China, Russia return to UN Rights Council
UNITED NATIONS (United States) (AFP) - China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Cuba won seats on the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, despite fierce international criticism of their records. The UN General Assembly elected 14 seats on the 47-member council which is taking on increased diplomatic…
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U.S. Catholic bishops' new leaders concerned with poor
By Mary Wisniewski BALTIMORE (Reuters) - U.S. Catholic bishops elected two centrist conservatives as new leaders on Tuesday, an archbishop from Kentucky and a Texas cardinal, both of whom expressed "solidarity" with Pope Francis' strong emphasis on the poor. Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, 67, of…
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Dermatologists Say It's Better Than a Facelift
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Egypt court orders end to three-month state of emergency
An Egyptian court ordered an end to a state of emergency Tuesday, two days ahead of schedule and three months after it was imposed during a crackdown on Islamist protesters. The decision was welcomed by long-time ally the United States, which sounded a note of caution by urging the…
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Cyprus welcomes home icons stolen after Turkish invasion
Cyprus formally welcomed home from Germany on Tuesday scores of frescoes, mosaics and icons stolen from churches after the Turkish invasion in 1974 and returned after a long legal battle. The 173 Byzantine and post-Byzantine antiquities, which still show the damage caused when they were removed…
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Factbox: World offers aid for typhoon-ravaged Philippines
(Reuters) - Following is a list of some of the assistance offered to the Philippines from around the world after a devastating typhoon hit the center of the country last weekend. - THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT MOVEMENT is appealing for 87 million Swiss francs ($94.6 million) to…
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Bobcat Spotted Sleeping Near High School
A bobcat was spotted sleeping outside Westview High School in Rancho Penasquitos Monday evening, police said. San Diego police officers were seen near the high school`s football stadium at the 13500 Camino del Sur campus after someone saw the animal west of the bleachers at 4:30 p.m., SDPD officer…
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Energy turmoil changes map of global market: IEA
A vast upheaval in energy markets with the rise of shale oil and of demand in emerging economies is changing the fuel map of the globe, the IEA said on Tuesday. These huge changes, including the growth of renewable energies, will widen differences in energy costs between regions and could hit the…
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Dutch self-image shaken by "Black Pete" debate
But that self-image has taken a battering in recent weeks as a growing chorus of voices inside and outside the country protest against a Christmas tradition that many Dutch see as harmless fun but critics say is racist. According to the folklore, Saint Nicholas arrives in the Netherlands in…
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Methodist Pastor Frank Schaefer Faces Trial for Son's Gay Wedding
Frank Schaefer Was 'Full of Joy' at Son's Gay Wedding
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Despite ruling, Egypt holds off on ending curfew
CAIRO (AP) — A court declared that Egypt's 3-month-old state of emergency expired Tuesday, two days earlier than expected, but the military and security officials held off from implementing the ruling and lifting a nighttime curfew, amid worries that the measures' end will fuel protests by…
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India Mars mission back on track after engine glitch
India's Mars spacecraft was "successfully" raised into a higher orbit around Earth early on Tuesday, after a brief engine failure during an earlier attempt, the space agency said. The Mars Orbiter Mission, which blasted off on November 5 for a 11-month trip to the Red Planet, is being launched on…
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Fukushima: now for the tough part
By Aaron Sheldrick TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will as early as this week begin removing 400 tonnes of highly irradiated spent fuel in a hugely delicate and unprecedented operation fraught with risk. Carefully plucking more than 1,500 brittle and…
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Mitch Albom hopes latest novel is 'Heaven'-sent
HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) — Mitch Albom's best-selling memoir, "Tuesdays with Morrie," gave him the literary chops to try his hand at fiction, so it's fitting that he returns to the book's central theme — the struggle to understand one's own mortality — for his fourth novel.
