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Bangladesh factory death toll passes 800
Full Article South China Morning Post
08 May 2013

The death toll from Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster passed 800 on Wednesday as rescuers pulled dozens more bodies from the rubble of a nine-storey building that collapsed outside Dhaka last month. “The death toll now stands at 803” with 790 bodies recovered from the wreckage and 13 victims who died in hospital, said Lieutenant Mir Rabbi, an...

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Workers and army personnel use heavy machinery as they work to clear the site and recover bodies of victims from the rubble of a garment factory building that collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, May 7, 2013.
photo: AP / Ismail Ferdous

updated 03 May 2013; published 03 May 2013
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Death toll tops 500 in Bangladesh factory disaster
updated 05 May 2013; published 05 May 2013
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Bangladesh death toll spirals above 600
updated 06 May 2013; published 06 May 2013
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Bangladesh Building Collapse Death Toll at 622
updated 03 May 2013; published 03 May 2013
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More than 500 die in Bangladesh factory collapse
updated 03 May 2013; published 03 May 2013
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Bangladesh factory collapse death toll over 500
updated 03 May 2013; published 03 May 2013
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Death toll from the Rana Plaza disaster passes five hundred
Obama urges prosecution, courts-martial for sexual assaults in military
Full Article The State
08 May 2013

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama delivered a blistering rebuke of sexual assaults in the military Tuesday, saying perpetrators are “betraying the uniform that they’re wearing” and that he’s told Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel the administration needs to "exponentially step up our game" to curb the abuse. “They may...

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File - U.S. Army Spc. Amanda Vasquez, with Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, renders a salute during the presentation of the colors at "Fight Night for Heroes," the first ever mixed martial arts fights held in Iraq, at Forward Operating Base Marez, in Mosul, Iraq, Sept. 5, 2009.
photo: US Army

updated 07 May 2013; published 07 May 2013
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Sexual Assault In Military: Obama Gets Tough
updated 12 Mar 2013; published 12 Mar 2013
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MSNBC's Morning Joe: McCaskill Talks About Work to Combat Military Sexual Assault
updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
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Obama on military sex assault victims: 'I've got their backs'
updated 25 Apr 2013; published 25 Apr 2013
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McCaskill: There Must be a Culture Change in the Military When it Comes to Sexual Assaults
updated 07 May 2013; published 07 May 2013
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Obama: No 'Training' 'Awareness Programs' For Military Sex Offenders, 'There Will Be Accountability'
updated 14 Mar 2013; published 14 Mar 2013
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Gillibrand: Sexual violence 'intolerable'
Suspect in Ohio helped neighbors look for missing women
Full Article Tampa Bay Online
08 May 2013

CLEVELAND - In the years after his friend's daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old's photo and performed music at a fundraiser held in her honor. When neighbors gathered for a candlelight vigil just a year ago to remember the girl, Castro was there too, comforting the girl's mother....

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Amanda Berry, right, hugs her sister Beth Serrano after being reunited in a Cleveland hospital Monday May 6, 2013.
photo: AP / Family Handout courtesy WOIO-TV

updated 07 May 2013; published 07 May 2013
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Charles Ramsey Black HERO Amanda Berry and Gina Dejesus are found alive in Cleveland Ohio Basement
updated 07 May 2013; published 07 May 2013
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Cleveland Missing teens Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus Michelle Knight found alive
updated 07 May 2013; published 07 May 2013
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Neighbor describes Ariel Castro
updated 07 May 2013; published 07 May 2013
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Cleveland Neighbor Saw Naked Lady in Ariel Castro's Yard of Missing Women,
updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
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Suspect in Ohio helped neighbors look for missing
updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
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Ariel Castro's Neighbors Saw Naked Woman On Lawn Chained Leash Around Neck Amanda Berry Kidnapping
Italy cargo ship slams into Genoa port, kills 4
Full Article The Guardian
08 May 2013

ROME (AP) — At least four people died after a cargo ship slammed into a control tower in the Italian port of Genoa, toppling it into the harbor, rescue officials said Wednesday. A half-dozen other people remained unaccounted for, including some feared trapped inside the submerged elevator of the control tower, officials said. Luca Cari, spokesman...

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Rescue personnel stand on rubble next to a tilted staircase, part of a control tower which collapsed after a cargo ship slammed into it during a shift change Tuesday night in the port of Genoa, northern Italy, killing at least three people, Wednesday, May 8, 2013.
photo: AP / Francesco Pecoraro

updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
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Cargo ship slammed into the building in the port of Genoa
updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
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Three dead after cargo ship hits control tower in Genoa
updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
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Genoa cargo ship crash 'kills 3'
updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
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cargo ship hits control tower in Genoa,3dead
updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
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Genoa cargo ship tragedy 08/05/2013
updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
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Three killed, six missing after ship crashes into Italian port tower (UPDATE)
3 car bomb attacks hit Kurdish security forces in Iraq
Full Article Xinhua
08 May 2013

KIRKUK, Iraq, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Two suicide car bombers and a car bomb struck Kurdish security forces in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, killing at least two and wounding more than 29, a local police source said. The attacks occurred...

