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Monday, August 11, 2014 from International Business Times(Reuters) - Israeli negotiators were due in Cairo on Monday for talks on ending a month-old Gaza war with Palestinian militants, an Israeli government official said, after a new 72-hour truce brokered by Egypt appeared to be holding. The...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from International Business TimesAn Australian newspaper published photographs of a young boy, said to be the son of a convicted Australian terrorist, holding the decapitated head of a Syrian soldier on Monday. The incident prompted Tony Abbott, the Australian prime min...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from International Business Times(Reuters) - China has detained a man in its unruly western Xinjiang region for spreading what it said were Internet rumors about an attack in July in which nearly 100 people were killed, state media said on Monday. Authorities have sai...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsHealth warnings on alcoholic drinks should be introduced and the drink-drive limit cut, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Misuse says.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsWards in many of Scotland's hospitals consistently have higher than recommended occupancy rates, according to data obtained by BBC Scotland.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsDavid Cameron should recall Parliament to discuss the growing humanitarian crisis in Iraq, a Conservative MP says.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsSYDNEY (Reuters) - The United States will monitor actions in the South China Sea to see whether "deescalate steps" are being taken, a senior State Department official said on Monday, a day after Beijing repelled U.S. pressure to rein in ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from International Business TimesHillary Clinton, who served as Secretary of State in the Barack Obama administration's first term in office, blamed U.S. foreign policy under President Obama for the rise of Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from International Business TimesIraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday said that he will file a formal complaint against President Fouad Massoum for “committing a violation of the constitution.” Al-Maliki, whose Shia-dominated Islamic Dawa Party won the most se...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from International Business TimesSeveral stores were looted and cars were damaged Sunday night amid protests for the shooting death of an 18-year-old unarmed black teen, Michael Brown, near St. Louis on Saturday. Brown was reportedly shot and killed by a police officer ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsWales could benefit from hundreds of millions of pounds under Liberal Democrat plans to change the way funds are allocated to devolved nations, it is claimed.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostUpdated at 1:36 p.m Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D) was overwhelmingly defeated Saturday by his primary challenger, state Sen. David Ige. He is the first sitting governor in the history of the state to fall in a primary. Read full artic...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON/McALLEN Texas (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's pledge to fast-track the deportation of migrant children from Central America is out of step with the opinion of a majority of Americans, who say the children should be allowe...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsHONOLULU (Reuters) - Incumbent Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie was soundly defeated in the state's Democratic primary, results showed on Sunday, in an election that came as the state was cleaning up from one powerful storm and preparing...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsFigures obtained by The Telegraph show that an average of three housing developments are now approved on Green Belt land every single day
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from International Business TimesUpdated Sunday, 9:25 p.m.: Ferguson, Missouri, police said Sunday a black youth shot to death Saturday struggled with an officer inside a car, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported . He was then shot multiple times as he ran away. The Jus...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from International Business TimesA 72-hour cease-fire is underway in the Gaza Strip, bringing a reprieve to fighting between Israel and Hamas and the bloodshed on both sides. Palestinians in Cairo negotiated the truce after Egypt received "simultaneous consensus" from ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from International Business TimesUpdated Sunday, 10 p.m.: Troops loyal to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki deployed to strategic sites around Baghdad following his defiant speech. Voice of America reported the home of President Fouad Massoum had been surrounded. Ori...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from International Business TimesTurkish voters elected Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who made history by winning the nation's first direct presidential election on Sunday, Reuters reported . It wasn’t easy, though. He barely won the election as Turkey’s 12th pre...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from International Business Times(Reuters) - Pope Francis said that violence and destruction in Iraq offends God and humanity and he held a silent prayer for victims of the conflict during his weekly address in Rome on Sunday. "We are left incredulous and dismayed by th...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsThe government is matching economic recovery with social recovery, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is to say in a speech.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsAt every turn, the rise of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been shaped by the United States’ involvement in Iraq — most of the political changes that fueled his fight, or led to his promotion, were born directly from some American action.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsRepublicans, who already control 55 percent of all state legislative seats, aim to pick off about a half-dozen chambers in elections this year and enact policies that can get no traction in Washington.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Top StoriesIt says it supports Fouad Massoum after the prime minister accuses him of violating the constitution.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from International Business TimesA hospital in Haifa has reported a surge in the number of requests for sperm donations from members of the Israeli Defence Forces. A spirit of patriotism in Israel and a desire for noble progeny has prompted women to seek special donatio...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostA group of Yazidis from around the United States are in Washington to meet with administration officials, tell their stories and push for additional humanitarian aid on a mountaintop in Iraq where thousands of members of the minority sec...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsAs Kurdish officials said they were making advances against Sunni militants, Iraq's political crisis deepened, with a deadline expiring for the president to choose a nominee for prime minister.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsFracking is supported by the majority of UK people, an oil and gas group says, but environmentalists argue that the research is flawed.