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A NATO airstrike in the eastern Afghan province of Logar has killed 17 people, including women and children, local officials report. A NATO spokesperson said a team had been deployed to investigate the claims of civilian casualties.
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US President Barack Obama has intervened in a Capital Hill probe centered on Attorney General Eric Holder, asserting executive privilege to keep documents linked to the Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation withheld from Congress.
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Genetic mutations have been found in three generations of butterflies living near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The gruesome discovery has led scientists to fear that the leaking radiation could affect other species.
Researches said that arou ...[Read more]
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During an interview the departing Afghan president said that he feels “betrayed” by America, which he believes has been “indifferent to Afghan interests” during the war which has waged for over 12 years in the region.
“Afghans died in a war that ...[Read more]
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In perhaps the most pivotal address of the post-Soviet era, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the West to cut the bull on two decades of double standards and put the Cold War to rest. Here are the top 10 moments from his barn-burning address.
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After fending off numerous attacks on the freedom of the internet last year, activists and independent journalists alike are now facing another hurdle that flies in the face of freedom of the press, the “Journalist Shield Law“. Image credit: davidlees ...[Read more]
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The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill have likely inflicted serious heart defects and possibly premature death in tuna and other large marine fish, according to a study initiated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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8 people have died and 27 wounded in clashes during Turkey’s local elections yesterday. Even though the Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is not running in the election, the local elections are widely seen as a vote for or against Prime Minister Erd ...[Read more]
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A decade-long study of 60,000 women has confirmed that drinking diet soda sweetened with aspartame is linked with a 30 percent increase in heart attack risk and a 50 percent increase in death risk. ...[Read more]
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A North Carolina church placed a statue of Jesus Christ as a vagrant sleeping on a park bench on its grounds, and the church's wealthy neighbors, who believed it was a real person, called the cops. St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Davidson installed the ...[Read more]
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Psychologists call it projection, which is defined as a defense mechanism that involves taking our own unacceptable qualities or feelings and ascribing them to other people.
Non-psychologists just call it being two-faced.
Either way, both perfectly descr ...[Read more]
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