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Senate resolution US will back Israeli force on Iran
NEW YORK - With the support of 99 senators both Republican and Democrat, a resolution passed Congress's upper chamber on Wednesday declaring US support for Israeli military action against Iran's nuclear facilities.Asserting that such preemptive action is within Israel's right to defend itself, the Senate resolution - strategically telling, but not self-binding by any ...
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US Boy Scouts to allow gay youths not leaders
The Boy Scouts of America said Thursday it will allow openly gay youths to join the organisation but maintain a ban on gay adult leaders, after a vote at its annual meeting in ...
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IRS suspends division chief after agency scandal
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) placed the head of its tax-exempt organisations division Lois Lerner on administrative leave, according to an IRS statement Thursday, after she refused to testify about a scandal at the tax ...
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US Atlantic braces for active hurricane season
The United States is gearing up for more Atlantic hurricanes than usual this year, triggered by warmer water temperatures than average, US forecasters said ...
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Father of Chechen shot by FBI says he thinks son was tortured
Ibragim Todashev is pictured in this undated booking photo courtesy of the Orange County Corrections Department. An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings early on May 22, 2013, NBC News reported. The Orlando Sentinel said a friend had identified the dead man as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando. REUTERS/Orange County Corrections ...
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UPDATE 3-Former Goldman banker settles SEC pay-to-play charges
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, May 23 (Reuters) - A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. investment banker has agreed to a five-year securities industry ban and a record fine to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that he broke rules against influence peddling to win bond underwriting business in ...
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Kansas reporters run for tornado shelter during newscast
Television cameras were rolling when staff at an NBC affiliate in Kansas had to run for cover as a tornado approached in Wichita. JD Rudd, KSN-TV's weatherman, was reporting on a tornado warning in the area, to the point where the news team needed to follow their own advice and take ...
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Ex-baseball slugger accused of sex assault tweets about it
Christian Petersen/Getty Images, via CBS New York (AP) LAS VEGAS - Former baseball slugger Jose Canseco Jr. has been accused of sexual assault in Las Vegas, in an investigation that the former baseball slugger made public with postings on a social media website claiming that a woman falsely accused him of rape. No arrest was made and police said no charges were immediately filed against the ...
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US Boy Scouts vote to end ban on gays
The Boy Scouts of America has said it will allow openly gay youths to join the organisation while maintaining a ban on adult leaders, after a vote at its annual meeting in Texas.The resolution will go into force on January 1 next year.Sixty-one percent of the estimated 1,400 delegates to the meeting in Grapevine, Texas voted to end the ban that for decades has barred open homosexuality in the ...
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Boy Scouts of America approve plan to accept openly gay boys
Boys Scout Alex Derr speaks out against anit-gay rules during the Equal Scouting Summit Press Conference being held near where the Boy Scouts of America are holding their annual meeting Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas. The boxes in front of Derr hold petitions calling for the Boy Scouts of America to end its anti-gay policies. (AP Photo/LM ...
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Why Ford reached end of road in Oz
Intense competition, a strong Australian dollar and a move away from large cars has driven the Ford Falcon off the road. Ford will cease its manufacturing operations in Australia by October 2016, with the loss of 1200 jobs - and the Falcon nameplate. An icon of Australian and New Zealand motoring since it first rolled off the Melbourne production line in 1960, the brand has fallen victim to the ...
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Teacher confronted terrorists
>Were you there? Send us your photos, videos(CNN) -- Wednesday afternoon, former teacher Ingrid Loyau-Kennett was just a passenger on a bus passing through southeast London. Thursday she was being hailed as one incredibly brave woman who confronted a man seconds after he hacked a British soldier to death in broad daylight. READ MORE: Cameron condemns brutal hacking death, says Britain stands ...
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Cleveland hero given McDonalds for year
The man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for years in a Cleveland house will get free McDonald's for the next year, a company spokeswoman confirmed. Local franchisees in Charles Ramsey's neighbourhood have offered him free food at their restaurants, said Heidi Barker, a spokeswoman for Oak Brook, Ill.-based McDonald's Corp. Ramsey was called a hero after ...
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Intelligence Analyst Obama Made A Promise He Cant Keep
Anthony Cordesman is a former director of intelligence assessment for the U.S. secretary of defense’s office and a recipient of the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal. He now holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He gave RFE/RL Washington Bureau Chief Heather Maher his thoughts ...
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Peri panel haredi draft proposals come under fire
A draft bill drawn up to form the basis of legislation for drafting haredi men into national service has come under heavy fire for failing to provide appropriate incentives to encourage enlistment.The proposed terms for the legislation, devised by a ministerial committee headed by Science, Technology and Space Minister Yaakov Peri of Yesh Atid, do not include personal financial sanctions ...
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France Put Hezbollah armed wing on EU’s terror list
PARIS - The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced late Wednesday that France is now proposing that Hezbollah be added to the European Union list of terrorist organizations.According to an official at the Quai d'Orsay, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that his country wants to add "the military branch" of the pro- Iranian Shi'ite movement in Lebanon. The action ...
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Remote-control machine gun repairs just got quicker
What does the IDF do when its remote-control machine guns breaks down? The Samson Remote Controlled Weapon Station, the Katlanit, produced by Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, is increasingly appearing on a range of IDF Ground Forces platforms, such as the Namer armored personnel carrier.It can be fitted with a variety of powerful and accurate machine guns, allowing soldiers to ...
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Silvio Berlusconi committed fraud in the highest possible positions while serving as Prime Minister of Italy judge rules
He conducted it ‘in the highest possible positions’, an explanation published today for a judgement upholding Berlusconi’s conviction for tax fraud ...
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Stockholm riots Police fear losing control after fourth night of riots leaves restaurants gutted and ruins smoking
Huge swathes of Stockholm were in ruins today after a fourth night of rioting left hundreds of cars ablaze and saw mobs attacking police with ...
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Seven-year-old killed by suicide jumper who plunged on top of her from tenth floor apartment in South Korea
Double tragedy: The seven-year-old died after a man committing suicide by jumping from the tenth floor of a building in Busan, pictured, landed on ...
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More than half of Americans have NEVER traveled outside the country - and a third do not even own a passport
And when asked if they would be more likely to travel to other countries if they could afford to do so, 49per cent said that they would - while more than a quarter, 26per cent, said they would still stick to local vacationing ...
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South Koreans burn Japanese flag in protest at mayors defence of using their women as sex slaves for army during WWII
South Korean war veterans were burning Japanese flags and images of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today, after a top Japanese politician defended the use of Korean women as sex slaves during World War ...
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Fancy a sparrow sundae a parakeet split or a cockatiel Cornetto BIRD flavoured ice-cream hits stores in Japan
If successful these ice creams would be sold at their shop in Kobe and through delivery. initially announced: 'Once in your mouth, the aroma of a parakeet would spread ...
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Mideast peace a priority Hague
Peace between Israel and the Palestinians is a "priority," British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on a visit to the region on Thursday, warning that time was running out for a two-state ...
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Parents sue Pittsburgh Zoo over toddlers mauling death
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - The parents of a 2-year-old boy mauled to death by African wild dogs at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the zoo of failing to protect visitors from dangerous ...
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Block E's future finally brighter?
Block E has long been cursed with misfortune and a bad reputation. The acquisition of the mall of the same name, which stands on a block with a troubled history, may signal a change in fortune for the area.
Block E. For residents of Minneapolis the downtown city block has been a source of good times and bad, highs and lows, affluence and squalor, for almost one hundred years. Read more
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