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9 in hospital in train collision
>Were you there? Share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Nine people remained in the hospital -- one in critical condition -- two days after a commuter train derailed and struck another train on one of the busiest tracks in the country, officials said Sunday. National Transportation Safety Board investigators looking at the accident, along the busy corridor from New York to New Haven, ...
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Caernarfon Plane Crash Leaves One Dead
One person has died and two others - including a child - have been injured after a light aircraft flipped on a runway in North Wales. A man in his 60s suffered "serious multiple lower limb injuries" and a child had head and abdomen injuries following the crash at Caernarfon airport in Gwynedd at 11.30am. They were taken to Gwynedd Hospital at Bangor. A third person is believed to ...
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Obama to discuss al Qaeda drones Guantanamo Bay in Thursday speech
ATLANTA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under fire for security lapses at a U.S. mission in Libya, will in a speech on Thursday lay out his wide-ranging counter-terrorism policy, from the controversial use of drones to efforts to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, ...
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WH adviser Partisan fishing expeditions wont distract us
(CBS News) "Partisan fishing expeditions" - like the amplifying clamor around news that the Internal Revenue Service targeted for excessive review conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status - White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Sunday on "Face the Nation," won't "distract" President Obama from doing his job. Pfieffer did admit, however, the the ...
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Nadal crushes Federer to win Rome title
Spain's Rafael Nadal has dominated his 30th meeting with Swiss rival Roger Federer to secure his seventh title in nine years at the Rome Masters. Nadal's 6-1, 6-3 triumph on Sunday means he now leads Federer 20-10 in their series, with 13 of his wins coming on clay. Nadal started the event seeded only fifth after losing many of his ATP ranking points during a seven-month absence from ...
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Russian Supreme Court To Hear Khodorkovsky Appeal
Legal experts who prepared a Kremlin-commissioned report criticizing the second trial of former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky have found themselves targeted by law ...
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Cabinet pushes economic ties with China forward
The cabinet, keen on capitalizing on the momentum created by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's recent visit to China, approved on Sunday the establishment of two governmental bodies aimed at pushing forward Israeli business and economic interests in China.Netanyahu said repeatedly during his trip to China two weeks ago that a different business model must be used with China since it ...
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Most Israelis feel social protests can spur change
Some 89 percent of the population believes the government has not provided an appropriate response to social problems in Israel and that social movements can lead to change, according to a survey released by the NGO Shatil, which aims at empowering citizens to lead social change in the country.The survey, which involved 482 men and women, also showed that only 11% of respondents believe that ...
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Jordan eyes role in Israeli-Palestinian talks
Jordan hopes to play a role in the negotiations for a final settlement in the long-running conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, the kingdom's prime minister has said. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Abdullah Ensour said Jordan's involvement in the talks should not be perceived as an intervention by the kingdom. Instead, it should be viewed as a way for protecting Jordanian ...
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In first trip abroad Chinese premier visits India
In an effort to expand economic cooperation and resolve a border dispute, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in India Sunday, his first trip abroad since taking office in ...
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North Korea Again Fires Short-Range Missile
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Syrian army Hezbollah kill more than 30 in border fighting
Assad's troops and Hezbollah operatives launch joint operation to retake Syrian town of Qusair near Lebanese border; opposition activists say fighting is heaviest yet involving Shi'ite terrorist ...
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Hamas confiscates rockets from Fatahs armed wing
Hamas has confiscated rockets and other types of weaponry belonging to Fatah's armed wing, Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Palestinian sources revealed Sunday.The sources told the Fatah-affiliated Palestine Press News Agency that Hamas confiscated 100 rockets and 500 "combat units" when Fatah tried to move them from one location to another in the Gaza ...