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Nigeria police break up anti-corruption meet: activists
Police in Nigeria's capital on Tuesday blocked an anti-corruption meeting by sealing off the hotel conference room where activists had planned to gather, a rights group and a hotel employee said. Crackdowns on civil society organisations, common in some African countries, have become rare in…
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Child Killer's Wish to Donate Heart Before Execution Denied
Ronald Phillips Wants His Organs to Go to Ailing Mother, Sister
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Walmart to Give Workers Turkey Dinner on Thanksgiving
Though aisles filled with processed foods and discount clothes are a nontraditional place to spend Thanksgiving, Walmart employees who work the holiday will at least be treated to a traditional feast of turkey, mashed potatoes, rolls and pie. Workers who are scheduled for overnight shifts, day…
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Spanish pianist could face jail for practicing
MADRID (AP) — To most people, noise pollution is a jet engine roaring over their head. For one Spanish woman, it was a neighbor playing the piano more softly than a spoken conversation.
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US Military assistance in Philippines (10 photos)
A U.S. aircraft carrier set sail for the Philippines from Singapore on Tuesday to accelerate relief efforts after a typhoon killed an estimated 10,000 people in one coastal city alone, with fears the toll could rise sharply as rescuers reach hundreds of isolated towns and villages. The…
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Juventus, Real Madrid Tied as Top Team in AP Poll
Juventus, Real Madrid tied as top team in AP Global Poll; Cristiano Ronaldo wins player honors
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Bangladesh garment workers clash with police (13 photos)
Bangladesh police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at garment workers who stitch clothes for Western retailers during clashes on Tuesday as demonstrations against low wages intensified, an officer said. Some 40,000 workers downed tools and took to the streets in the Ashulia export zone on the…
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US top court rejects pre-abortion ultrasound case
The US Supreme Court refused Tuesday to hear a case concerning pre-abortion ultrasounds for women seeking to terminate their pregnancies in Oklahoma. By refusing to take up the matter, the top US court let stand a ruling by the state's supreme court that struck down a local law requiring "the…
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Russian court freezes assets of protest leader Navalny
A Moscow court on Tuesday froze the assets of protest leader Alexei Navalny as part of an investigation into alleged fraud and money laundering by him and his brother Oleg. The Basmanny District Court agreed with a petition by investigators and "ordered a freeze on assets belonging to the two…
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Japan PM calls on US to resolve fiscal 'uncertainties'
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday added his voice to calls for Washington to work through its budget battles as he met with US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. "We are hopeful in the future that these uncertainties over fiscal issues will be resolved by the administration and the US…
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Jewish leaders welcome German action on Nazi-looted art
Jewish leaders Tuesday welcomed Germany's decision to launch a task force on Nazi-looted art and to begin to lift the veil on a vast hoard of works uncovered in a Munich flat. The American Jewish Committee said the moves, including posting images online of 25 long-lost works by the likes of…
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NC Man Faces Charge of Attempting to Join al QaedaABC News
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U.S. justices decline to hear second Oklahoma abortion case
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a decision striking down a Oklahoma law that required any woman seeking an abortion to be shown an ultrasound image of the fetus beforehand. By refusing to hear the case, the high court left intact an…
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Super Typhoon Haiyan: 5 charities worth checking out
In the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan, which will likely go down as the strongest storm in recorded history, more than 10,000 people are feared dead, and at least 600,000 Filipinos are without a home. Providing emergency aid is just the start;
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Canada goes to court to try to reform, abolish Senate
Canada's federal government went to the nation's highest court on Tuesday seeking legal backing for its proposals to reform or abolish its Senate mired in controversy. "The Senate must change or vanish. The status quo is no longer acceptable," Minister of State for Democratic Reform Pierre…
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Last Jew in Afghanistan faces ruin as kebabs fail to sell
By Jessica Donati and Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Zabulon Simintov always removes his kippah, the skullcap worn by Jewish men, before entering his cafe in a dilapidated building that also houses Afghanistan's last synagogue. In his 50s, Simintov is the last known Afghan Jew to remain in the…
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Dad: NC Man Falsely Charged With Al-Qaida Tie
Father says US falsely charged NC man with seeking to join al-Qaida-linked group in Syria war
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Connecticut adds $16 million to boost school security after Newtown
By Rich Weizel FARMINGTON, Connecticut (Reuters) - Connecticut on Tuesday released an additional $16 million in state funding toward boosting security at school buildings, nearly a year after a gunman massacred 26 people at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The funding follows an…
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Dog finds human remains, owner buries leg in backyard
By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - A 93-year-old Washington state man, whose dog returned home with a human leg it had found, buried it in his back yard on an Indian reservation to avoid being suspected of a crime, a local official and media reports said. The dog found the unknown person's…
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Polio outbreak in Syria linked to Pakistan (16 photos)
An outbreak of polio that has paralysed 13 children in war-torn Syria is linked to a strain of the virus from Pakistan, the World Health Organisation said Monday. The vaccination of children in Syria has been disrupted by the 31-month conflict between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and…
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5 women arrested under Senegal's anti-gay law
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese police detained five women accused of violating the country's anti-gay law, highlighting increased pressure on suspected lesbians in the deeply conservative West African nation, an activist group said Tuesday.
