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By almost all witness accounts, @placeholder turned at some point to face the officer. | Scroll down for video A prosecutor released hundreds of pages of additional documents Saturday from the investigation into the police shooting of Michael Brown, including an interview transcript of a friend who initially asserted that he had seen Brown get shot in the back. St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch said the newly released records were inadvertently excluded from the thousands of pages of other documents made public Nov. 24, when a grand jury decided not to charge Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson for killing Brown. The freshly publicized documents include a transcript of an interview of Brown's friend Dorian Johnson conducted by the FBI and county police just four days after the Aug. 9 confrontation in which the white officer shot the black 18-year-old.
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Dorian Johnson was with Michael Brown when he was shot dead by officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9
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Johnson's police interview after the shooting now released for the first time
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He told police the same details he did the grand jury investigating Brown's death
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However he admitted he did not see a bullet hit Brown in the back
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Johnson said Wilson first reached out of his car and grabbed Brown's neck
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He said Brown did not grab Wilson's gun, as Wilson had told jurors
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Brown was shot in the hand and he and Johnson then ran away
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Johnson said Brown turned around with his hands up and announced he was not armed
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He believed Brown had been shot in the back before turning around but isn't sure
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Wilson then shot Brown, telling jurors that Brown had charged for him | 19,200 | record_train |
@placeholder-led strikes have so far failed to halt an advance by fighters in northern Syria on Kobani, a Kurdish town on the border with Turkey where the past week's battle caused the fastest refugee flight of Syria's three-year civil war. | They may have fled to safety, but these Syrian Kurds can't help but look back over the border they just crossed to watch their brothers-in-arms fight for the land they left behind. In the last week alone, more than 150,000 Kurdish men, women and children have crossed into Sanlinurfa, Turkey, to escape the Islamic State fighters laying siege to their hometown, Kobani, some 15 miles to the south. But while they are now safe, the war rages on as Kurdish Peshmerga warriors - backed by U.S. airstrikes - fight to hold their murderous enemy at bay. Nervous: They may have escaped to freedom, but these Syrian Kurds can't help but look back over the border they just crossed to cheer on their brothers fighting back the jihadis overrunning their homeland
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150,000 Kurd have already crossed into Sanlinurfa, Turkey, from Kobani
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There they watch as the Kurdish Peshmerga forces fight ISIS fighters
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Meanwhile, Turkish tanks take up positions along the Syrian frontier
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Turkey has already taken in more than a million Syrian refugees so far | 19,201 | record_train |
Officer @placeholder wrote in a police report that Mr Bennett refused to drop the knife and moved towards him and another officer 'in a threatening manner'. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 01:03 EST, 19 October 2013 | UPDATED: 01:05 EST, 19 October 2013 Surveillance video showing a Dallas police officer shooting a mentally ill man as he stood still about 20ft away contradicts the assertion of an officer that the man threatened his safety by lunging at him with a knife. Bobby Gerald Bennett remains in hospital after being shot in the stomach on Monday. The officer who shot him, Cardan Spencer, is on indefinite administrative leave pending a criminal investigation after a neighbor released surveillance video that captured the incident. Bennett was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on a public servant, but Police Chief David Brown announced on Friday that the charge would be dropped.
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Recording appears to go against Cardan Spencer's claim that he fired because of threatening behavior
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Bobby Bennett, who has schizophrenia, is in intensive care after being wounded
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Charges against victim have been dropped pending investigation | 19,202 | record_train |
"This kind of attack in @placeholder has become extremely rare, but nonetheless seems designed to drive home a political point, that the guerrillas retain this capacity for violence," Arnson said. | (CNN) -- A former top Colombian official survived an assassination attempt Tuesday after a daylight bombing in the country's capital, authorities said. Fernando Londono, a former interior and justice minister, was among at least 39 people injured in the Bogota blast. He was being treated at a hospital, President Juan Manuel Santos said. "I want to condemn this in the strongest terms," he said, adding that the motive for the attack was unknown. Londono's driver and his head of security were killed, Santos said. A chaotic scene unfolded as the blast hit a commercial neighborhood in a city where such attacks have become rare.
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Officials don't know who was behind the blast, President Juan Manuel Santos says
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Authorities are offering a $280,000 reward for information, he says
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The attack targeted a former minister of interior and justice
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At least two people were killed and dozens were injured | 19,203 | record_train |
The first case, discovered in @placeholder on May 2, involved a male health care worker who was living and working in Saudi Arabia who fell ill on his return to the United States | By Daily Mail Reporter Health officials have confirmed a second U.S. case of a mysterious virus that has sickened hundreds in the Middle East. The latest case is not an American — he is a resident of Saudi Arabia, visiting Florida, who is now in an Orlando hospital. He was diagnosed with MERS, or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Sunday night. It is a respiratory illness that begins with flu-like fever and cough but can lead to shortness of breath, pneumonia and death. Scroll down for video Deadly: MERS belongs to the coronavirus family that also includes the common cold and SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome
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Second case of MERS detected in Orlando, Florida announces the CDC
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No details on the patient who contracted the virus not where they contracted it
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Described as 'imported' - which means that the patient became ill outside of the United States
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Comes days after first patient to fall ill with the virus was released from hospital in Indiana
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MERS stands for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
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The strange virus is incredibly lethal | 19,204 | record_train |
'As Attorney General, it is my job to enforce the laws of the state of @placeholder,' Ferguson said in a statement. | A florist is being sued by the Washington State Attorney General for refusing to sell flowers for a gay wedding, it emerged today. A lawsuit was filed on Tuesday on behalf of Attorney General Bob Ferguson against Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of Arlene's Flowers in Richland, Washington. The row emerged last month when Stutzman refused to sell flowers to longtime customers Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed for their wedding in September. Row: A legal fight has broken out over Arlene's Flowers in Richland, Washington, after the owner refused to provide flowers for a gay couple's wedding She told the couple she would not provide them with her service 'because of [her] relationship with Jesus Christ'.
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Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a lawsuit against Arlene's Flowers in Richland, Washington, after the owner refused to supply flowers for a gay wedding
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Florist Barronelle Stutzman refused to work on the September wedding of Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed
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She said her stance was based on her 'relationship with Jesus Christ'
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Ingersoll said they were sad to notify the authorities about the florist but they felt bullied and discriminated against
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Attorney General says the move is a breach of the state's Consumer Protection Act, which bars any discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation | 19,205 | record_train |
Thousands of protesters in @placeholder including health workers have called on the health minister to resign | The Spanish nurse who became the first person to contract Ebola outside West Africa appears to have overcome the disease, officials said tonight. Teresa Romero, 44, went into isolation after caring for two infected priests at Carlos III Hospital in central Madrid. Her case prompted a massive public outcry of the Spanish government's handling of the outbreak, which blew up into mass protests when her beloved dog Excalibur was put down despite it being unclear whether the pet had the virus. Scroll down for video Saved: Teresa Romero, 44, has tested negative for Ebola weeks after contracting the disease, the Spanish government said. But her dog Excalibur (pictured) was put down as a precaution, sparking a national outcry
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Teresa Romero, 44, went into isolation after contact with infected missionary
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Today she tested negative for the disease at hospital in central Madrid
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Further tests will be carried out in the next 72 hours to confirm result
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Handling of Ms Romero's case prompted public outcry and street protests
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Her dog Excalibur euthanised despite uncertainty and 390,000 objections | 19,206 | record_train |
This wasn't the first time @placeholder had fired his weapon. | One moment, a man reaches into his vehicle after a South Carolina trooper asked for his driver's license. Seconds later, the trooper shoots him, and the man asks why. Days afterward, prosecutors aren't satisfied with the answer. Authorities released dash-camera video Wednesday showing what they say is Sean Groubert, a decorated South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper, shooting Levar Jones, who was unarmed, in the parking lot of a gas station just outside Columbia on September 4. Jones, 35, survived the shooting. But Groubert, who has since been fired for the incident, has been charged with aggravated assault and battery, a felony that could get him up to 20 years in prison if convicted, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said Wednesday.
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South Carolina police release a video of a trooper shooting a man in a traffic stop
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Police say the man was unarmed, and the trooper is charged with felony assault
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"Why did you shoot me?" the man asks the trooper
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"Well, you dove head-first back into your car," the trooper responds | 19,207 | record_train |
They added that the large population of @placeholder, cited by the prosecution, does not mean bias is less likely, since over half were at the marathon or knew someone who was. | By Jack Crone Suspect: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers have argued that the attack's emotional impact will prevent their client from getting a fair trial Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has made a second push to move his trial from the city after arguing that residents have already made up their minds he is guilty. The 21-year-old's lawyers say the emotional impact of the deadly attack means people living in Massachusetts have 'an overwhelming presumption of guilt' towards their client. In a document handed to the court on Thursday they claim a defence expert who analysed poll results and media coverage found there was little chance of Tsarnaev getting a fair trial in Boston.
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Lawyers say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, won't get fair trial due to city's emotion
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Argue poll and media coverage show residents are already decided on guilt
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Demanding November trial be moved to Washington D.C. for second time
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Attack at Boston Marathon last year killed three and injured more than 260 | 19,208 | record_train |
However, though down to 14 men, Tonga responded with two more Fosita penalties as the @placeholder struggled to hold onto ball and allowed the Tongans to make ground too easily. | Scotland buried the ghost of their first-ever defeat to Tonga two years ago with a hard-earned but comfortable five-try victory in Kilmarnock. It was far from the most convincing display by the Scots in this historic first Test match at Rugby Park, with penalties and handling errors hindering their first half efforts, but set-piece dominance and a return to simple basics in the second half led to three second half scores that proved too much for the Tongans. The first half was a frustrating affair, Scotland seeking to ignite the fast-paced, ambitious attack that new head coach Vern Cotter has sought to inculcate in the side. But a penalty count that rose to nine by half-time and a series of passing and catching errors stymied momentum, and also allowed Tonga to show their threat.
