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Zxwk Cambodia Is a Deadly Political Mess That the World Completely IgnoresA ceremony at the Armenian Martyrs memorial, north of Beirut on April 23, 2015.Joseph Eid鈥擜FP/Getty ImagesBy Rebecca Collard / BeirutApril 24, 2015 12:14 PM EDTFor four y stanley cup ears Krikor held out. Twice shells hit his home in Aleppo and he rebuilt it. His wife had shrapnel lodged in her leg and chest after a bomb tore down their neighborrsquohouse, but the family refused to leave their home in the cityrsquoArmenian quarter. Then, two weeks ago, as opposition forces escalated their offensive on regime-held areas of Aleppo, one of his closest friends and daughter stanley cupnearly died in a bombing. He rushed them to hospital and watched as they clung to life. T stanley cup hree days later Krikor packed his wife and two daughters into a taxi and fled for Lebanon.Life had become unbearable, says Krikor. Things had been bad for a while. Eight months ago it became too dangerous for him to go to his auto supply shop that had supported his family for decades. His relatives have been kidnapped by rebels and killed by snipers in the streets. It wasnrsquo;t that he didnrsquo;t have the $400 for the trip to Beirut, but as the grandson of Armenian refugees who fled their homes 100 years ago this month, he was raised on stories of displacement, refuge and an exile that never ended.On April 24 each year, the Armenian diaspora commemorates what they say was genocide against their people by the Turkish leaders of the Ottoman Empire. As many as 1.5 million Armenians were killed and thousands sentLuwq How Manchester Came Together to Help in Aftermath of Ariana Grande Concert Bombing
An artist rendering shows theyeezy first image of a new Northrop Grumman Corp long-range bomber B21, released on Feb. 26, 2016.U.S. Air Force鈥擱eutersBy Mark ThompsonFebruary 29, 2016 12:01 PM ESTTherersquoa long history of naming weapons of war. The Army names its classes of tanks after fabled generalsSherman, Patton, Abrams , while the Navymdash;because it gives a name to each of its warshipsmdash;has a litany of nomenclature traditions and guidelines to follow.The Air Force splits the difference. Historically, it has named each kind of warplane it fliesthe F-15 Eagle fighter, the Q-1 Predator drone . But as theyrsquo;ve gotten more costly it also been giving each plane a name. Most $2 billion B-2 Spirit bombers, for example, are also named after states. Many $300 million C-17 Globemaster III cargo planes also carry a Spirit of name.And then, of course, there are the unofficial, and often more entertaining, nicknames assigned by the airmen who fly and fix themthe A-10 attack plane official nickname is Thunderbolt II, compar yeezy ed to the more beloved, descriptive, and widel af1 y-used, Warthog.Well, like parents debating the right name for a soon-to-be-born child, the Air Force is seeking just the right name for its new B-21 bomber. The Air Force plans to spend up to $90 billion on 100 of the Northrop Grumman planes, and hopes to have them operational in about a decade. At nearly $1 billion apiece, it lik
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