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Japan readies additional $30 billion for Fukushima clean-up: sources
By Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government is finalizing plans to borrow an additional 3 trillion yen ($30 billion) to pay for compensating Fukushima evacuees and cleaning up the area outside the wrecked nuclear plant, said people with knowledge of the situation. The new…
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China, India Becoming Key Drivers of Energy Demand
IEA: China, India seen as main drivers of global energy demand as US moves to self-sufficiency
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Students try to blockade Bulgaria's parliament, five detained
Hundreds of Bulgarian students tried to blockade lawmakers inside parliament on Tuesday, escalating their street demonstrations against the Socialist-led government. "The university occupation is not enough, the government does not hear us and completely ignores us, so a blockade of parliament may…
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Typhoon Haiyan hits Vietnam (17 photos)
Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Vietnam early Monday, meteorologists said, days after it left thousands feared dead and widespread devastation in the Philippines. The US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) said in an update at 2100 GMT the storm "is currently making landfall" approximately 100…
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Ohio Boy Who Came Home for Early Christmas Dies
Ohio boy who came home for early Christmas dies; city put up tree, decorations for last wish
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Greenpeace activists transferred to St. Petersburg
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The 30 people arrested following a Greenpeace protest at a Russian oil rig in the Arctic were transferred to St. Petersburg on Tuesday, Greenpeace International and Russian transport officials said.
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Single-minded Islamic Jihad grows in Gaza's shadows
By Crispian Balmer and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Hours after Israeli special forces killed Mohammed Assi in a shootout last month in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad both tried to cloak themselves in his legacy. Hamas, with robust political…
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Smiles, Space, and the school bus they call home
There's immersion journalism, and then there's what photographer Meg Roussos did. When Roussos asked if she heard her correctly, the woman said, yes, her friends, Smiles and Space Welch, live not in a house, but a school bus just outside the college town. I have to meet these people,'" Roussos…
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All day shopping frenzy on Thanksgiving?
NEW YORK (AP) — Last Thanksgiving Day, Kimberly Mudge Via's mother, sister and nieces left in the middle of their meals to head for the mall.
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The 'Francis effect': 5 ways the pope is resuscitating the Catholic Church
Pope Francis has won converts — at least metaphorically — around the globe. Not everyone is a fan of Francis, but the response has been largely, even enthusiastically, positive. With an organization as old and structurally conservative as the Catholic Church, it can be hard to measure concrete…
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FBI Release Images of Suspected Child Predator
Authorities say the unidentified male is seen on video and in images sexually exploiting a child.
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GOP ready to block key Obama court nominee
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans seemed ready to block another of President Barack Obama's picks for one of the nation's top courts on Tuesday, the latest skirmish in a nominations battle that has intensified partisan tensions in the Senate.
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Man Pleads Guilty to Shooting Wife's Dad at Church
Man pleads guilty _ and mentally ill _ to charges of shooting father-in-law at church Mass
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Pro-Mursi students, police, residents clash at Egyptian university
Egyptian police fired tear gas on Tuesday at student supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi who were protesting at the university in the Nile Delta town of Mansoura, witnesses said. Four people were hurt in clashes between the students, police and residents that erupted near the…
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Constitution Check: Is devotion to the Constitution destroying democracy?
