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yournewswire-com 

Chinese Billionaire Says US Wasted $14 Trillion On War In Last 30 Years

Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Alibaba — the Chinese company that surpassed Wal-Mart as the world’s largest retailer in 2016 — said the United States wasted $14 trillion dollars wasted on warfare in the last 30 years, money that should have been spent on domestic infrastructure and programs for the people instead. During an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Ma about his thoughts on the American economy and how it relates to China. Читать дальше...

Zee News (zeenews.india.com) 

UNLF militant, arms smugglers held in Manipur

Two women arms smugglers and an illegal manufacturer of weapons were arrested and a six 9-mm pistols, five magazines and a live round seized by a combined team of Assam Rifles and Manipur police.

Sputnik International 

Syria's Lost Generation: No Future for Country Where Children Get No Education

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned of a risk of a lost generation of Syrian children: a total of 2.7 million Syrian children are missing out on an education due to the conflict. Radio Sputnik spoke with UNICEF's Najwa Mekki, who confirmed that the country's would-be students have found themselves in dire conditions.

Stars and Stripes 

Ohio school shooting 'could have been much worse,' authorities say

A school shooting that left one student hospitalized and others scrambling out classroom windows could have been far worse if not for the heroics of staff members who stopped the shooter and had him pinned down when police arrived, authorities said.

Yahoo Autos 

"I saw intestines on the ground" - aid worker recalls Nigerian refugee camp bombing

By Kieran Guilbert MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid worker Alfred Davies and his colleagues were providing vaccinations and giving out food in a refugee camp in northeast Nigeria when he noticed the buzzing of a plane passing overhead. "Glass shattered, roofs collapsed and people were screaming and crying," Davies, a project co-ordinator for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. "I saw people with their bellies open, and intestines on the ground," the Liberian aid worker said. Читать дальше...

Tubantia 

'Meer vrouwen economisch zelfstandig’

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Meer vrouwen zijn economisch zelfstandig geworden en hoewel mannen gemiddeld nog steeds meer verdienen dan vrouwen, worden de verschillen in salaris kleiner, schrijft minister Jet Bussemaker (Emancipatie) zaterdag in een brief aan de Tweede Kamer.