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Miami passport office closed because of water damage

TheRepublic.com 

MIAMI — Travelers seeking a last-minute passport out of South Florida are out of luck. The U.S. State Department posted on its website (http://bit.ly/1P86eDI ) Monday that its Miami Passport Agency is temporarily closed to the public. The Miami Herald (http://hrld.us/2pdqdPY) reports that the building where the office is located suffered water damage, ruining electronics

Dan Evans seals first win on clay at Barcelona Open

Mail Online (Tennis) 

Earlier this month Evans bemoaned his failure to get to grips with the surface after Great Britain lost their Davis Cup quarter-final to France, before progressing at the Barcelona Open.

Dan Evans seals first win on clay at Barcelona Open

Mail Online (Sport) 

Earlier this month Evans bemoaned his failure to get to grips with the surface after Great Britain lost their Davis Cup quarter-final to France, before progressing at the Barcelona Open.

Congo government: UN experts’ murders filmed on cell phone

TheRepublic.com 

KINSHASA, Congo — Congo’s government has obtained a five-minute cell phone video that shows the gruesome murders of two United Nations experts who were killed last month while investigating human rights abuses. In the video shown to journalists on Monday, a group of young men identify themselves as members of the Kamwina Nsapu militia. American

Special Envoy: North Korea Could Obliterate the World with "Three Or Four Bombs"

The National Interest 

Ryan Pickrell

Security, Asia

Alejandro Cao de Benos de Les y Perez, regarded by some as a “useful idiot” serving as a pro-North defender of the brutal regime, claims that North Korea is untouchable. 

North Korea could destroy the world with just “three or four” thermonuclear bombs, according to a “special representative” of the North Korean government.

The U.S. “has many more missiles than Korea,” Alejandro Cao de Benos de Les y Perez, a Spanish national who serves... Читать дальше...



'Nice Thing to Do': Dutch Teens See Nothing Wrong With Sharing Nude Photos

Sputnik International 

A poll of Dutch girls has found 25 percent have sent nude photos of themselves to a partner, and seven in 10 did not regret the experience - suggesting respondents were unaware of (or unfazed by) the risk of recipients sharing their intimate snaps with others.

Dish unveils $999 system to make live online video easier

«La Crosse Tribune» (lacrossetribune.com) 

NEW YORK (AP) — Dish, a company known largely for its old-school satellite TV, is now trying to make it easier for people to stream quality video live over YouTube and Facebook.

Dish unveils $999 system to make live online video easier

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

NEW YORK (AP) — Dish, a company known largely for its old-school satellite TV, is now trying to make it easier for people to stream quality video live over YouTube and Facebook. Dish is unveiling a wireless device, SlingStudio, meant to enable multi-camera productions without high-end equipment. [...] might a wedding photographer who wants to capture video from guests' smartphones (the system isn't limited to live, online broadcasts and works with recorded events, too).

Dish unveils $999 system to make live online video easier

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

NEW YORK (AP) — Dish, a company known largely for its old-school satellite TV, is now trying to make it easier for people to stream quality video live over YouTube and Facebook. Dish is unveiling a wireless device, SlingStudio, meant to enable multi-camera productions without high-end equipment. [...] might a wedding photographer who wants to capture video from guests' smartphones (the system isn't limited to live, online broadcasts and works with recorded events, too).

Civil War-era cannonballs to be moved from work site

TheRepublic.com 

PITTSBURGH — Dozens of Civil War-era cannonballs unearthed at a Pittsburgh construction site will be removed by a Maryland firm. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (http://bit.ly/2oEtKnf ) reports Ordnance Holdings Inc., of Reisterstown, has been hired to remove the cannonballs found near the former site of the Allegheny Arsenal. The arsenal supplied the Union Army, and an

Aaron Hernandez’s alleged prison lover is a convicted robber

New York Post (sports) 

Aaron Hernandez’s behind-bars lover is a convicted robber who received a $50,000 watch from the late football star before his suicide, according to a bombshell report Monday. Kyle Kennedy, 22, was the last person to see the disgraced New England Patriots star alive last week, the Daily Mail reported. Kennedy is now on suicide watch...

Canada is launching an experiment that will give 4,000 people free money until 2020

BusinessInsider.com 

Blair Gable/Reuters

Finland, The Netherlands, and San Francisco, California have already shown their interest in giving people a regular monthly allowance — a system known as basic income.

Now Ontario, Canada, is planning its own basic income trial as well.

On April 24, Premier Kathleen Wynne outlined new details of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP), which is slated to begin later this spring and last for three years.

A total of 4,000 people in three regions in... Читать дальше...

(LEAD) S. Korea preps for joint exercise with USS Carl Vinson

Yonhap News Agency (en) 

(ATTN: UPDATES with more comments, other details from 3rd para; ADDS photo) SEOUL, April 24 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's defense authorities said Monday the USS Carl Vinson, an American aircraft carrier, is expected to be part of a joint training exercis

Loretta Mae Trumbo

«Albany Democrat Herald» (democratherald.com) 

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