Investigators have reportedly identified a Boston marathon suspect using security video and cellphone records
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Contrary to assurances it has deployed U.S. drones only against known senior leaders of al Qaida and allied groups, the Obama administration has targeted and killed hundreds of suspected lower-level Afghan, Pakistani and unidentified “other” militants in scores of strikes in Pakistan’s rugged tribal area, classified U.S. intelligence reports show.
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The settlement means Costa will not face a criminal trial and ends its potential liability with the state of Italy, but not private lawsuits brought by passengers or crew, the prosecution sources said
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The loopholes in the EU Human Rights protocols offer no protection at all against global looting
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Mt. Gox, the world’s first and largest Bitcoin exchange, appears to be down.
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This is about a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids. It is supposed to be responsible for the demise of the bees, and now birds seem to be affected too. Big Chemicals succeeded in staving off an immediate EU ban a few weeks ago.
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The European Parliament has just voted in favor of the much-discussed blanket ban on all forms of pornography. But first, it decided to strike out the much-discussed extension of “media” into the internet, effectively limiting the ban to advertising and some undefined print media.
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After the now several week old exploding battery fiasco, Boeing is nowhere closer to resolving the recurring problem for its appropriately renamed Nightmareliner. But the worst for the company may be yet ahead: as the following chart from Stone McCarthy shows, January new aircraft orders collapsed from 183 in December to a meaningless 2 in January
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Man fatally stabbed at family gathering in South Shore – Chicago News and Weather.
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