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To that end, March-@placeholder uses a "scared straight" tactic: She stages a funeral for the teens and tells them to imagine it's theirs. | Baltimore (CNN) -- At just 7 years old, Kyron Chase is facing the unimaginable: His father was murdered. "Telling my son his father had been killed was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do," said Kimberly Vinson, Kyron's mother. "Their bond, it was just a bond that a lot of kids don't have with their father." Kyron has struggled to cope after his father's death in December. And Vinson, left to raise two small children on her own, has struggled to fill the void for her son. "My concern is how he will make it through this," she said.
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Roberta's House is helping children and their families cope with grief
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Annette March-Grier started the nonprofit so kids could have a "safe" place to recover
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The organization also helps juvenile offenders cope with other forms of loss | 18,100 | record_train |
From the standpoint of the prosecution, @placeholder’s shooting of the unarmed father of two cannot be classified as self-defense. | The lawyer representing a Michigan man accused of killing a driver in an apparent road rage incident revealed this week she is planning to mount a defense based on the state's controversial 'stand your ground' law. Martin Zale, 69, has been charged with an open count of murder for shooting Derek Flemming, 43, in the head September 2 in Livingston County's Genoa Township. Zale's attorney, Melissa Pearce, said she will argue self-defense when the case goes to trial. Deadly confrontation: Martin Zale, 69 (left), has been charged with shooting dead Derek Flemming, 43 (right), in what police described as a road rage incident
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Derek Flemming, 43, was allegedly shot dead by Martin Zale, 69,September 2
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Flemming and his wife Amy were driving to pick up their two children after their first day of school
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Zale drove so fast down a side street that he almost hit the couple's car
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Derek Flemming got out of his car and asked, 'What's your problem?'
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Zale allegedly lowered his window and shot Flemming in the face in front of his wife | 18,101 | record_train |
@placeholder broke then with a forehand passing shot, highlighting the extra power she said had given her an edge. | (CNN) -- Venus Williams claimed the 42nd title of her glittering career as she successfully defended her Dubai Tennis Championship crown on Saturday. The American defeated fourth seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-3 7-5 in the final, having also won their only previous encounter at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The victory lifted Williams into 11th place on the all-time list, moving her one title ahead of the recently-returned Justine Henin to make her the most successful player currently active on the WTA Tour. The former world No. 1, seeded third in the absence of her top-ranked younger sister Serena and No. 2 Dinara Safina, won the opening set in controversial circumstances with the only break after using the Hawkeye system to challenge a line call on Azarenka's second serve at 3-2.
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Venus Williams claims 42nd title of her career, defending Dubai Tennis Championship crown
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American third seed defeats Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6-3 7-5 in final
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Victory lifted Williams into 11th place on the all-time list above Justine Henin
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Maria Sharapova claims her first title of 2010, beating Sophia Arvidsson in Memphis final | 18,102 | record_train |
Unusually for a divorce case, @placeholder has barred the public from the courtroom on most days and sealed most of the evidence. | What could be the next record-breaking divorce settlement might have gotten more expensive, as the estimated amount of oilman Harold Hamm's fortune set to be divided has topped $17 billion, according to an analysis presented as evidence in their divorce trial. Hamm's personal wealth was previously estimated to be $11.3 billion by Forbes in 2013 The analysis of Kenneth Button, an expert witness hired by Hamm's wife Sue Ann, was laid out in court testimony and in a document provided to Reuters by Oklahoma County Judge Howard Haralson. It is one of the first pieces of financial testimony to be released from the trial, which has been conducted mostly in secrecy.
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Harold Hamm, 68, accrued a fortune worth $17 billion according to the estimate of analyst hired by his wife Sue Ann, 56
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Record for biggest divorce settlement is $4.5 billion from divorce between Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev and wife Elena earlier this year
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Hamm's personal wealth was previously estimated to be $11.3 billion by Forbes
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Harold Hamm's company produces 700,000 barrels of oil a day, 10 per cent of the American output
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Sue Ann has accused her husband of having an affair
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By 2007, Sue Ann had begun gathering electronic surveillance of her husband, with one bill totaling $9,866.09
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Hamm's lawyers want those recordings to prove they had stopped living as husband and wife before the 2012 divorce filing | 18,103 | record_train |
But according to research @placeholder's not alone, the hit TV series revealed that up to five per cent of those going under the knife will lose a nipple. | It's the stuff of nightmares - going for a life-changing operation only to realise you have ended up with a botched up body. Yet for mother-of-six Sue MacManus, who lost a nipple in a horrifying complication after breast reduction surgery, and Hannah Costayer, who was left with wonky lips after plumping injections, this is their reality. The two women starred on tonight's Botched Up Bodies on Channel 5 and have suffered immensely thanks to their bungled surgery. Scroll down for video Jacob was once 24 stone but he lost so much weight he's been left with sagging skin and drooping nipples
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Sue MacManus had 38G breast reduction but her nipple became necrotic
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Hannah Costayer had bungled lip fillers at 18 which left her mouth lopsided
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Man known as Jacob lost so much weight his nipples were by his waist
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All three took part in the latest episode of Channel 5's Botched Up Bodies | 18,104 | record_train |
They spent the previous week in @placeholder after being spirited out of Sudan in the dead of night on an Italian state aircraft. | The Christian mother who was put on death row in Sudan for refusing to convert to Islam is finally on her way to a new life in the United States. Meriam Ibrahim, who was imprisoned for apostasy after refusing to renounce her Christian faith, left Rome this morning on a flight bound for Philadelphia, according to the campaigner who secured her release. The mother-of-two, accompanied by husband Daniel, a U.S. citizen, and children Martin and Maya will then change planes to fly to New Hampshire, according to Antonella Napoli, director of Italians for Darfur. Scroll down for video Courage: Meriam Ibrahim holds her daughter Maya in her arms as she leaves Rome for Philadelphia
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Meriam Ibrahim was imprisoned after refusing to renounce her Christian faith
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The mother-of-two was accompanied by her husband Daniel - a U.S. citizen
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The family of four are planning to start afresh in America in Manchester
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Baby Maya was born while her mother as shackled in prison
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Pope Francis blessed Meriam and her daughter during their stay in Italy | 18,105 | record_train |
@placeholder officials said the men will be handed over when those issues are resolved. | BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's prime minister wants the American military to hand over "Chemical Ali" and two other convicted officials from Saddam Hussein's regime for execution, an Iraqi official said Tuesday, but the move could widen the divide between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite Muslim communities. Ali Hassan al-Majeed, aka "Chemical Ali," was sentenced to death in June for his role in the 1988 Anfal campaign. Ali Hassan al-Majeed (aka "Chemical Ali"), Sultan Hashem Ahmed and Hussein Rashid were sentenced to death in June for their roles in the 1988 Anfal campaign, an Iraqi army operation in Kurdish-dominated northern Iraq that killed tens of thousands of people.
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Western official: Executing trio without council's approval would violate law
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Three men were slated to be executed in October, but orders still await signatures
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Delays blamed on legal issues, but officials say sectarian issues at play
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Western official predicts compromise: Only "Chemical Ali" will be executed | 18,106 | record_train |
Smile for the camera: The strange markings have been spotted on sheep hundreds of miles apart, including in @placeholder and Scotland | Hundreds of sheep have been painted with a bizarre 'smiley face' symbol in fields across the country. The strange image has sparked debate on social networking sites after it was first reported on 20 animals in a field in Melton Mowbray, in Leicestershire. There have since been sightings in a further five fields across the UK, including Perthshire in Scotland, and 500 miles south in Exeter, Devon. Not impressed: Hundreds of sheep have been branded with the mysterious 'smiley face' symbol at sites up and down the country, including these unimpressed-looking sheep in Exeter Early sighting: These sheep in Melton Mowbray were among the first to be spotted. There are now more than 100 sheep believed to have been marked in this way
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Hundreds of sheep up and down the country branded with smiley face
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Faces seen in areas including Leicestershire, Devon and Perthshire
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One farmer said phenomenon was 'like crop circles-but on sheep' | 18,107 | record_train |
It would be 'something more local, or maybe statewide to be able to help @placeholder,' he said. | Republican Rep. Vance McAllister - aka the kissing Congressman - won't be on the ballot this fall, but that doesn't mean he won't seek elected office ever again. 'No, I wouldn’t rule it out,' McAllister told Politico on Wednesday. 'I’d just have to see what’s right for me and my family at the time. … For future politics, I don’t know what it holds, but if there’s a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I’ll do it.' Louisiana Republican Vance McAllister, left, says he's not quitting his job, even though he got caught cheating on his wife Kelly, right, because she doesn't want him to
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Louisiana Congressman Vance McAllister recently got caught cheating on his wife with his scheduler
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The Congressman didn't resign over the scandal but said he wouldn't seek re-election this fall
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McAllister still says he won't make a play for his Congressional seat now, but he's not ruling out anything in the future
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'If there’s a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I’ll do it,' he said | 18,108 | record_train |
She told the prosecutor that the screams for help heard on the 911 call made by a neighbor belong to @placeholder. | Taking the stand on Wednesday, the third day of the George Zimmerman trial, a friend of Trayvon Martin testified Wednesday about the final moments of the teenager's life, saying that Martin told her someone was following him. "A man was watching him," said Rachel Jeantel, 19, who was on the phone with Martin just before he was fatally shot. "He said the man kept watching him. He kept complaining that a man was just watching him." That man was Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch captain charged with second-degree murder for killing 17-year-old Martin in Sanford, Florida, on February 26, 2012. He told police he was pursuing the teenager because there had been a rash of crime in the area. A confrontation ensued, and Zimmerman said he was forced to kill Martin in self-defense.
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The woman was on the phone with Trayvon Martin moments before he died
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Rachel Jeantel testifies that Martin told her a man was watching him
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Martin asked the man "Why are you following me for?" Jeantel says
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An earlier prosecution witness says she heard a "boy" cry for help | 18,109 | record_train |
The Israeli government allegedly sent Grapel to Egypt after the January 25 revolution to take advantage of the security vacuum that then existed by recruiting others to provide the @placeholder with military and political information, Saeed said. | Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Israel's foreign minister Tuesday denied that an American-Israeli law student being held as a spy in Egypt worked for Israeli intelligence. Avigdor Lieberman has no idea why Ilan Grapel, 27, should be detained, he told Israel Radio. Grapel was apprehended Sunday and ordered held for 15 days on suspicion of spying for Israel, said Adel Saeed, a spokesman for Egypt's general prosecutor. Grapel was taken into custody in a five-star hotel in downtown Cairo, Saeed said Sunday. Grapel's mother said he had been staying at a $9-a-night youth hostel. Israeli diplomats visited Grapel on Tuesday, according to Egypt's Israeli embassy, and found him to be in good health. Israel continues working for Grapel's release, the embassy said.
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NEW: Israeli diplomats visited Ilan Grapel on Tuesday
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The aid agency Ilan Grapel was working for says it had no reason to be suspicious
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Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says he has no idea why Grapel was detained
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The law student and former Israeli paratrooper was apprehended and questioned Sunday | 18,110 | record_train |
Cazorla completed victory with paneka penalty after @placeholder had been brought down in the box | CLICK HERE to read Patrick Collins' full match report from the Emirates Arsenal may be struggling to piece a defence together from their injury ravaged squad but Arsene Wenger has no such problems at the opposite end of the pitch. The Gunners' 4-1 victory over Newcastle was only the second time this season that the manager has been able to play his three main attackers - Alexis Sanchez, Olivier Giroud and Danny Welbeck - together from the first whistle. And, with Santi Cazorla and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in midfield, it appeared Wenger had settled for an all-out offensive gameplan to counter his deficiencies at the back - where Mathieu Debuchy was drafted in to central defence.