Lyle Denniston looks at a claim that interpreting an old document, like the U.S. Constitution, is a doomed attempt to apply outdated legal principles.
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Mexico says former US soldier led kidnap gang
Monterrey (Mexico) (AFP) - Authorities have detained a former US soldier accused of leading a gang of kidnappers in northern Mexico, officials said Monday. The 32-year-old suspect spearheaded a band of 16 people who operated in the states of Nuevo Leon, Coahuila and Tamaulipas in the past four…
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The Top 5 John F. Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories
One Gunman or Two? Soviets or the CIA? The Best JFK Conspiracy Theories
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Shipwreck captain 'jumped off' Costa Concordia
A trainee officer on board the Costa Concordia when it sank off an Italian island last year told a court Monday that the captain did not fall off the stricken liner on to a lifeboat as he claims, but jumped to safety. I jumped on, (Francesco) Schettino had jumped on just before me," Stefano…
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Kuwait MPs file no-confidence motion against minister
Ten Kuwaiti lawmakers filed a no-confidence motion against the health minister Tuesday over alleged mismanagement and corruption after a marathon questioning. Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah al-Sabah, a member of the royal family, was interrogated for six hours Tuesday by opposition MP Hussein…
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US Teen Saw Women, Kids Trapped in Typhoon's RuinABC News
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California company recalls salads, wraps on E. coli fear
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California company is recalling more than 180,000 pounds of prepackaged salads and sandwich wraps containing chicken and ham following an outbreak of E. coli-related illnesses in three states, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. The recall was…
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Preah Vihear Temple (18 photos)
A U.N. court ruled in favor of Cambodi a on Monday in a long-running dispute with Thailand over jurisdiction of land around an ancient temple, a decision that threatens to add fuel to a deepening political standoff in Bangkok. (Reuters)
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Bulgarian police, protesters clash near parliament
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgarian protesters tried to blockade the parliament on Tuesday, clashing with police as they demanded the country's left-leaning government resign and early elections be called.
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Mysterious 'Mr. X' Silent in Court in $100M Con Case
'Bobby Thompson', Accused of Navy Vets Charity Scam, Was Expected to Say It Was CIA-Blessed Operation
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"Utopia" seeks change for Aboriginal Australians
By Patrick Graham LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran investigative journalist John Pilger accuses Australia of running a system of apartheid towards its Aboriginal communities in a new documentary released in cinemas in Britain this week. "Utopia", named after a large, dry region in the north of the…
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Gay marriage heads for final legislative approval in Hawaii
By Treena Shapiro HONOLULU (Reuters) - The Hawaii Senate is expected to give final legislative approval on Tuesday to a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in a state long popular as a wedding and honeymoon destination and regarded as a pioneer in advancing the cause of gay matrimony. Governor…
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Satellite hits Atlantic _ but what about next one?
BERLIN (AP) — This time it splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean — but what about next time?
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Industry takes aim at AP ethanol investigation
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Associated Press investigation, which found that ethanol hasn't lived up to some of the government's clean-energy promises, is drawing a fierce response from the ethanol industry.
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Dominick`s workers in jeopardy of losing jobs attend fairs today
Thousands of Dominick`s workers in jeopardy of losing their jobs around the holidays are getting the chance to apply for new ones at a job fair today.
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Guilty plea in Miss Teen USA extortion case
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A 19-year-old Southern California computer science student has pleaded guilty to hacking the computers of Miss Teen USA and other women and secretly photographing them with their own webcams.
