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Boxer Pacquiao spends night with Philippine typhoon victims
Boxing hero Manny Pacquiao will spend Saturday night in a tent city with victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the central Philippines a week after lifting the country’s spirits with his comeback victory...
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Watchdog OPCW says U.S. to destroy Syria chemical weapons stockpile at sea
The United States will destroy the most dangerous of Syria’s chemical weapon stockpile on a ship at sea, the world’s chemical watchdog said on Saturday. “The neutralisation operations will be conducted...
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Soviet-era civil rights activist and poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya dies at 77
Russian poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya, one of the former Soviet Union’s foremost civil rights activists, has died in Paris at the age of 77, friends in Moscow told AFP. Gorbanevskaya, who died Friday, was...
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Russell Brand excoriates ‘al Qaeda recruitment poster’ Rupert Murdoch
Actor and comic Russell Brand published a column Friday in which he excoriated the British press and in particular Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch owns multiple British tabloid...
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Straw houses are making a comeback in Europe
Flammable, prone to rotting when wet and usually weathering badly when exposed to the elements, straw is not an obvious material to use for building a house. It can even attract hungry animals—cows...
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No, Daily Mail: Humans did not come from outer space or from monkeys f*cking...
For some reason, the Daily Mail in the last couple of weeks is doing its utmost to make two self-published fantasies by a couple of marginal cranks sound like legitimate dispatches from the world of...
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Listen to harrowing 911 calls from people stuck on wind-whipped Washington...
A storm that barreled through the northwest in early November caused a bridge across Lake Washington outside Seattle to sway violently in the wind. On Friday, police department officials released the...
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Democratic Rep: Ohio Republicans actively trying to ‘suppress the voting...
Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge (D) has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to review two new proposed voting laws in the state on the grounds that they are unfairly aimed at suppressing the votes of...
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Anti-LGBT cardinal: Catholic church isn’t anti-gay and was ‘out-marketed’ on...
Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan said in an interview on Friday that the Catholic Church is “caricatured” as anti-LGBT, but actually isn’t. He went on to say that the institution got “out-marketed” by...
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ACA website deadline day passes without word from the White House
Dan Roberts, theguardian.com A White House deadline for fixing the troubled federal health insurance website passed without a formal declaration of victory on Saturday, after officials scheduled extra...
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North Korea extracts ‘apology’ from detained American-Korean War veteran
North Korea has detained Merrill E. Newman, a US citizen and veteran of the Korean War, for committing “hostile acts,” the country’s official state news agency confirmed on Saturday. Newman, 85, has...
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U.S. Army software pirate: settles suit for $50 million
A small software firm in Texas has a big payday against an unlikely software pirate: the U.S. Army. The U.S. Department of Justice and the Army settled with Apptricity, an enterprise planning and...
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Online sales soar during Black Friday
Online purchases reached $1.93 billion on Friday itself, the unofficial start of the retail sector’s holiday season. That marked a 39 percent increase over 2012, according to software maker Adobe,...
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Leaked paper shows major policy split in UN on international drug war
Major international divisions over the global “war on drugs” have been revealed in a leaked draft of a UN document setting out the organisation’s long-term strategy for combating illicit narcotics. The...
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Xi Jinping, leader of China: a profile of enigma
STANDFIRST: Profile: Since coming to power in March, he has introduced huge reforms yet clamped down on freedom of speech. So who, exactly, will David Cameron meet on his trip to Beijing this week In...
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Paul Walker of ‘Fast & Furious’ fame, dead in fiery LA car crash
Paul Walker, 40, made famous in the “Fast & Furious” racing movies, died Saturday as a passenger in a sports car accident in Santa Clarita, Calif., near Los Angeles. Details are emerging, but...
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Former Occupy Wall Street activists start ‘Rolling Jubilee’ to buy up...
For a year and a half, 80-year-old Kentucky resident Shirley Logsdon received repeated calls from a debt collection agency over an unpaid medical bill. Then one day, out of the blue, she received a...
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Pacific island nations demand tighter controls on $70 billion a year tuna...
The future of the world’s largest tuna fishery will be decided at a meeting in Australia this week, with Pacific island nations demanding tighter controls on a catch now worth US$7.0 billion a year. A...
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India’s spacecraft successfully begins journey to Mars
ndia’s first mission to Mars left Earth’s orbit Sunday, successfully entering the second phase of its journey that could see New Delhi win Asia’s race to the Red Planet, scientists said. The...
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Ukraine opposition calls new rally after baton-wielding police attack 1,000...
The Ukrainian opposition hopes to muster tens of thousands of demonstrators on Sunday and give new momentum to demands for President Viktor Yanukovych to step down amid a row over ties with the...
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