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Arsenal defeated Newcastle 4-1 in their Premier League clash on Saturday
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Olivier Giroud, Danny Welbeck and Alexis Sanchez started together
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Giroud scored a brace with Santi Cazorla also netting twice at the Emirates
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Sanchez created two goals while Welbeck was brought down for a penalty
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CLICK HERE to read player ratings for both sets of teams | 18,111 | record_train |
@placeholder news outlets have referred to Carona as "America's Sheriff" and have credited former CNN host Larry King with the nickname. | (CNN) -- Former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona, once dubbed "America's Sheriff," turned himself in Tuesday to a Colorado federal prison to begin serving his 5 1/2-year sentence for a witness tampering conviction. Carona, 55, will serve 66 months in a minimum-security facility called "The Camp" at the Englewood federal prison in Littleton, Colorado, said John Sell, a corrections spokesman. The prison is 15 miles southwest of Denver. Carona will have to serve at least 85% of his sentence, spokesman Thom Mrozek of the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Central District of California told CNN. Carona was sentenced in April 2009 in federal court in Santa Ana, California. He was convicted of trying to persuade a former assistant to lie to and withhold testimony from a federal grand jury investigating claims of corruption in Carona's campaign and his administration, according to a statement by Mrozek.
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Former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona reports to a minimum-security prison
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He will serve a 5 1/2-year sentence for his conviction on witness tampering
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CNN's Larry King is credited with dubbing him "America's Sheriff" | 18,112 | record_train |
Ther 24-year-old knew the slalom crown was his after his nearest rival in the discipline, @placeholder's Felix Neureuther clipped a gate in his opening run. | (CNN) -- Austria's Marcel Hirscher secured the World Cup slalom title on Sunday and maintained his lead in the overall standings in testing conditions at the Kranjska Gora run in Slovenia. The event was claimed by Ivica Kostelic, of Croatia with an aggregate time of one minute, 45.81 seconds but the big winner was Hirscher, who came 0.19 seconds behind the Croatian to finish top of the slalom standings by a distance from Germany's Felix Neureuther. Hirscher's lead at the top of the overall standings is 149 points from Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal and with four events to come at the World Cup finals in Switzerland he is well placed to defend the title he won in 2012.
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Austria's Marcel Hirscher secures his maiden overall World Cup slalom crown
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Hirscher, the overall World Cup title holder, finishes ahead of Germany's Felix Neureuther
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Event is won by Croatia's Ivica Kostelic with aggregate time of 1 min, 45.81 secs
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Hirscher's lead in the overall World Cup race is 149 points with four races remaining | 18,113 | record_train |
The girls were running off to find @placeholder, and were later picked up walking along a highway off-ramp, and Morgan had a knife in her backpack. | A 13-year-old girl suspected of stabbing a classmate to please the internet meme Slender Man told police she was 'excited' to kill her friend - because she thought it would help prove the horror character exists. Anissa Weier and friend Morgan Geyser, who were 12 at the time of the alleged incident, also told police different accounts of the horrific act when they were interviewed in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin. The pair are accused of knifing Peyten Lautner 19 times before leaving her for dead in the woods on May 31, 2014. She managed to save herself by crawling to get help from a passing bicyclist.
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Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser have been accused of stabbing Peyton Lautner 19 times in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in May 2014
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They told officers different accounts of what happened during interviews
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One of them is believed to have said they were afraid of what would happen if they didn't commit the horrifying act
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One girl told the other they would become Slender Man's 'proxies' | 18,114 | record_train |
"It also comes on the heels of a busy week for @placeholder in Yemen. | (CNN) -- The second edition of an online al Qaeda magazine has surfaced with frank essays, creatively designed imagery and ominous terror tips such as using a pickup truck as a weapon and shooting up a crowded restaurant in Washington. The magazine is called "Inspire" and intelligence officials believe that an American citizen named Samir Khan, now living in Yemen, is the driving force behind the publication. The latest edition was emerged on the 10th anniversary of the suicide attack on the guided missile destroyer USS Cole -- struck as it refueled in Aden, Yemen. The first edition came out in July.
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NEW: Yemen expert says issue's timing, 10 years after Cole bombing, is no coincidence
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NEW: Magazine's ideas, ideology aimed at lone jihadist, Christopher Boucek says
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Pickup trucks, pressure cookers envisioned as weapons
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Targeting government employees is seen as paramount | 18,115 | record_train |
The potential escalation of U.S. military involvement comes two years after Obama ended the Iraq war and brought home @placeholder forces. | U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday that he's authorized "targeted airstrikes" in Iraq to protect American personnel and help Iraqi forces. "We do whatever is necessary to protect our people," Obama said. "We support our allies when they're in danger." A key concern for U.S. officials: dozens of American consular staff and military advisers working with the Iraqi military in Irbil, the largest city in Iraq's Kurdish region. Obama said Thursday he'd directed the military to take targeted strikes against Islamist militants "should they move towards the city." Rapid developments on the ground, where a humanitarian crisis is emerging with minority groups facing possible slaughter by Sunni Muslim extremists, have set the stage for an increasingly dire situation.
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Kerry: "The world cannot sit by and watch innocents die"
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Obama says he's authorized "targeted airstrikes" in Iraq
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Obama: "We do whatever is necessary to protect our people"
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The United States drops humanitarian aid in Iraq, official says | 18,116 | record_train |
Then, she injected her thighs with hydrogel and a plastic known as @placeholder. | São Paulo, Brazil (CNN)A Miss Bum-Bum runner-up, Andressa Urach, now admits her obsession with beauty -- and cosmetic surgery -- almost killed her. Urach, 27, launched her career as a model and reality TV star with a face and body sculpted in the operating room. "I've had more than 10 surgeries," she told CNN. "My nose, my cheekbones, my jaw. I injected my lips numerous times, changed my breasts twice and did liposuction two times." In 2012, she got second place in the uniquely Brazilian contest known as Miss Bum-Bum, or Miss Backside. Modeling contracts followed. "I idolized my body, so it had to be perfect," she said during the interview in the São Paulo apartment she shares with her 9-year-old son.
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2012 Miss Bum-Bum runner-up Andressa Urach had "more than 10" cosmetic surgeries
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After steroid, hydrogel and PMMA injections in her thighs, she suffered septic shock and was hospitalized
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The lesson she hopes this teaches is, "You have to respect the limits of your body" | 18,117 | record_train |
News of his arrest set @placeholder's campus abuzz with speculation over why the student would leave campus before finals were set to begin. | (CNN) -- Five Americans arrested this week in Pakistan were "wholesome," devout young men who participated in a youth program at a community mosque in suburban Virginia, representatives of the congregation said Friday. "I have always known these kids as fun-loving, career-focused children that had a bright future for themselves," said Mustafa Abu Maryam, youth coordinator at the I.C.N.A. Center, an affiliate of the the Islamic Circle of North America, in Alexandria, Virginia. "As far as I know they were wholesome kids. Very goofy. You know, talked about girls. Very wholesome." Portraits of Ahmed Abdullah Minni, Umar Farooq, Aman Hassan Yemer, Waqar Hussain Khan, and Ramy Zamzamand -- whom police say were transferred Saturday from the small town where they were seized to a more secure location in Lahore -- are slowly emerging. A sixth man -- the father of one of the five -- also was arrested, police said.
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Members of mosque describe five students as "wholesome" kids
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Men arrested include Howard University dental student, George Mason accounting student
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Pakistani officials: 5 arrested Wednesday, sixth man -- father of one of the 5 -- arrested later
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Pakistani police say men were planning terrorist acts, official says | 18,118 | record_train |
Crazy In Love: This year's @placeholder's half-time show comes in at second in the most watched league | By Lucy Buckland PUBLISHED: 08:36 EST, 6 February 2013 | UPDATED: 04:50 EST, 7 February 2013 Beyoncé's half-time extravaganza at the Super Bowl may have impressed fans but her raunchy leather-clad performance failed to pull in more viewers than Madonna's record breaking 2012 appearance. In fact, fewer people watched Sunday's thrilling Super Bowl than the previous two championship games, according to figures released on Tuesday. Although Beyoncé, who prepared for five months for the hotly anticipated gig, reunited Destiny's Child and sung live, viewing figures showed the 31-year-old was watched by 104 million viewers, compared to Madge's audience of 112.5 million.
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Beyoncé's half-time show pulled in 104 million viewers, compared to Madonna's 112.5 million in 2012
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Madonna's controversial performance, where M.I.A swore at cameras, beat Bruce Springsteen's 2009 show, which pulled in 95.7 million viewers | 18,119 | record_train |
As she was about to enter, an @placeholder recruiter from the next office over called out to her. | (CNN) -- The phone call was short, and not at all sweet. "Do you weigh more than 160 pounds?" the voice on the other end asked Karyna Douglass. "Yeah, I know I do," she replied. And that was it. Douglass' call to the local Navy recruiting center lasted less than five minutes. "I felt horrible," she remembers. "I thought maybe I could change that. I didn't realize how big I actually was." It was on a whale-watching trip to celebrate her 22nd birthday that Douglass first toyed with the idea of joining the military. She noticed her fellow passengers on the boat were really enamored with the Coast Guardsmen patrolling nearby.
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Karyna Douglass wanted to join the military but did not meet the weight requirements
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In a little over a year, she has lost 110 pounds, and hopes to drop 20 more
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Douglass was sworn into the Army on December 12 | 18,120 | record_train |
‘The @placeholder, I don’t trust them at all,’ said Mr Al-Hilli. | By Peter Allen PUBLISHED: 05:56 EST, 20 October 2013 | UPDATED: 06:10 EST, 20 October 2013 Zaid Al-Hilli denies shooting his brother as he sat in his BMW car close to the French town of Annecy The Surrey accountant arrested over the murder of his brother in the Alps today claims he was physically attacked by him at their last ever meeting. Zaid Al-Hilli, 54, denies shooting his brother as he sat in his BMW car close to the French town of Annecy. But he says Mr Al-Hilli had a fight with his brother, the then 49-year-old Saad Al-Hilli, in November 2011 over their father’s inheritance.
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Zaid Al-Hilli, 54, denies shooting his brother in his BMW car
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He admits he had a fight with his brother Saad Al-Hilli in November 2011
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The argument was over their father's inheritance
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Saad was shot dead along with his wife Ikbal, his mother-in-law Suhaila al-Allaf and French cyclist Sylvain Mollier
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Zaid Al-Hilli is on police bail following his arrest on suspicion of planning the murders | 18,121 | record_train |
Utah briefly became the 18th @placeholder state where marriage rights were extended to same-sex couples when a federal district judge ruled in December 2013 that a state ban on gay matrimony was unconstitutional. | By Michael Zennie and Reuters Federal judges have struck down gay marriage bans in Indiana and Utah today in a pair of ruling that granted massive victories for same-sex couples and could force same-sex unions on four other states that currently ban them. In Indiana, a judge threw out the state's prohibition on gay marriages and ordered county clerks to immediately begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The ruling against Utah, one of the most conservative states in the nation, was more sweeping, though less immediate. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, in ruling against Utah's gay marriage ban, said categorically that states cannot ban same sex unions because they are protected under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees equal protection under the law.
