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Suspect killed in Orlando has confessed to 2011 triple murders says FBI
NEW YORK A Chechen acquaintance of dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has confessed to slashing the throats of three people in a 2011 gruesome triple murder, federal law enforcement officials have said. Ibragim Todashev, who made the confession, was killed early Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Florida, a federal law ...
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Obama seeks more transparency in use of drones
WASHINGTON - In a major counter-terrorism speech, President Barack Obama Thursday defended the covert US drone program and stressed that despite the controversies around it, the strikes are legal and save lives. He also said the use of lethal force extends to U.S. citizens as well. This disclosure comes a day after his administration acknowledged publicly for the first time that four US ...
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Taliban car bomb kills 13 in Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan - At least 13 people, including two civilians, were killed in a car bomb targeting a police vehicle in western Pakistani city of Quetta Thursday, police officials said. The bombing also injured at least 20 people in the capital of Baluchistan province, riven by Islamist militancy and a violent separatist insurgency. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the ...
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Kerry begins efforts to restart Israeli and Palestinian peace talks
JERUSALEM - US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday separately began meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials but appeared doubtful about his success on getting the two warring sides back to peace negotiations. This is Kerry's fourth trip to the Middle East in as many months of his assuming the office of the top US diplomat. He was been trying to revive a peace process that has been ...
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Istanbul hosts meeting of Syrian opposition leaders
ISTANBUL - Syrian opposition leaders Thursday began their three-day meeting in this Turkish capital city to decide on their participation in talks aimed at end the civil war in the country. As the meeting began in Istanbul a prominent Syrian figure in the opposition proposed a transition plan for the country that requires President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to a senior aide and ...
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Canada threatens to retaliate against change in US meat labeling rules
OTTAWA - Canada has threatened "retaliatory measures" against the United States move changing the so-called country of origin labeling that would track beef and hogs through the meat processing and distribution systems, stating that it is discriminatory, a view shared by the World Trade Organisation. On Thursday, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a final modification to its ...
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After breaches Twitter beefs up security with two-step login
NEW YORK - Aiming to tackle recent high-profile breaches, popular micro-blogging site Twitter is introducing an optional two-step login for users to beef up security. The new system would try to ensure "it's really you" when a user signs in to Twitter, which transmits some 400 million messages a day. The move follows recent attacks into the twitter accounts of news organisations' such as ...
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Irish biotech firm Elan rejects revised Royalty Pharma bid
DUBLIN/ WASHINGTON Ireland-based biotechnology firm Elan Thursday rejected Royalty Pharma's increased $6.4 billion takeover bid, shortly after the U.S. firm cut the acceptance bar for its latest offer to 50 percent plus one share. Royalty raised its hostile cash bid to $12.50 per share on Monday, from $11.25 previously, but made the new offer conditional on Elan shareholders rejecting, at a ...
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Import alert by USFDA hits Wockhardt shares
MUMBAI - Shares of Wockhardt, one of the leading Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, witnessed a sharp fall of 20% to Rs. 1,315 ($23.61) on the Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) on Thursday after the US FDA published an import alert on one of its three manufacturing facilities near Aurangabad. The import alert, 'detention without physical examination of drugs from firms which have ...
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Ford Motor to shutdown 2 units in Australia
MELBOURNE - Ford Motor Company Wednesday announced plans of closing its local manufacturing operations in Broadmeadows and Geelong in October 2016 thereby forcing 1,200 people out of work. Spelling the end of the iconic Ford Falcon in the country, Ford Australia president Bob Graziano announced that the carmaker would shut its Victorian facilities in October 2016, bringing an end to nearly ...
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IMF warns UK against continuing austerity programme
LONDON - In a critique of the United Kingdom's austerity programme, the International Monetary Fund Wednesday urged the Europe's third largest economy to rebalance the policy to make the transition to a high-investment and more export-oriented economy. "The UK could boost growth by bringing forward measures already included in its fiscal plan, such as spending on infrastructure and job ...
