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Bombings kill 103 people in Pakistan — A series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 103 people on Thursday, including 69 who died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall in the southwest city of Quetta, officials said. The blasts punctuated one of the deadliest days in recent years in Pakistan, where the government faces a bloody insurgency by Taliban militants in the

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Instructor's heroic response to son's attack — Gravely wounded by an arrow fired into his head, a Wyoming college instructor still managed to wrestle with his 25-year-old son who carried out the attack and give his students time to flee the classroom, say police who hailed the actions as heroic. More grisly details of the horrific murder-suicide in Wyoming came to light Saturday, a day after

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Mother Raised Daughter As Boy For 2 Years In Secret - A Brazilian girl was placed with a foster family when it was discovered her mother raised her as a boy for two years before an aunt discovered the truth, a Brazilian news program has reported. The mother named her female baby Samuel and managed to erase the "female" check box on her birth certificate at the hospital, then checking the "

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Managers delighted their stores sold winning lottery tickets - Managers of a Missouri gas station and an Arizona food store said on Thursday they were delighted that they may have handed tickets to the two prospective multi-millionaire winners of a record $587.5 million Powerball lottery jackpot. The two winning tickets were sold at the gas station and sandwich shop in the tiny farming town

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UN vote last chance on 2-state solution — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the U.N. General Assembly before a historic vote on Thursday that it "is being asked today to issue the birth certificate of Palestine." The Palestinians were certain to win U.N. recognition as a state, but Israel and the United States warned it could delay hopes of achieving an independent Palestinian state

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Fire Kills 112 Workers Making Clothes for US Brands - The 100-plus workers who died in a fire late Saturday at a high-rise garment factory in Bangladesh were working overtime making clothes for major American retailers, including Wal-Mart, according to workers' rights groups. Officials in Bangladesh said the flames at the Tazreen Fashions factory outside Dhaka spread rapidly on the ground

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Israel successfully tests missile defense system — Israel successfully tested its newest missile defense system Sunday, the military said, a step toward making the third leg of what Israel calls its "multilayer missile defense" operational. The "David's Sling" system is designed to stop mid-range missiles. It successfully passed its test, shooting down its first missile in a drill Sunday in

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Israel says successfully tests more powerful rocket interceptor - A new Israeli air shield against rockets more powerful than those intercepted by Iron Dome in the Gaza conflict passed its first field test last week after being rushed through development, officials said on Sunday. They said that David's Sling, billed as Israel's answer to the longer-range missiles of Lebanese Hezbollah

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Israel successfully tests new missile defence system against mid-range missile threat - Israel successfully tested its newest missile defence system Sunday, the military said, a step toward making the third leg of what Israel calls its "multilayer missile defence" operational. The "David's Sling" system is designed to stop mid-range missiles. It successfully passed its test, shooting down its

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Public Nudity Ban Considered in San Francisco - San Franciscans may be forced to wear clothes outside of their homes and some nude activists aren’t pleased. City lawmakers are scheduled to vote Tuesday on an ordinance that, if passed, would make it illegal for anyone over the age of 5 to expose their genitals in public. Exemptions will be made for parades and festivals held under a

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Speculations swirl about ‘missing’ North Korean first lady - The lack of public appearances in more than a month by the first lady of North Korea has raised speculation about her fate. Ri Sol Ju, a singer who married North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, customarily has been pictured with her husband during visits to military units, farms, and at official ceremonies, the Telegraph reports. But

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Homeless man helps save baby born at truck stop - A homeless man hitchhiking at a truck stop near Oklahoma City turned out to be an angel for a young pregnant woman. Keaton Mason and her fiance were heading to a hospital because Mason was labor. They didn't make it, and Mason ended up giving birth in their white Honda at a truck stop along Interstate 40, News9.com reports. Mason's

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Police use Taser on blind man, thinking his cane was samurai sword - A blind man carrying a white cane received a 50,000-volt Taser shock from British police who thought his walking stick was a samurai sword. "It felt like I was grabbing an electricity pylon," 61-year-old Colin Farmer told the BBC. Lancashire police officer Stuart Williams said authorities had received several calls

