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TWA Flight 800 Investigators Want New Probe
Calls have been made for a new inquiry into the 1996 crash of a TWA jet off the coast of New York amid fresh claims that a missile was involved. TWA Flight 800 came down just minutes after taking off from JFK airport, killing all 230 people on board. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that a centre fuel tank explosion, sparked by faulty wiring, was to blame. ...
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Budget cuts hit security checks for defense contractors
A new National Security Agency (NSA) data gathering facility is seen under construction in Bluffdale, about 25 miles (40 kms) south of Salt Lake City, Utah June 11, ...
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Ex-Playmate pleads guilty in immigrant smuggling case
Syracuse's The Post-Standard newspaper says Shannon pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to a felony charge and faces a sentence ranging from no jail time to 10 months. Federal agents say the 35-year-old Los Angeles resident and her boyfriend were arrested after he illegally crossed the border and rendezvoused with her in Fort Covington. Officials say the boyfriend has a criminal record ...
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Rare twin gorillas born in Dutch zoo
Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands gave zookeepers two little surprises: twins! The baby great apes are in the care of 20-year-old mom N'Gayla, who already has three offspring. What makes the event even more special is that twins are extremely rare among gorillas, especially those in captivity. In fact, they're said to be a once-in-a-decade experience. "In gorilla world, twins ...
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James Franco blasts Spider-Man reboot
"Man of Steel," Franco took issue with the "new Spider-Man series that arose even before there was time to bury the corpse of the old one and enshroud it in the haze of ...
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CDC HPV vaccine reduced disease rates in teen girls 56
University of Miami pediatrician Judith L. Schaechter, M.D. gives an HPV vaccination to a 13-year-old girl in her office at the Miller School of Medicine on Sept. 21, 2011 in Miami, ...
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FBI admits to using surveillance drones in US
The Federal Bureau of Investigation uses drones for surveillance over the US soil, but does so very rarely, the FBI director has told Senate Judiciary Committee. Robert Mueller told the Senate Committee that the FBI was developing guidelines for drones and that the privacy implications of using drones are, in Mueller's words, worthy of debate and legislation down the road. The aerospace ...
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Kiwi freezes to death in Queensland
A New Zealand man was found dead on the patio of a central Queensland home today after he slept outside in what were described as freezing conditions. Reports suggested the 40-year-old man told friends he was going to sleep outside the house in Clermont on Tuesday night. It was believed his friends covered him with a blanket but when they found him in the morning he was dead. Wellington Police ...
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Fed Outlines Timeline for Winding Down Stimulus
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In Germany Obama Says U.S. Lags Behind By Not Teaching Youth Second and Third Language
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MSNBC Panelist Suggests Opponents of Late-Term Abortions Are Racist
Democrats criticized Republicans for what they see as a new attack on abortion rights. In a recent MSNBC panel discussion on the bill, University of Pennsylvania professor Salamisha Tillet suggested that this is a racial issue. She expressed the possibility that Republicans support abortion bans so that white women will keep having babies, thereby "reproducing whiteness, white supremacy, ...
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How Many Chechens Are Fighting In Syria
It is almost a year since the first reports surfaced that some Chechens, together with fighters from elsewhere in the Russian Federation, had joined the ranks of the armed opposition to Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad. Since then, Western journalists have met with some of those Chechen fighters, and video footage of them has been posted on YouTube. While their numbers remain unclear, it seems that ...
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Family learn of death via radio
The family of a Dunedin man found dead in a Thai apartment complex are distraught and angry they learnt of his death through media reports rather than police yesterday. Alan Patrick Mouncey, 38, was found dead with a head wound in the bathroom of his apartment at P Place Apartments in Pattaya, a tourist mecca on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand on Monday night. The ...
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Britain fails to get EU backing for Hezbollah blacklisting
UK pushes to place Hezbollah's armed wing on EU terror list; diplomats say British proposal gains support amid Hezbollah involvement in Syria, but Austria, Italy, Czechs among those preventing required unanimous ...