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Tries from flanker Blair Cowan and centre Stuart Hogg helped Scotland to a 14-12 half-time lead
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Tonga fly half Latiume Fosita kicked four penalties for the visitors
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Vern Cotter's men pulled away after the break scoring tries through Alex Dunbar, Geoff Cross and Tommy Seymour | 19,209 | record_train |
Keep in mind that in the early 1900s, @placeholder were not the beloved paesanos they are today. | (CNN)I am American. Italian-American. Or maybe I'm American-Italian or an American of Italian descent. Nah, I'm Italian-American. It's how I was raised to think of myself, even though I was born in the most American of cities, Canton, Ohio. In 1920, a group of men meeting in downtown Canton founded the National Football League. What's more American than that? In that same year, the number of Italian immigrants living in Northeast Ohio exploded. Some 60,000 Italians called this most American of states home, including my Grandma and Grandpa Costello. And the Recchios on my mother's side. I am Italian as far back as the "proverbial they" can trace. And I was raised to be proud of it. I grew up dancing the tarantella and doing the hustle, fearing the malocchio and the monster under my bed, playing the morra and diving for baseballs, and arguing for no good reason at all.
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Carol Costello: I am proud to be Italian-American
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Since Bobby Jindal says he's not a "hyphenated American," as in "Indian-American," debate over "who is us" has grown | 19,210 | record_train |
Back at home, @placeholder faces myriad national woes: a faltering economy, widespread poverty and corruption. | London (CNN) -- With his fate at home hanging in the balance, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani repudiated U.S. claims that Pakistan was falling short on fighting the war on terrorism and said instead that his nation was operating on a trust deficit with Washington. "There's a trust deficit between both the countries, between both the governments," Gilani said in an interview with CNN in London. "That is the reason we are wanting to work for new terms of engagement and cooperation with the United States." Pakistan has been a key U.S. ally, but relations between the two nations have been strained in recent months, especially after last year's killing of Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil and a NATO airstrike in November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
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Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says Pakistan wants "new terms of engagement" with U.S.
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The U.S. claims Pakistan needs to do more to combat terrorism
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Pakistan is a key U.S. ally, but relations have been strained recently
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Gilani's own future is uncertain after he was found guilty of contempt | 19,211 | record_train |
@placeholder intelligence agencies developed intelligence suggesting a high probability he slipped across to Yemen during the trip to Oman, and informed their French counterparts, according to Pelletier's French sources. | (CNN)French security agencies stopped monitoring the brothers who attacked the staff of Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine months before they carried out the attack, despite a previous tip-off from American intelligence agencies that one of them had likely trained with al Qaeda in Yemen, a French news magazine reported Saturday. Charlie Hebdo terror attacker Said Kouachi is suspected of slipping off for terror training in Yemen in July 2011 during a trip he made with another French national to Oman in July 2011, according to multiple French officials who spoke to L'Express national security reporter Eric Pelletier. Pelletier shared the details of his reporting with CNN.
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The Kouachi brothers were monitored by French agencies because of their histories, L'Express says
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But monitoring faded months ago despite a U.S. tip-off that one brother had trained with al Qaeda in Yemen | 19,212 | record_train |
Bloody: Egyptian security forces killed dozens of supporters of @placeholder's ousted president in one of the deadliest single episodes of violence in more than two and a half years of turmoil | By David Williams and Jill Reilly PUBLISHED: 02:24 EST, 9 July 2013 | UPDATED: 15:54 EST, 9 July 2013 Egypt's interim head of state has timetabled an election date for next year, leaving the country facing months of violent protests following the military ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi last week. In an attempt to drag the Arab world's biggest country from crisis a decree issued by Adli Mansour pointed to a parliamentary ballot within about six months with a presidential vote to follow. But senior officials in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood rejected the plans with leading figure Essam al-Erian saying the blueprint for constitutional changes 'brings the country back to square one'.
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Military claim gunmen shot at troops at Republican Guard building in Cairo
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But Muslim Brotherhood say army opened fire on protesters during prayers
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Islamist party withdraws from transition talks in response to 'massacre'
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Middle East envoy Tony Blair says collapse of Egypt would be 'devastating'
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Interim administration urges protesters not to approach military installations
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Hazem el-Beblawi named as prime minister in a transitional government | 19,213 | record_train |
‘He suggested @placeholder or Christianity – his own religion – offered something exclusive and superior to that offered by the patient’s own religion.’ | By Jaya Narain Created 3:44 PM on 22nd September 2011 Christian GP Dr Richard Scott outside the General Medical Council (GMC) hearing in Manchester A doctor accused of ‘inappropriately’ discussing his devout Christian faith during a consultation with a patient yesterday launched a legal battle to avoid being sanctioned.Dr Richard Scott, 51, appeared before a disciplinary hearing after allegedly talking to the patient about Jesus in a way the General Medical Council described as ‘insensitive, exploitative and inappropriate’.The GMC heard Dr Scott had ‘crossed the line’ by allegedly suggesting the ‘suicidal and vulnerable’ patient could be helped by Christianity rather than his own faith.
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GP is alleged to have told him faith in Christianity may help him overcome personal problems | 19,214 | record_train |
@placeholder prefers not to divulge his client list but his shoes aren't so discreet. | (CNN) -- From the workshops of Rome to the catwalks of Paris, this month icon delves into the world of fashion. From the capital of couture, Myleene Klass goes back stage at Paris Fashion Week to find out what it takes to turn a clothing item into an icon. Valentino For almost half a century at the head of his eponymous label, Valentino dressed the most glamorous women in the world, from Jackie Kennedy to Julia Roberts. His name has become synonymous with elegance and his fashion house remains just one of just fifteen that are officially allowed to call themselves "haute couture." Valentino invited icon to his home, a 17th century French chateau outside Paris, to take a look at some of his greatest designs.
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Designer Valentino Garavani talks to icon about some of his most memorable creations
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Anna Dello Russo, editor-at-large of Vogue Japan, on her passion for fashion
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Plus, icon meets acclaimed shoe designer Christian Louboutin in his Paris atelier | 19,215 | record_train |
Instead of a basketball wife, @placeholder enters the engagement largely as a golf wife, judging from her public appearances. | (CNN) -- NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan has been off the court for years; now, he's off the market. The sports star is getting married again, his publicist Estee R. Portnoy confirmed to CNN on Thursday. Jordan and longtime girlfriend, Yvette Prieto, got engaged on Christmas Day, CNN affiliate WCNC reported. The couple has been seen at various high-profile public events in recent years, including the Kentucky Derby, golf outings and vacations. Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to six championships -- two three-peats -- in the 1990s, before finishing his career with the Washington Wizards in 2003. He retired twice -- the first time to play baseball, the second time to be with his family.
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Couple has been seen at various high-profile public events in recent years
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Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to six championships -- two three-peats -- in the 1990s
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Marriage would be Jordan's second; he and Juanita Jordan divorced in 2006 | 19,216 | record_train |
Still, many in @placeholder say Latinos have been leaving by the thousands since the law was passed in May. | TULSA, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Weeks of protests, rallies, lawsuits and candlelight vigils failed to stop a new state immigration bill -- HB 1804 -- from becoming the law in Oklahoma. Vigils like this one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last week were unable to stop a tough new immigration law. The law went into effect Thursday and is intended to make life difficult for illegal immigrants in Oklahoma. Its authors say they're sending a very clear message: If you're an illegal immigrant, you are not welcome. "I'm convinced illegal aliens will not come to Oklahoma, or any other state, if there are no jobs waiting for them." said state Rep. Randy Terrill, a Republican and the law's author.
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Law goes into effect November 1
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It stops illegal immigrants from obtaining government IDs
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It also makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to house, employ illegals
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Lawsuit challenging the new law is working though the federal courts | 19,217 | record_train |
"One of the targets was a terror tunnel, used for the infiltration of terrorists into @placeholder, while the other was used for smuggling of weapons. | Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli authorities discovered and disarmed an explosive barrel Wednesday, the third to wash up on an Israeli beach this week, the Israel Defense Forces said. The barrel was found Wednesday afternoon at Palmachim beach south of Tel Aviv. On Monday, Islamic Jihad, the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and the Nasser Salah A din Brigades issued a leaflet in Gaza claiming responsibility for sending three explosive devices to the coastal cities Ashkelon and Ashdod. The other two barrels packed with explosives -- one found at Ashkelon and one at Ashdod -- were discovered Monday and disposed of.
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Various Islamic groups issue a leaflet in Gaza claiming responsibility for sending devices
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In response, the IDF said, the Israeli Air Force attacked "two Hamas terrorist targets" in southern Gaza
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Hamas vowing retaliation against Israel since one of founding members of its military wing died last week in Dubai | 19,218 | record_train |
It said two-thirds of Hispanic registered voters identified with or leaned toward the Democratic Party, while 20% felt that way about the @placeholder. | Washington (CNN) -- Latino voters strongly support President Barack Obama and his Democratic Party, despite dissatisfaction with the administration's deportation policies, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center. The results are good news for Obama and Democrats for next year's election, as Hispanics are the fastest-growing population group in the country and comprise a major voting bloc. According to the survey, Latino registered voters favor Obama over Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney or Texas Gov. Rick Perry by margin of more than 2-to-1. The results are similar to the presidential election in 2008, when Obama got 67% of the Latino vote compared with 31% for Republican candidate Sen. John McCain.
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Hispanic support for President Obama is strong over possible Republican opponents
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Latinos surveyed disapprove of increased deportations under the Obama administration
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The main issues for Hispanic respondents are jobs, education and health care | 19,219 | record_train |
Media watcher say @placeholder hopes Chuck Todd's sources and his 'political junkie' enthusiasm will draw viewers back in to the show, which is known for its long, in-depth interviews with politicians and other newsmakers. | By Michael Zennie for MailOnline David Gregory has been fired as moderator of the venerable NBC interview show 'Meet the Press' after years of slumping ratings that saw the program falls behind rivals ABC and CBS. The network announced that chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd will replace him a host on September 7. Shortly before NBC made the change public, Gregory took to Twitter to announce he was leaving the network: 'I leave NBC as I came - humbled and grateful. I love journalism and serving as moderator of MTP was the highest honor there is. 'I have great respect for my colleagues at NBC News and wish them all well. To the viewers, I say thank you.'
