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Chicago lawmaker wants detailed reports about electroshock weaponsSpurred by a Tribune report documenting an explosion in Taser use by police, a state legislator from Chicago is pushing a bill that would force local police departments to inform the state of every shock an officer delivers to...(more)
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Transport for London to examine safety of 500 junctions for cyclists, with new traffic light system under considerationCyclists in London could be given a headstart at traffic lights on particularly busy junctions, under a review into how to cut the toll of cycling deaths and injuries...(more)
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Nasheed resigns after weeks of public protests over his controversial order to arrest a senior judgeThe president of the Maldives has resigned after three weeks of opposition-led protests ended in a police mutiny. Mohammed Nasheed, a 44-year-old former political prisoner widely credited with ushering in a...(more)
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Heavy snowfall and strong winds across eastern Europe cut off hundreds of villages on Tuesday and rescue teams struggled to evacuate people in southern Bulgaria where rain and melting snow caused a dam wall to break, flooding an entire village.
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Reuters - Lion Air's slogan "We make you fly" came a bit too close to home this weekend when one of the Indonesian airline's pilots tested positive for crystal meth after being arrested just hours before he was due to take off.
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KABUL (Reuters) - Dwindling development aid as the war winds down in Afghanistan means child labor in the impoverished country is at risk of becoming more widespread, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) warned on Tuesday.
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AP - Vandals attacked a monastery in Jerusalem and a prominent school with a mixed Jewish-Arab student body on Tuesday, and police said they suspected Jewish extremists were behind the violence.
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AP - Wherever North Korea's young new leader goes, they're there: a group of graying military and political officials who shadow Kim Jong Un as he visits army bases, attends concerts and tours schools.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The UK's greenhouse gas output climbed 3.1 percent in 2010 as people used more gas to heat their homes amid colder weather and more nuclear plants were closed for maintenance, according to final government estimates published Tuesday.
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AP - Rescue workers on Tuesday pulled a 65-year-old woman out alive after she was trapped for 31 hours in the rubble of a collapsed factory in an eastern Pakistan city, as the death toll from the accident rose to 18.
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Margaret Deming had no money and her kids were crying with hunger. ... Hers is the kind of "poor" family that Mitt Romney doesn't worry about.
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US President Barack Obama's election campaign is to return some $200,000 of funding linked to the family of a Mexican fugitive.
