The delay was announced by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Wednesday, as the military fears for the safety of the trapped civilians, who have a limited supply of food, water, and healthcare. In footage broadcast on state television, Abadi told military commanders in the operations room near the frontline, “It would have been possible […]
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Iraq offensive delayed: ‘20,000 children’ among civilians trapped in ISIS-occupied Fallujah
Gwangju Democracy Protest, And Massacre; US Was Complicit
Print Friendly Above: A mural displayed in Kwangju (Gwangju), South Corea, depicting the liberation of the city in May 1980, from Corean martial law troops who had seized control of the country. Photo courtesy of the May 18 Memorial Foundation. This week Corean peace activists organized a protest in remembrance of the democracy uprising in Gwangju, […]
France bans glyphosate products with harmful co-formulants after yanking Roundup from garden centers
(NaturalNews) France is instituting a ban on glyphosate products that are mixed with certain additives, because of the risk they pose to human health. This news comes just two months after the French ecology minister, Segolene Royal, called for such a ban to be put in place. The French Food, Environmental and Occupational […]
75% of High School Seniors on Heroin Started Prescription Opioids
A preliminary analysis has concluded that over 75 percent of high school students who use heroin previously used prescription painkillers. The study’s authors implicated not only pharmaceutical opioids, but the nature of drug education in the United States, suggesting students do not trust institutional calls to refrain from drug use. Though the findings come with […]
Earth’s first ecosystems were more complex than previously thought, study finds
Computer simulations have allowed scientists, led by Dr Imran Rahman of the University of Bristol, UK to work out how this 555-million-year-old organism with no known modern relatives fed. Their research reveals that some of the first large, complex organisms on Earth formed ecosystems that were much more complex than previously thought. Credit: M. Laflamme […]
Winter storm brings record breaking snowfall to Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota
Winter Storm Bella not only brought the first, not to mention locally heavy, accumulating snow of the season for some in the Great Lakes and Midwest, but also was one of the heaviest November snowstorms of record for some. Scroll down to the “snowtables” section for a list of records set during this storm. […]
Shark bites legs off Australian bodyboarder in deadly attack at popular beach
“We had some sharks spotted far out at sea a few months ago, but they never come this close to the shore,” Ms Pickett said. She said helicopters were still searching the area for the shark late Sunday, while rescue staff searched for the man’s limbs, which she believed had been taken by the shark. […]