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Opinion Journal - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
Liberalism, oikophobia and public-sector unions.


Satellite photos said to show Iran nuke clean up

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
VIENNA (AP) -- New commercial satellite images suggest that Iran has demolished two buildings at a military site where it is suspected of trying to erase evidence of a nuclear arms program, a U.S. nonproliferation think tank said Thursday....

Satellite photos said to show Iran nuke clean up

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
VIENNA (AP) -- New commercial satellite images suggest that Iran has demolished two buildings at a military site where it is suspected of trying to erase evidence of a nuclear arms program, a U.S. nonproliferation think tank said Thursday....

Life sentence for Egypt's Mubarak; sons acquitted

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
CAIRO (AP) -- Former President Hosni Mubarak got a life sentence Saturday for failing to stop the killing of protesters during Egypt's uprising. But he and his sons were cleared of corruption charges, setting off protests for greater accountability for 30 years of abuses under the old regime....

Mubarak trial verdict may divide Egypt further

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
CAIRO (AP) -- Guilty or not, Saturday's verdict in Hosni Mubarak's trial will likely deepen Egypt's polarization. Political tensions are already simmering in a heated runoff for president pitting the ousted leader's last prime minister against an Islamist from a group that the old regime repeatedly cracked down....

Mubarak trial verdict may divide Egypt further

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
CAIRO (AP) -- Guilty or not, Saturday's verdict in Hosni Mubarak's trial will likely deepen Egypt's polarization. Political tensions are already simmering in a heated runoff for president pitting the ousted leader's last prime minister against an Islamist from a group that the old regime repeatedly cracked down....

Mubarak trial verdict may divide Egypt further

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
CAIRO (AP) -- Guilty or not, Saturday's verdict in Hosni Mubarak's trial will likely deepen Egypt's polarization. Political tensions are already simmering in a heated runoff for president pitting the ousted leader's last prime minister against an Islamist from a group that the old regime repeatedly cracked down....

Egypt's ex-leader Mubarak faces verdict in Cairo

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak was ferried to court by helicopter Saturday to hear the verdict in his trial on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising that forced him from power....

Bushes return to the White House

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
There were smiles, laughter and tears -- but little politics -- when former Presidents George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush, joined current President Barack Obama at the White House for the unveiling Thursday of the younger Bush's official portrait.
Categories: CNN, News

Egypt's 31-year emergency law ends

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's notorious emergency law expired Thursday, ending 31 years of broad powers to detain and arrest for a police force accused of severely abusing its far-reaching authority....

Hammersmith Apollo sold by HMV

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
Entertainment venue Hammersmith Apollo which has held concerts by bands from The Beatles to Queen, is sold by its owner HMV.
Categories: BBC, News

Chen hopeful on Chinese democracy

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
Activist Chen Guangcheng, in his first major US public appearance, says democratic change in China is slow but irreversible.
Categories: BBC, News

UK 'won't abandon Syrian people'

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
The British government "will not abandon" the people of Syria following the "sickening massacre" in Houla, a Downing Street spokesman says.
Categories: BBC, News

Pro-regime Syrian gunmen take on larger role

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
BEIRUT (AP) -- The swaggering gunmen operate as hired muscle for the Syrian regime, clutching rifles and daggers as they sweep through towns and villages, sometimes after regular military troops have pulled back....

Pro-regime Syrian gunmen take on larger role

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
BEIRUT (AP) -- The swaggering gunmen operate as hired muscle for the Syrian regime, clutching rifles and daggers as they sweep through towns and villages, sometimes after regular military troops have pulled back....

Pro-regime Syrian gunmen take on larger role

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
BEIRUT (AP) -- The swaggering gunmen operate as hired muscle for the Syrian regime, clutching rifles and daggers as they sweep through towns and villages, sometimes after regular military troops have pulled back....

Pro-regime Syrian gunmen take on larger role

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
BEIRUT (AP) -- The swaggering gunmen operate as hired muscle for the Syrian regime, clutching rifles and daggers as they sweep through towns and villages, sometimes after regular military troops have pulled back....

Xstrata boss offered £29m to stay

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
The head of Anglo-Swiss mining firm Xstrata is offered almost £29m to stay on as boss once its merger with Glencore is completed.
Categories: BBC, News

VIDEO: Emin opens exhibition in hometown

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
Tracey Emin speaks to the BBC about opening a new exhibition in the new Turner Contemporary galley in her hometown of Margate.
Categories: BBC, News

Wise-cracking Bush likes portrait

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-06-15 14:30
Former President George W Bush is in good humour as he is welcomed back to the White House by President Obama for the unveiling of his official portrait.
Categories: BBC, News
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