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Politicians slug it out in India's first social media election
Full Article CNN
10 Apr 2014

April 10, 2014 -- Updated 0337 GMT (1137 HKT) An official checks a voter's identity card in Agartala, India, on Monday, April 7. India's general election will be held in stages over five weeks. Voters will elect 543 members to the lower house of parliament, which will then select the country's next prime minister. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is...

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Supporters listen to a speech by Senior Congress leader and Jammu and Kashmir Tourim Minister G.A Mir during an election campaign rally at Shahabad-Dooru 120 kms From South Kashmir, Srinagar, on Wednesday on 09, April 2014.
photo: WN / Imran Nissar

updated 08 Nov 2012; published 08 Nov 2012
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Social Media Impact On The Election
updated 28 Mar 2014; published 28 Mar 2014
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Open Mike: Is social media setting the agenda for 2014 polls?
updated 06 Jul 2013; published 06 Jul 2013
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India News : BJP's election strategy ready for Mission 2014 in Delhi
updated 08 Dec 2013; published 08 Dec 2013
57:36
News & Politics- Social Media Will Drive Chinese Liberalization
updated 11 Jul 2013; published 11 Jul 2013
39:21
Influence of Social Media in Elections 2014
updated 13 Oct 2013; published 13 Oct 2013
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2014 Election Campaigning
Missing Malaysia plane: Search area narrows
Full Article BBC News
10 Apr 2014

Teams are focusing on a narrowed search area in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, after more signals were heard earlier this week. Thursday's search was set to involve up to 14 aircraft and 13 ships, the agency co-ordinating the search announced. They will search 57,923 sq km (22 364 sq miles) - the smallest designated search...

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A submarine built by Bluefin Robotics is lowered into the water by systems engineer Cheryl Mierzwa in Quincy, Mass., Wednesday, April 9, 2014.
photo: AP / Scott Eisen

updated 07 Apr 2014; published 07 Apr 2014
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Confirm They HAVE Found Signals Consistent With Black Box - 7April
updated 06 Apr 2014; published 06 Apr 2014
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MH370 Pings Re-Detected By Chinese Vessel - Plane Search Signal Important Lead - 6 April 2014
updated 05 Apr 2014; published 05 Apr 2014
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Flight 370 : Chinese Ship Discovers Black Box Ping Detected In Indian Ocean - 5 April 2014
updated 07 Apr 2014; published 07 Apr 2014
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Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 Search Team Detect Two Signals
updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
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Missing Malaysia MH370 Plane Search Regains Recorder Signal - 9 April 2014
updated 05 Apr 2014; published 05 Apr 2014
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Malaysia missing plane search China ship 'picks up signal - 6 April 2014
UN: 3,600 raped in DRC in four-year period
Full Article Al Jazeera
10 Apr 2014

The United Nations has said more than 3,600 women, children and men were subjected to rape and other sexual violence in Congo over a four-year period by the country's defense and security forces or armed rebels. A UN report published on Wednesday documented 3,645 victims of sexual violence between January 2010 and December 2013, with...

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A delegation of United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) female staff visited a women's shelter for victims of sexual abuse in Goma and donated much needed supplies.
photo: UN / Marie Frechon

updated 16 Feb 2014; published 16 Feb 2014
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Montana County Attorney's Office To Mother Of 5-Year-Old Rape Victim: 'Boys Will Be boys'
updated 24 Feb 2014; published 24 Feb 2014
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Minnesota Nursing Home Defends Rapist: 89-Year-Old Victim Was A 'Flirt'
updated 27 Jun 2012; published 27 Jun 2012
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Rape Prevention: Advantages of Reporting the Crime Immediately
updated 24 Dec 2012; published 24 Dec 2012
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Sacto cop rapes elderly stroke victim
updated 05 Feb 2014; published 05 Feb 2014
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Father attacked dozens of women over 30-year period and persuaded sons to take part ..
updated 16 Aug 2010; published 16 Aug 2010
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Rape Prevention Documentary / Educational Video
US stabbing rampage leaves many injured
Full Article Al Jazeera
09 Apr 2014

An American high school student has stabbed or slashed 20 people, mostly teenagers, in a bloody 30-minute rampage in the classrooms and hallways of a Pittsburg...

