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The city of Los Angeles has approved a deal that will allow nonprofit and private developers to convert “nuisance” motels into permanent, supportive apartments for 500 homeless veterans. The Free Thought Project reports: City officials consider the development a major accomplishment in the drive to create large-scale housing for the estimated 2,700 homeless veterans in Los Angeles County. The plan calls for developers to purchase crime ridden, often run down motels from private owners in an effort to convert them into efficiency apartments... Читать дальше...

Ottawa is in a celebratory mood.

Canada's 150th anniversary of confederation is just a few months away -- they're calling it Canada's "big year" -- plus a round of smaller commemorations, including the 50th anniversary of the famous Ottawa swans and the 10th anniversary of the Rideu Canal as a World Heritage Site, are happening now.

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Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko wasted no time Tuesday criticizing Ukrainian lawmakers after she was sworn in as a member of Parliament following her release in a prisoner swap with Russia last week.

– Mr. Innocent Chukwuma has been arraigned before a court for alleged forgery – He and four others are facing trial for altering a document – The case has been adjourned till June The trial of Mr. Innocent Chukwuma, the chief executive officer of Innoson Motors Nigeria Limited, and four others over alleged forgery before […]

Ülkeye zarar veren her durumda olduğu gibi "Gezi" olaylarının yıldönümünde de Demirtaş ve Kılıçdaroğlu birlikte hareket etti. Bugünkü grup konuşmalarında HDP genel başkanı Demirtaş, "Bu başlamış ve bitmemiş...Devamı için tıklayınız

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SUGAR LAND, Texas, May 31 (UPI) -- A city in Texas erected a sculpture of two young girls taking a selfie in the middle of the town's square.

De straffen voor een groep van vier mannen die bekend staan onder de naam 'tattookillers' blijven in stand. De Hoge Raad heeft een cassatieberoep dinsdag niet-ontvankelijk verklaard.

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Digital giants are increasingly dominating the global advertising market.

In 2015, Google, Facebook, Baidu, Yahoo, and Microsoft accounted for 19% of all the global ad spend flowing through all media, according to media agency ZenithOptimedia's 2016 "Top Thirty Global Media Owners" report.

The report ranks the world's biggest media companies in order of revenue generated in financial year 2013, the latest year for which it has consistent revenue figures for all the publicly-listed companies. Читать дальше...

Over the long weekend, episodes of two shows aired that offered suggestions as to why Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign isn’t winning the pop-culture conversation to the degree that Donald Trump’s and Bernie Sanders’s are. In Sunday’s extraordinary, give-’em-all-an-Emmy episode of HBO’s Veep, the title told you basic theme: “C**tgate.” Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ President Selina Meyer became aware that someone on her staff has called her the c-word and she tried to find and excoriate the culprit—when... Читать дальше...

Home battery systems are hot, but developers caution that policy reforms will be needed to maximise the benefits.

Mamadou Diallo beat his wife's would-be rapist after she called him to say she had been attacked.

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ELOY, Ariz., May 31 (UPI) -- Officials have expanded the list of places people in Arizona may have been exposed to measles in a growing outbreak linked to two inmates at a state jail.

REKKEN/VALKENSWAARD - Een groep voetballers van het tweede elftal van Sportclub Rekken is afgelopen weekeinde betrokken geraakt bij een grote vechtpartij. Zeker vier spelers liepen daarbij vrij ernstige verwondingen op: twee personen met een hersenschudding brachten de nacht door in het ziekenhuis, een ander brak zijn hand en een vierde werd hard op de mond geslagen.

The death of toddler Audrey Ebbage after her heart condition was misdiagnosed should become a training example, a coroner has found.

– Cif Tony Nwoye, wani tsohon dan takarar jam’iyyar PDP a zaben jihar Anambra yace wanda na shirin da bar jam’iyyar Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) na jam’iyyar All Progressives Congress (APC) – Wani dan jihar Anambra ya bayyana wanda ba zai iya tilasta magoya bayanshi da bar jam’iyyar PDP da shi – Rahotanni suke nuna […]

Through decades of social evolution and technological innovation in Latin music, the bolero has never gone out of style. But really, how could...

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What do you get when you combine a decommissioned water reservoir with artificial grass and a grand architectural plan?

Sanctions see disputed peninsula adopt Chinese technology instead

The government of the United Arab Emirates used software from Italian firm, Hacking Team, and other new tools to target journalists and dissidents, a new report by Citizenlab has revealed.

Beginning May 31, the main set will be widely available across the US physical post offices locations and for online purchase.

Work is to begin this week on U.S. 136 between Filley and Crab Orchard.

Starbucks

Following the huge success of regular cold brew coffee, Starbucks announced Tuesday morning that it would expand its menu of cold drinks with two new ones: Nitro Cold Brew and Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Brew.

Cold coffee is, yes you guessed it, very hot right now. Over the past decade, overall U.S. iced coffee consumption grew by 75%. Starbucks said the introduction of cold brew in its cafes increased sales of iced beverages by 20% last summer.

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C’est moins facile que ça en a l’air.

Kerry Payne documents the lives of those who have lost family members.

Pinning hopes on better monsoon, the Finance Ministry Tuesday said it expects GDP growth rate to notch up to 8 percent in the current financial year.