Jo Cox and Britain’s Place in Europe Roger Cohen, The New York Times  20 June 2016 Image: Retrieved from http://www.scarymommy.com/great-britain-united-kingdom/  In politics, as in life, there is the question of the company you keep. Reasonable people, some friends of mine, make reasonable arguments forBritain to leave the European Union. They say it lacks transparency. They say a union containing an inner club of nations with a common currency,

Mississippi Ends Inquiry Into 1964 Killing of 3 Civil Rights Workers Campbell Robertson,  The New York Times  20 June 2016 Image: “I am convinced that during the last 52 years, investigators have done everything possible under the law to find those responsible and hold them accountable,” said Jim Hood, the Mississippi state attorney general, at a news conference. CreditRogelio V. Solis/Associated Press The investigation into the 1964 murders

Bahrain’s Sunni Rulers Revoke Citizenship of Top Shiite Cleric Rick Gladstone, The New York Times  20 June 2016  Image: Shiite clerics in the village of Diraz, west of Manama, Bahrain, protested on Monday the revocation of the citizenship of a top cleric, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim. CreditMohammed Al-Shaikh/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Escalating a crackdown on political opposition, the Sunni monarchy inBahrain said Monday that it

Bomb Kills Foreign Security Contractors in Kabul Kareem Fahim and Jawad Sukhanyar, The New York Times 20 June 2016     Video: Nepalese security guards traveling by bus were killed by a suicide bomber in Kabul on Monday. The Taliban took responsibility. By THE NEW YORK TIMES on Publish DateJune 20, 2016. Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters.  KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban suicide bomber attacked a minibus carrying Nepalese and Indian security

Doctors Without Borders Says It Won’t Take E.U. Money for Refugees Nick Cumming-Bruce, The New York Times  17 June 2016  Image: A migrant family sat on train tracks outside their tent in a refugee camp in Idomeni, Greece, in March. Tens of thousands of migrants are stranded in such camps in Greece. Eirini Vourloumis for The New York Times GENEVA — Doctors Without Borders, one of Europe’s biggest charities, said Friday that it was turning

Saudi Imam, 2 Hijackers, A Lingering 9/11 Mystery Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane, The New York Times June 17, 2016 Image: Khalid al-Mihdhar at Dulles International Airport near Washington on Sept. 11, 2001. Mr. Mihdhar is one of two 9/11 hijackers who American investigators say may have been aided by a Saudi official. Inside an opulent palace in Riyadh late one evening in February 2004, two American investigators interrogated a man they believed

51 U.S. Diplomats Urge Strikes Against Assad in Syria Mark Landler, The New York Times    16 June 2016   Image: Smoke and flames rose after what fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces said were American-led airstrikes on the mills of Manbij where Islamic State militants are positioned, in Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday.CreditRodi Said/Reuters  WASHINGTON — More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical

Mass Arrests in Bangladesh Yield Scores of Militants, the Police Say Julfikar Ali Manik and Ellen Barry, The New York Times  21 June 2016  Image: Activists in Dhaka, Bangladesh, held portraits on Wednesday of people who were among those killed in recent years in attacks claimed by Islamist militants. CreditAssociated Press  DHAKA, Bangladesh — The Bangladeshi police on Friday ended a week of mass arrests in response to the three-year campaign

ICC sentences former Congo VP Bemba to 18 years in prison Associated Press, The Washington Post  21 June 2016  Image: Jean-Pierre Bemba enters the court room of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, June 21, 2016. The ICC delivered its sentence against former Congolese vice president Bemba who was found guilty, on 21 March 2016, of two counts of crimes against humanity (murder and rape) and three counts of war crimes

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