Tag: World News

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March 13, 2013

LOOK: Is this the most epic Instagram photo ever?

This is probably the most exciting feet photo you’ve ever seen on Instagram. It was taken by National Geographic photographer Joe McNally from the ...

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March 12, 2013

Arab Springs II? 27-year-old street vendor sets himself ablaze in Tunisia

A street vendor has set himself on fire in Tunisia’s capital, reviving memories of the self-immolation that helped spark the ...

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March 12, 2013

“He has lost control”: Photo of Ahmadinejad hugging a woman raises a (huge) storm (LOOK)

A photo of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hugging late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez’s grieving mother has caused a storm of controversy among ...

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March 12, 2013

“No more Pope”: Topless women activists protest papal conclave at Vatican, and things get rough (PHOTOS)

Police wrestled two topless women to the ground during a brief protest in St Peter’s Square outside the Vatican on ...

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March 7, 2013

Captured: Osama bin Laden’s son and spokesman in CIA custody

Osama bin Laden’s spokesman and son-in-law has been captured by the United States, officials said Thursday, in what a senior ...

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March 6, 2013

Holy Mother! Mother Teresa’s humanitarian image a ‘myth,’ new study says

A new study by Canadian academics says Mother Teresa was a product of hype who housed the poor and sick in shoddy ...

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March 3, 2013

‘Unbelievable’: Holocaust researchers catalogue 42,500 Nazi camps raising death toll to 15 – 20 mllion [DETAILS]

Researchers from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have concluded that over 40,000 Nazi camps and ghettos existed during Hitler’s ...

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February 28, 2013

My life is a gift, “always and forever”: Pope Benedict XVI’s last general audience at the Vatican (PHOTOS, VIDEO, FULL TEXT)

Before resigning from papal office on Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. CET (7 p.m. GMT / 2 p.m. EST) Pope ...

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February 22, 2013

Sounds like a scene in a movie: The bizarre coincidences surrounding the $50M diamond heist in Belgium

by Christopher Dickey, Nadette De Visser There are only so many master jewel thieves in this world, and only a ...

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January 4, 2013

Grim forecast: 100,000 may die this year in Syria

The death toll in Syria now exceeds 60,000, the United Nations says. Another 100,000 may die this year, warns U.N.-Arab ...

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December 31, 2012

17 pimps who use ‘juju spells’ to threaten Nigerian women into prostitution in Spain

Spain’s Interior Ministry says police have arrested 17 people on suspicion of smuggling Nigerian women into Spain and forcing them ...

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December 14, 2012

Ha ha! Feminist activists stage topless protest in Ukraine, and things get heated (PHOTOS)

Activists from Ukraine’s feminist group Femen staged a topless anti-corruption protest on December 12 outside the ex-Soviet country’s newly-elected parliament ...

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December 14, 2012

‘Honourable Hooligans’: House of Rep member lifted and punched in groin as floor debate turns into free-for-all brawl (WATCH, PHOTOS)

Fists flew Wednesday as Ukraine’s newly elected parliament devolved into an all-out brawl between government supporters and opposition lawmakers, the ...

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December 5, 2012

Snake on a plane: Egypt Air flight makes emergency landing after snake bites passenger

An EgyptAir flight from Cairo to Kuwait was forced to make an emergency landing on Monday after a passenger on ...

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November 30, 2012

Syria Executions: Rebel reportedly films himself shooting 10 prisoners (WATCH – GRAPHIC CONTENT)

New footage posted on the Internet appears to have been filmed by a Syrian rebel who points the camera along ...

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November 30, 2012

Former IMF chief reportedly settles suit with maid (he allegedly raped) with $6 million

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has reached a preliminary agreement with the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault ...

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November 24, 2012

Nuptial Tragedy: Groom trips and falls on empty beer glass, bleeds to death at his wedding

Media reports say a Brazilian bridegroom bled to death at his wedding reception when he tripped and fell on an ...

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