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PA continues crackdown on Palestinian journalists in W.Bank
In past week Palestinian Authority security forces interrogated, detained two journalists, despite promises to honor freedom of media; interrogators forced reporter to provide them with email and Facebook ...
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Hollande signs gay marriage into law
French President Francois Hollande has signed a law authorising gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples, after months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate. Photo: ...
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Ben Parkinson MBE Prince Charles touch for a true hero
This is the emotional moment a British soldier who survived the worst ever battlefield injuries while serving in Afghanistan collected his MBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham ...
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Alexander Litvinenko inquest close to collapse after coroner rules evidence should be heard in secret
The inquest into the death of poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko could be scrapped and replaced with a public inquiry to allow evidence to be heard in ...
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Iraq violence kills eight police kidnapped
Violence in Iraq on Saturday killed eight people including a police officer, his wife and two children, and gunmen also kidnapped five police officers, officials ...
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EU bans refillable olive oil bottles and dipping bowls in bid to end food fraud
The European Commission said on Friday that, as of 2014, restaurateurs will only be allowed to offer non-refillable bottles with proper labelling to customers. . "We are just protecting consumers," said EU spokesperson Oliver Bailly. "We are just making clear that when you want to have olive oil of a certain quality in a restaurant, you get exactly the one you are paying ...
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Afghanistan Blocks Law Protecting Women
Afghanistan's parliament has blocked a law banning violence against women in what is being seen as a serious blow to the progress of women's rights. President Hamid Karzai approved the legislation by decree in 2009 but the country's politicians were required to endorse it. However, a rift between conservative and more secular members of the assembly meant the debate was ...
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US Powerball Lottery Nears Historic Jackpot
The Powerball jackpot is nearing historic territory again a little more than a year after three tickets split a world-record lottery prize. Should nobody pick the correct six numbers, the prize money will roll over to next week's draw and almost certainly eclipse the $656m (£427m) doled out to winners in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland in the Mega Millions game in March 2012. But ...
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Gay Marriage Legal In France Despite Protest
France has became the 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage. President Francois Hollande signed the measure into law after months of bitter political and public debate Mr Hollande acted a day after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition, which had been the last obstacle to passing the bill into law. The legislation also legalises gay ...
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Probe begins after Conn. commuter trains collide
FAIRFIELD, Conn. Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor. Three patients remained in critical condition Saturday morning, with two of those stable, according to officials at two Bridgeport hospitals. The crash happened ...
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S. Korea N. Korea launches short-range missiles
A South Korean man at a Seoul, South Korea, train station watches a TV news broadcast reporting a missile launch conducted by North Korea May 18, ...
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First Saudi woman climbs to top of Everest
A 25-year-old graphic design graduate has become the first ever Saudi woman to climb to the top of Mount Everest. Raha Moharrak is the only female in a group of four Arabs who announced two months ago that they would be reaching the summit in ...
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Ken Jacobs and His Films Feted in 80th-Birthday Tributes
There are artists who burn out at 30 and others who, accelerating as they mature, begin to seem like forces of nature. One such force is Ken Jacobs, who turns 80 next Saturday ...
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North Korea
>Are you from South or North Korea? Send us your experiences.(CNN) -- North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying. The ministry said it had detected two launches in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon, Yonhap ...
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Surrey Polices Tandridge Beat team call crooks numpties and Billy Burglar on Facebook
A police force which calls crooks 'numpties' on its Facebook page and writes in a jokey manner about crime and criminals on its patch has won a huge following from local ...
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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN Peter Mandelson admits Labour brought migrants here after losing working class votes
The truth at last! Peter Mandelson admits Labour 'sent out search parties' to bring migrants here after losing the votes of the working class, writes RICHARD ...
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Nigel Farage hounded by mob says Scottish nationalists are fascist scum who hate the English
The UK Independence Party leader said the left-wing extremists who trapped him in an Edinburgh pub were the ‘ugly face of Scottish nationalism’ pursuing an anti-English ...
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SIMON HEFFER Philip Hammond a serious contender The grey man who could be David Camerons nemesis
You may not have heard of Philip Hammond — there’s little reason why you should. After all, the Defence Secretary is not the most charismatic ...
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Investigation launched over German Green partys support for paedophiles in the 1980s
Germany's Greens, Europe's most influential environmentalist party, have been obliged to open a detailed investigation into past policy and practice amid revelations that in the 1980s, its members actively supported paedophile groups which campaigned to legalise sex with ...
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Germanys Merkel visits Pope urges tougher market controls
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Pope Francis on Saturday and, apparently responding to his criticism of a heartless "dictatorship of the economy", called for stronger regulation of financial ...
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New Yorkers Strongbox Can it shield anonymous sources
prison terms , media organizations are scrambling to find ways to protect themselves and their sources. The New Yorker on Wednesday took a step in that direction, creating an online dropbox where people can send documents, tips and letters to reporters - in exchange for what magazine calls "a reasonable amount of ...
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Tunisia bans Salafist groups meeting
The Tunisian government has banned a Salafist group from holding its annual congress, according to the interior ministry. The ministry said on Friday that Ansar al-Sharia's congress planned for Saturday posed a threat to public order. "We have decided to prohibit this gathering, which would be in violation of the law and because of the threat it represents to public order," the ...
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Blasts targeting Sunnis kill 76 in IraqBombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months.
Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears the country could again be veering toward civil war. The attacks followed two days of bombings targeting Shiites, including bus stops and outdoor markets, with a total of 130 people killed since Wednesday. Scenes of bodies sprawled across a street outside a mosque and mourners killed during a funeral ...
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Eight killed 10 policemen kidnapped in Iraqs Sunni heartland
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Suspected Sunni Muslim militants killed four state-backed Sunni fighters in Iraq on Saturday, security sources said, apparently viewing them as collaborators with the Shi'ite-led government of a nation plagued by sectarian hatred.Sunni-Shi'ite tensions in Iraq have been amplified by the conflict between mostly Sunni rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's ...
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South Korea Says North Fired Missiles
South Korea's Defense Ministry says North Korea on May 18 launched three short-range missiles off its east coast. South Korea's Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok, speaking in Seoul, said Pyongyang fired two missiles this morning and another in the afternoon in the Sea of Japan. North Korea last carried out missile launches in March when it test-fired two short-range ...
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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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