Report By Carey Gillam (Reuters) – “Agriculture experts raised a number of concerns with genetically modified crops, including safety and spreading weed resistance, at the first public meeting of a U.S. government sponsored study of […]
Report from the BBC – “South Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright has resigned over the Rotherham child abuse scandal. Mr Wright faced repeated calls to step down in the wake of a report […]
The Mail Online reports : “State schools should extend their days to help poor pupils keep up with privately educated peers, according to the Department for Education. Longer hours would help pupils keep up with […]
Report by RT : “As many as 700 would-be asylum seekers are feared dead after a group of human traffickers allegedly sank their boat in the Mediterranean, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Monday, […]
‘US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has voiced concerns that, without sufficient protections, the age of unmanned drones and ubiquitous surveillance will usher in an “Orwellian world.” Sotomayor told faculty and students at Oklahoma City […]
Report from The Independent : “Scottish police are preparing for the possibility of significant protests in the wake of this week’s independence referendum result, as tensions continue to run high on both sides of the […]
‘Barack Obama tonight urged Scottish voters not to break apart ‘one of the closest allies we’ll ever have’ by voting for independence on Thursday. The dramatic intervention, just three days before Scotland goes to the […]
‘The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Next Generation Identification System, a biometric database reliant on tens of millions of facial-recognition records, is now fully operational, the agency announced Monday. The NGI system, after three years of […]
From Yahoo! (source link): “The U.S. government launched a program on Monday to reach out to key members of communities across the country to try to stop radicalized young people joining Islamic State and other […]
A joint statement by foreign ministers taking part in a major conference in Paris said support would include “appropriate military assistance”. The Guardian reports : “Leaders and diplomats from more than 30 countries have pledged […]
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