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U.S. Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes

SOURCE: The New York Times

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In a letter to Congressional leaders obtained by The New York Times, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. disclosed that...
North Korea sends...

SOURCE: Arab News

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A top North Korean general and confidant of leader Kim Jong-Un met a senior Chinese official in Beijing yesterday, with...
Oklahoma twister that hit Moore ‘more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb'...

SOURCE: The independent

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Suggested Topics The vast tornado that struck an Oklahoma suburb on Monday afternoon dwarfed even the Hiroshima atomic bomb in...
Mugabe signs Zimbabwe?s...

SOURCE: Arab News

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President Robert Mugabe signed Zimbabwe's new constitution into law yesterday, clearing the path to crucial elections later this year. The...
Iran's Nuclear Program Is Seen Making Progress in I.A.E.A. Report

SOURCE: The New York Times

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Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. In its last report before Iranian elections next month, the International Atomic...
4-nation Pacific Alliance trade bloc forges ahead

SOURCE: Fox News

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Colombia The presidents of Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico meet in the western city of Cali on Thursday in...
Wasps Wing Wade Scoops Award Double

SOURCE: International Herald Tribune

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Pacy London Wasps wing Christian Wade underlined his status as one of the most promising prospects in English rugby on...
Switch to low-carbon future would save households £1,600

SOURCE: The Independent

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British households will save £45bn, or £1,600 apiece, if the government hitches its electricity supply to low-carbon sources such as...
Washington Memo: Torches and Pitchforks for I.R.S. but Cheers for ...

SOURCE: The New York Times

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Armed with a blistering report that said Apple had avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes, senators this week had...
Some business owners resist providing employees with contraceptive ...

SOURCE: Washington Post

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The legal battle took an important step forward Wednesday when an appeals court here heard arguments in two cases brought...
The growth of start-up competitions

SOURCE: BBC

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Trying to become a successful entrepreneur has never been more fashionable and thousands of new business competition schemes like this...
Holder: Drones killed 4 Americans

SOURCE: CNN

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In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, Attorney General Eric Holder said the United States specifically targeted...
Union says Porter using lawsuit to stifle workers

SOURCE: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Porter Airlines is using a lawsuit to stop the union representing 22 striking workers from protesting the way the airline...
Facebook posts: Suit filed over vet's detention

SOURCE: Fox News

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Va. A civil liberties group has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of an ex-Marine, claiming his rights were...
Dinosaur chomped like a bird of prey, say scientists

SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor

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ments Dinosaur chomped like a bird of prey, say scientists A study of an Allosaurus fossil found that the massive...

London terrorist attack leaves soldier hacked to death (Video)

Posted by: Eileen Kersey

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-22 18:56:18 -0700 | disasters-news

In broad daylight, around 2 p.m. BST Wednesday, a suspected terrorist attack unfolded in Woolwich, London. Two men drove their vehicle into a soldier, who was wearing a Help For Heroes charity T-shirt, before attacking him with machetes. There are...

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FBI agent fatally shoots friend of accused Boston bomber; both implicated in triple homicide

Posted by: Phyllis L. Smith Asinyanbi

Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 19:24:36 -0700 | disasters-news

Updated 5-22-2013, 6:45 p.m., PDT Ibragim Todashev, 26, an ethnic Chechen man who knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston bombing suspects, was fatally shot Tuesday in Orlando, Fla., by an unidentified FBI agent. The agent had questioned Ibragim's friend,...

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IRS official pleads the 5th at US House hearing

Posted by: Dava Castillo

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 18:56:47 -0700 | political-news

Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency’s targeting of conservative political groups, invoked her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination Wednesday and declined to testify at a House hearing on the matter,...

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Mother of expelled daughter alleges anti-gay bias

Posted by: Samantha86

Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 16:26:46 -0700 | disasters-news

The mother of an 18-year-old girl who was arrested in Florida for having an alleged sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female student says that her daughter is being discriminated for being gay. The 18-year-old girl is Kaitlyn Hunt, who has...

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Oklahoma tornado death toll likely to stand at 24

Posted by: Robert Weller

Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 18:04:38 -0700 | disasters-news

The fire chief of the Oklahoma City suburb smashed by a tornado Monday says the death toll likely will stay at 24. Gary Bird told Fox News he is "98 percent sure " there are no more dead in the...

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Actress Helen Mirren makes dying boy's wish come true after Queen refuses

Posted by: VeronicaS

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-22 19:06:12 -0700 | entertainment-news

I have always liked Helen Mirren, and now I admire her even more. The ageless British-born actress who can give younger women a run for their money in the stylishly sexy department, made a dying boy’s wish come true. Well,...

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Tsarnaev brothers highlight shifting movements within Chechnya, expert says

Posted by: Mirjana Pantic

Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-22 18:56:17 -0700 | disasters-news

Searching for a motive behind the attack on the Boston Marathon in April that killed three people and injured more than 260 others, the media has speculated that the answer may lie in the alleged perpetrators’ Chechen origins. The Russian...

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When media disaster coverage turns into ‘disaster porn'

Posted by: VeronicaS

Moore :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 16:08:21 -0700 | disasters-news

It’s no news that comedian/host Bill Maher likes to push the envelope and that what comes out of his mouth makes some cringe and run for the smelling salts, so this is no exception. The host of the HBO show...

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity back to work, drills second hole in Martian surface

Posted by: arkar

Pasadena :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 18:29:47 -0700 | technology-news

Having been in standby mode for the past month or so, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is up and running again, and, according to the US space agency, has recommenced its work by drilling another hole in the Martian surface to...

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Obama needs to fire staff

Posted by: PJesep

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 18:57:49 -0700 | political-news

President Barack Obama is languishing politically. He must shake up his team. Calling the three controversies now embattling the administration Nixonian are inaccurate, or at least an exaggeration. In addition, comments that his second term is derailed are premature. The...

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Afghan interpreters will be allowed to settle in Britain after another coalition U-turn

Posted by: Eileen Kersey

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-22 14:14:23 -0700 | political-news

The British government has had a rethink and taken another U-turn, this time with regards to British citizenship for hundreds of Afghan interpreters who have worked with foreign military during the war. The men had claimed that they would be...

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Sharpton kicks press out of meeting, bullies membership into silence

Posted by: Harold Michael Harvey, J. D.

Atlanta :: GA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 10:56:43 -0700 | political-news

Rev. Al Sharpton convened a general membership meeting of the National Action Network Tuesday night in Atlanta at the historic West Hunter Street Baptist Church, once pastored by Rev. Ralph David Abernathy. Before Sharpton appeared at the meeting the organization’s...

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Nearly 40 percent of Syrians in need of humanitarian aid

Posted by: Robert Myles

Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-22 16:24:48 -0700 | disasters-news

The number of Syrians in need of humanitarian aid has reached 8.3 million, or 38 percent of the country's population, the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated, labeling the situation in Syria a “humanitarian catastrophe.”...

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Seven abducted Egyptian security forces in Sinai released

Posted by: saleh1966

Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2013-05-22 16:37:58 -0700 | disasters-news

Seven Egyptian security officers who had been abducted in the Sinai Peninsula last week by a Jihadists group with alleged ties to al-Qaida have been released Wednesday, following efforts by Egyptian military intelligence in coordination with Bedouin tribal leaders in...

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Capitalism: How it can benefit all Americans, not only greedy corporations

Posted by: Dava Castillo

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 18:23:26 -0700 | political-news

Capitalism is an economic system in which all or most of the means of production and distribution such as land, factories, communications and some transportation systems etc. are privately owned and operated in a competitive environment characterized by a tendency...

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