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Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants
Full Article The Guardian
14 Jun 2014

Tehran and Washington form fragile alliance to aid Nouri al-maliki as jihadist group threatens to take Baghdad Iraqi security forces and volunteers on the outskirts of Diyala province. Photograph: Reuters Iran has sent 2,000 advance troops to Iraq in the past 48 hours to help tackle a jihadist insurgency, a senior Iraqi official has told the...

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani takes his chair before a news conference at the Millennium Hotel in midtown Manhattan, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, in New York.
photo: AP / John Minchillo

updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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Iran sending Troops to Iraq to Fight ISIS Militants
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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Iran Ready To Help Neighbour Iraq - Iran's Rouhani Ready To Help
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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Iraq Collapsing Surprisingly Fast Seized by ISIS Terror Forces
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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Iraq conflict Iran's Rouhani 'ready to help'
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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Iranian President Offers To Help Iraq.
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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ISIS militants in Mosul show abandoned uniforms and stamp on them
Ukraine military transport plane shot down by Pro-Russian separatists in Lugansk
Full Article The Independent
14 Jun 2014

A reported 49 Ukrainian services personnel were killed when pro-Russian separatists shot down a large military transport plane in the country's unsettled east, officials...

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Ukrainian troops stand atop of a vehicle as they leave the scene of fighting in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 13, 2014.
photo: AP / Evgeniy Maloletka

updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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Ukraine Crisis Military Plane Shot Down In Luhansk - 49 Die In Downed Ukrainian Military Plane
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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Ukrainian Aircraft Shot Down By Separatists
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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Ukraine crisis: pro-Russian rebels shot down a Transport military plane in Luhansk 49 people killed
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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ATO Spokesman Reports Alleged Downing of Ukrainian IL-76 Transport Plane by Pro-Russian Rebels
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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Ukraine crisis Military plane shot down in Luhansk
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Ukraine Crisis Military Plane Shot Down In Luhansk - 49 Die In Downed Ukrainian Military Plane
Veterans Die and Political Elites Thrive Until Healthcare Becomes a Right
Full Article WorldNews.com
14 Jun 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Not only has medicine and healthcare for too long been at the service of the politically elite and wealthy in the United States but it has failed miserably in becoming a right which all citizens are endowed with. Now that the spotlight is again on a healthcare system that has even failed its...

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File - From left, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretaty of Defense Robert M. Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace depart the Pentagon Aug. 31, 2007, following a meeting.
photo: US DoD file / Cherie A. Thurlby

updated 18 Jun 2012; published 18 Jun 2012
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Political Advocacy 101
updated 07 Oct 2010; published 07 Oct 2010
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TFM: Arianna Huffington Speaks Out Against the Demonizing & Scapegoating of Our President
updated 20 Mar 2013; published 20 Mar 2013
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Dying veteran Tomas Young open letter to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
updated 07 May 2013; published 07 May 2013
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Another Veteran's Guns Confiscated After Forced 'Psychiatric Evaluation'
updated 12 Feb 2014; published 12 Feb 2014
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Architecting a Future Tele-Health Care System to Treat PTSD in the US Military
updated 16 Oct 2013; published 16 Oct 2013
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HATE: The Racist 'Southern Strategy' Thrives in The Shameless GOP
Afghan polls open in run-off presidential election
Full Article Mail Guardian South Africa
14 Jun 2014

The run-off election will decide whether former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah or ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani leads the country into a new era with declining international military and civilian assistance. President Hamid Karzai is due to step down after ruling the country since 2001 when a US-led offensive ousted the austere Taliban...

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File - A voter (left) and an electoral officer (right) at at a polling station in Kabul, 5 April, 2004. Millions of Afghan women and men cast their ballots in Presidential and Provincial Council elections on 5 April, in an important step forward in their country’s first democratic transition of power.
photo: UN / Fardin Waezi

updated 02 Apr 2014; published 02 Apr 2014
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Taliban suicide blast kills six as Afghan election looms
updated 24 Oct 2009; published 24 Oct 2009
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MIR: Afghanistan - Fraud, Opium, and Taliban
updated 06 Apr 2014; published 06 Apr 2014
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Despite Taliban Threat, High Turnout In Afghan Election
updated 05 Apr 2014; published 05 Apr 2014
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Ballot Battle: Millions of Afghans defy Taliban threats in historic presidential election
updated 05 Apr 2014; published 05 Apr 2014
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Afghans vote in landmark election despite Taliban threat
updated 05 Apr 2014; published 05 Apr 2014
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Afghans vote for new president despite threat of Taliban violence - 5 April
Obama in vow over Iraq intervention
Full Article Belfast Telegraph
14 Jun 2014

Barack Obama has vowed that the United States will not be "dragged back" into military action in Iraq as long as leaders in Baghdad refuse to reform a political system that has left the county vulnerable to a fast-moving Islamic insurgency. The US president ruled out the possibility of putting American troops on the ground in Iraq, but said he was...

