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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks as he heads a meeting on the Russian plane crash in Egypt, in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, early Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. The head of Russia's FSB security service says the crash of the passenger plane in Egypt was the result of a 'terrorist' act. Alexander Bortnikov told Putin on Tuesday that a homemade explosive device blew up on the plane. All 224 people on board the plane, most of them Russian tourists, were killed in the Oct. 31 crash. (Alexei Nikolsky/SPUTNIK, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin: ISIS Financed From 40 Countries, Including G20 Members

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Anonymous Identified 900 ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts And Now They’ve Been Suspended

The group wants to ‘unite humanity’ in an effort to bring Isis down after militants took the lives of 129 people on Friday.

Metro
Por Metro
Activists of the international network "Anonymous" pose behind their masks August 14, 2008. (Photo Michael Gottschalk/file)

Around 900 ISIS-related Twitter accounts have been suspended after Anonymous posted a list of them online. The internet-based vigilantes have already waged cyber war on Isis. Now the group have delivered their first blow with their warning message ‘expect us!’ placed just above the list of names. The group wants to ‘unite humanity’ in

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All Paris Attackers Identified So Far Are European Nationals, Not Refugees

“It is all EU citizens so far. This can change with the hours, but so far it is quite clear it is an issue of internal domestic security.”

Justin Salhani | ThinkProgress
Por Justin Salhani | ThinkProgress
Syrian refugee Isra Abomosa, 18, carries belongings before boarding a train to Vannes, western France, in the Montparnasse railway station, in Paris, France .Her slain husband, bombed-out Damascus home and refugee life are behind her. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

All of the attackers from Friday’s massacre in Paris so far have been identified as European Union nationals, according to a top EU official. The announcement further casts doubt on the validity of a Syrian passport found near the bodies of a slain attacker. “Let me underline, the profile of the terrorists so far identified tells us this is an

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France Deploys 10,000 Troops To Patrol Streets In Wake of Paris Attacks

These soldiers will be granted relatively unprecedented powers as Parliament and President Hollande look to amend the 1955 State of Emergency law, which was last used in 2005 when the government looked to silence anti-police brutality riots.

Jake Anderson
Por Jake Anderson
A soldier patrols in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum in Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. France made an unprecedented demand on Tuesday for its European Union allies to support its military action against the Islamic State group as it launched new airstrikes on the militants' Syrian stronghold. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

(ANTIMEDIA) — As the dust settles in the wake of the Paris terror attacks, the world continues to watch the reaction of the French government. Over the weekend, President Francois Hollande launched military strikes in coordination with U.S. forces. Additional measures announced include the deployment of 10,000 troops around the country; the

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Activists Occupy The Minneapolis Police Department After Shooting Of Jamar Clark

“This is a part of a pattern of police abuse that’s been going on for decades in the city of Minneapolis,” the president of the local chapter of the NAACP told MintPress.

Kit O'Connell
Por Kit O'Connell
A group of protesters gather at the front entrance to the 4th Police Precinct station, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, in Minneapolis, after a man was shot by Minneapolis police early Sunday morning. Community members and activists on Monday at a news conference demanded that police release the name of the officer involved as well as any video of the incident. (AP Photo/Kyle Potter)

MINNEAPOLIS --- After the weekend shooting of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis, protesters camped overnight in a local police station, saying that they won’t leave until they receive justice. Jamar Clark is on life support after the shooting, which took place early Sunday morning at the intersection of James and Plymouth Aves. in North

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The FBI Let Jared Fogle Molest Children For Years During Undercover Investigation

The journalist who wore a wire to investigate Fogle believes the former Subway spokesman targeted at least 14 children in Thailand and the United States for sexual assault.

MintPress News Desk
Por MintPress News Desk
Subway restaurant spokesman Jared Fogle walks to a waiting car as he leaves his home, in Zionsville, Ind. A raid at Fogle's home on Tuesday is just the latest bad news to hit the ubiquitous sandwich chain. The company has been struggling with sales, its CEO is being treated for cancer and it’s trying to convince customers about the quality and value of its food. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

ZIONSVILLE, Indiana --- It’s often been said that the wheels of justice turn slowly and the case of former Subway sandwich shop spokesperson Jared Fogle, who recently pleaded guilty to sex with minors, is an unfortunate example of the cost of that creeping pace. In August, Fogle agreed to plead guilty to possession of child pornography and sex

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Are We Careening Toward WWIII?

“Narratives are a product of a media system, of a controlled corporate media matrix. And that is really what we have in the United States and in the West, generally speaking. … The media is an appendage of the ruling establishment, the public relations arm of the imperial system.”

Mnar Adley
Por Mnar Adley
South Korea and U.S. warships participate in their joint military drill Foal Eagle in South Korea's West sea. (AP Photo/South Korea Navy via Yonhap)

MINNEAPOLIS --- The late German statesman Konrad Adenauer once said: “History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.” Adenauer was speaking in the post-World War II period, but with Cold War rhetoric being bandied about again today across the media airwaves with “Russian Aggression” as the main talking point by pundits-- it

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