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David Gregory has hosted the venerable political interview show for six years - since the death of then-moderator Tim Russert
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Ratings have slumped dramatically in recent years - hitting a 21-year low last year and diving even farther
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'Meet the Press' once led the Sunday morning talk show pack. Now it trails ABC and CBS | 19,220 | record_train |
Elsewhere, CarPlay can be used to control music, podcasts and audiobooks on the car’s display, or by asking @placeholder to pull up what they’d like to hear. | After months of testing, leaked screenshots and videos, Apple has officially announced its iOS in the car service goes live this week. Called CarPlay, the integrated system gives drivers a 'smarter, safer and more fun way to use an iPhone in the car.' It works by linking the car's built-in display and software with iOS 7 and Siri on the iPhone 5, 5C and 5S - and will be rolled out to compatible Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo later this week. Scroll down for video Apple's CarPlay uses Siri voice commands to control entertainment and other in-car features. Researchers from Texas Transportation Institute recently found that using voice controls to send text messages while driving - on software including Apple's Siri - is just as dangerous as texting with fingers
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Integrated system works by linking a smart car's display with an iPhone
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The files and apps of the iPhone are then shown on the display of the car
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Called CarPlay, it is compatible with the iPhone 5, 5C and 5S running iOS 7
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It will be rolled out to Ferrari, Mercedes and Volvo customers this week
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Other car makers including BMW, Ford, General Motors, Honda, and Hyundai will be shipping CarPlay-compatible cars later this year | 19,221 | record_train |
He then studied surveillance footage of @placeholder caught in the act - from two angles. | By Sara Nathan and Helen Pow PUBLISHED: 12:19 EST, 5 December 2012 | UPDATED: 13:16 EST, 5 December 2012 It seems the search for a new buddy for Today show host Matt Lauer is over - and the object of his 'bromance' is the 9am Hour's Willie Geist. As MailOnline revealed, NBC chiefs were looking for a male pal for the long-time anchor in a desperate bid to increase ratings. And the ailing morning program introduced the budding love affair today, with a bizarre four-minute segment dedicated to Geist swatting Lauer's bottom backstage. The show got Rossen Reports' Jeff Rossen on the case, who declared: 'This kind of behavior happens all the times between guys on football fields and huddles, but is it really appropriate for the workplace?'
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TV execs said last week they want to rival the chemistry GMA has found
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Believe a new buddy for Lauer would help increase ratings
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Dedicated a full segment just after 8am on Wednesday to video of Geist swatting Lauer with a wad of papers
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Geist, a 9am Hour co-host, was brought in early to discuss the 'incident' | 19,222 | record_train |
Video shows @placeholder telling the pony-tailed girl, who was wearing a gray t-shirt, pink shorts and sneakers, how to shoot the gun. | The father whose fateful decision to allow his 9-year-old daughter try out a powerful Uzi sub-machine gun led to her killing her instructor is an investment fund manager, MailOnline can reveal. Alex Gen MacLachlan is an Ivy League-educated banker who manages a fund worth $1.5bn. He and his wife Alison have made no public comment on the tragedy beyond to say through their lawyer that they are 'devastated' by the accident at the Arizona firing range which killed instructor Charles Vacca. A female relative of MacLachlan living in New Jersey confirmed to MailOnline that Alex's daughter had been involved in the shooting. 'But I can't say anything about it,' she added. 'It's just terrible.'
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Ivy League-educated Alex MacLachlan, 43, of Weehawken, New Jersey, manages a fund worth $1.5bn
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His daughter, nine, accidentally shot dead instructor Charles Vacca when she was firing an Uzi at Arizona gun range
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MacLachlan and his wife, Alison, who have two older children, have issued statement saying they are 'devastated' and are praying for Vacca's family
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Family, who moved from Australia last year, were described by former neighbors as 'gorgeous' and 'happy' | 19,223 | record_train |
Top @placeholder officials, however, argued that Netanyahu's terms did not convey a serious desire to pursue a resolution. | Washington (CNN) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress Tuesday that he is prepared to make "painful compromises" for a peace deal with Palestinians, but reiterated his insistence that Israel will never return to the boundaries that existed before the 1967 Middle East war. While asserting he is prepared to be "generous" in regard to the size of a future Palestinian state, Netanyahu stressed the importance of keeping control over certain densely settled areas within the West Bank. He stressed that Israeli security will be a major consideration in the establishment of future boundaries.
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"Israel will not return to the indefensible boundaries of 1967," he says
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The Israeli prime minister addresses a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress
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Palestinians refuse to accept the Jewish state, Netanyahu says
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A protester screams, "Equal rights for Palestine" before police escort her out | 19,224 | record_train |
'I saw that day why @placeholder were winners and why Roy was at the heart of it.' | Rio Ferdinand has revealed how Roy Keane gave him an 'absolute rollocking' on his first day of Manchester United training because he wasn't being 'positive' enough in his play. The former England centre back moved to Old Trafford in 2002 and played with Keane for three seasons. And Ferdinand has explained how the ex-Ireland midfielder showed him in no uncertain terms what it meant to be a United player. Rio Ferdinand (left) has revealed Roy Keane gave him an 'absolute rollocking' on his first day of Manchester United training because he was not being positive in possession and was passing the ball sideways
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Queens Park Rangers host Aston Villa at Loftus Road on Monday (8pm)
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Rio Ferdinand could line-up for QPR with Roy Keane in the dugout for Villa
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Ferdinand has revealed Keane gave him a 'rollocking' on his first day of training at Manchester United as he was not being 'positive' in possession
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He also believes the manner of Keane's exit from Old Trafford was 'sad' | 19,225 | record_train |
According to an obituary on legacy.com, @placeholder "was a happy baby. | (CNN) -- What sounded like the most tragic of accidents -- a dad absentmindedly leaving his toddler in the car on a scorching Georgia day -- is now being treated by police as a horrific crime. Two new details were added to a revised Cobb County criminal warrant Tuesday: Not only did Justin Ross Harris put his son in the car minutes before arriving at work on June 18, but he also returned to his car hours later during his lunch break. Harris placed his son, 22-month-old Cooper, into a rear-facing child restraint in the backseat of his Hyundai Tucson after eating breakfast at a fast-food restaurant. He then drove to his workplace, a Home Depot corporate office about a half-mile away, according to the warrant.
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Child cruelty charge downgraded from first to second-degree
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Justin Ross Harris has been charged with murder in the death of his son
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The boy was left in a hot car, strapped to his seat in suburban Atlanta last week
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‘Being involved in @placeholder was a dream come true for myself and my team. | By Emily Davies PUBLISHED: 19:16 EST, 21 May 2013 | UPDATED: 19:56 EST, 21 May 2013 Petra Maison, pictured wearing her clothes yesterday, launched the line in Sweden after finding ordinary working clothes were ill-fitting and designed for men There was a time when a woman would reach for a pair of old jeans and a tatty jumper to do the gardening. But this year’s Chelsea Flower Show looks set to raise flowerbeds in the fashion stakes. One of the most crowded pitches yesterday was designer Petra Maison’s range of ‘feminine and practical’ gardening clothes. Her Garden Girl collection, admired by Prince Charles, may be designed for maximum comfort but many will think the full ensemble is less than flattering.
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Petra Maison's Garden Girl collection gained plenty of attention yesterday
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Launched the line in Sweden after finding ordinary working clothes ill-fitting
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Range includes durable ladies wear and tools ranging from £9.99 to £79 | 19,227 | record_train |
Suddenly, the sole breadwinner in the @placeholder household was out of work. | (CNN) -- A family facing foreclosure is anything but a unique story in these troubled economic times. Daniel and Ebony Sampson with their children. "It's a personal miracle," she says of how their home was saved. But this is a happier story of one family whose financial ruin was averted by the actions of a friend, the compassion of strangers, the networking power of the Internet and the holiday spirit of giving. "This is our Christmas story," said Ebony Sampson. "It's going to be told for generations and generations to come." Sampson, who lives in Aberdeen, Maryland, with her husband, Daniel, and their two young children, has overcome more hardship than one person should ever have to face. When she was in the 10th grade, she lost her entire family in a horrific car accident. Raised by a grandmother in New York, Ebony eventually used some life-insurance money from her parents' death to buy the home in Aberdeen, near where she grew up.
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The kindness of strangers and power of the Internet saves one family's Christmas
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The Sampsons faced foreclosure until a friend blogged about their plight
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Within days, strangers from around the country donated more than $11,000
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And @placeholder' seriously pet-tastic rules (quote open to canine guests) is quite, um, 'que sera sera' too. | (LonelyPlanet.com) -- Now that you can fly to Iceland on the Iron Maiden plane (check out our recent Q&A with the plane's captain, Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson), we thought we'd acknowledge a few other ways you can travel 'with the stars' -- by going to their own shops, restaurants or private islands. Here's a sample: Hotels and villas Keith Richards: Rocky Point Villa (Parrot Cay, Turks & Caicos) For beach-time luxury, Keef really does home here -- it's just one of a series of celeb-studded three-bedroom villas with big sundecks, private pool and butler service in the Turks & Caicos that start at $10 million if you're looking to buy. To rent, it runs $8100 a week in peak season, but $4500 from June through October.
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"Travel with the stars" by visiting their hotels, restaurants and shops
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Clint Eastwood, Keith Richards and Doris Day all have luxurious accomodation spots
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Last month, @placeholder pledged to send 1,000 more troops to add to the 400 it already has there. | (CNN) -- Reports of rapes, killings and other horrors are growing in the Central African Republic. Rights groups accuse security forces and militia gangs of torturing civilians as world leaders warn that the nation is on the verge of a genocide. Here's a quick primer to get you up to speed on the escalating situation. 1. First things first. Tell me about the Central African Republic The tiny, landlocked nation in central Africa is home to about 5 million people. It declared independence from France in 1960, and has since been led by presidents or emperors. Some have been elected while others seized power by force. Despite vast resources, including gold, timber, diamonds and uranium, it's among the poorest nations in the world. The riches from the minerals don't trickle down to the population, fueling resentment.
