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Evacuation from Syrian camp ‘on hold’ – BBC News This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. tags: Pocket bbc news – world newsblur Rudyard Kipling: an unexpected revival for the ‘bard of empire’ | Books…
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How to Set Up and Get to Know Your New PC, Mac, Android, or iPhone You’ve unwrapped your presents and received everything you’d hoped you’d get. But now what? We’ve got you covered this holiday season with several guides to help you get acquainted with your brand new gadgets. tags:…
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Still shopping for last-minute holiday presents? You are not the only one | Business | The Guardian Shopping for the last-minute gifts? You may not be the only one. About 40% of the season’s sales take place in the 10 days leading up to Christmas Day, according to National Retail…
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12 Days of Christmas Songs: Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ Is a Philosophy of Desire – The Atlantic Welcome to The 12 Days of Christmas Songs: an attempt to uncover the forgotten history of some of the most memorable festive tunes. From December 14 through 25,…
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Turkey Is Betting on Aleppo Rebels to Get Islamic State Out of Border Area | VICE News After the Islamic State’s November attack on Paris, carried out by European fighters returning from the Syrian battlefield, international efforts to close the terrorist group’s last route to and from Turkey have taken…
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Kosovars use bricks, tear gas protesting EU agreement – Al Jazeera English Pristina, Kosovo – Hundreds of demonstrators cheered outside Kosovo’s parliament last Monday morning when news of the opposition lawmakers using tear gas again inside the assembly chamber was shouted over an activist’s loudspeaker. tags: Pocket al jazeera english…
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Geronimo: The Dog Who Thinks He’s a Cat by Jessie Wall and Emily Stanbury – review | Children’s books | The Guardian I thought The Dog Who Thinks He’s a Cat was funny. I thought that the dog was really clever at the end of the book. The Mummy dog…
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Mast Brothers: controversial world’s ‘best’ chocolate faces swirl of scandal | US news | The Guardian The aroma drifting past the murals, designer lofts and chichi boutiques of Williamsburg was alluring and intriguing. Cocoa. Notes of vanilla and maple blended into one of the world’s sexiest smells: expensive chocolate. tags:…
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The publishers’ year: winners and losers | Books | The Guardian Which books did well, which were left on the shelves, and which made editors green with envy? tags: Pocket books | the guardian staff news newsblur America’s Test Kitchen’s Kitchen Hacks Is Cooking For Productivity Nerds In their new book Kitchen…
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How Rogue Techies Armed the Predator, Almost Stopped 9/11, and Accidentally Invented Remote War | WIRED On the afternoon of October 7, 2001, the first day of the war in Afghanistan, an Air Force pilot named Scott Swanson made history while sitting in a captain’s chair designed for an RV.…
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BBC Sport – Michael Platini to boycott Fifa ethics hearing on corruption claims Suspended Fifa vice-president Michel Platini will boycott an ethics committee hearing into allegations of corruption this week. Lawyers for the Frenchman, who is also president of Uefa, believe the “verdict is already announced”. tags: Pocket bbc news…
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302 Moved Temporarily tags: Pocket brainiacs & opinion culture ifttt image of the day nasa newsblur society Return To The Wizarding World In The First Trailer For Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them It’s been just four years since we last visited J.K. Rowling’s magical world on the big…
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NBC Poll: Clinton Would Trounce Trump But Lose to Rubio, Carson – NBC News NBC News/WSJ National Dem Poll: Clinton 56%, Sanders 37%, O’Malley 4% https://t.co/hxwLKtH7lQ https://t.co/2khn0LtWsJ via /r/#politics tags: IFTTT Delicious via:packrati.us Pentagon to lose emissions exemption under Paris climate deal | Environment | The Guardian The US military…
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The Moynihan Report, Family Allowances, and Ending Poverty – The Atlantic Fifty years ago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned a confident government—on the brink of desegregating the South and granting its black citizens voting rights—that unless “a new and special effort” was made, America’s second Reconstruction would end t… tags: Pocket…