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Ukrainian protesters douse cops with water, force retreat from Kiev’s...
Ukrainian demonstrators on Wednesday forced security forces to retreat after a failed pre-dawn raid on their protest camp, in a blow to the authority of President Viktor Yanukovych after nearly three...
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Pope Francis named Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’
Time magazine named Pope Francis its person of the year on Wednesday, hailing the head of the Catholic Church as a new voice of global conscience since taking office in March. The 76-year-old, who rose...
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Marc Chagall masterpiece in German art trove ‘was Nazi-looted’ from Jewish...
A masterpiece by Marc Chagall found in an art trove hidden in a Munich flat was stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish family, a newspaper said Wednesday. The top-selling Bild daily cited documents it found...
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Chaos erupts as Egyptian judges walk out of Muslim Brotherhood trial
The trial of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood chief and his deputies on charges related to protest deaths came to an abrupt end Wednesday when the judges quit in protest at chaos in the dock. The previous...
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No charges after man pulls gun on ‘b*tch’ with disabled kid over Walmart...
Police in Colorado say that an Aurora man will not be charged after he admitted pulling his gun on a woman with four children — including a disabled child — because she was taking too long to park her...
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Right-wing radio host Bryan Fischer says First Amendment only protects...
Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association said Tuesday that the founding fathers intended the First Amendment to only protect Christianity, not Islam or any other religions. On his radio...
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Atheists and Christians lay claim to Nelson Mandela — but which was he?
In the wake of Nelson Mandela’s death, both atheists and Christians have tried to claim him as one of their own. The South African dissident who went on to become President Nelson Mandela appeals to...
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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters: Comparisons between Israel and Nazis ‘crushingly...
Former Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters said the comparisons between present-day Israel and Nazi Germany in the 1980s were “crushingly obvious.” Waters, a longtime critic of Israeli treatment of...
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Mark Twain said ‘travel is fatal to prejudice’ — and science has proven him...
Traveling to diverse places really does broaden the mind, according to new research published December 5 in Social Psychological and Personality Science. “My coauthors and I are very intrigued by a...
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Police raid home of Republican senator’s chief of staff in child porn...
Law enforcement agents have searched the home of Sen. Lamar Alexander’s (R-TN) chief of staff as part of an investigation into child pornography. “I was just informed by the United States Senate legal...
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Man must repay $183,000 to Kochs after joining ‘Anonymous’ protest for one...
A Wisconsin man who joined an Anonymous online protest for one minute has been sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to repay $183,000 to Koch Industries. Eric Rosol admitted to federal...
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We’re only human: The offbeat stories of 2013
Throughout the year, some events provide a bit of respite from the daily grind and remind us that human nature and failings are qualities shared worldwide. Here is a lighthearted selection from AFP’s...
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Edward Snowden: NSA isn’t like East German Stasi, but still dangerous
Former US national security contractor Edward Snowden hopes his leaks of classified documents will lead to greater transparency by governments, he said in rare comments published Wednesday. The...
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Santa will be receiving eight million letters this year
Many of us cannot recall the last time we got a letter in the mail, but Santa will this year receive a record eight million of them, the United Nations said Wednesday. Global postal services expect to...
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Legal marijuana in Uruguay violates international law, says UN agency
Uruguay’s move to legalise the production and sale of marijuana breaks international law, the world drugs body said Wednesday, warning it would encourage addiction. “Uruguay is breaking the...
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Pakistan mob kills one over alleged desecration of Koran
A mob killed a man and wounded three others over the alleged desecration of a Koran in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Wednesday, officials said. The violence started when some vendors...
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Utah nurse accused of nightmarish rape of immobilized patient
A 26-year-old nurse named Joshua Platte Shumway is accused of sexually assaulting a helpless post-surgical patient and threatening to kill her if she ever told anyone. The Salt Lake City Tribune...
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Sacred Native American masks sold in Paris auction to be returned to tribes
A US foundation has revealed it was the mystery buyer of sacred Native American objects auctioned off Monday in Paris under a cloud of controversy, and will return them to the tribes that claim them....
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GOP holds ‘factual’ climate hearing and decides half of scientists are global...
Republicans in the House of Representatives on Wednesday held a so-called “factual” hearing about climate change and used the testimony of skeptical witnesses to conclude that about half of scientists...
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Texas teen kills four in drunken crash but gets probation after parents’...
A Texas judge agreed with defense attorneys’ claims that a 16-year-old who killed four people while driving drunk had been given whatever he wanted by his wealthy parents and had never learned to...
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