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More than 30 believed dead at Japanese volcano
Full Article The Columbus Dispatch
28 Sep 2014

TOKYO -- Rescue workers have found 30 or more people unconscious and believed to be dead near the peak of an erupting volcano in central Japan, local government and police said. Nagano prefecture posted on its website that about 30 people had heart and lung failure, the customary way for Japanese authorities to describe a body until police doctors...

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A military helicopter, aiding in rescue operations, flies above Mount Ontake as it continues to erupt, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014, in Nagano prefecture. Military helicopters plucked several people from the Japanese mountainside Sunday after a spectacular volcanic eruption.
photo: AP / Koji Ueda

updated 28 Sep 2014; published 28 Sep 2014
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RAW: Japanese helicopters rescue hikers on erupting Mt Ontake, over 30 feared dead
updated 28 Sep 2014; published 28 Sep 2014
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Rescuers have found 30 hikers in critical condition, feared dead
updated 23 Aug 2014; published 02 Dec 2012
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GEOLOGICAL UPHEAVAL: Tunnel Collapses Near Mt. Fuji Volcano, Japan - 5 Dead, 7 Missing!
updated 03 Jul 2014; published 13 Mar 2011
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Volcano Mountain Blast with Massive earthquake 8.9 in Japan, Tsunami Eathquake 13.03.2011
updated 30 May 2014; published 15 Apr 2014
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5 Remarkable Volcanoes in Japan
updated 01 Sep 2014; published 20 Aug 2014
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HIROSHIMA:Death toll touches 27 in Japan landslide: Report
Clooney, Alamuddin tie the knot in Venice
Full Article Khaleej Times
28 Sep 2014

Venice’s Grand Canal turned into an aquatic red carpet as the tuxedo-clad actor and his guests crossed the lagoon from the Cipriani hotel for dinner. Venice - The world’s most famous bachelor, George Clooney, broke a vow to remain single on Saturday and married human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin during a weekend of lavish celebrations in...

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George Clooney on his way to marry Amal Alamuddin, in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014.
photo: AP / Andrew Medichini

updated 27 Sep 2014; published 27 Sep 2014
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George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin's rehearsal dinner in Venice
updated 26 Sep 2014; published 26 Sep 2014
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George Clooney pre-wedding pictures: Actor and wife-to-be Amal Alamuddin seen in Venice
updated 26 Sep 2014; published 26 Sep 2014
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George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin arrive in Venice for wedding
updated 27 Sep 2014; published 27 Sep 2014
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Raw: Guests Join Clooney and Fiance in Venice
updated 29 May 2014; published 29 May 2014
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George Clooney And Fiance Amal Alamuddin - With Candlelit Dinner in Venice italy
updated 27 Sep 2014; published 27 Sep 2014
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U2 singer Bono arrives for George Clooney's wedding
US Continues Airstrikes on IS Targets
Full Article Voa News
27 Sep 2014

VOA News American fighter jets, drones and other aircraft pounded Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria on Friday as Britain, Denmark and Belgium joined the U.S.-led coalition fighting the group. U.S. Central Command said four Islamic State tanks were destroyed in Syria's Deir el-Zour province. A group monitoring the war in Syria said Friday...

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File - This undated image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria.
photo: AP / Militant website

updated 23 Sep 2014; published 23 Sep 2014
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US Airstrikes Syria - Bombing ISIS Islamic State - Bomb Attacks ISIL Iraq (RAW FOOTAGE)
updated 23 Sep 2014; published 23 Sep 2014
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US Airstrikes ISIS Bombing Syria Islamic State - Bomb Attacks ISIL Iraq Fire Missiles [RAW FOOTAGE]
updated 23 Sep 2014; published 23 Sep 2014
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Syria: US begins air strikes on Islamic State - BBC News
updated 23 Sep 2014; published 23 Sep 2014
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Syria War - US Airstrikes On Islamic State In Syria
updated 23 Sep 2014; published 23 Sep 2014
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First air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria
updated 23 Sep 2014; published 23 Sep 2014
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US Airstrikes Attack ISIS ISIL in Syria Islamic State | First Bombing Video | American Bombs
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, addresses the general debate of the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly, 26 September, 2014.
photo: UN / Amanda Voisard

updated 27 Sep 2014; published 27 Sep 2014
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'Israel waging war of genocide in Gaza' - Mahmoud Abbas to UNGA (FULL SPEECH)
updated 10 Jul 2014; published 10 Jul 2014
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Mahmoud Abbas accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza
updated 27 Sep 2014; published 27 Sep 2014
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Abbas describes Israel's 'war of genocide'
updated 09 Jul 2014; published 09 Jul 2014
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Abbas says Israel committing 'genocide' in Gaza
updated 26 Sep 2014; published 26 Sep 2014
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Abbas: Israel waging war of genocide in Gaza
updated 27 Sep 2014; published 27 Sep 2014
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Abbas describes Israel's 'war of genocide'
Ebola: UN mission readies to start work as virus death toll surpasses 3,000
Full Article United Nations
26 Sep 2014

