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Ian Brady Moors murderer 75 hatched plot to escape secure hospital by seducing woman visitor
Killer: Brady, sketched at the tribunal yesterday taking notes, is not allowed a pen while in the secure hospital in Merseyside, after he carried it as a ...
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Danny MacAskill Daredevil stunts made to look like childs play as trial rider releases stunning new video inspired by his old toys
Somersaulting over a Formula One car on a BMX, bunny hopping over train tracks and using a giant Dandy comic as an over-sized cycle ramp, a stunning new stunt video could easily have been conceived in the mind of an over imaginative ...
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Catholic cleric to call for dads to be given more recognition for the role they play in shaping society
The head of the Catholic church in England and Wales will call for fathers to be given more recognition for the important role they play in holding society together at a religious summit ...
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World Bank warns Poorest will feel brunt of climate change
In a report released today, the international lending institution warned that heat waves, rising seas, more severe storms and other impacts of climate change will trap millions in poverty."Urgent action is needed to not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also to help countries prepare for aworldof dramatic climate change and weather extremes,"WorldBankPresident Jim Yong Kim said ...
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In pictures Brazil protests continue for another night
Cities across Brazil were rocked by another day of protests against public services, police violence and government corruption. There were clashes between police and ...
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Obama to revive push for nuclear weapons cuts
U.S. President Barack Obama waves next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside the Chancellery in Berlin, June 19, 2013. (REUTERS/Thomas Peter) BERLIN – U.S. President Barack Obama will use a speech on Wednesday to revive proposals for a world without nuclear arms by targeting cuts in deployed nuclear weapons of up to a third below levels achieved in a 2010 treaty with Russia, a senior ...
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The Executioner under microscope in Bulger trial
James "Whitey" Bulger holds John Martorano's youngest son, John Jr., during his Christening ceremony in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts. Prosecutors showed the photograph to the jury June 18, 2013 as Martorano took the stand in the trial of accused mob boss Bulger, and has implicated him in a dozen killings over the course of ...
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Suicide bomber gunmen attack U.N. office in Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked a United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and witnesses said, in a strike that bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda-linked ...
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Afghan government irked over U.S. talks with Taliban
1 of 6. Muhammad Naeem (R), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha June 18, ...
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Obama and Berlin Faded echoes meet new realities
BERLIN This city may be the only place in the world where President Obama's rhetoric is no match and can be no match for the presidents who came before him. Mr. Obama will speak Wednesday at the Brandenburg Gate just days before the 50th Anniversary of John F. Kennedy's speech of Cold War solidarity with all of West Germany, menaced for years by communist East Germany and nursed ...
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Zimbabwe cattle bank promises easy credit
A bank has begun accepting cattle as collateral for cash loans in Zimbabwe, the The Associated Press has reported.Depositors can get loans of an equal value of the cattle they have put in the bank."Cattle banking is the only way owners can get monetary value for their animals without having to sell them,'' TN Bank executive Charles Chakoma said on Wednesday. For many rural poor ...
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Latvian Bank Fined For Magnitsky-Related Money Laundering
A Latvian bank has been hit with the stiffest fine possible for involvement in money laundering connected to the case of the whistle-blowing Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. Latvia's Financial and Capital Market Commission announced that it has levied a $191,000 fine on the bank for its role in laundering $230 million stolen from the Russian government. The regulator did not name the ...
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Final Charges Presented To Russian Opposition Activist
Russian opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev has been presented with the final charges against him by investigators. Razvozzhayev was brought from a Moscow detention center to the Investigative Committee’s headquarters on June 19. He was officially charged with the preparation of and participation in mass unrest and illegal border crossing. Razvozzhayev was arrested in October ...
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Russian Rights Defender Fined For Refusing Demand For Documents
Prominent Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina has been fined for refusing to provide documents demanded by prosecutors. A court in Moscow ruled late on June 18 that the chairwoman of Moscow-based Civic Collaboration Committee must pay 2,000 rubles ($63) for failing to turn over papers related to the financial activities of her organization. Gannushkina, a Soviet-era veteran ...
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Four U.S. Soldiers Killed In Afghan Attack
The Taliban says it fired the rockets into Bagram Airfield that killed four U.S. soldiers. The attack north of Kabul came just hours after Taliban leaders said they were ready to start peace talks with the United States in Qatar later this week. In a statement, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said militants fired "two big rockets" into the Bagram compound late on June 18. ...
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Palestinians wanted in Josephs Tomb murder arrested
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) last month arrested three Palestinian security operatives who were allegedly involved in the shooting death of an Israeli man and the wounding of five others near Joseph's Tomb in Nablus two years ago.On April 24, 2011, Ben Yosef Livnat was killed near the site after he and a group of worshippers entered the site to ...
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Brazil boosts security for Confed Cup
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil will deploy a special police force to help provide security for the Confederations Cup tournament following mass protests against government spending, the state news agency said on ...
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Assange fears arrest by US
London - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will not leave the sanctuary of the Ecuadorean embassy in London even if Sweden stops pursuing sexual assault claims against him, because he fears arrest on the order of the United ...
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Motorcycle bomber hits Yemeni market
Soldiers are seen in the streets of Sana'a, Yemen. Three people were killed and eight others were wounded when a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle blew himself up in a busy market in the north of the country, according to officials. File photo: Mohamed al-Sayaghi, ...
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Disabled woman ‘treated like a slave’
Chicago - A mentally disabled woman and her child were forced to live in an Ohio basement with snakes and pitbulls, and were treated like slaves for more than two years, US prosecutors said on ...
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Rousseff to marchers I can hear you
Sao Paulo - President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday sought to defuse a massive protest movement sweeping Brazil, acknowledging the need for better public services and more responsive governance as demonstrations continued in some cities around the ...
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Pictured The passenger on Hong Kong flight to the U.S. who screamed that he had secrets from the CIA and NSA leaker Edward Snowden
Another passenger filmed the disturbance with a cell phone on which Perry can be heard ranting: 'My name is Daniel Morgan Perrythey take my stuff away, then I become an ...
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World Bank warns global warming woes closing in
The World Bank on Wednesday warned that severe hardships from global warming could be felt within a generation, with a new study detailing devastating impacts in Africa and ...
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Greece PM in fresh bid to break deadlock over broadcaster
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will on Wednesday make a last-ditch effort in talks with coalition allies to avert a crisis over his controversial shutdown of the state broadcaster which threatens to bring down his ...
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NSA claims secret surveillance programs have foiled at least 50 terror plots since the September 11 attacks
The head of the US National Security Agency has claimed secret surveillance programs have foiled at least 50 terror plots since the September 11 ...
Guatemala Feature
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One survivor of the civil war masacres represents the injustice suffered by millions
Almost three decades ago, a young boy, Ramiro Cristales, watched as his family was killed by the Guatemalan army during the most tragic and shameful time in the nation’s history, the brutal civil war that last several decades and would ultimately claim the lives of over 200,000 people – men, women and children. Now, Cristales plans to testify in a humanitarian case against one of the soldiers involved in the massacre that saw his family killed. He represents the unfulfilled justice for those whose remains are still buried in mass graves around the country.
From 1960 to 1996 Guatemala was torn apart by the longest, and one of the most brutal, civil wars in the history of Latin America. To this day, the country is still trying to recover from the weighty and far-reaching effects it had on the country. During the civil war, the dictatorship-leaning government used all forms of repression and power at its disposal to remain in power. Read more
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