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Storm chaser joins rescue effort as dream trip turns to nightmare
Neill Ellis travelled from his Bay of Plenty home to "Tornado Alley" in the United States to fulfil a lifelong dream. But what he saw when a huge twister ravaged the community of Moore on the outskirts of Oklahoma City was the stuff of nightmares. The Tauranga man was the only Kiwi in a group of storm-chasers - the others were Australians and Americans - on a five-week trip to the region, where ...
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Oklahoma tornado We are by your side says Obama
Message of solidarity comes as evidence emerges federal fund shortages stalled storm shelter building plans. President Barack Obama vowed that the United States would stand behind Oklahoma as it struggled to fill the "empty spaces" left by the devastating tornado with "love and laughter and community". The President promised the full support of the federal Government and that he would "back up ...
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Gay marriage bill goes to Lords
David Cameron's leadership came under further pressure as 133 Conservative MPs voted against gay marriage and the British Prime Minister was warned the proposal would now run into fierce opposition in the House of Lords. After two weeks of damaging Tory infighting, senior party sources said Cameron could face a vote of confidence in an attempt to oust him as leader before the 2015 general ...
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Rivals banned in run up to Irans election
Two key challengers in the race to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President of Iran have been banned from taking part in next month's elections. In a move consolidating the grip of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's electoral watchdog blocked candidacies by both Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former President, and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a presidential adviser. Although both were drawn from ...
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Trauma guide proves lie
The battle to keep Tibetans under control is inflicting severe psychological damage on Chinese armed police, an internal training document has revealed. The leaked 25-page training manual was given to members of the People's Armed Police charged with keeping order in Tibetan areas of Sichuan province, which borders Tibet. Among the advice it offers are ways of dealing with ...
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Death in cathedral over vile gay law
A far-right French historian committed suicide at the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral yesterday by shooting himself in the mouth in an apparent protest against gay marriage. Dominique Venner, 78, a former right-wing activist well-known in France for his political essays, posted a note on his blog attacking a law passed by the Socialist Government last week allowing same-sex marriage and adoption, ...
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Arrest over IRA bombing
A man was charged last night over a notorious IRA bombing in London in 1982 which killed four British soldiers on ceremonial duty. John Anthony Downey, 61, from County Donegal in Ireland, had been arrested at London's Gatwick Airport. He was to appear before magistrates in London overnight charged with four counts of murder and another charge of intending to cause an explosion likely to endanger ...
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Dimon to keep both JPMorgan jobs
Shareholders at JPMorgan Chase voted to let Jamie Dimon, the chairman and chief executive, keep both his jobs. At the bank's annual meeting, just 32 per cent of shareholders voted for a non-binding measure that would have advised the bank to split the roles. That's less than the 40 per cent vote that a similar proposal received last year. Shareholder groups lobbying for the split gained momentum ...
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Opinion How to be safe in storm
>Editor's note: Joshua Wurman is an atmospheric scientist, tornado researcher and the inventor of the DOW mobile radars. He is the director of the Center for Severe Weather Research in Boulder, Colorado. (CNN) -- A junior professor drives his Doppler On Wheels mobile radar trucks through Moore, Oklahoma, less than 90 seconds after a tornado has torn a path of destruction through the city. ...
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Liberals Turn on Lois Lerner IRS
IRS official Lois Lerner , writing that Lerner's refusal to testify before Congress means she should be fired. "Whether or not she should be fired for whatever she did in the scandal itself, deciding to take the fifth means she needs to be removed from her position," Marshall writes. "I was chatting with people yesterday who said that civil service protections may make this ...
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Who In Georgia Is Merabishvilis Arrest Meant To Scare
The arrest of Georgia's former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili is a clear attempt to crush the allies of President Mikheil Saakashvili, one analyst ...
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Vox Pop Iranians React To Dismissal Of Presidential Hopefuls
RFE/RL's Radio Farda received a flood of comments via e-mail, Facebook, telephone, and on text messages from its audience in Iran that overwhelmingly express disappointment and anger at the Guardians Council's final list of candidates for Iran's June 14 presidential election. In an informal poll conducted on Radio Farda's website, 76 percent of respondents said they ...
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Britain Must Do More for Economy I.M.F. Warns
LONDON -- Britain should do more to fuel economic growth and be prepared to pump more money into its bailed-out banks if necessary, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday in a ...
