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Updated 10:37 PM ETMANAGUA, Nicaragua The presidents of Nicaragua and Venezuela offered Friday to grant asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, one day after leftist South American leaders gathered to denounce the rerouting of Bolivian President Evo Morales plane over Europe amid reports that the American was aboard.Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela made their offers during separate speeches in their home countries Friday afternoon. Snowden has asked for asylum in numerous countries, including Nicaragua and Venezuela.South American leaders back Bolivia s president in plane rowBolivian president blames U.S. imperialism for his diverted flight from Russia As head of state, the government of th
adidas samba e Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young American Edward Snowden so that he can live in the homeland of independence leader Simon Bolivar and the late President Hugo Chavez without persecution from the empire, Maduro said, referring to the United States.He made the offer during a speech marking the anniversary of Venezuela s independence. It was not immediately clear if there were any conditions to Venezuela s offer.Maduro added that several other Latin Ame
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Millions of European men who buy tabloid newspapers for a daily dose of topless women can relax.The European Union said Friday that proposed EU sex discrimination laws won t ban the page-three girls from The Sun of London or their scantily clad counterparts on the front page of Bild, Germany s biggest circulation daily. To talk about banning certain aspects of certain publications is not possible, explained EU spokeswoman Antonia Mochan. The European Union d
stanley thermosflasche oes not have the legal tools to intervene. The measured words from EU head office contrast with a media uproar this week after reports of a clampdown on gender stereotyping filtered out of Brussels. I m supposed to be gotten rid of, proclaimed Bild, pointing to a topless blonde, wearing a tiara and a rhinestone G-string, who appeared Thursday on the newspaper s front page. The EU wants to outlaw the beautiful girls from the front page, bemoaned the German daily.The paper, which sells 4.4 million daily copies, intensified it s campaign Friday. Does Brussels lie on the Persian Gulf it asked. We will fight down to the last shirt for our front page girls. Across the English channel, The Sun, circulation 3.
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Leaked cables revealed United Kingdom Ambassador Kim Darroch criticizing President Trumpand his administration, causing a diplomatic rift between the allied nations and a personal rebuke from Mr. Trump -- but Prime Minister Theresa May is standing by her envoy. We have made clear to the U.S. how unfortunate
airmaxplus this leak is. The selective extracts leaked do not reflect the closeness of, and the esteem in which we hold, the relationship, a spokesperson for May said in a written statement. At the same time, we have also underlined the importance of Ambassadors being able to provide honest, unvarnished assessments of the politics in their country. Sir Kim Darroch conti
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Faced with his first school day since his solo trip to Iraq, American teen Farris Hassan kept a low profile Monday but promised to share more details about his odyssey after getting some rest. I m really tired, the 16-year-old told reporters outside his father s co
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Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor currently trying to evade a U.S. arrest warrant, has applied for political asylum in Ecuador, a South Ameri
air force 1 can republic best known internationally for its dominion over the Galapagos Islands and many years of relative political stability. The government of populist President Rafael Correa said Monday it is considering Snowden s request, but if recent history is any indication, it is likely to accept it. Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said Monday Snowden s asylum request has to do with freedom of expression and with the security of citizens around the world. However, the notion that Ecuador is a defender of free expression is contradicted by numerous reports: It ranks 119th out of 179 countries on Reporter Without Borders Press Freedom Index, and Human Rights Watch says President Rafael Correa has undercut freedom of the press in Ecuador by subjecting jour
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GUATEMALA CITY - A Guatemalan judge has ordered a U.S. couple to return their adopted daughter to her birth mother, siding with a human rights group that says the girl was stolen by a child trafficking ring and put up for adoption.Judge Angelica Noemi Tellez Hernandez confirmed Wednesday that she ruled in favor of the mother, who is represented by the Survivors Foundation.The rights group, which released a copy of the ruling Tuesday night, claims the girl was kidnapped in 2006 and taken out of the country under a new name two years later and was last known t
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stanley becher should solicit help locating the girl from Interpol, the international police organization.Nine Guatemalans, including a judge, have been charged in the case. The foundation doesn t allege the U.S. couple knew the girl had been kidnapped. The court identified the couple as Timothy James Monahan and Jennifer Lyn Vanhorn Monahan of Liberty, Mo., a suburb of Kansas City.Attempts to reach the couple for comment were unsuccessful. An unidentified woman answering the door at the address listed by the court said she couldn t talk with an Associated Press reporter because she was on the phone. No one answered the door on a second attempt to reach the couple.The ruling says the
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WASHINGTONLegislation that would allow the families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for allegedly backing the terrorists who carried out the attacks could be devastating to the U.S. military, according to Defense Secretary Ash Carter.Carterrsquo admonition, detailed in a letter to a senior member of Congress and released Tuesday, comes aslawmakers prepare to vote to override President Barack Obamarsquo veto of the bill. Carter said hersquo sympathetic to the intent of the measure, but cautioned the legislation could lead to the public disclosure of American secrets and even undercut counterterrorism efforts by sowing mistrust among U.S. partners and allies.The Senate is scheduled to hold an override vote Wednesday, and the House is expected to follow despite deep misgivings among a number of lawmakers about the billrsquo effect on the United States. They fear the measure will boomerang and further complicate relations with a longstanding U.S. ally in the Middle East. 9/11 victims families pressure Obama to allow lawsuits against Saudis 02:58
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Seoul, South Koreamdash; The United States and China, the world s two biggest carbon polluters, agreed to cooperate to curb climate change with urgency, just days before President Joe Biden hosts a virtual summit of world leaders to discuss the issue. The agreement was reached by U.S. special envoy for climate John Kerry and his Chinese counterpart Xie Zhenhua during two days o
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The United States agreed to a cease-fire with an Iraqi-based terrorist group that will be allowed to continue fighting against the Iranian government, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.The deal signed April 15 with the Mujahedeen Khalq doesn t require its fighters to surrender to U.S.-led coalition forces mdash; at least for now, said a military of
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WASHINGTON 151; The Obama administration will formally protest Monday s attack on the U.S. embassy and the American ambassador s residence in Syria and will seek compensation for damage caused when a mob breached the wall of the embassy compound before being dispersed by U.S. Marine guards.U.S. officials said the State Department would summon a senior Syrian diplomat to condemn the assaults and demand that Syria uphold international treaty obligations to protect foreign diplomatic missions. The officials said the Syrian gover
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Paris mdash; Paris city hall has been fined 90,000 euros $109,408 for having appointed too many women to top positions in 2018, in breach of a law aimed at ensuring gender balance. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo mocked the fine as unfair and absurd on Tuesday during a meeting of the city council.A
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Druids, New Agers and people just looking for a party are descending on Stonehenge on Friday to mark the mystical moment when the sun rises over the stones for the summer solstice.Beating drums and wearing rainbow cloaks, the revelers walked through light
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stanley cup d. We heard about it through our really studious friend but we re gonna come and get drunk. We re halfway gone right now, said Alison Newcomer, a 21-year-old student from Minneapolis, Minnesota.Zoe Neale, 48, cheerfully admitted her visit to Stonehenge is part of my mid-life crisis. She left her West London office amid gentle teasing from her colleagues Friday afternoon to see a very English tradition. I ve always thought it s just a bunch of old hippies. I m just going to ignore the hippie things and think about Stonehenge and the sunrise, she said.Organizers expect 25,000 revelers to come through the night. They will be allowed access throughout the night to the stone circle, which is usually closed to visitors. Representatives of English Heritage, the monument s ca
