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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from CNN.comU.S. warplanes carry out a second round of strikes on Sunni Islamic extremists in Iraq, as ISIS fighters are reported to be close to Irbil.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from CNN.comAs a 72-hour ceasefire comes to an end and Cairo negotiations fail, civilians in Gaza and Israel witness the resumption of hostilities, and wearily wait for the death toll to rise once again.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from CNN.comAs Islamist militants swept through northern and western Iraq in early June in a lightning advance, President Barack Obama examined his options and announced that he would be prepared to "take targeted and precise military action."
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)Mediators hope to reach agreement in Cairo after three-day ceasefire expired between Israel and Hamas.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from World news and comment from the Guardian | theguardian.comViolence breaks out between authorities and supporters of activist cleric ahead of Sunday's demonstrations in Lahore Continue reading...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)Deadly violence erupts as supporters of anti-government cleric Tahir ul-Qadri try to march on his headquarters.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from CNN.comThe Russian president is not bowing to Western pressure. But what does he want?
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from CNN.comGideon Levy argues Israel's mainstream is failing to tolerate dissenting views.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - WorldOne of the world's most isolated groups of people has made contact from their home deep within the Brazilian rainforest. Their unique existence is under threat from illegal activities and encroaching civilization.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsIt is not clear if John Hinckley, who wounded James Brady during the attempt on President Reagan's life, will now face charges.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesRichard Nixon reflects on Watergate, reveals his biggest mistake as President and more in his top moments from the MTP archives...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from CBC | World NewsIsraeli airstrikes struck more than 20 targets Saturday in the Gaza Strip and killed a senior Hamas member, as militant rocket fire continued following the collapse of a three-day truce aimed at ending the war between Israel and Hamas.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)Pentagon says aircraft struck targets near Erbil and dropped aid to stranded civilians.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from World News & AnalysisChina's consumer inflation came in as forecast at a 2.3 percent rise, reinforcing bets that authorities may relax monetary policy.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BBC News - WorldFive people are reportedly killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza amid continuing Palestinian rocket fire, while tensions also flare up in the West Bank.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesIsraeli airstrikes struck more than 20 targets in the Gaza Strip Saturday and killed a senior Hamas member, a Palestinian officials said.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BBC News - WorldThe US conducts its second drop of aid to Iraqis fleeing jihadist fighters in the north, hours after fresh air strikes against the militants.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from France24 - WorldIsrael launched more than 20 aerial attacks in Gaza on Saturday, killing five Palestinians, and militants fired rockets at Israel as the conflict entered a second month, defying international efforts to negotiate an extended truce.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from CNN.comWhew, that was close.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsIsrael launches fresh strikes on Gaza as a fragile 72-hour ceasefire comes to an end and international talks fail to broker peace.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesIraqis in the U.S. are holding their breath and hoping for any good news — but not getting much.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from CBC | World NewsOn Sunday night, have a look at the moon — it will be bigger and brighter than at any other time this year.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Most viewed RSS14-time major winner says back injury hampered his game at Valhalla
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BBC News - WorldThe UK is to send a team of NHS medical experts to help people who have been injured because of the fighting in Gaza, Downing Street has said.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from USATODAY - World Top Stories
More than 1,900 Gazans have been killed in the war, roughly 75% civilians, officials say.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from CNN.comThe European Space Agency's 'Rosetta' aims to find out if life on Earth began with the help of comet seeding.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from CNN.comThe Rosetta spacecraft became the first probe to begin orbiting a comet on its journey around the sun.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from CNN.comJim Clancy speaks to Mark McCaughrean from the European Space Agency about what he hopes to learn from the Rosetta probe.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Most viewed RSSFilms from the west will now be censored the same way as Indian films when it comes to liplocks
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)Dogs roaming the Indian capital may soon find themselves attending police training school with civic authorities.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BBC News - WorldSwedes flock to social media to muse at the passing of "the world's oldest European eel", which lived in a well to the age of 155.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from France24 - WorldThe US airdropped Saturday more aid to thousands of displaced Iraqi civilians threatened by the advance of the militant Islamist group ISIS, who now call themselves Islamic State, in an effort to stem a worsening humanitarian crisis.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BBC News - WorldThe clean-up operation is under way across Cambridgeshire, after torrential storms caused power cuts and major road disruption.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsA second round of airstrikes targets jihadists who have crucified captives and are within half an hour of Iraq's Kurdish capital.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldNEW DELHI (AP) — The United States and India must seize opportunities to collaborate more on defense development and not let government red tape and other problems stymie progress between the two nations, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hag...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia may negotiate a price control agreement with domestic food producers to prevent speculative price hikes that would affect inflation after it banned half its agricultural imports from the West, the agriculture mi...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)Al-Qaeda-affiliated group says it killed 14 soldiers hours after they were kidnapped from a bus.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)Feuding presidential candidates sign US-brokered deal to cooperate on the formation of a national unity government.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from CNN.comCould new designs allow human colonization of other planets?
