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Has U.S. Green Card Lottery Run Out Of Luck
WASHINGTON -- Each year around this time, millions of would-be immigrants to the United States from around the world hold their breath. Early May is when the U.S. State Department releases its shortlist of applicants to the annual green-card lottery. About half of them -- 55,000 people -- will receive permanent-residence visas, the tickets to eventual citizenship. This year, like any other, ...
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Enraged by kidnapping Egypt police keep Gaza border closed
Policeman says crossing will remain closed until the seven remaining kidnapped hostages who were taken by Islamic militants are freed and the Interior Minister comes to listen to security ...
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OJ knew about guns says lawyer
LAS VEGAS - A former attorney for OJ Simpson testified on Friday that the ex-football star knew two associates would be armed with guns when they accompanied him to a Las Vegas hotel room to recover property from two memorabilia ...
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Gitmo prisoner struck in clash named
Miami - A lawyer is identifying one of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners who was shot with non-lethal rounds in a recent clash at the prison and says the wounds were more significant than portrayed by U.S. ...
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Football coach Dale Strawbridge spared jail after he treated girls team like personal harem
A young football coach who sexually assaulted three members of a girls’ under 16 team who he treated as ‘his personal harem’, was today spared ...
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Tia Sharp relatives cash in on murder A home life based on benefits drugs and sex - what hope did she have
Outside the terrace house in Croydon, South London, where Tia Sharp used to stay with her grandmother, someone has left a bouquet with a message in the form of a poem. It begins: ‘Three little words / Forget me not / They don’t say much but mean a lot / Forget you not, we never ...
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Chinese man abducted as 5-year-old reunited with parents using GOOGLE MAPS
A Chinese man has been reunited with his biological family more than 20 years after he was abducted as a little boy - and claims he has Google Maps to thank for finding his way ...
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Asteroid 9 times larger than the QE2 set to whizz past Earth
Scientists have named the asteroid 1998 QE2 but the name has nothing to do with the transatlantic Cunard liner - it follows a code used for newly-discovered asteroids by the US Minor Planet Centre in Cambridge, ...
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Turkey softens opposition to Syria conference
Turkey has softened its opposition toward a Russia-US brokered international conference on Syria following Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's trip to the United States, local media said ...
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Afghan parliament fails to pass divisive womens law
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women's rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islamist Taliban was toppled over a decade ...
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Rome protest turns up heat on new PM Letta
1 of 2. Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta attends a news conference with European Parliament President Martin Schulz (not pictured) at Chigi palace in Rome May 10, ...
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Facebooks first year on Wall Street
Facebook's May 18, 2012, IPO, which valued the company at a whopping $104 billion, was more than just a stock offering -- it grew into a cultural and financial phenomenon. But as launches go, this one was a misfire. A software glitch at Nasdaq delayed the IPO by 30 minutes. Worse, investor demand underwhelmed. After pricing at $38, Facebook shares barely got off the ground to close at ...
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For GOP scandals could be an electoral plus - or minus
As the Obama administration grapples with a series of recent controversies within its ranks, political observers in Washington have begun to calculate their potential political impacts. But while many Republicans believe the scandals could prove a boon to the party's prospects in the 2014 midterm elections, they it's equally important not to "overreach" on the issue -- and ...
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Nigerian warplanes strike Boko Haram camps
Nigerian officials say warplanes have struck Boko Haram camps in the northeast in a major offensive against the group's fighters.Troops used jets and helicopters on Friday to hit targets in their biggest military campaign since Boko Haram launched a revolt almost four years ago. The air raids, which began after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the states of ...
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The Next Scott Brown
Bay State Republicans are hoping for a replay of the last Senate special election, in early 2010, when their nominee Scott Brown shocked the political world by defeating Democrat Martha Coakley, a veteran of statewide politics who had been thought a shoo-in. Coakley wasn't a terrible candidate, but she ran a bad campaign, and Brown took advantage of the growing dissatisfaction with Barack ...
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Israeli restaurateur goes viral with online meltdown
An explosive American TV appearance by an Israeli expat and his wife, and their subsequent aggressive online reaction, have gone viral and made headlines in the US news. Samy and Amy Bouzaglo let rip at critics in a spectacularly public fashion after they and their restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona was panned by Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares reality show. Ramsay had few good ...
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Tory politician David Chaplin turns up to council meetings dressed as a woman called Jane
The 65-year-old said he was now called Jane and was undergoing hormone replacement therapy.Miss Chaplin, as she is now known, has asked staff and colleagues at Wellington town council in Shropshire to refer to her as a ...
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EU vows to ban jugs and dipping bowls from restaurants to protect customers
The controversial move means that customers will now only be able dip their bread or garnish their food using oil from non-refillable and labelled ...
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Alton Towers new roller coaster BREAKS DOWN leaving Tinchy Stryder and Towies Jessica Wright disappointed
It's Fault-on Towers! New roller coaster BREAKS DOWN on opening ride, leaving guests which included Tinchy Stryder and TOWIE's Jessica Wright ...
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Chloe Johnson British girl 6 drowns in hotel swimming pool in Sharm el-Sheikh
'The British Consulate were immediately informed and they are now working with our dedicated resort team in Egypt, to offer every assistance possible to the family in ...
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Nigeria kidnap victim Chris McManus executed in toilet with British special forces just yards away
Executed in a toilet with British special forces just yards away: Horrendous death of construction worker held hostage in Nigeria recounted to family at ...
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Deadly Iraq violence spills into fourth day
Deadly violence in Iraq has spilled into a fourth day, with reports that seven more people have been killed and three more injured, amid fears over a new round of sectarian bloodshed. Two police officers were killed on Saturday after an improvised device exploded at a federal police base south of Mosul, a mainly Sunni Muslim area in the country's north, Al Jazeera's Omar Al Saleh, ...
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Daily life Hunger strikes sprays of filth
>Editor's note: This story contains graphic language that some readers may find offensive. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (CNN) -- For the 160-plus inmates at the US prison camp here, each sunrise brings a new day that most would rather starve than endure. For the American troops who guard them, each day brings a daily rain of obscenities and filth -- sometimes physical as well as verbal. More than a ...
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Opinion Stop force-feeding close Gitmo
>Editor's note: Vince Warren is the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal and educational organization that works to protect rights guaranteed by the US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. CCR represented clients in two Guantanamo Supreme Court cases and coordinates the work of hundreds of pro bono attorneys representing ...
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Syrian rebels claim Assad chemical weapons use
The Syrian opposition claimed on Saturday that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons in Damascus and in the northern Syrian city of Saraqeb, Israel Radio reported quoting Saudi owned Al-Arabiya news network. Al-Arabiya reported that the dozens of people wounded in the attacks were suffering from breathing difficulties, the radio said. The ...
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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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