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Oklahoma tornado Children trapped in wreckage and at least 91 dead after massive storm rips through suburbs
President Barack Obama has said that authorities will work "as long as it takes" to deal with the devastation delivered by the massive hurricane that hit a heavily populated suburb of Oklahoma ...
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Syrian foes move towards talks but fighting rages
People wait for buses at the al-Abassin bus station, near Damascus' Jobar neighbourhood which is controlled by the Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra during a guided tour by the Syrian Army May ...
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Health risks remain for Okla. tornado responders victims
Dana Ulepich searches inside a room left standing at the back of her house destroyed after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, ...
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Former IRS chief I cant say what led to IRS targeting
Updated: 11:54 a.m.As the investigation continues into potentially discriminatory activities at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), former commissioner Douglas Shulman said Tuesday he was "saddened" that the agency had been judged as having acted in a way that was not "non-political and non-partisan," though he said he couldn't say exactly what happened to lead to the ...
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Limited service resumes on NYC-Conn. train route
HARTFORD, Conn. Connecticut says limited, slower train service is about to resume, four days after a derailment injured scores of commuter rail ...
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Microsoft announces Xbox One
Microsoft announced Monday its next-generation video game console, the Xbox One. "Today, we look forward," said Don Mattrick, Microsoft president of interactive business."It's time for technology to step behind the curtain and for you and entertainment to take center stage." The next-generation console's new features include: voice command, cloud integration, ...
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C.E.O Denies That Apple Is Avoiding Taxes
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Two key candidates barred from Iran election
Iran's electoral watchdog has barred former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a close aide to president Mahmoud Ahadinejad from running in the June 14 presidential election, state media has reported.Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaee were disqualified by the Guardian Council which approved a list of eight candidates announced by the interior ministry late on Tuesday, Fars news ...
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Scenes from Moore
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKIMoore, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Sun was hard to come by in Moore, Oklahoma, Tuesday. The sky still looked menacing, dark and ...
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Staff kept tax scandal from Obama
Controversy continued to swirl around the White House yesterday with developments on two fronts. It was revealed that the White House chief of staff and other senior advisers knew in late April that a report was likely to find that employees of the United States tax agency had inappropriately targeted conservative political groups. But the White House said the advisers did not tell Barack Obama, ...
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Monster tornado I cant breathe. My house is on top of me
Soon after a monstrous, deadly tornado slammed into the community of Moore, Tiffany Thronesberry's phone rang. Her mother was screaming down the line. "Help! Help! I can't breathe. My house is on top of me," Barbara Jarrell yelled to her ...
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Rudd reignites talk on gay marriage
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's change of heart to support gay marriage may indicate numbers shifting in support of legalising same-sex marriage among parliamentarians. Rudd now supports same-sex couples being allowed to wed, so long as churches and religious institutions don't have to marry them - attributing his about-face to a "personal journey". But the federal Opposition has ...
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Attacks push Iraq closer to sectarian war
Iraq is edging closer to all-out sectarian war between Sunni and Shia Muslims as a series of car bombings and shootings killed at least 90 people and left many others injured yesterday. Casualty figures are returning to a level not seen since the civil war of 2006-07. Most of the car bombings yesterday targeted markets, bus stops and other places crowded with civilians. Ten car bombs killed 46 ...
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Odds against Waterhouse as TV betting faces ban
Despite walking away unscathed by allegations of insider tipping in the now-notorious More Joyous furore, Australia's internet gambling king Tom Waterhouse is feeling the blast from outrage over live betting odds. South Australia will ban the odds from TV and sporting grounds, free-to-air stations intend following suit, and further action is planned by the Labor Government and the federal ...
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Protest against gay hate killing
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Manhattan to protest against the killing of a gay man allegedly taunted with homophobic slurs - the most recent in a spate of bias attacks stirring up anxiety, disbelief and outrage in a famously gay-friendly neighbourhood. "We're here! We're queer!" and "Homophobia's got to go!" were among chants as a crowd marked the death of 32-year-old Mark ...
