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Bachmann presidential campaign staffers still waiting to get paid
More than a year since their candidate dropped out of the Republican primary for the 2012 election, staffers from the campaign to elect Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) president say they are still waiting...
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1,000 Foxconn workers on strike in China
Over 1,000 workers went on strike over working conditions at a plant linked to Foxconn, a rights group said on Saturday, in the latest controversy to hit the Taiwanese technology giant. Hong Kong-based...
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White House petition urging building of Death Star rejected because...
The US government has rejected a petition urging it to build a “Death Star”, claiming it was too expensive, conceptually flawed and did not fit in with the policy of not blowing up planets. The online...
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French soldiers killed in botched Somalia hostage raid
Two French soldiers died and 17 “terrorists” were killed in a failed bid to free a French hostage in southern Somalia from Islamists holding him since 2009, the French defence minister said Saturday....
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Death toll rises as flu epidemic grips the U.S.
The death toll from a flu outbreak gripping the United States has reached epidemic levels and it will be at least several weeks before the outbreak abates, health officials said Friday. Flu or...
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Actor Jackie Chan calls U.S. ‘most corrupt’ country in the world
Hong Kong action hero Jackie Chan has once again provoked criticism, this time from an American blogger, after suggesting on Chinese television that the US is the “most corrupt” country in the world....
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Tens of thousands of vehicles damaged by Superstorm Sandy turn New York...
Mother nature in all her fury tossed them about like toys. Now they fill two airport runways — parked, obedient and damaged — as they await nibbles from buyers. Cars — thousands upon thousands of them,...
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Angry Pakistani Shiites refuse to bury dead
Shiite families refusing to bury their dead after twin bombings in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern city of Quetta vowed to continue their sit-in protest Saturday until the army takes over security....
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‘Here Comes the Sun’ flashmob cheers Spanish unemployment office
A flashmob of musicians organised by radio show serenades long queue of people at Madrid office amid harsh winter of austerity A flashmob of musicians has cheered up the long queue in a busy Spanish...
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Why IBM’s ‘Watson’ supercomputer can’t speak slang
A supposedly sophisticated computer failed to correctly use the risque terms in Urban Dictionary. So is slang the last frontier for artificial intelligence? “OMG, that’s a bullshit question. Eat one,...
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Beijing choked by pollution at dangerous levels
Dense smog shrouded Beijing on Saturday, with pollution at hazardous levels for a second day and residents advised to stay indoors, state media said. The municipal environment warning centre issued an...
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India arrests six in new bus gang-rape case
Six men have been arrested over the rape of a passenger on a coach in India, police said Sunday, weeks after the gang-rape and murder of a student on a bus in New Delhi sparked nationwide protests. The...
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EU ‘to propose’ peace plan after Israel vote
The European Union is drawing up a detailed new plan to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and expects to present it after this month’s Israeli general election, Yediot Aharonot reported Sunday....
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Fire threatens top Australian telescope site Siding Spring Observatory
Australia’s top research observatory home to several telescopes used by scientists from around the world was under threat from wildfires on Sunday as hot weather and lightning storms stoked scores of...
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New Holocaust museum opened at gruesome WWII site
Belgium’s newly-opened Holocaust and human rights museum stands symbolically on the site of a barracks commandeered by the Nazis as a wartime transit centre for Jews and Gypsies being sent to the death...
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AIG sues New York Fed over lawsuit rights
American International Group has filed a lawsuit against an investment structure created by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to help bailout the insurer, in a bid to sue mortgage debt issuers....
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Netanyahu wasted $3 billion on ‘harebrained adventures’ and Iran attack plan,...
Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert accuses Israeli PM of preparing for war that never took place Israel’s former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has accused the current prime minister, Binyamin...
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Larry Pratt: End gun-free zones instead of ‘wasting time’ with background checks
Gun Owners of America Director Larry Pratt on Sunday called for lawmakers to end gun-free zones at schools instead of “wasting out time” with the “false security” of universal background checks....
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Jerry Springer admits his show ‘is destroying Western civilization’
Television host Jerry Springer on Friday described his own show as “an hour of escapism” with “no redeeming social value.” “Look, my show is stupid,” he admitted during an interview with HuffPost Live...
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NRA president calls on gun makers to give him more money
National Rifle Association (NRA) President David Keene admits that that the gun industry funds his organization with generous donations but would like to see even more cash pumped into pro-gun lobbying...
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