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Search for Chile military plane finds debris in ocean
Relatives of passengers of a missing military plane comfort each other as they arrive at the Cerrillos airbase in Santiago, Chile . The C-130 was carrying 38 people on board when operators lost contact at 18:13 local time (21:13 GMT) on Monday. [Full Article...]
US Senate committee approves Turkey sanctions bill
Senator Bob Menendez, the bill's co-sponsor and ranking committee Democrat, tweeted Wednesday that the legislation "makes clear to Turkey that its behaviour with respect to Syria is unacceptable, and its purchase of the S-400 system is untenable". [Full Article...]
Three die as marauding Pakistan lawyers rampage through cardiac hospital
A group of more than 200 lawyers, who had ongoing issues with the doctors of the Punjab Institute of Cardiology , stormed the hospital, vandalising property and damaging dozens of vehicles of visitors and setting ablaze a police van, Rashid said. [Full Article...]
Child prodigy Laurent Simons drops out of college after graduation date postponed
Laurent Simons , of Belgium, won worldwide acclaim last month with his push to finish a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Eindhoven's University of Technology . His parents believe the reason to withhold his graduation is that he wants to study his PhD overseas. Ivo Jongsma, a spokesman for the university, told ABC News that Simons "never made it a secret that he wanted his son to ... [Full Article...]
Executive Order Will Frame Judaism as a Nationality
Trump, who calls himself the most pro-Israeli US president in history, used the annual event to reinforce his determined effort to win over traditionally pro-Democratic American Jewish voters ahead of next year's presidential election. The ADL and the Academic Engagement Network released model guidelines for faculty in November after two instructors at the University of MI declined to write le... [Full Article...]
Strong natural disaster hits near Gisborne
He says the Gisborne District Council principal scientist doesn't believe there would be any tsunami generated by the quake, however they are still monitoring the situation. Geological hazard trackers GeoNet had registered moderate volcanic unrest on the island for weeks. Authorities said that 47 people were on the island at the time of the explosion, some of whom had been walking along the rim ... [Full Article...]
New President Fernandez tells IMF Argentina 'wants to pay debt but can't'
Center-leftist Alberto Fernandez vowed to put his people first ahead of debt repayments after he was sworn in as Argentina's president on Tuesday to singing and applause from lawmakers and supporters. At front and centre for hard-hit Argentines, investors and markets are Fernandez's plans to right the economy. He picked Martín Guzmán, a young disciple of Nobel Prize victor Joseph Stiglitz, to he... [Full Article...]
Donald Trump to sign executive order protecting students against anti-Semitism
The new definition is likely to see Judaism interpreted as a nationality in order for it to be covered by the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 that requires educational institutions receiving federal funding to not discriminate based on national origin. [Full Article...]