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Dave Zirin tells Moyers: Protesting at the Olympics more powerful than boycotting them

September 13, 2013, 3:56 pm
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Progressive sportswriter Dave Zirin made the case for the United States taking part in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia in an interview with Bill Moyers on Friday. “I’m horrified by not just the laws, but some of the attendant violence that’s taking place in Russia against the...
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South Korean troops kill man trying to swim North

September 16, 2013, 3:33 am
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South Korean troops shot dead a man trying to swim across a border river into North Korea on Monday after he ignored repeated warnings to turn back, the defence ministry said. A mistry spokesman said he was carrying a South Korean passport that identified him as Nam Yong-Ho, 47. According to the...
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‘Shocking’ church child abuse investigation underway in Australia

September 16, 2013, 3:43 am
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An Australian inquiry into church and institutional child abuse began public hearings Monday, with warnings that widespread and “shocking” allegations would be heard against places of worship, orphanages, community groups and schools. Justice Peter McClellan opened the hearings in the...
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300,000 central Japan households told to evacuate as Typhoon Man-yi hits

September 16, 2013, 3:47 am
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Typhoon Man-yi hit central Japan Monday, with almost 300,000 households told to evacuate and fears the storm could go on to hit the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The typhoon made landfall in Toyohashi, Aichi prefecture, shortly before 8:00 am (2300 GMT Sunday), packing gusts of up to 162...
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Nobel laureates urge end to Syria hospital attacks, say system is on the ‘brink of collapse’

September 16, 2013, 3:53 am
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Fifty leaders in world medicine, including three winners of the Nobel prize, on Monday urged all combatants in Syria to spare hospitals, doctors and nurses, warning that the country’s medical infrastructure was being deliberately targeted and was now on the brink of collapse....
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Fox News host: new Miss America, Nina Davuluri, doesn’t ‘represent American values’

September 16, 2013, 4:34 am
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The crowning of Miss New York, Nina Davuluri, as Miss America should have been, to paraphrase her platform, a celebration of diversity through cultural competency. But in the hours after her victory, Twitter became a frank demonstration of American incompetence in matters relating to both ethnicity...
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$303,000 found in safe swept away by Indian flood

September 16, 2013, 4:53 am
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Workers clearing rubble in a flood-devastated town in the Indian Himalayas have discovered 19 million rupees ($303,000) in a safe which had been swept away by floodwaters, police said Monday. The safe was found on Saturday near the ruins of a bank in the town of Kedarnath that was flattened by...
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Sidelined Frace still determined to go after Assad

September 16, 2013, 5:15 am
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Sidelined from the US-Russia negotiations on chemical weapons, France is determined that demands for President Bashar al-Assad to be tried for war crimes do not drop off the rapidly shifting international agenda. Publicly, France hailed Saturday’s deal in Geneva to eliminate Assad’s...
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Somalia’s ‘New Deal’ to drive recovery from civil war

September 16, 2013, 5:17 am
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International donors met Monday to approve a “New Deal” for Somalia to drive its economic and political recovery after two decades of bloody civil war. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud faced one of “the most difficult challenges in the world”, EU foreign affairs head...
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WATCH LIVE: Salvage crews raise shipwrecked Costa Concordia

September 16, 2013, 5:47 am
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Watch live video as salvage crews attempt to pull the Costa Concordia upright. The cruise ship hit a rock off the coast of Italy after sailing to close to the shore and capsized. The ship has been abandoned at sea for nearly two years.
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WATCH LIVE: ‘Active shooter’ at Washington Navy Yard

September 16, 2013, 6:09 am
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The United States Navy is reporting that there’s an “active shooter” at the Washington Navy Yard, inside the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building, as of 9:03 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. There has been one confirmed injury, and a shelter has been established for...
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U.S. woman sexually assaulted by Roman Polanski tells her story in memoir

September 17, 2013, 7:45 pm
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The woman sexually assaulted by filmmaker Roman Polanski 36 years ago, when she was a girl of 13, has published her memoir, saying it was time to “take back ownership of my own story.” “The Girl: A Life Lived in the Shadow of Roman Polanski,” written by American Samantha...
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U.S. ‘lower class’ booming even as poverty rate holds steady

September 17, 2013, 8:11 pm
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US poverty rate steady at 15 percent, but ‘lower class’ is booming (via The Christian Science Monitor) A group of boys walk past a partially collapsed row house in Baltimore in April. According to new census data, the nation’s poverty rate stood still at 15 percent in 2012, the...
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Stewart dismantles CNN for ‘deliberate’ vomiting of chaos instead of good reporting

September 17, 2013, 9:06 pm
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Jon Stewart picked apart what he described as the “breathless wrongness” of CNN’s coverage of Monday’s Washington Navy Yard shooting on The Daily Show Tuesday night, as the centerpiece of his analysis of cable news’ latest “Force-5 wrongnado.” “All of...
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Colbert: Segregation ensues after Obama pits the .1 percent against the 1 percent

September 18, 2013, 4:31 am
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On Tuesday, Stephen Colbert attacked the Obama administration’s attacks on society’s most vulnerable: the ridiculously wealthy. “We’re living in the People’s Republic of Obamastan. I would give all my fortune to the needy,” he said, “but I wouldn’t...
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China’s second-richest man injured in ‘accidental’ knife attack

September 18, 2013, 4:36 am
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Multi-billionaire Zong Qinghou, China’s second richest man, was attacked and injured by a would-be job applicant wielding a knife, official media said Wednesday. Zong, China’s richest man until he was dethroned last week, is chairman of the country’s leading beverage producer...
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Penis-bite rugby player vows to fight ban

September 18, 2013, 4:39 am
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Bad boy Australian rugby league player Anthony Watts on Wednesday denied he bit an opponent on the penis and vowed to fight an eight-match ban. The 27-year-old was suspended last week by the Gold Coast Rugby League over claims he bit an opposition player in an incident that attracted global...
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US to seize New York skyscraper secretly owned by Iran

September 18, 2013, 4:43 am
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The United States is set seize control of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper prosecutors claim is secretly owned by Iran, the justice department said, though the ruling is to be appealed. The seizure and sale of the 36-story building, in the heart of New York City on Fifth Avenue, would be “the...
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Yahoo Japan develops 3D search engine-printer

September 18, 2013, 4:48 am
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Yahoo Japan Corp. has developed a voice-activated Internet search that links to a 3D printer, letting users look online for blueprints to deliver solid objects in a few minutes, the company said. The search engine scours the Internet for information that it can use to print palm-sized renderings of...
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Starbucks CEO to gun rights advocates: ‘Guns are not a part of the Starbucks experience’

September 18, 2013, 5:40 am
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In an open letter released today, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said that Starbucks will now “respectfully request” that gun owners not bring their guns into Starbucks, even in states where “open” or “concealed carry” is permitted. “We’re not pro-gun...
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