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Lebanon Hezbollah must not spark sectarian conflict
Daily Star reported him saying in reference to Hezbollah fighting in neighboring Syria. Suleimans remarks came following a major assault by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces on a rebel held town over the past week, which has drawn in fighters from Assad's Shi'ite allies Hezbollah, justifying fears that the conflict would cross borders at the heart of the Middle ...
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Russia Gay Rights Activists To Defy Rally Ban
Activists will attempt to hold a gay pride march in Moscow despite being banned by authorities and warned they will be breaking the law. City officials have promised the action will be "thwarted" and protesters face being arrested and fined. But they say they are determined to make their voices heard. The torture and murder of a young man in Volgograd has focused attention on the ...
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Syria opposition unity talks face specter of collapse
ISTANBUL - Syrian opposition talks aimed at presenting a coherent front at an international peace conference to end the civil war faced the prospect of collapse after President Bashar al-Assad's foes failed to cut an internal deal, opposition sources said on ...
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Guinea opposition protest turns violent
Clashes broke out between youths and police in the Guinean capital Conakry, where opposition activists had called a "ghost town" demonstration a day after protests turned violent. At least 15 people have been injured in the clashes, officials said on Friday. Unrest has been growing in the West African state over delays to a long-awaited parliamentary election, which is scheduled for ...
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Tornado Alley Life in the cross hairs
>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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New Computer Attacks Come From Iran Officials Say
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North Korea sends China a letter
A top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing's efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions. North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae's three-day visit was seen as a fence-mending mission after Pyongyang ...
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Who needs the rat race when you can hatch a chicken in your bra The enchanting story of a couple who swapped the grind for the good life... and tested their arriage to the limit
It’s not always like this. There have been plenty of days when I’ve wondered why on earth my wife, Debbie, and I swapped our trendy London flat and our well-paid jobs as an estate agent and a solicitor for 20 acres of scruffy farmland on Exmoor and a life of ...
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At last sleazy music DVDs are forced to carry age ratings as legal loophole that allow youngsters to buy explicit material is closed
There are already age restrictions on feature films but a range of pop videos, sports releases, religious and educational DVDs and Blu-Ray discs are classed as ...
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Boy Scouts of America vote to lift ban on gay members - but reject appeals to accept gay leaders
The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders - a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organisation and lead to mass defections of members and ...
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Husband tried to annul divorce AFTER his wifes death because he had no idea they had legally separated
The carpenter said his literacy skills are so bad he had no idea he had signed divorce papers which left him ‘with absolutely no capital’ following her death from lung and brain cancer at the age of 71 in ...
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Revealed The secret tapes of the orgy-loving playboy driven to suicide by the Profumo scandal...
The Stephen Ward I knew did, indeed, have many facets to his complex character, yet the full picture of the real victim of the Profumo scandal, which shocked British society 50 years ago, has never really ...
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Tim Curry 67 recovering at his LA home after suffering a major stroke
Few details were available about the stroke last night, but sources close to the actor denied suggestions that the stroke had made it difficult for him to ...
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Googles deadly web of poison and hatred
Google's transgressions, it seems, are greeted with a shrug of the shoulders. This cannot be allowed to continue. The public needs protecting from the dark side of the ...
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Workman finds $100000 first edition Superman comic book while renovating Minnesota home
'That was a $75,000 tear': Man who found rare first edition Superman comic book worth nearly $200,000 RIPPED it while fighting with a relative over ...
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She used Twitter to win fame - now its destroyed her
Three years ago, political commentator Andrew Neil asked Sally Bercow whether her Twitter pronouncements were ‘provocative’ and might lead her to say ‘something you ...
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Why Drummer Rigbys killers should be charged with treason
Although we think of treason as a medieval crime — associated with gruesome punishments such as hanging, drawing and quartering or boiling in oil — the last trial for such an offence happened less than 70 years ...
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My journey into the hell that is internet child porn We asked AMANDA PLATELL to view the websites that twisted the mind of little Tias killer
Pictures of a sweet youngster with pigtails and round spectacles dance across my office computer screen. I had typed the words ‘little girls in glasses’ into Google and clicked through the images which popped ...
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Man swept into sea from yacht rescued after fellow sailor calls his BUILDERS MERCHANT because he could not understand French coastguard
His colleague on the 32ft yacht Caprice could not understand the French coastguard, so called his Crediton builders merchant - who raised the alarm with Brixham ...
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Double stabbing Man jailed for 12 years for murdering stranger 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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Delivery woman runs herself over three times with her own car in bizarre accident
The woman had been making her regular newspaper delivery in Trois-Rivieres earlier this week, when her automatic car slipped into reverse as she got ...
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Mother-of-four jailed for six years for killing woman while driving in a fast and furious manner after row with her boyfriend
A mother-of-four who killed a woman in a car crash while driving in a 'fast and furious' manner following a row with her boyfriend was jailed for six years ...
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Pensioner dies after hospital staff gave him penicillin injection he was allergic to
Pensioner with penicillin allergy dies after being given injection containing the drug 'because hospital staff didn't move Post-it note to check medical ...
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Traffic warden jailed for six months for handing out bogus parking tickets to former colleagues after being made redundant
A corrupt traffic warden who issued nine bogus tickets against a former colleague during a ‘campaign of bullying’ has today (Fri) been jailed for six ...
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Daniel Hickling Workman who blew house of its foundations after botched repair job is spared jail after he said he thought he was working on a water pipe not a gas supply
An incompetent workman who caused a gas explosion that blew a mansion off its foundations after botching a simple repair job was today given a suspended jail ...
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St Louis high-speed rail link to Chicago breaks ground
St Louis, Chicago and the state governments of Missouri and Illinois have taken the first step in constructing the Mid West Hub of high-speed rail connections with the building of a high-speed line between the two cities which will quadruple capacity and spur economic development, according to proponents of the high-speed rail line.
Work on the high-speed rail link between St Louis and Chicago has begun, signalling the first step of a mammoth project that is intended to ultimately see Chicago become the hub of a national high-speed railway network that will change the nature of overland transport in the country. Read more
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