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Emergency responders gather in the parking lot of the high school on the campus of the Franklin Regional School District where several people were stabbed at Franklin Regional High School on Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in Murrysville, Pa., near Pittsburgh.
photo: AP / Keith Srakocic

updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
1:04
20 students injured after stabbing in US High School
updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
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School Stabbing Victims Expected to Survive
updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
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20 hurt in mass stabbing at US high school
updated 14 Nov 2013; published 14 Nov 2013
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Pittsburgh School Shooting Wounds Three, Prompts SWAT Response
updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
1:02
Knifeman rampages through U.S. school
updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
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School Stabbing
Arab League pledges $100m to Palestinians
Full Article Al Jazeera
09 Apr 2014

Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo have renewed their commitment to give $100m in monthly aid to the government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The ministers also urged Arab governments falling behind on payments to the Palestinians to swiftly come up with the money, according to the Associated Press news agency. The pledge, made on...

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 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he addresses the Palestine Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah Wednesday July 18 2007. Abbas said Wednesday he would call early elections, harshly denouncing the Islamic Hamas in speech before
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updated 29 Nov 2012; published 29 Nov 2012
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Israel and Palestine, an animated introduction.
updated 19 Sep 2007; published 19 Sep 2007
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The Jewish-Arab Peace Song (w/ English subtitles)
updated 22 Mar 2013; published 22 Mar 2013
5:46
The Israeli Palestinian Conflict: 10 Myths Preventing Peace (Calev Myers)
updated 31 Jan 2014; published 31 Jan 2014
94:33
Peace for Israel and Palestine? Public Opinion 20 Years after Oslo
updated 05 Apr 2009; published 05 Apr 2009
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Israel and Palestine: Peace or Perpetual Conflict?
updated 05 Dec 2013; published 05 Dec 2013
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Arab League back Kerry's revival of Israel-Palestinian peace talks
US Senate Republicans block 'Paycheck Fairness Act'
Full Article BBC News
09 Apr 2014

Republicans in the US Senate have blocked a Democratic bill aimed at closing the gap between what men and women are paid. The Paycheck Fairness Act fell seven votes short of the 60 required to advance in the chamber. Republicans dismiss the bill as an election year ploy that would invite frivolous lawsuits. But Democrats cite Census Bureau data...

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., left, talk about the gender pay gap as the Senate begins debate on wage equity, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2014.
photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite

updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
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Senate Republicans Veto 'Paycheck Fairness Act'
updated 07 Jun 2012; published 07 Jun 2012
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Mikulski, Murray, DeLauro, Ledbetter Speak on Senate Republican Filibuster of Paycheck Fairness Act
updated 06 Jun 2012; published 06 Jun 2012
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Paycheck Fairness Act: 'Misogynist' Republicans Scuttle Bill in Senate
updated 11 Jun 2012; published 11 Jun 2012
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Jobs for Veterans, Paycheck Fairness Act, and Interest Rates on Student Loans (2012)
updated 04 Jun 2012; published 04 Jun 2012
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GOP Opposed To Bill That's Good For Women And The Economy
updated 05 Feb 2014; published 05 Feb 2014
0:59
GOP backs equal pay for equal work
Oscar Pistorius trial: 'Pit bull' prosecutor grills athlete in dramatic cross-examination
Full Article The Independent
09 Apr 2014

Oscar Pistorius was left shaken after an extremely graphic photograph of Reeva Steenkamp's head wound was shown in court as State Prosecutor Gerrie Nel began his cross-examination demanding he "take responsibility" for killing his girlfriend. On the first day of cross-examination, Mr Nel, known in South Africa as the 'pit bull', asked for...