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Former trade ministers form panel
An impressive line-up of six former trade ministers of the United States formed a panel yesterday at the US NZ Pacific Partnership Forum in Washington. William Brock, Clayton Yeutter, Carla Hills, Mickey Kantor, Charlene Barshefsky, and Susan Schwab lined up together. And another, Robert Zoellick, who is also a former President of the World Bank had star billing in the forum at the morning. ...
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Yahoos $1.3b gamble on Tumblr
Yahoo's chief executive is making a US$1.1 billion ($1.3 billion) bet on the online blogging forum Tumblr as Marissa Mayer tries to make a former internet icon cool again. The deal announced yesterday is Mayer's boldest move since she left Google 10 months ago to lead Yahoo's latest comeback attempt. It marks Yahoo's most expensive acquisition since it bought online search engine Overture a ...
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Im too sexy for my job ... and workings not for me says Brit
British woman Laura Fernee says she is too attractive to work and has been unemployed for the last two years because of the "massive problems" her good looks cause at work. Ms Fernee, a 33-year-old brunette, told the Daily Mail she was forced to quit her last job at a medical research lab when comments about her looks and "constant" offers for dates, "romantic gifts" left on her desk and the ...
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Former IRS Chief Refuses to Apologize
Texas senator John Cornyn asked former IRS chief Douglas Shulman to apologize to his constituents for the IRS's wrongdoings. Shulman refused. Here's the ...
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High school dropout who made a fortune
It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college. But now we've got David Karp, who doesn't even have a high school diploma. Karp, 26, founded Tumblr, the online blogging forum, sold yesterday to Yahoo for US$1.1 billion ($1.3 ...
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Twister like bomb blast says Kiwi
Aucklander Cam Rhodes has described a darkening sky, running from golf ball-sized hail and the sound of a "bomb exploding" as lightning caused a large electrical fire amid the chaos of Oklahoma's devastating tornadoes. "At the time we were getting hail the size of golf balls coming down and then it went dark as if it was 8 o'clock at night and the sun was setting, it was extremely dark outside, ...
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Feet get a breather when AC turned off
Can socks, or rather an absence of them, save Pakistan this summer?In the latest directive from the country's caretaker Government, civil servants have been told that they should not wear socks to the office as part of a plan to try and keep cool without air-conditioning. Pakistan suffers from crippling, debilitating power cuts of up to 18 hours a day. Improving capacity and reducing those huge ...
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Gantz If Assad escalates attacks hell bear consequences
cross-border fire overnight on the Golan Heights.Speaking to Haifa University's National Security Studies Center, Gantz told the audience, "In Syria, we see that things occurring, beginning with the transfer of arms, and including threats by Assad, who is speaking, encouraging, and directing an increase in action against Israel in various degrees on the Golan ...
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Saudi princes accused of laundering for Hezbollah
LONDON - Two Saudi princes on Tuesday sought to extricate themselves from a London legal battle with a Jordanian businessman who accuses them of laundering money for Hezbollah, an allegation their lawyer called "fanciful".Prince Mishal bin Abdulaziz al Saud, a brother of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, and his son Prince Abdulaziz bin Mishal, had previously argued they had ...
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Barkat defends closing of Cinema City on Shabbat
movie complex Cinema City continues, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat - who launched his reelection campaign last week - stated Tuesday he supports its forced Shabbat closure.The 15-screen, NIS 125 million theater, scheduled to open this summer, has become a lightning rod for debate since its owners were given a building permit in 2010 with the precondition by the Finance Ministry and Jerusalem ...
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Palestine is a potential eco-friendly hub
Palestine, occupied Palestine, the Palestinian Territories or the Occupied Territories, call it what you will, this patch of land in the Middle East has many different name according to political opinion, but what many don’t realize about it is the ingenuity that takes place on a daily basis.
Palestine is one of the poorest regions in the world and certainly in the Middle East, the territory which is loosely made up of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, is a large refugee camp because none of the inhabitants have sovereignty and therefore do not have a centrally strong government to provide basic services. Much of the areas income is derived through donations and money earned by day laborers within Israel. Read more
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