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Woolwich attack More than 100 English Defence League supporters gather near scene of killing
Officers formed a cordon and the men left the immediate area after the brief incident. Some of the EDL supporters gathered at The Queen's Arms pub locally, where they sang nationalistic ...
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Third times a charm Angela Merkel named the most powerful woman in the world three years running
Third time lucky: German chancellor Angela Merkel has been named as the most powerful woman in the world by business magazine Forbes for the third year ...
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Captain Calamity Francesco Schettino faces 20 years in jail as he WILL stand trial over Costa Concordia shipwreck
Francesco Schettino was commanding the giant cruise liner when it ran aground and sank off the island of Giglio in January last year, killing 32 people. The tragedy is considered Italy’s worst maritime disaster since the Second World ...
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Ten more years of Mugabe President of Zimbabwe 89 signs new constitution limiting power to two terms - unless youve been in office for 33 years
A beaming Mugabe, flanked by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, his main political rival, and Deputy President Joice Mujuru signed multiple copies of the charter at State House in the capital Harare to cheers and applause from ...
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Dominique Venner Outrage as Femen protestor mocks Notre Dame suicide by posing with gun in her mouth a DAY after right-wing historian killed himself on altar
A topless Femen activist held a fake gun in her mouth on the altar of Notre Dame cathedral - a day after a right-wing historian shot himself dead inside the iconic Paris ...
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Imran Khan leaves hospital in good spirits 2 weeks after plummeting 15 feet at political rally in Pakistan
Pakistani cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan has left hospital two weeks after he received serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift truck at a campaign ...
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IRS official refuses to testify before Congress
The IRS official who oversees non-profit applications refused to testify Wednesday at a congressional panel probing abuse at the US tax agency but defiantly insisted she had done nothing ...
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Graphic video Man dead in truly shocking London attack
Warning: graphic video. A man with bloodied hands and knives appears in amateur video that shows the immediate aftermath of an attack in southeast London in which a man was killed. Jessica ...
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Sergio Garcia apologizes to Tiger Woods for fried chicken remark
In this photo made May 12, 2013, Sergio Garcia, of Spain, left, shakes hands with Tiger Woods at the end of the third round of The Players championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, ...
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Chicago Board of Ed votes to shut down 50 schools
Protesters of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's plan to close dozens of city schools rally in the rotunda at the Illinois State Capitol Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Springfield ...
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US admits drones killed four Americans
The United States has killed four of its own citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, the Barack Obama administration has formally acknowledged. Eric Holder, the US attorney general, ...
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U.S. acknowledges killing four Americans in drone strikes
Undated handout image courtesy of the U.S. Air Force shows a MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft. The U.S. government has authorized the killing of American citizens as part of its controversial drone campaign against al Qaeda even without intelligence that such Americans are actively plotting to attack a U.S. target, according to a Justice Department memo. ...
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Doctors save Ohio boy by printing an airway tube
In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day.It's the latest advance from the booming field of regenerative medicine, making body parts in the lab.In the case of Kaiba (KEYE'-buh) Gionfriddo, doctors didn't have a moment to spare. Because of a birth ...
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Pickering agrees to be questioned over State Department’s Benghazi probe
WASHINGTON - The retired U.S. diplomat who co-chaired an internal State Department review of the 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday ended his refusal to submit to a closed-door interview with a Republican-led House committee that is investigating the assault. No date was set for the private deposition of retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering by staff of ...
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U.S. U.N. urge Gulf states to donate more for Syrian refugees
WASHINGTON - With its neat rows of carpeted cabins, security monitors and on-site hospital and school, the Mrigb al Fuhud camp in Jordan is opulent compared with the squalid tent cities that house other Syrian refugees. Humanitarian workers, however, privately deride it as a five-star hotel or the Stepford camp. Built by the United Arab Emirates for nearly $10 million, the camp holds ...
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Soldier killed in Golan mine accident to be buried
killed in a minefield accident on Wednesday as Roee Yisrael Alfi, 18, of Gan Yavne, and promoted him posthumously to the rank of corporal.Alfi, who had been in training and was tasked with clearing a minefield on the Golan Heights, died after one of the mines, which had been exposed and marked ahead of its clearance, went off for an unknown ...
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Non-Orthodox Jews can use mikvaot for conversion
Deputy Religious Services Minister Eli Ben-Dahan said on Wednesday that ritual baths, or mikvaot, could be used by Conservative and Reform groups for their conversion process, even though the Chief Rabbinate does not recognize conversions conducted by non-Orthodox Jewish denominations.Ben-Dahan was speaking during a hearing of the Knesset Internal Affairs Committee, which was reviewing the ...
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Labor faction chairman Herzog forms lobby for IBA
Labor Party faction chairman Isaac Herzog has set up a Knesset lobby to protect the interests of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, for which he was responsible when he served as welfare and social services minister.Herzog formed the lobby in response to a report in ...
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J’lem to offer free checkups for hearing awareness
Jerusalem's Hadassah Academic College will conduct free hearing tests for the general public, performed by Hadassah University Medical Center ear-nose-and-throat specialists along with the college's clinical-communications students on Tuesday as part of National Hearing Awareness Day events.Events will be held on Tuesday, May 28 at starting at 8 a.m. in cooperation with various ...
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Jordan Red Cross tours J’lem women’s health clinic
A delegation from the Jordanian Red Cross came to Jerusalem on Wednesday to tour Bishvilaych, a nonprofit medical clinic for haredi and Modern Orthodox Jewish women in the capital's Givat Shaul neighborhood.Many traditionally religious women feel uncomfortable about being examined by male doctors and discussing intimate matters with them - and according to the heads of the clinic, ...
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Shalom Gas exports to be capped at 40
Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom intends to set the maximum natural gas export allocation at 40 percent rather than the expected 53% figure, he told Channel 2 on Wednesday night. As companies continue to explore and drill through Israel's eastern Mediterranean waters, export allowances have become a topic of contention across the country. The 282-billion cubic meter Tamar ...
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Smartphone app updates bus proximity in real time
Rather than pacing at a bus stop wondering why the 8 a.m. line still has yet to show up at 8:15, Israeli travelers are now able to take advantage of a smartphone application that provides updates about their bus's proximity in real time.The iPhone and Android app NetBus is the brainchild of four young men who came up with the idea during their army service and are equal partners in the ...
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Claims Conference leaders must resign now
Over the past few days, there have been additional mind-boggling exposures of further scandals, lack of transparency, cover-ups and ethical failures at the highest possible levels of the Claims Conference leadership and management. Unless these latest reports appearing ...
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Mothers anger after officials only grant one of her disabled identical twin sons disability benefit
A couple have spoken of their disbelief after just one of their disabled identical twin sons, who both have Downs Syndrome, was granted vital disability benefits while the other was ...
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Woolwich attack Shocking video taken by eyewitnesses to slaughter of soldier in which killer blames British Government and apologises to women who saw it
Shocking footage emerged this evening of one of the suspected Woolwich attackers, covered in blood and saying: 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a ...
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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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