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WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama sought to move the U.S. beyond the war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather...
Updated : 2013.05.24 20:57
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PARIS (AFP) ― French singer and composer Georges Moustaki, whose romantic ballads won him global fame including the 1958 song “Milord” he penned for Edith Piaf, died on Thursday at the age of 79.Born on May 3, 1934 to an immigrant European Jewish couple who had settled in Egypt, Moustak...
Updated : 2013.05.24 20:23
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NEW YORK (AP) ― Police say actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in New York City after she threw a marijuana bong out of a window.Police say an apartment building official called police Thursday to complain that Bynes was smoking marijuana and rolling a joint in the lobby.The officers w...
Updated : 2013.05.24 20:23
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LONDON (AFP) ― The home of English football will reverberate to the roar of German voices Saturday when Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund collide at Wembley Stadium in the first all-Bundesliga final in Champions League history.It is only two years since Barcelona confirmed their status ...
Updated : 2013.05.24 20:19
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The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed Thursday evening, dumping a handful of vehicles and people into a river, the Washington State Patrol said. Authorities said there were no deaths, and three people were rescued and ta...
Updated : 2013.05.24 14:27
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Switzerland Thursday for talks set to focus on a landmark free trade deal with the Alpine country, which he has dubbed a touchstone for Beijing's growing ties with foreign nations.Li, who is on the first stop of his debut visit to Europe since taking o...
Updated : 2013.05.24 09:38
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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 organization and lead to mass defections of members and donors.Of the roughly 1,400 voting members of the BSA's National Cou...
Updated : 2013.05.24 09:38
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WASHINGTON (AP) ― A new push to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions by crippling the country’s economy gathered momentum in Congress on Wednesday with approval of legislation by the House Foreign Affairs Committee that would impose even tougher economic sanctions against Tehran. And the Sen...
Updated : 2013.05.23 20:14
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ORLANDO, Florida (AP) ― A Chechen immigrant was shot to death by authorities Wednesday after he turned violent while being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, officials said. Ibragim Todashev, a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter, was gunned down ...
Updated : 2013.05.23 20:14
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LONDON (AP) ― In a brutal daylight attack which raised fears that terrorism had returned to London, two men with butcher knives hacked another man to death near a military barracks Wednesday before p...
Updated : 2013.05.23 20:13
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California (AP) ― The U.S. Air Force launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from a California base on Wednesday, a month after the test flight was postponed...
Updated : 2013.05.23 20:12
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The U.N. atomic agency on Wednesday detailed rapid Iranian progress in two programs that the West fears are geared toward making nuclear weapons, saying Tehran has upgraded its uranium enrichment facilities and advanced in building a plutonium-producing reactor.In a confidential report obt...
Updated : 2013.05.23 09:26
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British police on Wednesday arrested two people as they tried to quell anti-Islamist disorder following the brutal murder in London of a man, believed to be a soldier.A 43-year-old man was arrested in Braintree, east of London, after reportedly walking into a mosque with a knife shortly af...
Updated : 2013.05.23 09:16
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In a brutal daylight attack which raised fears that terrorism had returned to London, two men with butcher knives hacked another man to death near a military barracks Wednesday before police wounded them in a shootout.In a shocking video broadcast on British TV, one man gestured with blood...
Updated : 2013.05.23 09:16
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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican took another step Wednesday to show greater financial transparency by publishing the first annual report from its financial watchdog agency and announcing new regulations to fight money laundering and terror financing.The report from the Financial Intellige...
Updated : 2013.05.22 22:01
