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Nightclub dancer tells of Berlusconi parties
The nightclub dancer at the centre of the sex trial of Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister, has told a court that guests at the media tycoon's "bunga bunga" parties dressed as nuns, nurses and US President Barack Obama. Morrocan-born Karima El Mahroug, better known by her stage name Ruby the Heartstealer, spoke on Friday as a witness in a trial at which several ...
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Can art change the world
>Editor's note: Flora Zhang is a producer at CNN Digital. Follow her on Twitter: @flozha (CNN) -- "If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people. "JR, the 30-year-old globetrotting French street artist, could well say the same about the slums of Kenya or the favelas of Brazil, where he has created large-scale projects. Known for his black-and-white portraits, poster-sized ...
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Afghan Police Chief Assassinated
Officials say Police Chief Abdul Ghani was near his home late Friday when gunmen shot him. No one has been detained in the case. The Associated Press quotes a local official as saying Ghani had led a crackdown on insurgents in his district of Khaki Safad that resulted in the killing and capture of several Taliban leaders. The spokesman said that made him a target for Taliban ...
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Afghan District Police Chief Killed
An Afghan police chief has been killed after two militants riding on motorcycles opened fire on his vehicle in western Afghanistan. Abdul Ghani, police chief of Khak-e Safid district in Farah Province, was killed instantly outside his home late on May 17. Provincial spokesman Abdul Rahman Zhawandai said that Ghani was rushed to hospital but was declared dead upon arrival. Ghani had led ...
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Report NKorea launches 3 missiles
>Are you from South or North Korea? Send us your experiences.(CNN) -- North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying. The ministry said it had detected two launches in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon, Yonhap ...
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Five people critically injured and sixty hospitalized after two New York commuter trains collide in Connecticut
Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five with critical injuries, Gov. Dannel Malloy ...
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British child dies in a pool at Coral Sea Waterworld Hotel in Egypts Sharm el-Sheikh resort
The company said the child died in a waterpark at the Coral Sea Waterworld Hotel in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.A Foreign Office spokesman confirmed the death of a British national and said it was providing consular assistance.First Choice said it would carry out a "full and thorough investigation" in partnership with the hotelier.A spokeswoman said: "First Choice can ...
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South Korea Says North Launches 3 Missiles Into Sea
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France becomes 14th country to approve same-sex marriage
French President Franois Hollande has signed gay marriage into law, making way for the first nuptials to take place in June. This makes France the ninth country to legalise same-sex marriage, and the 14th worldwide. The bill passed the final hurdle on Friday as the Constitutional Council gave it the all-clear. It is the country’s largest social reform since abolishing the death penalty. ...
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North Korea launches short-range missiles
North Korea has launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast, according to South Korea's Ministry of Defence quoted by Yonhap news agency. The ministry said it detected two missiles fired on Saturday morning, followed by another in the afternoon. It said the country had reinforced monitoring on North Korea and was maintaining a ...
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Russias grand football designs
A combined league bringing together the best football clubs in Eastern Europe, including three winners of the UEFA cup - CSKA Moscow, Zenit St Petersburg and Shakhtar Donetsk - may become a reality following UEFA’s deadline to force financial fair play requirements.Ukraine and Russia’s leading football clubs are heavily subsidised by sponsorship and, unless they manage to ...
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China Man arrested over fake plane bomb threats
A man has been arrested for allegedly making fake bomb threats against several domestic flights bound for Shanghai. It was the second time in a week that Chinese flights were grounded because of fake bomb threats. Another man was arrested Thursday for allegedly making such calls the previous day. The Civil Aviation Administration of China, or CAAC, said a 43-year-old man surnamed Ji and from the ...
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UKs Litvinenko inquest suffers setback
A long-delayed inquiry to determine circumstances that led to the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian intelligence officer, could be abandoned after the official responsible for leading it partly upheld a British government request to withhold crucial evidence. Robert Owen, a senior judge acting as coroner, said on Friday that keeping some of the evidence secret would make it impossible ...
