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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from BBC News - WorldThe International Cricket Council will not appeal against the decision to clear England bowler James Anderson of misconduct.
- Dozens of people are being watched by Nigerian authorities for Ebola symptoms, and health officials worry about transmission in Africa's largest city.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from BBC News - WorldHigh Street chemist Alliance Boots is to be bought up by US pharmacy giant Walgreens.
- The craft reaches its target after travelling four billion miles to try and discover how the solar system formed.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from News RSS : TodayIf one relies on Western mainstream media and those who claim to represent the Western world, it is easy to come to the conclusion that Russian President Vladimir Putin is the most evil political figure in the world.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from BBC News - WorldItaly has fallen back into recession after the country's economy contracted by 0.2% in the second quarter of the year.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from News RSS : TodayPeople find it hard enough to trade with Russia in the first place without any sanctions. While sanctions will cause a big detrimental effect and will job losses in the UK, the founder of Export Explorer Tim Jelley told RT.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from The Globe and Mail - World RSS feed‘We’re not going to guess what’s on Russia’s mind, but we can see what Russia is doing on the ground – and that is of great concern,’ NATO says
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from World news and comment from the Guardian | theguardian.comCorruption inquiry hears evidence suggesting party chief agreed to circumvent ban as two more state MPs quit Continue reading...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from World news and comment from the Guardian | theguardian.comImmigration department asks for Save the Children staff to be suspended for engaging with peaceful protesters in the centre Continue reading...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from News RSS : Today‘Better Together’ beat ‘Yes Scotland’ in a live two-hour TV debate on Scottish independence, according to a post-event poll. The Yes camp hasn’t lost heart, however, saying it gained ground after the head-to-head between Alistair Darling...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsThe bureau unmasks paedophiles using anonymous web browser Tor by placing tracking malware on their computers.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from EUobserver.com - Headline NewsThe turnout for the European election in May fell to a record low, dealing a blow to claims by politicians - based on initial results - that a three-decade downward trend in voter participation had finally been halted.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from World News & AnalysisU.S. giant Walgreen announced a near-£6 billion ($10.1 billion) deal to buy the remaining stake in U.K. drugstore chain Alliance Boots.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from NYT > WorldWith tensions rising in Asia, Washington must view its military exchanges with Beijing through the lens of American security interests.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from World on HuffingtonPost.comDARMSTADT, Germany (AP) -- The European Space Agency says comet-chasing space probe Rosetta has reached its destination after a journey lasting more than a decade. Scientists and spectators at ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany,...
- Thrash metal band Megadeth and singer CeeLo Green have cancelled concerts in Israel amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from BBC News - WorldLondon Mayor Boris Johnson confirms his intention to become an MP again at next year's general election, ending months of speculation.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from CNN.comA day into a 72-hour cease-fire, many Palestinians return to a shattered Gaza as officials from Israel and Hamas gather in Cairo for talks.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from EUobserver.com - Headline NewsThe EU's Rosetta space probe reached its destination comet on Wednesday after a ten-year journey. The probe is the first ever spacecraft to rendez-vous with a comet. The comet is located some 405 million km from Earth. Rosetta will follo...
- Henry Chau is accused of cutting up and killing his parents and packing their remains into lunch boxes to dispose of them.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from The Business InsiderEyes downcast, his brow fallen, Scottish Nationalist Party leader Alex Salmond consulted his notes as he was battered by questions from an unexpectedly feisty Alistair Darling on what currency the new country would use in a live TV ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from NYT > WorldHow the Maduro government has outsourced repression of the media to the private sector.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from News RSS : TodayAs the marriage between private user data and non-governmental cyber-security firms comes under the spotlight, former NSA chief Keith Alexander fends off criticism of his new lucrative business, which he claims will revolutionize cyber-s...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from BBC News - WorldKenyan police have arrested an official from Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab who is believed to be a former journalist, sources tell the BBC.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from News RSS : TodayRussian police met their match as they attempted to clear a cannabis plantation. They were sent fleeing from the scene by scores of angry bees. However, officers had the last laugh when they returned wearing protective gear to get rid of...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from CNN.comWhen radical Islamist fighters stormed the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar over the weekend, the Yazidi minority who call it home fled into the surrounding mountains in fear of their lives.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Reuters: World NewsBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Kurdish forces attacked Islamic State fighters just 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of the Kurdish regional capital of Arbil in northern Iraq, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Most viewed RSSLate actor Rajesh Khanna’s partner has been fighting his family for his will
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from CNN.comWhat was supposed to be a straightforward cash deal to carry a child for desperate parents has turned into an international spat over who said what, and exposed the darker side of a business credited with creating happiness for many coup...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from CNN.comWhat was supposed to be a straightforward cash deal to carry a child for desperate parents has turned into an international spat over who said what, and exposed the darker side of a business credited with creating happiness for many coup...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from BBC News - WorldStandard Chartered has warned it faces more US fines over its money-laundering controls as it reports a 20% fall in half-year profits
- It was officially announced last night that Field Marshal Lord Kitchener has been offered and has accepted the post of Secretary of State for War Continue reading...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from CNN.comAfter a 10-year chase taking it billions of miles across the solar system, the Rosetta spacecraft goes into orbit around a comet.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Most viewed RSSReader is concerned about people littering in residential areas in Sharjah.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesThe treatment given to two Americans sick with Ebola relies on three “humanized” mouse monoclonal antibodies grown in special tobacco plants.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)Clashes between Islamic State fighters and Kurdish forces near Erbil force Yazidis to flee into the mountains.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from BBC News - WorldAn Argentine activist who traces babies snatched from their parents by the 1970s military junta has found her own grandson after 36 years.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesDriving rain after Typhoon Nakri caused an enormous mudslide that sent a YMCA parking lot diving down a hill in Anan in Japan's Tokushima Prefecture.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - WorldAs a 72-hour truce between Israel and Hamas continues, residents and families in Gaza are literally trying to pick up the pieces of their destroyed livelihoods.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from CNN.comAfter a 10-year chase taking it billions of miles across the solar system, the Rosetta spacecraft goes into orbit around a comet.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from CNN.comAs face transplants become more common, hospitals may soon be asking: Will you donate your face?