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Gibraltar Moves Toward UEFA Membership as Spain Resists
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Why dont Oklahomans have basements
>Country star Toby Keith tours the damage in his hometown of Moore, Oklahoma on 'AC360' tonight, 8pm ET. (CNN) -- It's one of the most familiar pieces of advice from authorities to people in the path of a tornado: Get into your basement. Yet few homes in the Oklahoma City area have them -- even though that state is hit by far more powerful tornadoes than most others. "Probably less than one ...
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Iran upping nuclear capacity but below Israeli red line
VIENNA - Iran has increased its capacity to refine uranium by installing hundreds more centrifuges, a UN nuclear agency report said on Wednesday, underlining Tehran's defiance of Western demands to curb the activity.But, in a development that could help buy time for diplomacy between Iran and world powers, the report showed limited growth of Iran's most sensitive nuclear stockpile and ...
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Anti-sexual harassment bills clear hurdle
Two bills increasing the punishment for and definition of sexual harassment passed preliminary votes in the Knesset Wednesday.The first bill, proposed by MK Michal Roisin (Meretz) increases the penalty a judge can charge a harasser in a civil lawsuit without proof of damage from NIS 50,000 to NIS 150,000.Presenting the legislation in the plenum, Roisin said that an Economy Ministry report found ...
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Invasive beetle may cause trees to fall
The Agriculture Ministry has warned that every minute trees could fall on passers-by due the alarming presence of an invasive beetle species from the Far East - the red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier). Attacking mainly palm trees that are common in Israel's city streets, the approximately 3.5-centimeter red palm weevils eat the wood of the trees from the inside until the ...
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Driver boasts about hitting bloody cyclist
Ms Way, believed to work for accountants Larking Gowen, a firm that sponsors cycle challenges, tweeted: ';Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier - I have right of way he doesn't even pay road tax ...
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First picture Hugging and smiling the brother and sister murdered by their British father in bitter custody battle with French mother
In loving arms: The first picture of siblings Mathew and Carla Stevenson who allegedly had their throats cut by their father, Julian Stevenson, in ...
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New town mayor accidentally smashes car through front doors of his local Tesco just five days into his job
As the new mayor of his local town, Terry Buckle was no doubt keen to make an instant impression. And as these pictures show, the 73-year-old has certainly made a big impact - just not the kind he perhaps wanted. Councillor Buckle smashed straight through the front door of his local Tesco store - just five days after becoming the new mayor of Bury St Edmunds in ...
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Ahmed Angel Is this the most handsome man on the planet He certainly thinks so
But very little is known about the mysterious Ahmed Angel. According to his website, he is studying medicine in Belarus and speaks Arabic, English, Russian and French. But his passion is most clearly illustrated by the 400 photos of himself posted on his Facebook page. Album titles include 'the most beautiful face ever' and 'very ...
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Taylor Swift lookalike claims she has been beaten by bullies who envy her resemblance to star singer
Convincing lookalike Xenna Kristian, 18, suffered bruising after allegedly being pulled from her chair and repeatedly kicked while studying at college on ...
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Man charged with murder of four soldiers killed in IRAs 1982 Hyde Park bombing after being arrested stepping off plane from Ireland
In the dock: A 61-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of four soldiers in the 1982 Hyde Park bomb. John Anthony Downey is pictured arriving at court in a police escorted ...
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Are you a nacho a tomato or a string bean New research reveals the 7 different shapes of modern man
One in six - 15 per cent - believe they're a sleek straight up and down cucumber, while the rounded tomato represents ten per cent of the male ...
Middle East Focus
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Israel and Palestine as one country?
Peace in the Middle East, it’s as illusive now as it was ten years ago and ten years before that. For many commentators, peace in the Middle East has become a myth, something local and international governments strive for or claim to support without any real hope of realization of the goal. With the current impasse between Israel and the Palestinian Authority ongoing, an old theme is being kicked around again, that of a single state that incorporates Israel and Palestine.
A single state solution is an idea that grew up in the 1920s and then died with the Six-Day War when divisions between the newly-founded Israeli state and the rest of the region were too entrenched for the idea to retain any traction. The political landscape after the war and even today is what many Jewish groups feared when Jewish Zionists were calling for a return to the biblical homeland to develop a Jewish state. Read more
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