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A former Arkansas sheriff's deputy was charged Friday with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a White teenager whose death has drawn the attention of national civil rights activists. A special prosecutor announced the felony charge against Michael Davis, a former sergeant with the Lonoke County Sheriff's Office, in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Hunter Brittain.

The United Kingdom defended the actions of the Trump administration in Iran, saying the United States is “entitled to defend itself” against Iranian aggression and deploying the Royal Navy to the Persian Gulf to protect shipping vessels flying the British flag. The Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace, expressed support for America’s decision to take out Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qasem Soleimani, citing the violence committed in Iraq by Iran-backed militias. “During the last few months U.S. forces in Iraq, who are based in Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government, have been repeatedly attacked by Iranian-backed...

Britain's Prince Charles has blamed climate change in part for the Syrian war and warned that global warming could exacerbate similar conflicts worldwide. Charles's comments — in an interview broadcast Monday — came exactly one week before the start of a United Nations climate change conference in Paris, where he plans to deliver a keynote address. Unless world leaders take action to slow the impact of climate change, "it’s going to get so much worse," Charles warned in the interview with Sky News, which was recorded before the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris. "Some of us were saying 20...

Michael Buhrman, 31, began his career in the nuclear industry after being honorably discharged in from the Navy nuclear program in 2005, where he had worked as a reactor operator and nuclear electronics technician. After watching the movie, “The Town” featuring Ben Affleck, which features four friends who decide to rob a bank, Buhrman was inspired to feed his adrenaline through a life of crime. The well-paid senior reactor operator started attempting to recruit other workers at the Dresden nuclear power plant in order to form a gang to rob banks “to get back at the system.” Buhrman did succeed...

The UK Has Just Had One Lost Decade, And It's About To Enter A Second Philip Aldrick, The Daily Telegraph May 18, 2013, 3:42 PMHSBC’s chief global economist has written a compelling but dark account of the challenges facing the West. Philip Aldrick considers the chilling claims. Bleak does not begin to describe the latest tome on the economic crisis by Stephen King, the HSBC chief global economist who appropriately shares a name with the best-selling horror writer. When the Money Runs Out is the economic equivalent of post-apocalyptic fiction, charting “the end of Western affluence”, and gives the author...

Wednesday, Jun. 13, 2012 Modified Wed, Jun 13, 2012 03:19 PM A 7th District Democratic runoff may be in the works By Steve Jones - sjones@thesunnews.com If S.C. Democratic Party chairman Dick Harpootlian is right, Republicans won’t be the only ones going back to the polls June 26. Harpootlian alleged that the S.C. State Ethics Commission miscounted the votes in the 7th District Democratic primary and a proper accounting would require a runoff between candidates Gloria Tinubu of Georgetown and Preston Brittain of Myrtle Beach. Harpootlian said in a Wednesday morning news release that the Election Commission didn’t include the...

The Incredible UK Economic Catastrophe Chart That Everyone Is Talking About Joe Weisenthal Apr. 25, 2012, 10:25 AM Well, everyone is dumping on the UK today after that dismal Q1 GDP number, which confirms that the country has gone into double dip. David Cameron is taking a lot of heat for two reasons: The GDP stallout occurred right after he took office. He continues to be in denial, and so he's bragging a ton about low interest rates. Now here's another chart that everyone is tweeting, and which Paul Krugman has just posted. The UK recovery is now doing WORSE...

I've been thinking about the way that America has been responding to France. I can admit that I have been increasingly frustrated by their lack of support and can fully support the method in which others are dealing with this situation. But I can't help but think about how little we have done as a people to support Brittain's position. I recently read an article that Tony Blair is receiving support from only 19% of his country. I am of the opinion that we need to equal our support for Brittain to our disdain for France. How can we do...

David Warren Blair goes wobbly If public statements of position are anything to go by -- and they sometimes are -- the U.S., Britain, Spain have already lost the vote in the Security Council, no matter how they phrase their resolution. The vote was supposed to happen yesterday, and has been set back at least until tomorrow, possibly Friday, undermining the stated deadline of Monday for Iraq's Saddam regime to show a "strategic decision" to obey the 17 U.N. resolutions it has defied, lo these last 12 years of the slowest "rush to war" in history. The gap is now...

CAIRO, Egypt - Iraq's volatile politics have been a struggle for power by religious, tribal and ideological factions throughout the country's history. In whatever political order may emerge should Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) be toppled, all the disparate groups will seek to play a role. King Faisal, the first monarch of modern Iraq, recognized the problem of the many divisions within the society. "Regrettably, I can say there is no Iraqi people yet, but only deluded human groups void of any national idea," he wrote shortly before his death in 1937. "Iraqis are not only disunited but evil-motivated,...

<p>UNITED NATIONS - With just weeks remaining before Britain is due to relinquish the helm of an international security force in Afghanistan, no country has committed to take over the troops' command, diplomats and UN officials say.</p> <p>American and British officials have been courting Turkey, which has agreed in principle to take the job. But the Muslim nation has set conditions for accepting the task, including guarantees of Western financial assistance and assurances of American military help.</p>