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from BBC News - WorldAn Indian fashion shoot showing a model being groped on a bus causes outrage, with social media users saying it glamorises the 2012 Delhi gang rape.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from CNN.comChildren in the Democratic Republic of Congo play in an airport long abandoned by war.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Top NBCNews headlinesThe UN has requested a total of $390 million in humanitarian aid to respond to the current crisis. It's received less than half that.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from CNN.comOceanfront nightclubs and restaurants have transformed Angola's capital into a tropical playground for the super rich.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from World news and comment from the Guardian | theguardian.comIsraeli and Palestinian representatives set for tough talks aimed at securing permanent ceasefire after 72-hour truce ends Rafah residents return to ruined homes Continue reading...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from World news and comment from the Guardian | theguardian.comAttorney general accepts that the prime minister made a leaders call on the discrimination laws he wanted to change Continue reading...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from CBC | World NewsAir strikes and artillery fire between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian troops in the eastern city of Donetsk have brought the violence closer than ever to the city centre, as Kyiv's forces move in on the rebel stronghold.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from World News & AnalysisLondon Mayor Boris Johnson said on Wednesday he would try to run for parliament in the 2015 national election.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from World News: CBSnews.comAs Palestinians take stock of devastation, Egyptian mediators set to try and bridge gap between Israel and Hamas
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Revenue from international tourism in Bulgaria in H1 2014 rose by 5.3% year-on-year, said the Economy Ministry. It reached BGN 1.3 B. According to the World Tourism Organisation, the tourism sector in Bulgaria generates 13.6% of the cou...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Russian tour operator The Nordic Star has gone out of business. The Nordic Star is the seventh Russian tour operator to terminate its activities since July. The website of the company informs that it has gone bankrupt and that it is unab...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Bulgaria’s consumer confidence index dropped last month compared to its level three months earlier, the statistics office said on Wednesday. The consumer confidence indicator was 4.3 percentage points lower in July compared to April, the...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Bulgaria's Navy need 2-3 new multifunctional ships, said the commander of the Bulgarian Navy, Rear Admiral Dimitar Denev, quoted by the BTA wire service. The ships should be built in Bulgarian shipyards, because the current ones are old,...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from World news | Mail OnlineWARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Detectives have described the brutal killing of the sales assistant at the the electronics store in the Russian city of Vladivostok as 'senseless'.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[FrontPageAfrica]Monrovia -Sunday's removal of the Chairman of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change, George Solo by the National Executive Committee of the party as disclosed in a statement from the party is causing division amo...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RIA NovostiOver 230,000 people signed a petition urging Cola-Cola to stop funding anti-GMO campaign on a change.org website that provides a free petition tool for 65 million users.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalAir strike injures 2 in key rebel stronghold in east Ukraine
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[Liberia Govt]President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is calling on all Liberians to observe three days of National Fast and Prayer beginning Wednesday, August 6 through Friday, August 8, 2014 from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. daily.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from MiamiHerald.com: WorldNigeria's health minister says a nurse died of Ebola and the country has five additional confirmed cases of the disease.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RIA NovostiThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is ready to help Russian human rights advocates to set up a humanitarian corridor which would allow the safe transit of sick children from Ukraine, Raisa Lukutsova, the head of the Russ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesTracking substantial losses in the U.S. overnight, Japan stocks log a five-day losing streak, leading a downward regional trend.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from MiamiHerald.com: WorldBritish Prime Minister David Cameron is coming under increased pressure over his government's policies on Gaza, after a cross-party parliamentary committee urged him to press Israel to lift restrictions on trade and travel in the ter...
- Sofia's Dada Cultural Bar launches a hop-on hop-off bus offering information on cultural events in Sofia, documentaries and historical information on the city. The magenta double decker is parked at the Dada Cultural Station in front of...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from IBTimes.co.uk : WorldWoman with early-onset Parkinson's admitted to hospital complaining about orgasms.