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Oscar Pistorius leaves the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Pistorius is charged with murder for shooting dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013.
photo: AP / Themba Hadebe

updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
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3rd day for Pistorius cross-examination, Chriselda Lewis reports
updated 04 Mar 2014; published 04 Mar 2014
1:56
Oscar Pistorius trial Neighbour cross examined in court
updated 25 Mar 2014; published 25 Mar 2014
1:31
Prosecution Rests In Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial
updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
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Oscar Pistorius Trial-Week 3
updated 10 Apr 2014; published 10 Apr 2014
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Pistorius grilled by prosecutor
updated 13 Mar 2014; published 13 Mar 2014
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Oscar Pistorius trial: Forensic analyst says athlete 'was not wearing prosthetic legs'
Over 20 killed, nearly 70 injured in blast in Pakistan
Full Article The Times of India
09 Apr 2014

ISLAMABAD: Over 20 people were killed and nearly 70 others injured on Wednesday in a blast that ripped through a bustling fruit market on the outskirts of the Pakistan's capital, even as peace talks are on with the banned Taliban. The blast occurred in the fruit market in Sector I-11 of the capital, bordering the garrison city of Rawalpindi. No...

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Police cordon off the area of a blast in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, April 9, 2014.
photo: AP / B.K. Bangash

updated 12 Jun 2011; published 12 Jun 2011
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34 Killed, 94 Injured In Twin Blasts In Pakistani Market
updated 10 Oct 2013; published 10 Oct 2013
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Ten killed, dozens injured in Pakistan blasts
updated 17 Feb 2013; published 17 Feb 2013
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Pakistan bomb blast - Dozens dead in Quetta market
updated 09 Apr 2014; published 09 Apr 2014
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18 Killed In Bomb Blast In Fruit Market On Outskirts Of Pakistani Capital - 9 April 2014
updated 17 Feb 2013; published 17 Feb 2013
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Bomb blast in Pakistan market, killing 81
updated 20 Jan 2014; published 20 Jan 2014
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Deadly blast hits Pakistan city of Rawalpindi, killing 14 people
Will the violence in Iraq ever ebb?
Full Article Al Jazeera
09 Apr 2014

Wire reports attested that anonymous gunmen near Baghdad kidnapped and later executed six men on April 6, while another 11 people were killed across the country. In what were routine assassinations, police investigators stumbled on the bodies, all with gunshot wounds to the head. No one claimed responsibility for these slayings, or for most of the...

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File - U.S. Army Soldiers with 4th Platoon, Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division out of Fort Carson, Colo., and Iraqi national police search for anti-coalition forces in the area of Dora in southern Baghdad, Iraq, July 23, 2007.
photo: USAF / Master Sgt. Jonathan Doti

updated 20 Mar 2013; published 20 Mar 2013
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BREAKING: At least 90 killed, 200 wounded in Baghdad
updated 17 Feb 2013; published 17 Feb 2013
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Breaking news: Baghdad Iraq car bomb blasts kills more than 20 people in shia area
updated 22 Mar 2014; published 22 Mar 2014
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Air strikes target suspected Sunni militants in Iraq
updated 20 Mar 2013; published 20 Mar 2013
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Attacks claim 80 lives on Iraq anniversary
updated 20 Jan 2014; published 20 Jan 2014
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Battlefield Iraq: Heavy Clashes And Fighting Between Insurgents And Iraqi Army In The Anbar Province
updated 20 May 2013; published 20 May 2013
0:48
Iraq: Baghdad and Basra hit by car bomb attacks
Ukraine fears history repeating as talks involve everyone but Ukraine
Full Article Denver Post
09 Apr 2014

Related Stories Apr 8:Pro-Russian activists declare eastern region independentApr 6:EU stresses need for Russia to defuse tensions with UkraineApr 3:Report: Russia arrests 25 Ukrainians for sabotageUkrainian officers join NATO drills in BulgariaUkraine detains riot police over sniper deathsApr 1:One battalion leaves Ukraine; thousands of troops...

