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Breaking News: Jodi Arias asks for life term as jury deliberates her fate (Video)
Posted by: VeronicaS

Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 09:14:20 -0700 | disasters-news

Almost immediately after her May 8 guilty verdict, convicted murderer Jodi Arias gave an interview where she claimed to prefer the death penalty to life in prison. But apparently Ms. Arias had a change of heart and no longer views...
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Breaking News: Judge approves marathon bombing suspect's request to see prison records
Posted by: Nathan Salant

Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 09:18:35 -0700 | disasters-news

Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has won a court order allowing him to review records kept on him during the past month, while he has been in federal custody. A federal magistrate judge in Boston agreed Monday that Tsarnaev's...
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Breaking News: Tsarnaev brothers highlight shifting movements within Chechnya, expert says
Posted by: Mirjana Pantic SelectMedia

Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-22 09:18:35 -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: Nearly 40 percent of Syrians in need of humanitarian aid
Posted by: Robert Myles

Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-22 08:58:22 -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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Breaking News: FBI agent fatally shoots man who knew Boston bombing suspect, friend says
Posted by: Phyllis L. Smith Asinyanbi

Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 09:38:29 -0700 | disasters-news

Ibragim Todashev, 26, a Chechan man who knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the dead Boston bombing suspect, was fatally shot Tuesday in Orlando, Fla., by an unidentified FBI agent. The agent had questioned Ibragim's friend, Khusen Taramov, earlier in the day allowing...
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Breaking News: FBI agent fatally shoots man with links to Boston bombing suspect: Reports
Posted by: Nina Rai

Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 09:18:35 -0700 | disasters-news

An FBI agent shot dead a Chechen man in Orlando, Florida during interrogation over his alleged links to the deadly Boston Marathon bombing of April, says reports. The deceased identified as Ibragim Todashev, 27 may have been connected to Boston...
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Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral suicide by French writer Dominique Venner a 'gay marriage protest'
Posted by: willsteven

Paris :: France | updated 2013-05-22 09:02:39 -0700 | disasters-news

A MAN has shot himself dead in front of the altar of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, apparently in protest against France allowing gay marriage. Policeman verified the man's persona as Dominique Venner, 78, an essayist and activist connected with France's...
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Breaking News: Massive sinkhole kills five in south China town of Shenzhen
Posted by: willsteven

Shenzhen :: China | updated 2013-05-22 03:03:21 -0700 | disasters-news

FIVE people have died after a 10-metre wide sinkhole opened up at the gates of an industrial estate in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese boom town neighbouring Hong Kong. The Shenzhen Longgang locality government said on its verified page on Sina...
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Source: United Press International

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 09:02:39 -0700 | disasters-news

Dominique Venner, a far-right French historian, wrote an anti-same-sex marriage blog post before killing himself at Notre Dame Cathedral, officials said. Venner, 78, walked into the Paris cathedral Tuesday, placed a letter addressed to investigators on the altar and shot...
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Source: Boston Herald

Springfield :: MO :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 05:20:00 -0700 | disasters-news

Springfield police are investigating the city's seventh homicide of the year. Officers responded to the city's Forest Park neighborhood at about 8 p.m. Tuesday after being alerted by the department's automated gunshot detection system. There they found a man roughly...
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Source: Fox

Temecula :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 08:59:18 -0700 | disasters-news

During his tour of duty as a Marine in Afghanistan, an improvised explosive device tore off both his legs and his right arm. His adopted California hometown, however, did not forget his sacrifice and treated Dominguez along with his new...
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Source: United Press International

Stockholm :: Sweden | updated 2013-05-22 07:06:11 -0700 | disasters-news

Swedish police are blaming broken social networks for allowing a man to lie dead in his apartment for more than two years. The body of a man in his 50s was discovered by workmen who entered an apartment in southern...
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Source: Washington Post

Mission :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 03:55:34 -0700 | disasters-news

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish young man watches people during prayers at the Western Wall. Israel plans to double the prayer space at the wall, a move aimed at appeasing American Jews and accommodating liberal Judaism. In a city where three major...
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Breaking News: Pedestrian dies after being struck by school bus in Mass.
Posted by: Hafsasikander

Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 08:25:01 -0700 | disasters-news

Massachusetts State Police are investigating a crash on Tuesday that killed a 24-year-old pedestrian, who was struck by a school bus on Interstate 290 in Worcester, Mass.Police said The name of the victim will be released Wednesday once the proper...
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Breaking News: Wall of smoke halts Sydney CBD
Posted by: willsteven

Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-22 02:41:48 -0700 | disasters-news

MORE than 1200 city office workers and lunch time diners were evacuated after a fire broke out in a restaurant kitchen. The blaze broke out in the consume system of Macchiato Pizza Bar and Grill on the corner of Pitt...
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