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- Aljazeera: US government on brink of shutdown
- Aljazeera: Egypt court upholds jail term for Morsi's PM
- Huffington Post: Mali Bombing Claimed By Al Qaeda In The Islamic Maghreb
- Huffington Post: Matt Bevin Supports Restoring Felons' Gun, Voting Rights
- Huffington Post: 'Gays Of Gramps' Is A Miami Party We Love (JIPSY PHOTOS)
- Huffington Post: 'Ark Nova,' The World's First Inflatable Concert Hall, To Tour Earthquake-Devastated Japan
- Aljazeera: Tear gas fired at Sudan protest
- Aljazeera: Australian PM skirts refugee issue in Jakarta
| Aljazeera: US government on brink of shutdown Posted: 29 Sep 2013 03:08 PM PDT Republicans and Democrats trade blame, but Congress does not meet on Sunday, hours before shutdown deadline. |
| Aljazeera: Egypt court upholds jail term for Morsi's PM Posted: 30 Sep 2013 06:43 AM PDT Qandil was sentenced in April for failing to implement a court ruling to renationalise a textile company. |
| Huffington Post: Mali Bombing Claimed By Al Qaeda In The Islamic Maghreb Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:17 AM PDT Al-Qaeda's north African division claimed responsibility Monday for a car bomb that rocked the Malian city of Timbuktu over the weekend, killing two civilians and wounding several soldiers, a report said. "Two of our brave suicide bombers managed to reach the military base in Timbuktu in a vehicle carrying more than a ton of explosives," said a spokesman for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, according to the Mauritanian Alakhbar news agency. The spokesman said the explosion in the famed desert city killed 16 soldiers and wounded many more. "The operation also led to the destruction of several military vehicles and blew up some of the buildings in the barracks," the unnamed spokesman added. The claim contradicts the army's statement, however, that four suicide bombers in the car when it exploded and two passers-by were the only people killed. The attack on Saturday, which wounded six soldiers, was the first suicide bombing in the fabled mainly Tuareg and Arab caravan town since March. It came a day after AQIM announced it had appointed Algerian Said Abou Moughatil to take over from Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, a key commander who was killed in fighting with French-led forces in northern Mali. Abou Zeid, 46, was credited with having significantly expanded the jihadist group's field of operations to Tunisia and Niger, and for kidnapping activities across the region. France confirmed in March that Abou Zeid had been killed "during fighting led by the French army in the Ifoghas mountains in northern Mali in late February". Mali has been the target of a series of attacks claimed by Islamist insurgents since France launched a military operation in January against Al-Qaeda-linked groups including AQIM occupying the north of the country. The French-led operation forced the extremists from the cities they seized in the chaotic aftermath of a military coup that overthrew Mali's government in March 2012. Residual groups of these fighters are no longer able to carry out coordinated assaults, but are still capable of regular small-scale attacks, mainly against Malian and French soldiers. On March 21, a suicide bomber blew up a car near the Timbuktu airport at the start of an overnight assault on the city, killing a Malian soldier. AQIM grew out of a movement launched in the late 1990s by radical Algerian Islamists who sought the overthrow of the Algerian government to be replaced with Islamic rule. The organisation linked up to Al-Qaeda in 2006 and has spun a tight network across tribes, clans, family and business lines that stretches across the vast Sahel region abutting the southern Sahara desert. AQIM is currently thought to be holding eight Europeans hostage, including five French nationals, and earlier this month released a video deemed credible by France showing seven of them.
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| Huffington Post: Matt Bevin Supports Restoring Felons' Gun, Voting Rights Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:19 AM PDT Conservative Kentucky Senate candidate Matt Bevin (R), who is challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in his 2014 reelection bid, said Saturday that he supports restoring voting and gun ownership rights for convicted felons who have completed their sentences. During a gun rights rally in Shepherdsville, Ky., Bevin was asked whether he supports restoring these rights for former convicts. "I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore the Second Amendment rights to people who are qualified and have shown themselves qualified to have those rights restored to them," Bevin said in an exchange posted to YouTube by Modern Rome. Read More... More on Rand Paul |
| Huffington Post: 'Gays Of Gramps' Is A Miami Party We Love (JIPSY PHOTOS) Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:23 AM PDT BY JIPSY, NEFARIOUSGIRL.COM If you follow me on social media, you already know how much I love Gramps Bar in Wynwood. It's a place for the young alternative Miami scene where parties like the monthly karaoke "Let's Sang," formally known as "Super Lips," offers b-sides and punk rock tracks. And "Girls Of Gramps" on Wednesdays draws in the ladies for $16 bottles of bubbly and dance tunes by the GOG squad. Now there's a new party at Gramps, presented by the GOG at least once a month and it's all about the boys: it's the "Gays Of Gramps" hosted by Sean Bennett and friends. At their first party, it was pretty good with a mix of ladies and friends glammed up, sipping on that $16 bottle of Champagne, and dancing to '90s dance music. I hope this party keeps growing because that's what the Miami gay scene was missing: a good party for the alt boys. Read More... More on Miami Around Town |
| Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:25 AM PDT From the outside it resembles a giant, plushy purple jelly bean, while on the inside it looks more like a glowing, colored seashell. Actually, this balloon-like form is the world's first inflatable concert hall, entitled "Ark Nova."
Iconic British sculptor Anish Kapoor and Japanese architect Arata Isozaki have teamed up to create one of the more otherworldly structures in recent history -- a pneumatic structure made from an elastic shell that can be quickly inflated and dismantled. We agree with Roberta Smith when she said "Anish Kapoor has always been a kind of magician." Read More... More on Music |
| Aljazeera: Tear gas fired at Sudan protest Posted: 30 Sep 2013 08:56 AM PDT Demonstration of university students near Khartoum met with police violence on eighth day of anti-government protests. |
| Aljazeera: Australian PM skirts refugee issue in Jakarta Posted: 30 Sep 2013 09:10 AM PDT Both countries commit to improved economic partnership and deny rising tensions over refugee problem. |
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