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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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Two North Caucasus Republics Set Election Precedent
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (left) chairs a meeting of the Government Commission on Social and Economic Development of the North Caucasian Federal District in Grozny in June 2012, flanked by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, Ingushetia head Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, and Daghestan's Magomedsalam Magomedov (left to ...
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Jordan scuttles attempt to expel Israeli envoy
expel Israel's ambassador ended when several members of parliament backed-down according to official sources. Despite the failure of the move to send Israeli Ambassador Daniel Nevo packing, the incident underscores the viability of opposition to normalization with the Jewish state.A strong majority of 86 out of 150 lawmakers had signed a memorandum calling for a parliamentary session to ...
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Bollywood bad boy in ‘terrorist’ jail cell
New Delhi - Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, is being held in a cell built for militants where he cannot see daylight and wants to be transferred, a report said on ...
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Ellie Jones dead Three teenage boys arrested after girl 16 dies hours after taking an illegal drug
A spokeswoman for Cheshire Constabulary said: 'Police investigating the death of a Warrington teenager have arrested three local males on suspicion of supplying drugs and perverting the course of ...
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NHS 111 Family slams hotline after terminally ill Anne Anthony waited NINE hours for help
'My dying wife waited NINE hours for district nurse to turn up': Family slams NHS 111 hotline as whistleblowers reveal a 'computer says no' mentality worthy of Little Britain ...
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Arab League to hold emergency Syria meeting
An Arab League committee on Syria will hold anemergencymeeting on Thursday ahead of an international peace conference on ending the country's civil war, the bloc's deputy leader said on ...
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Long Island police defend Hofstra student killing
MINEOLA, N.Y. In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University. A short time later, the intruder, Dalton Smith, and a 21-year-old college junior, Andrea Rebello, were both dead. The two were killed early Friday by a Nassau County police ...
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Home tweet home Birdhouses
--> Fifteen years ago Thomas Burke gave up building houses for people -- and his career took flight, so to speak. With a business card that now reads "Builder of Fine Bird Homes," Burke has created ornate, whimsical birdhouses that replicate historic buildings or his clients' own homes. Left: Burke's rendition of Essex Farm in Royal Oak, Md. By CBSNews.com senior ...
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Officials confirm theres only 1 Powerball winner
DES MOINES, Iowa It's all about the odds, and one lone ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials said Sunday. The single winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell. She told The Associated ...
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Chinese premier arrives in India for talks
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in India Sunday afternoon on the first stop of his maiden foreign trip, for talks on issues ranging from an unresolved border dispute to a festering trade-imbalance.Li, who brought with him a large Chinese delegation, will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday and meet other Indian leaders including from the main opposition BJP ...
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France in talks with US Israel to buy drones
PARIS - France is in talks with the United States and Israel to buy intelligence-gathering drones to build up a modern fleet, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Sunday.France's existing hardware is outdated and its military intervention in Mali this year has exposed its shortage of surveillance drones suitable for modern warfare. The United States provided French commanders with ...
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WJC calls for investigation into Claims Conference
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder has written to senior executives of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany to inform them that he has tasked WJC CEO Robert Singer with "appoint[ing] a task force chaired by Michael Schneider and including himself and WJC General Counsel Menachem Rosensaft" to investigate what senior executives knew of massive fraud within ...
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Guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison sells for $400k
The Beatles Vox guitar, a custom prototype made in 1966 and later given to "Magic Alex" Mardas, a friend of the band, was sold by Julien's Auctions at the Hard Rock Cafe on Times Square.The instrument raised a hundred thousand dollars more than its pre-auction estimate, which was between 200,000 and 300,000 US dollars (130,000-200,000).Harrison can be seen rehearsing with the ...
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Iran hangs alleged U.S. Israeli spies
TEHRAN, Iran Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy agency. Sunday's report says Mohammad Heidari, who was accused of providing Mossad with classified information in return of money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, who allegedly gave the CIA intelligence on Iran, were hanged. The report didn't say when ...
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The gene 7 questions
>Editor's note: Dr Susan Domchek is a board-certified medical oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center. She is director of the Mariann and Robert MacDonald Women's Cancer Risk Evaluation Center and executive director of the Basser Research Center for BRCA, a newly founded center focused exclusively on issues related to BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations.(CNN) -- News ...
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Police Officer accidentally killed student
View Photo Associated Press/Sleepy Hollow High School - In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra ...
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North Korea fires short-range missiles for two days in a row
Reuters © North Korean soldiers look at a Chinese tourist boat as they work on the Hwanggumpyong Island, located in the middle of the Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, May 19, 2013. REUTERS/Jacky ...
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Iran Hangs Two For Allegedly Spying For Israel U.S.
Iranian authorities have hanged two men who were convicted of spying for Israel and the United States. ISNA news agency quoted a statement by the Tehran prosecutor's office saying that the two, Mohammad Heydari and Kourosh Ahmadi, had gathered classified information and sold it to Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies. The statement gave no details where the two were hanged. It ...
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Mitzna Inexperienced cabinet cant handle Syria
The Diplomatic-Security Cabinet is inexperienced and will have difficulty dealing with security issues arising from the situation in Syria, Knesset Education Committee chairman Amram Mitzna (Hatnua) said Sunday, in a thinly veiled reference to Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett.Mitzna, a Major-General in reserves, said he is "disturbed and concerned, ...
Afghanistan Feature
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Why should American troops remain in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan is widely regarded, even by its own people, as a puppet state, and has little hope of breaking away from US influence in the foreseeable future, there is wide-spread resentment toward foreign troops, and increasingly loud calls in the states for a withdrawal of troops. But, like or not, these two countries have been tied together irrevocably, even before the war on terror.
Since the invasion of Afghanistan by allied forces in 2001, the country’s destiny has in many ways not been its own. Read more
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