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from International Business TimesAs Democrats angle to make corporate tax flight a campaign issue against Republicans in the 2014 election, a report indicates the company owned by the father-in-law of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. registers its ships ove...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostPrompted by multiple whistleblower complaints, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office began an internal investigation two years ago of an award-winning program that’s been praised in and outside government: Employees are allowed to work fr...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsJudge James R. Spencer’s exasperated, acerbic and often late-in-the-day rebukes of jurors, witnesses and lawyers make him a policing force during a criminal corruption trial of former Gov. Robert McDonnell.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Top StoriesRepublicans strip out money for attorneys representing undocumented children.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostThe Affordable Care Act was supposed to mend what President Obama called a broken health-care system, but its best-known programs — online insurance and expanded Medicaid for the poor — affect a relatively small portion of Americans. Rea...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsTelegraph View: Iain Duncan Smith's benefit reforms have helped fix the economy - and, more importantly, saved people from the trap of welfare dependency
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from International Business TimesU.S. missionaries associated with SIM, a Chrisitian organization in North Carolina, who have been working with Ebola patients in Liberia are set to return to the United States. The missionaries will be placed in quarantine as a precautio...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from International Business TimesTRIPOLI (Reuters) - Heavy shelling resumed in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Sunday after three days of relative calm following more than a month of street fighting between rival armed factions battling for control of th
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostSusan Tsui Grundmann and her colleagues on the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) find themselves in an unusual position. The small, quasi-judicial executive branch agency describes itself as “the guardian of Federal merit systems.” N...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsThe Work and Pensions Secretary will use a speech to say the economy will never fully recover unless families on benefits return to work.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsJust days before the publication of A-level results, Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, says it is not important to see "numbers rise" to achieve overall improvements to the schools system
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsA-level results will be released on Thursday and Nicky Morgan, the Education Secretary, insists grades will be a more accurate reflection of standards than those seen in the past
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsGovernment wants to stop wealthy people benefiting from complicated schemes that allow them to dramatically reduce the amount they will owe after their death.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from International Business TimesRepublicans Sunday roundly criticized President Obama for his handling of Iraq and the advance of Islamic State militants as the State Department announced it would remove some of its staff from the U.S. Consulate in Arbil in the Kurdish...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Top StoriesIt's the second time in less than a week that both sides have agreed to Egyptian mediation.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States conducted a new round of air strikes against Islamic State militants in northern Iraq on Sunday and moved some U.S. diplomats out of its consulate in Arbil as Republicans slammed President Barack ...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostTomorrow the World Health Organization will convene a phone meeting of experts from around the world to discuss the ethical issues of providing experimental treatment to people suffering from Ebola , a highly fatal disease that is spread...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Distancing herself from President Barack Obama's foreign policy, potential 2016 U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said in an interview published on Sunday that the U.S. decision not to intervene early in ...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsHurricanes are rare in Hawaii. It's even rarer when an incumbent governor or senator loses a primary election in the state. It had never happened before Saturday.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostThe decision by Sen. John Walsh (D-Mont.) not to seek election in November in the wake of a plagiarism scandal is the latest piece of good news for Republicans as they strive to take control of the Senate in less than three months. Read ...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from International Business TimesRIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia 's ">
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from International Business TimesISTANBUL (Reuters) - Tayyip Erdogan was set to be ">
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from All News RSS FeedTwo Republican press secretaries have tied the knot: Tiffany McGuffee and Jordan Haverly were married on Saturday, Aug. 2nd at the Capitol Hill Club. Rev. Julian Bermudez officiated.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from All News RSS FeedPresident Barack Obama's slumping job approval rating isn't doing Democrats any favors in the party's quest to hold a majority in the Senate. But without a handful of Democratic retirements, the Senate likely wouldn't be in play at all.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from All News RSS FeedDire headlines from around the globe and polls showing a record-breaking plunge in the public's confidence in our Supreme Court, Congress and the office of the president may make the average American want to throw up their hands in despa...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from All News RSS FeedMyron Brilliant, head of International Affairs for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, recently graced these pages with a stirring defense of how the taxpayer-funded Export-Import Bank is "indispensable." He provided several anecdotes to demon...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from All News RSS FeedWhen I was younger, I competed on a swim team and spent most of my free time training. I learned a lot from that experience, but what stuck with me is that winning or losing began with a good training plan -- and sticking to it. Sure, ou...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from All News RSS FeedDES MOINES, Iowa - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal thinks Rep. Vance McAllister should step down, calling the Louisiana Republican's continued tenure an "embarrassment" thanks to a scandal that left him with the nickname the "Kissing Congres...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from RedState
Yeah, indeed, this was irony. The post I would call this proof-of-concept for SketchFactor. appeared first on RedState . -
Sunday, August 10, 2014 from RedStateIt's going to be a month before that Senate primary is over, though. The post At least one upset in Hawaii: Neil Abercrombie loses primary, Schatz clings to lead. appeared first on RedState .
