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Civilians die in latest Ukraine offensive
Full Article Al Jazeera
03 Aug 2014

Nine civilians have been killed in new fighting between government forces and pro-Russian separatists around the cities of Luhansk and Donetsk in east Ukraine, local officials say. Six people were killed in shelling and gunfire on the outskirts of Donetsk, Deputy Mayor Kostantyn Savinov said on Sunday, while city officials said three others were...

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Pro-Russian rebels shoot in the air as they celebrate Paratroopers' Day in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014.
photo: AP / Dmitry Lovetsky

updated 25 Jul 2014; published 25 Jul 2014
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18+Ukraine Crisis | Kiev Junta Keeps Killing Civilians, Luhansk | English Subtitles
updated 27 May 2014; published 27 May 2014
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Lugansk Donetsk Army of Ukraine kills civilians in Donbass
updated 20 Jul 2014; published 20 Jul 2014
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Donetsk. Ukraine Artillery Targets Civilians. 19 July 2014 (DPR)
updated 20 Jul 2014; published 20 Jul 2014
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18+ Lugansk. Civilians Murdered By Ukraine's Poroshenko. 18 July 2014 (LPR)
updated 17 Jul 2014; published 17 Jul 2014
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Civilians Suffer from Bloody Military Campaign: Russian Roulette (Dispatch 57)
updated 22 May 2014; published 22 May 2014
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Ukraine: 14 Soldiers KILLED in Attacks; Civilians used as HUMAN Shields | BREAKING NEWS 22 MAY 2014
Israel-Gaza conflict: What has Israel achieved in 26 bloody days?
Full Article The Independent
03 Aug 2014

As Gaza is devastated by a new paroxysm of violence, what has Israel achieved by its 26-day bombardment and ground intervention? The outcome so far is similar to that of past Israeli wars in Lebanon and Gaza: massive firepower is used to inflict heavy losses on the other side, the great majority of the casualties being civilians. But, as the war...

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Palestinians inspect the debris of a house, which witnesses said was hit in an Israeli air strike, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on August 2, 2014.
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

updated 15 Nov 2012; published 15 Nov 2012
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Hamas rockets vs Israel's Iron Dome - Truthloader
updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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"Israel's Savage Attack In Gaza Has Made Hamas Seen As Resisting Israel's Occupation Of Palestinians
updated 31 Jul 2014; published 31 Jul 2014
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Satellite footage: Gaza destruction before & after Israel's bombs
updated 16 Jul 2014; published 16 Jul 2014
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Cycles of Violence With Gaza Rooted in Israel's Rejection of Palestinian Unity
updated 31 Jul 2014; published 31 Jul 2014
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‘Cutting The Grass’ - Israel's Grim Strategy In Gaza
updated 03 Aug 2014; published 03 Aug 2014
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Hamas Israel : Palestinian Militias target Israeli Bulldozer (Gaza War 2014)
Ebola virus patient due in Atlanta
Full Article Belfast Telegraph
02 Aug 2014

An American doctor infected with the Ebola virus is the first being flown to the US for treatment and expected to arrive in Atlanta on Saturday, a missionary group said. Two seriously-ill American aid workers will be treated at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital. Samaritan's Purse missionary group spokesman Todd Shearer told The Associated Press...

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An ambulance departs Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014, in Marietta, Ga. Officials at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta expect an American that was infected with the Ebola virus to be transported today.
photo: AP / Mike Stewart

updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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BREAKING: Ebola Patient Arrives In Georgia At Atlanta Hospital
updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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Plane Carrying EBOLA | Ebola Patient Arrives At Atlanta Hospital | VIDEO
updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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Mistake Already! Ebola Patient Arrives In Atlanta Walking On Rocks & Sharp Objects Outside Hospital
updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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BREAKING: Plane Carrying EBOLA Patient Arrives in GA, escorted to hospital
updated 03 Aug 2014; published 03 Aug 2014
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Research Shows That Ebola Is Airborne And Capable Of Cross Species Transmission
updated 03 Aug 2014; published 03 Aug 2014
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Ebola Patient Dr. Kent Brantly Walks into Emory Hospital | Ebola Patient Walks into Atlanta Hospital
Case into cycling star’s death reopened
Full Article Independent online (SA)
02 Aug 2014

Rome – Public prosecutors in Italy have reopened the case into the death of former cycling champion Marco Pantani after new evidence emerged. The news led to several Italian media regurgitating the theory that 'Il Pirata' was murdered in 2004. “We have just received documents sent by those close to (Pantani) and we have opened an...

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Marco Pantani of Italy waves from his bicycle in Palma de Mallorca, Spain Saturday Jan. 11, 2003. Pantani is currently training in Mallorca.
photo: AP / Jaime Reina

updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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Investigation into death of cyclist Marco Pantani reopened amid murder claims
updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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Смерть велогонщика Пантани: передозировка или убийство?
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Jimmy's Hall - In Cinemas May 30 - HD
updated 14 Dec 2013; published 14 Dec 2013
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Muse
updated 01 May 2012; published 01 May 2012
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vital hemp founder, Ron Alcalay, and baby Eden skating at Ciclavia, Los Angeles 2012
updated 18 Nov 2011; published 18 Nov 2011
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Natalie Wood Death Investigation Reopened After 30 Years After New Details Emerge from Author
Obama Admits CIA ‘Tortured Some Folks’ After 9/11
Full Article Novosti
02 Aug 2014

MOSCOW, August 2 (RIA Novosti) – US President Barack Obama has admitted that the CIA used controversial techniques of torture against al-Qaeda suspects in the aftermath of 9/11, Reuters reported. "We did a whole lot of things...

