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Car rams into Virginia hikers
A parade in the US state of Virginia has been ended by an horrendous car crash. Over 50 people were injured in an incident where a car ploughed into the crowd whose members had been hiking through the area. More than a dozen people were seriously injured in the crash, which took place during the Trail Days festival in the town of Damascus in northern Virginia. Ambulances ferried the ...
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Israel worried that Russian weapons will reach Hezbollah
Israel has warned Russia about sending arms to Syria. Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has spoken on Channel Two television's Meet the Press to condemn shipments of arms from Russia that she said may be used against Israel. She said: "These are not just any weapons, they are tie-breakers, and that's why there is a responsibility with all world powers, certainly Russia, not to supply such ...
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Syrians on alert as bombs explode in Damascus
At least eight people have been killed and ten others injured in a bomb attack in the Syrian capital, Damascus. The incident took place in the north of the city, where cars and buildings were set alight by a bomb. The bomb had been concealed in another car which was parked near a school in the Rukn Eddin neighbourhood. Another explosive device was defused by military experts who had ...
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Spies hang after Tehran court ruling
Two spies have been hanged in Iran following a Revolutionary Court judgement. Press TV has reported the spies, who worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency and the Israeli spy agency, the Mossad, were hanged at dawn on Sunday. Sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, the men have been named as Mohammad Heidari, a Mossad agent and Kourosh Ahmadi, who was convicted of working for ...
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Oil spill causes Texas to launch law suit
BP and Halliburton are being sued by the state of Texas over one of the worst oil spills in US history. Texas has become the latest complainant in allegations that both companies engaged in "misconduct" for their role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Four other states that have sued BP and other companies in connection to the spill. Alabama and Louisiana filed complaints in 2010 ...
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Mice and lizard return after a month in space
A Russian capsule, which had mice and lizards as its occupants, returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space. According to scientists, the experiment was conducted to test effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on the cell structure, Fox News reported. Russian state television showed the capsule and some of its inhabitants following its safe landing in a ...
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NARAL Opposes Ban on Elective Late-Term Abortions
bill to prohibit abortions after the fifth month of pregnancy , with exceptions for when the mother's life or physical health is at risk. NARAL president Ilyse ...
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In Kazakhstan Spending Saturday Night In The Gulag
A guide tells visitors how people of different nationalities were deported to Kazakhstan from various parts of the Soviet Union in the years of ...
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Young Israelis struggle to make ends meet
Shaiel and Charlie (short for Charlotte) Yitzhak both work hard - he as an English teacher, she as a physical therapist working with wounded Israeli soldiers. Shaiel also tutors English privately and runs a summer camp for robotics.They have two young children, ages 3 years and 18 months, and they've just purchased an apartment in Jerusalem. By appearances it looks like the life of the ...
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Today in history - May 20 2013
Highlights of this day in history: Charles Lindbergh begins his trans-Atlantic flight; Amelia Earhart starts her trek across the Atlantic; Freedom Riders attacked in the South; Explorer Christopher Columbus, comedienne Gilda Radner ...
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Pictured Retired company director 71 killed in Newark gas blast with his daughter-in-law as its revealed four-month-old miracle baby was pulled from the rubble
The baby was rescued from the house next to the one that exploded and then collapsed just after 5pm yesterday, killing a man and woman who were named locally this afternoon as retired company director Leslie Rourke, 71, and his daughter-in-law Jeanette Rourke, ...
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Prince Harry joins William to open Help for Heroes Recovery centre before he heads to Chelsea Flower Show
A busy day for Harry! Prince joins his brother to open a Help for Heroes Recovery centre, before he heads to meet the Queen at the Chelsea Flower ...
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Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria battle activists
AMMAN (Reuters) - About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on ...
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Report Chinese hackers resume attacks on U.S. targets
View of the building of Unit 61398 of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), which is reportedly the home of a secretive unit of government-backed hackers, in Pudong, Shanghai, China, February, 20, ...
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Yahoo buys blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion
acquiring Tumblr for $1.1 billion , handing investors in the blogging service a big pay-day."Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business," Yahoo said in an unusual pledge for a formal acquisition announcement. Tumbler founder and CEO David Karp will continue on in his role. Yahoo said the "service and brand ...
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X Games star invents game-changing prosthetic joints
X Games 11 times but these days, the extreme athlete is applying his adventurous streak to scientific invention. Schultz -- who has earned a new nickname, the Mad Scientist, from his racing buddies -- was named one ...
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Several killed by car bombs in Dagestan
At least three people have been killed after two car bombs exploded in Russia's Dagestan province, investigators have said. Monday's incident also injured 10 people, making it one of the deadliest attacks this year in the violence-plagued region. The blasts occurred in swift succession outside the headquarters of the court bailiffs' service in the provincial capital, ...
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Billy Sol Now That Was a Scandal
Reporters who covered the story found a certain charm about the man. Ol Billy Sol knew how to make money out of manure and how could you resist ...
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Iraq Hit By Wave Of Deadly Bombings
A string of car bombs across Iraq have left at least 63 people dead. Multiple bombing attacks on May 20 hit bus stations and outdoor markets in Shi'ite neighborhoods of Baghdad, killing at least 39 people and wounding more than 120 others. Two car bombs also detonated in Shi'ite-majority areas in the southern city of Basra, killing at least 13 people. No group immediately ...
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Polling Agency Prosecutors Decision May Force Closure
Russia's only independent polling agency says it may have to close after prosecutors described its opinion research as "political activity." The Levada Center said on May 20 that it had received a letter from prosecutors who said that publishing polls on political subjects and the approval ratings of leaders amounted to political activity because it "forms public opinion ...
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Court Denies Appeal To Investigate Russian Activists Alleged Abduction
MOSCOW -- The Moscow City Court has upheld a prior court's decision not to investigate the alleged kidnapping of opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev. The ruling was announced on May 20. Razvozzhayev, who is under investigation for his alleged role in organizing violent protests in Moscow last year, insists that authorities abducted him from Ukraine last October, brought him back to ...
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The Week Ahead May 20-26
Nikolai Patrushev visits the United States to deliver a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama from Russia President Vladimir Putin (to May 21). U.S. : U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry releases the State ...
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Egypt boosts Sinai forces amid hostage crisis
EL-ARISH, Egypt - The Egyptian army sent reinforcements into the Sinai Peninsula on Monday after President Mohamed Morsi said there would be no talks with militant Islamists ...
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Irans electoral watchdog may ban Rafsanjani
DUBAI - Iran's electoral watchdog said on Monday it would bar physically feeble candidates from running for president, in an apparent hint that it could disqualify 78-year-old former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from the race.Rafsanjani, if he is allowed to run, would be a significant challenge to conservative hardliners who are ultra-loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ...
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Vendor dies after setting self on fire
A street vendor died in Saudi Arabia after setting himself on fire in protest at having his goods confiscated by police, human rights activists reported on ...
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Cincinnati’s streetcar named bureaucracy
Cincinnati once had a streetcar system that carried 100 million people each year, but it was scrapped in favor of the bus in the mid-twentieth century. Today, just 25 million people use the bus network in Cincinnati, which has led to a proposal for a new streetcar line, but red-tape is blocking the tracks.
Cincinnati, throughout the first half of the twentieth century, had over 200 miles of streetcar tracks and the system carried over 100 million people per year. By the 1950’s the system was deemed unfeasible and was dismantled, with the last streetcar being retired in 1951. Several decades later, the faith that everyone had in the efficiency and convenience of busses has proven unfounded. Read more
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