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Several killed in China rainstorms
Heavy rainstorms blamed for this week's landslides in southern China have killed 55 people and left 14 others missing, Chinese authorities say. At least nine provinces have had storms and some flooding and landslides since Tuesday, the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs website said on its website on Saturday. Ten provincial localities in south China have been affected including Anhui, ...
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Navy pilot earns masters degree in engineering while in combat zone
The Navy lieutenant needed armed guards and an armored car to get to an exam site, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A deadly bomb attack also caused him to his miss classes — transmitted live via the Internet — but he ...
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UPDATE 1-Northeast Japan jolted by M5.9 quake no tsunami warning
TOKYO, May 18 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 jolted northeastern Japan on Saturday, but no tsunami warning was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Tokyo Electric Power Co's two nuclear plants in ...
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Feds to investigate Conn. train crash
>Are you there? Stay safe and share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Federal transportation investigators will work to determine what caused two passenger trains to collide during rush hour in Connecticut, sending dozens to the hospital. Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board will be at the site of the crash this morning, the agency said. The two Metro-North passenger ...
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Gosnell Seeps into the News
By most accounts, Kermit Gosnell seemed stunned last week when a jury found him guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in what seemed to have been his routine killings of newborn babies at his abortion clinic in Philadelphia; he thought he was doing his job. Abortion is legal and is a much-touted right. The president recently lavished praise on Planned Parenthood, a lobbyist for which had ...
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Report Israel prefers Assad survive Syria conflict
Israeli intelligence officer tells 'Times of London' that Israel prefers a "devil it knows than demons it can only imagine"; another source said Assad's staying power had been ...
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British woman could face death penalty for smuggling
A British woman could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly smuggling crystal methamphetamine into the country from China, an official said. The woman, identified only by her initials AR, was arrested at a hotel in the city of Surabaya, East Java province, last month with 1.47 kilograms of the drug, the Indonesian narcotics agency said. "Because ...
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Earthquake strikes Japan
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has stuck 278km north east of Tokyo, Japan. The US Geological Survey says the quake was 41km deep. - Herald ...
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Earthquake strikes Japan
A strong 6.1 earthquake has struck off the northern coast of Japan's main Honshu island, seismologists say, but no tsunami warning was issued and there are no immediate reports of damage. The quake hit at 2.48pm (local time) in the Pacific some 50 kilometres from the town of Namie near the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi plant, the United States Geological Survey said. Japan's meteorological ...
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Earthquake strikes Japan
A strong 6.1 earthquake has struck off the northern coast of Japan's main Honshu island, seismologists say, but no tsunami warning was issued and there are no immediate reports of damage. The quake hit at 2.48pm (local time) in the Pacific some 50 kilometres from the town of Namie near the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi plant, the United States Geological Survey said. Japan's meteorological ...
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Earthquake strikes Japan
A strong 6.1 earthquake has struck off the northern coast of Japan's main Honshu island, seismologists say, but no tsunami warning was issued and there are no immediate reports of damage. The quake hit at 2.48pm (local time) in the Pacific some 50 kilometres from the town of Namie near the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi plant, the United States Geological Survey said. Japan's ...
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48 Hours Unraveling the lies of Jodi Arias
Jodi deserves the DP she deserves no mercy she has no redeeming qualities. She premeditated the slaughter of Travis and an overkill only because if she could not have him then in her mind neither would anyone else. She has no ...
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Canada's Battle of the Museums?
Canada is set to have two air and space museums as the long-established Canada Aviation Museum expands its interests into the realm of space, and changes its name to one which seems to directly challenge another aviation museum, but closer examination suggests something else.
Canada has a rich and distinguished history in aviation, it was one of the leading countries in developing the then ambiguous and dangerous aviation industry and contributed in giving the world such iconic planes as the famous De Havilland range of aircraft, and played a major role in the development of aircraft through the Second World War and into the 1960’s. Read more
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