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U.S.casts doubt on credibility of Iranian election
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - The United States on Friday called into question the credibility of Iran's presidential election next month, criticizing the disqualification of candidates and accusing the government of disrupting Internet ...
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Can men grow up
>Editor's note: Pepper Schwartz is professor of sociology at the University of Washington and the author or co-author of 17 books, the latest of which is "The Normal Bar. " She is the AARP Love and Relationship Ambassador and writes the Naked Truth column for AARP.org. She is a senior fellow at the Council on Contemporary Families, a nonprofit organization that gathers research on American ...
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North Korea says will take positive steps for peace
Choe Ryong-hae (C), director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army (KPA) of North Korea, walks with Chinese Ambassador Liu Hongcai (2nd R) before departing Pyongyang airport for China, in this May 22, 2013 picture released by the North Korea's KCNA news agency in ...
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Former sex slaves Osaka mayor should quit
South Korean Kim Bok-Dong, who served as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers during World War II, speaks during the 1,000th weekly protest in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul, Dec. 14, ...
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Abe begins landmark visit to Myanmar
Shinzo Abe, Japanese prime minister, is travelling to Myanmar on the first visit to the country by a Japanese leader in 36 years, as Japan attempts to reassert its position as a top economic partner after decades of poor relations with the previous military regime. Travelling with a delegation of business leaders, Abe was to arrive in Yangon on Friday evening for a three-day trip, and will meet ...
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High Court rules Sally Bercows tweet about Lord McAlpine WAS libellous
Mrs Bercow faces legal bills running to tens of thousands of pounds after losing a court battle over her tweet in November last year which read: ‘Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *Innocent ...
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UK weather Rain threatens to turn the Bank Holiday weekend into a washout... but millions of Brits vow to make the most of it as they take to the roads
It traditionally signals the countdown to summer, but wind and lashing rain today threatened to turn the late May Bank Holiday weekend into a ...
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BREAKING NEWS Prison van of police killer Dale Cregan crashes on way to Preston Crown Court
A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: 'Shortly before 9.40am on Friday, 24 May, a road traffic collision occurred by the roundabout at the exit of junction 31A of the M6 ...
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Michael Adebowales childhood friend speaks about normal murder suspect 22
and Michael Adebolajo, 28, ran the soldier down with their car before 'hacking, chopping and cutting' at his body like 'crazed animals' screaming 'Allah Akbar!’ – an Islamic phrase meaning ‘God is great’, witnesses ...
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Huge earthquake hits Russias east coast
A powerful earthquake has hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometres (4,400 miles) west of the ...
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Video Bridge linking Washington and Canada collapses
Authorities have said no one was killed, but three people were rescued and taken to hospital.The four-lane motorway bridge, which is over 50 years old, crosses the Skagit River near Mt Vernon on the Interstate 5, about halfway between Seattle and Vancouver.The cause of the collapse, which came at the beginning of one of the US's busiest holiday weekends, is still unknown. The state ...
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Stockholm riots Clashes grip surburbs as violence flares for fifth night
Fire fighters were called to a school in Tensta, north Stockholm and a Montessori school in the Kista suburb which were set ablaze by rioting youths. Emergency services were also called to Rinkeby, northern Stockholm to extinguish six vehicles that were set alight whilst parked next to each other.Father of two Aleks Sakala, whose children attend the Montessori school, said setting schools ...
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Czech Murders Kevin Dahlgren Detained In US
A California man wanted over a quadruple murder in the southern Czech city of Brno has been detained by police as he flew into Washington DC. "Kevin Dahlgren, charged with quadruple homicide, was detained on Thursday evening," Czech regional police chief Leos Trzil told reporters on Friday. He added that the suspect had flown to Dulles Airport on a regular flight from Vienna. ...
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Heathrow airport closed after British Airways plane on fire over central London makes emergency landing
A British Airways plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow as eyewitnesses reported seeing the aircraft "on fire" flying over central ...
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Africa backs Kenya call for Hague court to drop Kenyatta case
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African nations have backed a request by Kenya for charges of crimes against humanity by its president to be referred back to the east African country, African Union documents ...
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Group linked to Algeria gas plant attack claims Niger raids
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group that carried out the raid on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in January has claimed to have participated in Thursday's attacks in ...
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British security services in spotlight after soldier murder
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's security services faced questions on Friday over whether they could have done more to prevent the murder of a soldier hacked to death in a busy London street after it emerged that his suspected killers were known to intelligence ...
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Rand Paul uses 2016 bully pulpit to push Obama on drones
President Obama Thursday gave a sweeping national security speech outlining his approach to fighting global terrorism, the legality of his administration's use of unmanned aircraft to hunt and kill suspected terrorists, and his desire to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The speech was an hour long and in the middle of it were two sentences aimed squarely at one of his ...
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No deaths as bridge collapse sends vehicles into river
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a holiday weekend barbecue when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust." "I hit the brakes and we went off," Sligh told reporters from a hospital, adding he "saw the water approaching you hold on as tight as you can." He said a semi-truck carrying a ...
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Is Obama ending war on terror
He came to talk about the future, but the past keeps pulling him back. President Obama outlined his vision for a revised American counterterrorism policy during Thursday's speech at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., renewing his call to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and announcing new guidelines to govern the use of targeted drone strikes on foreign soil. ...
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Attacks on soldiers incredibly hard to prevent ex-MI6 chief warns as ministers say controls are difficult in a free society
Preventing the brutal killing of soldier would have been ‘incredibly hard’, a former MI6 chief warned as the security services face questions about its failure to intercept the ...
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Syria opposition struggles to forge transition plan before talks
George Sabra (L), a veteran Christian opposition figure and acting President of the Syrian National Coalition, speaks during the opening session of a meeting by members of the Syrian opposition in Istanbul May 23, ...
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Emergency landing briefly shuts down Heathrow
LONDON An emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport forced officials to close both runways at the busy international hub Friday morning, but all passengers and crew were evacuated safely from the British Airways jet. British Airways said in a statement that an Airbus A319 carrying 75 passengers destined for Oslo, Norway, was forced to turn around not long after takeoff due to a ...
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IMF chiefs trial over payout resumes
Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, is being questioning by French prosecutors in order to decide if she should be charged over a state payout to a well-connected entrepreneur during her time as finance minister. Lagarde has played ...
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Russia Serbia To Sign Strategic Agreement
Serbia and Russia are due to sign an agreement later in the day on strategic partnership. The document is scheduled to be signed by President Vladimir Putin and his Serb counterpart Tomislav Nikolic in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Serbian media say the agreement calls on the bolstering of ties across a spectrum of areas, including business, trade, and infrastructure projects. It also ...
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Cairo leading new wave in literature
The publishing industry in Cairo is undergoing a profound change that may have implications for the day-to-day life of Egyptians for years to come, it is a kind of revolution in literature that may one day put Cairo on the map, nestled among those other publishing powerhouses, New York, London, and Chicago primarily, but also regional publishing centers like Johannesburg, Mumbai, and Sydney.
Cairo is already a literature producing city, but it is more commonly associated with Arabic texts, and these pieces of literature are further associated with sweeping assessments of society, societal change, politics and religion on a macrocosmic level. Traditionally, there has also never been much of a local market for literature in Cairo or wider Egypt, leading to an old saying that books are written in Cairo, but published in Beirut and then read in Baghdad. Read more
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