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Rights group urges United Arab Emirates not to deport striking immigrants
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...
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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...
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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...
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Coburn: Disaster victims getting federal aid think they ‘don’t have to be...
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...
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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...
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Hume erupts after Juan Williams says call for leak probes ‘came from...
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....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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’...
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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”...
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Scientists warn that mass badger hunt could cause an illegal extermination of...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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”...
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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...
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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...
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