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Ferguson's New Leader Becomes a Hometown Hero Overnight
Full Article Mashable
15 Aug 2014

A captain in the Missouri highway patrol catapulted to local fame on Thursday after he and officers under his command rolled into Ferguson to take over the security for local protests. Gov. Jay Nixon ordered Capt. Ron Johnson and the patrol to take the reins from a St. Louis County police force that had responded to protesters this week by wielding...

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Captain Ron Johnson during protests against shooting of Michale Brown
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updated 15 Aug 2014; published 15 Aug 2014
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Capt. Johnson: Ferguson is 'my community'
updated 15 Aug 2014; published 15 Aug 2014
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USA: New commander Ronald Johnson shows how to police Ferguson
updated 14 Aug 2014; published 14 Aug 2014
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Highway patrol captain accompanies protesters through Ferguson
updated 15 Aug 2014; published 15 Aug 2014
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Capt. Ron Johnson in Ferguson, Missouri
updated 15 Aug 2014; published 15 Aug 2014
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Capt. Ron Johnson Answers Questions Darren Wilsion Shooting of Michael Brown8/15/2014
updated 15 Aug 2014; published 15 Aug 2014
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Capt. Ron Johnson meets with protesters in Ferguson
Gazans return to ruined homes as truce holds
Full Article Al Jazeera
15 Aug 2014

Many Palestinians living close to the Israeli border have returned to piles of rubble where their homes once stood, as a fragile five-day ceasefire extension between Hamas and Israel entered its second day. Calm held on Friday morning as the two sides in the Gaza conflict pondered Egyptian-mediated efforts to secure a lasting peace....

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A Palestinian man inspects the damage to his shop which sells women's clothing, in Rafah town, in the southern Gaza Strip,
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

updated 05 Aug 2014; published 05 Aug 2014
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Gaza Conflict Israel & Hamas Agree Ceasefire - Israeli Troops Withdraw From Gaza
updated 01 Aug 2014; published 01 Aug 2014
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Israeli strike kills dozens during Gaza 'ceasefire'
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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Ceasefire over: Israel strikes Gaza, claims Hamas broke 72-hour truce
updated 26 Jul 2014; published 26 Jul 2014
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Gaza conflict Israel and Hamas begin 12 hour window
updated 05 Aug 2014; published 05 Aug 2014
1:48
Israel Withdraws as Gaza Truce Begins
Space is the place to solve the riddle of life, maybe
Full Article New Scientist
15 Aug 2014

Understanding how life got started here on planet Earth may mean searching for its counterparts "out there" HOW did early Earth's inert matter give rise to its teeming life today? That's one of the biggest questions in science – and has long been one of the hardest to answer. We've known for 60 years that life's most basic building blocks can form...

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Supernova SN 2014J Explodes: New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has provided stringent constraints on the environment around one of the closest supernovas discovered in decades.
photo: NASA / CXC/SAO/R.Margutti et al

updated 23 Aug 2013; published 23 Aug 2013
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How Did Life Begin?
updated 05 Feb 2014; published 05 Feb 2014
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Pastor Chui The Quest to Understand Life's Origin
updated 05 Aug 2013; published 05 Aug 2013
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Question and Answer Session
updated 14 May 2014; published 14 May 2014
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The Vatican reveals the arrival of Nibiru?!
updated 15 Aug 2013; published 15 Aug 2013
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The Final Nail in Evolution's Coffin
updated 23 May 2012; published 23 May 2012
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Ask an Astronaut - What You Can See on Earth from Space?
Panama Canal Marks 100th Anniversary
Full Article Novosti
15 Aug 2014

PANAMA CITY, August 15 (RIA Novosti) – Panama Canal, an artificial waterway connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, marks its 100th anniversary Friday. The estimated total number of ships that have...

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In this July 24, 2014, photo, a sailor rest on the the railing as his cargo ship passes through the Miraflores Locks in Panama City
photo: AP / Arnulfo Franco

updated 15 Aug 2014; published 15 Aug 2014
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Panama Canal marks 100th anniversary
updated 02 Aug 2014; published 02 Aug 2014
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The Panama Canal Museum Collection at UF
updated 22 Jan 2014; published 22 Jan 2014
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Panama Canal
updated 20 Jun 2014; published 20 Jun 2014
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HMS Protector night transit of Panama Canal (2014)
updated 31 Jul 2013; published 12 Mar 2013
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Panama Canal Cruise Feb 2013
updated 19 Jul 2013; published 30 Mar 2013
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Sailboat in the Panama Canal
Evidence suggests Ebola toll vastly underestimated - WHO
Full Article The Irish Times
15 Aug 2014

Staff with the World Health Organisation battling an Ebola outbreak in West Africa see evidence the numbers of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimates the scale of the outbreak, the UN agency said on its website yesterday. The death toll from the world’s worst outbreak of Ebola stood on Wednesday at 1,069 from 1,975 confirmed, probable and...

