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I love my Down’s baby: surrogate mom
Full Article Independent online (SA)
04 Aug 2014

Conburi, Thailand – The Thai surrogate mother of a baby born with Down Syndrome vowed on Monday to “never abandon” him after the Australian parents reportedly refused to care for the child, sparking a moral debate and a cascade of donations for the boy's medical care. Pattaramon Chanbua and seven-month old Gammy have been at the...

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Pattaramon Chanbua, right, kisses her baby boy Gammy at a hospital in Chonburi province, southeastern Thailand Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014
photo: AP / Apichart Weerawong

updated 04 Aug 2014; published 04 Aug 2014
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Baby Gammy's surrogate mother 'loves him like my own'
updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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Hope For GAMMY: Australian Parents Abandon Down's Syndrome Baby With Thai Surrogate Mother!!!
updated 01 Aug 2014; published 01 Aug 2014
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i love him, he was in my tummy for nine months, it’s like my child': Thai surrogate mother
updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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Surrogate mother vows to care for abandoned Down's baby.
updated 03 Aug 2014; published 03 Aug 2014
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Abandoned Baby Gammy Moved to New Thai Hospital
updated 04 Aug 2014; published 04 Aug 2014
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Australian couple identified as Gammy's parents deny the abandoned baby
Strong earthquake kills 367 in China
Full Article Longview News Journal
04 Aug 2014

BEIJING (AP) — 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 (277 miles) northeast of Yunnan’s capital, Kunming, China’s official Xinhua News...

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File photo: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a local resident clears the debris of his house following a strong earthquake in China.
photo: AP / Xinhua, Qin Qing

updated 03 Aug 2014; published 03 Aug 2014
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At Least 367 Dead After Earthquake Hits Southwest China
updated 03 Aug 2014; published 03 Aug 2014
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Earthquake China in Ludian County Yunnan - At Least 200+ People Dead (VIDEO)
updated 03 Aug 2014; published 03 Aug 2014
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China Earthquake: At Least 150 People Dead (Caught on Tape) RAW
updated 03 Aug 2014; published 03 Aug 2014
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China Earthquake 'Kills 367' In Yunnan Province(VIDEO)
updated 04 Aug 2014; published 04 Aug 2014
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Nearly 380 Dead In China Earthquake - Caught On Cam - 4 Aug 2014
updated 03 Aug 2014; published 03 Aug 2014
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Moment earthquake strikes China killing at least 150
Israel declares 7-hour Gaza truce after fury over school strike
Full Article The Times of India
04 Aug 2014

JERUSALEM: Israel announced it would be holding its fire in most of Gaza for seven hours Monday, amid world outrage over a deadly strike on a UN school in the Palestinian territory. The unilateral truce, four weeks into fighting with Gaza de facto rulers Hamas, came after world powers fiercely condemned the attack that left 10 Palestinians...

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Palestinian children follow an Israeli tank as it rolls through the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. Tanks, troops and bulldozers reoccupied a Gaza town yesterday in a bid to curb Hamas rocket attacks on Israel, after the crudely made missiles claimed their fir
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

updated 04 Aug 2014; published 04 Aug 2014
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Israel Declares Seven Hour Gaza Truce After Fury Over School Strike
updated 26 Jul 2014; published 26 Jul 2014
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Hamas fires rockets into Israel after Gaza truce bid
updated 01 Aug 2014; published 01 Aug 2014
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New Gaza Humanitarian Truce Agreed By Israel & Hamas
updated 30 Jul 2014; published 30 Jul 2014
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Gaza Conflict Israel 'Hits Jabaliya School Refuge' - 30 July 2014
updated 01 Aug 2014; published 01 Aug 2014
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Gaza's 72 Hour Ceasefire Lasts Less Than 72 MINUTES As Israeli Tanks Open Fire & Kill 4 Palestian
updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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Gaza Conflict Hamas Denies Holding Israeli Soldier
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 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 25 Jul 2014; published 25 Jul 2014
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18+Ukraine Crisis | Kiev Junta Keeps Killing Civilians, Luhansk | English Subtitles
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 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
updated 14 Jul 2014; published 14 Jul 2014
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Deadly shelling in Luhansk kills three civilians
Israel vows to continue operation in Gaza; soldier declared dead
Full Article Denver Post
03 Aug 2014

Protestors and counter-protestors shout slogans at each other during a demonstration against Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip, August 2, 2014 in front of the Federal Building in Los Angeles, California. (Robyn Beck, Getty) Related Stories Aug 1:US: Abduction of Israeli would be 'outrageous'Saudi king condemns Gaza war but not...

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Fire rises during an explosion following an Israeli strike on the border tunnels between Egypt and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 20, 2012. In a backdrop of airstrikes and mounting casualties, American efforts to negotiate a cease-fire in the latest Gaza fighting between Israel and Hamas continues. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

updated 03 Aug 2014; published 03 Aug 2014
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Israeli Military: Soldier Killed By Suicide Bomber
updated 18 Jul 2014; published 18 Jul 2014
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Israeli Tanks Roll Into Gaza - Israel Warns It May Further Expand Gaza Operation
updated 22 Jul 2014; published 22 Jul 2014
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BREAKING NEWS -Israeli soldier missing in Gaza
updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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Gaza Conflict Hamas Denies Holding Israeli Soldier
updated 25 Jul 2014; published 25 Jul 2014
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Israelis continue to show solidarity with army offensive
updated 21 Jul 2014; published 21 Jul 2014
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Gaza crisis: 13 Israeli soldiers, scores of Gazans killed | BREAKING NEWS - 21 JULY 2014

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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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Obama to decide on immigration by end of summer
President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks in Las Vegas. Just as President Barack Obama is pushing new initiatives on gun control and immigration, the gloomy old problem of a sluggish economy is shoving its way back into prominence. That could imperil his focus on other issues, just as he is shaping a second-term agenda.
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Boston Herald
WASHINGTON — A senior White House adviser says President Barack Obama will make a decision by the end of the summer on how to use his authority to address immigrants living illegally in the...
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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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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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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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