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Arkansas supreme court vacates judge's ruling against voter ID law
Full Article The Guardian
14 May 2014

State justices do not decide controversial law's constitutionality • Ruling comes as state holds early voting for primary election Pulaski county voter registration office employee checks an ID card at an early voting polling place in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. Photograph: Danny Johnston/AP The Arkansas supreme court has tossed out a judge's...

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FILE - In this May 5, 2014 file photo, a voter walks past a "Please Have Photo ID Ready" sign as he enters an early-voting polling place in downtown Little Rock, Ark.
photo: AP / Danny Johnston, File

updated 29 Apr 2014; published 29 Apr 2014
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Wisconsin's voter ID law Struck Down By Federal Judge
updated 12 Mar 2014; published 12 Mar 2014
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Supreme Court Splits Over Arizona Immigration Law
updated 22 May 2012; published 11 May 2012
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Candidates Forum: Q&A; with Judge Jo Hart for Arkansas Supreme Court
updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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Gay Marriage Ban Lifted In Arkansas
updated 08 May 2014; published 08 May 2014
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Supreme Court Refuses to Uphold the Constitution: Allows Indefinite Detention
updated 12 Sep 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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The Supreme Court: Healthcare Decision and Arizona Immigration Law Decision
Factories burned in anti-China protest in Vietnam
Full Article Philadelphia Daily News
14 May 2014

Gallery: Factories burned in anti-China protest in Vietnam Travel Deals $499 -- Bermuda: Celebrity Cruise from N.J. w/$488 in Extras   See all travel deals » CHRIS BRUMMITT, The Associated Press Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 9:58 AM HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Mobs burned and looted scores of foreign-owned factories in Vietnam following a...

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Firefighters stand across from the main entrance of Tan Than Industries as the Taiwanese bicycle factory burns, in Di An Town, Binh Duong province, Vietnam, Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
photo: AP / Jeff Nesmith

updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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Factories burnt in Vietnam anti China protest - WATCH LIVE
updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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Factories Burnt In Vietnam Anti China Protest
updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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BREAKING NEWS - Factories burnt in Vietnam anti China protest
updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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Anti-China Protesters Burn Factories in Vietnam - LIVE
updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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Factories burnt in Vietnam anti-China protest | BREAKING NEWS - 14 MAY 2014
updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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Factories burned in anti China protest in Vietnam
Vietnam Mobs Set Fire To Foreign Factories Over China's New Oil Rig In The South China Sea
Full Article Business Insider
14 May 2014

Protesters hold anti-China placards while marching in an anti-China protest on a street in Hanoi May 11, 2014. HANOI/MANILA (Reuters) - Thousands of Vietnamese set fire to factories and rampaged in industrial zones in the south of the country after protests against Chinese oil drilling in a part of the South China Sea claimed...

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Protesters stand on the corner of a street in Quan Doan 4, Binh Duong province, near Song Than 2 Industrial Park in Vietnam, Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
photo: AP / Jeff Nesmith

updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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BREAKING NEWS - Factories burnt in Vietnam anti China protest
updated 14 Apr 2014; published 14 Apr 2014
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Massive illegal arms seized in SW China
updated 30 Apr 2014; published 30 Apr 2014
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Report: Chinese Army Prepares for Diaoyu Islands Conflict
updated 12 Mar 2013; published 11 Mar 2013
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Victor Gao on China's Economy
updated 29 Jan 2014; published 29 Jan 2014
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Wang Yi China will make efforts to resolve dispute with Japan CCTV News CNTV English
updated 04 Jun 2013; published 13 Jul 2012
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US Media: China & Russia's "Authoritarian Axis"
Turkey mine blast kills at least 201, hundreds trapped
Full Article New Straits/Business Times
14 May 2014

SOMA: At least 201 people were killed and hundreds more remained trapped underground after an explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey, the government said today, warning that rescue efforts faced a race against time. The toll has risen rapidly since Tuesday’s disaster in the province of Manisa, when a total of 787 mineworkers became trapped...

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Miners carefully carrying a rescued friend hours after an explosion and fire at a coal mine killed at least 17 miners and left up to 300 workers trapped underground, in Soma, in western Turkey, late Tuesday, May 13, 2014, a Turkish official said.
photo: AP

updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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Transformer Explodes In Turkish Coal Mine; 205 Die In Fire: Turkey Coal Mine Explosion
updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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Turkey Coal Mine Explosion 200 dead, Hundreds Trapped In Soma, Manisa Turkey!!!
updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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Twenty injured in Turkish coal mine explosion
updated 13 May 2014; published 13 May 2014
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238 dead, hundreds trapped in Turkish coal mine
updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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At least 201 dead in Turkish mine blast
updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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Turkey mine explosion: Over 200 dead, hundreds trapped
Olmert joins list of convicted Israeli politicians
Full Article Newsday
13 May 2014

Travel deals JERUSALEM - (AP) -- Israel's ex-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday for his part in a wide-ranging bribery case. While he appears set to become the first Israeli prime minister to head to prison, he is the latest in a string of politicians sentenced to time behind bars. The following is a glance...

