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AP - The Maldives' new president promised to protect his predecessor from retribution after he stepped down amid protests and clashes between the army and police over his decision to arrest a top judge.
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Reuters - A U.S. drone aircraft killed 10 suspected militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region near the Afghanistan border Wednesday, security officials and residents said, the fifth such strike this year.
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A federal judge on Tuesday recommended the release of an elderly man who remains in prison nearly two years after his acquittal on murder charges in the 2007 death of a police officer he shot decades earlier.
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German chancellor insists UK is still a key player in the EU and is 'more pro-European than some other countries'The German chancellor Angela Merkel has issued an emphatic plea for Britain to stay in the European Union, saying the EU needs Britain to help develop the...(more)
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Cristina Kirchner warns of 'grave risks to international security' and states intention to prevent war over natural resourcesPresident Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has accused Britain of "militarising" the south Atlantic, and said she would seek UN intervention to prevent a war against Argentina for its natural...(more)
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AP - President Cristina Fernandez said Tuesday that Argentina will formally complain to the U.N. Security Council that Britain has created a serious security risk by sending one of its most modern warships to the disputed Falkland Islands.
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ALBANY — State Controller Thomas DiNapoli in a new report Tuesday accused Gov. Cuomo of using his budget proposal to make a transparency-killing power grab.
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School officials also gave parents the chance to transfer their children out of Miramonte Elementary School, site of sexual abuse charges.
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Reuters - Argentina's president on Tuesday accused Britain of "militarizing the South Atlantic" and vowed to complain to the United Nations as tension rises ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war.
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Queens residents and lawmakers packed into a public hearing Tuesday to rail against proposed legislative districts they claim fractures neighborhoods and dilutes their political voice. “You have taken the 24th Assembly District and sliced and diced communities haphazardly along a narrow corridor that stretches across Queens,”...(more)
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The projected cost of rebuilding the World Trade Center has skyrocketed to $14.8 billion — a leap of nearly $4 billion in four years, a blistering audit of the Port Authority released Tuesday found.
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The Philanthropy 50 list reveals that the top American donors gave over seven times as much money to charities than in 2010• Philanthropy 50 list: America's 10 most generous benefactorsWealthy Americans have become more charitable as the economy has improved, but giving has yet to reach...(more)