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsGAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel launched more than 20 aerial attacks in Gaza on Saturday, killing five Palestinians, and militants fired rockets at Israel as the conflict entered a second month, defying international efforts to negotia...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesMalaysian Airlines is offering $5,000 to the families of each passenger and crew member who perished aboard Flight MH17.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldHONOLULU (AP) — As the final days of campaigning drew to a close in Hawaii's dramatic primary races, a pair of hurricanes thrashed toward the islands.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Newstrack News - UPI.comBy United Press International UPI Almanac for Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from BBC News - WorldA music in Argentina teacher has made his first public appearance since finding out he is the grandson of a prominent human rights campaigner.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsLAHORE/MULTAN Pakistan (Reuters) - Violence erupted in several places in Pakistan on Saturday between police and supporters of an anti-government cleric and at least four people were killed and scores injured, police and witnesses said.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldIRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The U.S. launched a new airdrop Saturday to aid thousands of members of an Iraqi minority group who fled the advance of the Islamic State group, trying to stem a worsening humanitarian crisis in a country reeling from ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from U.S. News - Nation & WorldLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Rory McIlroy goes to the weekend of the PGA Championship with a one-stroke lead.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from CNN.comIndian Shiites volunteer to go to Iraq to protect their shrines from ISIS. Sumnima Udas reports.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from World news and comment from the Guardian | theguardian.comPrime minister indicates RAAF is ready to perform aid drops to displaced people as US jets strike Isis militants Continue reading...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[IPS]Washington -As the three-day U.S- Africa Leaders Summit here drew to a close Wednesday, experts across the private, public and non-profit sectors continued to debate the opportunities and obstacles posed by the U.S' expanding busine...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalKerry urges Myanmar to speed democratic transition, halt rights backslide
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Capital FM]Nairobi -The Council of Governors has now formed a 15-member steering committee to kick-start the process of pushing for a referendum.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalSpiral-bound history: Rare Cambodia diary offers haunting account of life under Khmer Rouge
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from World news | Mail OnlinePolice in Borneo were just days away from passing a file to prosecutors on fishmonger Zulkipli Abdullah, 24, when he allegedly stabbed Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Sudan Tribune]Juba -South Sudanese political parties have objected a proposal seeking to limit the ongoing peace talks to the country's two conflicting parties, accusing the warring sides of adopting a divisive approach to resolving the...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[VOA]Harare -Zimbabwe's first lady, Lady Grace Mugabe, is set to become part of the ruling party's highest-decision making body and possibly the country's next president.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[VOA]Nigeria's president has declared a national emergency over the Ebola outbreak, while the World Health Organization says the epidemic now constitutes an international public health emergency.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)The severely injured victim of the blasts in the military factory in Bulgaria's town of Kostenets is out of a coma, Nova TV reported. The 42-year-old employee of TEREM - Tsar Samuil military factory was one of the four blast victims who ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[VOA]Paris -With the World Health Organization now calling the Ebola outbreak an international emergency and new cases moving across borders, the virus is no longer seen as restricted to a small part of the African continent.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[UN News]The United Nations human rights office today expressed deep concern over the situation in Libya, where a conflict between multiple armed groups has been raging primarily in Benghazi and Tripoli.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Deutsche Welle]Grace Mugabe, the wife of Zimbabwe's long serving President Robert Mugabe, has been nominated to head the ruling party's women's league.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[UN News]Fighting from 30 to 31 July in Batangafo, Central African Republic (CAR) has caused renewed displacement, according to Jens Laerke of the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[VOA]Dakar -Liberia and Sierra Leone are reporting hundreds of confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola. Their public health systems are overrun. And now, both countries have declared states of emergency and sent security forces to quaranti...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Daily Trust]Abuja -President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday declared the control and containment of the Ebola virus in Nigeria, a national emergency.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Bulgarian top tennis player Grigor Dimitrov fought his way into the Rogers Cup tournament semifinals following a dramatic 3-set win over South Africa’s Kevin Anderson. After losing the first set with 5:7, Dimitrov turned the tables on An...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RIA NovostiCanadian medical workers have isolated a patient showing symptoms of what could possibly be Ebola virus upon his arrival from Nigeria, Agence France-Press wrote Saturday citing Canadian health officials.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from IBTimes.co.uk : WorldYemeni soldiers traveling on public bus were on way back to capital Sanaa.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from News24 WorldWith Islamist militants just 30 minutes drive away, foreign oil workers were flying out of Iraq's Kurdish capital by the hundreds and business was booming in the city's arms market.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from News24 WorldA Canadian hospital has put a patient in isolation after he arrived in the country from Nigeria with symptoms of fever and flu.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from World News From SFGateCapping two days of meetings here, Hagel's speech to New Delhi business leaders and scholars reflected the hopes and frustrations of America's struggles to forge weapons development agreements with India. In meetings with top Indian gove...