sets the record straight on 'nasty' Meghan Markle comments
Trump and his family was greeted in London by Prince Harry , Queen Elizabeth II , Prince Charles, Camila, Prince William and Kate Middleton. The duchess, who gave birth to the couple's first child four weeks ago, did not meet with Donald Trump as she is still on maternity leave. [Full Article...]
CNN Journalist Interrupted, Harassed by Chinese Police During Tiananmen Square Anniversary Report
The Chinese government says the country's huge achievements prove that its actions during the Tiananmen Square incident were completely correct. Hong Kong is the only region under Beijing's jurisdiction that holds significant public commemorations of the 1989 crackdown and memorials for its victims. [Full Article...]
Day veteran, 97, recreates Normandy parachute jump
Parachutists are jumping over Normandy again, just as soldiers did 75 years ago for D-Day - but this time without being shot at. The invasion began shortly after midnight on June 6, 1944 - D-Day - with the deployment of about 24,000 paratroopers, followed at dawn by a full-scale assault, as infantry and armoured divisions landed along 80 kilometres of Normandy coastline. [Full Article...]
The 'Trump baby' blimp is back and flying over Westminster today
While the main protest for Trump's Irish visit is planned for Dublin on Thursday, on Wednesday it was the adoring locals in Doonbeg who outnumbered the demonstrators that greeted the USA president upon his arrival at Shannon Airport. I'm sure it's going to work out very well . "If you go to certain cities you can't even breathe and now that air is going up, so if we have a clean, in terms of a pl... [Full Article...]
FBI Releases 22 Pages From Its Bigfoot Files
The documents consist mostly of letters from the 1970s between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Peter Byrne, the director of the Bigfoot Information Center and Exhibition. But in a subsequent letter addressed to Byrne, dated December 15. Byrne wrote a letter asking the agency to inspect a sample of 15 hairs and a tiny skin sample "which we feel may be of importance". [Full Article...]