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Car rams into Virginia hikers
A parade in the US state of Virginia has been ended by an horrendous car crash. Over 50 people were injured in an incident where a car ploughed into the crowd whose members had been hiking through the area. More than a dozen people were seriously injured in the crash, which took place during the Trail Days festival in the town of Damascus in northern Virginia. Ambulances ferried the ...
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Israel worried that Russian weapons will reach Hezbollah
Israel has warned Russia about sending arms to Syria. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has spoken on Channel Two television's Meet the Press to condemn shipments of arms from Russia that she said may be used against Israel. She said: "These are not just any weapons, they are tie-breakers, and that's why there is a responsibility with all world powers, certainly Russia, not to supply such ...
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Syrians on alert as bombs explode in Damascus
At least eight people have been killed and ten others injured in a bomb attack in the Syrian capital, Damascus. The incident took place in the north of the city, where cars and buildings were set alight by a bomb. The bomb had been concealed in another car which was parked near a school in the Rukn Eddin neighbourhood. Another explosive device was defused by military experts who had ...
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Spies hang after Tehran court ruling
Two spies have been hanged in Iran following a Revolutionary Court judgement. Press TV has reported the spies, who worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency and the Israeli spy agency, the Mossad, were hanged at dawn on Sunday. Sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, the men have been named as Mohammad Heidari, a Mossad agent and Kourosh Ahmadi, who was convicted of working for ...
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Oil spill causes Texas to launch law suit
BP and Halliburton are being sued by the state of Texas over one of the worst oil spills in US history. Texas has become the latest complainant in allegations that both companies engaged in "misconduct" for their role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Four other states that have sued BP and other companies in connection to the spill. Alabama and Louisiana filed complaints in 2010 ...
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Mice and lizard return after a month in space
A Russian capsule, which had mice and lizards as its occupants, returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space. According to scientists, the experiment was conducted to test effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on the cell structure, Fox News reported. Russian state television showed the capsule and some of its inhabitants following its safe landing in a ...
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Billy Sol Now That Was a Scandal
Reporters who covered the story found a certain charm about the man. Ol Billy Sol knew how to make money out of manure and how could you resist ...
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Iraq Hit By Wave Of Deadly Bombings
A string of car bombs across Iraq have left at least 63 people dead. Multiple bombing attacks on May 20 hit bus stations and outdoor markets in Shi'ite neighborhoods of Baghdad, killing at least 39 people and wounding more than 120 others. Two car bombs also detonated in Shi'ite-majority areas in the southern city of Basra, killing at least 13 people. No group immediately ...
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Polling Agency Prosecutors Decision May Force Closure
Russia's only independent polling agency says it may have to close after prosecutors described its opinion research as "political activity." The Levada Center said on May 20 that it had received a letter from prosecutors who said that publishing polls on political subjects and the approval ratings of leaders amounted to political activity because it "forms public opinion ...
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Court Denies Appeal To Investigate Russian Activists Alleged Abduction
MOSCOW -- The Moscow City Court has upheld a prior court's decision not to investigate the alleged kidnapping of opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev. The ruling was announced on May 20. Razvozzhayev, who is under investigation for his alleged role in organizing violent protests in Moscow last year, insists that authorities abducted him from Ukraine last October, brought him back to ...
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The Week Ahead May 20-26
Nikolai Patrushev visits the United States to deliver a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama from Russia President Vladimir Putin (to May 21). U.S. : U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry releases the State ...
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Egypt boosts Sinai forces amid hostage crisis
EL-ARISH, Egypt - The Egyptian army sent reinforcements into the Sinai Peninsula on Monday after President Mohamed Morsi said there would be no talks with militant Islamists ...
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Irans electoral watchdog may ban Rafsanjani
DUBAI - Iran's electoral watchdog said on Monday it would bar physically feeble candidates from running for president, in an apparent hint that it could disqualify 78-year-old former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from the race.Rafsanjani, if he is allowed to run, would be a significant challenge to conservative hardliners who are ultra-loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ...
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Vendor dies after setting self on fire
A street vendor died in Saudi Arabia after setting himself on fire in protest at having his goods confiscated by police, human rights activists reported on ...
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Cameron will NOT challenge Google over evil tax avoidance at Downing Street summit
Bizarrely the Prime Minister will brief business advisors on his plans for tackling global tax dodging but will not challenge Eric Schmidt over its arrangements which were last week branded ‘evil’ by ...
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A busy day for Harry Prince joins his brother to open a Help for Heroes Recovery centre before he heads to meet the Queen at the Chelsea Flower Show
The brothers, aged 30 and 28, were at Tedworth House in Tidworth, Wiltshire, to officially open the centre and meet dozens of wounded, injured and sick service personnel and ...
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Newark house blast Miracle survival of four-month-old baby girl who was rescued covered in soot
Miracle survival of four-month-old baby girl who was rescued ‘covered in soot’ from rubble of gas blast which left two dead and one man fighting for his ...
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Lord Ashcroft warns Tories on verge of spiral of irrelevance as Cameron faces revolt
The Tories risk being plunged into a 'spiral of irrelevance', former donor Lord Ashcroft warned today as David Cameron faced battles with his party on several ...
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Hate preacher Abu Qatada complains his five-bedroom taxpayer funded home is not big enough due to lack of storage space
cleric Abu Qatada's family will leave Britain with him if he returns to Jordan because the taxpayer-funded home they moved into last Christmas is too small, a tribunal heard ...
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Havent we met before Angler catches same giant carp he hooked 14 years ago but this time its DOUBLE the size
Angler Tim Cosens was surprised to see an ‘old friend’ on the end of his fishing reel when he caught the same common carp at Strawberry Fields fishery in Tunbridge Wells, Kent that he had reeled in back in ...
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Gay Man Shot In Face In New York Hate Crime
A gunman who allegedly used homophobic insults before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face in New York is facing charges of murder as a hate crime. "It was a quickie. He shot him and he went straight to the ground," a bouncer at a nearby club told the New York Post. "Half his body was lying on the sidewalk and half was on the street." Authorities ...
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FBI Hostage Rescue Agents Die In Training
Two FBI special agents from the elite Hostage Rescue Team have been killed in a training accident in Virginia. The accident happened off the coast of Virginia Beach on Friday, the FBI's national press office announced in a statement. No other details were given and the cause is under investigation. The special agents were identified as Christopher Lorek, 41, and Stephen Shaw, ...
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Severe weather predicted for Midwest and Plains
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. (CNN) -- A rash of tornadoes wreaked havoc in Oklahoma and the Midwest on Sunday and Monday, destroying homes and tossing trees around like toothpicks. But the destructive weather isn't ...
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Yahoo buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion vows not to screw it up
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said it is acquiring blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, a bold bet by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer to revitalize the struggling Internet pioneer by co-opting a Web property with strong visitor traffic but little ...
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Bungled bank heist in Israel leaves gunman 4 more dead
Israeli security and rescue forces gather following a bank robbery that escalated into a hostage situation in the Israeli city of Beersheba on May 20, 2013. Four people were killed and three others wounded in a botched bank heist in southern Israel which ended when a robber who had held a hostage shot himself dead, police ...
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Nepal reaches out for help to save tiger population
Nepal’s tigers, along with tigers across the Asian region, are being killed off by poachers and human encroachment on their habitats, with an extinction crisis mounting, the government has appealed to the international community for help.
The tiger, there is arguably no land animal so beautiful and majestic as this magnificent member of the Felidae family. These creatures have invaded the human imagination for centuries and are the national animals of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Malaysia, as well as North and South Korea. Read more
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