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The NGO has been under pressure to confirm the identity of an Israeli soldier who spoke to it confidentially about four incidents that occurred during the 2014 Gaza war.

A Saint John woman feels like the real winner of this week's 2017 Academy Awards. Sara Hayward was visiting the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday, when a security guard gave her a piece of the red carpet from the Oscars, held on Sunday night. She knows exactly what she wants to do with the strip of history, saying "I'm going to make it into coasters."

Visual views offered by cartoonists from around the McClatchy network

The European Commission has drawn up five options for the future of Europe after Britain leaves in 2019.

The tycoon has been in jail since Feb. 17, when a court approved an arrest warrant. On Tuesday, prosecutors said they would indict Lee, who has denied wrongdoing, on bribery and other charges.

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Facebook is now available on your Apple TV.

The app, which the company first announced two weeks ago, lets you watch videos from your friends and pages you follow. Facebook will recommend videos based on what you watch and also show the top live videos on its network.

Facebook's TV app was released for Samsung smart TVs on Monday, and now Apple is promoting the app in the Apple TV's App Store.

This new app is the first time Facebook has made a standalone app for TVs... Читать дальше...

The function of a healthcare system is to regulate the maintenance, provision and improvement of adequate and timely medical care to humans in a nation.......

WASHINGTON (AP) — US construction spending drops 1 percent in January, led by large cut in government projects.

De meeste partijen in Provinciale Staten van Drenthe willen van hun commissaris van de Koning Jacques Tichelaar vandaag meer toelichting over een omstreden opdracht die zijn schoonzus kreeg.

They may be right in front of you.

For a good while, the film threatens to be as forced as an unwanted attendee, and as forgotten as the types of guests it focuses on, until it rallies toward the end with an easy sweetness and comedic warmth it had been lacking for too long. [...] that makes it not terribly unlike the trajectory of many weddings, save the most common reason those rites become enjoyable: alcohol. Writer-director Jeffrey Blitz has shown a fondness for misfits before, in both his Oscar-nominated spelling bee documentary “Spellbound” and his fiction feature debut... Читать дальше...

From left, Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta have jointly won the Pritzker Prize for architecture. Collaboration is integral to their practice.

U.S. consumer spending rose at only a sluggish pace in January, even as signs of growing optimism about the economy have emerged. Consumer spending increased 0.2 percent in January, after a 0.5 percent gain in December, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. Spending on services — from haircuts to health care — was flat, and Americans spent less on long-lasting goods such as autos and appliances.   Prices also rose in a sign that inflation has perked up a bit. A measure of inflation closely... Читать дальше...

★BITTER KOLA AND PREGNANCY★ - what is the impact? Positive or negative? If you are pregnant - get to know about the effects of bitter kola in early pregnancy.

A four-game losing streak hurts, but March presents an unfriendly schedule.

Sven Helbig, "Abendglühen"

BALTIMORE — Federal prosecutors say seven Baltimore police officers have been arrested on charges of racketeering, including allegedly robbing people, filing false affidavits and making fake claims for overtime. A news release Wednesday morning from the U.S. attorney’s office says one officer also is charged with drug distribution. Police spokesman T.J. Smith says the officers

TV fans aren’t the only ones who have burning questions. In our series Ask the Fans, Yahoo TV flips the script and finds out what questions producers have always wanted to pose to their viewers.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of Donald Trump's tweeting. But after Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt misleadingly said, “A lot of people like it,” Trump denounced the opponents as “the enemies.” Not one of the three Fox cohosts conducting the interview challenged him.

Earlier this week Oleksandr Skichko, Volodymyr Ostapchuk, and Timur Miroshnychenko were announced as the hosts of the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. It is the first time in the history of the competition that three men will present the contest. Today we can give you a sneak peek behind the scenes of the photoshoot which took place in Kyiv last month.

Moldova's leader said he was starting a process of reconciliation with breakaway Transnistria.

Air Miles wants to make amends with its members for a rough 2016, so it's emailing them an apology of sorts starting Wednesday morning.

Happy National Pig Day!

A charity is warning of a "horrendous" equine crisis after dozens of dead or dying horses were found dumped over the winter. Warning: graphic images.