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Federal judge strikes down Indiana gay marriage ban and orders county clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples
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The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver upheld a lower court ruling overturning Utah's gay marriage ban
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The sweeping ruling says the 14th Amendment prohibits states from banning gay marriage in much of the west - Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming
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But that suspension was overturned after @placeholder successfully challenged the testing process. | (CNN) -- The shoe company Nike has terminated its contract with Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun, the company said Friday, nearly two weeks after the five-time All Star was suspended for violating Major League Baseball's drug policy. Nike did not provide a statement explaining its decision to drop Braun, the 2011 National League MVP. Still, the decision isn't altogether surprising given Commissioner Bud Selig's announcement on July 22 that it was suspending Braun without pay for 65 days -- which worked out to the rest of the 2013 season. Opinion: Don't let baseball's dopes spoil the game The 29-year-old apologized and admitted wrongdoing in a statement, though neither he nor Selig went into specifics.
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Ryan Braun was suspended for violating the Major Leagues' drug policy
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Nike joins Kwik Trip in severing ties with the Milwaukee Brewers outfielder
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After being suspended for 65 games, Braun apologized and said, "I'm not perfect" | 18,123 | record_train |
Costa is in outstanding form for Chelsea, too, but he has six fewer goals than @placeholder in four fewer appearances. | In the latest instalment of his weekly column, chief sports writer Martin Samuel gives his verdict on the sporting issues of the week, saying what made him feel warm inside and what made him shiver... WHAT'S HOT SERGIO AGUERO Talking to Ferran Soriano, chief executive of Manchester City, on Sheikh Mansour’s brother’s yacht last weekend – just thought I’d get that one in – he advanced the probability that Chelsea’s run would be curtailed by injury at some stage this season. That Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas would miss the odd game, and this would slow them down. Leaving aside the fact that Costa did not play between October 5 and November 1, in which time Chelsea beat Crystal Palace 2-1, Maribor 6-0, drew 1-1 at Manchester United and eliminated Shrewsbury Town from the Capital One Cup, there is another flaw in that argument. Couldn’t the same be said of Sergio Aguero? And without Aguero, where would City be?
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Sergio Aguero scored a hat-trick as Manchester City beat Bayern Munich
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Night Games by Anna Krien winner of William Hill Sports Book of the Year
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Lewis Hamilton favourite to win Sports Personality of the Year
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Confusion over UEFA Champions League group standings | 18,124 | record_train |
The paper revealed that @placeholder served as a volunteer on Babeu’s campaign, and is originally from Mexico. | By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 21:00 EST, 18 February 2012 A notoriously anti-immigration aide to Mitt Romney has left the campaign in disgrace after he was accused of threatening to deport his ex-gay lover to Mexico. The man, only identified as ‘Jose,’ claimed Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu threatened him with deportation if he ever disclosed their three-year relationship, the Phoenix New Times stated in an explosive tell-all. Babeu denied the allegations at a press conference Saturday, saying that all of the accusations appearing in the alternative weekly newspaper are ‘absolutely false, except to the issues that refer to me as being gay.’
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Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu says he is gay but denies allegations that he threatened deportation of man claiming to be ex-lover
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Dropped out of Romney campaign to spend time own campaign for congress
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Outgoing congressman calls scandal 'Congressman (Anthony) Weiner moment' | 18,125 | record_train |
@placeholder came on at half-time and quickly created a chance with a left-footed through-ball that was inches from putting Ulloa clear. | Click here for your ultimate stats guide to the game, including Ulloa's winner A win at Manchester City and a home defeat by Leicester: Mark Hughes must wonder about this strange game sometimes. His sense of bemusement will only be heightened by the way his side battered Leicester in the first half but coughed up all the points to a Leonardo Ulloa goal in the second. Certainly the arrival of Esteban Cambiasso at half-time helped the promoted side. He is 34 but lacks little in class, even if the motor that won him 23 European and domestic trophies is a touch worn.
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Ulloa scores the only goal of the game as Leicester secure their first win of the campaign
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Argentine netted midway through the second half as the Foxes grab a 1-0 win at the Britannia Stadium
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Mark Hughes' side condemned to second loss at home in as many games this season
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Esteban Cambiasso made his debut for Leicester as a second half substitute | 18,126 | record_train |
"For me, it was an important step to leave @placeholder and join Manchester City in order to continue my progress. | (CNN) -- Manchester City just can't stop spending money as the English Premier League champions have forked out a reported $53 million to sign France international defender Eliaquim Mangala from Portuguese club Porto. Mangala's transfer, confirmed Monday, comes just three months after City was heavily sanctioned by European football body UEFA for breaching new rules on Financial Fair Play. Whatever the deal's financial implications, City manager Manuel Pellegrini believes the 23-year-old Mangala has "all of the mental, physical, technical and tactical attributes to become one of Europe's very best defenders." Pellegrini added on the City website: "Eliaquim is a player I believe will make an immediate impact in the Premier League, thanks to his physicality, his reading of the game and quality on the ball."
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Manchester City sign French international defender Eliaquim Mangala
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The 23-year-old joins from Portugal's Porto
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That was when @placeholder showed why he is ready to win this title. | Right up to its last meaningful moments — the somewhat whimpering surrender of Wednesday’s final four games — Andy Murray’s reign as Wimbledon champion never went to plan. A lack of motivation last summer, spinal surgery in September, the loss of his coach in March, the long haul back without reaching a final — the fairytale of 2013 turned out to be shortlived. And then came Goldenballs Grigor Dimitrov to administer the last rites in a fashion few expected. The 23-year-old Bulgarian always possessed the means to make this difficult but the margin of 6-1, 7-6, 6-2 seemed unthinkable at the start of the day.
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Andy Murray beaten in straight sets 6-1, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 by Grigor Dimitrov
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Defending champion misses chance to make third final in a row at SW19
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@placeholder was killed by a single bullet, which became the signature of the two-person sniper team. | (CNN) -- A November 10 execution date was set Wednesday for John Allen Muhammad, convicted in a series of sniper-style shootings that terrorized the Washington area in 2002. John Allen Muhammad, pictured in 2004, was convicted in the 2002 murder of Dean Harold Meyers. Prince William County, Virginia, Circuit Judge Mary Grace O'Brien set the date at a teleconference hearing Wednesday, according to the Web site of Muhammad's attorney, Jonathan Sheldon. Prosecutors had requested a November 9 execution date. That date is a Monday, Sheldon wrote in an e-mail to CNN. "I pointed out that while I did not necessarily object to Monday, Nov. 9, executions are usually scheduled for Thursdays, and that often unpredictable events occur the day before an execution requiring action by the courts or governor, or others," he wrote.
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Defense lawyer: Judge sets November 10 execution date for John Allen Muhammad
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Attorney says he'll file appeal for convicted sniper with U.S. Supreme Court in October
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Muhammad and protege Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people in 2002, police say
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Security was stepped up around the village on Tuesday to prevent a potential flare-up of sectarian violence after a group of @placeholder gathered around the police station where the children were being held to demand their prosecution, residents said. | By Anthony Bond PUBLISHED: 09:24 EST, 4 October 2012 | UPDATED: 09:58 EST, 4 October 2012 Two young Christian brothers in Egypt accused of tearing up a copy of the Koran and urinating on it have been placed in juvenile detention and charged with blasphemy, it has emerged. Mina Nadi, 9, and Nabil Nadi, 10, were detained on Tuesday after residents in the village of Marco, in the province of Beni Suef, south of Cairo, filed complaints about their alleged behaviour. Tensions between Muslims and Christians in Egypt have increased recently following a series of incidents involving religious insults.
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Mina Nadi, 9, and Nabil Nadi, 10, were detained after residents in the village of Marco, south of Cairo, filed complaints about their alleged behaviour
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Tensions between Muslims and Christians in Egypt have increased recently following a series of incidents involving religious insults | 18,130 | record_train |
TOWIE's Mark Wright, left, and singer @placeholder, right, opt for traditional red festive jumpers | By Martha De Lacey PUBLISHED: 07:55 EST, 20 November 2012 | UPDATED: 08:13 EST, 20 November 2012 Anything Sarah Lund can do, British celebrities will have a jolly good bash at doing better. The Danish star of The Killing is famed for her character's predilection for wooly Faroese jumpers, whatever the season. And now a gaggle of charitable ladies and gents from our very own isle have donned a selection of merry Christmas sweaters to raise money for Save The Children - and famous faces involved include Laurene Laverne, Erin O'Connor, Alison Steadman and Jon Snow. DJ Lauren Laverne, left, and actress Alison Steadman, right, modelling their charitable sweaters
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Myleene Klass, TOWIE's Mark Wright and Jon Snow also involved in Make The World Better With A Sweater campaign
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Friday 14 December is official Christmas Jumper Day
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Whale watchers may be able to enjoy @placeholder for decades. | (CNN) -- It may seem straight out of Moby Dick, but a rare white whale is thrilling Australians off the eastern coast. The albino humpback has been nicknamed "Migaloo" by researchers who track his movements. Albino whales are rare and Migaloo is the only documented all-white humpback adult, according to Peter Harrison, director of marine ecology research at Southern Cross University in Australia. Migaloo was first seen in 1991 when he was a juvenile, Harrison says, and researchers believe he is now in his 20s. The humpbacks are on their annual migration from their breeding grounds along the Great Barrier Reef back to feed in the Antarctic.
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The albino humpback's nickname is "Migaloo"
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Researchers are tracking his movements
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'I work with @placeholder and have known him since high school. | By Simon Tomlinson and Leon Watson PUBLISHED: 11:16 EST, 31 January 2013 | UPDATED: 15:41 EST, 31 January 2013 A woman whose body was pulled from a canal died in strikingly similar circumstances to her boyfriend's room-mate, it emerged today. Sarah Majoras, 39, was last seen in the early hours of Saturday leaving the same New Jersey bar as tragic musician David Anderson did 12 years ago before he was also found dead in a canal close to the frozen Delaware & Raritan Canal in Lambertville. Anderson had left John and Peter's Bar in New Hope before heading to the home he shared with room-mate Adam Baker, who is Majoras' boyfriend.
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Body matches description of 39-year-old Sarah Majoras, says prosecutor
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Police arrested him Saturday in @placeholder's death after obtaining a search warrant for Vann's vehicle and home in nearby Gary. | Darren Vann, 43, (pictured) allegedly confessed to killing seven women in Indian, but refused to speak in court A man who allegedly confessed to killing seven women in Indiana refused to respond to the judge during his initial court appearance, prompting her to warn him he'd spend 'the rest of his life' in jail unless he cooperates. When the judge asked Darren Vann, 43, if he swore to tell the truth at his initial court appearance in the strangulation death of 19-year-old Afrikka Hardy, he didn't respond or flinch and stood unmoving and stone-faced. He has been charged with the murder of Hardy and 35-year-old Anith Jones, whose body was found in Gary on Saturday.
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Darren Vann, 43 allegedly confessed to killing seven women in Indiana
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He has been charged with the murder of Afrikka Hardy, 19, and Anith Jones
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Vann refused to respond to the judge during his initial court appearance
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He stood unmoving and the judge was forced to postpone the hearing | 18,134 | record_train |
Most investment now comes from @placeholder, but much less so ideological support. | There's never been a better time to visit North Korea. The specter of U.S.-South Korean military exercises, a potential nuclear test, assassinations of defectors in South Korea, and general saber-rattling haven't prevented a record 4,000 tourists from arriving in Pyongyang this year. There's even a hopeful air among diplomats that the two Koreas, as well as China and Japan, might find the right balance of words and gestures to smooth out their emotional grievances that fuel regular nationalist flare-ups. The scene at Beijing airport already gives clues into how North Korean society continues to defy economic gravity. Pyongyong elites check in dozens of boxes of household goods (from electronics to wine glasses) for their own use or to resell. Like upscale Iranians ferrying in and out of Dubai, the international, multilingual and urbane class may seem like precisely the ones to support regime change, but also profit the most from the status quo.
