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Ukraine: Russian aid trucks won't be allowed across border
Full Article The Hindu
12 Aug 2014

A convoy of 280 Russian trucks reportedly packed with aid headed for eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, but Ukraine said it would deny the mission entry because it has not been certified by the Red Cross and could be a covert military operation. Russian television and news agencies reported that 2,000 tons of aid was en route...

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Ukrainian government soldiers from battalion "Donbass" rest at their positions in village Mariinka near Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014.
photo: AP / Evgeniy Maloletka

updated 12 Aug 2014; published 12 Aug 2014
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Russia sends 280 Trucks with Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine | BREAKING NEWS - 12 AUG 2014
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Russia Sends 280 Trucks With Humanitarian Aid To Ukraine
updated 12 Aug 2014; published 12 Aug 2014
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Ukraine To Stop Russian Aid Convoy At Border
updated 12 Aug 2014; published 12 Aug 2014
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Wary Ukraine Sets Conditions For Russian Aid Convoy
updated 12 Aug 2014; published 12 Aug 2014
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Wary Ukraine Sets Conditions For Russian Aid Convoy
updated 12 Aug 2014; published 12 Aug 2014
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Russia Sends 280 Trucks With Humanitarian Aid To Ukraine
Ethical to use untested Ebola drugs, says WHO
Full Article BBC News
12 Aug 2014

Untested drugs can be used to treat patients infected with the Ebola virus, the World Health Organization says. The WHO said it was ethical in light of the scale of the outbreak and high number of deaths - over 1,000 people have died in west Africa.. The statement was made after its medical experts met in Switzerland on Monday to discuss the issue....

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FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2014 file photo provided by the Spanish Defense Ministry, aid workers and doctors transfer Miguel Pajares, a Spanish priest who was infected with the Ebola virus while working in Liberia, from a plane to an ambulance as he leaves the Torrejon de Ardoz military airbase, near Madrid, Spain. A spokeswoman for a Madrid hospital says a Spanish missionary priest who was evacuated from Liberia last week after testing positive for Ebola has died, Tuesday Aug. 12, 2014 in the Carlos III hospital where he was being treated.
photo: AP / Spanish Defense Ministry, File

updated 12 Aug 2014; published 12 Aug 2014
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WHO to make announcement regarding untested Ebola drug
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WHO to make announcement regarding untested Ebola drug
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WHO: Ethical to Use Untested Ebola Drugs
updated 12 Aug 2014; published 12 Aug 2014
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Ethical to use experimental Ebola drugs, says WHO
updated 12 Aug 2014; published 12 Aug 2014
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Ebola Spanish priest infected in Liberia dies
updated 12 Aug 2014; published 12 Aug 2014
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Liberia to receive Zmapp drug to treat Ebola virus
President Obama's statement on Iraq
Full Article WorldNews.com
12 Aug 2014

Transcript of President Barack Obama's August 11, 2014 statement on the Iraq situation, as provided by the White House: Good afternoon, everybody. I wanted to provide an update on recent developments in Iraq, including some important steps forward as Iraqis form a new government. Over the past few days, American forces have successfully conducted...

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President Barack Obama talks on the phone with British Prime Minister David Cameron in the Oval Office, Saturday, August 9, 2014.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

updated 16 Jun 2014; published 16 Jun 2014
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ALERT: President Obama Sending 250 Special Forces to Baghdad
updated 26 May 2014; published 26 May 2014
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President Obama Speaks at ISAF Meeting in Afghanistan
updated 03 Jul 2013; published 03 Jul 2013
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BREAKING: US President Obama Issues Statement on Egypt Military Coup
updated 17 Oct 2013; published 17 Oct 2013
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President Obama Statement on Debt Ceiling Deal Reopening Government (C-SPAN)
updated 08 Aug 2014; published 08 Aug 2014
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President Barack Obama authorizes renewed airstrikes in Iraq
updated 03 Jul 2013; published 03 Jul 2013
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Barack Obama 'Deeply Concerned' About Egypt Military, Calls For Return Of Power To President Morsi
Robin Williams: his hyped-up humor, energy forever silenced
Full Article Detroit news
12 Aug 2014

Tom Long Detroit News Film Critic Comments Williams (Kevin Winter / Getty Images for TV Land) What to say when the funny man laughs no more? That comedy truly is tragedy turned on its head, and sometimes a smile cracks under the weight? That wit so fast and fearless flirts with danger? That the secrets spoken aloud on stage, the inner demons...

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Robin Williams in 2008
photo: Public Domain / High Contrast

updated 05 Jun 2014; published 05 Jun 2014
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Beats by Dre | The Game Before The Game
updated 28 Mar 2014; published 28 Mar 2014
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The Energy Sector - A Force for Good?
updated 06 Mar 2014; published 06 Mar 2014
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nodice return hype hit da deck we str8 thuggin
updated 11 Jul 2007; published 11 Jul 2007
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House Party - Dance off - long version
updated 17 Nov 2010; published 17 Nov 2010
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old Hypes vs new Hypes
updated 08 May 2012; published 08 May 2012
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Solar Energy: No Customers, No Markets
Selfie Tragedy: Parents Fall 260 Feet Off Cliff To Deaths While Taking Selfie As Kids Watch
Full Article The Inquisitr
11 Aug 2014

They tried to take the selfie at the edge of a cliff with what would surely have been a spectacular vista of the ocean behind them. Tragically, authorities say, they somehow lost their footing while attempting to snap the picture and plummeted 80 meters — about 260 feet — straight down into the icy waters of the Atlantic below. Perhaps...

