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Full coverage: Tornadoes devastate Oklahoma

SOURCE: USA Today

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Weather Woman reunited with dog amid tornado wreckage Woman reunited with dog amid tornado wreckage Amid the devastation of a...
Rubber bullets fired at SA miners

SOURCE: BBC

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South African miners shot with rubber bullets Industrial relations remain volatile in South Africa's key mining sector Ten South African...
Saakashvili ally charged in Georgia

SOURCE: BBC

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Saakashvili ally charged with corruption in Georgia Mr Merabishvili was arrested after coming in for questioning in Kutaisi Georgian ex-Prime...
Hashtag Nation: Music Awards Worthy of a Tony

SOURCE: The New York Times

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Hashtag Nation Music Awards Worthy of a Tony Ethan Miller/Getty Images Justin Bieber accepts the milestone award at the Billboard...
Nigeria says to free all female Boko Haram suspects

SOURCE: Reuters

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Nigeria said on Tuesday it would free a number of detained Islamists, including all female ones, in what a senior...
Eva Longoria has yet another wardrobe malfunction in Cannes

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times

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Select a date range Create a custom date range From: To: May 20, 2013 , 5:48 p.m. Eva Longoria revealed...
DealBook: Live Blog: Dimon Wins Crucial Vote at JPMorgan

SOURCE: The New York Times

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At Shareholder Meeting, Applause for Dimon JPM AGM has taken on a Jamie-loving tone of Tiger Beat/Southern Revival, a room...
Senate panel approves weapons for Syrian rebels- Israeli military ...

SOURCE: Fox

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Committee on Tuesday marked the first time that lawmakers have backed the aggressive military step of arming vetted opposition forces...The...
WHAT SCANDALS? Obama's Approval Rating Is Actually Rising In Some ...

SOURCE: BusinessInsider

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AP President Barack Obama's image has been remarkably unscathed by the steady stream of new scandals that have plagued the...
Pulis Leaves Stoke After Seven Years in Charge

SOURCE: International Herald Tribune

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Stoke City and manager Tony Pulis parted company by mutual agreement on Tuesday after seven years in which he established...
PayPal to be in all RadioShack stores starting in May

SOURCE: Reuters

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Topics PayPal President David Marcus speaks during a news conference in Tokyo May 9, 2012. PayPal, the online payment operation...
Hundreds seek compensation in Japan nuclear crisis

SOURCE: Fox News

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Hundreds of people living just outside Japan's Fukushima prefecture say they have been denied adequate compensation after the country's 2011...
Tottenham to hold summit meeting on next season to prove club's ...

SOURCE: The independent

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Tottenham's hierarchy will hold a summit meeting during their trip to the Caribbean this week to discuss plans for next...
Taylor Powers: Naked hiker saved from Colorado mountain after taking ...

SOURCE: Mail Online UK

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40 Click to rate Rating 38 Trash. Wilber Jenkins , Earth, United States, 21/5/2013 08:21 Fun stuff....
The Female Factor: Leading a Push for Clean Water

SOURCE: International Herald Tribune

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The protesters were chiefly women, but instead of placards, they brought empty pots. The vessels brandished by the roughly 100...

Oklahoma tornado death toll likely to stand at 24

Posted by: Robert Weller

Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 17:57:28 -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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Sen. Whitehouse fingers GOP's global warming denial for Oklahoma tornadoes

Posted by: Herbert Dyer, Jr.

Moore :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 13:09:54 -0700 | political-news

Even as Americans were transfixed before their television sets, soaking up the almost surreal scenes of mass death and damage as miles-wide tornadoes with winds in excess of 200 mph rampaged throughout the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen....

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GOP Oklahoma senator opposes federal aid unless 'offset' by budget cuts

Posted by: Herbert Dyer, Jr.

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 17:32:15 -0700 | political-news

According to the Washington Post, House Speaker John Boehner refused to take a stand today on the issue of offsetting disaster aid to Oklahoma with cuts in other areas of the budget. Those other areas? Student aid, food stamps, unemployment...