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North Korea offers a rich experience for travelers, says Parag Khanna
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Visit the reclusive nation now as it emerges, tentatively, into the modern world
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Rich civilization temporarily trapped in an anachronistic state, he observes
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Health officials did not provide details on the location of those being monitored or where they interacted with @placeholder. | Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States, is now in critical condition, a Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital spokeswoman said Saturday. The Liberian man had previously been listed as being in serious condition. Hospital spokeswoman Candace White offered no new details other than his condition. Earlier, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Duncan was in intensive care. About 10 people are at "higher risk" of catching Ebola after coming into contact with Duncan but have shown no symptoms, health officials said Saturday. The group is among 50 people being monitored daily, but the other 40 are considered "low risk," said Dr. David Lakey, the commissioner of Texas department of state health services.
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Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan in critical condition
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CDC chief says nine who had definite contact with Duncan showing no symptoms
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Health officials say the other 40 are considered "low risk"
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Monitoring includes a visit from a health official, and temperatures checks twice a day | 18,136 | record_train |
'We are living with hope in @placeholder, who is excellent, the country's best, but at other times we had many others who we could rely on to play for the Brazilian team.' | Brazil legend Ronaldo believes it is merely a matter of time before Neymar is considered the world's best player. The 38-year-old believes Neymar has given the Brazil team a much-needed boost, and that the Barcelona star is catching up to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. 'It is very close. It's about time for Neymar to take his place as the best in the world,' the former Real Madrid striker told Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo. Brazil legend Ronaldo has insisted it is just a matter of time before Neymar (pictured) is the world's best player Barcelona star Neymar has been called upon to lead Brazil to be a great national team once again
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Brazil legend Ronaldo says Neymar is on track to become the world's best
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'It's about time for Neymar to take his place as the best in the world'
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Barca star is catching up to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, he adds | 18,137 | record_train |
As the storm clouds neared, @placeholder took the unprecedented step of ordering 370,000 people to evacuate. | (CNN) -- Georgia Tugend awoke Sunday with a sense of relief. Hurricane Irene had roared through her Delaware neighborhood, vast and menacing. The wind knocked out power and scattered debris. Her house did not flood, though. Her family was safe. "It was not as bad as I feared it would be," Tugend said. "There's nothing I see that can't be fixed with a little elbow grease." Irene left more than 4 million homes and businesses in the dark up and down the East Coast, and authorities blamed it for the deaths of at least 18 people in seven states. They said it caused at least $1 billion in damage and warned that floods could cause more chaos.
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The storm largely spared New York City
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A woman in Delaware said it wasn't as bad as she feared
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About 1,500 troops in @placeholder took the survey, Army officials said. | Washington (CNN) -- Increased fighting in Afghanistan has caused a drop in morale among U.S. soldiers while the reduction in combat in Iraq has bolstered morale, according to a new U.S. Army report released Friday. The report summarizes two surveys of U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan taken earlier this year. New statistics from the Army also show suicides are up in the entire service. Produced every two years by the Army's Mental Health Advisory Team, this latest report comes just over a week after a U.S. soldier went on a shooting rampage at a U.S. Army base in Texas and possibly just days or weeks from an announcement from the Obama administration to send more troops to Afghanistan, where fighting has gotten more intense in recent months.
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Report summarizes 2 surveys of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan taken this year
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Results attributed to increased fighting in Afghanistan, less in Iraq
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Army hopes to increase number of mental health providers in the field | 18,139 | record_train |
'He talks about @placeholder all the time, he's been asking why he hasn't seen him, when he can visit him and when he can ride him. | By Leon Watson PUBLISHED: 20:05 EST, 23 December 2013 | UPDATED: 06:16 EST, 24 December 2013 Companions: But Little Joshua Carnegie had to be told his 'best friend' Tic Toc the pony is missing A mother had to break the news to her five-year-old son that his pony has been stolen after crooks failed to return it in time for Christmas. Tic Toc, an adorable white Welsh Shetland cross, disappeared from his field on December 6. The 24-year-old has little value, suffers from the ageing condition Cushings disease, and needs daily medication for dietary problems.
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£6,000 reward was offered for Tic Toc's safe return by Christmas Eve
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But thieves failed to the the honest thing - and didn't return him
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Owner Joshua, five, was heartbroken when he was finally told
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Gordon Ramsay and Dawn French were among those who tried to help | 18,140 | record_train |
Our books started @placeholder on the road to selling everything and becoming one of the world’s largest corporations. | By Associated Press Reporter Stephen King, Nora Roberts and Robert Caro are among the hundreds of authors who have added their names to an online letter criticizing Amazon.com for restricting access to works published by Hachette Book Group. The letter, initiated by Hachette author Douglas Preston, urged Amazon to resolve its standoff with Hachette over e-book prices and other issues. Readers were asked to email Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at jeff@amazon.com and 'tell him what you think.' Stephen King (pictured in 2013) is among the hundreds of authors who have added their names to an online letter criticizing Amazon.com for restricting access to work
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Letter was initiated by Hachetter author Douglas Preston but signed by hundreds
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Amazon slowed delivery on books by Hachette authors, limited discounts and removed pre-order tags for upcoming releases
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Readers are urged to email Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and 'tell him what you think' | 18,141 | record_train |
With less than 10 laps remaining, it appeared as if @placeholder -- nursing a hand injury himself -- was ready to make a charge. | (CNN) -- In a weekend filled with crashes, rookie Marc Marquez avoided the mayhem. Marquez took the lead in the MotoGP standings after winning the German Grand Prix in his Honda ahead of Yamaha pair Cal Crutchlow and nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi. Marquez, on pole, lost the lead on the first lap as Rossi pounced but recovered by lap three. In the end he beat Crutchlow by a comfortable 1.559 seconds over the 30 laps, with the revitalized Rossi a further eight seconds adrift in eastern Germany. "I hadn't expected to control the race like that," said the 20-year-old Marquez, who suffered his own share of crashes earlier in the season.
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Rookie Marc Marquez leapfrogs Dani Pedrosa in the overall MotoGP standings
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Marquez wins the German Grand Prix ahead of Cal Crutchlow and Valentino Rossi
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Pedrosa and reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo missed the race with shoulder injuries | 18,142 | record_train |
Guidance on "standardization and uniformity" will be distributed to @placeholder by the end of next week, the Corps said. | Washington (CNN) -- In a change of policy, U.S. Marines are now allowed to wear bracelets in memory of fallen comrades. The metal or rubber bracelets can honor "prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater," the Marine Corps said in a statement Tuesday. Some Marines had been wearing the bracelets -- which list names of those killed in Afghanistan, Iraq or other zones -- despite their not being permitted by regulations. There had been questions about enforcement of the policy. The decision came out of a symposium last week at which the issue was discussed by the Marine commandant, Gen. James F. Amos, and his senior officers, the statement said.
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Corps permits Marines to wear bands in honor of absent comrades
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Commandant: "We are acknowledging ... the strong bonds" among Marines
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'@placeholder has played over 120 NRL first grade games for both the Titans and the Broncos and is still only 27. | Hull have made Australian winger or centre Steve Michaels their fourth recruit for 2015 after the 27-year-old signed a one-year deal, with an option of a second season at the KC Stadium. The Airlie Birds say the former Brisbane Broncos three-quarter, who has spent the four years with Gold Coast Titans, was recommended to them by former Australia and Brisbane coach Wayne Bennett. 'We are really pleased to get Steve's signature,' Hull coach Lee Radford said. 'He will undoubtedly add some speed and competition to our backline for 2015. Competitive: Hull coach Lee Radford says he is delighted to have signed 'competitor' Michaels
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Steve Michaels signs one-year contract with second year option
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Lee Radford praises player's competitive nature
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The prosecutors carried handguns for their protection after the Williams trial "because they believed @placeholder to be a threat to their personal safety." | (CNN) -- A former justice of the peace and his wife have been indicted on charges of capital murder in the killings of two Texas prosecutors and the wife of one, authorities announced Thursday. The Kaufman County Grand Jury presented the indictments charging Eric Lyle Williams and his wife, Kim Lene Williams, in the deaths of Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, District Attorney Michael McLelland and Cynthia McLelland, the current district attorney, Erleigh Norville Wiley, said in a statement. Hasse was killed in January on his way to work at the courthouse; McLelland and his wife were fatally shot two months later at their home near Forney.
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Eric Lyle Williams and his wife Kim Lene Williams are charged with capital murder
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They are accused in the killings of two Texas lawmen and the wife of one
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Eric Williams also is charged with making a terroristic threat | 18,145 | record_train |
When she was starting, @placeholder first set out to understand what was leading the children to work in the dump. | Bariloche, Argentina (CNN) -- During a visit to Argentina 11 years ago, Elena Durón Miranda was horrified to see children as young as 3 years old rummaging through a trash dump for food and valuable materials. "I saw children collect green sausages, a bag of potato chip crumbs, a bag of noodles with cream, and recovered leftover yogurt next to a diaper," said Durón Miranda, a Mexican psychologist who was visiting Bariloche to do research. "The children began to gently clean the food -- wiping each little noodle, each potato and peeling the sausage skin so methodically and accurately. It was as if they had done this same activity many times."
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Elena Durón Miranda is helping Argentinian children through her nonprofit, PETISOS
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The group provides children with free education and extracurricular programs
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She started it 10 years ago after seeing kids at a trash dump in Bariloche
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Do you know a hero? Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes | 18,146 | record_train |
Thousands have been killed and 500,000 @placeholder displaced in the Chechen rebels' almost 20-year conflict with Moscow. | Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- Russian investigators combing two subway stations attacked by female suicide bombers think Chechen rebels may have been behind the rush-hour strike that killed dozens of people. "Our preliminary assessment is that this act of terror was committed by a terrorist group from the North Caucasus region," Alexander Bortnikov of the Federal Security Service said of the investigation at one of the blast sites. "We consider this the most likely scenario, based on investigations conducted at the site of the blast," Bortnikov said. "Fragments of the suicide bombers' body found at the blast, according to preliminary findings, indicate that the bombers were from the North Caucasus region."
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38 people killed, 60 wounded, government ministry reports
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First blast occurred near Kremlin and nation's intelligence service
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World leaders offer condolences to Russian people
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U.S. transit systems step up security | 18,147 | record_train |
The views expressed by @placeholder are a horrific reminder of the science of Eugenics. | By Amanda Williams PUBLISHED: 12:44 EST, 18 December 2012 | UPDATED: 02:48 EST, 19 December 2012 A UK Independence Party candidate has sparked outrage by calling for discussion on whether unborn babies with Down's syndrome or spina bifida should be compulsorily aborted. Geoffrey Clarke, who will stand for Ukip in Kent County Council elections, has come under fire over his personal 'manifesto' which holds controversial views on disabled people, Muslims and immigration. Mr Clarke, who is also standing for Gravesham Borough Council in a by-election on Thursday, called for a Government review into NHS expenditure on his website.
