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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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North Korea launches threatened missile
North Korea has fired three short-range missiles from its east coast. South Korean officials have been carefully monitoring the missile firings as tensions rise again in the Korean Peninsula. The missiles were fired on Saturday morning and afternoon in a north-east direction. Analysts have said the missiles were not as dangerous as the intermediate-range missiles which Pyongyang had ...
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Violence flares throughout Iraq
Violence has erupted in many areas of Iraq. On Saturday morning eight people, including a police officer, his wife and children, were killed by gunmen who also kidnapped ten security force personnel in the Rashid area, south of Baghdad. The gunmen first broke into the home of the local administrator, killing one of his guards. They then moved on to the nearby house of Captain Adnan ...
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Cell phone surveillance powers loosened in US
A federal judge in the US has given law agents permission to track people's mobile phones without a warrant. New York judge Gary Brown has ruled that law enforcement agents can conduct cell phone surveillance against people who forget to turn their phones off. In a written ruling, he said: "Given the ubiquity and celebrity of geo-location technologies, an individual has no legitimate ...
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France still unsure about gay marriage
France has legalised same-sex marriage, becoming the 14th country to do so. President Francois Hollande signed the bill into law following months of bitter political debate, including a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition. On Friday the Constitutional Council threw out the challenge, allowing the president to sign the documents. The legislation also legalises gay ...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrives in IndiaUpdate
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived here today on a three-day state visit. The visit is expected to expand cooperation between the two countries substantially. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said New Delhi is highly hopeful that the visit will enhance mutual trust and understanding between the people and leadership on sensitivities of two countries. Briefing media here ...
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2 dead in small plane crash near Auburn
The FAA says the plane went down under "unknown circumstances" and could not say if the plane had just taken off or was on approach to the airport at the time of the ...
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Comptroller set to probe PMs financial issues
financial controversies surrounding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu from "Bibi-tours" to the general jump in expenses to "bed-gate," said his spokesman on Sunday.Reportedly, Shapira is asking Netanyahu's office for various clarifications regarding the allegations, though Shapira's spokesman downplayed the possibility of any immediate major ...
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Israel must protect its Beduin citizens
One day each summer, my childhood camp was magically transformed into a mini-Israel for "Yom Yisrael," Israel Day. My favorite part of Yom Yisrael was the Beduin tent. There was something mysterious and astonishing about the characters who served us sweet, strong coffee and welcomed us to sit with them on the tent's floor. I was taught that the Beduin were part of the very ...
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Reality Check Israel’s modern-day royal family
It's a shame Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spent the flight to London for Margaret Thatcher's funeral asleep on the double bed that cost the taxpayer an extra half-a-million shekels. He could have used the flight time more profitably by reading up on a how a truly great conservative leader regarded the use of taxpayers' money for prime ministerial personal comforts.Soon ...
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Health minister attacks dental health protection
Fluoridation of community water supplies is under attack by the new health minister, despite its success in Israel in reducing dental caries in ...
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Israel acts to deny Hezbollah arms says PM Netanyahu
Israel is "acting" to prevent weapons from Syria from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah and will continue to do so, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on ...
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Senior member of Imran Khans Tehreek-e-Insaf party assassinated as row over Pakistan election vote rigging continues
Police officer Sarfaraz Nawaz says Zohra Shahid was gunned down outside her home in the city of Karachi in southern Sindh province. She was the vice president of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party in Sindh.No one has claimed responsibility for the killing.Mr Khan's party has claimed it was the victim of vote rigging in several areas of Pakistan, ...
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Obama to discuss legality of drone program
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will discuss the legality of his administration's secret drone program and other counterterrorism practices during a speech Thursday, a White House official said. Obama's speech will be an attempt to fulfill his State of the Union pledge to be more "transparent" with the public about the controversial drone program that has become the ...
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Have recent controversies paralyzed Washington
CBS News political director John Dickerson, Politico's Lois Romano, the New York Times' David Sanger, and the Washington Post's Dan Balz discuss whether recent controversies will prevent Washington from doing any actual ...
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Nadal and Serena triumph in Rome
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 on Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. It was the most lop-sided win in the series since Nadal also lost just four games, but over three sets, in the 2008 French Open final against Federer. ...
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Al-Qaeda exploits oilfields
Al-Qaeda's Syrian wing is financing its activities by selling oil from the fields that once helped to prop up the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Up to 380,000 barrels of crude oil were previously produced by wells around the city of Raqqa and in the desert region to its east that are now in rebel hands. The strongest faction in this part of the county is Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda ...
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$710m jackpot to one ticket
A single ticket holder has won America's US$590 million ($710.85 million) Powerball jackpot - one of the biggest lottery wins recorded. The lone winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida, said Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell. The winner was not immediately identified and Ms O'Connell did not give any indication hours after yesterday's draw whether anyone had come forward ...
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Tory swivel eyed loons hit back at inner circles slur
David Cameron has been told by Conservative activists that he must repair the broken relationship between the party leadership and the grassroots, branded by one of his inner circle as "swivel-eyed loons". One leading activist accused elements at the top of the party of "utter contempt" for supporters, while a leading MP said activists were being treated as "pariahs". They spoke ...
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$6m to keep tabs on Assange
The cost of policing the Ecuadorean Embassy in Knightsbridge while WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange takes refuge inside has now risen to £3.3 million ($6.2 million), Scotland Yard has disclosed. Assange has been hiding from the law in a cramped basement room at the embassy for nearly a year. By the time the anniversary falls on June 19, policing costs are expected to have gone ...
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Scientists unravel secret world of mammoths from clues in ivory tusks
The first time I met palaeontologist Dan Fisher was in a hotel in the Arctic frontier town of Salekhard, in Siberia. I was there to film an expedition to recover a new mammoth specimen with a BBC crew. We were keen to head north into the tundra of the Yamal Peninsula, where we'd heard new mammoth carcasses had been discovered. After sharing a large Mi-8 helicopter with a load of ...
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Brazil fighting the good fight?
Brazil’s recent victory in a trade dispute with the US, which was resolved through the WTO is a victory, not just for the biggest economy in South America, but also for developing nations around the world, showing that the mechanisms of the WTO can be used to further their interests – although it will take years of fighting and unrelenting effort…
Brazil’s ongoing dispute with the United States over the subsidizing of cotton for producers in the US, looks like it may soon be resolved, as Brazil recently indicated it would hold off on slapping a range of 102 US goods with sanctions, if the US agreed to certain measures put forth by the South American country. Read more
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