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Chosen Bites Impossibly crispy chicken
There is just something about warmer temperatures that make me crave fried chicken. Maybe eating with my hands is something I regard as a casual summer activity? Whatever the reason is, this easy fried chicken rocks. I made it the other day and want it again.This spiced chicken dry mix is fragrant and mouth-watering. The addition of potato starch helps keep the chicken super crispy and not ...
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Bagrut exam-writer indicted for leaking questions
The Haifa District Attorney's Office on Sunday filed an indictment for leaking Psychometric Exam questions against three people, including a member of the board for writing exam questions, in the Haifa Magistrate's Court.Specifically, the leaked questions were from the Math section of the 2010 ...
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Report Egyptian army pushes to attack kidnappers
The Egyptian army is pushing president Mohamed Morsi for a green light to attack the kidnappers of seven security officers, which have been held since last Thursday, according to a report in ...
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Jennifer Lopez A design for living
(CBS News) The singer-actress is also a fashionable business tycoon who tells our Lee Cowan "workaholic" is not a dirty word: It left very little to the imagination; that green Versace dress that Jennifer Lopez wore to the Grammys back in 2000 was a daring design, to say the least. But fashion has always been JLo's passion -- stylishly showing off those famous curves, both on ...
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Allegedly random murder hate crime stuns NYC
Elliot Morales began his downfall early Saturday by urinating on the wall outside an upscale restaurant just a few blocks away from the Stonewall Inn, the site of 1969 riots that helped give rise to the modern gay-rights movement when patrons at a gay bar reacted to police harassment. Fifteen minutes later, Morales stands accused of shooting and killing Harlem resident Marc Carson, who did not ...
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Syria army attacks rebel stronghold Qusayr
The Syrian army has pounded the rebel-held central town of Qusayr, killing at least 40 people in an apparent preparation for a ground assault, watchdog and activists said. The attack on Sunday came a day after a rare interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was released, in which he said that his government was not using "fighters from outside of Syria, of other nationalities, and ...
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NTSB looking at broken rail
>Were you there? Share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Nine people remained in the hospital -- one in critical condition -- two days after a commuter train derailed and struck another train on one of the busiest tracks in the country, officials said Sunday. National Transportation Safety Board investigators looking at the accident, along the busy corridor from New York to New Haven, ...
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Obama Aide Irrelevant Fact Where President Was During Benghazi Attacks
Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer said it's an "irrelevant fact" where the president physically was during the Benghazi terror attack on September 11, ...
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Twenty Years On The Unfinished Lives Of Bosnia’s Romeo And Juliet
SARAJEVO -- The story of Bosko Brkic and Admira Ismic ended with two short bursts from a sniper's rifle on a Sarajevo bridge the afternoon of May 19, 1993. Bosko, a 24-year-old ethnic Serb, was killed instantly. Admira, his 25-year-old Bosniak girlfriend, was fatally wounded. She crawled to Bosko and, after about 10 minutes, died with him. One eyewitness described the scene in an ...
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Russian Film Director Balabanov Dead At 54
Russian film director Aleksei Balabanov has died at the age of 54. Balabanov, whose films include the 1997 crime film "Brother" (Brat) and its sequel, "Brother-2," died after collapsing from an an apparent heart attack in the village of Solnechnoye outside St. Petersburg. Balabanov, a native of Sverdlovsk, had lived in St. Petersburg since 1990. Many of his films, ...
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Weed grow room found in haredi girls school
For some time before Sunday, a strong herbal aroma wafted through the halls of a Kiryat Gat school for haredi girls, puzzling the school's faculty and staff. On Sunday, the principal decided to investigate, and made her way to a basement bomb shelter, where she stumbled upon a marijuana grow room, Negev subdistrict police reported on Sunday.The principal called police and when investigators ...
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When May 19 became day of darkness
>Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose 25 books include "Late Edition: A Love Story"; "Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War"; and "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen. "(CNN) -- The date, in that long-gone American spring, was the same as today's: May 19. The year was 1780. The event is mostly forgotten, lost to the mists ...
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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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