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from MiamiHerald.com: WorldAuthorities in Pakistan say six police officers have been abducted and two people killed in clashes between supporters of an anti-government cleric and security forces.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from - World RSS FeedA hospital in Ontario, Canada, has isolated a patient with flu-like symptoms after the person was revealed to have recently travelled from Nigeria – one of the Ebola-hit areas.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from - World RSS FeedA hospital in Ontario, Canada, has isolated a patient with flu-like symptoms after the person was revealed to have recently travelled from Nigeria – one of the Ebola-hit areas.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from World News From SFGateWASHINGTON (AP) — For years, Kurdish officials have beseeched the Obama administration to let them buy U.S. weapons. U.S. officials insisted they could only sell arms to the government in Baghdad, even after Prime Minister Nouri al-Malik...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RIA NovostiJapan's southern Kyushu Island was left partly without power due to the advancing Halong typhoon, NHK television reported Saturday citing Kyushu Electric.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from MercoPressA spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department said the United States would not permit the International Justice Court in The Hague to hear Argentina's claims that U.S. court decisions had violated its sovereignty.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RIA NovostiUS Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes met with the members of the Yezidi minority group at the White House and assured them that the United States is ready to protect them from genocide in Iraq.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalIsraeli airstrikes hit Gaza as rockets fired toward Israel after truce in war collapses
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from MercoPressEconomy ministry Axel Kicillof once again defiantly insisted Argentina has made a required debt payment on restructured sovereign bonds on Friday night, just hours after a U.S. judge threatened a contempt-of-court order if Argentina did ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from World News, News of World, Top World News, World Breaking Headlines - Times of IndiaRichard Marowitz was just a day removed from witnessing the horrors of Dachau when he found a top hat on a shelf in a closet in Adolf Hitler's Munich apartment.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from MercoPressNew York district judge Thomas Griesa on Friday threatened to declare Argentina in “contempt” of court if the Republic continues to make “false and deceiving statements,” following Argentina’s claim it has already paid exchange bondholde...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from MiamiHerald.com: World
The U.S. launched a new airdrop Saturday to aid thousands of members of an Iraqi minority group who fled the advance of the Islamic State group, trying to stem a worsening humanitarian crisis in a country reeling from the extremist offen... -
Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RIA NovostiThe United States refused to recognize the UN International Court of Justice jurisdiction regarding US court decisions on the Argentinian debt, Argentina's Clarin newspaper wrote citing a statement by the US Department of State.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalErdogan victory could shift Turkish president's role from figurehead to more powerful rule
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from MiamiHerald.com: World
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from MercoPressFifty years ago, a controversial confrontation in the Gulf of Tonkin between the United States and North Vietnam forces set the stage for what eventually became US involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from IBTimes.co.uk : WorldUS president's decision reportedly came in wake of growing threat to Washington's interests in Erbil and Baghdad.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from ViralNewsChartThe Premier League side have launched a massive offer for the Real Madrid winger, with Carlo Ancelotti prepared to sell. Get all the rumours with Transfer Talk
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalHailed as anti-AIDS example, Brazil's increase in HIV infections shows prevention flaws
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from MercoPressThe Duke of Cambridge is to become an air ambulance pilot next spring, it has been announced. Kensington Palace said Prince William will join the East Anglian Air Ambulance flying both day and night shifts. It will become his main job, b...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from MercoPressThe European Central Bank will consider the impact of future lawsuits and fines in its review of whether the Euro zone's 131 most important lenders have enough capital to withstand another recession.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from ViralNewsChartBuzzwords and acronyms abound when talking about monitors. HDMI, DVI, HD, full HD, 4k, and these just skim the surface. With the proliferation of super-high resolution computer monitors adding to the alphabet soup, there is always a need...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from ViralNewsChartDr. Kent Brantly issued a statement from his isolation room.
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RIA NovostiMexican authorities continue negotiations with Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) in order to resume meat supplies to the country in the nearest future, spokesperson for the Mexican ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from MercoPressWorld Health Organization declared on Friday that the Ebola outbreak spreading across West Africa has become a "public health emergency of international concern". WHO also revealed that Ebola took an additional 29 lives between Tuesday a...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from World news | Mail OnlineGRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: ISIS has been ruthlessly hunting down and slaughtering religious minorities, including Christians and members of the Yazidi sect, who they have denounced as devil-worshipers on account of their ancient set of bel...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from MercoPressThe Bank of England opted this week to keep its main interest rate at a record-low level of 0.50% against a backdrop of solid British economic growth. The central bank's nine-member monetary policy committee decided also to maintain the ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalExcerpts from secret diary detailing Khmer Rouge reign of terror: 'My body resembles a corpse'
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 from World News, News of World, Top World News, World Breaking Headlines - Times of IndiaTens of thousands marked the 69th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Saturday, as the city's pacifist mayor urged the Japanese government to listen to increasing concerns over controversial plans to expand the role of it...
