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NSA chief defends US spying programme
The head of the US National Security Agency has defended government's sweeping electronic surveillance programmes and said it had helped disrupt possible attacks more than 50 times since September 11, 2001.Justifying the spying programmes that were disclosed by contractor Edward Snowden earlier this month, General Keith Alexander said on Tuesday he would give lawmakers classified details of ...
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Deadly clashes erupt in south Lebanon
Two people have reportedly been killed in armed clashes between supporters of a pro-Hezbollah group and followers of a Sunni cleric in south Lebanon, local media has said. The fighting erupted in the Abra neighbourhood of the port city of Sidon on Tuesday, as the army cut off roads leading to Abra in an effort to control the fighting there, state news agency NNA said. It is the latest apparent ...
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CNN BuzzFeed Pageant cringes
>Editor's note: This post was created for your reading pleasure as a collaborative effort between the editorial staffs of BuzzFeed and CNN.(CNN) -- Pageants are nerve-wracking. Participants are judged on every aspect of their looks, personality and ability to discuss anything from affirmative action to peace in the Middle East -- all in front of thousands, sometimes millions of people. As ...
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G-8 Meeting Ends With Cordial Stalemate on Syria
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Taliban Step Toward Afghan Peace Talks Is Hailed by U.S.
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Report Ecuador Might Offer Asylum to Edward Snowden
Xinhua reports that Ecuador might offer asylum to Edward Snowden. "Ecuador would consider granting asylum to whistleblower Edward Snowden, the ex-CIA employee who single- handedly disclosed the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)'s PRISM mass-surveillance program, a top Ecuadorian official said Monday," the outlet ...
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Turkeys standing man
>Are you there? Share your story on CNN iReport, but please remember to stay safe. Istanbul (CNN) -- Turkish protesters are giving their government the silent treatment. Hundreds of men and women stood silently Tuesday in Istanbul's Taksim Square emulating the performance artist whose quiet protest Monday night quickly gained him the nickname "Standing Man. "For more than five hours, Erdem ...
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Police open probe into Facebook picture portraying Lapid as Hitler
The National Police Headquarters announced on Tuesday that they had opened an investigation into a picture posted on Facebook earlier in the day showing Finance Minister Yair Lapid with a toothbrush mustache, apparently in a reference to Hitler.The photo, which included the words "Israeli economy despot," was the subject of widespread criticism by MKs, including former Knesset Speaker ...
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Health Ministry to launch campaign thwarting polio spread
The Health Ministry will in the next few days launch an information campaign via the media encouraging the public to wash their hands with soap and water before eating and after going to the toilet or handling diapers. The effort is mean to halt the spread ...
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Bride-to-be organised dream wedding in just 10 DAYS after her boyfriend was diagnosed with stomach cancer and given just months to live
Last October Charlotte organised a last minute wedding to terminally-ill boyfriend Chris Clark. He proposed within minutes of being diagnosed with incurable stomach ...
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Moors murderer Ian Brady 75 storms out of tribunal claiming evidence is ad nauseam
Brady, sketched at the tribunal yesterday taking notes, is not allowed a pen while in the secure hospital in Merseyside, after he used it as a potential ...
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Wish you werent here Tourists on Italian beach ignore the CORPSE lying in the surf and continue having fun just yards away
In August 2011 Italy was left shocked after the body of a 67-year-old, who died on a beach towel under an umbrella, lay undiscovered for three hours, surrounded by beach-goers, on a beach near ...
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Rapist and murderer pictured walking to the gallows to face execution in Kuwaiti car park
If the "liars" had kept their word when they abolished the death sentence in this country ie life imprisonment where life does mean life - then there wouldn't be so many supporting execution as a ...
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More than 100 children are killed in bug epidemic brought on by monsoons in worse outbreak of encephalitis to hit India in a decade
The disease has already killed at least 118 children this year, and authorities fear the death toll could reach about 1,000, said Dr. R.N. Singh of the Encephalitis Eradication Movement, an Indian ...
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More than 200000 protesters take to the streets of Brazil to protest the billions spent on hosting the 2014 World Cup
Angry demonstrations and clashes with riot police have taken place in Brazil's biggest cities after more than 200,000 people protested over the expense of the 2014 football World ...
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Outraged Australian women bombard Facebook with photos of their breasts after Julia Gillard is criticised for exposing too much cleavage
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has unwittingly sparked a rush of cleavage photos on social media after a commentator said it was wrong for her to show too much of her breasts in ...
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Kim Jong Un hands out copies of Mein Kampf to senior North Korean officials to see what lessons can be learned from it
Senior government officials in North Korea were given copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf for Kim Jong Un’s birthday in January, it has been ...
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Art collector Saatchi cautioned over row with TV chef wife
British art collector Charles Saatchisaid on Tuesday that he had accepted a police caution for assaulting his wife, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, to bring an end to the public row over the ...
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Pregnant Muslim woman attacked in Paris miscarries
A pregnant Muslim woman attacked in a Paris street by skinheads, apparently because she was wearing a veil, has miscarried as a result of the assault, her lawyer ...
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Royal family affair Artist demands DNA to prove she’s king’s daughter
Now the British-educated artist has launched a court battle to obtain DNA from the sovereign and his family in a bid to prove her claim. Ms Bol, a 45-year-old Belgian who studied at the Chelsea College of Art, claims she is the product of an affair in the 1960s between King Albert and the Belgian aristocrat, Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps.While King Albert has never publicly acknowledged ...
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Revealed The 44 Guantanamo Bay inmates too dangerous to release
The United States government has identified for the first time the several dozen inmates at the deeply troubled prison facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba whom it considers too dangerous to release but also too difficult to prosecute or ever put on ...
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Clues implicating Amanda Knox ‘were underestimated’ by judges
Italy's supreme court has declared that clues that implicated Amanda Knox in the killing of British student Meredith Kercher had been underestimated by the judges who quashed her conviction for the crime and freed her from prison in ...
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News Corp phone hacking claim US courts more likely than English counterparts to jail executives if found guilty
The former US Secretary of State, and potential presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, said that whether it's law, finance, medicine, academia or running a small business "people rely on confidential communications to do their ...
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Could Bernard Tapie bring down his friend Nicolas Sarkozy
Bernard Tapie has lived many lives in his 70 years:business tycoon, pop singer, television presenter, actor, racing driver, yachtsman, football executive, writer, politician, ...
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Major pipeline explodes in Louisiana
Blast at Louisiana chemical plant kills one, injures dozens A major natural gas pipeline exploded on Tuesday in Washington Parish, La., destroying a mobile home and causing an evacuation of the area but no injuries were reported, local officials said. The blast on the Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) pipeline, which transports gas from Texas to south Florida, sent a mushroom cloud into the sky ...
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Electoral reform hot topic for Hong Kong
Hong Kong is going through more growing pains, perhaps even the most uncomfortable since the city was handed back to Beijing by Britain. Pro-democracy advocates want to be able to vote for the entire legislative council, a direct challenge to Beijing.
Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997. At that time, Beijing made an agreement with Britain that under a law called the Basic Law, all the civil liberties which were existent in Hong Kong at the time of the hand over would remain in place for at least 50 years, by which time it is envisioned, by the pro-democracy camp at any rate, that the Special Administrative Region will be fully democratic at any rate. Read more
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