Tuesday, November 4

by  Associated Press Tuesday, November 4 by The Associated Press, Associated Press - 27 October 2014 19:03-04:00 Today is Tuesday, November 4, the 307th day of 2014. There are 58 days left in the year Highlights in history on this date: 1530 - England's Cardinal Wolsey is arrested for being a traitor. 1547 - England's Parliament repeals the Henrican Act as the first stage in Protestant Reformation. 1879 - The cash register is patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio. 1898 - The French evacuate Fashoda (in Sudan) after British protests. 1921 - Japan's Premier Takashi Hara is assassinated. 1922 - British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in Egypt. 1924 - Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming is elected as United States' first woman governor; she serves the remaining term of William B. Ross, her husband who died in office. 1939 - The United States modifies its neutrality stance in World War II, allowing "cash and carry" purchases of arms by belligerents, a policy favoring Britain and France. 1942 - During World War II, Axis forces retreat from El Alamein in North Africa in a major victory for British forces commanded by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. 1944 - Allies announce that Greece has been liberated from German Nazis in World War II. 1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected U.S. president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson. 1956 - Soviet forces attack Budapest and Hungarian President Imre Nagy takes refuge in the Yugoslav embassy; U.N. General Assembly adopts resolution to send international forces to Middle East. 1964 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is forcibly exiled from Iran. He settles in Iraq. 1975 - United States closes its mission in Angola because of the violent struggle between three rival liberation groups. 1976 - Britain proposes Rhodesian independence under black majority rule by March 1, 1978. 1978 - Egypt's President Anwar Sadat refuses to see delegation of Arab groups opposed to Camp David peace talks with Israel. 1979 - Militants seize U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take the diplomats hostage for 444 days, demanding the ousted Shah of Iran as ransom. 1984 - About 1,000 Sikhs, battered by Hindus outraged over assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, take refuge in Sis Ganj shrine. 1990 - Soldiers assault a crowd demonstrating for political opposition in Zaire's capital, Kinshasa. Dozens of people are wounded and hundreds arrested during the incident. 1991 - Former First Lady Imelda Marcos returns to the Philippines, ending more than five years of exile in the U.S. Her arrival follows the government's decision to endorse her return so that she could be tried on corruption and tax-evasion charges. 1992 - Iran arrests U.S. businessman, Milton Meier, on charges of corruption and espionage. Meier is the first American to be arrested by Iran for spying since 1986. 1993 - Thousands of people who received transfusions demand AIDS tests, terrified they may have been given tainted blood from a company in Germany that was accused of improper testing. 1994 - Serbs attack the town of Bihac, held by Bosnian government troops, with anti-aircraft missiles, damaging 30 to 40 houses. 1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated as he leaves a pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv. 1996 - Tutsi rebels in eastern Congo declare a unilateral cease-fire to allow refugees who want to return to Rwanda to go home. 1997 - The United States announces it has bought 21 MiG-29 jet fighters from former Soviet republics to prevent the advanced planes from ending up in Iran. 1999 - Aaron McKinney, who beat gay college student Matthew Shepard and left him to die on the Wyoming prairie, avoids the death penalty by agreeing to serve life in prison without parole and promising never to appeal his conviction. 2000 - The warring parties in Afghanistan sign a United Nations-sponsored effort to bring peace to the country. 2001 - Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Damascus, Syria, condemn Osama bin Laden, the fugitive who is believed to have masterminded the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. 2002- U.S. forces kill six people, including Qaed Salim Sunian al-Harethi, believed to be a top associate of Osama bin Laden, in Yemen in a missile strike, expanding the campaign against terrorismr with America's first overt attack on suspected al-Qaida operatives outside of Afghanistan. 2003 - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is under investigation by a federal grand jury for its role in employing illegal immigrants. Earlier, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided 61 Wal-Mart stores in 21 states, arresting around 250 illegally employed cleaning workers in the largest mass immigration raid in years. 2004 - Government warplanes bomb the largest city of the rebel-held north, reopening attacks in surprise raids after a year-old ceasefire in Ivory Coast's civil war. 2005 - Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf suspends a major purchase of U.S. fighter planes, explaining that the money is needed for recovery from the recent earthquake. 2006 - Thousands of nationalist Turks march in the capital, vowing to defend the secular regime against radical Islamic influences and urging the government not to make too many concessions in order to gain European Union membership. 2007 - Representatives from the Lord's Resistance Army, an insurgent group, meet with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in the first talks on home soil between the two sides. 2008 - Barack Obama is elected the first black president of the United States. 2009 - An Italian judge finds 23 Americans and two Italians guilty in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program. 2010 — After a tense 95 minutes while the pilots dumped fuel after an engine caught fire and blew out, a massive, double-decker Airbus 380 jetliner — the world's largest — returns safely to Singapore, where it makes an emergency landing with 459 people aboard. 2011 — A Syrian peace plan brokered by the Arab League unravels as security forces kill 15 people, opening fire on thousands of protesters who denounced President Bashar Assad and said he never intended to hold up his end of the deal to end the violence. 2012 — President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney spend their last full day of campaigning before the U.S. election. 2013 — In Tehran's largest anti-U.S. rally in years, tens of thousands of demonstrators join in chants of " death to America" as hard-liners direct a major show of resolve against President Hassan Rouhani's outreach to Washington. Today's Birthdays: Edmund Kean, English actor (1787-1833); Will Rogers, U.S. humorist (1879-1935); Walter Cronkite, U.S. newsman (1916-2009); Sean "Puffy" Combs, U.S. rapper/producer (1969--); Doris Roberts, U.S. actress (1930--). Thought for Today: Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you — Horace, Roman poet (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) News Topics: General news, Presidential elections, 2012 United States Presidential Election, Embassies, United States Presidential Election, War and unrest, Protests and demonstrations, Government and politics, World War II, Crime, Immigration, Peace process, National elections, Elections, Events, International relations, Political and civil unrest, Social issues, Social affairs, Diplomacy People, Places and Companies: Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Dwight Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson III, Ruhollah Khomeini, Indira Gandhi, Imelda Marcos, Yitzhak Rabin, Matthew Shepard, Osama bin Laden, Pervez Musharraf, Yoweri Museveni, Barack Obama, Bashar Assad, Mitt Romney, Hassan Rouhani, Walter Cronkite, United Kingdom, United States, Tehran, England, Egypt, Israel, Syria, Middle East, Iran, North Africa, Western Europe, Europe, North America, Africa Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Ancient shipwreck discovered near aeolian Islands

