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Banker admits Libor fraud conspiracy
A senior banker from a UK bank has admitted conspiring to defraud over manipulating the Libor lending rate. The banker, who can not be named for legal reasons, is the first person in the UK […]
Month: October 2014
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U.S. troops set up at first Ebola field hospital in Liberia and start with a barbed wire perimeter
Is that fence to keep people out or the patients in? American troops have arrived at Ebola’s ground zero in Liberia in a bid to battle the outbreak in the country hardest hit by the […]
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Breaking: Possible Ebola Emergency in L.A. Hospital
Ebola may have arrived in Los Angeles KTLA are today reporting: ‘A “possible Ebola patient” who was admitted to an emergency room in Inglewood after arriving at LAX and traveling from Liberia, the hospital announced […]
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UN intentionally omits mentioning mass graves in Ukraine in report — Russia Civic Chamber
Facts about mass graves found outside Donetsk in the embattled eastern Ukraine were intentionally omitted in UN’s latest report on the situation in Ukraine, members of the Russian Civic Chamber said on Wednesday. According to […]
Health
Britain sends 750 military personnel to combat Ebola
From Yahoo! News (source link): Britain is sending 750 military personnel, a medical ship and three helicopters to Sierra Leone to help fight the spread of Ebola, officials said Wednesday. The ship will be equipped […]
Sci/Environment
Cosmic Big Brother? UK academics start world’s first space detective agency
As parties to various conflicts increasingly resort to satellite and drone images as court evidence, two British experts have decided to become founding fathers of a one-of-a-kind specialist agency – claiming to be unique “space […]
Middle East
US fabricated new terror threat to satisfy UN Charter: Analyst
The United States has concocted a new terror threat, known as the Khorasan Group, to satisfy the UN Charter which allows the use of force without authorization in case of an “imminent threat,” says an […]
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North Korea Acknowledges Existence Of Labor Camps For First Time
From Yahoo! News (source link): North Korea publicly acknowledged the existence of its labor camps for the first time Tuesday, an admission that appeared to come in response to a highly critical U.N. human rights […]
Health
U.S. medical workers get crash course on treating Ebola on frontlines
From Yahoo! News (source link): Dr. Kwan Kew Lai’s family and colleagues in Boston fear for the safety of the infectious disease physician when she travels to Liberia later this month to treat Ebola patients. […]
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Bomb threat forces Miami-bound plane to land in New Orleans
From Yahoo! News (source link): A passenger’s bomb threat aboard a United Airlines-SkyWest plane bound for Miami on Wednesday forced the airliner to land in New Orleans, authorities said. The threat was not believed to […]