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• For 'Daily Show' alum Oliver, 'Last Week' is 'fresh turf to ruin'
• JOURNALISTS HAVE BECOME BARGAINING CHIPS IN SYRIA
• Iraq attacks kill 26 as election looms
• As Army shrinks, young officers being pushed out
• Mock executions, beatings: Journalists describe Syria ordeal
• TeleHealth: Coming to a Smart TV Near You
• Saudi Arabia sentences eight to death for 2003 attacks: SPA
• 9/11 Truther Politicians
• Suicide bombings, attacks in Iraq kill 33 people
• Suicide bombings, attacks in Iraq kill 30 people
• Kuwaiti telcom giant Zain posts 7.5% profit rise in Q1
• Suicide bombings, attacks in Iraq kill 19 people
• Suicide attack in Iraq kills at least 9 people
• How Obama’s White House Lost Ukraine in a Few Stupid Steps
• Brent dips towards $109 after steep gains, Ukraine supports
• Iraq-Turkey pipeline unusable due to persistent attacks: Turkish minister
• Saudi Arabia sentences five to death for 2003 attacks: SPA
• Today in History

For 'Daily Show' alum Oliver, 'Last Week' is 'fresh turf to ruin' Posted: 21 Apr 2014 05:03 PM PDT By Christian Plumb NEW YORK (Reuters) - Launching a weekly Sunday night news comedy show in an era of ever shorter news cycles is both a blessing and a curse, as John Oliver freely admits. As he chooses current events topics to skewer, the bespectacled British comedian will have to pick over what other late-night shows, most notably "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," where he used to work, have already feasted on. "If something happens on a Monday, realistically all the meat is going to be picked off that bone by the time it gets to us - there's probably barely a point in doing it," he said of "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver," which premieres on HBO on April 27.

JOURNALISTS HAVE BECOME BARGAINING CHIPS IN SYRIA Posted: 21 Apr 2014 03:31 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- Since they first emerged as historic characters late in the 19th century, foreign correspondents have played a crucial and inimitably romantic role in journalism. Foreign correspondents were, until World War II, almost always men -- and adventurous, searching, tough-minded men who would put their lives on the line by covering the "others" of the world, whether at peace, at war or at rest. The great and beloved Ernie Pyle, who died writing a thousand sketches of GI Joes in the Second World War, perhaps described the war correspondents of that era best. Under the Geneva Conventions, which attempt to apply rules to the chaos of war, the same protection given to aid workers, nurses, doctors and other noncombatants in wartime was also accorded to journalists.

Iraq attacks kill 26 as election looms Posted: 21 Apr 2014 01:24 PM PDT Attacks including five suicide bombings hit various areas of Iraq on Monday, killing at least 26 people as parliamentary elections loom next week, the first since American troops departed. Iraq is suffering a protracted surge in bloodshed that has killed more than 2,750 people so far this year, and the UN envoy warned Monday that militants were seeking to stoke sectarian tensions between the Shiite Muslim majority and the Sunni Arab minority. In the deadliest attack, a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives at a police checkpoint in the Suweirah area, south of Baghdad, killing 13 people and wounding 35, a police officer and a medical source said. Another suicide bomber blew up a vehicle at a checkpoint in Madain, killing at least two people and wounding five, while gunmen shot dead one person and wounded at least one other in Latifiyah, officials said.

As Army shrinks, young officers being pushed out Posted: 21 Apr 2014 01:00 PM PDT FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — After the 9/11 attacks, tens of thousands of young men and women joined the military, heading for the rugged mountains of Afghanistan and dusty deserts of Iraq.

Mock executions, beatings: Journalists describe Syria ordeal Posted: 21 Apr 2014 12:55 PM PDT Mock executions, hunger, thirst, cold, beatings, a makeshift chess game to pass the time... and a "surreal" snowball fight with their jailers. Details are starting to trickle through of the ordeal experienced by the four French journalists who returned home Sunday after being held hostage for 10 months at the hands of the most radical of Syria's jihadist groups, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. According to Didier Francois, 53, an experienced and highly respected war reporter for Europe 1 radio who was kidnapped on June 6 north of Aleppo along with 23-year-old photographer Edouard Elias, the first few days were particularly tough. Francois and Elias were stopped by armed and masked men after they crossed the border into Syria from Turkey.

TeleHealth: Coming to a Smart TV Near You Posted: 21 Apr 2014 12:45 PM PDT More than 40 years ago, large urban hospitals extended care to rural areas via an electronic communications system called telemedicine. Telemedicine has been rapidly changing the way health care is delivered in the United States, giving doctors the ability to communicate with their patients through text and video messages from thousands of miles away in the event that an in-person consultation is either unnecessary or unattainable. The Department of Defense, has utilized the technology for decades in order to provide what officials call cost-effective care to soldiers on and off the battlefield. Now, as budgets tighten and technology evolves, the military has continued beefing up its telemedicine initiatives, which have expanded into the private health care system as well.