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Freeway bridge collapses in Washington state
Part of a freeway bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles falling into the water below, an emergency dispatcher said. Washington State Patrol dispatcher A.J. Cooper could give no further details and said she did not know if people were in the water under the portion of Interstate 5 that collapsed over the ...
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Venezuela prosecutor to open probe over leaked recording
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's prosecutor's office said on Thursday it would open an investigation into in a recording the opposition says features a top government ally accusing the deputy head of the ruling Socialist Party of corruption and conspiring against the new ...
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Bridge collapses in Washington state sending cars into river
(Reuters) - Part of a freeway bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles falling into the water below, an emergency dispatcher ...
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Highway bridge collapses into US river
The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed late Thursday, dumping at least a handful of vehicles and people into a river, the Washington State Patrol said. The four-lane Interstate 5 bridge collapsed about halfway between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, Trooper Mark Francis said. Francis said he did not ...
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Stockholm riots continue for a fifth night
At least nine cars, twoschools and a police station were set ablaze as riots swept through Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs early Friday for the fifth straight night, police and firefighters ...
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I-5 bridge collapses in NW Wash. people in water
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. - The Washington State Patrol says the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River at Mount Vernon has collapsed, dumping vehicles and people into the water.Trooper Mark Francis said the four-lane bridge collapsed about 7 p.m.Francis says he has no idea how many people are in the water or whether there are any injuries or deaths.He did not know what caused the ...
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Kids teachers from destroyed Okla. school reunite
Class photos still decorate a classroom wall amid the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children were killed earlier in the week when a tornado hit Moore, Okla., Thursday, May 23, ...
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Two more arrested over UK soldiers killing
Police in London have arrested a man and a woman in connection with the murder of a British soldier near a military barrack.Detectives said on Thursday they had arrested the unidentified suspects, both aged 29, over the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, who was hacked to death in Woolwich on Wednesday."This is a large, complex and fast-moving investigation which continues to develop," ...
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Small plane crash reported in Gregg County
Sgt. David Roberts, with the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office, said the crash occurred around 6:30 p.m. on County Road 2156D and Farm-to-Market 2011, near the county ...
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Woolwich attack Descent into evil of teenager Michael Adebolajo from devout Christian family
His mother and father are hard-working Nigerian immigrants from an academic family in West Africa who settled in London in the early 1980s. A Christian couple, they believed in assimilating into British life, and Michael seems to have forged easy friendships with schoolmates of all colours and ...
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One in five firms will freeze or cut wages to pay for staff pensions after introduction of new rules
All staff over 22 who do not have a private pension are automatically signed up to the state scheme. But the report, from the Institute of Directors, says one in five bosses plan to recoup the cost by freezing, or even cutting, their workers’ ...
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Summer diets Women overhaul their bodies five times a year for holidays and the wedding season
Being beach ready for a Summer holiday topped the survey as a reason to kickstart a new diet or workout regime. Taking part in a wedding as a bridesmaid placed ...
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Female unemployment Number of young women out of work or education soars by 26000
While the number of young men among Neets – under-24s not in education, employment or training – fell by 8,000, there were 28,000 more women Neets compared with the end of ...
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What makes us itch Scientists pinpoint the rogue chemical thats to blame
Researcher Dr Mark Hoon said: ‘The challenge is to find similar biocircuitry in people, evaluate what’s there and identify molecules that can be targeted to turn off chronic itch without causing unwanted ...
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Indianapolis mass transit system no closer
Indianapolis is the 14th largest city in the world, but in the area of mass transit, its ranked 100th in terms of the quality of public transport in the city and surrounding regional areas. This is a state of affairs that lawmakers and city leaders have acknowledged cannot last, but finding the money and the necessary will of leadership to implement the construction of a mass transit system has proven difficult and recent events suggest the project may never find traction.
The value of mass transit on a regional level has never been in question, for twenty years the city has been exploring the idea of an integrated mass transit system incorporating the city’s already existing bus system with light and heavy rail lines, with commuter (heavy) rail systems connecting the city of Indianapolis with the wider region and light rail providing an intra-city, urban transport service. Read more
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