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Deadly Suicide Bombing Strikes Afghan Local Council
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Students accused of desecrating Qur’an
Amman - A Jordanian military tribunal on Sunday acquitted five university students of incitement charges levelled over accusations they had engaged in ';devil worship'; and desecrated the Qur’an, a court official ...
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FBI duo killed in training accident
The FBI's national press office said in a statement on Sunday that the accident happened off the coast of Virginia Beach on Friday. No other details were given and the cause is under ...
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Train collision damaged 600m of track
Metro-North railroad employees work at the scene of the train derailment in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Saturday. Photo: AP and The Connecticut ...
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British father Julian Stevenson cuts his son and daughters throats at French apartment Father due in court after fleeing scene on roller skates
A British father was set to appear before a French prosecutor today after admitting cutting the throats of his two young children because of a bitter custody ...
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Major Tim Peake will be the first British astronaut to go into space for 20 years
The married father of two, who was born in Chichester, West Sussex, will take part in spacewalks and complex scientific research and experiments in the Columbus laboratory module, which is attached to the front of the 400-ton space ...
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Syria gunfire hits Israel-occupied Golan army
Shots fired from Syria hit the central Israeli-occupied Golan Heights overnight, a military spokeswoman said Monday morning, causing no harm or ...
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Chinese Premier Li seeks trust in India border issue irks
1 of 4. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang inspects a guard of honour during his ceremonial reception at the forecourt of India's presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi May 20, ...
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Deadly car bombs rock Iraqs Basra
Iraqi officials say two car bombings in the southern city of Basra have killed at least 10 people and wounded 27.A police officer said the two parked car bombs went off early on Monday morning near a restaurant and a bus station. A doctor in a nearby hospital confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to the media.No ...
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Twister kills 1 in Oklahoma
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. (CNN) -- A rash of tornadoes wreaked havoc in Oklahoma and the Midwest on Sunday and Monday, destroying homes and tossing trees around like toothpicks. But the destructive weather isn't ...
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Lapid Jlem shouldnt be capital of Palestinian state
Lapid tops Post's 50 most influential Jews list In regard to Israeli settlements, Lapid said he would make no move to obstruct their "natural expansion" in the West Bank. The finance minister told ...
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Al-Dura says he is willing to exhume sons body
Jamal al-Dura, father of 12-year-old Gazan Muhammad al-Dura who became a symbol of the second intifada, dismisses Israel inquiry c'tee's findings as "lies," calls for impartial international investigation into son's ...
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Lottery winner bags $590.5m
Florida - A single winning ticket for a record US Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organisers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state the ticket was ...
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Five things to know about the Dreamliner
>Editor's note: CNN's Thom Patterson boards the 787 Dreamliner Monday for its first commercial US domestic flight after it was grounded for battery problems. Watch for his report this afternoon on CNN.com and follow his progress on Twitter.(CNN) -- Aviation fans have already named it Dreamliner 2.0. No longer grounded for safety concerns, Boeing's embattled 787 Dreamliner now has a few things ...
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Yahoo to buy Tumblr in $1.1bn deal
would be Marissa Mayer's, Yahoo chief executive, largest deal since taking the helm of the once-iconic internet company in July 2012. Mayer is expected to make an announcement later on Monday at an event in Manhattan in which the company promised to "share something special," without elaborating. Peter Kafka, media reporter at the technology ...
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Dubai workers hold rare strike for more wages
Thousands of workers employed by Dubai's largest construction company have gone on strike for a second day to back wage demands in a rare labour protest in the Gulf emirate, where trade unions are banned. Blue-collared labourers employed by Arabtec, the company behind projects including the world's tallest building Burj Khalifa, did not show up for work on Sunday, said a spokesman for ...
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At 20 Russias Gazprom Struggles To Stay Dominant
MOSCOW -- Russia's biggest company turned 20 this year. But at Gazprom, there appears to be little cause for celebration. The state-controlled natural gas monopoly, which was established as a publicly traded corporation in 1993, recently announced that its net profits fell by 11 percent last year and its valuation dipped below $100 billion for the first time since 2009. Moreover, ...
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Burmese Leader To Make First U.S. Visit In 47 Years
President Thein Sein is due to make the first visit by a leader of Burma to the United States in almost 47 years. Thein Sein is expected to meet on May 20 with President Barack Obama at the White House. The visit is being seen as a gesture of U.S. support following a series of pro-democracy reforms after decades of repressive military rule in the southeast Asian country, which is also ...
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Visiting Chinese Premier Calls For Trust Cooperation With India
Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang says Beijing wants to build up mutual trust and cooperation with India. He was quoted as making the remark as he met on May 20 in New Delhi with his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh. Li said "world peace" cannot become reality without "strategic cooperation" between the world’s two most populous nations. It is the Chinese ...
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Analysis Shrinking deficit reduces pressure for budget deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chances of a deal between Democratic and Republican lawmakers that would overhaul the tax system, trim government spending and reform safety net spending programs appear to be ...
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Insight The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill
Apart from the relative success of Tesla Motors Inc in putting nearly 10,000 of its pricey luxury electric cars on the road, the electric vehicle sector has been among the biggest duds in clean ...
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Deadly twisters tear through Midwest
At least four separate twisters touched down in central Oklahoma late Sunday afternoon, including one near the town of Shawnee, 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, that laid waste to much of a mobile home park. A 79-year-old man was found dead at mobile home park severely damaged by tornado. Across the state, 21 people were injured, not including those who suffered bumps and bruises and chose ...
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Tornadoes cause havoc in Oklahoma
Oklahoma , leaving at least one man dead, turning homes in a trailer park into splinters and rubble and sending frightened residents scurrying for ...
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One reported dead as tornadoes hit US states
A powerful storm system churning through the US Midwest spawned tornadoes Sunday in the states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa, destroying homes and killing at least one person, US media ...
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Insight The fight for North Dakotas fracking-water market
WATFORD CITY, North Dakota (Reuters) - In towns across North Dakota, the wellhead of the North American energy boom, the locals have taken to quoting the adage: "Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for ...
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Phoenix is water wise but planning is key
Phoenix is an insatiably thirty city, needing around 150 million gallons of water every day for agricultural, residential and commercial uses while the city with its population of over 4.5 million is also leading the charge in finding ways to live sustainably in a region of the world that is vast and largely arid.
Phoenix is often referred to as a ‘desert city’, because it is built in and has grown up in the desert. The Phoenix metropolitan area or Valley of the Sun, is located in the northeast of the Sonoran Destert and has one of the hottest climates of any other city in the country. Read more
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