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Carney Top Advisers Knew About IRS Scandal But No One Told Obama
White House spokesman Jay Carney says that the president's counsel and chief of staff knew about the investigation into the IRS's targeting of conservative group. But, Carney says, they didn't see it fit to tell President Obama about the ...
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State Dept. Spokeswoman Refuses to Criticize Iran for Excluding Women Candidates from Election
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki refused to criticize Iran for excluding women candidates from the upcoming "election" there. The remarkable exchange, ...
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Pakistani Prime Minister-Designate Calls For Taliban Talks
Pakistan's prime minister-designate has called for a dialogue with hard-line Taliban militants waging a war against the government. In a speech on May 20, Nawaz Sharif said that the Taliban's past offer of talks should be considered seriously. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League party secured a majority in the May 11 parliamentary elections and is expected to form a new ...
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Putins Game And Kudrin’s Choice
lashed out at the authorities, saying the country needed to modernize economically and politically or risk stagnation and decay. "Stagnation is not a one-day story," he said. "Even if we roll our sleeves up now, we'll have to toil three or five years to attain new elements of effectiveness...The political system is lagging behind the challenges of the time, and does not ...
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U.S. Report Says Religious Freedom On The Decline Worldwide
WASHINGTON -- Religious freedom is on the decline in many parts of the world, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department, which calls the trend "worrying." The 2012 International Religious Freedom Report ...
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Palestinian tragic film takes Cannes by storm
CANNES - A tragic love story between two Palestinians living under Israeli occupation received a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival on Monday and broke new ground as the first film fully funded by the Palestinian cinema industry."Omar" by director Hany Abu-Assad, known for the 2005 award-winning film "Paradise Now", is a political thriller interwoven with a story of ...
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Qatar Arab Spring makes peace more pressing
thrown his state's riches behind Arab uprisings, said on Monday that the emergence of 'people power' had put Arabs in direct confrontation with Israel and made a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more pressing."We heard in the past that reform (in the Arab world) must wait until a peaceful settlement with Israel is achieved, but everybody should realise that ...
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Dershowitz to PM Watch ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
Comedian Larry David has been called a lot of things over the course of his long and successful career, but we're pretty sure "peace maker" has never been one of them. Until now. Well, almost sort of, anyway.Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has sent an episode of David's HBO show "Curb Your Enthusiasm" to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in hopes that he ...
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Unifying Jews at the Western Wall
It is deeply painful to see ideological differences in Jewish modesty laws lead to violence and bigotry against women prayer groups at the Kotel. Intolerance is counterproductive to preserving one's views, and of course contradicts the Jewish traditions rich history of diversity.Even though some respected haredi (ultra- Orthodox) legalists like Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and Rabbi Yosef ...
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The Majlis Shura al-Mujahidin Between Israel and Hamas
A wave of Salafi protest against the ruling Hamas government has swept the Gaza Strip over issues including the treatment of prisoners, corruption, and ...
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Rebels flog two over illegal marriage
In this January 11, 2013 file citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, shows rebels from al-Qaeda affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra waving their brigade flag on the top of a Syrian air force ...
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Julian Stevenson Briton who cut his son and daughters throats in French apartment took them for a McDonalds and to buy sweets in hours before killing
The British father who has admitted to cutting the throats of his two young children was seen buying sweets, bread and drinks in a bakery with his son and daughter just hours before the double ...
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No socks rule is latest bid to ease Pakistan power cuts
In the latest of a series of directives from the country's caretaker government, officials have announced that civil servants have been told that they should not wear socks to the office as part of a plan to try and keep cool without air-conditioning.Pakistan suffers from crippling, debilitating power cuts of up to 18 hours a day. Improving capacity and reducing those huge shortages will be ...
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Briton Julian Stevenson under formal investigation in Lyon over murder of own children
A divorced British father with a history of drunkenness and domestic violence was formally accused of the murder of his two children, who were found with their throats cut in his apartment in southern ...
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Blasts and shootings claim 90 lives in Iraq as sectarian violence rises
Iraq is edging closer to all-out sectarian war between Sunni and Shia Muslims as a series of car bombings and shootings killed at least 90 people and left many others ...
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Nigeria says has Islamists on defensive
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigeria claimed an early success for its military offensive against Islamist insurgents in the northeast on Monday, saying the militants' activities had been stifled by nearly a week of attacks on their ...
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Immigration bill would require fingerprinting at 30 airports
Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (C) reacts to a note from Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) during a markup session for the immigration reform legislation in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill May 20, 2013 in Washington, ...
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Conn. train collision ruins commute for 1000s in Northeast
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Connecticut commuters endured slow trips to work Monday following last week's train collision that injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. It took Gary Maddin of Milford an hour to make what is normally a 20 minute drive from his home to the Bridgeport train station. From there, he planned to board a shuttle bus to Stamford where he could catch a ...
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Study Poor in suburbs outnumber those in cities
A man walks down the street collecting cans on October 20, 2011, in Reading, Pennsylvania. Reading, a city that once boasted numerous industries and the nation's largest railroad company, has recently been named America's poorest city with residents over 65,000. According to census data, 41.3 percent of people live below the poverty line in Reading. Reading has about 90,000 residents, ...
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Jodi Arias lawyer Defense wont call more witnesses
Jodi Arias looks at her family May 8 after being found of guilty of first-degree murder in the 2008 killing her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander. The trial is entering its penalty phase, during which the same jury will decide whether Arias should be sentenced to ...
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The Higher Education Scandal
Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, is an institution of good reputation and high quality, where I have some friends. It offers a liberal arts education typical of the best available in America today. It troubles me that Bowdoin, rather than, say, Harvard--a bigger and richer place where I work--should be made an example of. Nonetheless, Peter Wood and Michael Toscano have done just that in a ...
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Majority of Israeli students work while studying
About 73% of students in the country worked during the 2012-2013 academic year, earning an average monthly wage of NIS 3,230, according to a survey released by the National Union of Israel Students on Sunday, to mark National Student Week.Some 71% of the working students work up to 100 hours each month. about a third of the students - 29% - work over 100 hours a month.In addition, while 10% ...
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QA “Video Puts the Human into Human Rights”
- "We live in a world where billions of citizen witnesses have cameras in their pockets. The opportunities are endless to document human rights violations," Chris Michael, head of training and partnerships ...
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Farmer accuses police of acting illegally after they refuse to hand back shotgun he fired at thief
Claims police acted illegally: Farmer Bill Edwards (right) is struggling to find work after police confiscated his weapons because he shot at metal thief David Taylor (left) as he tried to flee the scene in a van loaded with stolen ...
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Newark gas explosion Retired company director and daughter-in-law killed as its revealed baby was pulled from rubble
Company director Leslie Rourke was helping 42-year-old son Nick and his wife Jeanette renovate the central heating system at their terraced house when a blast akin to a ‘sonic boom’ shook their ...
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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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