Divers specially trained in Florida's deep underwater caves have discovered cargo from ancient Greek shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Italy

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Tuesday, November 4

by  Associated Press Tuesday, November 4 by The Associated Press, Associated Press - 27 October 2014 19:03-04:00 Today is Tuesday, November 4, the 307th day of 2014. There are 58 days left in the year Highlights in history on this date: 1530 - England's Cardinal Wolsey is arrested for being a traitor. 1547 - England's Parliament repeals the Henrican Act as the first stage in Protestant Reformation. 1879 - The cash register is patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio. 1898 - The French evacuate Fashoda (in Sudan) after British protests. 1921 - Japan's Premier Takashi Hara is assassinated. 1922 - British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in Egypt. 1924 - Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming is elected as United States' first woman governor; she serves the remaining term of William B. Ross, her husband who died in office. 1939 - The United States modifies its neutrality stance in World War II, allowing "cash and carry" purchases of arms by belligerents, a policy favoring Britain and France. 1942 - During World War II, Axis forces retreat from El Alamein in North Africa in a major victory for British forces commanded by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. 1944 - Allies announce that Greece has been liberated from German Nazis in World War II. 1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected U.S. president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson. 1956 - Soviet forces attack Budapest and Hungarian President Imre Nagy takes refuge in the Yugoslav embassy; U.N. General Assembly adopts resolution to send international forces to Middle East. 1964 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is forcibly exiled from Iran. He settles in Iraq. 1975 - United States closes its mission in Angola because of the violent struggle between three rival liberation groups. 1976 - Britain proposes Rhodesian independence under black majority rule by March 1, 1978. 1978 - Egypt's President Anwar Sadat refuses to see delegation of Arab groups opposed to Camp David peace talks with Israel. 1979 - Militants seize U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take the diplomats hostage for 444 days, demanding the ousted Shah of Iran as ransom. 1984 - About 1,000 Sikhs, battered by Hindus outraged over assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, take refuge in Sis Ganj shrine. 1990 - Soldiers assault a crowd demonstrating for political opposition in Zaire's capital, Kinshasa. Dozens of people are wounded and hundreds arrested during the incident. 1991 - Former First Lady Imelda Marcos returns to the Philippines, ending more than five years of exile in the U.S. Her arrival follows the government's decision to endorse her return so that she could be tried on corruption and tax-evasion charges. 1992 - Iran arrests U.S. businessman, Milton Meier, on charges of corruption and espionage. Meier is the first American to be arrested by Iran for spying since 1986. 1993 - Thousands of people who received transfusions demand AIDS tests, terrified they may have been given tainted blood from a company in Germany that was accused of improper testing. 1994 - Serbs attack the town of Bihac, held by Bosnian government troops, with anti-aircraft missiles, damaging 30 to 40 houses. 1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated as he leaves a pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv. 1996 - Tutsi rebels in eastern Congo declare a unilateral cease-fire to allow refugees who want to return to Rwanda to go home. 1997 - The United States announces it has bought 21 MiG-29 jet fighters from former Soviet republics to prevent the advanced planes from ending up in Iran. 1999 - Aaron McKinney, who beat gay college student Matthew Shepard and left him to die on the Wyoming prairie, avoids the death penalty by agreeing to serve life in prison without parole and promising never to appeal his conviction. 2000 - The warring parties in Afghanistan sign a United Nations-sponsored effort to bring peace to the country. 2001 - Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Damascus, Syria, condemn Osama bin Laden, the fugitive who is believed to have masterminded the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. 