Now hundreds of migrants from the Caribbean fly 6,000 miles to Turkey in bid to enter Europe while posing as being from Somalia
By Tom Kelly, From Daily Mail UK They fly to Istanbul then perilously cross Aegean Sea to Greek islands On arrival some claim to be from Somalia, Syria or even Afghanistan They say there are cheap flights and they don’t…
Why isn’t the killing of 1.5 million Armenians officially called ‘genocide’?
By Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith From The Independent UK The Big Question: The killings have been described as the ‘first mass atrocity of the 20th Century’ by President Obama Why are we talking about this now? Around 15,000 demonstrators in the Armenian…
chicken enchilada soup
How to make easy creamy chicken enchilada soup By J. KENJI LÓPEZ-ALT From Serious Eats Easy Creamy Chicken Enchilada Soup There are certain dates that just seem to have some kind of cosmic significance. For Doc Brown, that date might…
From the EU to China, 2016 ushers in new data headaches for companies
By Sue Reisinger, From Corporate Counsel Foreign governments—including China, Turkey and the European Union—are giving corporate America fits over how companies handle information and data, and the trend is only going to worsen this year. For example, the European Union is…
Kraft must fork over turkey meat
By Max Mitchell, From The Legal Intelligencer Despite cutting turkey production because of an avian flu outbreak, a Philadelphia judge has ordered Kraft Heinz Co. to provide a family-owned meat processor with thousands of pounds of turkey twice a week…
Brave souls enter isolation dome to begin simulation of life on Mars
By Liza Hearon From Mashable Six smiling people entered a dome on a barren Hawaiian volcano on Friday afternoon, and it remains to be seen whether they’ll still be smiling after a year of isolation to simulate life on Mars….
NBC News’ Richard Engel says he misidentified the Syrian group that kidnapped him
By Margaret Hartmann From New York Mag No one doubts that NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel suffered a terrifying and dangerous ordeal when he and five colleagues were kidnapped in Syria in December 2012, but thanks in part…
The Editor Speaks: Turkeys and scumbags
I hope you all had a typically Merry Christmas and remembered whose day we were celebrating – Jesus Christ. Did you all eat the traditional turkey dinner? We did at our house and it was scrumptious. However, some of our…
Tourists return to Greece’s summer resorts
By Renee Maltezou, Reuters From Toronto Sun Foreign tourists are returning to Greece’s sun-drenched islands and ancient temples, central bank data showed on Friday, boosting hopes that the key sector may help the crisis-hit country pull itself out of a…
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Cayman Islands to announce successful bidder for additional electricity supply on Friday The Cayman Islands Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) will be announcing the successful bidder for additional supplemental electricity power generation for Grand Cayman on Friday, 3 October 2014, at…