- Some 15 000 – 20 000 Russians will not be able to spend their holidays in Bulgaria due to bankruptcies of Russian tour operators. In an interview for Monitor daily, Bayko Baykov, Chair of the Association of Bulgarian Tour Operators and T...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from World News From SFGateKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. officials prepared Wednesday to fly the body of a two-star general slain in an Afghan "insider attack" back home, as a similar attack saw an Afghan police officer drug and shoot dead seven of his colleagues...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalMissing Washington Girl; Oprah, Spielberg; Hunter Hayes
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesMost Americans don’t want to sacrifice their data – even for national security.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from MiamiHerald.com: WorldHeavy rainfall is causing rivers to burst their banks, flooding houses and roads in the same areas of Bosnia that were devastated in May by the worst floods in 120 years.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from ABC News: InternationalDeadly floods in the west; second Ebola patient in US showing signs of improvement.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from World from NewserAt the center of the worst-ever Ebola outbreak, hundreds of troops have been deployed to isolate hard-hit communities and clinics housing infected patients. A military spokesperson in Sierra Leone says convoys will bring food and medicin...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Bulgaria's former government granted South Stream the first building permit in end-July, the Regional Development Ministry's website reveals. A document [BG] dating July 31 signed by former Regional Minister Desislava Terzieva shows the ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from - World RSS FeedA photo shoot apparently inspired by the gang rape and murder of a Delhi student has sparked outrage in India.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from World News From SFGateErdogan, a skilled public orator who has dominated Turkish politics for a decade, enjoys far more popularity than his rivals: a newcomer on the political scene supported by several opposition parties and an ambitious young Kurdish politi...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[IPS]Washington -As the three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit got underway here Monday, anti-corruption activists urged President Barack Obama to prod a key U.S. agency to issue long-awaited regulations requiring oil, gas, and mining comp...
- Egyptian officials mediating talks for a durable truce in Gaza have met an Israel delegation during the night and were to relay their demands to Palestinian representatives.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Channel 4 News World FeedA commuter in Perth, western Australia, has a lucky escape after falling into the gap between the train and the platform. The passenger was rescued by his fellow travellers tilting the train.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesStock futures were pushing deeper into the red on downbeat economic news out of Italy and Germany, and nervousness surrounding the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from News24 WorldA Guantanamo Bay prisoner from Syria cleared for release in 2009 has seen his health deteriorate amid a hunger strike and needs urgent, independent medical examination, his attorney says.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from News24 WorldAustralian authorities are investigating the father at the centre of a Thai surrogate baby scandal who was exposed as a convicted paedophile, to determine whether his young daughter is at risk.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from News24 WorldA traffic accident involving two double-decker tour buses in the city's Times Square Theatre District has sent shattered glass flying and injured 14 people, three of them seriously.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[AlertNet]Washington -Poorly fed children rob Africa of up to 16 percent of its potential growth, making investment in programs to end malnutrition as critical to the continent's future as building bridges and roads, African leaders and ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[ICTJ]Cote d'Ivoire must prioritize effective consultations and ensure meaningful engagement with victims and civil society throughout the country in its efforts to provide reparations to victims of political violence that engulfed the c...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RIA NovostiClimate change is responsible for aggravating the US wildfire season, US President Barack Obama’s science adviser Dr. John Holdren said in a video posted on the White House website.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RIA NovostiWestern sanctions against Russia’s defense sector will fire back at the United States and the European Union, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Wednesday.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from - World RSS FeedA Game of Thrones episode bizarrely served as a trigger reminding a Kansas man that he had left his foster daughter in a hot car, but tragically it came too late.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from MarketWatch.com - Top StoriesAvoid these behaviors to help boost your score.
- According to the Lebanese National News Agency, clashes broke out again after Syrian militants in Arsal opened fire on Lebanese troops early Wednesday and then spread through several fronts across the predominantly Sunni town. The captur...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from mirror - World newsPint-sized Noah Ritter is now a household name on the web for his composure in front of the cameras and excessive use of the word 'apparently'
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from - World RSS FeedTwo surfers have set out on a mission to capture the greatest the surfing shot ever taken.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from IBTimes.co.uk : WorldProtester manhandled by Liberian troops for opposing burial of Ebola victims.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from MiamiHerald.com: WorldTwo Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone has fired two missiles at a sprawling compound in a northwestern tribal region, killing seven militants.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from MiamiHerald.com: WorldWorries over Russian troops amassing near the Ukraine border caused a sharp sell-off in global stock markets on Wednesday.
- Xiong Zhengfen pulled alive from collapsed building in Babao village, Yunnan.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)The mobile app for ride sharing and car hiring Uber is preparing to enter Bulgarian market, reports Dnevnik.bg. According to listings in the business social network LinkedIn and the company website, it is looking to hire a software engi...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from InternationalSome 50 official delegations, many led by heads of state or government, as well as hundreds of top-level business leaders and civil society representatives, converged on Washington this week in response to an invitation from President Ob...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from IBTimes.co.uk : WorldMiddle East's largest carrier to halt flights from August 12.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from AllAfrica News: Latest[IPS]United Nations -The headline of every article about the relationship between climate change and conflict should be "It's complicated," according to Clionadh Raleigh.