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BEIRUT (AP) _ Israeli warplanes struck areas in and around the Syrian capital Sunday, setting off a series of explosions as they targeted a shipment of highly accurate, Iranian-made guided missiles b...
Updated : 2013.05.05 20:23
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DAMASCUS (AFP) ― Israel carried out a rocket attack on the Jamraya scientific research center in Damascus overnight, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported Sunday. The agency did not say whet...
Updated : 2013.05.05 20:23
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) _ The death toll from the collapse of a shoddily built garment-factory building in Bangladesh continued its horrifying climb, reaching 580 on Sunday with little sign of what th...
Updated : 2013.05.05 19:40
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NEW YORK (AP) ― PepsiCo is bowing to public pressure for the second time in a week and cutting ties with Lil Wayne over the rapper’s crude lyrical reference to civil rights martyr Emmett Till. Lil...
Updated : 2013.05.05 19:36
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ATLANTA (AP) ― Actress Reese Witherspoon pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge and paid a $100 fine after berating a law enforcement officer while her husband was given a sobriety test ― ...
Updated : 2013.05.05 19:36
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Niall Ferguson, a Harvard history professor and author, apologized on Saturday for saying economist John Maynard Keynes was less invested in the future because he was gay and had no c...
Updated : 2013.05.05 19:16
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Keira Knightley (Official page from Facebook) British actress Keira Knightley tied the knot with her musician boyfriend James Righton in the South of France on Saturday, keeping it as simple as poss...
Updated : 2013.05.05 15:24
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Alone in the single-seat cockpit and high above the American Southwest, pilot Bertrand Piccard could hear only his plane's gear box and the quiet whine of four electric motors. No noisy jet engines. ...
Updated : 2013.05.05 13:46
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A candidate running for Pakistan's national assembly at historic polls next week was shot dead on Friday along with his three-year-old son in Karachi, police said. It is the first time that a nation...
Updated : 2013.05.03 21:26
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Gunmen killed Pakistan's lead prosecutor investigating the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto as he was driving to court Friday, throwing a case that also involves the country's fo...
Updated : 2013.05.03 21:14
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VATICAN CITY (AFP) ― Two months after his historic resignation, Benedict XVI returned to the Vatican on Thursday, where he will live in a former monastery in an unprecedented arrangement that will se...
Updated : 2013.05.03 20:57
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) ― Killer robots that can attack targets without any human input “should not have the power of life and death over human beings,” a new draft U.N. report says. The report for t...
Updated : 2013.05.03 20:56
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More than 130 people have been killed in the latest outbreak of tribal fighting in western Sudan's Darfur region, a tribal leader said on Friday. "Fighting was going on until last night and from our...
Updated : 2013.05.03 19:30
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The United States said Thursday it was taking a fresh look at whether to arm Syria's rebels as the Damascus regime pressed an assault on opposition forces in the embattled city of Homs. After having...
Updated : 2013.05.03 09:33
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NEW DELHI (AP) ― The platoon of Chinese soldiers slipped across the boundary into India in the middle of the night, according to Indian officials. They were ferried across the bitterly cold moonscape...
Updated : 2013.05.02 20:09
