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Boris Berezovsky inquest due to open
Full Article BBC News
28 Mar 2013

An inquest into the death of exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky is due to open later. Mr Berezovsky, 67, was found dead on Saturday on a bathroom floor at his home in Ascot, Berkshire. A post-mortem examination found his death was consistent with hanging, but further tests are being carried out and are likely to take several weeks. The inquest...

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In this April 29, 1998 file photo, President Boris Yeltsin presents Boris Berezovsky, one of Russia's most prominent tycoons, as new executive secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States at the alliance's summit in Moscow.
photo: AP / RIA-Novosti, Presidential Press Service

updated 28 Mar 2013; published 28 Mar 2013
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Berezovsky death inquest: associates of exiled Russian oligarch cast doubt on suicide story
updated 24 Mar 2013; published 24 Mar 2013
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Boris Berezovsky found dead on bathroom floor behind locked door
updated 12 Mar 2013; published 12 Mar 2013
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Litvinenko Suspect Withdraws From Inquest
updated 28 Mar 2013; published 28 Mar 2013
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Berezovsky Found With 'Ligature' Around Neck
updated 24 Mar 2013; published 24 Mar 2013
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Death of Boris Berezovsky --- Умер Борис БерезовскийBoris Berezovsky is dead
updated 24 Mar 2013; published 24 Mar 2013
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Death of Boris Berezovsky --- Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky
Defense in Colorado Killings Seeks Plea Deal
Full Article The New York Times
28 Mar 2013

CENTENNIAL, Colo.Defense lawyers for James E. Holmes, who is charged with killing 12 people and wounding dozens more at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater last summer, signaled in court filings on Wednesday that they were willing to have Mr. Holmes plead guilty if he was spared the death penalty. Enlarge This Image Pool photo by R.J. Sangosti...

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James Holmes, Aurora theater shooting suspect in the courtroom
photo: AP / Denver Post, RJ Sangosti, Pool

updated 23 Jul 2012; published 23 Jul 2012
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James Holmes, alleged Colorado mass murderer, in court
updated 13 Mar 2013; published 13 Mar 2013
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James Holmes New Court Appearance Video 2013
updated 24 Jul 2012; published 24 Jul 2012
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UPDATE: Colorado Shooter James Holmes 1st Court Appearances w/ VICTIM PHOTOS & LINKS (FULL VIDEO)
updated 12 Mar 2013; published 12 Mar 2013
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James Holmes New Court Appearance Video [no audio] - March 12, 2013
updated 04 Jan 2013; published 04 Jan 2013
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Theater shooter actors linked to Sandy hook actors- Exposed As a Fruad
updated 12 Mar 2013; published 12 Mar 2013
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Judge Enters Not Guilty Plea On Behalf Of James Holmes
N.Korea Severs Military Hotline
Full Article Chosunilbo
28 Mar 2013

North Korea on Wednesday severed a military hotline with South Korea used to ensure the safety of personnel commuting to and from the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex. The move came as the South Korean government proposed inviting international investment to the Kaesong complex as part of efforts to build trust with North...

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South Korean army soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, March 27, 2013.
photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon

updated 28 Mar 2013; published 28 Mar 2013
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N Korea severs military hotline with South
updated 28 Mar 2013; published 28 Mar 2013
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South Korea says North behind cyber-attacks
updated 11 Mar 2013; published 11 Mar 2013
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North Korea Ends Armistice Agreement, Severs Communication With South
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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N Korea severs military hotline with South
updated 28 Mar 2013; published 28 Mar 2013
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North Korea severs military hotline with South Korea
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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N Korea severs military hotline with South
Abu Qatada: Theresa May loses latest attempt to deport Islamist cleric
Full Article The Guardian
27 Mar 2013

Court of appeal rejects home secretary's attempt to overturn decision to block radical cleric's deportation to Jordan Abu Qatada was described at a recent hearing as a 'truly dangerous' individual who escaped deportation through 'errors of law'. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA The home secretary, Theresa May, has lost her latest legal attempt to...

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File - Abu Qatada arrives back at his residence in London after being freed from prison, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012.
photo: AP / Matt Dunham

updated 14 Nov 2012; published 14 Nov 2012
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Radical preacher Abu Qatada wins appeal to stay in U.K.
updated 11 Mar 2013; published 11 Mar 2013
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Abu Qatada: Jordan 'Pledges Fair Trial'
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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Abu Qatada Stays As Theresa May Loses Appeal
updated 14 Nov 2012; published 14 Nov 2012
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Al-Qaida-linked cleric Abu Qatada freed from UK jail
updated 16 Nov 2012; published 16 Nov 2012
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Abu Qatada Supporter On London Underground
updated 17 Jan 2012; published 17 Jan 2012
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Radical cleric Abu Qatada wins extradition appeal.mp4
Fracking 'linked to biggest Oklahoma earthquake'
Full Article BBC News
27 Mar 2013

Scientists say wastewater injection from hydraulic fracturing was linked to a magnitude-5.7 earthquake that struck the US state of Oklahoma in 2011. Fracking, as it is known, injects water and chemicals into petroleum wells in a bid to extract trapped natural gas. Opponents of the practice say that it risks causing seismic events and contaminating...