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White House accuses Fox News reporter of leaking government secrets

Posted by: wendyzachary

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 17:06:02 -0700 | political-news

While the issue of secretly obtaining Associated Press phone records by the administration is still heated up, the White House now targets one Fox News reporter, accusing him of giving out sensitive details on United States’ dealings with North Korea....

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Thousands march in NY to protest gay man's killing

Posted by: willsteven

New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 16:37:01 -0700 | causes-news

NEW YORK — Thousands marched the roads of Manhattan Monday to dispute the murdering of a gay man allegedly taunted with homophobic slurs - the most latest in a spate of bias attacks rousing up disquiet, doubt and annoy in...

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HELL ON EARTH: 91 DEAD, 20 CHILDREN AMONG THEM

Posted by: willsteven

Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 17:50:33 -0700 | disasters-news

A MONSTER tornado with winds up to 320km/h and 1.6km across has smashed Oklahoma City, killing more than 90, wiping out entire neighbourhoods, crushing schools and causing pile-ups on highways a residents scrambled for safety. Amy Elliott, of the state...

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Australian Christian Lobby shocker: 'Gay sex could be taught in schools'

Posted by: willsteven

Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-05-21 11:50:54 -0700 | lifestyle-news

THE Australian Christian lobby has issued a bizarre statement arguing that same sex marriage could lead to a new "stolen generation", and would inevitably lead to children being taught the mechanics of homosexual sex in school sex education classes. In...

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Atlanta, New York writers score wins in Pundit contest for first half of May

Posted by: The American Pundit Contest

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 16:24:36 -0700 | your-story

Allvoices is pleased to announce the winners in the May 1-15 segment of The American Pundit political writing contest, with writers from Atlanta and New York claiming $250 apiece and advancing to the finalist round to compete for the $5,000...

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Five dead as gunman storms bank in Israeli city of Beersheba

Posted by: willsteven

Be'er Sheva :: Israel | updated 2013-05-21 12:11:32 -0700 | disasters-news

A GUNMAN has stormed into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, killing four people in a gunfight and taking a hostage before killing himself, police said. Policeman initially supposed a bungled bank robbery but subsequent changed their...

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Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for The Doors, dead at 74

Posted by: Punditty

Rosenheim :: Germany | updated 2013-05-21 15:18:02 -0700 | entertainment-news

Ray Manzarek, who co-founded The Doors with Jim Morrison in 1965, died Thursday of bile duct cancer at a clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, the New York Times reported. He resided in Napa, Calif. Manzarek’s keyboard introduction to the 1967 Summer...

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Taliban attack Tests Coalition's expands

Posted by: rooys

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-21 11:21:24 -0700 | disasters-news

Kabul – Afghanistan - The Taliban, helped by outside warriors, have tried to overwhelm the locale of Sangin in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, triggering a two-day fight that appeared to be subsiding by Tuesday night, Afghan officials told. Almost four...

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Oklahoma tornado's emotional highpoints: Parents reuniting with children (Videos)

Posted by: Nina Rai

Moore :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 17:58:27 -0700 | disasters-news

Even as the deadly tornado hit Moore, an Oklahoma suburb on May 20 destroying everything in its path - claiming nearly 91 lives and injuring hundreds - there have been a quite a few happy endings for families. Some of...

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Microsoft reveals new gaming console, Xbox One

Posted by: arkar

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 16:08:13 -0700 | technology-news

Microsoft has just unveiled its next-generation gaming console, the successor to its bestselling Xbox 360 console, the Xbox One. Having carved out a niche for itself in the gaming industry, the Xbox firmly made a place for itself amid established...

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Improved Credit Card Processing and Merchant Account Service

Posted by: EciStore

San Diego :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 06:57:48 -0700 | business-news

Fraud is a global problem. What is fraud? It is deceiving someone intentionally for your own personal gain or to destroy the good name of another. Fraud is a crime and is a civil law violation. To get what is...

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Former employees of Nokia reported smartphone "lifeboat"

Posted by: rsa76

Finström :: Finland | updated 2013-05-21 16:16:48 -0700 | technology-news

Engineers who formerly worked at the company's Nokia, but left it for the sake of creating its own mobile platform, introduced its first product - a smartphone Jolla, which in Finnish means "lifeboat". The Finns took the chance to revive...

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