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 Suspected robbers accidentally blow up own busA suspected armed robber was killed when explosives his gang was transporting accidentally went off in the centre of Nigeria's main oil city of Port Harcourt on Thursday, police said.
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 Findings reveal racial disparities in pre-hospital care for cardiac arrest victimsIf you're black and you suffer cardiac arrest outside a hospital, you are less likely to receive CPR from a bystander than your white counterpart, a conference in the U.S. heard on Friday.
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 Search resumes in Indonesia for missing planeRescuers resumed searching a mountain area south of the Indonesian capital at first light on Thursday for a Russian Sukhoi plane with 50 people on board that went missing during a demonstration flight and is presumed crashed.
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 Militia leader suspected in Arizona murder suicideA prominent border militia leader and reputed neo-Nazi is believed to have shot dead four people before turning a gun on himself following a domestic dispute at a home in a Phoenix suburb, police said on Thursday.
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 U.S. says never spoke to Chen about family threatsThe U.S. State Department sought to counter reports that Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng may have left the U.S. embassy in Beijing because of physical or legal threats to his family, saying that it never discussed any such threats with him.
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 Air Force Two carrying Biden struck by birds, lands safelyThe Air Force Two plane carrying Vice President Joe Biden was struck by birds in California on Thursday, a spokeswoman for his office said, but it landed without problem and the vice president, passengers and crew were safe at all times.
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 Iran rejects U.S. request for meeting: ReportIran turned down a request by the United States for a rare bilateral meeting on the sidelines of nuclear talks between the Islamic republic and six world powers in Istanbul on Saturday, the official IRNA news agency said.
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 Suicide bomber strikes Afghanistan's Herat region, 9 deadA suicide bomber killed at least nine people on Tuesday in Afghanistan's relatively peaceful western Herat province near the border with Iran, officials said.
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 Malawi President Mutharika dead: ReportMalawi's state radio announced on Saturday that President Bingu wa Mutharika had died, and Vice-president Joyce Banda prepared to take over as southern Africa's first female head of state.
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 Good Friday around the worldChristians mark Good Friday, the climax of the Christian year.
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 Man who shot Florida teen fears for safetyGeorge Zimmerman is not a racist and cried for days after shooting dead a black Florida teenager, a black, longtime friend of Zimmerman said on Sunday in a sympathetic portrayal of a man maligned by critics as a trigger-happy bigot.
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 Ex-Rutgers student says sorry to gay roommate's familyDharun Ravi, convicted of hate crimes for using a webcam to spy on his Rutgers University roommate's gay encounter, apologized publicly for the first time to the young man's family, saying "I didn't hate Tyler."
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 U.S. attack helicopter shows off, crashes in AfghanistanHot-dogging and showing off appear to be the cause behind the crash of a U.S. Apache attack helicopter in a snowy base in Afghanistan
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 Afghan corpse video shows U.S. depravity: al-QaidaThe head of al-Qaida has called footage of U.S. Marines appearing to urinate on the corpses of Afghans proof of Western depravity that underlines the need to fight "crusader" forces in the country.
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 French shooting suspect says he will surrenderA gunman suspected of killing three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school wounded three police officers in a shoot-out at a house in Toulouse in southwestern France on Wednesday and said he was a member of al-Qaida.
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 New frog species discovered in NYCA new species of frog has been discovered, but it's not in a rainforest -- it's in New York City.
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 Syrian forces kill 31 ahead of Annan peace missionSyrian forces killed 31 people on Friday as they sought to quell demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad before a peace mission by U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, opposition activists said.
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 Iran touts high election turnout, Ahmadinejad faction losingIran, under intense Western pressure over its disputed nuclear programme, on Saturday declared an initial turnout of 64% in a parliamentary election shunned by most reformists as a sham.
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 Canadian woman goes missing on cruise shipU.S. media is reporting a Canadian woman has vanished from a cruise ship somewhere between Grand Bahama and the Florida coast.
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 Deadly tornadoes strike Missouri, KansasAt least one person was killed and more than a dozen injured when powerful tornadoes ripped through Missouri and Kansas late Tuesday, damaging homes and buildings across the area, authorities said.
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 Elite Syrian army units attack rebel districtsHeavy fighting raged near Baba Amro in Homs on Wednesday after elite Syrian troops attacked the rebel-held bastion that has endured 25 days of siege and fierce bombardment, activists said.
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 Strauss-Kahn held by police in prostitution probeFormer IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken in for questioning on Tuesday by police investigating an alleged prostitution ring run out of the northern French city of Lille.
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 Gay sheriff quits Romney campaignA local sheriff resigned as a co-chair of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's campaign in Arizona on Saturday after he was accused of threatening a former male lover with deportation to Mexico if he talked about their relationship.
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 Iran to announce nuclear progress: AhmadinejadIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that the Islamic Republic, targeted by tougher Western sanctions, would soon announce advances in its nuclear programme.
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 Romney wins CPAC straw pollMitt Romney is back in the lead of the topsy-turvy Republican nomination race.
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