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Car rams into Virginia hikers
A parade in the US state of Virginia has been ended by an horrendous car crash. Over 50 people were injured in an incident where a car ploughed into the crowd whose members had been hiking through the area. More than a dozen people were seriously injured in the crash, which took place during the Trail Days festival in the town of Damascus in northern Virginia. Ambulances ferried the ...
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Israel worried that Russian weapons will reach Hezbollah
Israel has warned Russia about sending arms to Syria. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has spoken on Channel Two television's Meet the Press to condemn shipments of arms from Russia that she said may be used against Israel. She said: "These are not just any weapons, they are tie-breakers, and that's why there is a responsibility with all world powers, certainly Russia, not to supply such ...
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Syrians on alert as bombs explode in Damascus
At least eight people have been killed and ten others injured in a bomb attack in the Syrian capital, Damascus. The incident took place in the north of the city, where cars and buildings were set alight by a bomb. The bomb had been concealed in another car which was parked near a school in the Rukn Eddin neighbourhood. Another explosive device was defused by military experts who had ...
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Spies hang after Tehran court ruling
Two spies have been hanged in Iran following a Revolutionary Court judgement. Press TV has reported the spies, who worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency and the Israeli spy agency, the Mossad, were hanged at dawn on Sunday. Sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, the men have been named as Mohammad Heidari, a Mossad agent and Kourosh Ahmadi, who was convicted of working for ...
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Oil spill causes Texas to launch law suit
BP and Halliburton are being sued by the state of Texas over one of the worst oil spills in US history. Texas has become the latest complainant in allegations that both companies engaged in "misconduct" for their role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Four other states that have sued BP and other companies in connection to the spill. Alabama and Louisiana filed complaints in 2010 ...
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Mice and lizard return after a month in space
A Russian capsule, which had mice and lizards as its occupants, returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space. According to scientists, the experiment was conducted to test effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on the cell structure, Fox News reported. Russian state television showed the capsule and some of its inhabitants following its safe landing in a ...
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Carney Top Advisers Knew About IRS Scandal But No One Told Obama
White House spokesman Jay Carney says that the president's counsel and chief of staff knew about the investigation into the IRS's targeting of conservative group. But, Carney says, they didn't see it fit to tell President Obama about the ...
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State Dept. Spokeswoman Refuses to Criticize Iran for Excluding Women Candidates from Election
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki refused to criticize Iran for excluding women candidates from the upcoming "election" there. The remarkable exchange, ...
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Pakistani Prime Minister-Designate Calls For Taliban Talks
Pakistan's prime minister-designate has called for a dialogue with hard-line Taliban militants waging a war against the government. In a speech on May 20, Nawaz Sharif said that the Taliban's past offer of talks should be considered seriously. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League party secured a majority in the May 11 parliamentary elections and is expected to form a new ...
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Putins Game And Kudrin’s Choice
lashed out at the authorities, saying the country needed to modernize economically and politically or risk stagnation and decay. "Stagnation is not a one-day story," he said. "Even if we roll our sleeves up now, we'll have to toil three or five years to attain new elements of effectiveness...The political system is lagging behind the challenges of the time, and does not ...
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U.S. Report Says Religious Freedom On The Decline Worldwide
WASHINGTON -- Religious freedom is on the decline in many parts of the world, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department, which calls the trend "worrying." The 2012 International Religious Freedom Report ...
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Palestinian tragic film takes Cannes by storm
CANNES - A tragic love story between two Palestinians living under Israeli occupation received a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival on Monday and broke new ground as the first film fully funded by the Palestinian cinema industry."Omar" by director Hany Abu-Assad, known for the 2005 award-winning film "Paradise Now", is a political thriller interwoven with a story of ...
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Qatar Arab Spring makes peace more pressing
thrown his state's riches behind Arab uprisings, said on Monday that the emergence of 'people power' had put Arabs in direct confrontation with Israel and made a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more pressing."We heard in the past that reform (in the Arab world) must wait until a peaceful settlement with Israel is achieved, but everybody should realise that ...
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Dershowitz to PM Watch ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
Comedian Larry David has been called a lot of things over the course of his long and successful career, but we're pretty sure "peace maker" has never been one of them. Until now. Well, almost sort of, anyway.Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has sent an episode of David's HBO show "Curb Your Enthusiasm" to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in hopes that he ...
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Unifying Jews at the Western Wall
It is deeply painful to see ideological differences in Jewish modesty laws lead to violence and bigotry against women prayer groups at the Kotel. Intolerance is counterproductive to preserving one's views, and of course contradicts the Jewish traditions rich history of diversity.Even though some respected haredi (ultra- Orthodox) legalists like Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and Rabbi Yosef ...
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The Majlis Shura al-Mujahidin Between Israel and Hamas
A wave of Salafi protest against the ruling Hamas government has swept the Gaza Strip over issues including the treatment of prisoners, corruption, and ...
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Rebels flog two over illegal marriage
In this January 11, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, shows rebels from al-Qaeda affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra waving their brigade flag on the top of a Syrian air force ...
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Julian Stevenson Briton who cut his son and daughters throats in French apartment took them for a McDonalds and to buy sweets in hours before killing
The British father who has admitted to cutting the throats of his two young children was seen buying sweets, bread and drinks in a bakery with his son and daughter just hours before the double ...
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No socks rule is latest bid to ease Pakistan power cuts
In the latest of a series of directives from the country's caretaker government, officials have announced that civil servants have been told that they should not wear socks to the office as part of a plan to try and keep cool without air-conditioning.Pakistan suffers from crippling, debilitating power cuts of up to 18 hours a day. Improving capacity and reducing those huge shortages will be ...
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Briton Julian Stevenson under formal investigation in Lyon over murder of own children
A divorced British father with a history of drunkenness and domestic violence was formally accused of the murder of his two children, who were found with their throats cut in his apartment in southern ...
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Blasts and shootings claim 90 lives in Iraq as sectarian violence rises
Iraq is edging closer to all-out sectarian war between Sunni and Shia Muslims as a series of car bombings and shootings killed at least 90 people and left many others ...
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Nigeria says has Islamists on defensive
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria claimed an early success for its military offensive against Islamist insurgents in the northeast on Monday, saying the militants' activities had been stifled by nearly a week of attacks on their ...
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Conn. train collision ruins commute for 1000s in Northeast
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Connecticut commuters endured slow trips to work Monday following last week's train collision that injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. It took Gary Maddin of Milford an hour to make what is normally a 20 minute drive from his home to the Bridgeport train station. From there, he planned to board a shuttle bus to Stamford where he could catch a ...
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Study Poor in suburbs outnumber those in cities
A man walks down the street collecting cans on October 20, 2011, in Reading, Pennsylvania. Reading, a city that once boasted numerous industries and the nation's largest railroad company, has recently been named America's poorest city with residents over 65,000. According to census data, 41.3 percent of people live below the poverty line in Reading. Reading has about 90,000 residents, ...
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Jodi Arias lawyer Defense wont call more witnesses
Jodi Arias looks at her family May 8 after being found of guilty of first-degree murder in the 2008 killing her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander. The trial is entering its penalty phase, during which the same jury will decide whether Arias should be sentenced to ...
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Omaha makes move to develop Midtown
TIFs have their critics, but the progress thus far seems to show that incremental tax financing may work in Midtown Omaha and provide the investment that some pockets of the neighborhood need to revitalize the area.
Omaha is the commercial and transport hub of Nebraska, it is the state’s largest city and is the home to five fortune 500 companies and has been named by Forbes as the “Best Bang-For-The-Buck” city in the US and one of those leading the country’s recovery. Read more
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