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The height of rule-breaking Everest climber Daniel Hughes in trouble for illegal video interview from peak
A British climber who delivered a live video interview from the top of Mount Everest has found himself in trouble with the Nepalese authorities who have branded the broadcast ...
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Third exchange of fire over Golan Heights in a week heightens concern at violence on Israel-Syria border
Israeli and Syrian troops exchanged fire across the Golan Heights today, the third time this week that the two sides have clashed across the disputed ...
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Pistorius Brother Cleared Over Womans Death
Carl Pistorius, the brother of murder-accused Olympian Oscar Pistorius, has been acquitted of a charge of culpable homicide. The charge referred to the death of a woman in a car accident in 2008. A magistrate ruled that Carl Pistorius was not negligent and that the woman - Maria Barnard - was driving her motorcycle too fast when she crashed into the back of his vehicle. A court ...
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Dont count Obama out
>Editor's note: Joseph S. Nye is a professor at Harvard and author of the new book "Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era. " In 1993 and 1994, he was chairman of the National Intelligence Council, which coordinates intelligence estimates for the president. In 1994 and 1995, he served as assistant secretary of Defense for international security affairs.(CNN) -- Many a ...
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Kerry visits Oman for arms deal talks on Syria Mideast
CORK/DUBLIN - Ireland said on Tuesday it was not to blame for Apple Inc's low global tax payments and had no special rate deal with the company after the U.S. Senate said it paid little or no tax on tens of billions of dollars in profits stashed in Irish ...
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Dozens dead in Moore 101 pulled alive from rubble
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO and KOKH. Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Even for a city toughened by disaster, Moore has never seen this kind of ...
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Poll Most think IRS targeting was deliberate
As the Obama administration responds to criticism over IRS practices targeting conservative groups for higher scrutiny, a new poll from Washington Post/ABC News indicates that a majority of Americans believe the IRS was deliberately harassing these groups - and nearly 3 in 4 Americans see the behavior as inappropriate. According to ...
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Obama Full focus is on recovery from Oklahoma tornado
After a ferocious, deadly tornado flattened Moore, Okla., Monday, President Obama Tuesday affirmed the nation's support for those affected by the storm, guaranteeing aid for victims in the destroyed 20-mile-long path. "We recognize you face a long road ahead, in some cases there is enormous grief that has to be absorbed, but you will not travel that path alone," Mr. Obama said. ...
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Syria activists 31 Hezbollah fighters killed in Qusair
BEIRUT Three members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group died of wounds sustained while fighting for control of a strategic Syrian town near the Lebanese border, activists said Tuesday, as the battle in the area raged for its third straight day. According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the deaths brought the total number of Hezbollah fighters killed since Sunday ...
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Oklahoma tornado leaves dozens dead including many children
MOORE, Okla. Search-and-rescue crews worked through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood. At least 24 people were killed, including at least seven children, and those numbers were expected to ...
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Sights and sounds of disaster rescue
A 200-mile-an-hour tornado kills at least 51 people, including 20 children. Also, the search and rescue operation continued overnight in Moore, Okla., for survivors trapped in the rubble. A look at what we've been covering on "CBS This ...
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Afghan forces in deadly battle with Taliban
Afghan government forces have been engaged in a deadly battle with Taliban fighters at a police checkpoint in the south of the country, local officials have said. The interior ministry told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that five police officers and 25 Taliban fighters were killed in fighting which raged for 24 hours in Helmand province. Omar Zwak, the provincial governor's spokesman, said that ...
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Dont trust your memory
>Editor's note: This is part of CNN's "Life's Work" series, which features innovators and pioneers who are making a difference in the world of health and medicine. (CNN) -- You probably feel pretty attached to your memories -- they're yours, after all. They define who you are and where you came from, your accomplishments and failures, your likes and dislikes. Your memories help you separate ...
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Oklahoma tornado
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO and KOKH. Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Even for a city toughened by disaster, Moore has never seen this kind of ...