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Geoffrey Clarke, who will stand in Kent County Council elections, also appears to have controversial views on Muslims and immigration
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He labels same-sex marriage an 'abhorrence' in his personal manifesto
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Mr Clarke said he does not 'endorse statements on his website' but they were for consideration | 18,148 | record_train |
A policeman stands guard as the refugees vowed to stay put until they are sent to @placeholder | By Peter Allen PUBLISHED: 05:44 EST, 4 October 2013 | UPDATED: 10:35 EST, 4 October 2013 Dozens of Syrian asylum seekers were today occupying a roof and footbridge in Calais and demanding: ‘Take us to the United Kingdom’. Riot police were trying to control the 40-strong group, who have gone on hunger strike and are refusing to move from the key bridge in the Calais ferry port. Scroll down for video Syrian refugees sit next to placards reading as they occupy the footbridge of a ferry terminal at Calais port from which ships leave for British ports About 60 Syrian refugees, of whom 40 are on a hunger strike, have occupied a key point in the northern French port
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Riot police trying to control group who have fled horrors of their homeland
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40 gone on hunger strike and refuse to move from bridge in Calais ferry port | 18,149 | record_train |
He blamed the death on robbers who had waited for him at his hotel in @placeholder. | Lima, Peru (CNN) -- Joran van der Sloot's Peruvian attorney has resigned from defending the murder suspect, the attorney told Peru's Foreign Press Association on Monday. Earlier, Maximo Altez Navarro told CNN that he didn't want to be van der Sloot's attorney anymore. "This has created many problems for me," Altez said. According to Peruvian prison authorities, Altez was the only person to have visited van der Sloot in prison. The 22-year-old Dutch citizen is accused in the death of 21-year-old student Stephany Flores Ramirez last month. On Monday, van der Sloot, who is in the Miguel Castro Castro prison in Lima, was awaiting a psychological evaluation, prison authorities said.
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NEW: Joran van der Sloot's attorney resigns
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New transcripts detail graphic moments in murder case
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Suspect tells why alleged murder took place | 18,150 | record_train |
Scandal: The @placeholder article accused the school of repeatedly hushing up sexual assault victims in order to protect their reputation. | A University of Virginia student who shared a freshman suite with 'Jackie' when she was allegedly gang-raped at a fraternity party has defended her former roommate. Emily Clark spoke out in support of Jackie in a letter published in The Cavalier Daily on Monday, three days after Rolling Stone acknowledged 'mistakes' in its reporting of the claims. 'While I cannot say what happened that night, and I cannot prove the validity of every tiny aspect of her story to you, I can tell you that this story is not a hoax, a lie or a scheme,' Emily wrote. 'Something terrible happened to Jackie at the hands of several men who have yet to receive any repercussions.'
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UVA student Emily Clark wrote in a letter on Monday: 'I believe wholeheartedly that she went through a traumatizing sexual assault'
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Her former suitemate, Jackie, told Rolling Stone how she was raped by seven men at a frat party in 2012, when she was a freshman
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On Friday, Rolling Stone acknowledged 'mistakes' in its reporting after the fraternity said it had not thrown a party on the night in question
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In her letter, Clark wrote that she saw her friend change from 'bubbly' to 'withdrawn' before she took time off
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Verdict: Could have been a @placeholder penalty but would have been very soft. | Jose Mourinho and Chelsea can feel hard done by after contentious decisions contributed to Burnley grabbing a point at Stamford Bridge, according to Alan Shearer. The Blues boss spoke made reference to four key incidents which he believed changed the course of the 1-1 draw in his post-match interviews - citing a foul on Branislav Ivanovic, two penalty appeals and the sending off Nemanja Matic. Match of the Day pundit Shearer, who was backed-up by Robbie Savage, agreed with Mourinho and claimed that referee Martin Atkinson was at fault on each occasion. Jose Mourinho identified four key incidents which he believes shaped his side's draw with Burnley
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Chelsea were held to a 1-1 draw against Burnley at Stamford Bridge
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Nemanja Matic was sent off after reacting to a poor tackle
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Jose Mourinho felt his side deserved two penalties in the first half
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The Chelsea boss spoke about four key incidents after the match
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'The questions on @placeholder's independence plans are stacking up day by day. | By Gareth Rose One of Alex Salmond's biggest financial backers has warned Scottish independence could be bad for business. Bus giant Stagecoach, run by SNP donor Sir Brian Souter, joins a growing list of Scots firms to raise fears over the impact of Alex Salmond's bid to break up Britain. Standard Life, the Weir Group and Barrhead Travel - whose boss Bill Munro was subsequently targeted by cybernats - have all warned about the consequences of a Yes vote. However, the concerns raised by Stagecoach - over the impact on regulation and funding - is particularly embarrassing for Mr Salmond.
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Bus giant raises fears about impact of Yes vote on regulation and funding
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Embarrassment for Salmond because company is run by Sir Brian Souter
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He gave £1million to the SNP and 100,000 to Christians for Independence
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Tories say independence is a 'one-way ticket to a poorer nation' | 18,153 | record_train |
One of the practices in @placeholder is responsible for responding to emergency calls each month. | By Lauren Paxman Last updated at 5:05 PM on 17th February 2012 A little girl bleeding from a head wound was turned away from a doctor's surgery - because she wasn't registered as a patient. Four-year-old Libby Finlow suffered a serious cut on her head when she fell against a wall whilst running along a corridor at the Waters Green Medical centre in Macclesfield, Cheshire. Her parents Janna Russell and David Finlow picked the youngster up, ran across the corridor to the Park Lane surgery - one of six GP surgeries within the centre - and begged the receptionist for help.
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Libby Finlow fell over and cut her head inside a medical centre, but was turned away from the closest GP surgery
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When she reached her own GPs they treated her without checking whether she was registered
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@placeholder is now facing questions about why it didn't bring the allegations against him to police at the time the former camper's family approached school officials with his story. | (CNN) -- A troubled youth who reported inappropriate sexual conduct by a counselor at The Citadel's now-defunct summer camp told a school lawyer that several other campers had similar encounters, documents released by the military college show. "It only happened to me one time. I know there are about five other kids that experienced it a few times," the former camper, whose name is redacted in the documents, told The Citadel's general counsel Mark Brandenburg in a 2007 interview. In that interview, the then-19-year old described how counselor Louis Neal "Skip" ReVille had shown boys pornography, masturbated in front of them and pressured them to join him during a summer five years before. The former camper said he gave in to the pressure, only to feel "completely violated" immediately afterward.
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"We should have done more," says Citadel President Lt. Gen. John Rosa | 18,155 | record_train |
FIFA vice president @placeholder, 39, will run for football's top job against Blatter | FIFA president Sepp Blatter has welcomed the challenge to his position by Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein - suggesting there would be no glory in winning without a proper fight. Prince Ali, a FIFA vice-president, is the first credible challenger to emerge against Blatter and is likely to embraced by reformers in the football world, including England. Blatter told Swiss newspaper Le Matin: 'I can only rejoice in this nomination. We are a democracy, and this can only be beneficial for debate.' FIFA president Sepp Blatter has welcomed the challenge to his position by Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein
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Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein will contest the election
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Incumbent Sepp Blatter said he 'can only rejoice in this nomination'
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If it's the latter, a large number of undocumented immigrants -- media reports have put the potential figure at 5 million, although the actual figure is likely to be much lower, given the response to @placeholder -- will be deportable once again. | San Diego (CNN) -- President Obama's critics have the right to be upset by his decision to shield from deportation, at least temporarily, some groups of undocumented immigrants. But they don't have the right to twist the facts, use inflammatory language and create confusion. They're the ones who are most confused. They don't appear to have the foggiest idea how the process would work. That's their own fault. They should have paid closer attention two years ago, the last time the administration did something like this, with the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Simply put, Obama is using the executive power granted to him by the Constitution to reshuffle the immigration enforcement deck and prioritize deportations so that, for instance, the undocumented parents of U.S.-born citizens get a temporary "deferred" status and thus can't be removed for three years.
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Navarrette: Critics can disagree with Obama immigration action, but should get facts right
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He says under DACA, and likely DAPA, immigrants turn selves in, risk deportation if rejected
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Navarrette: It's no free ride for immigrants; conservative critics wrong to suggest it is | 18,157 | record_train |
Webber, who also won in 2010, was claiming his eighth Formula One career victory and he moved level with Vettel into joint second in the standings, three points adrift of @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Mark Webber became an unprecedented sixth different winner in six races this season as he drove his Red Bull to victory at the prestigious Monaco Grand Prix Sunday. Webber made the most of starting from pole position to hold off Nico Rosberg in the Mercedes with Fernando Alonso taking third for Ferrari to take over at the top of the world title standings. Webber's Red Bull teammate and two-time defending champion Sebastian Vettel finished a fine fourth after starting ninth on the grid. Both Alonso and Vettel moved ahead of a disappointed Lewis Hamilton during their pit stops, leaving the McLaren driver in fifth spot. Felipe Massa was sixth in the second Ferrari.
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Mark Webbber wins Monaco Grand Prix for Red Bull
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Australian is an unprecedented sixth different winner in six F1 races this season
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Fernando Alonso takes over at top of title race after finishing third
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Michael Schumacher forced to retire to finish out of the points again | 18,158 | record_train |
@placeholder today took to the water in a three quarter-length wet suit and | David Cameron let mounting criticism of his Cornish holiday wash over him today - by going body boarding. Opponents have accused the Prime Minister of complacency over the Iraq crisis and have publicly demanded that he return to Number 10 to get a grip on the developing crisis in Iraq. Mr Cameron only returned to Downing Street on Wednesday morning, following the brutal execution of hostage James Foley - but went back to the West Country just 19 hours later. Scroll down for video Making waves: Prime Minister David Cameron clutches a body board enjoys the surf in Cornwall Drying off: The Prime Minister with a towel. He returned to his holiday after a 19-hour dash to Downing Street
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The PM took time off dealing with Iraq crisis to go body boarding in Cornwall
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He returned to Downing Street following James Foley's execution yesterday
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Philip Hammond said 'my enemy's enemy is not necessarily my friend' | 18,159 | record_train |
case at a hearing in @placeholder in July and ruled in Miss Hodkin's favour | By Lucy Crossley PUBLISHED: 05:29 EST, 11 December 2013 | UPDATED: 09:34 EST, 11 December 2013 Happy couple: Louisa Hodkin and fiance Alessandro Calcioli say they are 'ecstatic' after Supreme Court judges ruled they can get married in a Church of Scientology chapel A couple say they are 'ecstatic' after judges in the UK's highest court ruled they can get married in a Church of Scientology chapel. Bride-to-be Louisa Hodkin had appealed to the Supreme Court after a High Court judge ruled that services run by Scientologists were not 'acts of worship'. The Supreme Court judges overturned the ban, meaning overjoyed Miss Hodkin and her fiance Alessandro Calcioli can start planning their dream wedding at the chapel in central London.
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Scientologist Louisa Hodkin wants to marry Alessandro Calcioli
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Registrar general refused to register London Church Chapel for marriage
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Judges rule Church holds religious services and is place of worship
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Bride says: 'I'm really glad we are being treated equally'
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"We are confident our helicopters were on the @placeholder side of the border, and we have no report they fired back," the official added. | ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- U.S. and Pakistani troops exchanged fire Thursday along the Pakistani-Afghan border minutes after the Pakistani military fired shots at two American helicopters that were providing cover for the troops, a U.S. military spokesman said. Pakistan says it shot at two U.S. OH-58D helicopters like this one pictured in a U.S. Army photo. The U.S. Army OH-58D Kiowas, part of NATO's International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan, were patrolling the Pakistani-Afghan border when the Pakistani military fired on them, NATO and U.S. officials said. The Pakistani military said the fire was warning shots, and President Asif Ali Zardari said it was flares. Both Zardari and the Pakistani military said the helicopters had crossed into Pakistani territory -- a charge U.S. officials denied.
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NEW: U.S. says it returned fire after Pakistanis fired shots at American copters
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Pakistani president says military fired only flares
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'Not long ago, we were fourth in the @placeholder rankings and now we are third. | Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has warned the Premier League to watch its back because the Bundesliga is about to overtake it. The Bundesliga is currently third in UEFA's five-year rankings, but closing in on the Premier League all the time. And Rummenigge has called on all German sides participating in Europe next week to pull out all the stops to ensure England's top division drops a position at the end of the current season, which is feasible. Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge believes the Bundesliga will overtake the Premier League 'I think that the English are looking over to us with rather a bit of envy,' he told Sport1 television.
