Friday, March 17, 2017

Let them NOT eat cake: Venezuelan bakers face the president in ‘bread war’

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Let them NOT eat cake: Venezuelan bakers face the president in ‘bread war’

Let them NOT eat cake: Venezuelan bakers face the president in ‘bread war’An organization that represents Venezuela’s baking industry is pushing back against President Nicolas Maduro’s crackdown on bakeries and bakers, whom he has blamed for the country’s bread shortage. Earlier this week Maduro charged that bakers are waging a “bread war” by illegally using government-imported flour to make expensive sweet breads and croissants.


Canadian man charged in Yahoo hack loves fancy cars, parties

Canadian man charged in Yahoo hack loves fancy cars, partiesBy Alastair Sharp HAMILTON, Ontario (Reuters) - The Canadian charged in connection with a massive hack of Yahoo accounts that the United States says was a Russian plot is a young man who has boasted on social media of his wealth and love of expensive cars, online accounts show. Karim Baratov, a 22-year-old dual Kazakh-Canadian citizen, is fighting extradition to face U.S. charges he was paid by Russian intelligence agents to break into email accounts. The 2014 theft of 500 million Yahoo Inc accounts was at the time the largest ever such breach.


Chief: Apartment building inspected 50 times before blaze

Chief: Apartment building inspected 50 times before blazeRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An apartment building under construction in North Carolina's capital city had been inspected 50 times, most recently on Monday, before it went up in flames near an entertainment district, the fire chief said Friday.


U.S. Would Consider Pre-Emptive Strike on North Korea

U.S. Would Consider Pre-Emptive Strike on North KoreaSecretary of State Rex Tillerson says "all of the options are on the table."


Trade war drives fresh wedge between Ukraine and rebels

Trade war drives fresh wedge between Ukraine and rebelsIt was always an uncomfortable paradox for Ukraine's warring sides: while Kiev and Russian-backed rebels battled each other for nearly three years, trade kept flowing across the frontline. Now even those tenuous links have finally ruptured after Ukraine's leader Petro Poroshenko ordered a halt to all goods deliveries to the eastern separatist regions, ramping up tensions in the festering conflict. The move was a last resort for Kiev, as coal from their former industrial heartland remains a key energy source and authorities are reluctant to sever the few threads binding the insurgent fiefdoms to Ukraine.


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