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe Democratic primary between Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz and Rep. Colleen Hanabusa was too close to call early Sunday morning, and the race may not be decided for days.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsBaroness Warsi says the Tories cannot win a majority without the "ethnic vote" - and lashes out at "bitchy" collegues.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsOne of the party's MEPs is criticised after being recorded urging young candidates to copy Hitler's speaking style.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsA gang siphons oil from a pipeline running through the grounds of Chevening House, which is also used by the Foreign Secretary.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsOn Thursday, President Obama became the fourth U.S. president in a row to initiate military strikes in Iraq. NPR's Arun Rath reflects on 23 years of on and off airstrikes in the country.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RedState
This afternoon US Navy F/A-18s launched from the USS George H W Bush struck ISIS targets in northern Iraq. This will go down in history as a strong contender for the “Too Little Too Late” award. Were thousands of people not b... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RedStateUSAToday gave a sobering report this week which reaffirmed the inability of our government to be both accurate and transparent. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) audited spending data from 2012, the most recent year for which da...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentI know all heard and know about the illegals crossing our southern border, and the government proposing to let them stay. But did you know the government is offering to pay families over 7k per month for each illegal they...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Politics RSS Feed(AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday fled Washington for his familiar spot on Martha's Vineyard for a two-week summer vacation, which comes as the U.S. is engaged in airstrikes against Islamic militant targets in Iraq. The president...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsCHILMARK, Mass. (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (AHN'-geh-lah MEHR'-kuhl) agree that any Russian intervention in Ukraine is unacceptable and violates international law. Obama and Mer...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentNow, it was acknowledged that the second supermoon which is almost here was likely to be the best, because it will be at its fullest at almost the same time it is closest to the Earth, making it the teeniest...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentA Boston woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury in the second of the two Boston Marathon bombs in 2013 became separated from her service dog Friday evening after it ran off, according to multiple reports. Lydia, a black Great...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentTHREE close allies of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III were recipients of the huge amount of funds sourced from the controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), which was declared as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Philly.com PoliticsAMES, Iowa (AP) - The calendar says Iowa's presidential caucuses are more than a year away. But it's never too early for potential GOP presidential candidates in 2016 to court social conservatives in the early-voting state.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentA cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put her in a small hole...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentCycle race co-operation is no model for society Cycling in a group makes sense when you have one goal and one direction, but in a social context it ignores role of the individual Will Hutton crossing the finish line in...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RedState
Earlier this morning, as she has for nearly every year of the RedState Gathering, South Carolina’s Governor Nikki Haley spoke to the Gathering’s attendees. This year, the Governor was able to tout another year of accomplishme... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Politics from NewserA member of Republican Gov. Chris Christie's transition team and her husband were under "enormous stress" in the weeks before he fatally shot her and then killed himself, their daughter said. Lorraine "Lori" Bramhall told the Daily Recor...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentAnd the first lesson is that, in post-Aristotelian logic, you cannot argue from the particular to the general. Rowan Forster takes the examples of a secular man who apparently wasted his fortune and that of a Christian pastor who did...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentMillwall's Mark Beevers scores against Leeds United in the Championship match at the Den. Photograph: Henry Browne/Action Images Mark Beevers struck inside the opening 10 minutes to set Millwall on their way to their first opening-day wi...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday refused to give a time limit on America's renewed military involvement in Iraq, saying he doesn't think "we are going to solve this problem in weeks" as the country struggles to form a...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Politics RSS FeedWASHINGTON (AP) — For years, Kurdish officials have beseeched the Obama administration to let them buy U.S. weapons. The Islamic State group, which some American officials have branded "a terrorist army," overpowered lightly armed Kurdis...