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Award-winning war correspondent Michael Hastings dies in Los Angeles car crash
The award-winning American war correspondent Michael Hastings, 33, died in a car crash in Los Angeles. Described as a "fearless journalist", the news of his death was announced by his employer ...
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Defense officials Four US troops killed in Afghanistan
The Afghan Taliban have claimed responsibility for an attack that killed four US troops on the same day that peace talks between America and the group were ...
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Militants Breach U.N. Compound in Mogadishu
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UN compound in Somalia attacked
Security agents arrive to secure the United Nations compound following a suicide bomb attack in the capital Mogadishu, June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Omar Faruk MOGADISHU - Islamist militants carried out their first major assault for years on a U.N. compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, dealing a blow to fragile security gains that have allowed a slow return of foreign aid workers and ...
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Three Die In Dutch Liquid Manure Tank
Three men have died after becoming trapped in a manure tank in a rural part of The Netherlands. A fourth was taken to hospital in a critical condition. De Telegraaf said that one victim was the 26-year-old youngest son of the farm owner. The detail was attributed to a neighbour who was involved in the rescue. He added that a 29-year-old man from Joure and a 42-year old man from ...
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Opinion Elephant slaughter surges
>Editor's note: Mark Quarterman is the research director of the Enough Project, a project of the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity.(CNN) -- The accelerating pace of the slaughter of elephants for their tusks has put African elephants at catastrophic risk in the coming decades. To make matters worse, some of the region's most notorious armed groups are ...
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Orders top $100 billion as Ryanair gives Boeing a boost
1 of 6. President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Ray Conner (R) and Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary share a light hearted moment as they pose during a signing ceremony at the 50th Paris Air Show, at the Le Bourget airport near Paris, June 19, ...
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North Korea says is willing to return to nuclear talks
North Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister and envoy to the six-party talks Kim Kye-gwan (2nd L) enters a hotel after a meeting with U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Glyn Davies in Beijing in this photo taken by Kyodo on February 23, ...
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Obesitys new classification may open up treatment options
recognized obesity as a disease , a decision that could change the way physicians and insurance companies deal with the condition. The move, announced on Tuesday, will open up a range of medical interventions for the prevention and treatment of obesity and changes the status of obesity from "a major public health problem" to a disease. ...
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Atty Martin family confident Zimmerman will be convicted
Sybrina Fulton, lower left and Tracy Martin, center, the parents of slain teen Trayvon Martin, arrive in court with their attorney, Benjamin Crump for the first day of the trial of George Zimmerman, Monday, June 10, ...
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50 years after JFKs Berlin speech
>Editor's note: Nicolaus Mills is professor of American studies at Sarah Lawrence College and author of "Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America's Coming of Age as a Superpower. "(CNN) -- The White House has announced that on Wednesday, at the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Obama will speak in Berlin at the city's landmark Brandenburg Gate. The president's ...
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Afghanistan Rejects Talks With Taliban and the U.S.
KABUL, Afghanistan ...
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California and Shenzhen China Sign Climate Change Agreement
The state of California and Shenzhen, China have signed an agreement to cooperate together in fighting climate change. "Moving to further strengthen California's ties with China, California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols and Director of the Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission Xu Anliang signed a memorandum of understanding today in Shenzhen that will expand ...
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Obama Wont Be Specific On Military Aid To Syrian Opposition
U.S. President Barack Obama has refused to be specific about what weapons Washington would provide to Syrian opposition forces. U.S. officials said last week that military aid would be sent to the Syrian opposition. At a news conference in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Obama said he "cannot and will not" be specific about what sort of military equipment would be ...
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Russian Gay-Rights Group Fined For Refusal To Follow Controversial Law
A gay-rights organization in St. Petersburg has been fined for refusing to register as "a foreign agent.'' A court fined the Vykhod (Coming Out) organization 500,000 rubles ($15,600) for not obeying the recently adopted law requiring nongovernmental organizations that receive foreign funding and engage in political activity to register as foreign agents. Vykhod's ...
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Search for Hoffa’s remains continues
Oakland Township, Michigan - FBI agents in suburban Detroit widened their search of an overgrown field on Tuesday for the remains of former Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared nearly 38 years ago and is thought to have been murdered by ...
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Police probe into secondary school shooting after teacher fired starter pistol in pupils face
A male teacher has been suspended while officers quiz staff and witnesses at Le Rocquier School, a mixed secondary school for youngsters aged 11 to ...
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Jeremy Forrest weeps as his lawyers reveal he will not give evidence in his defence
Arriving: Teacher Jeremy Forrest is taken into Lewes Crown Court where it was revealed he would not give evidence and cried when his sister gave a statement in his ...
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Puya berteroniana Exotic plant that blooms once a CENTURY flowers on hottest day of the year
For horticulturists it is a moment of great beauty tinged with even greater sadness. An exotic plant that flowers once in its lifetime before dying has ...
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Ed Miliband accuses government of allowing bankers to delay bonus payout until top rate of tax was cut
Bonuses in the City soared to record levels in April this year as bankers deferred pay outs to take advantage of the cut in the top rate of tax, new figures ...
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Charlie Kelsey-Neil 12 who was fascinated by TV magician Dynamo accidentally hanged himself in his bedroom
A 12-year-old schoolboy accidentally hanged himself in his bedroom just two weeks after jokingly wrapping a cable around his neck in a classroom prank, an inquest heard ...
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Female student 18 faced exclusion from college for bringing it into disrepute after accusing three men of sexual assault
An 18-year-old woman was recommended for exclusion by her college 'for bringing it into disrepute' after accusing three fellow students of rape and sexual assault, a court has ...
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Husband 33 battered 42-year-old wife to death with ornamental elephant after she asked for divorce
Stafford Crown Court heard Singh flew into a rage and battered his wife of three years with the 4lb wooden object following an argument at their ...
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Surrogate-born children are more likely to suffer depression than those carried by their real mother
The study suggests that children find it more difficult to handle the idea that they were carried by another woman than that they are not biologically related to their ...
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Gun-battle inside Somalia UN office after attack by al-Shabaab
Al-Qa'ida-linked militants detonated multiple bomb blasts and engaged in ongoing battles with security forces in an attempt to breach the main UN compound in Mogadishu, officials ...
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Sacramento vulnerable to massive disaster
If a major earthquake were to occur tomorrow, Sacramento could potentially be devastated by massive flooding on-par with that seen in New Orleans during Katrina. The state’s major fresh water systems would be destroyed and 25 million would be without fresh water, while millions would lose their homes, but for all this, funding to upgrade the city’s levees is hard to come by.
When Hurricane Katrina barreled into US states along the Gulf Coast in 2005 it caused chaos and devastation in a part of the world considered among the most developed and stable. Read more
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