Saudi Arabia sentences eight to death for 2003 attacks: SPA Posted: 21 Apr 2014 12:36 PM PDT A Saudi Arabian court on Monday sentenced three more men to death, raising the number of people condemned for their involvement in a suicide attack on expatriate residential compounds in Riyadh in 2003 to eight, the state news agency reported. Another 40 people were sentenced to terms of two to 35 years for assisting the attacks in northeastern Riyadh, which were part of a three-year campaign by al Qaeda that killed hundreds and was aimed at destabilizing U.S. ally Saudi Arabia. Riyadh crushed the campaign in 2006, detaining more than 11,000 people in its security prisons, it has said. The remnants of that al Qaeda group fled to Yemen where in 2009 they joined local militants to form Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, now seen as one of the most dangerous branches of the movement around the world.

9/11 Truther Politicians Posted: 21 Apr 2014 12:30 PM PDT While September 11 conspiracy believers are fringe, they're also bipartisan.

Suicide bombings, attacks in Iraq kill 33 people Posted: 21 Apr 2014 12:21 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Suicide bombings and other attacks across Iraq killed at least 33 people and wounded nearly 80 more on Monday, officials said, the latest in an uptick in violence as the country counts down to crucial parliament elections later this month.

Suicide bombings, attacks in Iraq kill 30 people Posted: 21 Apr 2014 10:45 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Suicide bombings and other attacks across Iraq killed at least 30 people and wounded nearly 70 more on Monday, officials said, the latest in an uptick in violence as the country counts down to crucial parliament elections later this month.

Kuwaiti telcom giant Zain posts 7.5% profit rise in Q1 Posted: 21 Apr 2014 10:16 AM PDT Kuwaiti telecom giant Zain said Monday its net profit rose 7.5 percent on year in the first quarter of 2014, mainly on the back of returns from new technology investments. Zain announced a net profit of 55.9 million dinars ($198.9 million) in the first three months of the year compared with 52 million dinars in the same period of 2013. Zain said it secured two major loans of $800 million and $250 million in the past two months, with the latter borrowed on the basis of Islamic Murabaha. Besides Kuwait, Zain has operations in Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.

Suicide bombings, attacks in Iraq kill 19 people Posted: 21 Apr 2014 04:52 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Suicide bombings and other attacks across Iraq killed at least 19 people and wounded 36 on Monday, officials said, the latest in an uptick in violence as the country counts down to crucial parliament elections later this month.

Suicide attack in Iraq kills at least 9 people Posted: 21 Apr 2014 03:32 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say a suicide attack targeting a police checkpoint outside the capital, Baghdad, has killed at least nine people.

How Obama’s White House Lost Ukraine in a Few Stupid Steps Posted: 21 Apr 2014 02:30 AM PDT No one wants to say so, but the Obama administration has backed the wrong horse in Ukraine, and the misguided wager is a big loss. For a while it was possible to pretend, just barely, that supporting the coup against Viktor Yanukovych, the elected president hounded into exile in February, would prove a sound judgment. Obama always came across as a welterweight in the ring with Vladimir Putin, simply not up to the Russian leader's command of all available moves. But one could imagine Secretary of State Kerry clearing an exit corridor with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Brent dips towards $109 after steep gains, Ukraine supports Posted: 21 Apr 2014 12:46 AM PDT By Manash Goswami SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Brent futures dropped towards $109 a barrel on Monday as investors took profits after steep gains, but uncertainty surrounding the crisis in Ukraine checked the decline. Russia and world powers reached an agreement designed to avert a wider conflict over Ukraine, but the viability of the deal was bought into question after at least three people were killed in a gunfight near a Ukrainian city controlled by pro-Russian separatists. U.S. crude oil futures declined 16 cents to $104.14 a barrel. "The market is being supported by Ukraine although we are seeing some profit-taking coming in after the recent rise," said Ken Hasegawa, a commodity sales manager at brokerage Newedge Japan.

Iraq-Turkey pipeline unusable due to persistent attacks: Turkish minister Posted: 21 Apr 2014 12:44 AM PDT ANKARA (Reuters) - An oil pipeline carrying crude from Iraq's Kirkuk oil fields to Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan is unusable because of persistent militant attacks, Turkey's energy minister said on Monday. "Of course this is a loss for Iraq," Taner Yildiz told reporters, referring to the Baghdad-controlled pipeline, which has been pumping way below its 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) of capacity. (Reporting by Orhan Coskun, Writing by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Crispian Balmer)

Saudi Arabia sentences five to death for 2003 attacks: SPA Posted: 21 Apr 2014 12:09 AM PDT A Saudi Arabian court on Sunday sentenced five men to death for their involvement in a suicide attack on expatriate residential compounds in Riyadh in 2003, the state news agency reported. Another 37 people were sentenced to terms of three to 35 years for assisting the attacks in northeastern Riyadh, which were part of a three-year campaign by al Qaeda that killed hundreds and was aimed at destabilizing U.S. ally Saudi Arabia. Riyadh crushed the campaign in 2006, detaining more than 11,000 people in its security prisons, it has said. The remnants of that al Qaeda group fled to Yemen where in 2009 they joined local militants to form Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, now seen as one of the most dangerous branches of the movement around the world.

Today in History Posted: 20 Apr 2014 09:01 PM PDT Today is Monday, April 21, the 111th day of 2014. There are 254 days left in the year.

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