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Pro-Russian activists hold a huge Russian national flag in front of the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, April 6, 2014
photo: AP / Andrey Basevich

updated 02 Mar 2014; published 02 Mar 2014
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Ukraine, Russia and the WWIII Threat with Helga Zepp-LaRouche
updated 16 Mar 2014; published 16 Mar 2014
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Ukraine's Right Sector leader threatens to blow up pipeline from Russia to EU
updated 03 Mar 2014; published 03 Mar 2014
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Who Is Provoking the Unrest in Ukraine? A Debate on Role of Russia, U.S. in Regional Crisis (2/2)
updated 02 Mar 2014; published 02 Mar 2014
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U.S. Urges Immediate Deployment of U.N. Monitors to Ukraine
updated 03 Mar 2014; published 03 Mar 2014
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Who Is Provoking the Unrest in Ukraine? A Debate on Role of Russia, United States in Regional Crisis
updated 03 Mar 2014; published 03 Mar 2014
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Russia And China 'In Agreement' Over Ukraine

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SOUTH Africa's workplaces are still heavily racially skewed 20 years after the fall of apartheid, with only one fifth of top executive positions held by blacks, says a new report....
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A review of the best commentary on and around the world... Today's must-read President Barack Obama and former Presidents George W Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter are...
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The practice of taking selfies may be banned from the White House after U.S. President Barack Obama took exception to Samsung advertising stunts involving self-directed snaps....

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov walk through the Russian Ambassador's house in Paris, France, on March 30, 2014, before a meeting focused on Ukraine.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart have agreed on the need to resolve the security situation in eastern Ukraine peacefully, officials say. It comes as pro-Russia activists continue to occupy state buildings in eastern cities...
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File - Afghan President Hamid Karzai takes the stage to speak at the National Military Academy's (NMA) third graduation ceremony at the NMA in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 22, 2011.
KIM GAMEL Associated Press= KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan central government authorities on Wednesday began questioning the police commander who killed an Associated Press photographer and wounded an AP reporter, a day after he was transferred...
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A man, center, supervises a dancing group during a mass folk dance in front of the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, April 15, 2013.
North Korea's newly elected parliament met for the first time Wednesday to rubber-stamp a reshuffle of high-ranking officials, including the re-election of leader Kim Jong-un. Military politburo chief Choe Ryong-hae was elected as vice chairman of...
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In this Aug. 18, 2010 file photo, Palestinian students visit the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial during their tour in Jerusalem. Six decades after the German Nazis murdered 6 million Jews, Israel's national Holocaust memorial has launched a new effort to educate the country's Arab minority, many of whom either deny the horror or undermine its scope.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday warned several state legislatures against initiatives that would punish the state-owned French railway company SNCF for carrying out Holocaust-era deportations to Nazi death and labor camps....
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem, Sunday, April 6, 2014.
The moves came a day after US Secretary of State John Kerry blamed Israel for derailing the process by announcing new settlement construction. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered ministers to limit contact with their Palestinian...
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A man browsing through the internet using a laptop computer
A major new security vulnerability referred to as Heartbleed was disclosed late Monday night with severe implications for the entire Web. Hundreds of thousands of web and email servers worldwide could easily have this software flaw that lets...
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Pakistan army soldiers patrol in the vicinity of the army training camp in Mardan near Peshawar, Pakistan  Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. A teen suicide bomber in a school uniform attacked soldiers during morning exercises at a Pakistani army training camp killing many troops and injuring dozens of others, police and the military said.
A bomb has ripped through a passenger train in southwest Pakistan, killing at least 14 people. Police say Tuesday&aposs; blast occurred after the train stopped...
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