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In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, US Army soldiers from 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, prepare to board a military aircraft in Baghdad, Iraq, as they begin their journey home.
photo: AP / Maya Alleruzzo

updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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IRAQ: US President OBAMA warns of action as jihadists near Baghdad | BREAKING NEWS
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Obama says Iraq's Government needs HELP | BREAKING NEWS - 14 JUNE 2014
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Iraq War 2: Obama to send Troops into Iraq to stop ISIS Militants Al Qaeda - World War 3
updated 30 Aug 2013; published 30 Aug 2013
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Obama Administration Don't Compare Syria and Iraq
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Obama Speaks on Options to Help Iraq
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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Iraqis flee; Obama says Iraq's Government needs HELP | BREAKING NEWS - 14 JUNE 2014
Ukraine claims win against pro-Russian separatists in Mariupol
Full Article CNN
13 Jun 2014

June 13, 2014 -- Updated 1530 GMT (2330 HKT) A pro-Russian fighter in Slovyansk, Ukraine, checks a woman's documents as she leaves the city on Thursday, June 12. After the recent election of President Petro Poroshenko, there is still unrest in the eastern part of Ukraine, where a large separatist movement has arisen in the wake of Russia's takeover...

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A man rides a bicycle as he passes a site of a battle between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian fighters in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 13, 2014.
photo: AP / Evgeniy Maloletka

updated 16 Apr 2014; published 16 Apr 2014
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Armed Pro-Russian Separatists Seize Ukrainian Military Vehicles
updated 05 May 2014; published 05 May 2014
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Ukrainian Troops Battle Pro-Russian Militants in Slovyansk
updated 30 May 2014; published 30 May 2014
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Ukraine's President-elect vows vengeance over helicopter attack
updated 23 May 2014; published 23 May 2014
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Ukrainian Military and Separatist Battle Shooting at the CheckPoint Rubezhnoye, Slovyansk
updated 20 May 2014; published 20 May 2014
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Ukrainian election threatened by pro-Russian insurgency: East Ukraine separatists seek to stop vote
updated 09 Jun 2014; published 09 Jun 2014
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Slovyansk under fire as negotiations take place in Kyiv
Iraq crisis: Islamist militants close in on Baghdad after capturing two towns north of capital
Full Article The Independent
13 Jun 2014

Islamist militants are closing in on Baghdad after capturing two towns north of Iraq's capital. Officials said Iraqi soldiers abandoned their posts with no resistance when fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) pushed into Diyala province. Militants driving machine gun-mounted pickups entered the towns of Jalula and Sadiyah...

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In this still image posted on a militant Twitter account on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, militants parade down a main road in Mosul, Iraq.
photo: AP / militant source via Twitter

updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Iraq Conflict: ISIS Militants Seize New Towns
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Journalists: U.S. Failures in Iraq Helped Fuel Current Sectarian Crisis
updated 11 Jun 2014; published 11 Jun 2014
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Iraq crisis Militants 'seize Tikrit' after taking Mosul | BREAKING NEWS - 11 JUNE 2014
updated 14 Jun 2014; published 14 Jun 2014
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ISIS militants march on Iraq capital executing anyone who gets in the way Mail Online
updated 12 Jun 2014; published 12 Jun 2014
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Iraq crisis Militants order attack on Baghdad
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Iraq crisis: ISIS parade captured Iraqi military vehicles in Mosul
West, African countries agree to eliminate Boko Haram
Full Article The Siasat Daily
13 Jun 2014

London, June 13: Western powers and African countries Thursday agreed on a series of multinational missions to eliminate militant group Boko Haram and free the abducted Nigerian school girls, media reported Friday The agreements were reached at a meeting on Nigeria's security situation, hosted in London Thursday, by British Foreign Secretary...

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Some of the escaped Kidnapped girls of the government secondary school Chibok, attend a meeting with Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Monday, June 2, 2014.
photo: AP / Jossy Ola

updated 07 Jun 2013; published 07 Jun 2013
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Nigeria: Military looks to eliminate terrorism within the country as they..... VOA60 Africa
updated 08 Dec 2012; published 08 Dec 2012
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FOX NEWS: Who are Boko Haram
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls Boko Haram releases new video
updated 09 Jan 2013; published 09 Jan 2013
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THE LATEST NEWS : Is al Qaeda helping Boko Haram?
updated 15 May 2014; published 15 May 2014
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Assessing the threat of Boko Haram in Nigeria
updated 30 Apr 2013; published 30 Apr 2013
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NIGERIA BOKO HARAM RANSOM
Bergdahl back in the US
Full Article The Associated Press
13 Jun 2014

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon says Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who's been recovering in Germany after five years as a Taliban captive, is back in the United States. A Pentagon spokesman, Rear Adm. John Kirby, says Bergdahl arrived early Friday at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio on a flight from Ramstein Air Base. The Idaho native is expected to...

