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• Protesters plan tribute to Aleppo university students• Ban Ki-moon says al-Qaida responsible for Damascus bombs• Expatriate votes counted in Egypt's presidential election10.18am: Syria: The Guardian's Martin Chulov has just returned from north west Syria and is tweeting snippets of what he saw and heard.Back from...(more)
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The idea now, from the professionally outraged opponents of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program, is pretty much this: That Michael Bloomberg and Raymond Kelly, a mayor and police commissioner who have made the city safer, have only done it by turning into racial profilers, and turning New...(more)
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More firefighters are on their way to a fire that has burned across more than 11 square miles in northern Colorado.
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LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Austerity measures Slovenia adopted last week could be delayed or even scrapped after two police unions said late on Thursday they wanted a referendum on the law. The referendum will be held if the unions collect 40,000 signatures within a month, a target...(more)
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The nephew of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has been denied his family's choice of lawyers to defend a charge of "intentional homicide" in what one said was an attempt to manipulate a case that has focused world attention on China's human rights. The...(more)
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A crowded overnight bus plunged off a bridge into a river in central Vietnam, killing 34 passengers and injuring 21 others in one of the country's deadliest road accidents.
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A SPEEDING motorcyclist died in the Bronx on Thursday night after he blew through a stop sign and slammed into a Department of Correction bus with 11 inmates onboard, police sources said. Raylin Heredia-Delacruz, 23, of Washington Ave., died at the scene at Oak Point and...(more)
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A 26-year-old man was arrested Thursday for allegedly selling "junk" cars he didn't own to recycling companies, Atlanta police said.
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Aid agencies warn rich nations not to 'pawn off' $22bn promised to developing countries as leaders meet at Camp DavidBarack Obama is to make a major speech in Washington on Friday announcing at least $3bn in private sector funding to tackle hunger in developing countries, mainly...(more)
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HE SAYS he’s going to hell for whacking a former nun, but Colombo crime boss Thomas Gioeli is still on speaking terms with God. In his first public statement since a Brooklyn jury acquitted him of six gangland murders last week, Tommy Shots blogged from prison...(more)
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Japan completes its first successful commercial launch of a foreign-made satellite early on Friday, marking its entry into the launch business.
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Jamie Dimon has agreed to testify before Congress about JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s $2 billion blunder. Dimon — who declared “the buck always stops with me” after announcing the monumental loss last week — was invited to appear before the Senate Banking Committee amid calls for...(more)
