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Weiner Avoids Tabloid Wood by Announcing Mayoral Run in Middle of the Night
Anthony Weiner announced overnight that he'll be running for mayor of New York City. He made the announcement by releasing this YouTube ...
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Stuck In The Middle Abkhazias Ethnic Georgians Feel The Squeeze
ZUGDIDI, Georgia -- For residents of the Gali district, the southeastern-most tip of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, going to school, getting to a hospital, or collecting a pension payment can be a very tricky endeavor. It involves crossing the administrative boundary that separates Abkhazia from the rest of Georgia, which -- according to Abkhaz authorities -- can only be done ...
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Serbia Kosovo Discuss Implementation Of Normalization Deal
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (center) with Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci (right) and his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic in Brussels on May ...
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Inmates Relatives Protest After Reports Of Self-Mutilations
QARAZHAL, Kazakhstan -- Dozens of inmates' relatives are protesting outside a maximum security prison in the central Kazakh town of Qarazhal following media reports about self-mutilations by dozens of inmates. One protester, Anastasia Tulendieva, told RFE/RL on May 22 that the administration of the AK-159/22 penitentiary has refused to meet with the inmates' relatives and would not ...
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Opinion Sky terrifies and inspires
>Editor's note: Nathan Gunter is the managing editor of Oklahoma Today magazine, the state's official magazine. A graduate of Westmoore High School in Moore, Oklahoma, he holds degrees from Wake Forest University and the University of Oklahoma.(CNN) -- Oklahomans have a special relationship with the sky. We know how to look up. On the prairies of western Oklahoma, the skies are so big, and so ...
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LZ Teachers remarkable courage
>Editor's note: LZ Granderson, who writes a weekly column for CNN.com, was named journalist of the year by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and was a 2011 Online Journalism Award finalist for commentary. He is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com. Follow him on Twitter @locs_n_laughs.(CNN) -- Each day more than 55 million students attend the ...
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Police fired into room where Alon held hostage
Police fired into the bathroom where Beersheba gunman Itamar Alon was holed up with a hostage on Monday, a decision that was unjustified, Southern District Police Commander Yoram Halevy said Wednesday.During a special meeting of the Knesset's Interior and Environmental protection committee held to examine the circumstances of ...
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Police to probe officers conduct in Beduin murder
The National Police headquarters opened an investigation against Negev sub-district police on Wednesday, after it emerged that officers from the Arad police station had received a complaint from the mother of two young Beduin girls 24 hours before they were found murdered in the village of Al Fura.Police said the woman told officers that she feared that the girls' father - from whom she is ...
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Stockholm rocked by riots
A car burns after riots in the Stockholm suburb of Kista. Sweden's capital has been hit by some of its worst riots in years after youths scorched dozens of cars, attacked a police station and threw stones at rescue services in its poor immigrant suburbs for a third night running. Photo: ...
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Six charged in sex video ‘extortion’ case
Beijing - A court in the city of Chongqing has charged six people with working together to blackmail government officials by recording videos of them having sex, the official Xinhua news agency reported on ...
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BREAKING NEWS Man charged with murder of four soldiers killed in IRAs 1982 Hyde Park bombing
Attack: A man has been charged with the murders of four soldiers in the IRA's 1982 Hyde Park bombing. The car-mounted nail bomb detonated on South Carriage Drive killing four soldiers and seven ...
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BREAKING NEWS Police killer Dale Cregan pleads guilty to murders of father and son in gun and grenade attacks
He lured the unarmed policewomen with a bogus 999 call before using a Glock handgun and a military grenade to murder them in Hattersley, Greater Manchester on September 18 last ...
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French newspaper Liberation publishes in English amid growing row over using language in the classroom
French daily Liberation made the editorial decision to print its front page in English in support of a growing campaign to allow its use in the ...
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Nigel Farage refuses to kick out old-fashioned UKIP members who say gay sex is disgusting
Nigel Farage defended party members with ‘old-fashioned’ views about homosexuality, as he warned that with the government passing same-sex weddings ‘nobody knows where it will end ...
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Cameron tries to soothe Tory divisions by insisting gay marriage opponents are not bigots but vows not to change course on Europe
David Cameron today sought to heal deep divisions in the Tory party, insisting opponents of his policy to legalise gay marriage are not 'wrong-headed or ...
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David McGreavy can be named for murdering three children in 1973
Monster's bid to be moved to Open Prison CAN be revealed: Judge overturns anonymity order on man who killed three children and impaled their bodies on ...
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One in ten British households are now virtual millionaires London property boom and stock market surge drive up value of assets
Soaring house prices in London, rising share prices and brimming pension pots mean that more people than ever are sitting on huge virtual nest eggs ...
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Lawyer tracks down his stolen iPad using special app after police refused to investigate
A lawyer has slammed police for refusing to help him after he tracked down his stolen iPad with a sophisticated app to the home of the suspected ...
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Horrendous racist rant of middle-aged woman on bus caught on video
Vitriol: This woman was filmed screaming racist slurs at a young black man who was sitting opposite her on the bus. It is not known what triggered her stream of abuse. The video was later posted ...
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Oklahoma tornado 2013 The heartbreaking faces of the dead and the missing
The heartbreaking faces of the dead and the missing: Five people named as victims of Oklahoma tornado as desperate families turn to Facebook to search for loved ...
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Shaolin children Martial arts practice makes teenagers in China the most well behaved in the world
The budding martial arts experts were among nearly 2,000 performers taking part in a spectacular ceremony at the foot of the country's sacred Songshan ...
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Cruel friends killed sheep with hammer then butchered it in field so they could have a free roast dinner
Simon Pover, prosecuting, said: 'On April 26, the farmer discovered one of the hoggits (year-old lambs) had been killed and its body mutilated. Its remains were found on a footpath. Both hind legs and the head had been ...
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Tragic sight of dead horses piled high as farmers return to find just scorched earth after Oklahoma tornado
Witnesses who cowered in terror described seeing 'horses and stuff flying around everywhere' and returning to find 'scorched earth' and crumpled ...
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Teenage apprentice who was target of warehouse forklift pranks died after being accidentally crushed into wall
The accident occurred after workers at Pioneer International Logistics in Trafford Park, Manchester were encouraged by senior staff to 'cut corners' by jumping on the pallets and being raised up to scan in items stored on shelves, the hearing was ...
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Out-of-hours doctor put baby at risk after working back-to-back shifts for 24 days straight
The German-born medic put in the hours at different organisations and continued to work excessively despite being warned about the risks, it was ...
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Tokyo's new international airport making waves
Haneda airport was renamed Haneda International Airport with the opening of the new International Terminal, which will see several million passengers pass through it each year as the airport regains its status as a global airport with connections to major cities across the world.
When Haneda first opened in 1931 it was the largest civilian airport in the whole country and during the Second World War became a major US Air Base after the invasion of Japan and the country’s surrender. Read more
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