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www.huffingtonpost.com Philippine slum dwellers hurling rocks, improvised explosives and human excrement fought running battles with riot police Monday around a sprawling Manila shanty town that is set for redevelopment, an AFP photographer saw.Police...

www.bbc.co.uk The director and deputy director of the Vatican bank resign following the arrest of a senior Italian cleric over corruption and fraud allegations.

www.salon.com A smoking gun shows Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is a big liar -- and it's not the first time

rt.com Hunger striking inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp have petitioned a US federal court to stop the practice of force-feeding, claiming it is unethical and violates their human rights.

"He did work for U.S. intelligence sometimes, he explained, but he wasn’t a spy. On principle, he refused to get a security clearance, out of a belief in something he called “radical inclusion.” The term radical inclusion stopped me. I recognized it from...

qz.com If there is any doubt about the persistent power of literature in the face of digital culture, it should be banished by the recent climb of George Orwell’s 1984 up the Amazon “Movers & Shakers” list. There is much that’s resonant for us in Orwell’s...

en.aswatmasriya.com CAIRO, July 1 (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces arrested 15 armed bodyguards of senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat El-Shater on Monday after an exchange of fire in which no one was injured, security sources said.