Thursday, June 30, 2016

USA - Senate passes Puerto Rico financial rescue bill: Al Jazeera English

Published on 30 Jun 2016
The US Senate has passed a bill to help Puerto Rico deal with crippling debt. The island owes creditors more than 70 billion dollars and is expected to miss a two billion dollar repayment on Friday.

Puerto Rico has lost around 10 percent of its population over the past decade, with many moving to Florida for better opportunities.

Al Jazeera's Andy Gallacher reports.

#USA - Oscars Invites 683 New Members to the Academy: ABC News

Published on 30 Jun 2016
The motion picture academy invites more members, in a new push for diversity.

#UK - Theresa May Full Candidacy Campaign Speech: Sky News

Published on 30 Jun 2016
Theresa May's full speech to launch her Conservative leadership campaign

Enertopia (CNSX:TOP) "very excited" by first analysis numbers for lithium recovery from brine: ProactiveInvestors Stocktube

Published on 29 Jun 2016
Robert McAllister, chief executive at Enertopia (CNSX:TOP, OTCBB:ENRT) talks to Proactive Investors about the group's deal with a leading North American brine water recovery for lithium recovery.

"We've been looking at how we can recover lithium in the most economically and environmentally-sensitive way to make sure we're on site for a better environment and also to make money for our shareholders. So we decided that brine, from all our research, was the cheapest way to extract lithium and improving on that we've looked at technology around the world for water processing. Our clean energy partners of the last several years then steered us in the direction of this company," he explains.

McAllister says he is "very excited" by the first analysis numbers for lithium recovery from brine.

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#Turkey - Suspects Detained After #AtaturkAirport Istanbul Raids: Associated Press

Published on 30 Jun 2016
Turkish state media reports 13 suspects were detained in connection with the Istanbul Airport attack. Police in Istanbul conducted raids on Thursday, targeting Islamic State group suspects. (June 30)

#Afghanistan - military convoy attacked in Wardak by suicide bomber, 40 suspected dead: Oneindia News

Published on 30 Jun 2016
Suicide bomber targets a bus of Afghan military convoy carrying policemen from Wardak province to Kabul, killing as many as 40 people. No group has claimed the responsibility so far.

#UK - Brexit family divide: BBC News

Published on 29 Jun 2016
The Hannons are just one of many families in the UK dealing with the fallout from the EU referendum. They are seven people divided by the outcome they backed last week. Connor, 20, is the middle child of five and like most of his siblings he wanted to remain. But his parents Anne and Mike disagreed and the debate goes on.
According to YouGov data, 75% of young people aged 18-24 voted to remain, but only 39% of those over 65 did the same. We joined the Hannons in their home in Salford to find out why their age seems to divide them. 

Video produced by India Rakusen and Alvaro A Ricciardelli







#Ukraine - Opera Singer Shot Dead in Donbas: Vasyl Slipak quit French opera to fight for Ukraine: UKRAINE TODAY

Published on 29 Jun 2016
Famous Ukrainian opera singer Vasyl Slipak died in the eastern Ukraine. Local media report Slipak was killed on June 29th in a warzone, shot by a sniper using a full-bore rifle near the village of Luhanske at about 6 am.

He returned back in Ukraine two years ago. Having live in France for nearly two decades, Slipak became at first the voice of Ukrainian local Maidan in Paris. 2,500 km from home, he sang the national anthem of Ukraine symbolizing the unbreakable spirit of his compatriots and trying to show his homeland is suffering from invasion.

This is already a charitable concert, Slipak performing in a T-shirt with a trident and a specific Ukrainian patriot's haircut. The money he gets for singing opera artist gives to the children of the killed soldiers and finances the army.

In 2015 Vasyl Slipak told in the interview he has no moral right to remain in France, since Ukraine has to struggle with outer enemies. Before departing to the frontline he was awarded with a medal.

Vasyl Slipak was shot close to the occupied town of Debaltseve, while the Russian-backed separatist forces started advancing using the heavy weapon and mortars. The blood brothers of Vasyl' Slipak say his songs about courageous warriors have become his final prophecy