The Obamas read Where The Wild Things Are, Easter 2016
And people wonder why i love them
I am going to miss them… So much…
Look Hitler made a pretty painting and didn’t eat the animals, i miss him already.
The Obamas read Where The Wild Things Are, Easter 2016
And people wonder why i love them
I am going to miss them… So much…
Look Hitler made a pretty painting and didn’t eat the animals, i miss him already.
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- After two years’ absence, France, Britain and Spain have sent ambassadors to Libya to show solidarity with the UN-backed unity government
- Long read: Libya’s feared mukhabarat has reassembled to fight the Islamic State
- The US is reviewing its Sinai peacekeeping mission.
- Two French soldiers died in Mali after their vehicle struck a landmine.
- Boko Haram has increased its use of child suicide bombers elevenfold over the past year. One in five attacks are carried out by a child, many of them girls and many of them drugged.
- A video appears to show the missing Chibok girls.
- 2,000 Zimbabweans turned up to protest President Mugabe in the capital.
- “Blood flows everywhere in Burundi, that’s how things are.”
- Burundian activists work to highlight the increased rate of police and intelligence agencies disappearing citizens.
- Yemeni forces took Houta from al-Qaeda.
- Advocacy groups are challenging Britain on its assertion that Saudi Arabia’s coalition isn’t targeting civilians in Yemen.
- Long read: It is vastly easier to join up with the Islamic State than it is to defect from it.
- The Islamic State continues to expand despite significant military setbacks.
- Long read: women who escape the Islamic State’s enslavement bring scars and trauma with them, but also children.
- Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad poked back at the ongoing peace talks by holding elections.
- Syrians are increasingly angry at Al Qaeda-linked Jabhat Al-Nusra for their heavy-handed tactics.
- In an apparent collapse of the ceasefire, fighting has escalated in Syria.
- Long read: Top secret documents link Assad to torture and murder.
- Interview: Filmmaker Zaina Erhaim on the female citizen journalists reporting the conflict in Syria.
- The Syrian government released photographer Kevin Patrick Dawes.
- Political crisis grows in Iraq.
- The Kurds are carving out online autonomy with a new .krd domain name.
- Russia delivered the first part of the S-300 defense system to Iran.
- Iranian general Qassem Soleimani is reportedly in Moscow for talks.
- The Afghan air force reportedly killed 40 Islamic State militants in eastern Nangarhar province.
- Afghanistan struggles with the weight of its internal refugee crisis.
- A heavily redacted document shows a link between Pakistani intelligence and a 2009 suicide attack against CIA operatives in Afghanistan.
- It looks like North Korea tried and failed to launch a missile to mark the birth of its founding leader, Kim Il Sung.
- The US began joint patrols with the Philippines in the South China Sea and is increasing its presence in the region.
- In-depth: How the Islamic State plotted under Europe’s gaze.
- Belgian authorities arrested Mohamed Abrini in connection with the November Paris attacks, later confirming he was the “man in the hat” from the Brussels attacks.
- Long read: One woman helped the mastermind of the Paris attacks evade capture; one woman turned him in.
- Two Russian Sukhoi SU-24 warplanes flew simulated attack passes aggressively close to US guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea.
- Britain has reportedly long aided the US and NATO in maintaining a “kill list” of suspected terrorists and drug traffickers, says Reprieve.
- Interactive: Who will be the next UN Secretary-General?
- The use of drugs to enhance soldiers’ performance in war has wide, long history.
- Long read: 28 years later, ProPublica connects a Houston suicide to a string of terror attacks targeting Vietnamese-American journalists in the 1980s.
- Interview: Vox interviews US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.
Photo: Benghazi, Libya. Forces loyal to Libya’s eastern government crouch near the cement factory amid clashes with the Shura Council of Libyan Revolutionaries, an alliance of anti-Gaddhafi rebels and Ansar al-Sharia. Stringer/Reuters.
Thích Quảng Đức a Buddhist Monk who self-immolated in protest of the South Vietnam government’s persecution of Buddhists. Moments before his act of protest. June 11, 1963
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Doctor Ron Pawl is a shoulder cat!!!! He jumped up and hung out there for a while! He didn’t even scratch me on his way up
Oh also Ron is a girl