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentRussian President Vladimir Putin has sacked 18 high-ranking officers from their posts, according to a Ukrainian news website. In a purging move by the embattled world leader, heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Drug Co...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsBAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi central government followed U.S. forces in delivering massive amounts of aid Saturday to refugees stranded high in the Sinjar mountains after they escaped a Sunni militant takeover of their towns, and President B...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political News* Five Palestinians in Gaza killed in more than 30 Israeli strikes * Palestinian gunmen continue to fire rockets at Israel * Diplomats see scant signs of progress in Cairo talks (Updates rockets, adds Israeli minister) By Nidal al-Mughra...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentTHE wife of a man charged with leaving their 22-month-year-old son to die in a hot car is unlikely to face charges of her own, her lawyer says. Leanna Harris received a victim's impact package, including a book about grieving...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentSHE came to the Gold Coast to watch two friends make a lifelong promise of love. But just days later, Warriena Rrie Tagpuno Wright was dead, plunging 14 storeys from the highrise balcony of a man she had only just...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentBuddhist rituals turn a section of Quirino Grandstand into a golden shrine on Saturday, the first of two Days of Prayer set by Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada (in barong) for the eight Hong Kong tourists killed in the August 2010...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentUnthinkable just a few years ago, Selahattin Demirtas ' bid for Turkey 's highest office underscores how Kurdish politics has entered the mainstream even as Kurds in neighboring Syria and Iraq push for more autonomy. Peace talks between ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentThere have been reports of people being turned away or given substandard care due to shortages. It is one of key questions the state government has faced in health ever since it came to office: where are the 800 hospital...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentI can imagine it; filleted, dipped in flour, panfried in butter, squeeze of lemon. David Cunliffe also sizes it up, literally and metaphorically, looks gleeful. A political point is about to be made, at the expense of dinner...According ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RIA NovostiRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry in a phone conversation on Saturday expressed concerns over sharp ratcheting up of tensions in Iraq and voiced their support to the country’s authorities in thei...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Newsmax - PoliticsAlthough state courts may still consider complaints launched by conservative Chris McDaniel over his narrow loss of the Republican U.S. Senate nominationåç in Mississippi, the Republican National Committee left no doubt it would stay out...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RedState
What if, in the face of such constant pressure from amnesty supporters the Executive Branch simply refuses to enforce the law and keep aliens without right from entering the country – by the millions? At FAIR we feared this day might com... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Politics RSS FeedWASHINGTON (AP) — In making the case for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, President Barack Obama is drawing on the doctrine involving the use of American force that he outlined less than three months ago, when it seemed he was trying to avoid po...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political News* Obama says tackling Islamic State will take time * Obama says U.S. strikes destroyed weapons and equipment * Islamic State looks to repair seized dam (Recasts with Obama comments) By Michael Georgy BAGHDAD, Aug 9 (Reuters) - President ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedA livestream broadcast of the Scottish independence debate which sensationally crashed, leaving tens of thousands without any coverage, has been blamed on an American supplier to the broadcaster, STV.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsModi's thrust was on doing that extra bit, which could make the BJP distinct from other political parties. The post At National Council, Modi urges BJP to be more than a political party appeared first on Firstpost .
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Politics RSS FeedWASHINGTON (AP) — For a year, The Associated Press has tracked the movements and machinations of more than a dozen prospective presidential candidates. The latest presidential prep checklist: NONDENIAL DENIAL: Cagey words that cloak pres...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from The Indian Express » Section » Politics
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from World PoliticsPrime Minister Tony Abbott has left for The Netherlands to meet with the Australian teams working to identify and repatriate the remains of victims from the MH17 tragedy.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsAsked how Manmohan Singh would have felt when Sonia Gandhi refused to take over and selected him to be the next prime minister, his daughter said it was a challenge. The post My father should write his autobiography: former PM’s da...