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Right-wing MKs slam pretentious Peres birthday celebration
star-studded birthday party thrown in honor of his 90th birthday party.Knesset members on the Right called the 11 million shekel event a waste of money, even though it was funded by contributions and not ...
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Encountering Peace Decision-making time
Naftali Bennett's "the idea of a Palestinian state has come to a dead end," if true, should be restated as "the idea of the Zionist movement has come to a dead end." That is the only logical conclusion of the ideology of Bennett and his followers. If the idea of the partitioning of the land between the river and sea into a "Jewish state and an Arab state" ...
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Washington Watch Iranian elections worry Netanyahu
Binyamin Netanyahu is a worried man. The results of the Iranian presidential election were a deep disappointment, judging by his rhetoric lately. He's afraid that partners in the no-nukes-for- Iran coalition might be seduced by descriptions of President-elect Hassan Rohani as a moderate.He is reminding everyone that "moderate" is a relative term when it comes to describing ...
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Almost there King David’s Crown Residences Jerusalem
Few building sites in Jerusalem, if any, can match the size and location of this one. Situated on the site of the former Beitar Jerusalem football field formerly owned by the YMCA, this is a prime location in an historic area, in close proximity to the King David and David's Citadel hotels, the Mamilla quarter and the Old City, not to mention excellent access to the center of town.You ...
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Why is the UK media scared to name names
While the rest of the world media, not to mention the Internet, is awash with rumours of the identities of two people at the center of British politics who allegedly had an affair, the British media itself, even its famously fearless tabloids, has hardly spoken of the matter.So while Israeli radio listeners hear speculation about London Mayor Boris Johnson and the prime minister's wife, ...
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If negotiations are out the UN will be in
When US Secretary of State John Kerry first tackled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in late March, he made a serious request of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas: In order to give talks a chance, pledge to temporarily refrain from bringing Israel before the International Criminal Court or taking unilateral actions at the UN. By early April, reports surfaced that Abbas had ...
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Who will be at Duchess of Cambridges bedside for the Royal babys birth at St Marys hospital
Who will be at the Duchess' bedside for the birth? William could be forced to take helicopter from Wales while mother Carole and sister Pippa will also head for the ...
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Royal babys birth announcement will be displayed on an easel at Buckingham Palace
Royal birth announcement will be taken by police escort to Buckingham Palace and displayed on an easelthe same way news of William's arrival was ...
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UK weather Thunderstorms and humidity as temperatures top 26C on hottest day of the year
Hottest day: University students (pictured left to right) Lindsay Varty, Zosia Gamgee, Maryna Farrell, Billie Blue and Jennifer Grant enjoy the warm weather this afternoon on Barry Beach, ...
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Evidence shows missile may have downed jumbo jet
Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet. The New York-to-Paris flight crashed July 17, 1996, just minutes after the jetliner took off from John F. Kennedy Airport, killing all 230 people aboard. The effort to ...
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Climate change is the threat of our time President Obama pledges new arms pact with Russia and a greener world
In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate that instantly invited comparisons with visits to the same spot by some of his predecessors, President Barack Obama sought to make a historic imprint of his own, pledging to forge a new pact with Russia to further cut nuclear arsenals and to step up the fight against global ...
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Aqaba taking Jordan along for the ride
Aqaba is now officially the site of one of the largest infrastructure developments in the Middle East region, and certainly the largest development ever undertaken in Jordan’s history. Marsa Zayed is a mammoth project worth $10 billion and on its own is expected to more than double Jordan’s tourist revenues. Marsa Zayed is one in a long list of significant developments taking place in Aqaba, which is set to become the premier tourist destination of the country and a leading destination in the Gulf, but this project is notable for its sheer size.
Marsa Zayed envisions a marina development with room for 300 yachts and a cruise ship terminal all surrounded by a mixture of hotel, resort and luxury apartment complexes. The entire project is slated for completion in several years time, when Jordan first signed the development deal with Al Mabaar, a UAE-based real estate firm, in 2008, Jordan news media reported that it would be completed in 2013. Read more
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