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Liberian policemen, right, dressed in riot gear disperse a crowd of people that blocked a main road after the body of someone suspected of dying from the Ebola virus was not removed by health workers in the city of Monrovia, Liberia. Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014.
photo: AP / Abbas Dulleh

updated 15 Aug 2014; published 15 Aug 2014
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WHO EBOLA toll may 'VASTLY underestimate' crisis BREAKING NEWS 2014
updated 15 Aug 2014; published 15 Aug 2014
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Ebola crisis vastly underestimated, says WHO | BREAKING NEWS.
updated 15 Aug 2014; published 15 Aug 2014
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UN:Ebola crisis vastly underestimated, says WHO
updated 15 Aug 2014; published 15 Aug 2014
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WHO Warns Ebola crisis vastly underestimated.
updated 15 Aug 2014; published 15 Aug 2014
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RE;Evidence suggests Ebola toll vastly underestimated: WHO

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Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
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Axis of Logic
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What's 50 milies long, carries 3pc of world trade and turns 100 today?
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The Daily Telegraph
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Worse Than Tiananmen? 1st Anniversary of Egyptian Army Killings of 800+ Anti-Coup Protesters
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Democracy Now
One year ago today, Egyptian forces opened fire on a sit-in at Rabaa al-Adaweeya Square in Cairo. Tens of thousands of people had camped in the square to protest the ouster of...

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IAEA Director General to Visit Iran on August 17
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano, left, talks with reporters during a news briefing at the conclusion of his meeting with Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, right, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, 21, 2012.
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Novosti
MOSCOW, August 15 (RIA Novosti) — The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, will visit Iran on August 17 for meetings with Iranian...
photo: AP / IRNA,Adel Pazzyar
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Witnesses
In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, police officers armed with AK-47 rifles stand guard at sandbagged bunkers along a major road in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The radical sect Boko Haram, which in August 2011 bombed the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria, is the gravest security threat to Africa's most populous nation and is gaining prominence
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Huffington Post
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist Boko Haram fighters have abducted dozens of boys and men in a raid on a remote village in northeast Nigeria, loading them onto trucks and driving them off, witnesses who fled the violence said...
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba
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Suarez takes part in Barca training
Luis Suarez, of Uruguay, runs during a training session at the Sports Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper in San Joan Despi, in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014
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York Press
Luis Suarez trained with his new Barcelona team-mates for the first time on Friday Barcelona striker Luis Suarez trained with his new team-mates for the first time on Friday morning after the Court of Arbitration for Sport relaxed the...
photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti
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Guinea declares public health emergency over Ebola
In this photo provide by MSF, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), taken on Friday, March 28, 2014, healthcare workers from the organisation, react, as they prepare isolation and treatment areas for their Ebola, hemorrhagic fever operations, in Gueckedou, Guinea.
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Yahoo Daily News
By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea has declared a public health emergency over an Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people in three West African states and is sending health workers to all affected border points, a government...
photo: AP / Kjell Gunnar Beraas, MSF
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Pilot's artificial arm detaches while landing
Flybe Embraer ERJ 145 (G-ERJA) lands at Birmingham International Airport, England.
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STL Today
LONDON (AP) — A British air accident report has recounted how a pilot briefly lost control of a passenger plane after his artificial arm became detached from the control yoke during landing. The report, published Thursday, said the...
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Wall Street up after Putin comments, Cisco falls
In this Aug, 2, 2010 photo, traders Luke Dalton, left, and Robert Arcero work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stock futures are trading in a tight range Tuesday, Aug. 3, as investors paused following a big start to August. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Independent online (SA)
New York - US stocks edged higher on Thursday after conciliatory comments by Russian President Vladimir Putin eased concerns about the country's tense situation with Ukraine and overshadowed signs of weakness in the European economy. Addressing...
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Imran Khan leads opposition rally
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf or Moment for Justice, party Chairman Imran Khan is seen on screen, as he addresses through a video link from his recovery bed, to an election campaign rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, May 9, 2013.
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Belfast Telegraph
Thousands have gathered in the Pakistani city of Lahore as a key opposition rally got under way, demanding the government's ouster over allegations of vote fraud. The demonstration is led by Imran Khan, famous cricketer-turned-politician who heads...
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