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Update: January 13, 2016 NFL: Rams will return to Los Angeles for 2016 season, history of NFL mergers and Super Bowl https://dilemma-x.net/2016/01/13/nfl-rams-will-return-to-los-angeles-for-2016-season-history-of-nfl-mergers-and-super-bowl/ ____________ An NFL team in Los Angeles? Oakland or St. Louis – New stadiums in Atlanta and Minneapolis update Eisner: NFL team would boost downtown Los Angeles Michael R. Blood Associated Press Michael […]

UN Committee Against Torture’s Concluding Observations Sweden, Ukraine, Venezuela, Australia, Burundi, USA, Croatia and Kazakhstan GENEVA- The Committee against Torture considered the combined third to fifth periodic report of the United States of America at its 1264th and 1267th meetings, held on 12 and 13 November 2014, and adopted the concluding observations at its 1276th […]

The season of blackface, in parts of Europe, returns- Zwarte Piet Black Pete Racist? ‘Zwarte Piet’ Controversy Leads To 90 Arrests In Netherlands By Howard Koplowitz International Business Times Protesters disrupted a pre-Christmas celebration Saturday in the Netherlands that uses “Black Petes” to accompany St. Nicholas, leading to 90 arrests in the Dutch town of […]

Ethiopia plans debut dollar-bond joining Ghana, Kenya By Lyubov Pronina Bloomberg Ethiopia plans to sell its first dollar bond as Africa’s fastest-growing economy exploits record demand for the continent’s debt. Ethiopia picked Deutsche Bank AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co. for fixed-income investor meetings in Europe and the U.S. beginning tomorrow, according to a person […]

U.S. Department of Education releases data on higher education enrollments from Fall 2013 The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) In 2013, there was a total of 20,847,787 students enrolled in high education. Of these 2,790,255 were Black or African American. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting, […]

China Railway Construction wins $12 billion Nigeria deal The $11.97 billion deal marks China’s largest single overseas contract project so far, it said, citing CRCC. The rail will link Lagos, the financial capital of Africa’s largest economy and leading oil producer, and Calabar in the east Reuters BEIJING- China Railway Construction Corp. Ltd. (CRCC) has […]

Comet landing: Philae detects organic molecules on the surface of comet By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC The Philae lander has detected organic molecules on the surface of its comet, scientists have confirmed. Carbon-containing “organics” are the basis of life on Earth and may give clues to chemical ingredients delivered to our planet early in […]

Argentina receives second currency swap from China Reuters BUENOS AIRES – Argentina’s central bank on Monday, 17 November 2014 received the second installment of a currency swap from China worth $500 million at a time when the South American country is battling to shore up its ailing foreign reserves. In default on its debt and […]

Housing jewel emerges in Johannesburg City of Johannesburg Johannesburg Executive Mayor Cllr Mpho Parks Tau unveiled a R1.95 billion (US$173.85 million) mixed residential development in South Hills, southern Johannesburg, in a move aimed at reversing apartheid’s spatial planning and integrating communities. “People who used to say the South is long dead and buried had better […]

European Space Agency lands Rosetta’s Philae probe on comet European Space Agency ESA’s Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved. After a tense wait during the seven-hour descent to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the signal confirming the successful […]