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 Florida nabs white supremacists planning "race war"Ten alleged members of a white supremacist group training near Orlando and Disney World for a "race war" have been rounded up in a series of arrests in central Florida, authorities said on Tuesday.
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 Le Pen voters to arbitrate Hollande-Sarkozy duelFar-right voters may decide who becomes France's next president after anti-immigration crusader Marine Le Pen's record first-round score jolted the race between Socialist frontrunner Francois Hollande and incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.
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 Afghanistan, U.S. agree on strategic pact textAfghanistan and the United States on Sunday agreed a draft of a long-awaited deal that will define the scope and nature of a U.S. presence in the country for up to a decade after the pullout of most NATO combat troops in 2014.
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 Trayvon Martin shooter released on bailGeorge Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder in the killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, left a Florida jail early on Monday, after a judge set bail at $150,000 in the racially charged case, a spokeswoman for the sheriff in Seminole County, Florida, said.
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 Miss Universe changes rules to include transgender womenThe Miss Universe pageant is changing its rules and will allow transgender women to take part in all of its competitions starting in 2013, the organization and gay rights group GLAAD said on Tuesday.
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 JetBlue co-pilot calmly and quickly got jet downWith his captain restrained and locked out of the cockpit, the co-pilot of JetBlue Flight 191 acted calmly and quickly to get the Airbus jet and 135 other passengers and crew down safely.
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 Report: Buffett millionaires tax would raise $47 billionA proposed 30 percent minimum tax on millionaires backed by President Barack Obama - dubbed the Buffett tax after investor Warren Buffett who supports it - would raise about $47 billion over a decade, according to a congressional report.
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 Greece eyes elections after debt dealGreek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos formally submitted his candidacy to lead the Socialist PASOK party on Saturday, as the focus in Athens shifted to elections expected once an international bailout deal is cleared.
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 Obama seeks to calm 'drumbeat of war' over IranPresident Barack Obama said on Tuesday the United States 'will not countenance' Iran developing a nuclear weapon but pledged to take a sober approach to dealing with Tehran's nuclear programme.
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 Greek man shoots two, takes hostages over layoffAn unemployed man shot and wounded his former boss and one other worker and took another two hostage at a small factory in Greece in protest at losing his job, police said on Thursday.
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 Sheriff, 'posse' still probing Obama's birth certificateA tough-talking Arizona sheriff, already embroiled in a Justice Department bias investigation , waded deeper into controversy on Thursday with an assertion that a probe by his office found President Barack Obama's birth certificate was a forgery.
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 U.K. Sun allegedly paid officials for tipoffsAn investigation into Rupert Murdoch's top-selling British newspaper, the Sun, has uncovered evidence that it paid tens of thousands of pounds in retainers to public officials for tipoffs, a source with knowledge of the probe said on Wednesday.
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 Santorum catches Romney in U.S. pollsFormer U.S. Senator Rick Santorum has surged into a virtual tie in opinion polls with Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, setting up a tough fight in the party's primary in Michigan on Feb 28.
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 Boyfriend drowns trying to rescue girlfriendA Tennessee man drowned after he jumped in the swift-moving Tennessee River to save his girlfriend from her sinking car, but she had already escaped, police said.
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 Conservatives take aim at Obama at CPACRepublican heavyweights lined up to attack President Barack Obama at a huge conservative gathering here Thursday.
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 iGrave: the virtual tombstoneTom Keiser doesn't need a GPS to find his wife, as she's buried among tall grasses and tangled wild flowers.
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 Santorum sticks around and gives grief to GingrichHe may not have much money or a ground game to speak of in Florida but Republican Rick Santorum will not pull out of the presidential race - much to the chagrin of rival Newt Gingrich and probably to the delight of a bruised Mitt Romney.
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 Republicans leap to attack Romney at debateThe Republican presidential hopefuls attacked front-runner Mitt Romney's business record and his failure to release his tax returns on Monday, looking to halt his growing momentum during the early stages of a debate in South Carolina.
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 Paparazzi snap Pippa up to 400 times a dayPaparazzi camped outside Pippa Middleton's home offer hundreds of photographs of British Prince William's new sister-in-law to newspapers every day, a tabloid picture editor said on Wednesday.
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 Suicide bomb kills 26 in Syria: OfficialA suicide bomber killed 26 people and wounded 63 in Damascus on Friday, Syria's interior minister said, vowing an "iron fist" response to the carnage in the heart of the Syrian capital after similar attacks two weeks ago.
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 Turkish ex-army chief jailed over anti-govt. plotFormer Turkish armed forces chief General Ilker Basbug spent his first night behind bars on Friday, charged with trying to overthrow the government in an unprecedented development likely to exacerbate tensions with the military.
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 Tymoshenko's husband seeks asylum in Czech RepublicThe husband of Ukraine's jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has asked for asylum in the Czech Republic, a Czech government source said on Friday.
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 Santorum, Gingrich join Perry's VA ballot suitA federal judge on Wednesday gave three Republican presidential candidates permission to join Texas Governor Rick Perry's lawsuit seeking a spot on Virginia's primary election ballot.
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 Infographic: Iran captures spy planeInfographic: Iran captures spy plane
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