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Nations fight for Eurovision glory in Sweden
Millions of viewers worldwide tuned in to watch weird and wonderful acts battle to win the Eurovision Song Contest, as flag bearers entered on stage to a special hymn by pop icon ABBA's song-writing duo. "Welcome to Sweden and my hometown Malmo," said Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the Paris Saint-Germain striker and Sweden star, in a video clip opening the event on Saturday. Hostess Petre ...
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Plane crash-lands without landing gear in N.J.
A US Airways plane with 31 passengers aboard crash-landed at the Newark, N.J., airport early Saturday after its landing gear failed to deploy, officials said. CNN said the plane, US Express Flight 4560, operated by Piedmont Airlines, took off from Philadelphia about 11 p.m. EDT Friday. As the pilot guided the plane toward the runway he was alerted to a problem with the landing gear and pulled ...
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Tons of metal tossed around like toy things
>Are you there? Stay safe and share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Train service in the busy New York-to-New Haven corridor may be restricted for days as officials investigate Friday's rush-hour collision of two trains in Connecticut -- an incident that sent dozens to hospitals -- officials said Saturday. Officials from the federal National Transportation Safety Board arrived at the site ...
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British backpacker died after drinking tainted alcohol
A British backpacker has died while trekking through the Indonesian jungle after she drank suspected tainted alcohol, police say. Cheznye Emmons, 23, was travelling with fellow Briton Joseph Cook, 21, through lush rainforest on Sumatra island, where many tourists go to see endangered orangutans, according to a police report into the incident. The pair, accompanied by a third tourist, drank four ...
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50 injured in US parade accident
More than 50 people were reportedly injured when a car slammed into bystanders at a parade in the mountains of the US state of Virginia. The accident stunned people who flocked to a Trail Days parade, a rare larger public event in the small southwestern Virginia town of Damascus, officials told local media. Between 50 and 60 people were injured when the car collided with a crowd, Washington ...
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France detains suspect in Toulouse killings probe
PARIS - French anti-terror judges ordered the detention on Saturday of a man on suspicions he aided an al-Qaida-inspired gunman prepare for a shooting spree last year, a judicial source said.Mohamed Merah killed four Jews and three soldiers in and around the southern city of Toulouse in March 2012 before he was shot dead by ...
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Female politican fatally shot in Pakistan
Gunmen have killed a Pakistani woman politician from cricket star Imran Khan's Movement for Justice (PTI) party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of partial election re-polling. Zohra Hussain, 59, the vice president of PTI women's wing in the southern Sindh province, was targeted by three gunmen on a motorcycle outside her residence in the city's upmarket Defence neighbourhood. The ...
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Romney condemns breach of trust in Washington
As controversies continue to fester over the IRS, Benghazi and the Justice Department's seizure of reporters' phone records, 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney condemned the government for a "breach of trust" during an interview on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" broadcast Friday night. In each of the three controversies currently gripping Washington, ...
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The War in Chicago
An exclusive investigation inside the DEA's battle to win the war on Chicago's streets. Drugs, gangs and gun violence are killing hundreds a year. Innocent children are caught in the ...
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Assad welcomes US-Russian initiative
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he welcomed a US-Russian peace initiative to end Syria's civil war but had no plans to resign, in an interview with an Argentine newspaper. "To resign would be to flee," he told ...
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Thousands protest against austerity in Italy
Thousands of people have protested in Rome against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of recession. "We hope that this government will finally start listening to us because we are losing our patience," said Enzo Bernardis, who joined the sea of protesters waving red flags and calling ...
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Osmaniye Governor said the pilot was killed in plane crash in Amanoslar region…
OSMANIYE - Governor Celalettin Cerrah of southern Osmaniye province said pilot of F-16/C military plane, which crashed in Amanoslar region, died.Cerrah told AA that search and rescue teams have found the body of the pilot after his plane crashed near Caksir plateau.Pilot's body was brought in Osmaniye, said Cerrah.Earlier in the day, General Staff said radio contact was lost with an F-16 ...
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What Obama must say to black grads
>Editor's note: Paul Butler is a law professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of "Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice. "(CNN) -- "My brothers. "That is how President Obama should begin one of the most significant speeches of his presidency: the commencement address at Morehouse College this ...
