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Happy Hour Links Tough Nutter
Ethan Epstein : "One Tough Nutter: Philadelphia's Democratic mayor has cracked down on crime, reformed the city's finances, and spoken frankly about black family ...
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Myanmar Leaders Visit To Washington A Historic Occasion
The president of Myanmar, Thein Sein, met with President Obama in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Thein Sein's trip is the first state visit to the U.S. by a Burmese official in nearly 47 ...
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When It Comes to Syria Israel Frequently Redrawing Red Lines
- Israel is being drawn into Syria’s quagmire as it threatens to act further on transfers of ';game-changing'; weapons to hostile protagonists involved in Syria’s civil war, be they Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, Jihadist Sunni rebels, or loyalist forces of President Bashar al ...
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Living in Hell Iraqi Christians Dream of Paradise
- Luis Shabi nostalgically recalls his nine years of novitiate in Rome and a ';fantastic road trip through Europe'; before returning to Iraq in 1969. ';Those were the good times,'; sighs the Chaldean Archbishop of Baghdad from a bunker in the heart of the Iraqi ...
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Three Brazilians die in Turkey hot-air balloon collision
Three Brazilian tourists died on Monday and 22 other people were hurt after two hot-air balloonscollided in a beauty spot in central Turkey, officials ...
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Oklahoma braced for more storms as tornadoes kill 2
A mile- (1.6 kilometer-) wide tornado churned through the Oklahoma City suburbs, destroying homes for the second day in a row, as part of a severe weather outbreak that was expected to spread across the ...
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Oklahoma rocked by one of worst tornadoes in history
Oklahoma on Monday, flattening neigbourhoods and causing widespread fires in what experts said was one of the worst such storms in history.Television footage showed homes and buildings reduced to rubble in Moore, south of Oklahoma City. Pictures showed vehicles littering roadways elsewhere in the state. There was no immediate word on casualties.Authorities said that an elementary school in an ...
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Severe weather
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. Shawnee, Oklahoma (CNN) -- A powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City on Monday, ripping roofs off buildings, leveling homes and leaving a massive band of destruction in its wake. In the desperate seconds and minutes after the storm passed, the human ...
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Mile-wide tornado rips through Oklahoma City area
OKLAHOMA CITY Neighborhoods are flattened and buildings are on fire after a mile-wide tornado moved through the Oklahoma City area. Television footage on Monday afternoon showed homes and buildings that had been reduced to rubble in Moore, Okla., south of Oklahoma City. Footage also showed vehicles littering roadways south and southwest of Oklahoma ...
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Ray Manzarek founding member of The Doors dies
Ray Manzarek of The Doors performs at the Sunset Strip Music Festival launch party celebrating The Doors at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Calif., on Aug. 16, ...
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UK Conservatives rebel over gay marriage
David Cameron, British prime minister, is facing deepening splits within his Conservative Party, with a divisive bill to legalise gay marriage returning to parliament. The bill was approved by a comfortable 225-vote majority when it was last debated in February despite the opposition of almost half of Conservative lawmakers. But dozens of disgruntled Conservative MPs are expected to deliver a ...
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Tornado Strikes Towns Near Oklahoma City
A huge tornado, perhaps a mile wide, tore through towns near Oklahoma City on Monday, flattening homes and businesses, starting fires and sending residents scrambling to find friends and neighbors possibly buried in rubble. There were no immediate reports of injuries, and a spokeswoman for the National Weather Service said it was too early to say how strong the tornado was. Kelly ...
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White House Says It Didnt Loop Obama In on I.R.S. Inquiry
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IRSs Lerner Had History of Harassment Inappropriate Religious Inquiries at FEC
Perhaps no other IRS official is more intimately associated with the tax agency's growing scandal than Lois Lerner, director of the IRS's Exempt Organizations Division. Since admitting the IRS harassed hundreds of conservative and Tea Party groups for over two years, Lerner has ...
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Rare island fox rebounds on California island
FILE - This March 4, 2004 file photo shows a Santa Cruz Island fox bred in captivity being held by a wildlife biologist for the National Park Service, on Santa Cruz Island in Channel Islands National Park, Calif. More than a thousand tiny island foxes live free on the largest of the Channel Islands off the Southern California coastline where less than a decade ago only a few dozen remained. The ...
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Egyptians don’t like Morsi’s presidency but opposition flounders anyway
CAIRO - As Egypt’s first democratically elected president nears the completion of his first year in office, there is growing resentment among Egyptians about his tenure. The dismal economy has grown worse, sectarian tensions are greater, and government services have declined – something many people thought would have been impossible. Indeed, many here feel that Mohammed ...
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Erekat throws his weight behind Kerrys bid to revive talks
Chief negotiator tells UN in New York settlement freeze, release of prisoners not conditions to resume talks, but obligations Israel must fulfill; says Palestinians exerting "every possible effort" to ensure ...
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Obama concerned over Hezbollah militants in Syria
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama told his Lebanese counterpart on Monday he was concerned about Lebanese Hezbollah militants fighting in Syria to support Syrian President Bashar Assad, the White House said.Obama and Lebanese President Michel Suleiman spoke by telephone the same day Syrian activists said about 30 Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to Assad ...
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Man dies from SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia
A Saudiman who had contracted the coronavirus has died, raising the death toll in the kingdom from the SARS-like virus to 16, the health ministry announced on Monday on its Internet ...
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Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions Inquiry Finds
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Moscow Terror Attack Foiled After Shootout
Russian security services claim to have foiled a planned terrorist attack in Moscow after a shootout that killed two alleged militants. "Our forceful actions prevented an attempted act of terror in the capital," the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) said in a statement. Two suspects were killed and a third arrested during the raid on a house in the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, ...
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Images show path of devastation
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. Shawnee, Oklahoma (CNN) -- [Breaking news update at 4:58 p.m. Monday]Areas of metropolitan Oklahoma City appeared to be in shreds Monday afternoon after a massive tornado moved through the ...
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Chief Palestinian peace negotiator backs Kerrys efforts
Saeb Erekat (R), a Palestinian senior politician and chief negotiator speaks during a visit to a tent set-up in protest against the construction of a road in the Arab neighbourhood of Beit Safafa in Jerusalem March 14, ...
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Tornado on the ground in Oklahoma City area
(Reuters) - A tornado was on the ground in the Oklahoma City metropolitan are on Monday, live television showed, and the National Weather Service warned of tornadoes in two counties of central ...
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Record Fla. Powerball winner cant remain anonymous
ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million. The lucky ticket was bought sometime Saturday or earlier at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, a city of about 13,000 people best known around the state for its brand of spring water with the same name. ...
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Mongolia coal mine sparking international interest
The government, after much deliberation, has announced that it will sell a 30% stake in the state-owned company that owns one of the largest coking coal reserves in the world, generating a flurry of interest in the industry.
Tavan Tolgoi is a huge coal mine in the Tsogttsetsii district of the southern Mongolian province of Ömnögovi. It is an extremely rural open pit coal mine that is hundreds of miles from any form of efficient transport and faces many difficulties because of this, the nearest railway, for example, is over 400 kilometers from the mine, making the transport of coal time-consuming, expensive and laborious. Read more
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