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Melting ice caps could lead radioactive waste to the ocean
Another disturbing side effect of Global Warming

 Nuuk, Aug.15.─ A new scandal involving the US in Greenland has bubbled to the surface following the revelations that radioactive waste from a former top secret military base could find its way to the ocean due to the melting icecaps.

The base in question, Camp Century, was established under the ice east of the Thule Air Base in 1959 by the US Army. It used a mobile atomic reactor as an energy source for the around 200 soldiers and researchers who resided there.

• The delegation from the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations led by Representative Kay Granger is visiting Latvia from Aug. 15 to 16  

Riga, Aug.15.─ The delegation also includes Representative Steve Womack. This visit is part of a bigger trip, which will also include visits to Germany and Kuwait.

While in Latvia, the delegation plan to meet with the representatives of the Latvian parliament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Defense.

Taipei, Aug.13.─ Confirmation that the visiting Shanghai delegation to the cross-strait cities forum in Taipei would be led by a member of a political organization tasked with "united front" tactics was downplayed by Taipei officials Friday. 

Sha Hailin (沙海林) of the Shanghai Municipal Committee is a member of the United Front Work Department (UFWD, 中共中央統戰部), a special organ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The French are growing impatient with lofty calls to persevere against terror

 Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.─ No target is too soft for killers inspired by Islamic State. On July 26th in this small town in Normandy, two knife-wielding terrorists entered a church. They took hostage the 85-year-old priest celebrating mass and the tiny congregation, two nuns and two parishioners. They slit Father Jacques Hamel’s throat as he knelt before the altar. Police shot and killed the terrorists; one other hostage was critically injured. The jihadists’ “barbaric attack on a church”, as the prime minister, Manuel Valls, put it, recast France’s conflict with terror as a primitive war of religion.

The murder added to the nation’s sense of siege. Less than two weeks had elapsed since the horror of Nice, when a man of Tunisian origin killed 84 people by driving a lorry through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day. The mood of defiant solidarity forged after last year’s Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan attacks in Paris is eroding.