Print 26 September 2014 – The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today said it is intensifying its cooperation with a wide range of partners trying to accelerate work on experimental therapies and vaccines as it announced that Ebola has now sickened more than 6,500 and killed more than 3,000. “Exposure of health-care workers to EVD...

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In this 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, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. Pajares was in stable condition at a Madrid hospital on Thursday after being evacuated from Liberia, health officials said.
photo: AP

updated 01 Apr 2014; published 01 Apr 2014
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Ebola Virus Spreads to Guinea Capital - 70 Dead Out of 110 Patients
updated 19 Sep 2014; published 19 Sep 2014
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As death toll reaches 2,630 & U.N. to deploy Ebola mission | HEADLINES
updated 19 Sep 2014; published 19 Sep 2014
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U.N. to deploy Ebola mission as death toll reaches 2,630 | BREAKING NEWS
updated 17 Sep 2014; published 17 Sep 2014
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Ebola virus - This Week in Global Health
updated 30 Jul 2014; published 30 Jul 2014
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Ebola virus | Ebola Doctor killed by Ebola virus in Sierra Leone
updated 19 Sep 2014; published 19 Sep 2014
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United Nations to deploy Ebola mission in worst-affected states

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Astounding events over the last several weeks have once again put U.S. torture in the spotlight. Evidence of spying by the CIA on Senate staffers investigating the Agency provoked...
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In the Age of Obama, inequality is on the rise and austerity politics rages on. Obama could do more to improve the lot of those made worse off by these developments. But he really...
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This week US President Barack Obama addressed the UN General Assembly and the unintended irony in his speech would be humorous if it were not so cruel—and dangerous. Obama touched...

4 governors visit Afghanistan for terror briefings
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NEW YORK (AP) — Four U.S. governors made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Saturday as part of a delegation to receive counterterrorism briefings and greet troops stationed there. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, along with Brian Sandoval of Nevada,...
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This video image taken from Egyptian State Television shows 83-year-old former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak laying on a hospital bed inside a cage of mesh and iron bars in a Cairo courtroom Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011, as his historic trial began on charges of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him from office. The scene, shown live on Egypt's state TV, was Egyptians' first look at their former president since Feb. 10, the day before his fall when he gave a defiant speech refusing to resign.
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An Egyptian court is due to rule on the retrial of deposed president Hosni Mubarak on charges of corruption and killing of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled him. The court on Saturday will deliver its verdict on the...
photo: AP / Egyptian State TV
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NEW YORKThe end of an era. The perfect script. Derek Jeter capped his Yankee Stadium farewell with a game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth inning, the latest — and perhaps last — storybook moment of his charmed and illustrious career, to...
photo: AP / Julie Jacobson
Afghans carry the body of a suicide attack victim at the hospital in Maymana, Faryab province north west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012.
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KABUL: A major Taliban offensive in eastern Afghanistan over the past week has left up to 100 civilians and security personnel dead, 12 of them beheaded, officials said on Friday, as violence worsens with the withdrawal of US-led troops. This...
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A man walk past policemen standing guard near a road leading to the site of Thursday's explosion in Urumqi, China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, Friday, May 23, 2014.
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Up to 50 people, including 40 "rioters", have been killed in a number of explosions in China's Xinjiang province, officials have said. They said earlier that at least two people had been killed and many others injured in the blasts in Luntai county,...
photo: AP / Andy Wong
Palestine and Hamas Flags adorn the streets in the preparation of the anniversary of Hamas Islamic movement foundation in refugee camp of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip on December 10, 2011. Photo by AHMED DEEB/ WN
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Mohamad Torokman/Reuters Hamas and Fatah have agreed on a unity government to take over in Gaza. The two Palestinian factions announced the deal following a breakthrough Thursday in talks held under the auspices of Egypt's...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
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By now, you've probably heard something about Ello, the ad-free, invite-only, independent social network that has seemingly gone viral over the last week. The ad-free social network has quickly — and somewhat inexplicably — gained a reputation for...
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