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US Navy's funding of high schools raises concerns
The first time Miguel Martinez visited a college campus, it was for a summer camp paid for by the US Navy, which is investing millions to improve public education and, ultimately, potential recruits. While cash-strapped school districts are anxious for the help, critics contend that it comes at…
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Typhoon Haiyan: How to Help
Nearly 10,000 people are feared dead and thousands more missing following last week’s Typhoon Haiyan. Authorities say at least 2 million people nationwide were affected by the storm, and at least 23,000 houses have been damaged or destroyed. The following relief organizations are providing…
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U.N. inspectors ready to verify any Iran nuclear deal, chief says
By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear inspectors will be ready to verify the implementation of any agreement between Iran and six world powers on curbing the Islamic Republic's atomic activities, their chief said on Tuesday. A day after he signed a cooperation pact with Iran granting…
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Liberian agents bust international drugs ring
Liberia said Tuesday it had smashed an international drug smuggling racket after arresting a senior police officer crossing the border from Sierra Leone with marijuana worth $4 million. Superintendent Perry Dolo, of the Liberian police force, was detained on Saturday in a car carrying 315 kilograms…
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Poll: Christie leads GOP presidential pack, but still loses to Hillary
Fresh from a resounding reelection victory, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is the man to beat for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 – though he still loses to Hillary Rodham Clinton by 10 percentage points in the general election, 44 percent to 34 percent, according to the latest NBC…
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Syria Kurds announce transitional autonomous authority
Arbil (Iraq) (AFP) - Syrian Kurds in the country's northeast announced the formation of a transitional autonomous administration on Tuesday after making key territorial gains against jihadists in recent weeks. But several major Kurdish groups have not signed on to the declaration, which had…
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Games of the indigenous people in Brazil (19 photos)
The XII Games of the Indigenous People in Cuiaba have begun, where 48 Brazilian indigenous tribes present their cultural rituals and compete in traditional sports such as archery, running with logs and canoeing. The event takes place from Nov 8 to Nov 16. (Reuters)
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Army vet expelled from US fights deportation
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A U.S. Army veteran who turned his life around after struggling with drug addiction is fighting his deportation, saying he should not have been expelled last year for a minor criminal record after honorably serving his country and living here legally for more than 50 years.
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Obama Lunches With US Service Members at Irish Pub
Obama has Irish pub lunch with US troops ahead of White House meeting with military leadership
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Alleged thieves nabbed after posting fast food photo on Instagram
Hamburgler be not proud:
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What an American-US Airways merger means for you
NEW YORK (AP) — American Airlines and US Airways have cleared the last major hurdle to merging, but it will be several months — if not years — before passengers see any significant impact.
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Houseful of Cats: Woman Raises Lions, Tigers in Home
10-month old white lioness Vati is on the loose and she's hungry, very hungry. 130 pounds of muscle and razor sharp teeth, she makes a beeline for the house of Annel Snyman and hops right up on the counter. Vati acts like an overgrown housecat which is basically what she is. She was raised by [...]
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US warns Maldives president after vote blocked
Malé (Maldives) (AFP) - The United States stepped up its criticism of the embattled Maldives on Tuesday, warning caretaker president Mohamed Waheed that a decision to remain in office after his mandate expired was endangering democracy. The US State Department said Waheed's move to continue to…
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Congo blames mediator Uganda for collapse of rebel talks
By Pete Jones and Richard Lough KINSHASA/KAMPALA (Reuters) - The Congolese government delegation has quit Ugandan-hosted talks with M23 rebels, saying Kampala's support for insurgents was to blame for the failure to sign a document due to officially end Congo's latest rebellion. Okello Oryem,…
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Judge to sentence U.S. border cops who made smugglers eat pot
By Brad Poole PHOENIX (Reuters) - Two U.S. Border Patrol agents who forced four suspected drug smugglers to chew marijuana and flee shoeless into the Arizona desert on a chilly November night are due to be sentenced on Tuesday for violating the men's civil rights. A jury convicted Dario Castillo,…
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Relief workers clear bodies and hand out supplies in Tacloban
Relief operations are stepped up in Tacloban, where bodies litter the streets, following the powerful typhoon which killed possibly 10,000 people in the city alone. Sarah Toms reports.
