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Obama to visit Oklahoma on Sunday tornado damage could top $1 billion
2013 Moore Tornado: Find all the coverage from the Moore tornado, including photo slideshows and a video from the World's award winning ...
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Amnesty International urges governments to do more for refugees
LONDON: Human rights group Amnesty International has launched its 2013 annual report into global welfare.The organisation, which focuses mainly on dangers faced by refugees, displaced people and migrants, is now calling on global governments to do ...
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Amnesty condemns abuse of refugee rights
The rights of millions of refugees and migrants have been abused in the past year, Amnesty International has said in its annual report on global human rights. The London-based rights group said on Wednesday that state authorities and employers were equally responsible for the suffering of vulnerable groups. "The world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place" said Salil Shetty, ...
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Survey shows China manufacturing contracting
HSBC economist Hongbin Qu in a statement, "The cooling manufacturing activities in May reflected slower domestic demand and ongoing external headwinds." He said that showed a possible "downside risk to China's fragile growth recovery" while signs of weakness in the labor market "call for more policy support" from the ...
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PA hammers Israel at WHO annual assembly
Palestinian territories, Golan only sliver on planet to gain slot on World Health Organization's Geneva meeting; Foreign Ministry urges states to oppose resolution blasting Israel for poor health conditions in ...
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British soldier butchered in suspected Islamist attack
Two men wielding knives butchered and beheadeda man believed to be a British soldier in a busy London street on Wednesday,before delivering an Islamist tirade to ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Roulette Is Part Of Life
If you live in this part of Oklahoma you are playing tornado roulette. That much was clear from one street we visited. On one side most houses had sustained very little damage; on the other side there was complete devastation. The capricious physics of tornadoes adds cruelty to the misfortunes of those who have lost everything. Like Rob and Jennifer Voss, picking through the remains ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Frustration Amid The Rubble
The frustration had started to boil over. Angry residents of a neighbourhood of Moore in Oklahoma, kept from seeing what had happened to their homes for two days, took it out on the police standing guard. "America is supposed to be about freedom," yelled one. "Just let us in to see what is left." There was screaming and shouting and pointing of fingers. They feared ...
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Oklahoma tornadoes Tornado damage could exceed $2 billion
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak said insured losses from the tornado that hit Moore, south Oklahoma City and Newcastle on Monday could surpass $2 ...
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Minn. park landslide leaves 1 child dead 1 missing
Rescue personnel gather near an entrance to Lilydale Regional Park above the Mississippi River during a suspension of search efforts to find a fourth child missing after a landslide swept over a group of children on a fourth grade field trip Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in St. Paul, ...
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You just want to break down and cry
>For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO and KOKH.(CNN) -- With everyone missing now accounted for from this week's deadly tornado, the long and difficult work of recovery can begin. "We are beginning the recovery operations," Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin told CNN's Piers Morgan late Wednesday. "There's a lot of debris removal going ...
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FBI Arrest made in Wash. state ricin letter scare
SPOKANE, Wash. - A 37-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a case in which a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin were discovered in Washington state last week.A grand jury indictment accused Matthew Ryan Buquet of mailing a death threat to U.S. District Judge Fred Van Sickle at the federal courthouse on May 14.A search of federal court records turned up no ...
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Ellie our human rattle Cancer girl had to take FIFTY different pills to combat cancer - now shes been given the all clear
On top of the gruelling chemotherapy treatment, the 11-year-old needed nearly 50 tablets, medicines and ointments a week to combat the wide variety of side ...
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Relief for Osborne at last as IMF spots signs of recovery and welcomes improvement in the economy
It will come as a relief to the Chancellor who was last month heavily criticised by the watchdog's chief economist for sticking to his austerity ...
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Woolwich shooting incident Crazed animals... how news of the savage attack exploded on Twitter
Most witnesses sent messages via the Twitter social networking site and Facebook, while others contributed to internet forums and newspaper ...
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Woolwich attack Were they inspired by Al Qaeda magazine Authorities investigating whether terrorists were spurred into action by publication which urges lone wolf attacks
Inspire is produced by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and contains exhortations to carry out so-called 'lone wolf' terrorist attacks by self-motivated groups and individuals. Pictured is an advert from the ...
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1000 current accounts are opened daily at Nationwide Customers quit shamed banks
Consumers are turning away from scandal-ridden banks and opening 1,000 current accounts a day at Nationwide, Britain’s biggest building ...
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Rising number of primary pupils cannot swim a length 40 of 11-year-olds cannot cover 25metres unaided
Two-fifths of 11-year-olds are incapable of covering 25m unaided, according to a survey. This is up from a third 12 months ago who were found to be entering secondary school without the basic ...
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31 years on Hyde Park bomber in dock Man charged over IRA atrocity that killed four soldiers and seven horses
31 years on, Hyde Park 'bomber' in dock over IRA atrocity that killed four soldiers and seven horses: Man charged after leaving remote Irish bolthole to go on ...
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No beach fun for insecure Brits Quarter of UK women will avoid a sunshine holiday because of swimsuit fear
According to a the study more than one in four women (27 per cent) will sacrifice a sun holiday if it means they don't have to be seen in a ...
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DAILY MAIL COMMENT IMF gives a reminder of what really matters
After weeks of tension in the Coalition and bitter infighting among the Tories comes a timely reminder from the IMF of the issue that matters most to every family in this ...
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MI5 bugged Edward VIIIs calls to Wallis in days before his abdication as Government paranoia grew over the crisis
It suggests a breakdown of trust between Edward and his government as he wrestled with the decision whether to give up the throne so he could marry American divorcee Wallis ...
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The names Bond Jane Bond Riddle of the WW2 spy arrested in Spain... dressed as a woman
Such flamboyance was apparently an offence in those less enlightened days, so the dictator General Franco's police arrested him and held him for two days for questioning. The news, cabled to the Foreign Office in London by the British Embassy in Madrid, sparked fears Clarke's cover would be blown – causing embarrassment to his political masters, secret files released today by the ...
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The evidence that blows apart Mr Camerons claim that gay marriage will strengthen families
Speaking yesterday on Radio 4’s Today programme, after the Commons voted on Monday to allow gay marriage in England and Wales, Mr Cameron said: ‘There will be young boys in schools today who are gay, who are worried about being bullied, who are worried about what society thinks of them, who can see that the highest Parliament in the land has said that their love is ...
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Firms STILL starved of loans says Bank Companies cannot get cash a year after Government launched lifeline to help them
Small businesses are being starved of money by Britain’s banking giants, nearly a year after the Government launched its emergency cash lifeline, the Bank of England said ...
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Jamaica comes under foreign media's microscope
Jamaica is a country used to reductionism, the complex island nation has more often than not been reduced to a stereotype of marijuana-infused surfers that say “chill mun” and listen to reggae. Perhaps this is why the recent drug-related violence in the capital has shocked the western media so much, perhaps this is why it has been glorified and dramatized to the extent it has, or perhaps it’s a reflection of the same forces that shaped the beach-stoner stereotype in the first place.
There is more to Jamaica than beaches, Reggae and a ‘chilled’ island lifestyle. Jamaica is not a little island of just a few hundred people living in huts on a white, sandy beach. It’s an island nation of 2.8 million people and it has a history of brutal slavery and colonialism, the legacy of which is still being redressed, like any developing nation it has a number of social ills and many of the population work hard for little pay and live in less than desirable conditions. Read more
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