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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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North Korea launches threatened missile
North Korea has fired three short-range missiles from its east coast. South Korean officials have been carefully monitoring the missile firings as tensions rise again in the Korean Peninsula. The missiles were fired on Saturday morning and afternoon in a north-east direction. Analysts have said the missiles were not as dangerous as the intermediate-range missiles which Pyongyang had ...
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Violence flares throughout Iraq
Violence has erupted in many areas of Iraq. On Saturday morning eight people, including a police officer, his wife and children, were killed by gunmen who also kidnapped ten security force personnel in the Rashid area, south of Baghdad. The gunmen first broke into the home of the local administrator, killing one of his guards. They then moved on to the nearby house of Captain Adnan ...
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Cell phone surveillance powers loosened in US
A federal judge in the US has given law agents permission to track people's mobile phones without a warrant. New York judge Gary Brown has ruled that law enforcement agents can conduct cell phone surveillance against people who forget to turn their phones off. In a written ruling, he said: "Given the ubiquity and celebrity of geo-location technologies, an individual has no legitimate ...
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US general takes action against sexual assault
A top general has warned that Washington is facing a crisis due to the scandal of sexual assaults in the country's military. The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey has called for the Obama administration to heed his warning, saying the country is in danger of losing women soldiers. During the week, US President Barack Obama met with General Dempsey, Defense ...
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France still unsure about gay marriage
France has legalised same-sex marriage, becoming the 14th country to do so. President Francois Hollande signed the bill into law following months of bitter political debate, including a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition. On Friday the Constitutional Council threw out the challenge, allowing the president to sign the documents. The legislation also legalises gay ...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrives in IndiaUpdate
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived here today on a three-day state visit. The visit is expected to expand cooperation between the two countries substantially. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said New Delhi is highly hopeful that the visit will enhance mutual trust and understanding between the people and leadership on sensitivities of two countries. Briefing media here ...
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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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Jakarta water issues a reflection of bad planning.
Jakarta residents have little access to fresh water from the city’s water system, a reflection of bad planning on the part of city management rather than a lack of funds.
An article posted on the Jakarta-Indonesia-Urban blog reflects a serious situation facing the capital city of the country, “Already there is more waste water generated and dispersed today than at any other time in the history of our planet: more than one out of six people lack access to safe drinking water, namely 1.1 billion people, and more than two out of six lack adequate sanitation, namely 2.6 billion people.” This is a statement on the world situation, but it hits uncomfortable close to home for many Jakartans, in fact, almost a majority of them. Read more
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