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Did British intel try to recruit London attack suspect
A police officer stands guard outside the Woolwich Barracks in London May 24, 2013, in response to the bloody attack when a British soldier was killed in the nearby street. (AP ...
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Heavy Fighting Reported In Rebel-Held Syrian Town
Reports say fighting in the strategic Syrian town of Qusair has intensified. State media reported on May 25 that troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad had launched a three-pronged attack on the rebel-held town and were making big advances. The rebels said they were under heavy bombardment and that elite troops from the army and Lebanese Hizballah fighters were leading the offensive. ...
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Prosor blames Syria at UN for destabilizing Golan
In the aftermath of a Syrian firing on a Israeli military vehicle in the Golan Heights earlier this week, Israel's ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor blamed the government of Syria of undermining regional stability in the Golan Heights in a letter to the UN Security Council on Saturday, AFP reported. "This week's events are part of a disturbing pattern of events intended to spark ...
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Champions League final German fans fight and throw missiles as thousands invade London for football at Wembley
Police move in: Officers storm towards the fighting fans to break up the brawl The YouTube footage appeared to have been taken at Wembley and showed fans initially goading each other after getting off coaches in the car park. Rival supporters then started throwing a number of objects including a traffic cone and metal ...
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Dozens of pensioners and children rescued from tourist boat which sank after hitting rocks during sight-seeing trip
Almost 50 people were rescued this afternoon after a birdwatching boat hit a rock off the Pembrokeshire coast and began to sink. The Lady Helen sent out a mayday call just before 1pm saying it had run aground at Little Sound, part of Skomer Island and was taking on water. A massive rescue operation was launched by coastguards with five smaller vessels - including its sister boat the Dale ...
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One block two tornadoes
>Editor's note: John Sutter, the human rights columnist for CNN Opinion, is from Oklahoma City. Follow him on Twitter -- @jdsutter -- for continued updates about the tornado. E-mail him at ctl@cnn.com. Oklahoma City (CNN) -- Nancy ...
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Blackstone notifies Cohens SAC it intends to pull money pension consultant
Hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen, founder and chairman of SAC Capital Advisors, listens to a question during a one-on-one interview session at the SkyBridge Alternatives (SALT) Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada May 11, ...
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Massive train collision takes down highway overpass
ROCKVIEW, Mo. Seven people were injured in a massive train collision in eastern Missouri early Saturday morning that took down a highway overpass, CBS affiliate KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, ...
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They’ll Always Love Obama
To demonstrate how deep and wide the Obama administration's deceptions run, we know that statements made by White House press secretary Jay Carney back in November about the talking points were false. (Carney assured us at that time that the White House and the State Department made but a "single adjustment" to the talking points and that it was merely "stylistic.") ...
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U.K. Police Arrest Man After Spy Claim In Soldier-Killing Case
Police in Britain have arrested a man under antiterrorism laws at BBC headquarters. The man identified as Abu Nusaybah was detained by the counterterrorism police on May 25. Earlier he had told the BBC's flagship "Newsnight" program that his friend Michael Adebolajo, one of two suspects in the horrific killing of an unarmed British soldier, was approached by intelligence ...
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France rules out Iran joining in Syria peace talks
ABU DHABI - France's foreign minister on Saturday ruled out Iran taking part in a proposed Syria peace conference, saying Tehran was involved in the conflict and had no desire for peace.Laurent Fabius will host Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry at a dinner on Monday to discuss how to nudge Syrian President Bashar Assad and the Syrian opposition ...
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Jewish candidate for NY mayor confuses his city
Anthony Weiner, a Jewish-Democrat candidate running for Mayor of New York this year appeared confused over which city he was running for after mistakenly uploading a picture of the Pittsburgh skyline onto his campaign website.The site featured a banner image of a city skyline from Pittsburgh before he rushed to fix it later on Friday, ...
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Thomas Sutton Man jailed for 12 years for killingstranger who disturbed him while he was having a bath
Cardiff Crown Court heard that Worvell was playing loud music and taking a bath when Mr Sutton and his friend Kyle Harris, 18, presumed there was a party in his ...
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BREAKING NEWS 48 people rescued after passenger boat hits rock of Welsh coast
Rescue: Coastguards have rescued 48 people this afternoon after a passenger boat hit a rock off the Pembrokeshire coast. This file picture shows people waiting to board a boat to Skomer ...
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Michael Adebowale Woolwich murder suspect is probation officers son who chatted with his neighbours about Jamie Oliver recipes
London-born Adebowale was told to ‘disappear’ after he was caught up with a local gang known as the Woolwich Boys, and underwent a dramatic change of ...
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Female suicide bomber wounds 18 in Russias Dagestan
A female suicide bomber blew herself up in front of policemen in Russia'sDagestanon Saturday, injuring 18 people in the second bombing attack to hit the restive region this week, officials ...
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British spies tried to recruit Islamist attacker
Britain's intelligence agencies came under fresh scrutiny on Saturday over claims that MI5 tried to recruit one of two Islamists accused of butchering a soldier in ...
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Sexual assault is a scourge on U.S. military Hagel says
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel takes part in a news conference on efforts to eliminate VA claims backlogs, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, May 22, ...
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Two child limit imposed on Myanmars Rohingya
Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area, and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing in the aftermath ...
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Three killed in Spain plane crash
An investigation was under way Saturday into the crash of a small plane in Spain that killed three of the four people aboard, authorities said. The pilot of the single-engine plane was seriously injured and taken to a hospital in Palma. A firefighter and a bystander suffered minor burns while trying to get the victims out of the flaming wreckage, ThinkSpain said Saturday. The crash occurred ...
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What made London Samaritan so brave
>Editor's note: Jason Marsh is the founding editor-in-chief of the online magazine Greater Good, published by The Greater Good Science Center, which focuses on the "science of a meaningful life" and is based at the University of California at Berkeley. (CNN) -- It's hard to imagine a scene more gruesome and disturbing than the one Londoners encountered on an inner-city street Wednesday. A ...
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By 22-Point Margin Voters Favor Obamacare’s Repeal
It would be a major understatement to say that Obamacare has had a bad spring. Around the time of Lincoln's birthday, registered voters told Fox News that, by a margin of 6 percentage points (48 to 42 percent), it would "be better to go back to the health care system that was in place in 2009" than it would be "to leave the new health care law in ...
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Taxes for Revenue Only
The news of the Internal Revenue Service targeting Tea Party groups has Americans spooked. We're supposed to be a republic, in which everyone is treated equally. So how is it that the federal government has abused so egregiously its taxing power, one of the most potent tools at its ...
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Friend of man suspected of killing U.K. soldier arrested after BBC interview
In this Friday, May 24, 2013 file photo, military boots are laid in tribute outside the Woolwich Barracks, in London, in response to the bloody attack on Wednesday when a British soldier was killed in the nearby street. (Bogdan ...
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Explainer What Is Islamic Banking
A woman walks past a branch of the Noor Islamic Bank in Dubai. Although there have long been many Islamic banks in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, they are now also spreading rapidly in the West. (file ...
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New Mexico's ancient feud between Billy the Kid and Pat Garret continues
Billy the Kid is one of the most notorious gangsters of all time and a legend for those who lament the abuse of authority and corruption that was prevalent in the frontier lands of American during the time, while others dismiss him as nothing more than a glorified gangster. Governor Richardson’s consideration of a pardon then, is highly contentious.
With Governor Richardson giving serious consideration to pardoning Billy the Kid, arguably the most notorious of all outlaws, we thought it would be helpful to provide some context to the story of Billy the Kid, who even now continues to capture New Mexico news headlines. Read more
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