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In this file image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad Website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, right, stands with a Taliban fighter in eastern Afghanistan.
photo: AP / Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video

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Bowe Bergdahl's release Taliban Video. Afghanistan
updated 04 Jun 2014; published 04 Jun 2014
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VIDEO: Bergdahl's release seen in Taliban video
updated 04 Jun 2014; published 04 Jun 2014
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"Do not come back to Afghanistan" Taliban Releases Video of Bergdahl Handover
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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FORMER POW BOWE BERGDAHL BACK IN U.S.
updated 06 Jun 2014; published 06 Jun 2014
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Officials Don't pre judge Bergdahl Missoula Politics
updated 13 Jun 2014; published 13 Jun 2014
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Bowe Bergdahl returning to U S for more treatment after release
Resurgent violence underscores morphing of al Qaeda threat
Full Article Daily Press
13 Jun 2014

By Ned Parker and Maria Golovnina WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - - In Iraq, an al Qaeda splinter group is threatening Baghdad after seizing control of two cities. In Pakistan, the Taliban attacked a major airport twice in one week. And in Nigeria, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram was blamed for another mass kidnapping. A cluster of militant...

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Iraqi refugees from Mosul arrive at Khazir refugee camp outside Irbil, 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 12, 2014.
photo: AP

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Al Qaeda resurgence in Iraq a growing threat to US interests
updated 12 Feb 2014; published 12 Feb 2014
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DNI: Al Qaeda is not on run, but morphing
updated 07 Jan 2014; published 07 Jan 2014
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al Qaeda re-emerges in fight over Iraq
updated 26 Dec 2013; published 26 Dec 2013
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Al Qaeda hints at new threats
updated 29 Dec 2013; published 29 Dec 2013
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Still out there and growing -- Al Qaeda on the rebound, experts say
updated 13 Feb 2014; published 13 Feb 2014
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Gerald Celente: War In Iraq To Get Much Worse, Al Qaeda Takes Falluja & 2014 Predictions

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Huffington Post
Afghan citizens headed to the polls on Saturday, many of them hoping to elect a new president who will bring peace. The winner of Saturday's presidential runoff will lead...
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The Independent
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it WWE superstar Rob van Dam? No, it's 'SuperVan', Robin van Persie. The flying Dutchman's incredible headed goal, the equaliser for the Netherlands...
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The Miami Herald
(SportsNetwork.com) - In the aftermath of Spain's 5-1 implosion against the Netherlands on Friday, the phrase "changing of the guard" will be thrown around freely. Many will write...

A Palestinian militants from Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, dependent of movement Hamas, during a marking the Nakba or the ''Day of Catastrophe'' in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 15, 2014. Palestinians marked ''Nakba'' (Catastrophe) on Thursday to commemorate the expulsion or fleeing of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN
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A Palestinian boy watches as an Israeli soldier signals during the search for three Israeli teenagers in Hebron, West Bank. Photograph: Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA Fears are growing for the safety of three Israeli teenagers believed to have been...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Pro-Russian fighters walk passed the site of remnants of a downed Ukrainian army aircraft Il-76 at the airport near Luhansk
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Pro-Russian separatists search for ammunition at the site of the crash of the Il-76 Ukrainian army transport plane in Luhansk, June 14, 2014. Ukraine's new president vowed to "punish" pro-Russian insurgents on Saturday after they shot down a...
photo: AP / Evgeniy Maloletka
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) returns to Naval Station Norfolk.
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The Pentagon announced Saturday that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had ordered the aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush to move during the day from the North Arabian Sea into the Persian Gulf, placing it closer to Iraq. "The order will provide the...
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist MC1 Lynn Friant
Finnish Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairman Alexander Stubb, gestures during a press conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. Russian troops manned checkpoints and controlled traffic on major highways across Georgia on Friday, Russian military trucks roamed the roads freely and Russian military helicopters buzzed overhead. Western leaders remained adamant that Russia remove its troops and do it quickly.
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Finland’s EU minister Alexander Stubb, who wants to cut taxes and take his neutral country into Nato, won the leadership of his ruling conservative party today, putting him on track to become prime minister later this month. British and US-educated...
photo: AP / Shakh Aivazov
Huandoy, Peru . Andes rose to fame for its mineral wealth during the Spanish conquest of South America. Although Andean Amerindian peoples crafted ceremonial jewelry of gold and other metals the mineralization of the Andes were first mined in large scale after the Spanish arrival.
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China, whose presence in Latin America until now was largely based on an appetite for raw materials, is diversifying investments by financing much-needed development projects, analysts say. On its 50th anniversary, the G77+China bloc of developing...
photo: Creative Commons / Clarquitecto
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 1980, file photo, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Chuck Noll glances toward the scoreboard clock during the closing seconds of AFC championship game against the Houston Oilers in Pittsburgh. Noll's Steelers beat Houston, 27-13, to earn a berth in the NFL football Super Bowl.
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PITTSBURGH - Chuck Noll, who built the “Steel CurtainPittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s into one of the most dominant teams in pro football history, becoming the only NFL coach to win four Super Bowl championships, died Friday night in...
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 14, 2014. Rouhani says the international sanctions regime has crumbled and will not be rebuilt even if Iran and world powers fail to reach a final nuclear deal by a July 20 deadline. Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany reached an interim deal in November that limited Iran's uranium enrichment program in exchange for the easing of some sanctions.
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Published June 14, 2014Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says the international sanctions regime has crumbled and will not be rebuilt even if Iran and world powers fail to reach a final...
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi