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It was New Year's Eve 1999. While Russians were preparing for the dawn of a new millennium, their president was preparing a surprise announcement. "I have contemplated...
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The Guardian
An indigenous Yanomami leader and shaman from Brazil shares his views on wealth, the environment and politics ...

Tourists write a New Year's greeting into the snow in Kongdoori , 60km (37 miles) in Gulmarg North Kashmir Wednesday on 31, December 2014.
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2015 begins with fireworks in New Zealand and Moscow and muted celebrations in Indonesia, while China is shaken by the deaths of 35 people in a Shanghai stampede ...
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Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday denied defense requests to move and delay the start of the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose lawyers say they are overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of pages of...
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Anti-death penalty supporters comfort each other after hearing that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last minute plea of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis In Jackson, Ga., Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — In one of his final acts as governor, Democrat Martin O'Malley announced Wednesday that he will commute the sentences of Maryland's four remaining death-row inmates to life in prison. Two years ago, the General Assembly...
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The body of a victim is carried out of a north Edmonton home in Edmonton, Alberta, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014.
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Police in western Canada yesterday were investigating the “senseless mass murder” of six adults and two children, who were apparently slain by a depressed man who later killed himself. Edmonton Police Service Chief Rod Knecht said the killings — the...
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The Moldovan-flagged Blue Sky M carrying hundreds of migrants arrives at the southern Italian port of Gallipoli, some 170 kilometers (108 miles) south of Bari, Italy, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014.
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AFP/Nunzio GioveThe Moldovan-flagged ship Blue SKy M. is docked in the Italian port of Gallipoli. See Also Gallipoli (Italy) (AFP) - Italy's coastguard said Wednesday it had narrowly averted another high seas disaster by intercepting a freighter that...
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Indian, Tibetan and foreign journalists during the swearing-in ceremony of Dr. Lobsang Sangay as the 3rd directly elected Kalon Tripa of the Central Tibetan Administration, in Dharamshala, India, on 8 August 2011
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BRUSSELS — One hundred and eighteen journalists and media staff were killed around the world in 2014, with Pakistan and Syria the deadliest countries, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said on Wednesday. The IFJ said those killed, 13...
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In a June 4, 2012 photo provided by the United Nations,United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, meets with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, right, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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DUBAI — Saudi Arabia’s elderly King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz was admitted to a hospital in Riyadh on Wednesday for medical tests, state media reported, quoting a royal court statement. King Abdullah, who took power in 2005 after the death of his...
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