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A coalition of rebels ousted President Francois Bozize in March
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But although @placeholder, Kensington and Islington are the most recent outings, they are by no means the only ones for the Duchess' Hobbs wardrobe. | Arriving at a reception for foster carers in Islington this morning, the Duchess of Cambridge was resplendent in a brown silk shirt-dress. But while the frock might have looked a million dollars, its real price tag was a snip: £169 in the run-up to Christmas but now selling for just £50. It came from what is fast becoming the Duchess' go-to label for everything from glamorous evening receptions to hot weather international tours - Hobbs. Scroll down for video Favourite label: The Duchess of Cambridge wore a discount £50 Hobbs shirt-dress for a visit to Islington Not the first time: The British label, which is entirely designed in London, is a favourite
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The Duchess of Cambridge regularly steps out wearing Hobbs
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This time though the pair arrived separately as @placeholder' side look to get their season into gear after a slow start. | It appears Raheem Sterling's bout of tiredness may be coming to an end after he was able to drive to Liverpool training on Wednesday. The winger has hit the headlines since telling England boss Roy Hodgson that he was 'too tired' to start Sunday's Euro 2016 qualifier against Estonia. On Tuesday midfielder Jordan Henderson drove the 19-year-old to Liverpool's Melwood training base ahead of their Premier League trip to QPR at the weekend. Raheem Sterling drove to Liverpool training on his own at their Melwood base on Wednesday Sterling has been heavily criticised after complaining of tiredness this week while on international duty
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Raheem Sterling took part in Liverpool training on Wednesday
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Sterling drove to the Melwood training base on his own after Jordan Henderson took him on Tuesday
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19-year-old started England's Euro 2016 qualifier on the bench after complaining of tiredness
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Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers and England manager Roy Hodgson will discuss Sterling's condition this week
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Nobody knows what caused @placeholder's unresponsiveness, Holland said, but police consider it a medical incident at this time. | (CNN)Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown was placed in a medically induced coma Saturday after being found facedown and unresponsive in a bathtub full of water, a source close to the family has told CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin. Brown, 21, "was not breathing" when a man identified as her husband and a friend found her at about 10:25 a.m. inside her townhouse in Roswell, Georgia, said police in the Atlanta suburb. They called 911 and performed CPR until public safety officers arrived and took over, said police spokeswoman Lisa Holland. Brown was taken to North Fulton Hospital, where "she is still alive and breathing. Other than that, I don't know her condition," Holland said Saturday afternoon at a press briefing.
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Bobbi Kristina Brown has been placed in a medically induced coma, a source says
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Daughter of singer Whitney Houston was found in a bathtub full of water, police say
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@placeholder is scheduled for an initial hearing on Thursday morning. | Former rap star Flavor Flav was arrested Wednesday in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and battery in a case involving his fiancee of eight years, police said. Police were called to their house on the city's south side at 3:30 a.m., according to a domestic battery report issued by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, which offers the following account of events: Flav, whose real name is William J. Drayton, 53, was arguing with the woman, Elizabeth Trujillo, 39. The two had gotten into a "verbal altercation due to Drayton cheating on Trujillo," it said. The argument continued in the downstairs bedroom, where "Drayton became physical."
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Police say he got into an altercation with his fiancee, then threatened her son
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And last year, @placeholder lifted visa restrictions on Syrian visitors and announced Syrians should treat Turkey as their "second home." | Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Turkish officials engaged in last-minute shuttle diplomacy with their restive neighbor Syria and repeated calls for restraint ahead of what is expected to be another violent day of protests across the Arab nation on Friday. Turkey's National Security Council met on Thursday in Ankara to specifically address the increasingly bloody crisis, which some analysts fear could spill over to the Turkish side of the border. The council issued a statement calling for Syrian security forces to act with restraint and for the government to implement swift reforms to satisfy demonstrators. "It is important that necessary steps are taken rapidly and in a determined way in order to establish social peace and stability in brotherly, friendly Syria, to put an end to the violence and to maintain security of life, basic rights and freedoms," the council announced.
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The Arab unrest surprised the Turkish government
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Erdogan, al-Assad and their wives have vacationed together
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said Talat Sadat, a former parliament member and critic of @placeholder. | Cairo (CNN) -- Throngs of people crowded into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday in an effort to inject new life into Egypt's revolution and push the country's ruling military council to prosecute the former president, Hosni Mubarak, who stepped down under immense popular pressure on February 11. Compared with previous weeks, the protesters' ranks swelled, in part due to the addition of Egypt's long-banned Muslim Brotherhood movement, which had chosen not to participate in recent Friday protests. There was another addition to the protest movement, one that marked a direct challenge to Egypt's military rulers. Fifteen Egyptian soldiers and mid-level army officers joined the demonstration, flouting a ban issued Thursday by a military spokesman.
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NEW: Two Egyptian officers are forced to leave the square, a witness says
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The school board posted a notice on its website: "@placeholder leadership has chosen to end the strike. | Chicago (CNN) -- Hundreds of thousands of Chicago schoolchildren will return to class Wednesday after the teachers union voted to suspend its strike. About 800 union officers and delegates met for just over two hours before there was an overwhelming voice vote to suspend the walkout, union leaders said Tuesday. The contract agreement with the school system still needs to be ratified by the more than 29,000 teachers and support staff who are members of the union. Karen Lewis, union president, said the rank and file will vote in "the next couple of weeks." Chicago Public Schools, the third-largest U.S. school system, and the union struck a tentative bargain Friday afternoon. But on Sunday, union members decided to continue the walkout while they reviewed the proposal.
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Union leader says mayor "had an education agenda he wanted to ram down our throats"
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"Reform and opening up are the fundamental causes of all the achievements and progress we have made," @placeholder said, according to state-run media. | BEIJING, China (CNN) -- China's president has vowed to continue the economic reforms that have transformed the once poverty-riddled nation into an industrial powerhouse. Deng Xiaoping envisioned a modern, prosperous China. Speaking on the 30th anniversary of China's decision to open itself up to the outside world, President Hu Jintao told a crowd of 6,000 at Beijing's Great Hall of the People: "Standing still and regressing will lead only to a dead end." Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping was the architect of the economic reform movement, which was to set the country on a radical new course when the first policies were approved on December 18, 1978.
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Deng Xiaoping was the architect of the economic reform movement in 1978
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Reforms opened country up economically to the outside world
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In 30 years China has maintained an average annual growth rate of 9.8 percent
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objectives and to sustain senior-level @placeholder commitment to the program.’ | By Sarah Johnson PUBLISHED: 03:52 EST, 30 July 2012 | UPDATED: 04:04 EST, 30 July 2012 More than $200million has been squandered on a scheme to train Iraqi police that Baghdad says is neither needed nor wanted. The Police Development Programme – proposed as the largest State Department programme in the world – was planned as a five-year, multibillion-dollar effort to train security forces after the U.S. army left Iraq last December. A report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction found that Iraq did not confirm in writing that they wanted to go ahead with the programme to the American Embassy in Baghdad.
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Baghdad has rejected the The Police Development Programme in an effort to distance themselves from the U.S
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It has been ‘difficult’ for American diplomats to secure a solid commitment from Iraq’s government
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Report says that the embassy will hand over various assets to the Iraqis and has cut the number of advisers by 90 per cent
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Despite years of training, Iraq’s police force remains a vulnerable target for militants
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U.S. spokesman denies money has been wasted and that Iraq is not interested in the police training programme
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Shiite lawmaker says Iraq doesn't need American expertise
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The public uproar held up the trade agreement, and soured relations between China and Taiwan -- officially the People's Republic of China and the @placeholder. | The premier of Taiwan announced his resignation on Saturday after losing the first election since protests erupted over a controversial trade deal with mainland China. The move by Jiang Yi-huah sets the stage for significant turnover, and possibly reforms, in the East Asian island. Jiang said he'd step down after his ruling Kuomintang placed second in Saturday's election, with just over 40% support. The day's top vote-getter was the Democratic Progressive Party, with more than 47% of the vote. The election came months after protesters from what Taiwanese media dubbed the "Sunflower Movement" occupied Taiwan's parliament and hit the streets to rail against the trade agreement between Taiwan and mainland China, its longtime adversary, which was signed in Shanghai last year.
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Taiwan's Premier Jiang Yi-huah says he will step down
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Flare-up: Protesters throw petrol bombs against riot police in @placeholder today during a 24-hour general strike | By Graham Smith Labour unions in recession-hit Greece are holding another general strike against the country's harsh austerity program, as European leaders beset by the debt crisis gather for a summit meeting in Brussels. Today's strike - the 20th national stoppage since the debt crisis erupted two years ago - comes as EU leaders meet in Brussels. It has closed down public services and severely hampered most forms of transport with even taxi drivers joining in for nine hours. Shopkeepers in Athens and other cities are also closing for the day. It is the second general strike in less than a month.
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Anti-austerity protests turn violent again as masked anarchists fight police
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel calls for stronger central powers to intervene when EU member states break budget rules
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European leaders to gather for summit meeting in Brussels later | 19,241 | record_train |
Clinton carried on a sexual relationship with @placeholder, then a 23-year-old White House intern, and later lied about it under oath | Longtime MSNBC news commentator Keith Olbermann once apologized to President Bill Clinton – in writing – for aggressively driving the network's coverage of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal during 1996 and 1997. An internal White House email about his Damascene confession was included in a trove of nearly 10,000 documents released Friday by the Clinton Presidential Library. It was the seventh such Friday afternoon document dump of previously secret papers from Clinton's eight White House years. 'Keith Olbermann has written to POTUS,' wrote West Wing senior editor Scott Michaud to press aide Lori Anderson, 'apologizing for "whatever part I may have played in perpetuating this ceaseless coverage (of the Lewinsky story) .... I'll be heading back to my previous career in sports as quickly as possible ...".'
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Left-wing host anchored a news show in between career stints as a sportscaster, and drove much of MSNBC's Lewinsky coverage
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Apologized for 'whatever part I may have played in perpetuating this ceaseless coverage' of the Lewinsky scandal
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White House debated sending him a form letter in reply to his Damascene confession
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Olbermann returned to MSNBC to host 'Countdown' show for eight years as a reliably liberal political voice
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Internal White House email about his letter to Clinton was included in trove of documents released Friday by the Clinton Presidential Library | 19,242 | record_train |
The protests led to open street battles after @placeholder balked at a deal with the opposition that would have eased him out of office within a month. | Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Yemen's top opposition movement welcomed the U.N. Security Council's call for a transfer of power, an initiative that could end the political instability in the poverty-ridden Arab nation. Mohammed Qahtan, the spokesman for the Joint Meeting Parties, said on Wednesday that the international stance must not be different from the will of the people who are seeking democracy and reforms. "The U.N. and our international friends must make positive and quick steps towards the Yemeni revolution and ensure change in the manner Yemenis see necessary," said Qahtan. The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday urged Yemeni parties "to move forward urgently (in) an inclusive, orderly and Yemeni-led process of political transition that meets the needs and aspirations of the Yemeni people for change."
