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Syria opposition ready to negotiate

SOURCE: BBC

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The main Syrian opposition coalition has said it is willing to attend an international peace conference expected to take place...
Brazil's Santos Decide to Sell Neymar-Club

SOURCE: International Herald Tribune

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Brazil's Santos said it had agreed sell striker Neymar to one of two unnamed soccer clubs, according to the club's...
Illinois lawmakers approve concealed carry measure

SOURCE: Fox

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Ill. Gun owners could carry concealed weapons in Illinois, the last state in the nation to prohibit it, under...
French army to begin Mali pullout

SOURCE: BBC

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France is set to begin the first major stage of its military withdrawal from Mali, four months after sending troops...
Robbie Rogers, Gay Soccer Player, Set to Join Galaxy

SOURCE: International Herald Tribune

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Rogers Set to Join Los Angeles Galaxy Published: May 25, 2013 Robbie Rogers is expected to join the Los Angeles...
Flynn Robinson, Sharpshooting N.B.A. Guard, Dies at 72

SOURCE: International Herald Tribune

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Liberty The cause was multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells, said Kevin McKinney, a senior associate athletic director...
For Now, Ike Davis's Struggles Stay in the Major Leagues

SOURCE: International Herald Tribune

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Yankees Davis has been mired in a season-long slump, and he has appeared even more lost at the plate over...
Georges Moustaki, French Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 79

SOURCE: International Herald Tribune

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Georges Moustaki, Poetic French Singer, Dies at 79 Roland Witschel/European Pressphoto Agency Georges Moustaki, shown performing in 1983 with the...
Zoo employee killed by tiger in northern England

SOURCE: United Press International

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An employee at a zoo in northern England died Friday hours after she entered a tiger enclosure and was attacked....
Hundreds honor fallen soldier in Dalton

SOURCE: Boston Herald

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Hundreds of mourners lined the streets of Dalton yesterday to pay their respects and honor Army Spc...Daehling, 24, was remembered...
Bionic leg aids Bob Lobel's quest  to walk freely

SOURCE: Boston Herald

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Beloved Boston sportscaster Bob Lobel is going bionic to fulfill his dream of walking easily again. Pool workouts, weight training...
IHT Rendezvous: IHT Quick Read: May 25

SOURCE: The New York Times

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Gordon Welters for The New York Times Thomas Schnalke, director of the Museum of Medical History in Berlin, helped write...
Feds challenge ruling on morning-after pill access

SOURCE: Fox

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Department of Justice lawyers filed court papers Friday again asking a federal appeals court to delay lifting age restrictions and...
Peabody driver charged in death of passenger

SOURCE: Boston Herald

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A 31-year-old Peabody man was killed after being nearly decapitated in a crash early yesterday morning when the car he...
AlterG Bionic Leg: How it works

SOURCE: Boston Herald

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The AlterG Bionic Leg is built for speed at least walking speed. Here are a few of its features: The...

Obama lifts order on Gitmo

Posted by: Robert Weller

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 23:52:59 -0700 | disasters-news

President Obama says the US is revising the way it fights terror because today’s threats resemble the kind of terrorism faced before Sept. 11. For those who were skeptical that intentions would be followed by actions, Obama lifted the ban...

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Multiple explosions, heavy gunfire rock Kabul (Video)

Posted by: Nina Rai

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-24 23:02:44 -0700 | disasters-news

Multiple large blasts rocked a bustling area in the center of Kabul followed by gunfire Friday, police said. It is a second blast to hit the Afghan capital in little over a week. A witness describing the incident told Reuters...

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On Tennessee Valley Authority, Republicans seek to defend New Deal from Obama

Posted by: northsunm32

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 19:23:55 -0700 | political-news

The Tennessee Valley Authority dates from 1933 and was a key project in President Franklin Roosevelt's plans to create huge infrastructure projects that would create jobs and produce benefits to those in the area. Hidden away in a new budget...