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Farmer Named World's Oldest New Dad - A 96-year-old farmer in India says that he has set the record for the world's oldest new dad - for the second time. Ramjit Raghav and his 52-year-old wife Shakuntala Devi, who live in Haryana, 31 miles northwest of Delhi, welcomed baby Ranjeet earlier this month. The healthy baby boy was born on Oct. 5, according to The Times of India. Raghav has now

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NYer accused of defrauding Broadway show 'Rebecca' — A former stock broker was arrested early Monday on charges he directed an elaborate fraud on Broadway starring fictitious investors — a scheme that doomed the musical adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller "Rebecca." Mark Hotton, his wife and three associates also were charged in a separate money laundering scheme on Long

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Landmark mosque in Aleppo burned in fighting — Syrian President Bashar Assad ordered on Monday immediate repairs to a historic mosque in the city of Aleppo, a move likely aimed at containing Muslim outrage after fierce fighting between rebels and regime forces set parts of the mosque on fire over the weekend. Government troops had been holed up inside the 12th century Umayyad mosque, a UNESCO

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Philippine peace deal seen as blow to terrorists — Hunted by U.S.-backed Filipino troops in 2005, Abu Sayyaf chieftain Khadaffy Janjalani and other al-Qaida-linked militants sought refuge in the mountainous stronghold of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the largest Muslim rebel group in the southern Philippines. But the rebels turned them away, afraid that harboring extremists would scuttle

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Sexual exploitation of children increasing all over the world - SEXUAL EXPLOITATION of children is increasing all over the world. Girls are being forced into this hazardous form of labour and boys are also exploited. Most of the children are being used for prostitution and pornography. Poverty and Wars can be root triggers for child prostitution. Child abuse has almost always been

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Salafi bible-burner assaults journalists who 'provoked' him in interview - Three reporters were arrested following an altercation with the Salafi founder of Al-Umma Channel. The reporters claim they were assaulted by the channel owner, Abu Islam. The reporters were interviewing Abu Islam about a Bible burning lawsuit pending against him. According to an activist, Ahmed Douma, Abu Islam

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High school students suspended for possession of energy mints - A group of high school students in Pekin, Ill., were suspended last week after school officials suspected the mints they were eating were actually illegal drugs. Jason McMichael, the father of one of the students, told the Journal Star that his 17-year-old son Eric was suspended for two days from Pekin Community High School and

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Decade after Bali, Indonesian terror aims at gov't — Ten years after terrorist attacks at two Bali nightclubs killed more than 200 people, mostly foreign tourists, Indonesia has won international praise for its counterterrorism efforts. Militant organizations have been fractured and many of their charismatic leaders have been killed or jailed. But an Associated Press analysis shows the number

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Israeli air force shoots down drone aircraft - The Israeli air force shot down a drone after it crossed into southern Israel on Saturday, the military said, but it remained unclear where the aircraft had come from. The drone was first spotted above the Mediterranean in the area of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip to the west of Israel, said military spokeswoman Avital Leibovich.   Reuters

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More than 2 million workers strike in Indonesia — More than 2 million factory workers went on a one-day strike across Indonesia on Wednesday to demand better benefits and protest the hiring of contract workers, union officials said. Hundreds of thousands of laborers from more than 700 companies in 80 industrial estates also took to the streets to demonstrate, national police spokesman Col.

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Man fatally shoots self on TV after Ariz — A man fatally shot himself in the head Friday on live national television at the end of a high-speed carjacking chase that began in Phoenix and ended about 90 minutes later within 80 miles of the California border. Fox News was covering the chase that began about midday using a live helicopter shot from Phoenix affiliate KSAZ-TV. The man driving a

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LA drivers steer clear of 'Carmageddon' scenario - Carmageddon II, the sequel to last year's shutdown of one of the nation's busiest freeways, is going according to script as many Los Angeles drivers heeded warnings to stay off the road. Traffic tie-ups were minimal Saturday as construction crews worked around the clock to tear down a portion of the Mulholland Drive bridge on Interstate 405

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