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Premier League is ranked second as Europe's best league by UEFA
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Bundesliga is third in five-year rankings but closing in on Premier League
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Bayern Munich chairman Karl Heinz Rummenigge believes it won't be long before the Bundesliga overtakes the Premier League | 18,162 | record_train |
Ms Kennedy was best friends with her sister-in-law Mary Richardson Kennedy, who killed herself at her @placeholder home in May after her marriage to Robert F. Kennedy Jr disintegrated. | By Rachel Quigley PUBLISHED: 07:17 EST, 17 July 2012 | UPDATED: 07:17 EST, 17 July 2012 The driver of the truck Kerry Kennedy crashed into on Friday said she was either asleep at the wheel or intoxicated as he saw her 'nod off' seconds before his horn gave a warning blast. Rocco Scuitello, 47, from the Bronx area of New York, spoke about the accident and recalled how RFK's daughter's was driving erratically for more than three miles on the Westchester highway before the Lexus slammed into his rig and careered off the interstate. He told the New York Post: 'My first impression was that she was really, really drunk. She's very lucky she didn't kill somebody.
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RFK's daughter and ex-wife of New York governor seen 'driving erratically'
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Mosley went on to back the @placeholder, expressing his confidence the organization will continue researching how to further protect racing drivers. | (CNN) -- Former Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) president Max Mosley is championing the introduction of added safety measures in motorsport following the death of IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon in a multi-car crash on Sunday. Mosley, 71, supported the idea of using a canopy to cover the open cockpits of IndyCar and Formula One vehicles, in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the fatal collision at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The FIA Institute tested the possible use of jet fighter canopies in motorsport earlier this year, by using a high-power cannon to fire at the polycarbonate shield at 225 kilometers-per-hour to see if it could withstand loose debris on a race track.
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Max Mosley has backed the use of canopies in motorsport
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Former FIA president Mosley says canopy could prevent deaths and injury
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World governing body FIA has been testing their effectiveness
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Mosley reacting after death of IndyCar star Dan Wheldon Sunday | 18,164 | record_train |
'The many locales served by the newspapers we are acquiring fall firmly in this mould and we are delighted they have found a permanent home with @placeholder.' | By Beth Stebner and Associated Press PUBLISHED: 11:38 EST, 17 May 2012 | UPDATED: 11:54 EST, 17 May 2012 Billionaire Warren Buffett's company is making another foray into newspapers, agreeing to buy 63 newspapers from Media General Inc. for $142 million. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is also extending a loan to Media General and taking a 19.9 per cent stake in the company, which will still own 18 TV stations. Buffett has defended newspapers, saying that they will have a decent future if they continue delivering information that can't be found elsewhere. Buying power: Warren Buffett, seen at a a newspaper tossing competition on May 5, just purchased 63 newspapers across the U.S.
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc will purchase 63 newspapers for $142million
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Told investors in 2009 that newspapers faced unending losses because they lost their essential nature
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Included in purchase is Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia and Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina | 18,165 | record_train |
And you have no idea how much bad press you bring on @placeholder. | For anyone who has experienced the brutality of a bully, a blunt-talking mayor in California with a horseshoe mustache now weighs in with this bit of wisdom: "Grow a pair." Looking and talking like an Old West figure, Mayor Cameron Hamilton made his declaration while on the dais of the Porterville City Council last week. "I'm against bullying, but I'm getting damn tired of it being used as a mantra for everything and the ills of the world," Hamilton said during the City Council meeting. "(Most) people just have to grow a pair and stick up for them damn selves."
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Mayor is raising his two grandchildren not to be 'whiny'
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His daughter died in a wreck 10 years ago
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Mayor Cameron Hamilton is now receiving hate e-mail
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Porterville, California, mayor says at meeting that the bullied should stick up for themselves | 18,166 | record_train |
Nigerian forces say their offensive has enabled them to wrest back control of the remote northeast from @placeholder, destroy key bases and arrest scores of suspects. | By Steve Robson PUBLISHED: 11:05 EST, 6 July 2013 | UPDATED: 10:56 EST, 7 July 2013 At least 29 students and a teacher have been killed after Islamic extremists attacked on a boarding school in northeast Nigeria. Survivors, who are being treated for burns and gunshots wounds, say some students were burned alive in the pre-dawn attack today on the Government Secondary School in Mamudo town in Yobe state. Farmer Malam Abdullahi wept over the bodies of his two sons, aged ten and 12. 'That’s it, I’m taking my other boys out of school,' he told The Associated Press. He said he had three younger children in a nearby school.
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Pre-dawn attack on Government Secondary school in Mamudo in Yobe state
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Militants set fire to building then shot students as they fled, witnesses say
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Deadliest attack since Government launched offensive against Boko Haram
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Islamist group translates as 'Western education is sinful' | 18,167 | record_train |
We expect Afghan prosecutors to properly apply the law while also upholding @placeholder's rights." | Afghan President Hamid Karzai received a petition Sunday with nearly 5,000 names endorsing a plea for the immediate release of a rape victim who has been jailed because of her attack and is being forced to marry her rapist. Kim Motley, a lawyer for 21-year-old Gulnaz, said the palace received the petition, which gathered 4,751 names in just over 48 hours, on Sunday afternoon. The petition comes with an official plea for clemency addressed to the president, who has the power to immediately pardon Gulnaz, currently in jail for adultery because her attacker was married at the time of the attack.
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The petition is sent to Afghan President Hamid Karzai
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Nearly 5,000 people sign it in just over 48 hours
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The victim has been jailed because of the attack and is being forced to marry her rapist | 18,168 | record_train |
True to the premise, @placeholder told CNN he was actually hungover when the song came out. | (CNN) -- Psy's new song "Hangover" featuring Snoop Dogg dropped three days ago and the video has already racked up more than 31 million views on YouTube. That's actually a pretty slow start for the Korean superstar, considering "Gangnam Style" became the first video to pass two billion hits a week ago, while his follow-up single "Gentleman" also broke a record for the most views in 24 hours -- it currently has 694 million views on YouTube. The "Hangover" video shows Psy taking Snoop on a ridiculous guided tour of what he does best -- hardcore drinking, Korean-style. This involves endless bomb shots, hanging out at a jjimjilbang (Korean bathhouse), throwing up and karaoke with strangers -- with one particularly surreal scene of Snoop, Psy and and two Korean women blithely skipping through an amusement park, presumably drunk.
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Psy and Snoop Dogg shot new "Hangover" music video in Incheon, South Korea
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Video shows traditional Korean style of drinking and partying
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Psy's EP will be released later this year | 18,169 | record_train |
The president did not directly address the rapidly growing numbers of children who now make up the largest proportion of the total by far since the @placeholder government began counting it. | President Barack Obama coolly taunted congressional Republicans on Wednesday for dithering on his demand for billions to handle a flood of illegal immigration children streaming across the U.S.-Mexico border. At the same time he flatly denied that his own policy decisions have led to the rapidly expanding human tragedy. Calling the deluge a 'humanitarian situation on the border,' not an emergency or crisis, he parried claims that a 2012 executive order delaying the deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants – those who had arrived in the U.S. as children before the summer of 2007 – incentivized children in Central America to make dangerous journeys to and across the Rio Grande river.
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The president spoke in Dallas following a meeting with officials and church leaders about the children flooding into the U.S. from Central America
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He calmly called the deluge a 'humanitarian situation,' not a crisis
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Obama deflected calls for him to visit the U.S.-Mexico border, insisting that his new Homeland Security secretary had gone five times already
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Said his 'comprehensive' immigration reform bill could have prevented the crisis because it would have freed up resources by no longer chasing longer-term illegals
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Refused to acknowledge that tens of thousands of minors have poured into the U.S. because he relaxed deportations of young people in 2012
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He said Dr Khan went to @placeholder ‘with the pure intention to save lives’. | By Ted Thornhill PUBLISHED: 11:21 EST, 26 December 2013 | UPDATED: 17:02 EST, 26 December 2013 The anguished mother of British doctor Abbas Khan wailed her love for her son at his packed out funeral at Regent’s Park mosque in London. As people tried to comfort a very distressed Fatima Khan, she said: 'Nobody help me, I love my son. I am the loser. I’m the failure.’ She added: ‘I beg everybody. I touch everyone’s feet. Please give me my son.’ Scroll down for video Grief: Fatima Khan, mother of Dr Abbas Khan, is comforted by her son at a service for the British doctor
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Dr Abbas Khan was an orthopaedic surgeon from London
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He travelled to Aleppo, Syria, to help victims of hospital bombings
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The 32-year-old was being held in custody in Syria when he died
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The Syrian regime claim he took his own life, but his family suspect murder
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His brother Shahnawaz Khan described writing his eulogy as 'morbid' | 18,171 | record_train |
The Prime Minister will seek a top economic job for @placeholder – either trade, competition or responsibility for the EU’s single market – despite the controversy surrounding his candidacy. | Botched: Labour have criticsed the appointment of Lord Hill of Oareford as Britain's next EU commissoner David Cameron’s bid to secure a top job for Britain in the EU Commission was branded a ‘shambles’ last night after his controversial candidate was forced to sell his shares in a major lobbying company. Downing Street said Lord Hill of Oareford would sell what is thought to be a major shareholding in the lobbying giant Huntsworth amid warnings in Brussels that it would make his candidacy unacceptable. Labour said the move underlined the botched nature of Lord Hill’s appointment. Shadow Europe Minister Gareth Thomas said: ‘David Cameron’s approach to Europe goes from bad to worse. After his complete failure to stop Jean-Claude Juncker becoming Commission President this shambles will not help in rebuilding our influence to secure crucial reforms.’
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Lord Hill of Oareford will sell a major share of lobbying giant Huntsworth
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He was deemed a surprise choice to be Britain's next EU commissioner
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Shadow minister for Europe Gareth Thomas said: 'David Cameron's approach to Europe goes from bad to worse' | 18,172 | record_train |
"In particular, manufacturers of American cars and trucks will have much more access to the @placeholder market, will encourage the development of electric cars and green technology in the United States and will continue to ensure a level playing field for American automakers here at home," Obama said. | Washington (CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama announced what he called a "landmark" trade agreement with South Korea on Saturday that he said will increase U.S. exports by $11 billion and support 70,000 American jobs. The agreement would eliminate tariffs on over 95% of industrial and consumer goods within five years. "It's a win-win for both countries," Obama said. "It will contribute significantly to my goal of doubling U.S. exports over the next five years," he said. "In fact, it's estimated that today's deal alone will increase American economic output by more than our last nine free trade agreements combined."
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He calls the agreement a 'win-win' situation
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He says it will increase U.S. exports by $11 billion and support 70,000 jobs
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Some business leaders praised the deal | 18,173 | record_train |
Inspired by stars posting pictures after every workout, @placeholder work out around five times a week | By Katy Winter The rise of health-conscious female role models such as Miranda Kerr, 31, Kelly Brook, 34, and Kim Kardashian, 33, has sparked a huge increase in the numbers of women working out multiple times per week. A survey of over 2,000 gym-goers people has shown a 62 per cent increase in the number of women working out over the last 12 months. While still an activity dominated by men, the proportion of women amongst this group of gym-goers rose significantly, from 9 per cent to 14.6 per cent. Scroll down for video Stars like Kelly Brook regularly post photos of themselves working out, lifting weights and eating healthily on their social media accounts
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There is a 62% increase in women working out between 4-5 times a week
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Over half of female regular gym-goers now take protein supplements
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Nasa says, 'Peaking in the wee morning hours, the @placeholder have a maximum rate of about 100 per hour, varying between 60-200.' | The Quadrantid meteor shower is due overnight in the U.S. - and forecasters expect night owls could be treated to a spectacular display in the hours just before dawn, weather permitting. The waxing moon will stop sky watchers seeing too much until the hours after 3am local time in the East - but from then until dawn, meteors should be visible. Skywatchers on the West coast might be able to catch a less intense shower, again just before dawn. Quadrantid Meteor Shower pictured over Bow Valley, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada in 2009: Although the shower is often spectacular, it's very brief - and many often miss the shower of up to 200 meteors per hour, which can be visible to the naked eye
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Debris of asteroid collision to enter atmosphere before dawn U.S. time
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The warnings were underscored by news Thursday of a clash that killed scores in @placeholder, the latest instance of tribal violence among southerners that has alarmed the United Nations. | (CNN) -- Major conflict could return to southern parts of Sudan unless international action bolsters a faltering peace accord, ten aid agencies said in a report released Thursday. A resumption of conflict between north and south in Sudan, meanwhile, would make a sustainable peace impossible in Darfur, a region of western Sudan that has been the scene of what the U.S. calls genocide, the aid groups said. "It is not yet too late to avert disaster, but the next 12 months are a crossroads for Africa's largest country, " said Maya Mailer, policy advisor for Oxfam International and the report's co-author.
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Aid groups: Peace deal signed in 2005 "on the brink of collapse"
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Aid groups: About 2,500 people killed, 350,000 fled in southern Sudan last year
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U.N.: More people killed in southern Sudan in 2009 than in Darfur
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@placeholder was one of two bases Pakistan provided the U.S. for their operations in the region. | Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- All U.S. forces have vacated a military base in Pakistan, meeting a deadline set by Islamabad after a NATO airstrike killed dozens of soldiers, local military officials said Sunday. Pakistan requested U.S. forces to vacate the Shamsi Airbase by December 11 in response to the November 26th attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in the northwest of the country. Fifty-one American personnel have left the air base, taking drone planes and other equipment with them, according to the Pakistani military officials. They did not want to be named because they are not authorized to talk to the media.
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Pakistan requests U.S. forces vacate the Shamsi Airbase by December 11
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Fifty-one American personnel have left the air base, military officials say | 18,177 | record_train |
Prince William told me @placeholder first got under his skin during a trip to Kenya when he was 17. | (CNN) -- Dreaming of Africa is one way that Prince William escapes from the stresses he faces as the future king of Britain. "I regularly daydream," The Duke of Cambridge reveals in the documentary "Prince William's Passion: New Hope, New Father." "Africa is definitely one of the places I go to ... I have hundreds of animals on my iPhone. So if I am ever having quite a stressful day ... you can put a buffalo on in the background or a cricket," he says. This may sound like a small, even trivial, detail but it's a thought that may one day help define the British monarchy. "It takes you back instantly to the (African) bush. And it does completely settle me down."
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Dreaming of Africa is one way Prince William escapes from stresses he faces as future King of Britain
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In Africa, "I can let ... that sort of slightly immature, silly person come out a bit more," he says
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He says his mother, Diana, is never far from his thoughts. "It's about helping the needy and vulnerable"
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Personal connection with Africa was sealed when he got engaged to Kate Middleton in Kenya in 2010 | 18,178 | record_train |
It held to its condemnation of the centuries-old @placeholder practice, despite the dissenting opinion of two of the judges, who said that the court’s thinking was a mess and that there was nothing wrong with the law in Britain. | Strasbourg was in retreat last night over its instruction to Britain to give prisoners the vote as Tories threatened to walk away from the institution. The Council of Europe expressed ‘profound concern and disappointment’ that ministers had ignored its repeated demands to allow convicts to take part in elections. But instead of threatening the UK with legal action, the council booted the issue into the long grass until September 2015 – after Britain’s general election. John Hirst, who served 25 years in jail for murdering his landlady with an axe, says Britain is wrongly denying prisoners a vote in May's general election
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Council of Europe says convicts should be allowed to take part in elections
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John Hirst, who served 25 years in jail, believes inmates should vote | 18,179 | record_train |
The attacks have targeted both Sunni and @placeholder neighbourhoods, further stoking sectarian tensions that are already running high because of the war next door. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 12:22 EST, 2 January 2014 | UPDATED: 15:58 EST, 2 January 2014 At least five people have been killed during Beirut's rush hour today in a suspected car bomb as Syria’s civil war continues to spread to neighbouring Lebanon. The explosion rocked a stronghold of the Shiite Hezbollah group in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, setting cars ablaze and sending a column of black smoke above the city skyline. The nature of the explosion that hit the Haret Hreik neighbourhood was not immediately clear, but a Lebanese security official said it appeared to be caused by a car bomb.
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The explosion rocked the Shiite Hezbollah stronghold in the Lebanese city
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Twenty people were also wounded and cars were set on fire in the attack
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'I’m demanding that @placeholder end its ties to Nestlé, stop the product sales of this liquid sugar and stop marketing unhealthy diet options to our children,' Serratos wrote in the petition. | A California mom has called upon the Girl Scouts to end their partnership with Nesquik after discovering a limited edition Girl Scouts milkshake by the Nestle offshoot contains almost 50 grams of sugar per bottle. Monica Serratos, of Orange County, told ABC News that she was recently in the supermarket with her two young daughters - both Girl Scouts - asked for the special 'Thin Mints' flavored Nesquik drink. The 14 Oz bottle - which also comes in a caramel coconut flavor, in keeping with the popular Girls Scouts cookie theme - prominently says the product is 'low fat'. Serratos was just about to allow her daughters- who are first and graders - are treat, before realizing there is 48 grams of sugar in each.
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Nesquik released limited edition Girl Scouts-themed milk drinks flavored after the popular cookies Thin Mints and Caramel Coconut
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Each 14 Oz bottle contains 48 grams of sugar, or 12 teaspoons
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Orange County mom Monica Serratos has started a petition to end the partnership between Girl Scouts and Nestle, which produced Nesquik
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In the opener, @placeholder dropped the third game on her serve but hit back immediately, before taking a 4-3 lead after a marathon seventh game. | (CNN) -- Li Na set up a French Open semifinal clash with former world number one Maria Sharapova after toppling fourth seed Victoria Azarenka at Roland Garros. It is the first time that Li, from China, has made the final four in Paris and she did it in style by knocking out the highest remaining seed 7-5 6-2 on Court Philippe Chatrier. Sharapova looked in fine form after a ruthless display against Andrea Petkovic, beating her German opponent 6-0 6-3, and is now in sight of completing a career Grand Slam, having won the other three major tournaments on the tennis calendar.
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Li Na will play Maria Sharapova for a place in the French Open final
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Li beat fourth seed Victoria Azarenka 7-5 6-2 in semifinal clash
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The sixth seed becomes first Chinese player to make last four at Roland Garros
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Russian 7th seed Sharapova dismantles Germany's Andrea Petkovic 6-0 6-3 | 18,182 | record_train |
Allies: Female peshmerga soldiers are seen preparing for battle in @placeholder, near the front lines with ISIS | The Canadian woman who was reportedly kidnapped by ISIS has said she is fine, and that rumors of her capture spread on jihadist websites are untrue. Gill Rosenberg, 31, joined the ranks of the Kurdish peshmerga fighting force this year, which has elite all-female units. ISIS sources reported Sunday that Rosenberg was captured in the contested town of Kobane, on the Turkish border, and were gleefully debating whether to execute her or try to negotiate a prisoner swap. But now Rosenberg, who leaves sporadic updates about her campaign against extremism on Facebook, has posted to clarify that she is in fact alive and well.
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Gill Rosenberg, 31, left to fight in Syria with all-female peshmerga unit
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Jihadist sources said she was captured in contested town of Kobane
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The continued building of @placeholder settlements in the West Bank, combined with moribund U.S.-backed peace talks, has resulted in Palestinian political strategy becoming about survival and dependence. | Jerusalem (CNN) -- The recent visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington primarily focused on Iran's nuclear program -- a long way from previous meetings that had, more often than not, focused on Israeli-Palestinian relations. There is little talk about a peace process these days. The Arab Awakening, as it's known in the region, was initially greeted with hope and optimism by Palestinians but has since given way to diminished hopes for a negotiated two-state solution. For Palestinians watching today's U.S.-Israeli dynamic from the sidelines, their disappointment with U.S. President Barack Obama following his speech on Sunday to pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC is palpable. In that speech, Obama reiterated U.S. support for the Jewish state as it faces of concerns about Iran.
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'Arab Awakening' initially greeted with hope and optimism by Palestinians
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Gaza-based Hamas and West Bank-based Fatah are trying to form a unity government.
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Hamas has distanced itself from Syria -- and by proxy, Iran -- in wake of Arab Spring | 18,184 | record_train |
by ion propulsion instead of conventional rocket fuel, @placeholder slid around | By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 05:58 EST, 2 August 2011 The first close-up images of the massive asteroid Vesta have revealed a northern hemisphere littered with craters - including a trio nicknamed 'Snowman' - and a smoother southern half. Running along the asteroid's equator are deep grooves - a surprise to scientists who did not expect to see such features. Chief scientist Christopher Russell, of the University of California, Los Angeles, said last night: 'We're seeing quite a varied surface.' Scroll down for video Rough terrain: A set of three craters - nicknamed 'Snowman' - are seen in this image of the northern hemisphere of Vesta taken by Nasa's orbiting Dawn spacecraft from a distance of about 3,200miles
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Since entering orbit last month, Dawn has taken more than 500 images
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Vesta's southern section is dominated by a giant crater
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The northern side is filled with older craters including three that scientists have dubbed 'Snowman' | 18,185 | record_train |
The outfit spent more than a decade in the collection of a late @placeholder businessman whose family offered it at auction. | By Chris Pleasance The outfit Lone Ranger actor Clayton Moore wore when making appearances as the character after retiring from TV has sold for $195,000 (£114,000). The Waco, Texas-based A & S Auction Company said the outfit was sold yesterday. Moore, who died in 1999, played the masked lawman on the US television series The Lone Ranger from 1949 to 1957 alongside his sidekick Tonto. A Lone Ranger outfit worn by actor Clayton Moore for celebrity appearances after the show finished has sold for $195,000 (£114,000) The auction house says that after retiring from television, Moore made appearances in character at events including fairs.
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Lone Ranger outfit sells for $195,000 (£114,000) at Western-themed auction
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Outfit was worn by Clayton Moore at appearances after TV series ended
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Lot included hat, shirt, red handkerchief, bullet belt, pistols and black boots | 18,186 | record_train |
She didn't report the incident because she 'felt like Jian was a @placeholder god'. | A total of nine women - including a popular Canadian television actress - have now come forward to claim CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi slapped, choked and verbally assaulted them on dates and at work in the past 12 years. The founder of radio show Q was fired from the program on Sunday, amid accusations of sexual assault, which he claimed were started by a jilted ex-girlfriend looking for revenge. The 47-year-old's lawyers have allegedly moved to sue the public-funded broadcasting company for $55million dollars, claiming he was fired over a 'moral judgement' of his BDSM lifestyle. But according to the eight women who have come forward to the Toronto Star, and one to a CBC radio show, his actions in the bedroom were anything but consensual.
