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US Tests ‘Hypersonic’ Weapon Designed To Reach 5 Times Speed Of Sound

Critics warn new class of weapons is leading to new global arms race and risks dangerous escalation.

Sarah Lazare
بواسطة Sarah Lazare
hypersonic

The U.S. military is taking the global arms race to new speeds, with the second test launching of an Advanced Hypersonic Weapon that has the ultimate aim of hitting targets anywhere on earth within an hour by traveling up to five times the speed of sound. But the test, which took place Monday at the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska, was cut short

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Muslims React With Outrage At UK Sex Abuse Report

Muhbeen Hussain, founder of Rotherham Muslim Youth Group, told the Daily Mirror on Wednesday that Muslims are disgusted that justice was not done in Rotherham.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
Britain Sex Abuse

ROTHERHAM, England  — Members of Britain's Pakistani community reacted with outrage Wednesday amid reports that officials failed to act on sex abuse cases because of concerns about racism in the northern English town of Rotherham. Report author Alexis Jay said between 1997 and 2013, some 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the town of

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IMF Chief Lagarde Under Investigation In France

She and her former chief of staff face questions about their role in a 400 million-euro ($531 million) payment to a businessman with a checkered past.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

PARIS  — Christine Lagarde, the chief of the International Monetary Fund, was put under official investigation for negligence in a French corruption probe that dates back to her days as France's finance minister. After a fourth round of questioning before magistrates on Wednesday, Lagarde said she would return to her work in Washington later in

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Activists Sound Alarm As More Police Departments Consider Using Drones

Anti-war groups call for increased scrutiny over use of drones as law enforcement tools.

Nadia Prupis
بواسطة Nadia Prupis

Police departments in the U.S. are increasingly considering the use of drones as a law enforcement tool, even as civil rights groups and media turn up scrutiny of police militarization in the wake of brutal crackdowns on anti-brutality protesters in Ferguson, Missouri and other cities. The Baltimore Sun reported on Sunday that agencies in

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Officials Announce Long-Term Truce Agreement To End Attack On Gaza

Palestinians reportedly celebrating in the streets as President Abbas highlights pressing need to rebuild war-torn state.

Sarah Lazare
بواسطة Sarah Lazare

Update 1PM EST: Israel and Palestinian officials announced Tuesday that they have reached a long term ceasefire agreement drawing an end to fifty days of death and destruction in the Gaza strip. After Hamas officials broke the news, according to the Associated Press, Israeli officials are now confirming the truce which reportedly began at 7 PM

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‘Severe… Pervasive… Irreversible”: IPCC’s Devastating Climate Change Conclusions

A draft of the UN panel’s synthesis report on the global scientific community’s assessment of human-caused global warming offers the starkest and most strongly-worded warning yet of the dangers ahead.

Jon Queally
بواسطة Jon Queally
global warming

Climate change is here. Climate change is now. Climate change will be significantly more dangerous, deadly, and expensive if nothing is done to correct humanity's course, but aspects of future shifts are probably already irreversible. That's the assessment of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has sent

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