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Breaking News: London terrorist attack leaves soldier hacked to death (Video) Latest
Posted by: Eileen Kersey

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-23 05:24:12 -0700 | disasters-news

In broad daylight, around 2:20 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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Breaking News: Report: Four US citizens died in drone attacks since 2009
Posted by: prabirghose

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 05:08:03 -0700 | political-news

The Obama administration has acknowledged the death of four American citizens in counterterrorism drone strikes since 2009. Fox News reports indicate that US President Barack Obama had ordered the disclosure of the deaths in keeping with the promise he made...
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Breaking News: IRS official pleads the 5th at US House hearing
Posted by: Dava Castillo

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 04:55:22 -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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Breaking News: Farm bill cuts could prompt hungry Americans to beg for foreign aid
Posted by: itobin53

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 02:41:50 -0700 | political-news

Imagine turning on your television and seeing hungry children huddled together wearing rags. Then the voice over the images makes a plea for donations to buy them food so they won’t starve. Now imagine that the donations are not destined...
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Breaking News: Tsarnaev brothers highlight shifting movements within Chechnya, expert says
Posted by: Mirjana Pantic SelectMedia

Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-23 05:28:51 -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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Breaking News: Libya suffers from chronic violence as militias push their own agendas
Posted by: northsunm32

Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-05-23 00:47:57 -0700 | political-news

The past few weeks have seen continued violence in various places in Libya, including the capital Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi. Militias continue to operate, while the central government seems unable or unwilling to confront them. UPI recently...
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Breaking News: Obama to take war against terror off auto pilot (Opinion)
Posted by: Robert Weller

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 05:08:03 -0700 | disasters-news

While his attorney general has defended the use of drones to kill US citizens abroad, President Obama is expected to “sharply curtail the instances” when drones can be used. The New York Times is reporting a new policy will mean...
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Breaking News: Obama needs to fire staff
Posted by: PJesep SelectMedia

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 23:54:48 -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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Breaking News: Actress Helen Mirren makes dying boy's wish come true after queen refuses
Posted by: VeronicaS

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-23 03:01:56 -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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Breaking News: 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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Breaking News: When media disaster coverage turns into ‘disaster porn'
Posted by: VeronicaS

Moore :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 23:08:54 -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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Breaking News: NASA's Mars rover Curiosity back to work, drills second hole in Martian surface
Posted by: arkar

Pasadena :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 21:48:01 -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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Breaking News: Afghan interpreters will be allowed to settle in Britain after another coalition U-turn
Posted by: Eileen Kersey SelectMedia

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-22 20:26:09 -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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Breaking News: Sharpton kicks press out of meeting, bullies membership into silence
Posted by: Harold Michael Harvey, J. D. SelectMedia

Atlanta :: GA :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 04:59:29 -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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Breaking News: Nearly 40 percent of Syrians in need of humanitarian aid
Posted by: Robert Myles

Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-23 05:07:50 -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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