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File - Chad Devereaux examines bricks that fell from three sides of his in-laws home in Sparks, Okla. on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011 after two earthquakes hit the area in less than 24 hours. A team of scientists have determined that a 5.6 magnitude quake in Oklahoma in 2011 was caused when oil drilling waste was injected deep underground.
photo: AP / Sue Ogrocki

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11/5/2011 -- 4.7 magnitude earthquake in Oklahoma -- 'Fracking' the cause?!
updated 12 Dec 2012; published 12 Dec 2012
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12/11/2012 -- Fracking Locations / OWNERS NAMES / Substances pumped -- now on Climateviewer
updated 11 Aug 2012; published 11 Aug 2012
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8/11/2012 -- Louisiana Sink Hole Explained -- POSSIBLE HUGE CATASTROPHE
updated 22 Aug 2012; published 22 Aug 2012
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8/22/2012 --NEW Bubbles form near Bayou Corne, LA
updated 22 Oct 2012; published 22 Oct 2012
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Youngstown PUC 9-18-12 prt 3 of 3 Fracking Forum w/ City Council
updated 31 Dec 2011; published 31 Dec 2011
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12/31/2011 -- Youngstown, Ohio -- Man Made earthquakes -- FRACKING blamed as official cause
Ban: 11,200 peacekeepers could be needed for Mali
Full Article Middle East Online
27 Mar 2013

Up to 11,200 troops could be needed for a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali but a "parallel" military force will have to battle radical Islamists, UN leader Ban Ki-Moon said Tuesday. The 11,200 troops could only cover main towns "assessed to be at highest risk," Ban said in a grim report on conditions in Mali that the UN Security Council will discuss...

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File - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs the General Assembly on what the UN and Member States have achieved together over the past year and “where concerted action today can yield great gains tomorrow.” Among the challenges and priorities he cited for 2013 were the situations in Syria, Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas

updated 28 Mar 2013; published 28 Mar 2013
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UN finally says yes to Mali peacekeeping mission - but not without French participation
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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Mali needs peacekeepers, 'parallel' force to fight Islamist radicals, UN says
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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Mali to get UN peacekeepers: UN chief proposes 11,200-strong peacekeeping force
updated 22 Jan 2013; published 22 Jan 2013
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UN debating international body's peacekeeping mission
updated 05 Feb 2013; published 05 Feb 2013
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Biden Backs Plan for UN Peacekeeping Force in Mali
updated 23 Jan 2013; published 23 Jan 2013
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Ban Ki Moon 'UN should not intervene in Mali'.
North Korea warns of 'simmering nuclear war'
Full Article Al Jazeera
27 Mar 2013

North Korea has again threatened war against South Korea and the United States, saying conditions "for a simmering nuclear war" have been created on the peninsula. The communist state's foreign ministry said it will inform the UN Security Council of the latest situation, as tensions continue to simmer on Wednesday. "Upon authorisation of the...

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In this March 7, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed March 8, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, uses binoculars to look at the South's territory from an observation post at the military unit on Jangjae islet, located in the southernmost part of the southwestern sector of North Korea's border with South Korea.
photo: AP / KCNA via KNS

updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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North Korea warns of 'simmering nuclear war'
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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WW3 SIMMERING: N KOREA THREATENS SOUTH KOREA & US - AGAIN!
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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N Korea severs military hotline with South
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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Anaylsis: N Korea rhetoric against US, S Korea
updated 28 Mar 2013; published 28 Mar 2013
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US deploys bombers amid Korea tensions!
updated 26 Nov 2010; published 26 Nov 2010
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North Korea Attacks South Korea: Is China to Blame? 北朝鮮、韓国に攻撃, 북한 포병
Syrian opposition group takes seat at Arab League
Full Article Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
27 Mar 2013

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- To the outrage of Syria's embattled government, the opposition coalition leader formally took its vacant seat at an Arab League summit meeting Tuesday and immediately requested broader recognition, including from the United Nations, as part of an effort to further ostracize President Bashar Assad. Meanwhile, Two...

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Emir of Qatar Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, center, attends the opening session of the Arab League Summit in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, March 26, 2013.
photo: AP / Ghiath Mohamad

updated 26 Mar 2013; published 26 Mar 2013
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Opposition take up Syria's vacant seat at Arab League
updated 26 Mar 2013; published 26 Mar 2013
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Syria : the opposition takes official seat at Arab League summit (Qatar)
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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Opposition take up Syria's vacant seat at Arab League 3/26/2013
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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Richard Murphy: 'Momentum is with the Syrian opposition'
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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Syrian opposition takes up seat at Arab League.
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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Syria opposition coalition take Arab League summit seat.
Gay marriage: US Supreme Court to hear Defense of Marriage Act case
Full Article Joy Online
27 Mar 2013

The US Supreme Court is to consider whether to strike down a law denying federal benefits to same-sex couples, a day after weighing a gay marriage ban. The Defense of Marriage Act denies gay couples access to federal benefits under its definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman only. On Tuesday California's Proposition 8, which...