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, center, leaves the sentence hearing in a corruption case, at Jerusalem's District Court
photo: AP / Abir Sultan, Pool

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert convicted of bribery
updated 31 Mar 2014; published 31 Mar 2014
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Ehud Olmert Guilty Verdict: Former Israeli PM convicted of bribery over real estate deal
updated 31 Mar 2014; published 31 Mar 2014
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Israeli ex-PM Olmert convicted of corruption
updated 01 Apr 2014; published 01 Apr 2014
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was found guilty in bribery case
updated 04 Apr 2014; published 04 Apr 2014
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Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Convicted of Bribery
updated 31 Mar 2014; published 31 Mar 2014
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Israel's ex PM Ehud Olmert convicted of bribery - 31 March 2014
Ukraine needs Russia and the West
Full Article The Washington Post
13 May 2014

Violence in Ukraine is spreading. The Ukrainian military and police are splitting apart, a reflection of the fissures in that deeply divided country. Pro-Russian separatists are taking over government buildings and police stations in eastern Ukraine. Pro-government mobs have burned protesters alive. The referenda on self-rule cobbled together by...

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In this photo taken on Monday, May 12, 2014, the leader of insurgency in the Luhansk region Valery Bolotov, center, greets people as they declare independence for the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine on Monday, May 12, 2014.
photo: AP / Evgeniy Maloletka

updated 01 Mar 2014; published 01 Mar 2014
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Build up to WW3 as UNITED STATES and RUSSIA CLASH over UKRAINE
updated 01 Mar 2014; published 01 Mar 2014
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World War 3 Russia vs Ukraine and Europe Simulation
updated 28 Feb 2014; published 28 Feb 2014
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President Obama Threatens War Against Russia Military In Ukraine WW3
updated 02 Mar 2014; published 02 Mar 2014
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RUSSIA vs Ukraine WAR : Russian Military Surround Ukrainian Military Base in Crimea
updated 06 May 2014; published 06 May 2014
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World War 3: The Crimean Crisis Ukraine, Russia, the European Union and the United States
updated 16 Apr 2014; published 16 Apr 2014
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World War 3: The Crimean Crisis - Ukraine, Russia, the European Union and the United State
EU backs 'right to be forgotten' in Google privacy case
Full Article BBC News
13 May 2014

13 May 2014 Last updated at 11:58 BST An EU court has ruled that Google must amend some search results at the request of ordinary people in a test of the so-called "right to be forgotten". The European Union Court of Justice said links to "irrelevant" and outdated data should be erased on request. The company said the ruling...

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The Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Brussels
photo: AP / Virginia Mayo

updated 13 May 2014; published 13 May 2014
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Google Loses 'Right To Be Forgotten' Privacy Case In Europe - TOI
updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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SEE - EU COURT SAYS Google must honour 'right to be forgotten'
updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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EU Court Says Google Must Honour 'Right to be Forgotten' | 13 May 2014
updated 02 Mar 2012; published 02 Mar 2012
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Protest Illegal, FBI Imam, Google Privacy - New World Next Week 03/01/12
updated 08 Mar 2012; published 08 Mar 2012
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EU wants 'right to be forgotten'
updated 06 Jun 2013; published 06 Jun 2013
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Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660 hard reset
Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped Nigerian girls for prisoners
Full Article New Straits/Business Times
13 May 2014

MAIDUGURI (Nigeria): The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has offered to release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month in exchange for its members being held in detention, according to a video posted on YouTube on Monday. The search for the girls intensified as a senior US administration official said...

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People attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue kidnapped school girls of a government secondary school Chibok, during workers day celebration in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, May 1, 2014.
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba

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Boko Haram Shows Nigeria girls Missing in New Video Kidnapped #BringBackOurGirls
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Boko Haram NEW VIDEO shows Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls | VIDEO
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Boko Haram Abducted Nigeria Girls 'Shown' In New Video Boko Haram Kidnapped Girls Converted To Islam
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Nigeria Kidnapped Girls Shown In New Boko Haram Video - 12 May 2014
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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WATCH LIVE: Nigeria kidnapped girls 'shown' in new Boko Haram video
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped Nigerian girls for prisoners
Harvard's satanic 'black Mass' angers Catholics
Full Article CNN
12 May 2014

By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Editor Follow @BurkeCNN (CNN) - A Harvard club's plan to stage a satanic "black Mass" on Monday has drawn fire and brimstone from the Archdiocese of Boston and condemnation from the president of the Ivy League school. The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club will host the two-hour ceremony at the...

