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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsDUBAI (Reuters) - In hiding, targeted by drone strikes and unable to land a blow in the West, al Qaeda's ageing leaders are losing a power struggle with ultra-radical young militants in Iraq and Syria who see themselves as the true succe...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsGAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli forces pounded the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, sending thousands of residents fleeing, and said it was meeting stiff resistance from Hamas Islamists, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Tel Aviv ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalAustralia says all victims of Ukraine plane crash may not be recovered without full search
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State militants claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an overnight suicide bombing in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad which killed 33 people, one of the deadliest recent attacks in the Iraqi capital.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalTugs rotate shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner off Italian island for last voyage
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsDONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - A train carrying the remains of many of the 298 victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived in a Ukrainian government-held city on Tuesday on the first leg of their final journey home to be reclaimed by t...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsDUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Wednesday nuclear talks with six world powers would resume in early September, according to state television, after both sides agreed to continue talking for four more months to try to reach a final agreeme...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalA last kiss, a prayer, a haunting premonition: How did the people on Flight 17 end up there?
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesAt least one of the masked suspects pulled out a gun at Caesars Atlantic City, according to police.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalEx-general who lost Indonesian presidential vote to challenge results in Constitutional Court
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldDelta Air Lines is canceling all flights to Israel until further notice, citing reports that a rocket landed near Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from CNN.comAnalysts say that Protective Edge could buy Israel a couple of years of peace. But, ultimately, is there an end to the cycle of violence?
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalAs battle rages, dozens of Gaza families plead for evacuation; 2 more Israeli troops killed
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from CNN.comMorocco's Red City is crammed with stunning gardens, shaded souks and steamy bath houses.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NYT > WorldThe ill-fated cruise ship was recently lifted to the surface, two and a half years after it ran aground in an accident that killed 32 people.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from World: World News, International News, Foreign Reporting - The Washington PostTEL AVIV — Secretary of State John F. Kerry flew to Israel Wednesday to push for a cease-fire in the 16-day-old conflict with Hamas militants. Kerry planned to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority Presiden...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The top U.S. diplomat defied a Federal Aviation Administration ban and flew into Israel's main airport Wednesday in a sign of sheer will to achieve a cease-fire agreement in the warring Gaza Strip despite little e...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from CNN.comIslanders will breathe a collective sigh of relief -- but they'll also be shedding a collective tear.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesThe wrecked Costa Concordia began its final voyage Wednesday as it was towed from the Italian island if Giglio where it sank in 2012.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NYT > WorldSecretary of State John Kerry pressed his effort to forge a cease-fire to bring a halt to bitter fighting in the Gaza Strip a day after American civilian flights to Israel were suspended.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalJohn Kerry files to Tel Aviv despite FAA ban, pushes cease-fire between Israel, Hamas
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesNearly 500 homes have been destroyed by Israeli airstrikes and 100,000 people have sought shelter in schools of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from World on HuffingtonPost.comTEL AVIV, July 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Tel Aviv on Wednesday to seek ways of ending the deadliest violence in years between Israel and Gaza's Islamist Hamas. "Secretary Kerry arrived in Tel Aviv, Isra...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NYT > WorldThe police in Yumen, Gansu Province, closed the city on Tuesday as a precaution after health officials said a man had died of pneumonic plague after having come in contact with a Himalayan marmot.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldBEIJING (AP) — McDonald's and KFC in China faced a new food safety scare Monday after a Shanghai television station reported a supplier sold them expired beef and chicken.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — LG Display Co. said profit for the April-June quarter more than doubled as a stronger won reduced the value of its foreign debt and the World Cup boosted demand for ultra-high-definition TVs.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsBANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai General Prayuth Chan-ocha has run the country flawlessly since he seized power in a military coup in May and would make a good prime minister under a provisional administration to be set up shortly, a junta colle...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalA haunting premonition: 'What will happen if the airplane crashes?' asks boy boarding MH17
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from NYT > WorldIn eastern Ukraine, many residents may side with the pro-Russian rebels, but they don’t see the fighters as capable of having taken down the Malaysia Airlines plane with a missile.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesKhan Younis has been under Israeli tank shelling and drones strikes since early Wednesday.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In Libya, militias armed with shoulder-launched missiles are battling for control of the country's main airport. In Africa, the entire Sahel region is awash with weapons that include portable air defens...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsGIGLIO ISLAND Italy (Reuters) - Maneuvers began early on Wednesday to remove the rusty hulk of the Costa Concordia cruise liner from the Italian island where it struck rocks and capsized two years ago, killing 32 people.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldWASHINGTON (AP) — Congress will hear testimony Wednesday detailing how undercover investigators used fake identities to get taxpayer-subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama's law.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsTAIPEI (Reuters) - Typhoon Matmo slammed into Taiwan on Wednesday with heavy rains and strong winds, shutting financial markets and schools, with at least one person killed and some damage reported.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from CNN.comFor the next three weeks at least, flying to and within China is going to be a stressful affair, for even the hardiest of travelers.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesThe markets are no longer interested in what happens in the rest of the world, writes Matthew Lynn.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldLOS ANGELES (AP) — Coach Doc Rivers has said he'll resign from the Los Angeles Clippers if Donald Sterling remains owner, the team's interim CEO testified, saying such a move would be a "disaster" for the franchise.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesAmazon's Fire phone has features that seem almost magical, but does that make it a good smartphone?
