Human Rights Watch on Saturday urged the United Arab Emirates not to deport migrant building workers for staging a rare strike to demand better pay and conditions. “It would be scandalous if the UAE deported workers who have taken a courageous stand for their basic rights,” HRW Middle...
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Rights group urges United Arab Emirates not to deport striking immigrants
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Peter King ‘offended’ Obama cited ‘moral reasons’ for new drone, Gitmo policy
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) on Sunday blasted President Barack Obama for taking a “moral tone” in shaping U.S. counterterrorism policy. In the first major speech of his second term on Thursday, the president highlighted the need to restrict the use of unnamed drones, close the detention...
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Fox News analyst summarizes Obama’s drone speech: ‘Stop me before I kill again’
Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume thinks it is very peculiar for President Barack Obama to call for executive power to be scaled back. Hume noted on Fox News Sunday that Obama had “made generous use of” drone strikes. “There’s an odd quality to this whole thing,...
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Coburn: Disaster victims getting federal aid think they ‘don’t have to be responsible’
Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn (R) on Sunday said that the federal government had “created kind of a predicate, that you don’t have to be responsible for what goes on in your state” by providing aid after disasters like the tornado that hit the Oklahoma City area last week. Less than a...
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Bangladesh garment factory collapse death toll rises to 1,129
The death toll from the collapse of a Bangladesh garment factory complex has risen to 1,129 after two more injured workers died a month after the disaster, officials said on Sunday. Senior government official Zillur Rahman Chowdhury told AFP one male and one female victim of one of the...
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Hume erupts after Juan Williams says call for leak probes ‘came from Republicans’
Fox News Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume clashed with fellow Fox News contributor Juan Williams on Sunday after Williams pointed out that the investigations of reporters had started under George W. Bush’s administration and then continued under President Barack Obama. During a panel...
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Same-sex marriage foes stage huge protest in Paris
Tens of thousands of people registered a final, furious protest against same-sex marriage on Sunday, days before the first wedding ceremony under a new law. At least 150,000 protesters converged on Paris, marshalled by more than 4,500 police who were deployed after the government warned of a risk...
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Scientists: The moon likely holds undiscovered alien materials
Minerals found in craters on the Moon may be remnants of asteroids that slammed into it and not, as long believed, the satellite’s innards exposed by such impacts, a study said Sunday. The findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, cast doubt on the little we knew of what the Moon...
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Residents flee the ‘Venice of Africa’ as climate change drowns city
Ameth Diagne was asleep when the first waves lapped at his back door, the lukewarm, salty water seeping into his bedroom an impassive portent of the final days of his 650-year-old fishing community. He had kept his two wives and many of his 16 children with him long after the neighbours had fled,...
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America’s top Catholic calls for renewed wave of anti-LGBT sentiment
In a bulletin insert delivered to parishioners around the nation, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops warned that the Supreme Court could be preparing to affirm marriage equality, and urged an outpouring of anti-LGBT sentiment and sermons to push back against the potential change. “A...
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Georgia man threatens to sue if he can’t tell strangers’ children about Jesus
A Georgia man is threatening to sue the city of Ringgold after he claims his constitutional rights were violated by police last Friday night, when officials asked him to stop bothering strangers’ children about his beliefs in the Christian deity figure Jesus Christ. Cleveland, GA resident...
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Rebellious penguin refuses to be contained by SeaWorld Orlando exhibit
Visitors at SeaWorld Orlando over the weekend were treated to some unexpected excitement in the form of an adventurous and rebellious penguin. The penguin at the new “Antarctica: Empire Of The Penguin” exhibit managed to jump out of the attraction and briefly wattled among the human...
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Scientists warn that mass badger hunt could cause an illegal extermination of the whole population
England’s highly controversial badger culls risk illegally wiping out every badger in the cull zones because the animals’ numbers are so poorly known, according to one of the UK’s leading badger experts. The culls, intended to curb tuberculosis in cattle, are authorised to begin...
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Well-known burlesque performer Sparkly Devil killed in car crash
The well-known burlesque performer Sparkly Devil was killed early Sunday morning in an automobile accident. Sarah Klein, 36, was killed in a collision with a party bus on Highway 101, south of San Francisco. Her 43-year-old husband Raul Padilla was driving southbound when they slammed into a center...
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Gov. Rick Perry and lawmakers hope to lure SpaceX to Texas
Though Elon Musk’s all-electric car venture has been derided by conservatives, the tech entrepreneur’s vision of a private space industry has the backing of at least one prominent Republican. Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday signed legislation into law that would allow Boca Chica Beach...
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New York City launches bike share service ten months behind schedule
Ten months behind schedule, New York City on Monday launched what aims to be one of the world’s biggest bike share programs, following in the path already taken by Paris, Montreal, London and Barcelona. New Yorkers will now be able to move around on the 6,000 blue “Citi Bikes”...
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Thousands of Romanians protest Chevron fracking
Thousands of Romanians protested on Monday against plans by the US company Chevron to explore for shale gas in eastern Romania. “I have three children and I want them to grow up within a safe environment with clean water. Exploring for shale gas threatens to contaminate ground water,”...
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IRS targets First Caribbean International Bank over tax evasion
A Caribbean bank formerly co-owned by Barclays has been targeted by US tax authorities seeking information on suspected American tax evaders. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has filed a “John Doe” summons – a request for information on an unknown number of unnamed people – against US...
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How SpongeBob SquarePants became massive in Egypt
Stroll the streets of central Cairo today, and two faces stand out. The first is a symbol of resistance; Jika, a teenage protester shot dead late last year, whose likeness has been repeatedly stencilled across the walls of the city centre. The second is rather less revolutionary. It belongs to...
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Obama returns to New Jersey in chance to move on from scandals
In recent months Barack Obama has visited victims of the Oklahoma tornado, the Boston bombing and the Newtown school shooting, but his visit on Tuesday to beach communities hit by hurricane Sandy is about more than just consoling another group of families hit by America’s run of tragedies....
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