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Jian Ghomeshi was fired from his CBC radio show Q on Sunday amid sexual assault allegations
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Since he was fired, five more women have come forward to detail dates with Ghomeshi that turned violent
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Actress Lucy DeCoutere is one of nine women who claim to have been physically or verbally abused by the former radio host
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Ghomeshi is allegedly fighting his firing, saying he was only let go because executives found out about his BDSM lifestyle | 18,187 | record_train |
"@placeholder is a tough and resilient town, so are its people," he said. | It didn't take long Monday for speculation to ramp up online over the timing of the Boston Marathon bombings, which came on Patriots Day, a Masschusetts state holiday commemorating the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War. The American uprising against the British in Lexington, Massachusetts, was on April 19, 1775, but Patriots Day is celebrated in Massachusetts and Maine on the third Monday in April, falling this year on April 15. "It's a day that celebrates the free and fiercely independent spirit that this great American city of Boston has reflected from the earliest days of our nation," President Obama said Monday, a few hours after a pair of bombs rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing at least three and injuring dozens more.
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Patriots Day in Massachusetts commemorates opening battles of American Revolution on April 19
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Boston Marathon is always held on Patriots Day, which falls on third Monday in April
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April 19 is anniversary of 1993 FBI siege of Waco compound, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
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Expert: April 19 is a "high holiday" for those who think they live "under the thumb" of tyranny | 18,188 | record_train |
Read more: Aid group warns of difficulties treating victims of @placeholder violence | Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) -- Myanmar security forces used tear gas and water cannons early Thursday to drive away hundreds of people protesting a copper mine project owned by the country's military and a Chinese company, witnesses said. Riot police cleared away all the camps set up by protesters near Monywa township in the northern region of Sagaing, said Khin San Hlaing, a member of parliament in the region for the National League for Democracy, the opposition party led by Nobel laureate and pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. Read more: Terrorized, starving and homeless: Myanmar's Rohingya still forgotten Dozens of protesters -- a mixture of local residents, students and monks -- were wounded in the police raids, Khin San Hlaing said, but some of them were hiding rather than seeking medial attention. So far, 29 people have been admitted to hospitals, she said, while others have been arrested.
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NEW: "We are very concerned about the protests," the Chinese firm involved in the mine says
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Aung San Suu Kyi visits the area and says she hopes for a peaceful solution
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Hundreds of protesters have been demonstrating against the mine project
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Police use tear gas and water cannons to clear protest camps, witnesses say | 18,189 | record_train |
Several promising proposals for reforming Medicare have been brought forward in @placeholder. | (CNN) -- This week, Americans were confronted -- yet again -- with more of the same refusal by President Barack Obama to take on the greatest long-term threat to our economic and health care security. Consistent with his track record, the president's annual budget proposal offers no credible reforms for our entitlement programs that will ensure their solvency in the years to come. Instead, his budget reflects the same disregard he demonstrated last month, in his 7,000-word State of the Union address, in which only 40 words were used to talk about Social Security and Medicare. The fact is Social Security and Medicare, vital to the welfare of tens of millions of Americans, account for nearly half of all federal spending. That percentage will continue to increase in the coming years. Left on its current trajectory, overall entitlement spending is projected to more than double by 2049, thus consuming 100% of all tax revenue.
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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says entitlement reform is critical to our health care security
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She says Social Security and Medicare funds will head toward bankruptcy if action is not taken
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Hutchison: It's time for President Obama to focus on reforming these programs
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She says Congress should also step up to find a bipartisan solution | 18,190 | record_train |
Security forces have raided several homes in and around @placeholder, confiscating explosives and weapons, including assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. | Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- Lebanese military forces battled militants in Tripoli on Saturday, resulting in the deaths of two militants and two civilians, the Lebanese army said. At least six Lebanese soldiers -- including an officer -- were killed, according to Lebanon's state-run National News Agency There were 24 people wounded in the attack, NNA reports. That figure includes civilians and soldiers. This constitutes a drop in the death toll of soldiers. Previously, nine had been reported killed. The militants are Sunnis who sympathize with ISIS extremists, who have been waging attacks inside neighboring Syria and, beyond that, in parts of Iraq, according to Lebanese media reports. The militants are said to feel marginalized by the Lebanese army, which is heavily allied with Shiite Hezbollah.
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NEW: Two militants, two civilians are killed in clashes, army says
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NEW: Report: Six soldiers are also killed
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Fighting continues in several areas as army targets militants in security campaign
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Clashes highlight a rift in Lebanon's Sunni community | 18,191 | record_train |
If he runs for president--a decision he said Monday is "four to six months" away--that would pose a challenge come May 17, 2016, @placeholder's primary day. | Sen. Rand Paul announced his bid for a second term in the Senate on Tuesday, launching what will likely be a complicated election season as he attempts to keep his seat and run for an expected presidential campaign. In a low-key campaign rollout, the Kentucky Republican declined to hold a traditional kick-off event, making the announcement instead in a lengthy press release that listed his local and national policy efforts. CNN Poll: Romney, Clinton top 2016 field In fact, Paul wasn't even in Kentucky on Tuesday. He stayed in Washington for votes and to speak at a Wall Street Journal event.
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Sen. Rand Paul announced he's running for re-election to the Senate
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He's also expected to run for president at the same time in 2016
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But a Kentucky law prevents him from being on the ballot twice
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He has a few other options to get around the law | 18,192 | record_train |
Check out the @placeholder and see how to help. | RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNN) -- Flavio Canto spent most of his teenage years training in judo, in hopes he would achieve Olympic gold. But today, the Brazilian athlete considers his defeat at the 2000 Olympic trials one of his greatest victories. More than 1,000 students are enrolled in judo athlete Flavio Canto's Reaction Institute. The loss led Canto -- who later won bronze at the 2004 Olympic Games -- back to his native Rio de Janeiro. Since then, he has helped thousands of young people from the city's toughest shanty towns find hope in the midst of hardship. "I've never seen any place as beautiful as Rio de Janeiro, but it does have its dark side," said Canto, 34. "There is violence all over."
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Bronze medalist Flavio Canto helps young people through free lessons
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More than 1,000 Rio de Janeiro youths are enrolled in his Reaction Institute
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Judo teaches discipline, humility, courage and determination, Canto says
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Do you know a hero? Nominations are open at CNN.com/Heroes | 18,193 | record_train |
But Michael Bay didn't put that detail there for geographically-challenged @placeholder; it's there for the foreign audience he really made this movie for. | Michael Bay publicly blew off the critics who excoriated Transformers: Age of Extinction, and he's laughing all the way to the bank. Not only did the fourth film in the franchise win the domestic box-office for the second week in a row, but it has already surpassed Avatar to become the biggest box-office hit in Chinese history. After only 10 days in Chinese theaters, Age of Extinction has grossed more than $221 million—$46 million more than it has made in the U.S.—and it likely passed James Cameron's 2009 3-D adventure on Monday. EW: Critical Mass - Come for the Transformers, stay for the critics' zingers
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The film became the biggest box-office hit in Chinese history
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"Age of Extinction" has grossed more than $221 million
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Chinese box office is up another 22 percent | 18,194 | record_train |
Although his son remains in a critical condition, Mr @placeholder told cfnews13.com that he was not giving up. | By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 08:23 EST, 3 January 2012 A 12-year-old boy is fighting for his life after he was hit in the head by celebratory gunfire an hour into the new year. Detectives say Diego Duran and his family were sitting outside their home in Ruskin, Florida watching fireworks, reports ABC Action News. Suddenly at around 1am, the young boy's mother Sandra saw him fall to the ground bleeding from the eyes and the nose. Scroll down for video Victim: Diego Duran, 12, was shot in the head by a stray bullet during New Year's celebrations. He remains in critical condition at hospital in Ruskin, Florida
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Diego Duran hit by stray bullet outside his Florida home
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Remains in critical condition but has opened his eyes | 18,195 | record_train |
Four @placeholder service members have died in Afghanistan since the outrage turned violent. | Herat, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Hundreds of protesters took to the streets Saturday across Afghanistan, the fifth day of demonstrations over the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base, officials said. Four civilians were killed and 50 injured amid protests near the United Nations office in Kunduz, said Saad Mokhtar, head of the city's health department. Twelve police officers were among the wounded. Gulam Mohamad Farhad, the intelligence head of Kunduz, said the protesters tried to burn down the U.N. building. The U.N.'s Afghan mission said all its staff in Kunduz and throughout the country are "unhurt." It denounced the attack on its compound, regretted the casualties and thanked Afghan police for their timely response to the violent protests.
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Four civilians are killed and 50 people are injured in Kunduz, a health official says
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Police: At least 15 are injured in Laghman protests
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The protests start after NATO troops burn Qurans at Bagram Airfield
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Taliban says Saturday's killing of two U.S. military officers is linked to burning | 18,196 | record_train |
Tributes: A growing mass of candles and flowers today outside Charlie Hebdo's offices in @placeholder | Attack: A neighbour of killer Cherif Kouachi (above) said he headbutted him for listening to pop music Charlie Hebdo gunman Cherif Kouachi once headbutted his neighbour for listening to 'infidels' music'. The extremist's violent past was laid bare by the man who said he was attacked by the 32-year-old and later threatened when he tried to press charges against him. The neighbour, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals, said Kouachi would often knock on his door and complain that he was listening to pop music, which he said was 'haram' or sinful. The younger of the Kouachi brothers lived above the man in a seven-storey block of flats in Gennevilliers, a suburb in the north of Paris, for about seven years.
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Incident told by a former neighbour in Paris suburb of Gennevilliers
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He said Cherif Kouachi, 32, attacked him saying he should be 'ashamed'
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But he decided not to press charges after being threatened by Kouachi
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Killer Kouachi and his brother shot dead by police after two-day manhunt | 18,197 | record_train |
"There's no motivation I would guess for the police to actually pursue it," he said, when asked if the keys, clothing or knife @placeholder claims were buried were ever dug up. | Rome, Italy (CNN) -- A jailed Italian mobster claims he can prove American student Amanda Knox, her former boyfriend and a drifter are innocent of murdering Knox's British roommate because he knows who the real killer is -- his brother. Luciano Aviello, 41, made the statement during a videotaped interview with Knox's lawyers. He said he had tried to write the Italian court several times to say that Knox and the others were innocent, but no one ever contacted him, defense and prosecution officials said. A source close to the case tells CNN that Aviello, who has been in and out of prison since age 17, was out of prison, living down the street from Knox and Meredith Kercher and under a "protection program" at the time of the murder. Aviello is serving 17 years in an Italian prison because of his association with the Camorra crime family. According to Italian media reports and Britain's Daily Mail, he has testified against the mob at several trials, always from behind a screen to shield his identity.
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Jailed mobster Luciano Aviello claims his brother told him he killed Meredith Kercher in botched robbery
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Aviello says he buried brother's bloody knife, clothes and keys to Kercher's apartment
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Amanda Knox's lawyers want Aviello's story investigated for her appeal
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Knox, her former boyfriend were convicted of murdering Kercher in December 2009 | 18,198 | record_train |
If they are forced to leave @placeholder, Muhammad will be able to apply for a student visa in order to take up his studies at Oxford. | By Hugo Gye PUBLISHED: 05:32 EST, 22 August 2013 | UPDATED: 07:32 EST, 22 August 2013 A failed asylum seeker who came to Britain unable to speak English has secured a place at Oxford - but now worries that his whole family could be deported to Afghanistan. Muhammad Abdul Ghani achieved outstanding grades in his A-levels after just two years of living in the country. However, since his family's asylum request was rejected, he faces the prospect of being kicked out of Britain. Success: Muhammad Abdul Ghani has secured a place at Oxford two years after moving to Britain from Syria
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Muhammad Abdul Ghani, 18, left war-torn Syria for the UK in 2011
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Achieved top A-level grades and a place at Oxford despite his poor English
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But his family could be deported to Afghanistan after their asylum claim was rejected by the Home Office | 18,199 | record_train |
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