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David Moyes will be handed the opportunity to rebuild Sunderland next season, even if they are relegated to the Championship. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images

Toxic Mood at Relegation-Threatened Sunderland Is Helping Nobody

by Louise Taylor | Apr 5, 2017 | Sports

Managerial stability is supposed to promote reassurance, a sense of safety even, but its belated advent at Sunderland has merely prompted widespread insecurity. Last July David Moyes became the club’s seventh manager in five turbulent seasons as Ellis Short vowed to...

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We are no longer entirely human.
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Privacy is the Price We Pay for Our Internet Lives

by Stephen Carter | Apr 5, 2017 | Opinion

President Donald Trump is poised to sign legislation to overturn Federal Communications Commission rules forbidding internet service providers from selling data they have vacuumed up about the online habits of their customers. Privacy groups are understandably...

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US ISIS Militant Admits Plotting to Kill Pope Francis in 2015

by Thaer Abbas | Apr 5, 2017 | World

Washington-A New Jersey teen has pleaded guilty to participating in a plot to try to kill Pope Francis in 2015 during a public Mass in Philadelphia, according to a statement by federal prosecutors. Santos Colon, 17, admitted on Monday in a federal court in Camden, New...

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A Saudi soldier stands guard as servicemen on a Saudi military cargo plane prepare to unload aid at the international airport of Yemen’s southern port city of Aden. (Reuters)

Saudi Arabia Sends Humanitarian Aid to 7 Yemeni Governorates

by Nayef Al-Rasheed | Apr 5, 2017 | Middle East

Riyadh – King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid (KSCRHA) sent on Tuesday aid of clothes and dates to seven Yemeni governorates: Taiz, Lahj, Shabwa, Sanaa, Maerib, al-Jawf, and Aden. The center sent 8.27 tons of dates and 7 tons of clothes to about 560,000...

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A view of an underground depot where missiles are launched, in an undisclosed location, Iran, in this handout photo released by the official website of Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on March 8, 2016. REUTERS

Iran’s Chief of Staff: ‘We Won’t Give in to Pressures’

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 5, 2017 | World

London – Iran’s chief of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri has stressed that intelligence should be boosted, reiterating the importance of enhancing the capabilities and defensive capacities of the armed forces. His comments came...