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Richard Thaler, left, won the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday in part because he realized people act irrationally. Credit Scott Olson/Getty Images
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Commuters make their way amidst smog on a flyover in New Delhi, India.(Reuters photo)
Study: Pollution Killed Nine Million People in 2015
Pollution claimed the lives of nine million people in 2015, one in every six deaths that year, according to a study published in The Lancet medical journal on Friday. Almost all the deaths, 92 percent, happened in low- and middle-income countries, researchers said,...Caption:
FILE PHOTO: Japan’s Emperor Akihito waits for the arrival of German President Christian Wulff at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo October 24, 2011. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
Report: Japan Emperor Abdication Set for March 2019
Japan’s Emperor Akihito will step down on March 31, 2019 and the Crown Prince is expected to ascend the throne in April, a report said Friday, the first imperial retirement in more than two centuries. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet top officials and members...Caption:
Greek police found data on a man’s phone who is suspected to have ties with ISIS. AFP photo
Syrian Man Arrested in Greece Over Suspected ISIS Links
A 32-year-old Syrian man was arrested Thursday in the northeastern Greek city of Alexandroupolis over suspected links with terrorist group ISIS, police said Friday. The arrest came following a complaint that was his wife filed against him over domestic abuse,...Caption:
A new Rohingya refugee woman cries as they arrive near the Kutupalang makeshift Refugee Camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, August 30, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
UNICEF: Rohingya Refugee Children in Bangladesh Face ‘Hell on Earth’
Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are seeing a “hell on earth” by living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack enough food, clean water and health care, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. Up to 12,000 more...Caption:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem (REUTERS)
Israeli Army Wants to Increase its Budget to Face Iranian Threats
Tel Aviv – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s bureau chief Yoav Horowitz have requested that the Jewish National Fund (JNF) help raise 4 billion Israeli Shekel ($1.14 billion) for defense and military budget. An audio recording of a secret session held...Caption:
Tank of Iraqi forces in Kirkuk – Reuters
Kirkuk in the Hands of Iraqi Forces after Clashes with Kurds
Iraqi forces took control of Altun Kupri on Friday, the last district in Kirkuk still in the hands of Kurds, following a three-hour battle, security sources said. The town is 50 km far from the city of Erbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region. Kurdish forces...Caption:
The Holland players react to the disappointment of failing to qualify for their second major football tournament in a row. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
The Decline of Holland’s Football Team: Doomed by Total Obsession with Past
London — In Graham Swift’s novel Waterland his narrator, a history teacher going through a mid-life crisis, says: “And where history does not undermine and set traps for itself in such an openly perverse way, it creates this insidious longing to revert. It begets this...Caption:
Women walk past a graffiti, denouncing strikes by US drones in Yemen, painted on a wall in Sana’a, Yemen February 6, 2017. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Drone Strike Kills 3 Qaeda Suspects in Yemen
A suspected US drone strike targeting a car killed three alleged Al-Qaeda members, including a leader in the southern Yemen province of Abyan, local officials said Friday. They said the strike was carried out late Thursday in the Sumaa area of the province, engulfing...Caption:
Fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces gesture the “V” sign at the frontline in Raqqa, Syria October 16, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said