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The Security Council calls for an "orderly" transition
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The president was badly hurt in a June assassination attempt
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Marbaugh might have never gotten a chance to recount his stories had it not been for Atlanta entrepreneur Tom Beaty, the founder of @placeholder. | Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Roland Marbaugh wrote 509 pages of his tales of war -- from the swampy Solomon Islands in World War II to the frozen Chosin Reservoir in Korea. His son typed them all up on an electric typewriter in the 1980s but unpublished, Marbaugh's stories remained largely in his mind. Until now. Marbaugh's story will soon be among 600 others on Witness to War, a virtual library of Americans in combat. When his testimony is posted in a few days, viewers will be able to hear the former Marine captain, now a spry 91, recount harrowing tales with photographic precision.
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Tom Beaty founded Witness to War in 2002
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Former Marine Roland Marbaugh recorded his memories of the Pacific and Korea | 19,244 | record_train |
Friends and neighbours at home in @placeholder paid tribute to the dead woman and expressed their shock. | By Chris Brooke and Vanessa Allen PUBLISHED: 04:51 EST, 10 September 2013 | UPDATED: 05:06 EST, 11 September 2013 Hit four times: Catherine Bury, 56, had locked herself in the bathroom but her attacker burst through and shot her Three generations of a British family were shot by their gardener after a pool party at their Turkish holiday home. Anne Bury, who was celebrating her 56th birthday, was killed. Her son Alex, 23, and mother Cecilia, 87, were taken to hospital with serious injuries. Their attacker had been arrested less than 48 hours before for apparently making death threats against the family.
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Catherine Bury, 56, was killed when the man stormed the luxury home
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Her mother Cecille, 87, and son Alex, 24, were injured in attack
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Valli Acar later handed himself in to authorities
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@placeholder, who pleaded not guilty to 16 criminal counts of racketeering, bribery, money laundering and obstruction of justice, denies any wrongdoing. | (CNN) -- The Louisiana man who Saturday became the first Vietnamese-American elected to the House says he hopes his win will push more young people to become politically active. Anh "Joseph" Cao says his win shows that "really anything can happen." "I am very honored and at this point, somewhat speechless to be the first Vietnamese-American congressman," Anh "Joseph" Cao told CNN on Sunday. "But I also hope that many of our young people will consider being more politically active and being move involved in the community. Because as you can see, really anything can happen." The Republican defeated nine-term Democratic Rep. William Jefferson in the mostly African-American and heavily Democratic New Orleans-area district. Jefferson had been expected to win a 10th term despite battling scandals and a federal indictment for the past three years.
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Anh "Joseph" Cao is first Vietnamese-American elected to the U.S. House
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Cao, of Louisiana, defeated Rep. William Jefferson, who was battling scandal
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pleased to learn that our County of @placeholder ballot measure to | By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 04:45 EST, 6 July 2012 Los Angeles County is set to vote on whether to follow the city in making condom use obligatory for pornographic actors. The move comes after AIDS campaigners said they had collected 360,000 signatures backing a new law, enough for a November ballot. Michael Weinstein, president of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, one of five groups which spearheaded the poll, said turnout was likely to be high as it would coincide with the White House elections. Safety first: A law making condoms compulsory for porn actors in Los Angeles could be rolled out across LA County if voters choose to do so in November
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'At the end of the demonstration [he] gave my son a brand new Kirby vacuum,' Ms Greene, who also made a vacuum birthday cake for @placeholder, said. | For most people, Kirby vacuum cleaners are nothing more than a household necessity. But for Dylan Greene, who has autism, they are his greatest passion - and have been for 12 years. So, for his 14th birthday, the teenager's mother decided to do something extra special to celebrate. Jodie Greene, from Chesterfield County, Virginia, sent an email to the Kirby Company - the Cleveland-based makers of the Kirby vacuum - explaining how her son had never been into 'normal' toys. Heartwarming: On his 14th birthday, Dylan Greene (right), who has autism, was treated to a Kirby vacuum cleaner demonstration by the firm's salesman Al Archie (left) at his home in Chesterfield County, Virginia
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Dylan Greene, 14, has been obsessed with Kirby vacuums since aged 2
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His mother sent an email to firm explaining about autistic son's passion
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Issuing a direct appeal for other @placeholder countries who have seen thousands of their citizens move to the UK to support limiting movement across the continent, he insisted his demands were not 'outlandish' and Britain deserves 'to be heard'. | Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said business leaders have a 'patriotic duty' make the case for Brussels Labour today urged supporters of the European Union to speak out before it is 'too late'. Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said business leaders have a 'patriotic duty' make the case for Brussels. And he warned that the Conservative Party's approach to Europe poses 'the biggest risk to British national prosperity in a generation'. David Cameron has promised that if he remains prime minister after the election he will renegotiate Britain's EU membership before holding an in-out referendum by 2017. He has made clear that without agreement on curbing benefits, he will 'rule nothing out' – raising the prospect of backing Britain's exit from the EU if he does not get his way.
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Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander urges business to speak out
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Mr Miliband challenged Mr Cameron's 'failure' to protect British jobs and urged him to block it if it was not good for @placeholder. | By Tom Mctague and Jason Groves A Labour MP today likened the American drug giant Pfizer to a 'rapist' for trying to buy its British rival AstraZeneca. Austin Mitchell said David Cameron was refusing to block Pfizer's £63billion bid because he was scared of offending the US. Writing on Twitter, he said: 'Cameron dare not stop Pfizer because he dare not offend the US in any way. Roll up rapists.' Labour MP Austin Mitchell sparked fury after likening US drug giant Pfizer to a 'rapist'. It is not the first time he has caused controversy on Twitter - he previously joked that a female Tory MP should obey her husband
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Austin Mitchell accuses Prime Minister of bowing to American interests
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'Nothing left': @placeholder was one of a number of homeless people who 'generous' Mrs Youson would invite into her home and cook for | By Kerry Mcdermott PUBLISHED: 03:35 EST, 20 July 2013 | UPDATED: 03:42 EST, 20 July 2013 Horror: Rhoda Youson was left unrecognisable after being attacked with a garden fork and a bat at her home in Nuneaton A grandmother murdered in her own bed with a pitchfork and a wooden bat was beaten so savagely that her face 'caved in', a court heard. Rhoda Youson, 57, was found dead by police who forced their way into her blood-spattered flat in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. A trial at Birmingham Crown Court heard there was 'nothing left' of her face after the sickening attack, in which she suffered multiple fractures to her skull, jaw and cheekbones and damage to her hands, shoulder and neck.
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'Nothing left' of Rhoda Youson's face after horror attack, trial hears
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Homeless Anthony Hall, 47, denies murdering the 57-year-old
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The episode sank any hopes Sanford had of making a bid for the 2012 @placeholder presidential nomination. | (CNN) -- Mark Sanford is another step closer to political redemption, but the real headline out of his Tuesday victory in a Republican primary runoff for his old congressional seat was a rare public appearance by his former mistress -- who's now his fiancée. And while the former South Carolina governor is considered the favorite in next month's general election showdown with Democratic nominee Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of satirist and Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert, his past infidelity remains front and center in the race and could continue to hurt him with crucial female voters. Democrats wasted no time in attacking Sanford over the affair.
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Disgraced former Gov. Mark Sanford won a runoff for U.S. House seat in South Carolina
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The 2009 hearing heard that one of the women had been referred to the @placeholder in September 2007 for recurring back problems, and because she had taken an excessive amount of time off work for high blood pressure. | By Larisa Brown PUBLISHED: 13:07 EST, 19 December 2012 | UPDATED: 13:28 EST, 19 December 2012 Former nurse Iain Balsillie, pictured, who placed women in a trance so he could grope them, has been caught illegally accessing a hypnotic website A former nurse who placed women in a trance so he could grope them has been caught illegally accessing a hypnotic website. Iain Balsillie used the trigger words 'drop for me' in an attempt to make women fall into his arms, before sexually assaulting them. Balsillie, 44, had breached a Sexual Offences Prevention Order by browsing an online site that carried information on hypnosis, Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard
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Reports said the embattled @placeholder was in a different palace at the time. | (CNN) -- Members of Madagascar's military battled supporters of President Marc Ravalomanana outside the presidential palace Monday as the turmoil over whether he stays in office intensified. Madagascan soldiers loyal to opposition leader Andry Rajoelina outside the presidential palace Monday. An eyewitness who blogs from Madagascar, Stefan Armananarivo, told CNN he saw two tanks outside the presidential palace in Antananarivo, the country's capital, and saw the military shoot at people in the crowd protecting the building. News reports from the scene gave similar descriptions and said the self-declared leader of the armed forces had announced his support for the opposition.
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@placeholder tests often do not detect the virus within the first few weeks of infection, sometimes months. | An aggressive new strain of HIV has been identified, scientists have warned. A new study found the strain, called CRF19, is capable of transforming from an infection to full-blown aids within just three years. That is considerably faster than the average conversion time of around 10 years - and can be so quick that a person may not even realise they are infected. Scientists were prompted to investigate after noting a growing number of reports of people in Cuba suffering a rapid progression to AIDS, within three years of infection. Experts say the new strain, identified in Cuba, causes patients to progress to AIDS within three years - so rapidly they may not even realise they have been infected. (Image shows a mature HIV virus infection spreading inside the body)
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New strain of HIV found spreading in Cuba is known as CRF19
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The fact is that Obamacare transforms American health care toward an antiquated, generalist system and significantly reduces health care choices that @placeholder hold dear. | (CNN) -- America is facing the greatest health care challenges in its history. Unprecedented demand is a certainty. According to the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration on Aging and U.S. Census Bureau statistics, the number of Americans 65 and older has exploded by a full 6 million in the past decade to over 13% of the overall population, while the population of "oldest old" -- those 85 and older -- has increased by a factor of 10 from the 1950s to today's 6 million. Older people harbor the most disabling diseases, including heart disease, cancer, stroke and dementia: the diseases that depend most on specialist care and complex technology for diagnosis, management and treatment.