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Across Israel hundreds protest against new budget
second straight week of "social justice" protests .The protest in Tel Aviv was held at the same time that hundreds gathered in Jerusalem as well as in ...
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Syrian civil war A military-strategic assessment
The overall geostrategic characteristic of the Syrian military picture is a robust armed struggle for supply routes, lines of communication, major highways and key choke points that is somewhat similar to the initial phase of the first Arab-Israeli War in 1947 - a battle for the roads.As a component of the Battle for Aleppo in the north; the M4 highway, which connects the Latakia coast to ...
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Israel Turkey and gas
Word is that both Israel and Turkey are seriously entertaining the notion of constructing an undersea pipeline to deliver Israeli natural gas to Turkey and, perhaps, hence to Europe.The Turks reportedly have expressed willingness to foot part of the estimated $2 billion bill. Such pipelines exist elsewhere in the world, most notably from Russia and from Norway.It is becoming evident that a ...
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At Ra’anana school a different kind of Tikun Shavuot
For a school that strives to develop a sense of community among a diverse group of students and parents, it was no surprise that Meitarim Ra'anana's traditional annual Tikkun Shavuot epitomized its pluralistic educational philosophy.Educators, who came from Israel and the US, represented secular, orthodox and traditional viewpoints.This year's program, the ninth since the ...
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Exposed A devastating new Claims Conference scandal
Candidly Speaking: It is now clear that, despite repeated previous appeals over many years by outside parties urging the Claims Conference to impose more effective supervision, gross negligence was the order of the ...
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Washington Watch Whose Israel is this
I was in high school when I went to Indianapolis for my first regional AZA Conference. I almost didn't make it back alive because of what happened that Shabbat. I couldn't believe it when the rabbi called a woman to open the ark. A woman! But that wasn't all. I was shocked when she pulled back a corner of the curtain, pushed a button, a motor began to whir, the curtain parted, ...
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Probe opened into US train crash major disruption seen
US authorities opened an investigation on Saturday into a rush-hour collision between two commuter trains that injured 60 passengers and severed a key rail link in the northeastern United ...
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Syrian president welcomes US-Russian peace initiative but wont step down
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday he welcomed a US-Russian peace initiative to end Syria's civil war but had no plans to resign, in an interview with an Argentine ...
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Bomb explosion near three embassies in Libya
Members of the military police and security gather at the scene of an explosion in front of the Greek embassy, right, in Tripoli on May 18, 2013. (REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny) OTTAWA - Greek foreign affairs officials report no injuries following a small explosion Saturday outside the Embassy of Greece in Libya's capital Tripoli. Officials say a "low power explosive device" was placed ...
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Texas tornado survivors start to return home
GRANBURY, Texas Residents of a North Texas town ravaged by a deadly tornado are starting to return to home for the first time since the midweek storm. The process is slow because several hundred people showed up early Saturday to register at a Granbury church. The registration is required to return to the ...
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Senior Pakistani politician killed in Karachi
A senior member of Pakistani politician Imran Khan's party has been shot dead in Karachi, just hours before re-elections were scheduled to begin in the city. Zahra Shahid Hussain, the central vice president of the Tehreek-i-Insaf party and one of its founding members, was killed late on Saturday. The motives behind the attack are currently unclear. Khan and a party spokesperson condemned ...
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Its going to be a traumatic time
>Are you in the affected area? Send us your images and videos, but please stay safe. Granbury, Texas (CNN) -- Scores of people stood outside a north Texas church Saturday morning, waiting to be escorted to their neighborhood for the first time since tornadoes devastated it three days earlier. They weren't going to like what they were about to see, Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds told ...
Mexico Feature
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Mexico has more to it than drugs and immigration
As Mexico’s image suffers damage abroad due to increasing levels of violence related to the drug crack-down by government, it may be helpful for Mexicans to remember that there is more to their country than drugs and immigration problems with the US. Some facts may be surprising and even shocking, especially to foreigners.
Mexico has been in the news frequently of late as the government carries out a crack-down on drug cartels and organized crime, the country’s murder rate is up, journalists have been killed for investigative reporting on drug gangs and our image internationally has generally been diminished by the tunnel vision of international news providers. Read more
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