Retaken several villages and parts of a highway near the town. Sinjar is along a road that links raqqa in Northern Syria with iraqs secondlargest city, mosul. Rauk sa is the groups proclaimed capital. The kurds believe if the mission succeeds theyll be able to sever the Islamic State groups supply route for weapons and personnel. Much of sinjar has been under the militant groups control since august of last year. Militants killed many members of the minority yazidi sect living in the town claiming they worshipped the devil. They abducted thousands of women and displaced others. Reports say yazidis are participating in the latest operation to take back their hometown. The Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in lebanon. Two explosions tore through a suburb in southern beirut. 43 were killed and nearly 240 others were wounded. The explosions hit minutes apart during rush hour in an area considered a stronghold of the Islamist Group hezbollah. Islam
Town. Sinjar is along a road that links raqqa in Northern Syria with iraqs secondlargest city, mosul. Rauk sa is the groups proclaimed capital. The kurds believe if the mission succeeds theyll be able to sever the Islamic State groups supply route for weapons and personnel. Much of sinjar has been under the militant groups control since august of last year. Militants killed many members of the minority yazidi sect living in the town claiming they worshipped the devil. They abducted thousands of women and displaced others. Reports say yazidis are participating in the latest operation to take back their hometown. The Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for suicide bombings in lebanon. Two explosions tore through a suburb in southern beirut. 43 were killed and nearly 240 others were wounded. The explosions hit minutes apart during rush hour in an area considered a stronghold of the Islamist Group hezbollah. Islamic state militants posted a message online saying two mem
Security forces also detained more than 43 Islamic State militants in the central city and the southeastern province. The explosions occurred near a peace rally in central ankara where participants were protesting against a recent series of clashes between Government Forces and kurdish militant groups. The blast killed 97 people and wounded 246 others. Turkish authorities believe two male suicide bombers carried out the attacks. Theyre focusing their investigation on the Islamic State Group Kurdish militants and extreme leftist organizations. Crowds of mourners have gathered in ankara for the funeral of the victims. Thousands attended one service at a hillside cemetery. Public criticism of the government is mounting. People are arguing that it is the hardline stance taken by the government that has encouraged insurgents to conduct terrorist attacks. Activists are calling on people to take part in fresh waves of antigovernment rallies planned for monday in istanbul and elsewhere around
You cant believe how excited people are to see you. They came for you and no other offer could have done this. Tell thats my daughter. They are not impressed . Ii want to talk about this idea of why we are so intrigued by the idea of the doomed ship. Is it something about the adventure and optimist colliding with the tragedies of the passengers dont know there sailing into. The collision of those ideas. You know, i often wonder about that myself. I have this maritime thing. The flying dutchman, but i think what happens is something about the idea being way in the middle of the ocean with no help available, that is at least what taps into my mind frame. The isolation of it. The glamour of the crossing and then suddenly some catastrophe. For me it is also because of my scandinavian roots, but [applause] you have won them over. He had the scandinavian. There probably 300 are cautions. But you know, i dont know how my forebears wound up landlocked. Im sure you know something about the wrec
Free packet of sugar for stepping in the door. You dont seem particularly grateful. So, were thinking about how we are affected by the past. To do what i had just done, handing out a quarter cup of sugar to people who are not my close personal friends, to do that, hand out a quarter cups worth of sugar, this was the middle ages in europe. That is an incredibly extravagant gift. Sugar, in the 1300s, was a rare and expensive good. It was treated as medicine. It was prized and available only to the richest of the rich in western europe. To hand out the small amount i gave you would have been seen as an extravagant thing. Today, it is so common. It is so much a part of our diets. You can go into a gas station and grab a handful and take it with you. I paid for these. Sugar is so cheap and common, it is tougher to avoid it. Is there anyone who has had to give up refined sugar for dietary reasons . How easy was it . Terrible. Prof. Paulett right, its hard. Its in everything. Medicine and pil