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Scott Atlas: As America's population ages, millions more qualify for Medicare
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Atlas: Well over 100 million will be covered by government programs that offer less choice
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"We have not been informed officially of the incident by the @placeholder authorities." | (CNN) -- Israeli soldiers apprehended three suspects who tried to cross into Israel while patrolling their country's border with Egypt, authorities said Thursday. A firefight between the soldiers and gunmen on the Egyptian side of the border ensued during the incident, injuring the suspects, according to a statement from the Israeli Defense Forces. A fourth suspect was found dead at the infiltration point, the IDF reported. Israel says the incident occurred after the suspects refused to comply with Israeli orders to stop. Egypt's head of security in northern Sinai said the men were Bedouin tobacco smugglers "who intended to deliver cigarettes to accomplices on the other side," selling the stolen items for twice the normal price.
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Three suspects were apprehended; one person was found dead
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headline '@placeholder team reaching out to Iowa activists for meetings' | By Rachel Quigley UPDATED: 05:02 EST, 29 June 2011 Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has said that she still has not made up her mind whether or not to run for President ahead of next year's elections. The 47-year-old spoke with reporters last night in the small Iowa town of Pella, where she and her husband attended the first public screening of a film about her rise in politics, called The Undefeated, and she dismissed comments from her daughter that she's made up her mind about running. Her daughter, Bristol, had said in an earlier television interview that her mother had made up her mind - but Mrs Palin, who lost to Barack Obama three years ago, says that's inaccurate.
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Bannon documentary paints Palin as Joan of Arc-like figure
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We cover about 50 miles a day travelling around @placeholder and use about 2,300 litres a year. | By Kerry Mcqueeney UPDATED: 02:37 EST, 16 February 2012 A grocer claims supermarket staff banned him from his local store after he bought vegetable oil to use as fuel in his vehicle. Chris Waites says managers at his local Tesco in Didcot, Oxfordshire, told him it was illegal for him to buy vegetable oil and use it as fuel in his delivery van. He claims the ban came after he purchased six five-litre bottles of vegetable oil to fill up the van he uses for his grocery business. Dispute: Supermarket bosses at the Didcot branch (pictured) said they were 'investigating' the matter
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The OSCE delegates we were travelling with were not carrying weapons and the @placeholder authorities had made it clear they regarded any attempts by the OSCE to enter the peninsula as a provocation. | Donetsk, Ukraine (CNN) -- It was 4am when, still half asleep, we bundled ourselves into a van and headed to the southern Ukraine city of Kherson. We had spent the night in Odessa, famous for its giant stairway featured in Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent film, "Battleship Potemkin." And while we hadn't awoken before the sparrows just to go sightseeing, our diligent fixers unexpectedly took us on a tour of the apparent back streets of Odessa. They assured us it was the quickest way out of town, but I was anxious because we had just three and a half hours to reach Kherson where we'd be joining the 43 observers from the Organization For Security and Cooperation (OSCE) international observer team as they attempted to cross into Crimea.
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CNN team joins international observers trying to get into Crimea from Ukraine
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They are turned away at a checkpoint but the CNN team later makes it over the border
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After five days, they have to decide the safest way to get back again -- and decide on the train | 19,260 | record_train |
"@placeholder is a dangerous place, and we don't want you to go there. | (CNN)In airport surveillance pictures, the three young women look like typical travelers. But their destination was anything but ordinary. British police announced last week that three east London classmates -- Shamima Begum, 15; Kadiza Sultana, 16; and Amira Abase, 15 -- had flown aboard a Turkish Airlines plane from London's Gatwick Airport to Istanbul on February 17. From there, they wanted to go to Syria with the apparent goal of joining ISIS. On Tuesday, authorities said they believe the three girls have made it to their target country. British Prime Minister David Cameron has said the case highlights the need to fight ISIS on multiple fronts.
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Three east London classmates are suspected of traveling to Syria to join ISIS
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"We are not mad at you, we love you," says the family of one girl
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@placeholder runs away in celebration after giving Fulham a 1-0 lead on a successful night at the Craven Cottage | Kit Symons believes he has done enough to land the manager’s job at Craven Cottage after he guided Fulham out of the bottom three. Under Symons Fulham have won 13 of their 14 points this season since he replaced Felix Magath in September. And Fulham wrapped up their third home win in a row against London rivals Charlton thanks to a goal from Scott Parker and two from Hugo Rodallega. Scott Parker scores Fulham's first goal after just six minutes en route to three important points on Friday Parker slots home for Fulham's first of the night as they went on to claim the win over visitors Charlton
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Scott Parker scored opener in Championship match after just six minutes
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Hugo Rodallega doubled Fulham's lead in the 12th minute against Charlton
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Rodallega sealed win in 89th minute to give Fulham third home win in a row
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The president played one last round of golf at @placeholder - one of several rounds he got in over his vacation. | Michelle Obama doesn't want jewelry or chocolates for her 50th birthday later this month. She wants to be alone. President Barack Obama returned to Washington Saturday after two weeks of vacationing with his family in Hawaii. He left with daughters Sasha and Malia. Michelle stayed behind. 'As part of her birthday gift from the president, the first lady will remain in Hawaii to spend time with friends ahead of her upcoming 50th birthday,' the White House explained in a statement. The First Lady turns the big 5 - 0 on January 17. Birthday girl: The White House has confirmed first lady Michelle Obama has remained in Hawaii to 'spend time friends' ahead of her 50th birthday later this month while her husband and daughters returned home to Washington on Sunday
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First lady remains in Hawaii ahead of her birthday on January 17
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Her husband, President Barack Obama, and daughters Sasha and Malia, arrived home in Washington on Sunday following a two-week vacation
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The White House says Michelle plans to 'spend time with friends' | 19,263 | record_train |
In two previous telephone interviews with @placeholder, al-Obeidy spoke about her alleged abuse. | (CNN) -- Eman al-Obeidy, the woman who claims forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi raped her, spoke Tuesday with her mother, who has come to her defense, for the first time since her ordeal began. Al-Obeidy told Aisha Ahmad that a court employee pulled a weapon on her when she went to a courthouse. Al-Obeidy, who burst into a Tripoli hotel last month to tell her harrowing story to journalists, told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an emotional phone interview that the administrative court employee threatened her life. "The people came and started pulling him," said al-Obeidy, who related the incident to her mother, also on the phone. "The whole day in the court they were saying we are going to kill this failure who reports on our brigades."
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"AC360" reunites Eman al-Obeidy with her mother
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Young woman says court employee threatened her
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Her mother tells her to keep her faith
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Al-Obeidy says she has tried to leave Libya, but authorities have thwarted her attempts | 19,264 | record_train |
The @placeholder budget office noted in September that sequestration was designed during the 2011 standoff over raising the federal debt ceiling as "a mechanism to force Congress to act on further deficit reduction" -- a kind of doomsday device that was never meant to be triggered. | (CNN) -- Senate leaders and the White House struck a last-minute deal to avert the feared fiscal cliff Monday night, with Vice President Joe Biden headed to the Capitol Hill to pitch the plan to fellow Democrats. "Happy New Year," Biden, who became the Democratic point man in the talks, told reporters. "Did you think we would be here New Year's Eve?" A senior Democratic aide told CNN that if caucus meetings went well, a Senate vote could come "within the hour." But the House of Representatives went home long before midnight, meaning nothing will get through Congress before the combination of tax increases and spending cuts lawmakers have been scrambling to head off starts to kick in, at least on paper.
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Senate leaders cut a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff
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Biden pitches the plan to Democrats late Monday
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Obama says more work will be needed and chides Congress for dragging its feet
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"Take the 84% of your winnings off the table," anti-tax crusader advises GOP | 19,265 | record_train |
Satter said the language used to reject his visa hearkened back to the @placeholder era and its application to a journalist was "unprecedented." | Russia has expelled an American journalist and author critical of President Vladimir Putin in one of the first such cases since the Cold War. David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times and author of three books on Russia and the former Soviet Union, had been working as an adviser to the U.S. broadcasters Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty since September. "As some of you may know, I've been expelled from Russia," he wrote on his Twitter page Monday. Satter told CNN he had gone to the Ukrainian capital Kiev to exchange his existing visa for a correspondent's visa when he was told his application had been rejected, on the grounds that his presence in Russia was "undesirable." He is now in London "until we figure out what to do next."
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Satter tells CNN that he "followed all bureaucratic procedures" in Russia
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The Russian Foreign Ministry says he violated visa entry rules
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Satter says he tried to get a correspondent's visa and was rejected as "undesirable"
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Draper, @placeholder, and the 17-year-old allegedly penetrated the girl as Wilson filmed it on an iPhone, prosecutors said. | By Peter Rugg Four New Jersey teens face sexual assault charges as prosecutors say they not only attacked a severely intoxicated girl but showed video of the assault to their friends. Craig Howe, 18, Justin Draper, 18, and Ashari Wilson, 18, of Elmwood Park, have each been charged in the case along with one as-yet-unidentified 17-year-old male suspect. Prosecutors charged the boys after an unnamed girl, 15, claimed that at least three of them had sexually assaulting her at a June 21 backyard gathering. Ashari Wilson, 18, is accused of filming a sexual assault and faces charges of manufacturing child pornography, endangering the welfare of a minor, hindering apprehension, invasion of privacy, and possession of child pornography
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Craig Howe, 18, Justin Draper, 18, and Ashari Wilson, 18, of Elmwood Park, have each been charged in the case along with one as-yet-unidentified 17-year-old male suspect
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Unidentified girl was left on her parents lawn with no memory of the assault
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Discovered iPhone video her her being attacked while heavily intoxicated days later | 19,267 | record_train |
And yesterday, @placeholder was named pet slimming champion in a competition organised by veterinary charity PDSA. | While other dogs might come running at the sound of the tin opener, Jack the Cavalier King Charles spaniel was so overweight he could barely walk to the kitchen – and even went deaf. But that didn’t stop him from getting through three tins of dog food a day, as well as plenty of treats and leftovers. His unhealthy diet meant he tipped the scales in excess of three stone – more than double the ideal weight for his breed. Scroll down for video What a lump! Vet nurse Amy Henson struggles to carry Jack the Cavalier King Charles spaniel, who tipped the scales at a morbidly obese 3st before entering a pet version of The Biggest Loser
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Cavalier King Charles could barely walk and even went deaf after tipping scales at 3st
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But eight-year-old trimmed 8ins off his waist after entering charity contest
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Competition saw 17 obese pets lose 13.5st between them – the equivalent of around 28 healthy Yorkshire terriers | 19,268 | record_train |
Hobble: Ramsey is helped to his feet by a physio but he was unable to continue in @placeholder | Aaron Ramsey will undergo medical tests at Arsenal on Wednesday afternoon after sustaining an ankle injury playing for Wales against Andorra on Tuesday. The Gunners midfielder will return to the club's London Colney HQ following the international break and will immediately undergo a scan to determine the extent of the injury. Ramsey is touch and go to make a return for Arsenal's showdown with Manchester City on Saturday, but the club do not fear it is a serious injury. The midfielder was the victim of some roughhouse treatment and rolled his ankle after receiving a kick. You can like our Arsenal Facebook page here
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Aaron Ramsey limped off injured in Wales' 2-1 win in Andorra
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Arsenal star was substituted with suspected ankle injury in added time
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Welsh midfielder will have scans at Arsenal's Colney base on Wednesday
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'We've always said the bus station is too big, provides relatively poor facilities for bus passengers and costs @placeholder taxpayers over £300,000 a year to maintain. | By Mia De Graaf PUBLISHED: 13:56 EST, 23 September 2013 | UPDATED: 13:57 EST, 23 September 2013 It is known as the 'concrete monstrosity'. Locals branded it an eyesore. The council has struggled to pay for its maintenance for decades - and was planning to knock it down. But according to the government, this 1960s bus garage is a national treasure. In a move that has shocked most of Preston, the building, built in 1969, was today given listed status. Saved: Preston Bus Station has today been made a Grade II listed building by Culture Minister Ed Vaizey
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Council threatened to demolish the building because it is an 'eyesore' that is 'too expensive to maintain'
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The 1969 station is said to be the second biggest in Europe
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It is now a Grade II listed building
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My dad, when he's packing, he just takes all the clothes and goes like this [imitating his dad's voice], "@placeholder, help me throw in the clothes." | ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Caring for a car has you a befuddled. The honeymoon's over, and bureaucratic tasks are beating out bliss. You're meeting with a prospective babysitter or housekeeper, a stranger you'll entrust with much of your life. Rory Tahari, with son Jeremey, hopes to make life's to-do's more manageable with a new book and iPhone app. How do you know what to do? Where should you go and when? What should you ask these people? You need a list! If figuring out the answers to these kinds of questions leaves you loopy, Rory Tahari has a new book that may have your name on it.