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Yet Another Obamacare Design Flaw
The more the evidence emerges, the more one has to wonder: Could Obamacare have been designed any more poorly? Even those who don't mind Obamacare's striking consolidation of power and money in Washington at the expense of Americans' liberty, or who don't mind the medical overhaul's $2 trillion price-tag over its real first decade (2014 to 2023), must be starting to ...
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Explainer Iran’s Process For Vetting Presidential Candidates
The official shortlist of candidates that will be bidding to succeed Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in the June 14 election is set to be announced this week. More than 600 men and women registered their names to become presidential candidates during a five-day registration period that ended on May 11. The task of vetting the nominees and determining a shortlist of approved candidates ...
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Explainer Why Do Tornadoes Occur And Why Are We Seeing More Of Them
Liz Bentley: Tornadoes are violent rotating columns of air -- quite small-scale -- so they tend to be a few meters across, sometimes 100 meters across. They develop out of supercells or violent thunderstorms that develop in the atmosphere. So the places around the world where tornadoes will develop are where we get these supercells, these huge thunderstorm clouds developing. And for a ...
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Dazed zombie-like -- but alive
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKIMoore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Kids screamed for their parents and parents hollered their children's names, walking and searching in panic in the parking lot of ...
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Beersheba mayor Our whole city is wounded
Thousands turned out Tuesday for the funeral of Anat Even-Haim, one of four people who were gunned down in a shooting attack a day earlier at a bank in the southern city of Beersheba. Bank Hapoalim branch manager Avner Cohen, 44, his assistant manager Meir Zeitoun, 40, and customers Anat Even-Haim, aged 34, and Idan Schnitzer Sabari, 22, were shot dead by 40-year-old local resident Itamar Alon ...
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IDF Shin Bet thwart terror attack kidnapping in W. Bank
Shin Bet reveals that in past two months it nabbed members of two separate Hamas, Islamic Jihad cells that were planning to kill an Israeli and demand the release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the ...
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Families attend funerals of Beersheba victims
opened fire in a small Bank Hapoalim branch in Beersheba the previous day, killing four people before taking his own life.Responding to the tragedy, Beersheba Mayor Ruvik Danilovich said four were killed in the shooting, but the entire city was wounded and in pain. Army Radio reported earlier that the mayor had visited Walid Omar, 22, from the Negev Bedouin community, who was seriously injured ...
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Zuma ‘mourns with US’ after tornado
Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma sent condolences to the United States on Tuesday after a tornado killed at least 51 people, the international relations department ...
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Richard Christie who beat ex-soldier Bill Hopkins so badly he almost died caught when victim ripped glove from his hand during attack giving police a DNA match
Bill Hopkins, 79, suffered a broken jaw and was treated in hospital for two days following the unprovoked attack outside his home in Digbeth, Birmingham, last ...
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Bright teenager gains highest English A-level in the country despite predictions she would fail after doctors diagnosed her with dyspraxia
A teenager who was predicted to fail her English A-Level was allowed to type an exam after being diagnosed with a form of dyspraxia and ended up wit the highest mark in the ...
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Council which removed foster children after parents Ukip membership was discovered finally apologises for its handling of the case seven months on
A council has finally apologised over the way it handled a decision to remove three Eastern European children from foster parents who were members of ...
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Liberia gaining the world's attention for the right reasons
When members of the international community, and even many Africans themselves, think of Africa one of a few stereotypes come to mind; poverty, crime, corruption and political instability. Africa is seen as a haven for everything nefarious in the global community, terrorists are trained here, rebels attack their governments, drugs are grown in, and exported from, African soil and many African heads of state preside over a government whose authority does not extend beyond their capital city.
Liberia, not often in the international news for doing well, seems to be making a concerted effort to redress this trend, suggesting that a period of integrity may be ahead for the continent as a whole; South Africa is hosting the FIFA World Cup, Egypt is cooperating with the international community in opening up its border with Gaza and Liberia’s government is holding its own as an example of the far-reaching effects of good governance and rooting out corruption. Read more
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