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Washington bridge collapse closes main I-5 route from Mexico to Canada

Posted by: PrairieDogPress

Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-25 00:10:46 -0700 | disasters-news

An oversized truck hit the Skagit River Bridge ceiling steel beams Thursday around 7:00 p.m., causing that section of the bridge to buckle and collapse, and sending several cars into the freezing water below, authorities said. Three people were subsequently...

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What we can learn from Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Tough only gets you so far

Posted by: msarzo

Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 23:25:02 -0700 | political-news

When a federal judge put the clamps Friday on Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio's use of racial profiling in an aggressive campaign to target illegal immigrants, he sent a message that anyone who seeks the limelight will also suffer...

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Syrian government agrees to attend international peace conference

Posted by: arkar

Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-24 22:29:26 -0700 | disasters-news

With the bloody civil war in Syria having claimed more than 80,000 lives and displaced millions, the present stalemate between the Syrian government and the Syrian opposition suggests that this now-two-year-long conflict may continue, but efforts are underway to broker...

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Zimmerman's murder trial draws near so let the smear campaign begin (Video)

Posted by: VeronicaS

Sanford :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 22:41:51 -0700 | disasters-news

Opinion As George Zimmerman’s murder trial scheduled to begin June 10 draws near, a concentrated smearing of the victim has begun. Defense lawyer Mark O’Mara is blanketing the Internet with images of Trayvon Martin in what I will call “full...

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2 arrested, fighter jets scrambled after threat aboard plane from Pakistan to England

Posted by: Herbert Dyer, Jr.

Manchester :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-25 00:26:50 -0700 | political-news

A Boeing 777 on route from Pakistan to the United Kingdom, and carrying more than 300 people, was diverted to an airport outside London on Friday after two men threatened to blow the plane up, CNN reported. Police arrested the...

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Holder not likely to stay on as attorney general for duration of Obama's term (Opinion)

Posted by: Punditty

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-25 00:02:19 -0700 | political-news

Eric Holder has been President Barack Obama’s attorney general since being confirmed in February 2009, but regardless of what comes next in the unfolding saga of the federal government spying on members of the press, history is not on Holder’s...

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'Functionally obsolete' bridge collapse shows need to fix aging infrastructure

Posted by: Herbert Dyer, Jr.

Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 23:55:50 -0700 | political-news

"We've still got too many roads that are in disrepair, too many bridges that aren't safe." – President Obama, March 2013 A long section of an Interstate 5 bridge connecting the United States to Canada collapsed Thursday evening, and many...

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England joins chorus against European involvement with Hezbollah

Posted by: Nathan Salant

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-24 20:03:12 -0700 | disasters-news

England has added its voice to boost efforts to blacklist the military wing of the Hezbollah organization from operating in the 27 countries of the European Union. England's Foreign Office said it had formally moved to have parts of the...

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Google ads facing antitrust probe from FTC

Posted by: Joe Kukura

Mountain View :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 18:26:54 -0700 | business-news

Google's ongoing dominance in the Internet display ad business is seemingly unstoppable, but there may be one thing that can stop them -- a federal agency with the authority to shut them down. According to a report by Bloomberg News,...

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Al-Jazeera bans article critical of Zionism only to republish it later

Posted by: northsunm32

Doha :: Qatar | updated 2013-05-24 12:00:13 -0700 | political-news

An article entitled "The Last of the Semites" was published in Al-Jazeera May 14. However, it was removed Sunday, May 19. The article by Columbia University Professor Joseph Massad came under attack as soon as it was printed. The article...

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President Obama defends use of drones

Posted by: Jennifer Rees

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 18:59:47 -0700 | political-news

During a speech at the National Defense University in Washington, DC, Thursday, President Obama spoke in detail about the use of drones, forcefully defending the US drone program and attempting to justify the contentious strikes as legal and necessary to...

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What diet is right for you

Posted by: Stephanie Weaver

Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 17:34:26 -0700 | health-news

Women are not the only ones who want to stick to a healthy diet to lose weight and trim down. Guys also want to maintain their sexy physique with nutritional food choices. But with so many types of diets out...

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