2002- U.S. forces kill six people, including Qaed Salim Sunian al-Harethi, believed to be a top associate of Osama bin Laden, in Yemen in a missile strike, expanding the campaign against terrorismr with America's first overt attack on suspected al-Qaida operatives outside of Afghanistan. 2003 - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is under investigation by a federal grand jury for its role in employing illegal immigrants. Earlier, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided 61 Wal-Mart stores in 21 states, arresting around 250 illegally employed cleaning workers in the largest mass immigration raid in years. 2004 - Government warplanes bomb the largest city of the rebel-held north, reopening attacks in surprise raids after a year-old ceasefire in Ivory Coast's civil war. 2005 - Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf suspends a major purchase of U.S. fighter planes, explaining that the money is needed for recovery from the recent earthquake. 2006 - Thousands of nationalist Turks march in the capital, vowing to defend the secular regime against radical Islamic influences and urging the government not to make too many concessions in order to gain European Union membership. 2007 - Representatives from the Lord's Resistance Army, an insurgent group, meet with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in the first talks on home soil between the two sides. 2008 - Barack Obama is elected the first black president of the United States. 2009 - An Italian judge finds 23 Americans and two Italians guilty in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program. 2010 — After a tense 95 minutes while the pilots dumped fuel after an engine caught fire and blew out, a massive, double-decker Airbus 380 jetliner — the world's largest — returns safely to Singapore, where it makes an emergency landing with 459 people aboard. 2011 — A Syrian peace plan brokered by the Arab League unravels as security forces kill 15 people, opening fire on thousands of protesters who denounced President Bashar Assad and said he never intended to hold up his end of the deal to end the violence. 2012 — President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney spend their last full day of campaigning before the U.S. election. 2013 — In Tehran's largest anti-U.S. rally in years, tens of thousands of demonstrators join in chants of " death to America" as hard-liners direct a major show of resolve against President Hassan Rouhani's outreach to Washington. Today's Birthdays: Edmund Kean, English actor (1787-1833); Will Rogers, U.S. humorist (1879-1935); Walter Cronkite, U.S. newsman (1916-2009); Sean "Puffy" Combs, U.S. rapper/producer (1969--); Doris Roberts, U.S. actress (1930--). Thought for Today: Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you — Horace, Roman poet (65 B.C.-8 B.C.) News Topics: General news, Presidential elections, 2012 United States Presidential Election, Embassies, United States Presidential Election, War and unrest, Protests and demonstrations, Government and politics, World War II, Crime, Immigration, Peace process, National elections, Elections, Events, International relations, Political and civil unrest, Social issues, Social affairs, Diplomacy People, Places and Companies: Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Dwight Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson III, Ruhollah Khomeini, Indira Gandhi, Imelda Marcos, Yitzhak Rabin, Matthew Shepard, Osama bin Laden, Pervez Musharraf, Yoweri Museveni, Barack Obama, Bashar Assad, Mitt Romney, Hassan Rouhani, Walter Cronkite, United Kingdom, United States, Tehran, England, Egypt, Israel, Syria, Middle East, Iran, North Africa, Western Europe, Europe, North America, Africa Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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What lies behind the strength of Greek tourism?

Meeting with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras during his official visit to Greece, UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai commended the ...

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Why do Greek Cypriots call Turkey the aggressor?

The Greek Cypriot government therefore considered it to be its indisputable right to negotiate with foreign countries and international companies to ...

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The A-7 Corsair II Finally Takes Its Last Flight After 49 Years

Last week, defense journalist Giovonni Colla spent some time in Greece at Araxos Air Base to capture what would be a bittersweet moment in the ...

