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Syrian refugee named torchbearer in Greek leg of Rio relay

«The Bismarck Tribune» (bismarcktribune.com) 

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Syrian refugee who had part of a leg amputated after a bombing will be one of the torchbearers for the Greek leg of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic flame relay.

VW to take $18 billion hit as German carmakers face recall

Las Vegas Sun (lasvegassun.com) 

German carmaker Volkswagen capped two grim days for the country's auto industry by revealing its diesel emissions cheating cost it a chunky 16.2 billion euros ($18.2 billion) for 2015 alone — and that's likely only a part of the total bill. The revelation last September from U.S. environmental authorities that the company had been ...



Islamic State using chemical weapons in Iraq, Kurds say

United Press International (UPI.com) 

Ed Adamczyk
GWER , Iraq, April 22 (UPI) -- Kurdish Peshmerga positions in northern Iraq were again hit with chemical weapons by the Islamic State, several commanding officers confirmed.

The Latest: Solar plane slowly soars toward California

«La Crosse Tribune» (lacrossetribune.com) 

KAPOLEI, Hawaii (AP) — The Latest on the flight of a solar-powered airplane from Hawaii to California in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe (all times local):

Poll worker fired, accused of voter discrimination

CNN Newsource 

CBS46 news has confirmed a Gwinnett County poll worker identified as Joyce Nelson has been fired after being accused of saying non-English speakers shouldn’t vote. It was the day of the Georgia primary when Alejandro Ramirez a voting rights activist says he heard the elections worker’s comments as he was setting up to help translate for U.S. Citizens who speak English as a second language. “She said if they don’t ...

Damien Hirst's Artwork May Be Leaking Cancer-Inducing Fumes

RIA Novosti  

Damien Hirst has earned himself a reputation over the years as the "bad boy" of the art world, due to the often morbid nature of his work. But the artist has inspired unintended controversy following news that his most famous pieces may be leaking cancer inducing fumes.

Ukraine children eat food tainted by Chernobyl

Las Vegas Sun (lasvegassun.com) 

Viktoria Vetrova knows the risk her four children take in drinking milk from the family's two cows and eating dried mushrooms and berries from the forest. But the cash-strapped Ukrainian government canceled the local school lunch program for ...

The Replacements’ Paul Westerberg Eulogizes Prince

Yahoo Music 

Prince's Purple Rain and the Replacements' Let It Be, two canonical albums, came out of the same city, Minneapolis, in the same year, 1984. How crazy is that? Prince and the Replacements occupied two parallel version of the same city, with the Mats playing shows at the 7th Street Entry, the tiny club attached to…

Beer: 500 years of pure pleasure

Stars and Stripes 

At first glance, Germany’s Reinheitsgebot seems straightforward enough. Known in English as the Beer Purity Law, it limits the ingredients in German beers to water, barley and hops.

Minnesota business offers meth as a bonus for employees

United Press International (UPI.com) 

Daniel Uria
MANKATO, Minn., April 22 (UPI) -- An auto body shop in Minnesota was the subject of a drug task force search after a report that the owners were distributing drugs to employees as bonuses.





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