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The Observer
Reasonable suspicion is based on a circular logic – people can be watchlisted if they are suspected of being suspected terrorists – that is ultimately backwards, and must be...
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WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Since Americans love their pets and animals, lavishing upon them last year a record $56 billion (1), maybe they will at least make a...
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The Inquisitr
Now, with teenagers longing to separate themselves from the pack and find ways to express their individuality, Abercrombie & Fitch has been seeing a drop in sales. In fact,...

A Pakistani police officer stands guard on a shipping container while supporters of Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri participate in an anti-government rally in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. Thousands of anti-government protesters heeding the call of the fiery cleric rallied in the streets of the Pakistani capital Tuesday for a second day despite early morning clashes with police who fired off shots and tear gas.
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Anti-government protesters armed with slingshots and hammers clashed repeatedly with police Sunday in the Pakistani capital, and the powerful military cautioned the prime minister against further use of force in the crisis that has triggered the...
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File - A McDonald's fast-food restaurant.
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The arrival of McDonald's symbolised the end of the Cold War for many Muscovites. But it now faces being frozen out of Russia after the fast-food firm revealed more than 100 of its restaurants are in danger of being closed by the government. The...
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File - British Member of Parliament George Galloway gives an interview to a television station, as anti-war protesters demonstrate outside the Iraq Inquiry, as former British Prime Minster Tony Blair gives evidence, London , Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.
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George Galloway has left hospital after being treated for injuries he suffered in a street attack in London. The Respect MP was posing for pictures in Notting Hill Gate, west London, when he was assaulted on Friday night. The MP...
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Ah-Meng the female Sumatran Orangutan, Singapore Zoo's most famous animal celibrity photographed on her regular morning walks in the zoo.Sadly she expired a few months later on 8-2-2008 living to the ripe old age of 48
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Mathematical models offer new insights into animal vocal sequences, but evolution of language remains a mystery Orangutans were one of seven species whose calls were compared with human language. Photograph: Dlillc/Corbis From ultrasonic bat chirps...
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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks at the IMF in Washington, Wednesday, July 2, 2014.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday voiced support for Managing Director Christine Lagarde as she was under investigation of negligence. "As we...
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President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas, Thursday, July 10, 2014, about the economy. Austin is the final leg in his three city trip before returning to Washington.
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US president Barack Obama has said that he had not yet developed a strategy to combat Islamic State militants, months after the jihadist army, formerly known as Isis, erased the border between Iraq and Syria and more than a week after it beheaded an...
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, center, waves as he arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. EU leaders, in a one day summit, are set to decide who will get the prestigious job as the 28-nation bloc's foreign policy chief for the next five years. They will also discuss the current situation in Ukraine.
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The behind-the-scenes campaign for top European Union positions burst into the open as Polish prime minister Donald Tusk staked a claim to the post of EU president. Tusk (57) is “definitely considering” the job...
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