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Memorial Hall, immediately north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an imposing High Victorian Gothic building. National Register of Historic Places. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
photo: Creative Commons / Kenneth C. Zirkel

updated 08 May 2014; published 08 May 2014
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Satanic Black Mass Reenactment to Take Place at Harvard
updated 08 May 2014; published 08 May 2014
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Harvard is Hosts'Reenactment' of Satanic Mass.
updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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Satanic Black Mass to Take Place at Harvard
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Harvard's Satanic Black Mass Ritual Canceled After Uproar
updated 13 May 2014; published 13 May 2014
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The Swedenborg Chapel Incident (Harvard Black Mass Incident 2014)
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Misa negra satanica en Harvard / satanic black mass
South Sudan's elections postponed, says President Kiir
Full Article BBC News
12 May 2014

South Sudan has postponed presidential elections due next year to give government and rebel forces more time to achieve reconciliation, President Salva Kiir has said. Mr Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed a ceasefire deal on Friday to end conflict that erupted in December, He said an interim government would run South Sudan until elections...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit look over their respective notes at the outset of a meeting in Juba on May 2, 2014.
photo: US DoS

updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar sign Peace deal
updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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South Sudan Rivals Kiir & Machar Agree Peace Deal - 10 May 2014
updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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South Sudan rivals Kiir and Machar agree peace deal
updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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South Sudan rivals Kiir and Machar agree peace deal
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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S.Sudan Salva Kiir says no election until at least 2017
updated 09 May 2014; published 09 May 2014
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South Sudan rivals Kiir and Machar agree peace deal

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Business Insider
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan Turkey is reeling over a tragic loss of human life following an explosion and fire at a coal mine in Soma, with the death toll up to 238 as of...
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The Charlotte Observer
BERLIN After dealing with the outrage of what they insist without any actual proof is fascism in Ukraine, Russians are turning their gaze upon what they see as the latest...
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CounterPunch
And now Ukraine, in hindsight quite predictable. Quantitative becomes qualitative at some point in the logic of events—perhaps the coup, perhaps the Pacific Rim visit to nail down...

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Ten years as head of government have taken a toll on Manmohan Singh, as they might of any other figure, no matter how sturdy. But the evaluation of posterity is likely to do him greater justice than that of his contemporaries, as the Prime Minister...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
A miner cries as rescue workers carry the dead body of a miner from the mine in Soma, western Turkey, Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
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As people in Turkey start looking for answers after one of the country's worst mining tragedies, attention has quickly turned to mining safety standards in the western town of Soma. The issue of mining safety was on the political agenda before...
photo: AP / Emrah Gurel
Clashes with police during turkey taksim protests
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SOMA, TurkeyAnger and grief boiled over into a violent protest Wednesday in the western Turkish town of Soma, where officials said at least 245 miners died in a coal mine explosion and fire. Nearly 450 other miners were rescued, the mining company...
photo: Creative Commons / Mstyslav Chernov
Rescue workers carry a rescued miner outside the mine in Soma
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared three days of national mourning in Turkey after a huge explosion ripped through a coal mine in Soma yesterday. A few hours ago President Erdogan confirmed in a press conference that 363 miners have...
photo: AP / Emrah Gurel
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi gestures during a news conference at Rome's Chigi Palace premier office, Wednesday, March 24, 2010
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ROME (Reuters) - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi repeated accusations on Wednesday that he was forced out of office at the height of the euro zone crisis in 2011 as the result of a "plot" by European Union officials. Berlusconi's...
photo: AP / Riccardo De Luca
John Ging, Operations Director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
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Tweet Washington, May 14 (IANS) US President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on five individuals for their roles in the escalating conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR), media reported Wednesday. Obama signed an executive order Tuesday,...
photo: UN / JC McIlwaine
Location of the astrobiology EXPOSE-E and EXPOSE-R facilities on the International Space Station.
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Tweet Moscow, May 14 (IANS/EFE) Russia has no intention of prolonging the use of the International Space Station after 2020, as the US is proposing, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Rogozin said here Tuesday. Russia wants to redirect the money...
photo: Public Domain / NASA