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Figuring out to-do lists of life made easier with new book and iPhone app
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Rory Tahari, wife of fashion designer Elie Tahari, has kept lists since childhood
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But Amazon said it might go to court to fight the @placeholder tax claim, which relates to four years from 2006. | Tax row: The French government is demanding £160million from internet retailer Amazon in unpaid tax The internet giant Amazon has received a £159million demand from France for unpaid taxes. The figure includes fines and interest in relation to 'the allocation of income between foreign jurisdictions'. European nations including Britain are clamping down on US firms that channel their vast profits through low-tax countries. Labour MP Margaret Hodge, chairman of the Commons public accounts committee, said Amazon, Starbucks and Google should all be punished for not paying their 'fair share' of tax. She has called for consumers to boycott the firms in protest against what she describes as 'immoral' tax avoidance here.
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Figure includes fines and interest in relation to 'the allocation of income between foreign jurisdictions'
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Retailer bases operations in Luxembourg which offers them tax breaks
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The company paid no UK tax in 2010 despite revenues of £3.3billion
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She, too, sustained minor injuries and was not knocked out, according to @placeholder police. | Phoebe Connolly, a possible victim of game where teenagers appear to sucker-punch strangers, is encouraging people to think critically about how such attacks can be stopped. Connolly was biking in the Columbia Heights area of Washington this month when she was struck. She had passed through a group of teenagers, she said, when one of them "reached out and punched me in the face." "The whole group of kids laughed," Connolly told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" on Tuesday night. She was not seriously injured. Though Connolly had never heard of the "knockout game" before the November 15 attack, she may be a victim of it.
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Phoebe Connolly was biking in Washington when she was punched in the face
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Family: @placeholder with his father, also called Ignacio, and Nova the pony. | By Sam Webb PUBLISHED: 11:03 EST, 27 January 2013 | UPDATED: 19:12 EST, 27 January 2013 More than 30 firefighters were called to a property over the weekend to rescue a pony after it fell down a well. Grace Hilliar de Alvaro became concerned about family pet Nova when she couldn't find the animal after a search with son Ignacio, six. After looking through a number of fields they found the five-year-old pony stuck eight foot down a well and chest deep in water. Well of loneliness: Firefighters help rescue Nova the pony in Cary Fitzpaine, Somerset In happier times: Ignacio de Alvaro, 6, with Nova. His mother Grace is the pony's owner
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Owner Grace Hilliar de Alvero found her pony stuck in a remote field
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More than 30 firefighters took six hours to free unlucky Nova the pony
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However, @placeholder has seen him just once since their final day in action together, but there remains an indelible bond between jockey and horse. | (CNN) -- How do you follow a phenomenon like Frankel? It is 18 months in April since one of the greatest horses ever to grace the planet retired in a blaze of glory, with his 14th race win from 14 starts to take his career earnings just shy of £3 million ($5 million). It led to a rating of 147 from Timeform, making him the highest-rated horse since the records began. His trainer Henry Cecil, who passed away last year following a battle with cancer, said of the horse with a top speed of 42 mph: "He's the best I've ever seen. I'd be very surprised if there's ever been a better horse."
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It is 18 months since wonder horse Frankel retired from racing
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Jockey Tom Queally admits he will never ride another like the "Usain Bolt of racing"
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He said Mr Henning's brutal killing shocked @placeholder around the world and will deter many from going to the region to fight alongside the group. | The murder of aid worker Alan Henning backfired for ISIS as it 'shifted Muslim opinion' against the militant group, according to an anti-radicalisation expert. Home Office specialist Sulaimaan Samuel says the orchestrated killing of the Salford taxi driver led the vast majority of Muslims to realise the group were beyond the pale. The 47-year-old was beheaded by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in a video released on social media after he was captured in December while delivering food and supplies to Syrian refugees. Salford taxi driver Alan Henning went to Syria to help refugees forced to leave their homes by civil war, but he was captured by ISIS extremists and beheaded in a video broadcast by the group
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Alan Henning killed after travelling to Syria to give aid to refugees
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He was beheaded in one of a series of videos posted online by ISIS
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Second, with the FSA serving and protecting @placeholder, "any movement to carry out a military operation or do anything outside the framework of the FSA "will be held responsible for any act they carry out," Sheikh warned. | (CNN) -- A top defector from the Syrian military said Saturday that armed rebel groups have aligned under the leadership of the Free Syrian Army. Uniting all efforts will bolster the anti-regime movement and safeguard the nation, Brig. Gen. Mustafa Sheikh said in a video posted on YouTube. The move addressed a key concern for observers of the Syrian crisis both inside and outside the country -- that armed rebel groups were disjointed and divided. Sheikh was one of the first high-ranking officers to announce his defection from President Bashar al-Assad's forces. He was accompanied in the video by Free Syrian Army commander Col. Riad al-Asaad.
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At least 54 people are killed Saturday, activists say
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"The division is over," a rebel leader says as rival army defectors unite
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@placeholder will discover that most of them will now be supporting Italy | By Neil Ashton PUBLISHED: 12:18 EST, 6 December 2013 | UPDATED: 12:51 EST, 8 December 2013 Will England qualify from tough Group D in Brazil? After upsetting the Mayor of Manaus earlier in the week, Roy Hodgson’s World Cup fears have been realised. England have had a mare. Jungle fever has already set in as Hodgson prepares to head up to this tropical city buried deep in northern Brazil’s rainforests for their opening group game. Hodgson as good as caused a diplomatic incident earlier in the week when he called Manaus ‘the place ideally to avoid’. The city’s Mayor Arthur Virgilio Neto subsequently released a statement accusing Hodgson of lacking ‘education and culture’.
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England will face Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica after being drawn in Group D
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Roy Hodgson's side will open their campaign in Manaus, where temperatures can reach over 30 degrees, on June 15 (that's 2am for the fans back home)
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Manaus is a five-and-a-half hour flight from England's base in Rio and is located in the Amazonian rain forest, with 99 per cent humidity
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The Three Lions will then travel to Sao Paulo to face Luis Suarez's Uruguay on June 19 before facing Costa Rica in their final group clash five days later
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Manager Hodgson admits England have been dealt a 'tough group'
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FA chairman Greg Dyke makes throat-slitting gesture after draw is made
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Hosts Brazil will face Croatia in the opening game of the World Cup
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"We are aware that @placeholder's have sold this work as by Constable," the auction house said in a statement. | New York (CNN)An art enthusiast paid $5,212 in 2013 at a London auction for a painting of an 19th-century English landscape. That price was well above Christie's auction house estimated value of $760 to $1,200. This week, however, the painting's price jumped dramatically -- 1,000 times its previous value -- at a Sotheby's auction in New York. It sold Wednesday for $5.2 million. The discrepancy in the value of "Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows" is due to a difference of opinion by art experts at the rival auction houses. Christie's analyzed the painting in 2013 and declared that it was the work of a follower of John Constable -- not a creation of the famed English Romantic landscape artist himself.
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John Constable painting was sold in 2013 for $5,212
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"Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows" fetched $5.2 million this week
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That created a connection between the @placeholder and the Mississippi, helping fuel an economic boom in the nation's third-largest metropolitan area. | Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court for a third time has turned aside an urgent appeal from Great Lakes states to close Chicago-area shipping channels so invasive Asian carp won't have a doorway into the world's largest freshwater ecosystem. The justices Monday turned aside without comment another request for intervention, the latest chapter in a nearly century-old dispute involving six Midwest states and the Canadian province of Ontario. At issue is a direct challenge to Illinois' complex water diversion and sewage disposal network, which some predict will inadvertently allow the non-native fish to enter Lake Michigan. Some environmentalists and lawmakers fear an economic and ecological disaster if the creatures breach man-made barriers. And there are concerns the fish may have already slipped past locks and entered the massive bodies of fresh water.
