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North Korea says willing to take Chinas advice to start talks
Choe Ryong-hae (C), director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army (KPA) of North Korea, walks with Chinese Ambassador Liu Hongcai (2nd R) before departing Pyongyang airport for China, in this May 22, 2013 picture released by the North Korea's KCNA news agency in Pyongyang. North Korea sent Choe, one of its top military officials, as a ''special ...
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ECB seeks new tools while Fed toys with exit
PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The European Central Bank is looking into expanding its range of policy tools, while the U.S. central bank is mulling scaling back its support measures, highlighting the contrasting fortunes between the world's two biggest economic ...
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Kerry meets Israelis Palestinians in bid to revive talks
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials on Thursday and acknowledged there was considerable skepticism that the two sides would resume peace ...
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Celebrated Nigerian writers funeral begins
The funeral of Nigeria's celebrated writer, Chinua Achebe, is due to take place in his small hometown in a ceremony expected to draw crowds of mourners. Achebe, author of the widely praised ...
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Special Report Panel on IRS James Rosen and the London Terror Attack
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Senator Susan Rice Deserves to Be Subpoenaed Not an Apology
South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham was asked last night whether he's going to apologize to Susan Rice. He said that she doesn't deserve an apology; she "deserves to be ...
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Police Raid Company Working On 2014 Sochi Olympics
SOCHI, Russia -- Armed and masked police have searched the offices of a company involved in developing sports facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi. The general director of the Mostovik Construction Company, Oleg Shishov, told journalists that police blocked off the whole area surrounding his company's offices on May 23. An RFE/RL correspondent said he ...
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EU UN report stokes concern over Iran nuke program
BRUSSELS - Iran's expansion of sensitive nuclear activity breaks United Nations resolutions and increases concerns about whether its nuclear program is entirely peaceful, the European Union said on ...
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Michael Adebolajo named as one of Woolwich killers
WOOLWICH HORROR TOUCHES RURAL ENGLAND: Police swoop on house in Lincolnshire village as it emerges 'Islamists who killed soldier' are British born and known to security ...
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Woolwich attack Moment heroic woman tries to remonstrate with knife-wielding soldier killer before police arrived at scene
'I wasn't scared. Better me than a child': Incredible courage of the woman Cub Scout leader who confronted knife-wielding Islamic fanatic moments after he had slaughtered soldier in London ...
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Woolwich attack Womans bravery as she confronts killers to pray for slaughtered soldier
Another woman begged to be allowed past in order to pray for the dead soldier while another, fearless mother-of-two Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, talked peacefully to the ...
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Psychotic bodybuilder who became obsessed with Batmans Joker attacked innocent stranger with an axe
A psychotic bodybuilder obsessed with Batman's arch nemesis the Joker has admitted carrying out a terrifying unprovoked axe attack on a stranger in a public ...
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Mother Susan Hulbert of Birmingham hospitalised by online date Gavin Taylor met on plenty of fish blasts Telford Magistrates Court
also blasted magistrates after her attacker Gavin Taylor, 34, from Telford, Shropshire, walked free from court and was ordered to pay ...
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The incredible images that reveal where we fly New images show the worlds flight paths
A Canadian transportation planner has used flight data from around the world to create stunning kaleidoscope-style flight path visualisations of every flight in a ...
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Yuichiro Miura 80 becomes oldest climber to reach summit of Mount Everest
Bold timer: 80-year-old Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura, right, pictured with a friend at 6,500 meters, has become the oldest man to reach the top of Mount ...
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Marks and Spencer launches first ripe and sweet GREEN tomato available on the high street
The tomato, named the Sweet Green, has sugar levels of up to 12 on the Brix scale, a scientific measure developed to assess the quality and sweetness of fruit and vegetables, compared with the Piccolini's level of approximately eight to ...
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Five men arrested over claims a child was sexually assaulted at a day nursery
Held: Five men have been arrested over an allegation of a child being sexually assaulted at a day nursery. Officers have been searching this premises in Bromsgrove as well as two ...
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Father driven to suicide after he was accused of being a paedophile on Facebook
Within 15 minutes, the message had been shared hundreds of times and the bricklayer from Hull, East Yorkshire, began receiving death threats on Facebook, an inquest ...
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Love dont cost a ring-ring...Jennifer Lopez launches her own mobile phone store chain
If Mary Portas can't save the high street, perhaps J-Lo can? The entrepreneurial diva has announced that she is to open her own retail chain of mobile phone ...
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Moore mayor pushes for shelter law in wake of Oklahoma tornado
The mayor of Moore, the Oklahoma suburb devastated by a massive tornado earlier this week, has called for a new law to have shelters installed in every new-built home to protect the town's ...
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Sir Paul McCartney appeals to Russian government as Pussy Riot member declares hunger strike
Sir Paul McCartney has written to Russian authorities asking them to consider releasing members of jailed punk bandPussyRioton ...
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American Hunted Over Czech Family Murders
A California man is being hunted by police in the Czech Republic investigating the killing of four members of the same family. Detectives in the eastern European nation's second-largest city of Brno named their suspect as 20-year-old Kevin Dahlgren. They have released a photograph from his Facebook page which says he was born in 1992 and comes from Palo Alto. His online profile ...
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Taliban claim bomb in southwest Pakistan that kills 13
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility on Thursday for a bomb that killed 11 security personnel and two civilians in the southwestern city of ...
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Bulgarias largest party will not try to form government
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's largest party GERB declined on Thursday to try to form a new government, opening the way for the rival Socialists to put together a technocrat administration and end a political ...
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Amid scrutiny of commerce pick WH confident about her fate
top 300 U.S. billionaires , is not without her critics. But as the high-powered businesswoman heads to her confirmation hearing Thursday on the road to becoming President Obama's commerce secretary, vocal opposition to her approval has been limited -- and there's scant evidence to suggest Congress will put up a hard fight to block her from getting the job. Pritzker, who heads the ...
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Silicon Valley's Expo ambitions
Moffet Field, a fairly unknown former military airbase in Silicon Valley near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, may become the centerpiece of the 2020 World Expo if Governor Schwarzenegger and other advocated of a California bid get their way.
California wants one of its cities to host the 2020 World Expo, the event is a seminal one on the world calendar and is expected to draw in over 70 million visitors to Shanghai, the city currently hosting the exhibition, which last six months. Read more
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