Tuesday, June 21, 2016

#Belgium - Brussels returns to normal after earlier lockdown: euronews (in English)

Published on 21 Jun 2016
* Alarm raised at rush-hour on Tuesday
* City 2 shopping centre and area sealed off
* 26-year-old man arrested *What is happening?*

The Brussels prosecutor says no explosives were found on a man arrested in an anti-terrorism operation in the centre of the Belgian capital.

A man had earlier contacted police to say he was strapped with explosives that were rigged to detonate remotely.

Streets around the City 2 shopping centre in Brussels were sealed off after the alarm was raised.

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George Soros Says "Brexit' Would Cause World Markets to Collapse: TheStreet

Published on 21 Jun 2016
Billionaire investor George Soros is issuing a stark warning if Britain would vote this week to leave the European Union. He says Britain leaving the E.U. would lead to a currency and stock market disaster. He predicts a "Brexit' would cause the sterling to drop quickly, even more so than when the pound crashed in 1992-a move that made him a billionaire. Currency traders are placing bets against "Brexit' ahead of Thursday's vote. Homebuilder Lennar


Published on 21 Jun 2016
A Brexit won't be worse than the crisis in the early 1990s, when the pound collapsed following Britain's exit of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, as billionaire George Soros suggested in an op-ed Monday. 'It won't be pretty for the pound - whether it's going to compare with the crisis in the 90s which Soros made his fame, perhaps not,' said Simon Smith, chief economist at FxPro, based in London. Soros made over $1 billion in the early 90s, betting against the pound. The referendum is held on Thursday.

#USA - Inside San Diego's $810m human trafficking industry: The Guardian

Published on 21 Jun 2016
Considered among the best cities to work and live in the US, San Diego also ranks in the FBI’s 13 highest-intensity trafficking areas in the country.

#UK - What happens if the UK Brexits: CNNMoney

Published on 20 Jun 2016
CNNMoney's Nina dos Santos explains what technically happens if the United Kingdom votes to exit the EU according to Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union.