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President Barack Obama, accompanied by CIA Director Leon Panetta, waves to the crowd as he arrives to deliver remarks at the Central Intelligence Agency
photo: AP / Gerald Herbert

updated 01 Aug 2014; published 01 Aug 2014
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Obama On Post-9/11 CIA: "We Tortured Some Folks"
updated 01 Aug 2014; published 01 Aug 2014
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Barack Obama Comments on CIA Scandal Admits ‘ We Tortured Some Folks ’
updated 01 Aug 2014; published 01 Aug 2014
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President Obama: We Tortured Some Folks
updated 01 Aug 2014; published 01 Aug 2014
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Barack Obama: 'We Tortured Some Folks' | after 9/11 | 08/1/2014
updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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Obama: After 9/11, 'We, CIA tortured some folks' - LoneWolf Sager
updated 01 Aug 2014; published 01 Aug 2014
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President Obama: "We Tortured Some Folks" After 9/11

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Japanese and UN Authorities Covering up Fukushima Peril
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WorldNews.com
Article By WN.com Guest Writer Sherwood Ross. Japanese and United Nations authorities have placed "a cone of silence" over medical information an endangered Japanese public is...
Damien McBride: Rebekah Brooks was 'the most powerful person in Britain'
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The Independent
Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of The Sun, was “the most powerful person in Britain”, according to one of Gordon Brown’s closest aides. Damian McBride, a Downing Street spin...
Genocide and US Hypocrisy
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CounterPunch
President Barack Obama continues, incredibly, to defend the Israeli massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In a news report from July 29, he proclaims that Israeli Prime...

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Strong quake kills 367 in southern China
Chinese paramilitary policemen carry an injured victim evacuated from an earthquake hit Zhaotong town, Yiliang County, in southwest China's Yunnan Province, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012.
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Palm Beach Post
A strong earthquake in southern China's Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes on Sunday, killing at least 367 people and injuring more than 1,800. About 12,000 homes collapsed in Ludian, a densely populated county located around 366 kilometers...
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2014 Ludian earthquake   Earthquakes in China   Photos   Wikipedia: 2014 Ludian earthquake   Yunnan
Islamic State Seizes Control Over Iraq’s Largest Dam
In this Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014 file picture, a gunman holds a rocket-propelled grenade during clashes with Iraqi security forces in Fallujah, Iraq. With a new label - the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - the global terror network al-Qaida is positioning itself as a vanguard defending a persecuted Sunni community against Shiite-dominated governments across Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.
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Novosti
MOSCOW, August 3 (RIA Novosti) – The Islamic State militants have seized control of Iraq’s biggest dam, an oilfield and three more towns in the country’s north on Sunday, Reuters has reported, citing witnesses. Concerns grow that...
photo: AP
2014 Northern Iraq offensive   Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant   Photos   Syrian Civil War   Wikipedia: 2014 Northern Iraq offensive
Close to 100 killed in recent Xinjiang violence, China says
Heavily armed Chinese paramilitary policemen march past the site of the Wednesday's explosion outside the Urumqi South Railway Station in Urumqi in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Thursday, May 1, 2014.
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The Hindu
Chinese officials said on Sunday that the July 28 clashes in a remote town of the western Xinjiang region had left close to 100 people killed, marking the worst violence to hit the Muslim-majority region in more than five years. Earlier this week, it...
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan
July 2014 Xinjiang violence   Photos   Terrorism in China   Wikipedia: Xinjiang conflict   Xinjiang conflict
China Factory Explosion Kills 68 Workers
Chinese workers assemble vehicles on a production line at the Guangzhou Honda Automobile Co., Ltd in Guangzhou, China's Guangdong province Wednesday, Nov. 1 2006.
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The Inquisitr
The BBC has reported that the factory, which employs 450 workers, belongs to the Kunshan Zhongrong Metal Products Company, has contracts with large automobile manufacturers like General Motors. In a workshop where wheel hubs are polished, 264 workers...
photo: AP / Color China Photo
2014 Kunshan explosion   Automobile   Kunshan Zhongrong Metal Products   Photos   Wikipedia: 2014 Kunshan explosion
Libya's New Parliament Meets Amid Ongoing Violence
Libyan rebel fighter is silhouetted next to El Malti Mosque on the way to the city of Bani Walid, Libya, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011.
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Voa News
VOA News Libya's newly-elected parliament held its first meeting Saturday in the eastern city of Tobruk, as fighting between armed factions continued in Benghazi and the Libyan capital, Tripoli. More than 150 members of parliament gathered for...
photo: AP / Francois Mori
2014 Libyan conflict   Abu Bakr Baiera   Photos   Post civil war violence in Libya   Wikipedia: 2014 Libyan conflict
Outbreak of fighting between Azerbaijan, Armenia kills 15
Nagorno-Karabakh soldiers return to their positions during military exercises outside Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, Wednesday, April 19, 2006.
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Stars and Stripes
BAKU, Azerbaijan — A sharp escalation in fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has left 15 soldiers dead and prompted Russia to issue an urgent call for calm. Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said...
photo: AP / Karen Minasian
2014 Ukraine crisis   Nagorno-Karabakh   Nagorno-Karabakh conflict - 2014 clashes   Photos   Wikipedia: Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Afghan election recount stalls again
A worker for the Afghan election commission office unloads ballot boxes in Herat Province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 20, 2014.
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BBC News
A recount of votes in the Afghan election has been suspended again, despite being scheduled to restart on Saturday after the Muslim Eid holiday. The breakdown came despite late night phone talks between US Secretary of State John Kerry and candidates...
photo: AP / Hoshang Hashimi
Abdullah Abdullah   Afghan election 2014 - Audit   Ashraf Ghani   Photos   Wikipedia: Afghan presidential election, 2014