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The lighthouse on Cabo da Roca (Cape Roca) is a cape which forms the westernmost point of both mainland Portugal and mainland Europe.
photo: Creative Commons / Pauldavidgill

updated 12 Aug 2014; published 12 Aug 2014
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Couple plunges to death while taking photo at cliff edge
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UK motorist survives 80 foot Sussex cliff plunge with just a few scratches
updated 05 Dec 2013; published 05 Dec 2013
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Girl Jumping Into Devil's Pool At Victoria Falls
updated 14 Apr 2014; published 14 Apr 2014
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Suicide selfie: motorists take selfie with man threatening to jump off an overpass in Los Angeles
updated 28 Apr 2014; published 28 Apr 2014
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Skateboarding fail: Jacksonville, Florida dad pushes son down 15' high half-pipe at Kona Skatepark
updated 19 Nov 2013; published 19 Nov 2013
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Jeff Gold on HLN re Posting Ex Girlfriend selfie case

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Why Muslims Hate Terrorism More
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The Daily Beast
Muslim groups and leaders are constantly denouncing terrorism, but most Americans simply never see it. Answer? Make sure they see it. Here we go again. Another so-called Islamic...
Men Without a Country: Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, My Father and Me
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The Daily Beast
I can pretend to belong here better than Trayvon and Mike Brown were ever given the chance to. But however hard I try, however well they treat me, I know this is not my country. I...
Who are the Yazidis?
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The Independent
Little is known about the religious minority Yazidi group, tens of thousands of whom are trapped on a mountain near Sinjar in northern Iraq. They are have been driven there by...

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Iraq's Maliki Tells Army to Keep Out of Politics
In this Jan. 9, 2010 file photo, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks at a parade marking Police Day in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi lawmakers are working furiously to end the country's eight-month political deadlock with reports that a deal may be near to return Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to office.
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Real Clear Politics
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's incumbent prime minister ordered the security forces on Tuesday not intervene in the current political crisis over who will be the next prime minister, amid fears that he might go to any lengths to stay in power. Nouri...
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South Africa to evacuate hundreds of rhinos
White rhino female with a young at Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa
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Canberra Times
Endangered: There may be as few as 8400 white rhino left in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Photo: Duan Biggs Pretoria: South Africa plans to evacuate hundreds of rhino from the famed Kruger National Park to safe havens out of horn...
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Officers Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Missouri Protesters
Police wearing riot gear point their weapons at a car as it pulls away after tear gas was used by authorities Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo
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ABC News
Share Watch more news videos | Latest from the US Copy Officers in riot gear fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters in Ferguson, Mo., renewing tensions after the Saturday police shooting death of unarmed Michael Brown, 18. Ferguson...
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Report: Crimes Against Humanity Likely in Egypt Protest Deaths
A man sits under a banner with the photo of Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi as he drinks his tea at the " Al Mosheer Cafe" or "Marshal Cafe" in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2014.
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Voa News
VOA News Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi should be investigated for possible human rights violations in connection with the killing of hundreds of protesters last year in Cairo. In a new report Tuesday, the...
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Robin Williams (63) dies from apparent suicide
Academy Award winner Robin Williams arrives at the 76th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 29, 2004.
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The Irish Times
Robin Williams, the versatile actor whose madcap comic style made him one of television and film’s biggest stars, was found dead late yesterday from an apparent suicide at his home in Northern California. He was 63. The comedian’s appeal stretched...
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Climate change biggest Great Barrier Reef threat: report
Willis Island is an island in an external territory of Australia, located beyond the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea some 420 km east of Cairns, Queensland. It is the southernmost of a group of three islands, which with their associated sandy cays stretch in a NNE to SSW line for about 12 km. Willis Island itself is aligned NW to SE and is about 500 m long by 150 m wide, 7.7 ha in area, rising to just under 10 m above sea level. It is the only permanently inhabited island in Australia's Coral Sea Islands Territory.
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Canberra Times
Great Barrier Reef Photo: Leigh Henningham Climate change is the most serious threat to the Great Barrier Reef, according to a major new report. Warmer ocean currents are also likely to remain a threat to the Queensland coral ecosystem...
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Kinder Morgan to combine its family of companies
Kinder Morgan, Inc. Chairman and CEO Richard D. Kinder, left, and his wife Nancy
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The Salt Lake Tribune
New York • The group of oil and gas pipeline and storage companies controlled by Kinder Morgan but traded separately will combine and become the 4th biggest U.S. energy company by market value. The companies announced Sunday that Kinder Morgan Inc.,...
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