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Iraqi Kurds seek independence
Full Article China Daily
04 Jul 2014

Vote to be held 'within months', president of northern region says Massoud Barzani, president of Iraq's northern Kurdish region, has asked his regional parliament to make preparations for a referendum on independence from Iraq. Barzani asked parliament on Thursday to form a committee to organize a referendum, vowing to hold the plebiscite within...

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File - Masud Barzani President of Kurdistan.
photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny

updated 04 Jul 2014; published 04 Jul 2014
6:59
Iraqi Flags Gone, Kurds Move Toward Independence
updated 04 Jul 2014; published 04 Jul 2014
3:48
Iraq's Kurds push for independence referendum
updated 03 Jul 2014; published 03 Jul 2014
1:08
Independence vote on the cards for Iraq's Kurds
updated 01 Jul 2014; published 01 Jul 2014
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Iraq Kurdistan independence referendum planned
updated 04 Jul 2014; published 04 Jul 2014
2:12
Iraq Kurdistan region mulls referendum
updated 03 Jul 2014; published 03 Jul 2014
3:31
Iraqi Kurds Want Referendum For Independence.
Hamas 'to announce Gaza ceasefire'
Full Article BBC News
04 Jul 2014

A ceasefire is due to be announced between Hamas and Israel following exchanges of fire along the border with the Gaza Strip, the BBC understands. A source with the militant Palestinian group said a truce had been brokered by Egyptian intelligence officials. Scores of rockets from Gaza have hit southern Israel in recent days and Israel has...

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A Palestinians inspect a chicken coop damaged in an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on June 25, 2014. The Israeli air force carried out 12 raids on the Gaza Strip overnight after militants fired more rockets at southern Israel, Palestinian security sources said.
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

updated 13 Mar 2014; published 13 Mar 2014
3:08
Islamic Jihad Confirms Renewal of Truce With Israel
updated 24 Dec 2013; published 24 Dec 2013
1:14
ISRAEL launches AIR-STRIKE in Gaza: Breaking News
updated 05 Sep 2013; published 05 Sep 2013
2:41
Complete News - Israel, Hamas reach Gaza ceasefire, Netanyahu agrees 'to give chance'
updated 03 Mar 2013; published 21 Nov 2012
1:00
Clinton: US, Egypt Broker Ceasefire in Gaza
updated 24 Nov 2012; published 22 Nov 2012
5:25
ISRAEL/GAZA TRUCE TEMPORARY!? Is IRAN Next?
updated 16 Jul 2013; published 19 Nov 2012
1:59
Gaza crisis UN's Ban Ki moon calls for ceasefire.
Hurricane Arthur makes landfall in North Carolina as residents evacuate
Full Article The Guardian
04 Jul 2014

First hurricane since superstorm Sandy arrives near Cape Lookout late on Thursday night with maximum winds of 100mph Cape Hatteras awaits hurricane Arthur on Thursday. Photograph: John Tully/Corbis The first hurricane of the Atlantic season made landfall on the North Carolina coast late on Thursday night, forcing thousands of holiday-makers to...

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Tybee Island Ocean Rescue Senior Lifeguard Jerry Hazellief watches for rip currents from Hurricane Arthur from his lifeguard tower on the beach on Tybee Island, Ga., Thursday, July 3, 2014.
photo: AP / Stephen B. Morton

updated 03 Jul 2014; published 03 Jul 2014
2:12
Hurricane Arthur intensifies as it nears North Carolina coast
updated 03 Jul 2014; published 03 Jul 2014
8:51
UPDATE - 4th July Hurricane Arthur Strengthens - Category 2 Storm, Strong Winds, Heavy Rains
updated 03 Jul 2014; published 03 Jul 2014
3:08
Hurricane Arthur Strengthens Takes Aim at East Coast starting at North Carolina
updated 03 Jul 2014; published 03 Jul 2014
1:34
Hurricane Arthur forms Hits North Carolina Storm N.C 2014 [FULL HD]
updated 03 Jul 2014; published 03 Jul 2014
2:42
N.C Hurricane Arthur forms Hits North Carolina Storm 2014!!!
updated 30 Nov 2013; published 30 Nov 2013
20:23
Hurricane Isabel landfall in North Carolina - September 20, 2003
FIFA official linked to $101 million World Cup ticket scam
Full Article Canberra Times
04 Jul 2014

The ticket scam is thought to have netted $101 million since 2002. Photo: Supplied RIO DE JANEIRO: An illegal ticketing scandal rocked the World Cup on Thursday as Germany and France geared up for a titanic quarter-final showdown. Police probing an international scalping syndicate said thousands of illegally sold tickets worth millions of dollars...