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Civilians and security forces personnel gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in the Husseiniyah suburb of northeastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 6, 2013.
photo: AP / Karim Kadim

updated 03 May 2013; published 03 May 2013
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Month of MURDER! April DEADLIEST month in IRAQ in 5 YEARS! 700 DEAD and 1600 injured (Divide & RUIN)
updated 24 Aug 2012; published 24 Aug 2012
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Deadly bombing strikes Turkey's southeast
updated 29 Apr 2013; published 29 Apr 2013
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Iraqi Car bombings Kill 16 People
updated 17 Feb 2013; published 17 Feb 2013
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Iraq car bomb blast in Shia market leaves more than 20 dead
updated 15 Feb 2013; published 15 Feb 2013
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Syrian opposition captures eastern town of al-Shaddadeh
updated 19 Feb 2013; published 19 Feb 2013
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Blast In Kirkuk Kills One, Wounds 16
Syria cut off from global Internet
Full Article Al Jazeera
08 May 2013

Internet connections between Syria and the outside world have been cut off, according to data from Google Inc and other global Internet companies. Tuesday's shutdown effectively "disconnects Syria from Internet communication with the rest of the world,” according to companies that monitor online traffic around the world. Google's Transparency...

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Under a portrait of late Syrian President Hafez Assad, Syrians check the internet
photo: AP / Hussein Malla

updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
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SYRIA Internet Blackout 7th May 2013
updated 24 Mar 2012; published 24 Mar 2012
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WorldSite .WS Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) by Global Domains International
updated 01 Dec 2012; published 01 Dec 2012
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Syria: Internet and mobile communication 'cut off'
updated 30 Nov 2012; published 30 Nov 2012
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Anonymous have said they will shut down the Syrian governments websites around the world
updated 03 Jan 2013; published 03 Jan 2013
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Dozens killed in Syria air raid
updated 01 Dec 2012; published 01 Dec 2012
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Grisly video allegedly shows rebels murder unarmed, terrified loyalists in Syria
When people disappear, investigators scramble for clues
Full Article BBC News
08 May 2013

People rarely reappear after vanishing for a decade. In most cases that remain unsolved for years, the outcome is grim. Lizabeth Wilson, 13, was walking home from a swimming pool in Prairie Village, Kansas, with her brother, John, 11, on a July evening in 1974. She never made it back. Her disappearance shocked the people who lived in the community...

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A truck is pulled out a driveway from a house Tuesday, May 7, 2013, where three women who vanished a decade ago were held, in Cleveland.
photo: AP / Tony Dejak

updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
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Cleveland police hit with claims of missed clues after 3 women freed
updated 13 Apr 2013; published 13 Apr 2013
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041213 CLEVELAND BODY FOUND
updated 02 Mar 2013; published 02 Mar 2013
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Drone Spotted over Cleveland
updated 07 May 2013; published 07 May 2013
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Captive women's multiple pregnancies
updated 15 Nov 2012; published 15 Nov 2012
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Cleveland Social Worker helps Metro Health Hospital Intimidate, Stereotype, and Lie
updated 18 May 2011; published 18 May 2011
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Mystery Boy's Body Puzzles Investigator: Military Connection
John Kerry seeks Vladimir Putin’s help in finding solution to Syria conflict
Full Article The Independent
07 May 2013

The US Secretary of State has sought Russian help in ending Syria’s civil war, telling President Vladimir Putin in Moscow that common interest in a stable Middle East could bridge divisions among the big powers. Mr Putin, however, kept John Kerry waiting three hours before their meeting at the Kremlin, fiddled with a pen while his guest spoke and...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, on May 7, 2013.
photo: Public Domain

updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
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John Kerry Meets Putin to Discuss Syria 7-May-13 US Goes to Meetings as Assad Kills Thousands
updated 07 May 2013; published 07 May 2013
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John Kerry Meets With Russian President Vladimir Putin To Push For Tougher Stance On Syria
updated 28 Feb 2013; published 28 Feb 2013
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At Rome meeting, US Secretary of State John Kerry announces $60 million in non-lethal aid
updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
1:37
Kerry Says Russia, U.S. have "Common Interests" in Syria
updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
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Kerry searches for common ground with Russia on Syria
updated 01 Apr 2013; published 01 Apr 2013
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Syria U.S. to Provide Food & Medicine to Syrian Fighters, not weapons
UN says 4 peacekeepers detained on Golan Heights
Full Article Austin American Statesman
07 May 2013

Armed men detained four U.N. peacekeepers on patrol on the Golan Heights in a tense area that separates Syria and Israel, the U.N. said Tuesday. A rebel group claimed it was holding the peacekeepers. It was the second time in two months that unarmed U.N. military observers have been taken captive, and illustrated again the vulnerability of the U.N....