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalIsrael, Palestinians wage war online over conflict's message, public opinion
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from World on HuffingtonPost.comThis just might be the simplest idea for a theme park ride... and also the most frightening . The Sky Tower at Tivoli Friheden in Denmark is a free fall ride with no brakes because there's no vehicle. It's just you, plunging from the top...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from CNN.comThe father of a woman who died in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing offers compassion to bereaved.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from CNN.comA headless body of a man found in a wooded Michigan park had local police in Michigan wondering how -- and why.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldDENVER (AP) — A federal judge in Denver is expected to rule Wednesday whether Colorado's same-sex marriage ban should be overturned immediately, or if the issue should be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from CNN.comA Chinese town has been on lockdown since last week after a man died of the plague.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from CNN.comAfter spending days exposed to the elements on a Ukrainian field and then inside refrigerated train cars, the first group of victims from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 are one step closer to home.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldBOSTON (AP) — A man believed to have provided the gun used by Boston Marathon bombing suspects to kill a university police officer has been arrested on drug and weapon charges.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesU.S. officials cite their most detailed batch of evidence yet to make the case that an SA-11 antiaircraft weapon likely fired from Russian-backed separatist-controlled territory shot down a Malaysia Airlines jetliner last week.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from CNN.comThe wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship has been refloated, and has begun its final voyage.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from CNN.comChina can be daunting even for seasoned travelers. Here are 20 great tips to cut out the stress.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldNEW YORK (AP) — The recent death of a New Yorker in police custody is calling into question a police crackdown on petty offenses to discourage more serious crime.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Bulgaria implements all necessary measures to manage the influx of immigrants, Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev said, Wednesday. Currently, the state can handle up to 1,000 migrants a month, Yovchev told reporters noting that the refug...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineManeouvres began early this morning to remove the cruise liner's rusty hulk from the Italian island where the disaster happened.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe UK's easyJet, Germany's Lufthansa, Air France and KLM have suspended services to and from the war-torn country after a rocket from Gaza hit a house (pictured) a mile from Ben Gurion airport.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineUnderworld figure Carl Williams would not have been lying when he implicated a former Victorian detective and a hit man in the murder of police informer, his ex-wife Roberta told an inquest on Wednesday.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineIt emerged yesterday that reductions in environmental charges announced in December to save households £50 a year may have saved suppliers even more money.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineGasps can be heard from a pair of kayakers as a pod of whales headed straight towards them off the Argentinian coast.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineFootball Association chairman Greg Dyke told the Culture select committee, in London, that he believed Fifa president Sepp Blatter would win another term of office.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe cases involve a terror suspect suing the Government over alleged torture, Iranian shipping officials suspected of transporting nuclear material, and an IRA mole suing MI5.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe officials told reporters in Washington that the surface-to-air missiles were most likely fired by inexperienced rebels who didn't have the training to operate such sophisticated weaponry.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe bodies of around 200 international victims of the Malaysia Airlines tragedy will be flown from Kharkiv to Eindhoven to carry out a torturous identification process which could take months.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineSome 1,500 trees or branches fell onto the 20,000-mile network last winter, which was the stormiest period of UK weather experienced for two decades, a report said.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineIt was revealed last night that one of Her Majesty's prize racehorses had tested positive for the banned drug.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineIt emerged today that the golf star has been seeing 23-year-old receptionist Sasha Gale, who is from Lisburn, County Antrim a city just the other side of Belfast from where he grew up.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineAshleigh Owen, who filmed the incident, said onlookers were 'rooting' for the man, who was seen ducking, diving and punching the temporary sign.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineMihai Toma, 47, earns £1,800 a month and pays rent at the house in Harrow, London, but due to the number of children the family get £55,000 a year in tax credits and benefits.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Bodies recovered from the crash site of Malaysian flight MH17 will be flown to the Netherlands Wednesday as the country mourns 193 citizens killed in the crash. According to the BBC, the he first bodies are expected to arrive by plane a...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe cross-breed dogs were found on Friday in a country lane near Orpington, Kent, after their callous owner dragged the bin to the middle of road so cars would have to stop.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineFormer shadow police minister David Ruffley, pictured, was arrested and thrown in a cell before accepting a caution for common assault.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe picture was taken by interim company finance director Mr Jeremy Fletcher, 56, from the seashore at Snettisham, between Norfolk and Lincolnshire.