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This June 4, 2014 photo shows a $90 U.S. dollar FIFA ticket for the Spain vs. Chile
photo: AP / Photo

updated 04 Jul 2014; published 04 Jul 2014
2:50
FIFA official linked to $101 million World Cup ticket scam
updated 02 Jul 2014; published 02 Jul 2014
1:01
World Cup tickets Brazil police bust 'touting gang'
updated 03 Jul 2014; published 03 Jul 2014
1:31
World Cup tickets Brazil police bust 'touting gang' | BREAKING NEWS - 03 JULY 20
updated 03 Jul 2014; published 03 Jul 2014
2:06
Brazil Police Arrested illegal Ticket World Cup Ticket Sellers International Gang : BREAKING NEWS
updated 09 Jul 2010; published 09 Jul 2010
7:13
Whackhead & a World Cup Ticket scam
updated 13 May 2010; published 13 May 2010
6:25
scammers fifa world cup 2010
Overpass Collapses in World Cup City; at Least Two Dead
Full Article Chosunilbo
04 Jul 2014

An unfinished overpass collapsed in the Brazilian World Cup host city of Belo Horizonte on Thursday, killing at least two people, emergency officials said. Television images showed the front of a passenger bus crushed by the...

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A woker walks up a ladder on a bridge that collapsed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Thursday, July 3, 2014
photo: AP / Victor R. Caivano

updated 03 Jul 2014; published 03 Jul 2014
1:11
Overpass Collapses in Belo Horizonte - Brazil | World Cup Overpass Bridge Collapses | VIDEO
updated 03 Jul 2014; published 03 Jul 2014
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BREAKING NEWS -Flyover collapses in Brazil city, World Cup project, collapses
updated 04 Jul 2014; published 04 Jul 2014
0:57
Overpass collapses in World Cup host city
updated 03 Jul 2014; published 03 Jul 2014
2:21
World Cup Bridge Collapses - Overpass Collapsed in Belo Horizonte - Brazil || VIDEO
updated 04 Jul 2014; published 04 Jul 2014
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Deaths as overpass collapses in Brazil city
updated 03 Jul 2014; published 03 Jul 2014
2:25
Brazil: Overpass collapses in World Cup city, at least two dead

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WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling In "When Prophecy Fails," Leon Festinger developed the idea of cognitive dissonance by studying a UFO cult. He recounts how a woman...
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Mashable
It sounds like the perfect script for a horror movie: A virus with no vaccine and no cure kills hundreds of people; despite containment efforts, it keeps spreading. But it's...
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The Independent
The Gambia may be the smallest country in mainland Africa but this is no reflection of it rich versatile offering. Already established as a haven for winter sun visitors The Gambia...

Andy Coulson, former News of the World editor and the former spin doctor of British Prime Minister David Cameron, leaves the Central Criminal Court in London, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Coulson was convicted of phone hacking Tuesday.
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David Cameron's former spin doctor, who faces up to two years in jail, among four ex-News of the World staff awaiting sentence Andy Coulson is expected to get a discount of several months off his sentence for previous good character. Photograph: Neil...
photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
Insecure attachments and emotional eating: Childhood obesity and unhealthy foods
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There's an association between the parents' insecure attachment and their child's consumption of unhealthy foods. Could your relationship with your mom increase your child's chances of obesity? Perhaps the quality of your attachment to both or either...
photo: WN / Emico Silalahi
REPEATED FOR IMPROVED TONAL QUALITY- A medical worker from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers who are working on the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, works at their laboratory in Entebbe 42kms (29 miles) from the capital Kampala Thursday Aug. 2, 2012.
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Red Cross workers carry the body of a woman who died of the Ebola virus during a 1995 outbreak in the Congo. The United Nations health agency said on Thursday it expected the worst Ebola outbreak in history to continue its deadly rampage through west...
photo: AP / Stephen Wandera
Ghanaian soccer fans celebrating in the streets of Accra, Ghana, after their World Cup 2-1 win against the US, that was played in Germany on Thursday, June 22, 2006. The Black Stars advanced to the second round in its first World Cup appearance, beating the Czech Republic and the United States after an opening loss to Italy in Group E. Ghana, one of four African teams making its debut at the World Cup, is the only one still alive.
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Despite earlier reports that trickled in that an Ebola case has been recorded in Ghana, the World Health Organization(WHO) has established that currently,...
photo: AP / Olivier Asselin
A Palestinian youth throws stones at Israeli riot police, not seen, during a protest against Jewish settlements in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. Tensions regularly run high in Silwan, where a small group of Israeli settlers live in heavily guarded enclaves among thousands of Palestinian residents.
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A protester throws a burning tire See Also Arab-Jewish tension in parts of Jerusalem was at fever pitch Thursday afternoon, three days after the funerals for three slain Israeli teens and a day after the alleged revenge killing of...
photo: AP / Adel Hana
A woman harvests magic mushrooms in a grow room at the Procare farm in Hazerswoude, central Netherlands, Friday Aug. 3, 2007.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists studying the effects of the psychedelic chemical in magic mushrooms have found the human brain displays a similar pattern of activity during dreams as it does during a mind-expanding drug trip. Psychedelic drugs such as...
photo: AP / Peter Dejong
Santos' soccer player Neymar, of Brazil, speaks during an event honoring him as best player in last season's Copa Libertadores soccer tournament in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday Nov. 24, 2011.
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NEYMAR insisted that he is happy for Brazil to win ugly as long as it gets them past Colombia in Saturday morning’s (AEST) World Cup quarter-final in Fortaleza. The occasional moment of genius from Neymar aside, Brazil have rarely sparkled at...
photo: AP / Nelson Antoine