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The 'Legend' in the Raw Flesh: This is What An Uncooked McRib Looks Like
The billboards herald it like the return of the messiah, the sandwich gleaming from up on high in all of its liquid-smoke-and-high-fructose-corn-syrup-glazed glory: The McRib is back! If you can demonstrate that McDonald’s only introduces the sandwich when pork prices are lower than usual, then…
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Polio virus strain in Syria confirmed as being from Pakistan - WHO
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Polio that has crippled at least 13 children in Syria has been confirmed as being caused by a strain of the virus that originated in Pakistan and is spreading across the Middle East, the World Health Organization said. Genetic sequencing shows the strain…
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Secret pricing spikes US healthcare costs
Secret pricing is making healthcare in the United States more expensive than ever, leading costs to triple in the past two decades, experts said Tuesday. Overall, US healthcare costs now account for nearly 18 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), twice the amount spent by Japan, Ireland and…
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Longtime Gay Couple May Be Better Off Not Marrying
DEAR ABBY: I have been with my partner, "Harold," for 11 years. After gay marriage passed here in Minnesota, Harold told me he didn't want to marry me because of my credit rating.
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Bitter Morocco-Algeria row before king's US trip
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A Saharan stand-off may become a U.S. problem.
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Android smartphones dominate, Windows gains: survey
Google's Android platform was used on four out of five smartphones sold worldwide in the third quarter, while Microsoft's Windows Phone showed strong gains, said a survey out Tuesday. Android's market share rose to 81 percent, extending its lead over Apple's iOS, used on its iPhones, according to…
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Low Obamacare enrollment numbers: Sign of problems to come?
Only about 40,000 people have signed up for health insurance through the 36 state exchanges run by the federal government, according to a report in The Washington Post. The “no” part is due to the fact that the 40,000 figure, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, undercounts what’s…
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Veterans are celebrated around the world (63 photos)
Around the world today, November 11, 2013, fallen warriors are remembered. The U.S. celebrates Veterans Day, Belgium gathers for Last Post cerremonies and France recognizes Armistice Day while the UK, Canada and Australia mark Remebrance Day.
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New forensics studies investigate the single-bullet theory in JFK assassination
New forensics studies have reached some strong conclusions in the assassination of President Kennedy.
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Apple's new iPad mini goes on sale
Apple announced Tuesday it has begun selling its newly revamped iPad mini tablet with an enhanced "retina" display, for which it had not previously announced a firm launch date. Apple unveiled the new gadget on October 22 at the same time as its larger sibling, the iPad Air, but said the mini…
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Once nearly extinct, streetcar gets new life in US
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — When the auto plant here closed, this prosperous Wisconsin port city on Lake Michigan lost more than just its largest employer. Its sense of vitality seemed to drain away, and city leaders set out to find something that would inject life into the brick-storefront downtown while…
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Perry calls for compromise within GOP: ‘If you can’t win elections, you can’t govern’
Perry talks divisions in Republican Party, why he’s leaving the door open for 2016, and Obamacare
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5-ex Madoff employees on trial in NYC for fraud
NEW YORK (AP) — In the many years he spent as a trader at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, David Kugel learned that investments that Madoff claimed to be making for clients were fiction.
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Medicaid is health overhaul's early success story
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ugly duckling of government health care programs has turned into a rare early success story for President Barack Obama's technologically challenged health overhaul.
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Vivian Maier self-portraits exhibit comes to NYC (11 photos)
"Piecing together Vivian Maier’s life can easily evoke Churchill’s famous quote about the vast land of Tsars and commissars that lay to the east. A person who fit the stereotypical European sensibilities of an independent liberated woman, accent and all, yet born in New York City. Someone who was…
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Mercedes presents S-Class 65 AMG luxury sedan
At the upcoming LA Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz will premiere the S65 AMG 2014, its new luxury sedan powered by a V12 twin-turbo engine with 630hp. This third iteration of the Mercedes S 65 AMG has a 6.0L V12 twin-turbo engine with a total output of 630hp coupled with an automatic 7G-Tronic…
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Free Syrian Army sets terms for Geneva peace talks
The mainstream rebel Free Syrian Army has laid out the conditions for its participation in Geneva peace talks, including the demand that a transitional authority be given full powers. The international community has been seeking for months to convene a Syria peace conference in Geneva, but…
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Kidnapping Grow in Lebanon as Syria War Spreads
In Lebanon, dramatic rise in kidnapping for cash in unlikely knock-on effect of Syria war
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Baldwin Denies Relationship With Stalking Suspect
Alec Baldwin testifies he never had relationship with actress accused of stalking him in NY
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