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Demonstrators chant outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2013, as the court heard arguments on California's voter approved ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8.
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

updated 08 Dec 2012; published 08 Dec 2012
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Supreme Court To Legalize Gay Marriage? (Dec 7, 2012 - MSNBC)
updated 09 Dec 2012; published 09 Dec 2012
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Marriage Equality: Supreme Court To Take Up Landmark Civil Rights Case (Dec 7, 2012 - MSNBC)
updated 13 Dec 2012; published 13 Dec 2012
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Supreme Court Gay Marriage Debate, With Political Consultant Brad Bannon
updated 25 Mar 2013; published 25 Mar 2013
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Christian Commentary: US Supreme Court, Gay Marriage, Prop 8, DOMA, and the End of the World
updated 20 Mar 2013; published 20 Mar 2013
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Prop 8 and DOMA: Facts of the cases
updated 24 Feb 2013; published 24 Feb 2013
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Obama Wants Supreme Court To Rule Defense Of Marriage Act DOMA Unconstitutional.
China Says Its Flares Didn't Hit Vietnamese Boats
Full Article The New York Times
27 Mar 2013

BEIJING (AP) — China said its navy fired flares at Vietnamese fishing boats but denied Hanoi's claim that a vessel was damaged in an incident that is highlighting tensions over disputed South China Sea islands and surrounding waters believed to hold a wealth of oil and natural gas deposits. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for...

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In this photo taken on Friday, July 20, 2012, Chinese fishing boats sail in the lagoon of Meiji reef off the island province of Hainan in the South China Sea.
photo: AP

updated 26 Mar 2013; published 26 Mar 2013
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Unidentified Chinese Ship Fires on Vietnamese Fishing Boat
updated 26 Mar 2013; published 26 Mar 2013
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Chinese navy opens fire at Vietnamese fishing boat in South China Sea
updated 27 Mar 2013; published 27 Mar 2013
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Unidentified Chinese Ship Fires on Vietnamese Fishing Boat
updated 20 Aug 2012; published 20 Aug 2012
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Tensions flare over Japan-China islands dispute - no comment
updated 12 Jun 2011; published 12 Jun 2011
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Anti-China protest continues inside Hanoi, Sunday June 12th 2011
updated 26 Mar 2013; published 26 Mar 2013
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China News - BRICS Summit, Russia Super Jet Sale, N. Korea Threat - NTD China News

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By JEFF BENNETT And JOSEPH B. WHITE For General Motors Co.'s Cadillac luxury brand, it's back to square one. A decade ago, Cadillac launched a midsize sedan called the CTS that...
Foreign Policy
Are the best days of the European Union already behind it? Just a few months ago, having won the Nobel Prize for Peace, it could boast of decades without a major war, the westward...
The Dallas Morning News
A couple of years ago, journalist Nicholas Shaxson published a fascinating, chilling book titledTreasure Islands, which explained how international tax havens — which are...

In this file photo made June 27, 2006, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.
Prisoners participating in a hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre have lodged new complaints about their military jailers to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Wednesday's charges come as an ICRC team made a fact-finding...
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 Chilean President Michelle Bachelet returned on Saturday to the place where she was imprisoned and tortured more than 30 years ago under military rule -- Agregó, además, que en su regreso al recinto de detención, lo encuentra transformado en Parque de la
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Former President Michelle Bachelet says she will run again for Chile's top office in November elections as the candidate of the country's center-left and...
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Press Conference: UN Women- The future women want  Participants:  Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women and Gro Harlem Brundtland, Former Prime Minister of Norway  Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Climate Change.     Moderator:  Deborah Seward, Director, Strategic Communications Division, UN Department of Public Information
The former president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, has said she will run for a second mandate in the November poll. Mrs Bachelet became the first female president of Chile in 2006, serving out her term in 2010. She has spent the last three years in...
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Bank of Cyprus
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cypriots are expected to descend in their thousands on Thursday on banks, which reopen with tight controls imposed on transactions to prevent fleeing depositors from cleaning out the vaults in a catastrophic bank run. The east...
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James E. Holmes appears in Arapahoe County District Court with Public Defender Tamara Brady Monday, July 23, 2012, in Centennial, Colo.
Defence attorneys for the former graduate student accused of killing 12 people at a Denver area movie theatre last July have offered to have him plead guilty in exchange for a life prison term, according to court documents filed today. Public...
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Police officers secure the perimeter, with a sealed gate into the compound and a house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed late Monday, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday, May 3, 2011.
A NEW version of the events surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden sharply contradicts earlier claims by a Navy SEAL who said he pulled the trigger. Esquire magazine published a long interview in February with a man identified only as "the...
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Alexei Navalny
MOSCOW — Since his earliest days as an opposition blogger, Aleksei A. Navalny has known that a prison sentence loomed as a possibility. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List:...
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