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe pad, which in London's Mayfair, has been designed to look like a chic West End cocktail bar, but is just 30 square metres (323 sqft) in size.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineOnline criminals obtained the login details and passwords of users around the world in a scam believed to be part of an international cyber fraud ring.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Austrian OMV announced that it had found a new oil reservoir in Romania's Black Sea shallow-water Istria XVIII offshore perimeter. The reservoir identified at exploration well Marina 1 was reported to have a production potential of 1,500...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe average value of a home in Britain rose by 6.5 per cent or £90 a day to £260,488 in the first half of the year, according to the report.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)The Bulgarian Energy holding surprisingly decided to postpone a decision whether to receive a EUR 620 M from Gazprom for the construction of the South Stream pipeline. BEH had planned to boost the capital of South Stream Bulgaria (a join...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineOfficials have been collecting DNA samples from relatives of victims of MH17, as well as conducting extensive interviews with close family as they attempt the difficult process of identifying the bodies from the airline.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - WorldPeaches Geldof had been a heroin addict and had been taking the substitute drug methadone for several years before her death, an inquest hears.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlinePrime Minister Tony Abbott has warned that many bodies of the victims of MH17 could may still be lying out in the fields expose to the harsh European summer and subjected to the ravages of wild animals.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - WorldThe black box flight recorders from downed flight MH17 arrive in the UK for analysis by air accident investigators.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - WorldThe first planes leave Ukraine carrying victims' bodies from crashed flight MH17 to the Netherlands, which is holding a day of mourning.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineEstimate, which won the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot in 2013 and came second in the same race this year, is a five-year-old filly trained by Sir Michael Stoute.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - WorldSeveral airlines have suspended flights to Israel after a rocket from Gaza landed near Ben Gurion airport.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe Belfast-based Ashers Baking Company refused an order placed by a gay rights group for a decorated cake bearing the slogan ‘support gay marriage’.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)Salvaged ship that crashed and sank to be towed to Genoa, two and half years after the disaster which killed 32 people.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe schoolboy is believed to have drowned after getting into trouble in the river in the town in Buckinghamshire at around 4.30pm yesterday afternoon
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - WorldThe losing candidate in Indonesia's presidential election, Prabowo Subianto, will challenge the result in court, his spokesman says.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineDutch photographer Marsel van Oosten has accused Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher of stealing his picture of a monkey holding a mobile phone and adding his own watermark before posting it on Facebook.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from BBC News - WorldPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas backs calls by Hamas for an end to the economic blockade of the Gaza Strip as a condition for a ceasefire.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineArgentina has refused to relocate its lonely polar bear to a wildlife park that specializes in the species, despite a petition by more than half a million people.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineRookie NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel, who's been enjoying a summer of non-stop partying since signing with the Cleveland Browns in May, looks to have found himself a girlfriend who is more than up to the challenge of matching his hard p...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)Grieving relatives in the Netherlands prepare to receive loved ones as bodies of MH17 victims are set to leave Ukraine.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe Club des Chefs, which comprises those who cook for heads of state and political leaders, met in London for its annual meeting this week and discussed their bosses' tastes
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineIn a bid to urge the Federal Aviation Administration to lift a ban currently preventing U.S. airlines from flying to Israel, former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg has flown to Tel Aviv in an effort to prove it is safe.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineProtesters have interrupted Bill Clinton's address to an AIDS Conference in Melbourne. The demonstrators are believed to have been AIDS activists arguing for a Robin Hood tax.'Have you got the message?' Mr Clinton asked after he was cut ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineIn an outburst on Twitter David Ward, MP for Bradford West, said: ‘The big question is – if I lived in Gaza, would I fire a rocket? Probably, yes.’
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineHomeowners in the city of Hillboro, Oregon, have come under attack from so-called 'bakery bandits' who have thrown donuts, cakes, eggs, yogurt and even potato salad at their cars and houses.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineDr Carey Andrew-Jaja, who works at the Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh, particularly enjoys singing Happy Birthday or What A Wonderful World to the tiny humans he’s delivered.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe email, from lender Pounds to Pocket, read: 'We’d like to wish you the best on your special day! Now you can apply for the money you need to enjoy your birthday worry-free'
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineThe Australian Commonwealth Games women's swim team uniform has people talking for the wrong reasons.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)Live updates on Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from News Headines | Mail OnlineJohn Travolta's former pilot is allowed to make a case that he has no confidentiality agreement covering his employment with the actor, an appeals court ruled.
