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9:00 AM After Monday's surprising news that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is buying The Washington Post for $250 million — a deal that came just days after the Boston Globe was...
The Independent
McDonald’s has admitted 90 per cent of its UK employees are on zero-hours contracts. The admission indicates the fast-food chain is potentially the largest zero-hours employer in...
Asia Times
By Kaveh L Afrasiabi President Hassan Rouhani has put priority on the "oppressive sanctions" against Iran and expressed his government's desire to have "constructive relations"...

US Navy 030302-N-5362A-003 Military working dog, Camp Patriot, Kuwait, USA
As of Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, at least 2,121 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The...
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A boa constrictor sits in its cage during a press conference at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar speaks announced a proposed ban on bringing Burmese pythons and eight other kinds of large snakes in the country, saying they threaten the environment.
Autopsies will be done Tuesday in Saint John on the two young brothers believed to have been strangled to death by a python that escaped from a pet store in northern New Brunswick. Connor Barthe, 5, and his brother Noah, 7, were found lifeless in an...
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A Buddhist monk sets himself on fire in Nepal to protest Chinaese repressive rule in Tibet
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Dharamshala: - A Tibetan monk reportedly died early Tuesday morning after setting himself on fire near the Boudhanath shrine, one of the holiest Buddhist sites in Kathmandu, Nepal, to protest...
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A NASA satellite image showing the Indus River at the time of floods.  The 2010 Pakistan floods began in July 2010 following heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and Baluchistan regions of Pakistan and affected the Indus River basin.
ISLAMABAD — Heavy rains that caused flash floods and collapsed houses in different parts of Pakistan have killed 80 people and displaced more than 80,000 over the past four days, a Pakistani official said Tuesday. Civil and military authorities...
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Pakistani paramilitary soldiers watch a damaged bus at the site of a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Twin bomb attacks against Pakistani navy buses that were talking employees to work Tuesday killed at least four people and wounded more than 50 others.
Quetta - Rebel separatists killed 14 people, including three security personnel, after stopping vehicles at a fake checkpoint in Pakistan's volatile southwest on Tuesday, officials said. The attack appears to have mainly targeted people originally...
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File - A Yemeni soldier guards the front of the main entrance of the US Embassy, background, in the capital San'a, Yemen Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military evacuated non-essential U.S. government personnel from Yemen on Tuesday due to the high risk of attack by al-Qaida that has triggered temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and...
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky, right, reacts after being sentenced as he seen from behind bars at a court room in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to six more years in prison Thursday following a trial seen as payback for his defiance of Vladimir Putin's power. Judge Viktor Danilkin sentenced Khodorkovsky to fourteen years after convicting him of stealing oil from his own company and laundering the proceeds, but the judge said the new sentence is counted from his 2003 arrest and includes his previous term in jail. Khodorkovsky is in the final year of an eight-year prison sentence.
Former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is due to walk free in August of next year after his latest prison sentence was cut by two months. The supreme court reduced the sentences of Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev by two months at an appeal...
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