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France rules out Iran joining in Syria peace talks
ABU DHABI - France's foreign minister on Saturday ruled out Iran taking part in a proposed Syria peace conference, saying Tehran was involved in the conflict and had no desire for peace.Laurent Fabius will host Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry at a dinner on Monday to discuss how to nudge Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Syrian opposition ...
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Jewish candidate for NY mayor confuses his city
Anthony Weiner, a Jewish-Democrat candidate running for Mayor of New York this year appeared confused over which city he was running for after mistakenly uploading a picture of the Pittsburgh skyline onto his campaign website.The site featured a banner image of a city skyline from Pittsburgh before he rushed to fix it later on Friday, ...
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Thomas Sutton Man jailed for 12 years for killingstranger who disturbed him while he was having a bath
Cardiff Crown Court heard that Worvell was playing loud music and taking a bath when Mr Sutton and his friend Kyle Harris, 18, presumed there was a party in his ...
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BREAKING NEWS 48 people rescued after passenger boat hits rock of Welsh coast
Rescue: Coastguards have rescued 48 people this afternoon after a passenger boat hit a rock off the Pembrokeshire coast. This file picture shows people waiting to board a boat to Skomer ...
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Michael Adebowale Woolwich murder suspect is probation officers son who chatted with his neighbours about Jamie Oliver recipes
London-born Adebowale was told to ‘disappear’ after he was caught up with a local gang known as the Woolwich Boys, and underwent a dramatic change of ...
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Female suicide bomber wounds 18 in Russias Dagestan
A female suicide bomber blew herself up in front of policemen in Russia'sDagestanon Saturday, injuring 18 people in the second bombing attack to hit the restive region this week, officials ...
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British spies tried to recruit Islamist attacker
Britain's intelligence agencies came under fresh scrutiny on Saturday over claims that MI5 tried to recruit one of two Islamists accused of butchering a soldier in ...
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Sexual assault is a scourge on U.S. military Hagel says
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel takes part in a news conference on efforts to eliminate VA claims backlogs, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, May 22, ...
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Two child limit imposed on Myanmars Rohingya
Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area, and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing in the aftermath ...
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Three killed in Spain plane crash
An investigation was under way Saturday into the crash of a small plane in Spain that killed three of the four people aboard, authorities said. The pilot of the single-engine plane was seriously injured and taken to a hospital in Palma. A firefighter and a bystander suffered minor burns while trying to get the victims out of the flaming wreckage, ThinkSpain said Saturday. The crash occurred ...
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What made London Samaritan so brave
>Editor's note: Jason Marsh is the founding editor-in-chief of the online magazine Greater Good, published by The Greater Good Science Center, which focuses on the "science of a meaningful life" and is based at the University of California at Berkeley. (CNN) -- It's hard to imagine a scene more gruesome and disturbing than the one Londoners encountered on an inner-city street Wednesday. A ...
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By 22-Point Margin Voters Favor Obamacare’s Repeal
It would be a major understatement to say that Obamacare has had a bad spring. Around the time of Lincoln's birthday, registered voters told Fox News that, by a margin of 6 percentage points (48 to 42 percent), it would "be better to go back to the health care system that was in place in 2009" than it would be "to leave the new health care law in ...
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Taxes for Revenue Only
The news of the Internal Revenue Service targeting Tea Party groups has Americans spooked. We're supposed to be a republic, in which everyone is treated equally. So how is it that the federal government has abused so egregiously its taxing power, one of the most potent tools at its ...
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Friend of man suspected of killing U.K. soldier arrested after BBC interview
In this Friday, May 24, 2013 file photo, military boots are laid in tribute outside the Woolwich Barracks, in London, in response to the bloody attack on Wednesday when a British soldier was killed in the nearby street. (Bogdan ...
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Explainer What Is Islamic Banking
A woman walks past a branch of the Noor Islamic Bank in Dubai. Although there have long been many Islamic banks in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, they are now also spreading rapidly in the West. (file ...
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Louise Page The incredibly moving - and optimistic - blog by Scottish woman 42 dying of bone disease
'She was my darling, beautiful wife and best friend': Husband of inspirational blogger, 42, suffering with terminal bone cancer leads tributes after her ...
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Victorian Britains most-wanted man Incredible life of crime of Charles Peace who killed his neighbour a police officer and was the scourge of homeowners across the country
Victorian Britain's most-wanted man: The incredible life of crime of Charles Peace, son of a one-legged lion tamer who went on to kill his neighbour and a police ...
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Boy is the first to have cerebral palsy successfully treated using stem cells taking him from a vegetative state to walking and talking
Just weeks after being given an intravenous stem cell treatment from umbilical cord blood, the symptoms of a boy who had been left in a vegetative state after a heart attack improved considerably. Within months he could talk and ...
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Two freight trains collide in Missouri 7 injured
(QMI Agency) Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in southeastern Missouri on Saturday, injuring seven people, igniting a fire and triggering the collapse of an overpass under which they were travelling, a county sheriff’s dispatcher said. Dispatcher Clay Slipis of the Scott County Sheriff’s Office said that five people who had been travelling in cars on the overpass ...
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Sweden Riots Unrest Spreads Beyond Stockholm
Rioting in Sweden spread to towns outside Stockholm as youths took to the streets for a sixth successive night. A car and school were set on fire and a police station attacked in the central town of Orebro, about 100 miles (160km) from the Swedish capital on Friday night and early Saturday morning. And in the southwest town of Linkoping, groups of youths clashed with police. Meanwhile, ...
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Deadly Angel Flight crash in upstate New York
EPHRATAH, N.Y. The crash of a volunteer Angel Flight in upstate New York that killed at least two people is under investigation, and the search for the missing pilot is ongoing, authorities said. Fulton County Sheriff Thomas Lorey said the flight's two passengers were found dead near where the twin-engine plane crashed in a wooded area in Ephratah, about an hour west of Albany. He said the ...
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The Ted Cruz conundrum
US Senator Ted Cruz (R), R-Texas, speaks as Senator Mike Lee (C), R-Utah, looks on during a press conference on defunding 'Obamacare' on the Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 13, ...
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Afghan Suicide Bomber Blows Himself Up Mosque Blast Kills Many
An ostensible suicide bomber has died in the Afghan capital after his explosives-laden vest went off prematurely. Police said that the man's suicide vest went off on May 25 after he left a house in Kabul's suburbs. The explosion injured no one else. The apparent failed attack followed a Taliban assault on a guesthouse used by the International Organization of Migration on May ...
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Abbas Two states side by side still possible
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that peace with Israel is still possible, and that the Palestinians "want to have two states living side by side," Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported.Speaking at the opening session of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Center at the Dead Sea, Abbas referred to ...
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Syrian hackers attempted to attack Haifas water supply
Syrian web activists loyal to the regime of Basher Assad launched a failed cyber attack on Haifa's water supply system, a senior scientist and web expert revealed on Saturday. Professor Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, Chairman of the National Council for Research and Development, said that members of the Syrian Electronic Army attempted to damage computers controlling the water system this month, in ...
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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