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File - A vehicle of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) perched above the Golan Heights, near UNDOF’s Camp Faouar, Syria, 15 August 2011.
photo: UN / Wolfgang Grebien

updated 07 Mar 2013; published 07 Mar 2013
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UN peacekeepers held by fighters near Syria
updated 07 Mar 2013; published 07 Mar 2013
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UN Peacekeepers still kept hostage by Syrian Rebel Islamists
updated 07 Mar 2013; published 07 Mar 2013
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Syria rebels claim capture of UN peacekeepers - YouTube.
updated 08 Mar 2013; published 08 Mar 2013
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No sign of freedom for UN Golan peacekeepers.
updated 06 Mar 2013; published 06 Mar 2013
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SYRIA-Armed group detains 20 UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights
updated 06 Mar 2013; published 06 Mar 2013
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Syrian Rebels Hold UN Peacekeepers In Golan
SA, Nigeria aim to boost ties
Full Article Independent online (SA)
07 May 2013

Cape Town - The leaders of Africa's two largest economies, South Africa and Nigeria, were meeting on Tuesday in an effort to improve sometimes patchy ties. South African President Jacob Zuma and his Nigerian counterpart Goodluck Jonathan are expected to sign several pacts in a display of warming relations between the two African powerhouses on the...

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President Zuma Welcomes Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan
photo: Flickr / The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa

updated 08 May 2013; published 08 May 2013
4:02
Nigerian President's visit to SA hailed
updated 08 Mar 2012; published 08 Mar 2012
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Senators Calls for Review of Nigeria's African Relations
updated 06 May 2013; published 06 May 2013
2:03
SA, Nigeria cement trade partnership
updated 21 Nov 2012; published 21 Nov 2012
4:17
The Nigerian (Gents of Africa) Living in China
updated 07 Mar 2012; published 07 Mar 2012
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Deportation of Nigerians
updated 08 Mar 2012; published 08 Mar 2012
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Nigeria - South Africa Immigration Issues with Olugbenga Ashiru

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Russia's position on Syria is part principle, part pragmatism. On the pragmatic side, Russia has a naval base in Syria. It's a small soviet-era port primarily used for...
The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The White House insisted Monday that it would not be thrown off its cautious approach to Syria, despite Israeli military strikes near Damascus and new questions...
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BEIRUT -- A look at the reasons for and possible implications of the escalation of Israel's involvement in Syria's civil war. WHY NOW? Israel has said repeatedly it does not want...

Dilma Rousseff with Brazil's Roberto Azevedo ex-ambassador newly named World Trade Organization ( WTO ) director arrives in Malabo ( Guinea Equatorial )
The World Trade Organization has settled on Roberto Azevedo of Brazil, a well-known diplomat and consummate insider in Geneva circles, to serve as its director-general for the next four years, officials said on Tuesday. He is poised to become the...
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Fussball, Uefa Europameisterschaft 2012 Polen/Ukraine, Finale, Spanien - Italien, Sonntag (01.07.12), Olympiastadion, Kiew (Kiev), Ukraine: Der ukrainische Praesident Wiktor Janukowitsch (vorne 2.v.l.) steht neben dem Praesidenten des Weltfussballverbandes FIFA, Joseph Blatter (l.), dem Praesidenten des europaeischen Fussballverbandes UEFA, Michel Platini (2.v.r.), dem italienischen Ministerpraesidenten Mario Monti (vorne 3.v.r.) und dem spanischen Kronprinzen Felipe (r.) auf der Tribuene.
BERLIN – France's finance minister, Pierre Moscovici, warned on Tuesday against caricatures and misunderstandings over Germany's handling of the euro crisis, but quickly qualified his conciliatory statement about the European...
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A Sailor catches his breath after participating in the Sexual Assault Awareness Run on a base in the Middle East. More than 150 military personnel participated, including members of the Australian Defense Force.
With guys like alleged groper Jeffrey Krusinski running sexual assault prevention in the Air Force, it will surprise few that sexual assaults are on the rise in the military, and still dangerously underreported. According to a new Pentagon report,...
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jorge Saucedo
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov walk and talk
7 May 2013, 22:08 Russia And US Agree International Syria Talks Tweet Russia and the US will hold a new international conference later this month in an attempt to push the Assad regime and Syrian opposition into talks on a political transition. The...
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President Zuma Welcomes Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan and Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe. (AFP) Our Coverage More Coverage Nigeria's President Jonathan urged co-operation between his country and South Africa on Tuesday to further peace and prosperity in...
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Firefighters work as a house burns after a gas tanker truck exploded on the highway in front of the house in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec, early Tuesday, May 7, 2013.
ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JOSE OSORIO , The Associated Press Posted: Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 1:30 PM MEXICO CITY - A natural gas tanker truck lost control and exploded on a highway lined by homes in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec early Tuesday,...
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Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China, speaks during a press conference held for the National People's Congress at the media center in Beijing, China, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. Zhou, who on Tuesday was named one of the vice chairmen of China's advisory body the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said that the central bank will maintain its current monetary policies for the world's second largest economy.
HONG KONG — The state-controlled Bank of China said on Tuesday that it had halted all dealings with a key North Korean bank in what appeared to be the strongest public Chinese response yet to North Korea’s willingness to brush aside...
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