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Brazil protests see violence erupt in Sao Paulo as government websites are hit with cyber attacks
Another night of violence in Brazil saw more clashes between protesters and police, with demonstrators in Sao Paulo looting shops, setting fire to a TV satellite truck and attempting to invade the city ...
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Rohani once approved of hiding Iran atomic work
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Years before he became Iran's president-elect, Hassan Rohani spoke approvingly about concealing his nation's nuclear program and said that when Pakistan got atomic bombs and Brazil began enriching uranium, "the world started to work with ...
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Afghan govt halts talks with U.S. on security pact
London The Afghan government said Wednesday it was suspending talks with Washington aimed at nailing down a future security agreement between the two nations due to "inconsistencies" by the Obama administration in its actions and remarks about U.S. involvement in peace talks between Afghanistan and the Taliban. A statement from the Office of the National Security Council of Afghanistan ...
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Report Aaron Hernandez questioned in death investigation
according to Sports Illustrated . Another group of officers was searching an industrial park about a mile away where a body was discovered the day before. Police at the Hernandez home and prosecutors would not comment on the actions while Sports Illustrated, citing an unidentified source, reported that Hernandez was not believed to be a suspect in what was being treated as a possible homicide. ...
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Loud explosion heard in Somali capital
A loud explosion and the sound of ensuing gunfire have been heard in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses have told the Reuters news agency. The explosion was reported near a United Nations compound in the city. A plume of thick black smoke was seen billowing into the sky above the Somali capital, which has been dogged by suicide bomb attacks in recent ...
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Attack on Al Jazeera cameramen condemned
The Turkish Journalists' Association (TGC) has condemned the recent assault on two Al Jazeera journalists by riot police in Istanbul’s Taksim Square. In a statement published on TGC’s website on Tuesday, the association called on the Istanbul governor and chief of police to identify the policemen responsible for the attack on Al Jazeera Turk cameramen, Kemal Sogukdere and Alper ...
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Blast reported near Syrian port city
A loud explosion was heard near a military site in the Syrian port city of Latakia, an opposition monitoring group said, but the cause of the blast was unclear. Explosions in Latakia, part of President Bashar al-Assad's stronghold on the Mediterranean coast, have been extremely rare during Syria's two-year-old conflict. Residents on Twitter and a report from the Syrian Observatory ...
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Afghanistan suspends talks on US security pact
KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has decided to suspend talks on a security pact with the United States, accusing Washington of mixed messages regarding peace talks with the Taliban, his spokesman said on Wednesday."In a special meeting chaired by President Hamid Karzai, the president has decided to suspend talks about a security pact with the US because of their inconsistent ...
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Voices of Jerusalem Ultimate felafel family
felafel business in Jerusalem," says Yossi Vashady, owner of Shalom Felafel, a franchise with ten branches in total: eight in Jerusalem, one in Modiin and one in Mevasseret Zion. The stores are either Glatt Kosher Parev and specialize in felafel (recognizable by their green branding) or Kosher Rabbinate meat restaurants that also offer shwarma and meat on the grill. The store on Bezalel ...
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Home is where the cookbook is
After a colorful career as a trained nutritionist and setting up her own successful business offering culinary tours of Israel, Orly Ziv thought long and hard about what her next step would be. As a food lover, it only seemed natural to concentrate her expertise and write a cookbook sharing her vast knowledge of the local Israeli cuisine.Her first cookbook, the ...
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Montreal mayor vows to fight charges
Montreal - Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum resigned on Tuesday, a day after he was charged with fraud and corruption in the latest major Canadian municipal ...
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Kim Jong-un ‘stresses Hitler’s skills’
Seoul - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly given copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to his top officials, urging them to study it as a leadership skills ...
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No date for Afghan peace talks Taliban
Muhammad Naeem (L), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha. The Afghan Taliban opened an office in Qatar on Tuesday to help restart talks on ending the 12-year-old war. REUTERS/Mohammed ...
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Jeremy Forrests wife Emily flees witness box in tears as she described their last meal together
He tucked me in and told me he loved me: Wife of married teacher who ran to France with schoolgirl, 15, flees witness box in tears as she described their last ...
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Pictured Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson dining at same restaurant where he choked her
Pictured: Saatchi and Nigella dining at the same restaurant where he choked herjust 24 hours before she left him as storm over the assault ...
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Syria crisis David Cameron pledges not to remove Assad military if they overthrow tyrant
David Cameron last night made an appeal to Syria's military and security leaders in an extraordinary attempt to spark a coup against Bashar ...
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Taliban Attack and Afghan Move Cast Pall on Peace Talks
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Taliban We killed 4 U.S. troops at Afghan air base
KABUL, Afghanistan The Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for an attack in Afghanistan that killed four American troops just hours after the insurgent group announced it would hold talks with the U.S. on finding a political solution to ending the nearly 12-year war in the country. The deadly attack underscores the challenges ahead in trying to end the violence roiling Afghanistan via peace ...
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Suicide bomber strikes Yemen town
Several people have been killed and wounded in Yemen's northern Saada town when a suicide bomber riding a motorbike blew himself up in a busy market, a defence ministry statement said.No further details were immediately available on the incident on Wednesday.Saada, near the Saudi border and about 130km north of the capital Sanaa, has been under the control ofShia Houthi rebels for several ...
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China executes ex-official for raping minors
China has executed a former official of the ruling Communist Party after he was convicted of raping 11 underage girls, state media reports. Li Xingong, 44, was executed after he was found guilty by a court in the central city of Yongcheng, Henan province, state broadcaster China Central Television quoted court officials as saying on Wednesday. Li, the former deputy secretary of ...
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Obama To Urge U.S. Russia To Reduce Nukes By One-Third
A senior U.S. official says President Barack Obama is planning to propose that the United States and Russia cut their strategic nuclear warheads by a further one-third. The official said Obama will deliver the proposal in a speech on June 19 in Berlin. Under the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that the Obama administration negotiated with Moscow during Obama's first term, Russia ...
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U.S. Journalist Known For Afghan Iraq Work Dead At 33
The American award-winning war correspondent Michael Hastings, who authored notable articles and books about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has been killed in a car accident in Los Angeles. He was 33. The news website BuzzFeed, for which Hastings wrote, said he died early on June 18. Hastings is known for a 2010 profile in "Rolling Stone" magazine of General Stanley ...
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LIVE President Peres to honor Clinton
Former US president to receive highest civil distinction at opening session of the fifth Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem; Middle East envoy Tony Blair says two-state solution has short window of ...
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Deputy minister Ben-Dahan to stay in IDF corps
Since being elected to the Knesset and appointed deputy minister for religious services, Bayit Yehudi MK Eli Ben-Dahan has had to fight battles on numerous fronts - be it the struggle within his party over which candidate to back for chief rabbi, or the internecine skirmishes that have erupted within the coalition over pieces of contentious legislation.But while clear-cut successes in the ...
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‘We’re here to demand a better Brazil’
';I am here to demand a better Brazil,'; said 21-year-old student Juliana Alves. ';They are spending billions of dollars on the World Cup, but virtually nothing on education. This is ...
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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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