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US special forces ‘secretly helping’ Saudis fight Houthis 0

US special forces ‘secretly helping’ Saudis fight Houthis

The US deployed a team of Special Forces soldiers to Saudi Arabia’s border with Yemen to help locate and destroy caches of ballistic missiles used by Houthi rebels to attack the Saudi capital, Riyadh, according to a New York Times report. The newspaper, citing unnamed US officials and European diplomats, said on Thursday that a…

Why Amazon’s Audible Is Cheering a Horse in the Kentucky Derby 0

Why Amazon’s Audible Is Cheering a Horse in the Kentucky Derby

Twenty horses will meet on the track at Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. But only one of them, however, has social media support and sponsorship deal with audio books app Audible—acquired by Amazon in 2008 for $300 million. The horse’s name is Audible, and according to the New York Times, his odds…

A worn ELN kidnap victim is dealing with deportation from the UK 0

A worn ELN kidnap victim is dealing with deportation from the UK

Fredy Celis and his wife Diana Pineros had built themselves successful careers in their home city of Bogota, Colombia. Celis owned a restaurant and an import and export company, while Pineros worked in logistics. Yet these professional successes brought them unwanted attention in July 2015 when Celis began receiving anonymous phone calls demanding protection money.…

UAE forces ‘bewitch’ sea and airports on Yemen’s Socotra 0

UAE forces ‘bewitch’ sea and airports on Yemen’s Socotra

United Arab Emirates forces have occupied sea and airports on Yemen’s remote island of Socotra, a day after deploying four military craft and more than 100 troops there, according to a Yemeni government official. Condemning the move as an « act of aggression », the official said UAE soldiers also blocked Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr, Yemen’s prime minister, and…

Ukip likens itself to the ‘murky death’ as Tories have about off Labour field 0

Ukip likens itself to the ‘murky death’ as Tories have about off Labour field

It’s been a long night for everyone involved (Picture: Metro.co.uk)Ukip has compared itself to the ‘black death’ following a night of local elections that saw the Conservatives see off a challenge from Labour. The pro-Brexit party was nearly wiped across the country, leaving the Greens to stake a claim at being England’s fourth party. Ukip…

20 actors you forgot had been British 0

20 actors you forgot had been British

1 of 20 Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images Jamie Dornan Don’t let Fifty Shades fool you: Jamie Dornan hails not from the Pacific Northwest, but from Northern Ireland.  Advertisement 2 of 20 Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Hugh Laurie  Dr. Gregory House is English! Surprise!  3 of 20 Phillip Massey/Getty Images Kim Cattrall Samantha Jones may be a diehard Manhattanite,…

Dicke Luft bei Berliner SPD vor Vorstandswahl 0

Dicke Luft bei Berliner SPD vor Vorstandswahl

Zwischen dem SPD-Landeschef Michael Müller und dem Partei-Vize Mark Rackles sei das Tischtuch zerschnitten. So fasste ein Genosse nach der Krisensitzung des Geschäftsführenden Landesvorstands, der sich am Freitag mit den zwölf Kreischefs traf, die Diskussion zusammen. Rackles wiederholte bei dem Treffen seine scharfe Kritik am Zustand der Berliner SPD und deren Landesvorsitzendem Müller. Er gestand…

Roma charged by UEFA 0

Roma charged by UEFA

Roma and Liverpool have both been charged by UEFA for setting off fireworks in the second leg of their Champions League semi-final. The Giallorossi won 4-2 on Wednesday night, but that wasn’t enough to see them through to the final after their 5-2 first leg loss. Today UEFA has released its disciplinary report, and it…