April 04, 2019 / By mobanmarket
A former British soldier jailed in Turkey for fighting Islamic State has fled his captors and arrived home in the UK, prompting fears of a diplomatic crisis. Joe Robinson, 25, has been reunited with his fiancee after fleeing Turkey while on bail. He was sentenced to seven and a half years in jail for fighting […]
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In case you’d not noticed it already, QuakeCon 2018 has kicked off as of today and from now until the end of the weekend, Humble is celebrating that very fact with a big ol’ sale range specifically on QuakeCon-centric games. There’s up to 75 per cent off the lot and a whole lot to choose […]
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Rescuers searched for more survivors and victims on debris-strewn beaches on Monday as Indonesia reeled from the second deadly tsunami to hit it this year. The waves that swept terrified people into the sea on Saturday night along the Sunda Strait followed an eruption and possible landslide on Anak Krakatau, whose name means "Child of Krakatoa and is one […]
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HALIFAX — Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna is defending BP Canada’s plans to drill a deep-water exploration well roughly 330 kilometres off the coast of Halifax. This comes one day after the oil and gas company was granted approval by the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB). McKenna touched on the issue […]
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Timea Enyedi took her place by the blackboard in her second floor class room and asked her 14 year old pupils to open their textbooks. On the wall behind her, a poster bore the coat of arms and the blue and yellow colours of Ukraine. But the books, the language of instruction, and the portraits of […]
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Click:Ruby Scott OTTAWA — Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says the Liberals have “just lost every seat in B.C.” after the government announced Tuesday that it will buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. The government’s decision to step in and build the pipeline is an act of “political desperation,” the Saanich—Gulf Islands MP […]
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OTTAWA — Lawmakers delving into the Facebook data scandal heard calls Thursday for substantial regulatory upgrades to protect the privacy of Canadians — as well as a warning from Jim Balsillie about the democratic and economic risks posed by foreign companies motivated by “surveillance capitalism.” Speaking before a parliamentary committee, the former Research in Motion […]
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The essence of Donald Trump’s free-wheeling, mesmerising press conferences can be captured in the moment before he selects a question. Eyes narrowing behind the podium, the US president more often than not raises the index finger of his right hand but then pauses, surveying the room. Journalists push their hands into the air as high […]
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TORONTO — The Canadian Real Estate Association said national home sales sank 13.9 per cent year-over-year to the lowest level in more than five years in April, just as the number of newly-listed homes fell to a nine-year low for the month. The decreases amount to a 2.9 per cent drop in sales between March […]
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A man was killed and 10 people were injured in a freak accident after cars hit a group of wild boars crossing a motorway in northern Italy. The pile-up happened when a car hit the wild pigs as they crossed the A1 motorway near the town of Lodi in the region of Lombardy at around […]
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