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Frigide Barjot The French anti-gay marriage leader under attack
John Lichfield has been The Independent's man in Paris since 1997, covering French news. Before that, he was the paper's Foreign Editor and he has also worked in Brussels and ...
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Museums Confront the Skeletons in Their Closets
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Camping Is it pure bliss or horror
>Editor's note: This is the second CNN.com Escape Debate, a series that examines the cultural splits within travel, and why travelers divide along certain lines.(CNN) -- Jared Kennedy remembers waking up in the middle of the night to creatures scratching at his tent on every side. Kennedy was just 15 when he went on his last camping trip. His parents put him in a pup tent with his dog, Lucky, ...
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Small plane crash kills 3 on Spanish island pilot badly injured
MADRID - Spanish officials say the pilot of a small plane carrying three passengers is the only person to survive a crash on the island of Mallorca. The Cessna 172 single-engine plane took off from the island's Son Bonet de Marratxi airfield just after 5 p.m. (1500 GMT) Friday, failed to gain altitude and crashed into a nearby field, a regional Interior Ministry spokesman said. Two men ...
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One WTC workers at dizzying heights
The World Trade Center has tweeted a photo of its workers placing the spire on top of One World Trade Center tower, at incredible heights of 1,700 feet. The spectacular photo, taken on May 10th, shows the brave iron workers installing the final sections on top of One WTC, with New York City sprawled beneath them. The new tower, which sits at Ground Zero, stands at 1,776 feet tall including the ...
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Toronto mayor I dont smoke crack cocaine
TORONTO Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied Friday that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. Ford did not say whether he has ever used crack. Ford did not take questions from reporters at a news conference at City Hall held after close allies released a letter urging him to address the purported video. The video apparently shows Ford ...
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Jury foreman Jodi Arias not a good witness
Jodi Arias reacts May 8 after she was found of guilty of first-degree murder in the 2008 killing her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in his suburban Phoenix ...
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Watch Obama forgets to salute while boarding Marine One
President Obama boarded Marine One to depart for the U.S. Naval Academy today but forgot to salute the marine standing by the helicopter, as presidents have traditionally done. After initially boarding the helicopter, Mr. Obama briefly disembarked to exchange a few words with the marine standing ...
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Syria opposition seeks to unify as talks get...
Demonstrators shout slogans as they wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar Assad at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul on Friday. ...
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Michelle Nunn to Run for Senate in Georgia
Georgia Democrats may finally have a candidate for next year's Senate race to succeed Republican Saxby Chambliss. Michelle Nunn, an Atlanta businesswoman and the daughter of former senator Sam Nunn, is "actively preparing" for a Senate ...
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IMF chief Lagarde avoids charges in French payout scandal
PARIS (AFP) - IMF chief Christine Lagarde avoided immediate charges Friday but was named an "assisted witness" after French prosecutors grilled her for two days over a state payout to a disgraced tycoon when she was finance minister."My status as assisted witness is not a surprise," she told reporters."I have always acted in the best public interest and in accordance ...
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Wiener from joke to mayor
To listen to the podcast, click on the Soundcloud audio player above. Or find it on iTunes. But back to Anthony Weiner: For those of you who missed it, in 2011 the former congressman texted pictures of his private parts to women, lied about it, had to resign. We all agreed his mayoral bid can't simply be dismissed as a ...
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Wiener from joke to mayor
To listen to the podcast, click on the Soundcloud audio player above. Or find it on iTunes. But back to Anthony Weiner: For those of you who missed it, in 2011 the former congressman texted pictures of his private parts to women, lied about it, had to resign. We all agreed his mayoral bid can't simply be dismissed as a ...
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UPCOMING Briefing With Author Philip Shishkin
Restless Valley has the makings of a gripping thriller: revolutions, massacres, civil war, drug-smuggling, brazen corruption, contract hits and larger-than-life characters who may be villains…or heroes…or possibly both. Yet Philip ...
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French troops stage Niger raid jihadists threaten new attacks
French special forces and local troops raided an army base Friday in northern Niger, ending a hostage seizure by Islamist fighters who had staged twin suicide bombings that killed at least 20 ...
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Gunmen face off in Tripoli as sectarian battle escalates
He doesn't feel it, strapped up in his bed at the Nini Hospital, swathed in bandages, two bottles of painkillers pumping into him. He was driving his motorcycle on Thursday night from Badawi past the end of Syria Street - an aptly named thoroughfare that divides Tripoli's two warring neighbourhoods of Bab el-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen - whence came a single sniper's round."It ...
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Deadly car bombing at aid groups house in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan A Taliban suicide car bomber and five heavily armed gunmen attacked an international aid group's guest house in the Afghan capital on Friday, killing two guards and setting off an hours-long battle with security forces in an upscale Kabul neighborhood, authorities said. The International Organization for Migration said four of its workers were wounded, including an ...
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Baby gray foxes arrive at Minn. wolf park
Three baby gray foxes arrived at Wolf Park near Battle Ground, Minn. The 17-day-old pups are part of a master's degree project to understand the species since little is known about them. Visitors can see the pups during park ...
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Sweden prepares for sixth night of violence
Stockholm police called in reinforcements from across Sweden to quell a possible sixth straight night of riots in the country's capital. The nightly unrest led Britain's Foreign Office and the United States embassy on Friday to warn their nationals against travelling to the affected areas. "We will be getting reinforcements from Gothenburg and Malmoe tonight," police ...
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Hillyer to the Hill
I recently had dinner with a bright young GOP congressman, and asked what could be done that would most help him and others like him. He said, elect more like us in 2014. The good people of South Alabama will have a chance to get a start on this task in 2013. I trust they'll give Quin Hillyer a good look, and I'm confident they'll like what they ...
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Cat Fight Kadyrov Takes On Moscow Socialite In Feline Beauty Contest
quite literally , with bureaucrats. But a photo posted on May 23 showing him cuddling up with three kittens in his Grozny palace has sparked a new battle with a top Moscow socialite. Kadyrov announced on Twitter the next day that he and Russian TV host Tina Kandelaki had entered into an interminable debate about whose cats were ...
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Israel in reassessment thinks Syria’s Bashar Assad will last awhile
JERUSALEM - Israel has reversed its assessment about the staying power of Syrian President Bashar Assad and now thinks he’ll remain in control of at least part of his country for some time to come – a conclusion that makes it likely, a growing number of officials think, that an escalation of violence between the two countries may be inevitable. Israeli defense officials said that ...
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Taleban attack central Kabul
In the latest militant strike on the Afghan capital, Taleban gunmen backed by a suicide car bomber attacked an international aid group's compound, killing two guards and setting off an hours-long street battle with police in the heart of Kabul. The attack, the second in the city this week, also left four International Organization for Migration workers wounded including an Italian woman badly ...
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Assad has enough sarin to wipe off Damascus Aleppo Homs
Exiled Syrian chemical weapons scientist tells Al Jazeera the Assad regime used sarin in small quantities to stop rebel advancements, mixes gases to make it harder to detect WMDs use; adds weapons were developed against ...
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Iranian candidate vows to resist West
Tehran, Iran - Iran's top nuclear negotiator, a candidate in next month's presidential elections, vowed Friday he will pursue a policy of resistance against the West if ...
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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