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This, Also, Is the Middle East

I reflected the other day on how when I was in Business School in the 1990s, the three immutable laws of the world order were: 1) Japan had won it all; 2) China could never have growth without Jeffersonian Democracy; and 3) India would be a basket case for decades. Of course, a few years later no one was saying any of this. And I can assure you that even when the change was accepted, no one envisioned that within two decades one of the largest initial public offerings of stock in history would be an eCommerce company from China -- and that the vast majority of its value creation relied, in no way, on the West, let alone the United States. This reflection all came to me after giving a talk to 200 or so Washington foreign policy types -- including the next generation -- during which I asked how many knew of Jack Ma (the founder of Ali Baba, the Chinese company described above). Perhaps four hands went up. Personal narratives change slowly, if at all, and institutional narratives even slower still. Thus I should not be surprised that people come up empty when I ask them to guess which region I am describing: where nearly 400 million individuals share the same language and much culturally; has a higher per capital GDP than India or China; has one of the fastest growing Internet adoption rates and smart phone penetration well exceeding 50%; is a mass tourist destination with only a tiny fraction booked online; has a mass consumer base with eCommerce relatively nascent; where 7% of the world seeks content in its language, but such content comprises less than 1% of what is online globally; and, has a hungry new generation, in fact a youth bubble, seeking economic opportunity. They are shocked that I am describing the Middle East. They are shocked because it runs counter to our narratives of historic political unrest, instability and violence. They are shocked because they are flooded today with the terrible reports of ISIS, some 12,000 members strong -- well-armed and well-funded perhaps, and certainly brutal -- without wondering what the 400 million other people in the region may be doing or thinking about each day. They are shocked not because these are some very difficult times in the Arab world -- indeed these are -- but because it is very difficult to hold two conflicting ideas in our minds. The 12,000 or so ISIS members absolutely could fester into something much worse and viral. But 18 months ago I judged a startup competition in Beirut, Lebanon with over 14,000 young people from around the Arab World taking their economic futures into their own hands. A friend of mine was at a TEDx gathering in Cairo last December. In the midst of great turmoil in Egypt, he saw nearly 5,000 kids gathered to solve problems, and over 50,000 Egyptians from across the nation were streaming the event live, wanting to learn more. Last week I attended RiseUp Egypt 2014. Over two days, nearly 4,000 young Egyptians from around the country gathered at the GrEEK Campus, once a part of the American University of Cairo and a baseball throw away from Tahir Square. A leading visionary and venture capitalist, Ahmed Alfi, is making the GrEEK Campus into the largest shared work space in the Middle East, among the dozens that are springing up there. Over 40 journalists were present to cover this amazing event. Guess what? Not one was from the West. It would be naive, and in fact immoral, to NOT concentrate on brutality and unchecked violence. Is it any more so to not understand what new opportunities and tools are available -- and to embrace the new futures they make possible? Here is a little secret we have all learned: as new nations and markets and middle classes rise from difficult and even brutal histories, change is not for the faint of heart. Great displacement and great pain come with it. Repressive regimes don't go quietly into the night in their top-down focus on maintaining control, even as their citizens use bottom-up approaches and the tools of technology to solve their own problems and grasp opportunities in their backyards. They are no longer waiting for permission. But something else is happening also. For the first time in history, the Middle East -- and all emerging worlds -- have progressively ubiquitous access to technology. This is not one more paean to some high-tech utopian wonderment. It is simply a statement of fact: within the decade two-thirds of humanity will have the equivalent of a super computer -- the computing power that put a man on the moon -- in their pockets. They will have unprecedented access to each other, to ideas that worked elsewhere and that they now know can work for them, to essentially all of human knowledge at their fingertips. They will use even basic technology -- a texting-capable, old-school phone -- to move money and simple crafts to markets they could never before reach. They will have access to supplemental education in ways once reserved only for the wealthy to compensate for their failing education systems. They will find clever ways to address problems because millions of more people with great talent and genius -- who have always been there -- can now engage. I can't tell you what Syria or Iraq will look like in a year, let alone three. But I can tell you with 100% certainty that what I wrote is true now and will only expand in coming years. How and whether we choose to understand this new narrative is up to us, but it is also an exercise in engaging in a world as it is rather than what we fear it must always be. This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post and Education For Employment (EFE), a non-profit focused on creating job opportunities for unemployed youth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Conflict and upheaval have dominated the news on MENA in 2014, and some see a region spiraling into chaos. But beneath the alarm bells, some digital pioneers are doubling down on their bets that the region's next generation could have a brighter future tied to technology and skills. For more information on EFE, read here.

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