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The FBI confirmed that a special agent was conducting “official duties” when he shot and killed a man whom FBI interviewed in recent weeks about his ties to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
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Red tape led to the lack of adequate infrastructure which significantly increased Oklahoma tornado death toll.
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The footless body of an Afghan man missing since last November was found Tuesday near the former US Special Forces base. Afghan officials and victim’s representatives believe the discovery is directly connected to Zakaria Kandahari, a notorious Afghan-American interpreter and US wartime collaborator. who Afghan officials believe has American citizenship.
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Syrian Vice Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad has called his Moscow talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov fruitful.
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Iran has increased its capacity to refine uranium by installing hundreds of more centrifuges at its Natanz plant, a U.N. nuclear agency report said on Wednesday, underlining Tehran's defiance of Western demands to curb the activity.
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At their latest gathering in Amman in Jordan, the nations known as the Friends of Syria accused Russia and Iran of supplying the regime of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with modern arms. The actual situation, however, is very different. It is Assad’s Western and Arab foes who rush support, including arms, to one of the sides in the civil war in Syria.
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A teenage suicide bomber killed seven people in central Afghanistan on Wednesday when he targeted local fighters who battle against Taliban insurgents, officials said.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron has called a meeting of his government's emergency Cobra security committee after the killing of a man in south London, his office said on Wednesday. The Prime Minister is expected to speak to the Home Secretary about what is now being treated by government as a suspected terrorist attack.
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With all eyes on Syria, the world has somewhat forgotten about the Middle East while experts claim that Syria is indispensable to the solution of the Israeli-Palestinian issue. The Middle East is a small and tangled world so Syria really matters for Israel and Palestine. Even the smallest moves in the Syrian conflict may trigger drastic changes between Israel and Palestine.
Russia
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin believes that the authorities should care more about the welfare of scientists, teachers and students. This would raise the prestige of the professions of a scientist and a teacher, Mr. Putin says.
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In the coming three years, the Russian government will spend some 90bln roubles on programmes to speed up social and economic development in depressed rural areas.
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Ballerina Olga Smirnova, a rising star of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater, has won a prestigious Benois de la Danse ballet award. She is the only woman in the company of six Benois de la Danse-2013 awardees, the other five being two male dancers and three male choreographers. The awards ceremony preceded the opening of the Benois de la Danse festival in Moscow.
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EU leaders agreed Wednesday that the automatic sharing of individuals' bank account data, a key measure to prevent tax evasion, should come into effect by the end of the year, European President Herman Van Rompuy said.
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The summit of the European Union that has opened in Brussels is expected to be focused on addressing tax evasion by relaxing bank secrecy rules beginning with January 2015.
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The Internal Revenue Service official who this month revealed the US tax agency's targeting of conservative groups asserted her constitutional right not to answer questions before a US congressional committee on Wednesday.
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Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency, is starting to attract the attention of the US government. It seems that the American authorities would like to destroy the digital currency before it could become a widespread alternative to the US dollar.
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David Cameron's woes are continuing this week with plans to legalize same-sex marriage to be debated in Parliament today and tomorrow. The issue is hugely divisive, not least within the Tory Party which seems to have been in open rebellion in the last couple of weeks over everything from the E.U. to the next election. And on Sunday 34 current and former local party chairmen delivered a letter to Downing Street opposing the policy as "flawed, un-Conservative and costing us dearly in votes and membership". Gay marriage is causing a heated row across the political and public spheres.
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A white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was filmed by a surveillance camera. (VIDEO)
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Is it really possible to control dual technologies that can be used in nuclear arms production? Answers to this and other questions are being sought in Montreux, Switzerland, within the framework of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe.
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Grumpy Сat is recognized as the 17th Annual Webby Awards "Meme of the Year". The award ceremony took place on May 22.
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The Freedom of the Press Foundation has published an article in which they detail how almost everything that was done to WikiLeaks is now being done to the mainstream media. This includes the recent revelations of U.S. government spying on the Associated Press, which has almost always stayed close to the official government line and even Fox News, the beloved biased propaganda tool of the far right and neo-conservatives, an outlet which has publicized calls for the assassination of Julian Assange.
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