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Father’s Day Aboard the ISS
Yesterday, families celebrated Father’s Day across the world. Some dads are out of this world, however. Ten children celebrated the day while their dads were orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station. Part of the Expedition 35/36 crew, the five male crew members each leave behind one or more children. These high-flying dads include [...]
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French Gay Marriage Approval Highlights Fever of Debate
Tuesday, April 23, the French Parliament voted to approve marriage equality nation-wide. This vote officially makes France the 14th nation worldwide to legalize gay marriage. France is the third nation to approve marriage equality this year. The vote in France was a little more divisive than in Uruguay or New Zealand—the two nations preceding France [...]
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Loss of WMD Control in Syria Guides U.S. Response
The U.S. has been examining Syria’s use of chemical weapons in recent months, which possibly could serve as a trigger to direct U.S. intervention. The loss of control over such weapons is seen as a threat to U.S. interests. Any use of such weapons inherently challenges international conventions and political tolerance points regarding the Syria [...]
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New Zealand Approves Gay Marriage
New Zealand’s Parliament voted to approve gay marriage on Wednesday, April 17 with a 77-44 favorable vote. The vote reflected minimal defection from the 78-40 approval given the first reading of the bill last August. Conservative opposition to the measure promises to continue to fight gay marriage in spite of the bill’s passage. “We have [...]
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The “Iron Lady” Remembered
LONDON, April 9 ─ Battling dementia, and severely weakened, Britain’s once “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher passed from a stroke last Tuesday at 87. Starting life as a grocer merchant’s daughter, the later Baroness Thatcher would become the only female prime minister of Britain (serving from 1979 to 1990), U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s staunch ally in [...]
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Worldwide Gay Marriage Approval Grows Among Western Nations
Uruguay recently added itself Wednesday to the growing list of nations that allow full recognition of marriage rights among homosexuals as the nation’s lawmakers voted to legalize gay marriage. President Jose Mujica is expected to implement the law expeditiously. Thus Uruguay becomes the second Latin American country to legalize gay marriage and the third in [...]
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U.S., China Top Brass Talk on Korea Questions
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey will travel to China this month to discuss shared security concerns concerning recent bellicosity by North Korea, according to according to American Forces Press Service. Dempsey recently spoke to his Chinese counterpart Gen. Fang Fenghui by telephone in anticipation of that meeting. North Korea’s [...]
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Syrian Regime Violence Reduces Children to Brutal Life of War
Eight-year-old, Syrian Ahmed went from being a carefree boy with a loving family to a gun-toting, cigarette-smoking child soldier living on one of the deadliest streets of the devastated city of Aleppo. In a series of photographs and videotaped interview footage reported by The Telegraph, Ahmed depicts what life is like for large numbers of [...]
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Russian Authorities Raid Hundreds of NGOs and Rights Groups
Russian police and tax inspectors raided and searched the offices of a major international rights group and hundreds of nongovernmental organizations in the past week ─ including the central Moscow office of prominent human rights group Memorial on Thursday and Friday. According to Memorial Director Arseniy Roginsky, an audit launched Thursday by prosecutors, the Justice [...]
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