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Six Midwest states, Canadian province of Ontario want action on Asian carp
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They want the court to order Illinois to shut down locks and dams and build a fish barrier
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The Japanese agency would not have committed to such a long contract if they did not fully expect @placeholder to take the helm. | Athletics, a sport tainted by regular drugs scandals, has nevertheless received the huge £200million-plus backing of Japanese marketing giants Dentsu for the next 15 years. Dentsu will announce that they are renewing their agency partnership with the IAAF — track and field’s ruling body — until 2029. Backing: Lord Coe is favourite to succeed IAAF president Lamine Diack IAAF sources say the massive marketing and rights deal for a sport that has had more than its fair share of negative publicity will guarantee them a minimum £11m a year — with extra on a profit share — until 2019 and then £14m a year as a minimum for the next decade. The agreement will ensure IAAF president Lamine Diack leaves the organisation in a healthy financial state when he steps down next year.
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Japanese marketing giants Dentsu to renew partnership with atheltics
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The yellow and blue @placeholder flag, which had been flying until a short time before, was thrown off the side of the building, a symbol of the spreading unrest. | Donetsk, Ukraine (CNN) -- Pro-Russian activists and Ukrainian riot police clashed Thursday inside the compound of the prosecutor's office in the eastern city of Donetsk, as simmering tensions escalated into violence. As a result of the clashes, 26 people sought medical help, four of them for gunshot wounds, the Donetsk regional administration's health department said. Two remain hospitalized. At least one police officer was injured in the clashes, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said, adding that shots were fired and small grenades and stones were used in the attack. Police fired tear gas and stun grenades in an effort to disperse the activists, who were armed with clubs, batons and shields but did not appear to be carrying firearms.
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IMF chief says $17.1 billion bailout for Ukraine is not without risk but is necessary
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Christine Lagarde: Russia has seen "consequences" for its actions in Ukraine
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@placeholder authorities have charged him with espionage and theft of government property. | The father of NSA leaker Edward Snowden told reporters in Moscow that he thinks his son deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. He arrived there Thursday for his first visit with his son since the former government IT contractor fled the United States after leaking National Security Agency spy program details to the media. Members of the European Parliament nominated Snowden in September for the Andrei Sakharov Prize, which honors figures who stand up to oppressive powers. The prize was awarded to Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai on Thursday. "Edward took the Sakharov prize nomination very calmly," Lon Snowden told reporters at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport. "He wanted to expose the injustices in the American system, and wasn't doing it with any awards in mind."
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Edward Snowden has job offers in Russia and has a girlfriend there, lawyer says
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Snowden's father says he wants to get on with his life but stresses that he loves his son
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Snowden fled the U.S. after leaking information about NSA spy programs
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Toure and @placeholder's relationship is a strong one; the player has been under him for the majority of his career, calls him 'dad' and named his second child after him. | Is Yaya right to be angry over birthday snub? Is Yaya right to be angry over birthday snub? Now share your opinion Yaya Toure risks further enraging Manchester City after admitting he wants to end his career at Barcelona and could leave the club this summer. The 31-year-old's future at the Etihad Stadium is shrouded in doubt after a bizarre episode on Tuesday when his agent Dimitry Seluk launched an inexplicable attack on the Premier League champions. The Ukrainian claimed Toure - who cost City £24million four years ago - was ready to leave after the club 'snubbed' his birthday last week.
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Toure could leave Man City before the next Premier League season
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Ivory Coast midfielder's agent Dimitry Seluk said he was unhappy
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Seluk claimed Toure was treated like a 'nobody' last week
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According to the story, @placeholder has paid tens of millions of dollars for the preliminary phase of the project. | (CNN) -- The United States and Venezuela don't agree on many foreign policy issues, but both countries say a newspaper report claiming that Iran is building a missile base in the South American nation is not credible. A group of engineers from an Iranian Revolutionary Guard-owned construction company has already visited the site of the secret joint project, the German newspaper Die Welt reported this month. If true, such a development would have the potential of creating an international crisis in the hemisphere. The reported site of the project, on the Paraguana Peninsula, is about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from a U.S. military site in Curacao, and about 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the Colombian border.
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A German newspaper reports that a secret missile pact was signed
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While the event was trumpeted as a night with Hillary Clinton, the gala was also a forum to honor @placeholder, the controversial casino magnate who operates numerous casinos in Nevada and overseas. | Las Vegas (CNN) -- Like most people who visit Las Vegas, Hillary Clinton had an interesting few hours during her time on Monday. She met a legendary boxing promoter at a fundraiser that was held down the hall from a wedding. And she crossed paths with an uber-GOP moneyman at a dinner with 900 of Nevada's biggest philanthropists and donors, where Clinton was presented with a pair of "running" shoes. All in an odd days work for Clinton as she tours the nation for a combination of paid and political speaking engagements. Clinton ended her night keynoting a fundraiser for the University of Nevada-Las Vegas Foundation, where the former secretary of state collected a $225,000 paycheck for a speech that touted the need for more access to higher education.
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Hillary Clinton met GOP uber-donor Sheldon Adelson backstage at event
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At University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Clinton said education needs to be "widely available"
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As more states legalized casinos, the @placeholder casino industry -- and especially the Las Vegas industry -- responded by moving up-market. | (CNN) -- The expensive casinos of Las Vegas look crowded. Tickets to the popular shows sell out. To the tourist, things look back to normal. Yet as the state's junior U.S. senator lamented in February, "I can tell you right now Nevada is nowhere close to a normal economy." Nevada's unemployment remains the second-highest in the nation, nearly 9%. The housing market there still languishes. New Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen acknowledged to Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller that full recovery for Nevada glimmers "years away." Nevada's troubles are more than a local concern. They reveal something important about the condition of the whole U.S. economy.
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Nevada senator says his state is "nowhere close to a normal economy"
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David Frum: The state made a big bet on the lavish casinos of Las Vegas
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Demographic and economic transformations in Mexico mean that the @placeholder can expect the number of Mexicans coming into the U.S. to slow to a trickle. | (CNN) -- President Barack Obama will find that much has changed in Mexico when he arrives on May 2. Our neighbor to the South -- and second-largest export market -- has moved far ahead with reforms. As Congress crafts comprehensive immigration legislation, Democrats and Republicans must keep in mind that Mexico is changing rapidly, and policies crafted to reflect yesterday's Mexico will not help the U.S. make the most of the potential of today's and tomorrow's Mexico. Mexico's future is bright, and tapping into this growth and economic prosperity is vital to U.S. competitiveness. But the U.S. needs immigration reform to build on its huge bilateral trade with Mexico -- more than $1 billion in goods and services each day, or $45 million an hour.
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The case against al-Marri escalated when investigators further examined his computer and interrogated @placeholder detainees, the government said. | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Qatari man held for years in military custody in the United States was charged Friday in federal court with conspiracy "to provide material support and resources" to al Qaeda, prosecutors announced. Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri was a student at Bradley University in Illinois when he was arrested in 2001. The Supreme Court was to hear arguments in April on a challenge by the suspect, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, to the principle that the president has the authority to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely and without charges. The Justice Department on Friday asked the high court to dismiss that pending appeal. "Because the military detention challenged by the petitioner has ended, no live controversy remains in this case," said Obama administration lawyers in their brief. Al-Marri's lawyers oppose such a move, saying the fundamental constitutional question of military detentions needs to be answered.
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Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri charged with conspiracy to provide support to al Qaeda
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While there is no @placeholder timetable of steps being pushed, the official said, "we continue to stress to both sides that negotiations and dialogue have to be inclusive and broad because we do recognize that there's not just three or four viewpoints; it encompasses a wide range of views in society ... that need to be fully represented in negotiations and discussions." | Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama's spokesman criticized the Egyptian government on Tuesday for arresting and harassing journalists and rights activists, and called comments by Vice President Omar Suleiman that Egypt is not ready for democracy "particularly unhelpful." The remarks by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs reflected a growing U.S. dissatisfaction with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Suleiman, the intelligence officer Mubarak chose as his deputy to bring about reforms demanded by protesters who have convulsed Cairo and the Egyptian economy for more than two weeks. In another sign of U.S. frustration with the pace of reform in Egypt, Vice President Joe Biden, in a phone call Tuesday with Suleiman, pushed for more progress, according to a White House statement.
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White House spokesman Gibbs calls Suleiman's comments "unhelpful"
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Gibbs says Egypt should stop arresting and harassing journalists and activists
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Labour parents: @placeholder and Neil Kinnock at the 2011 Labour party conference | By Luke Garratt Neil Kinnock's son, Stephen Kinnock, is the latest Labour heir to stand for Parliament after he was selected to as the party's candidate to fight a safe seat. The son of the former Labour leader will stand in 2015 for the seat in Aberavon, which the party has continuously held since the 1920s. Kinnock, 44, has worked for the British Council and World Economic Forum, and is married to Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who recently hit the news because of her selfie with U.S. President Barack Obama and PM David Cameron. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Danish Prime Minister, waves to supporters with her husband Stephen Kinnock from the front door of her home in Copenhagen after the result of Denmark's parliamentary election. Kinnock will now be standing for parliament 1000 miles away from his wife in a move towards Westminster
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Stephen Kinnock will run for safe Labour seat in Aberavon in 2015
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His wife Helle Thorning-Schmidt will be serving as Danish Prime Minister
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His mother, Lady Glenys Kinnock, is a former Labour MEP
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Sister Rachel worked in Gordon Brown's Number 10 office
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Other Labour dynasts, such as the Blair and Straw families, seem to be making moves towards Westminster's safe Labour constituencies | 19,291 | record_train |
Sarrouj is a popular figure in Sunni Muslim-majority @placeholder, well-known for preaching in favor of coexistence and religious tolerance. | A priest's flock is crowd-funding $35,000 to restore a renowned Lebanese library, which was set on fire a few weeks ago. Between a quarter and a third of the 85,000 titles in the Maktabat al-Sa'eh (The Pilgrim's Bookshop) in the northern city of Tripoli were destroyed by the fire, according to reports, including a pair of 200-year-old Muslim manuscripts. The 40-year-old antiquarian bookstore and library in the old city souk of the Serail neighborhood is the life's work of Ibrahim Sarrouj, a Greek Orthodox priest. Since the attack by suspected Muslim extremists, hundreds of people have come out in support of Sarrouj, helping with the clean-up, donating books and setting up an online crowd-funding effort to refurbish the library.
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Library and antique bookshop in Tripoli torched in early January
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And while it will no doubt be helpful to pet seekers, @placeholder is not the only product the folks at Superfish have in mind. | (CNN) -- Are you missing a beloved four-legged friend from the past? Or, on a far sillier note, would you like your very own Grumpy Cat or Doge? A new app aims to help you find a lookalike for your departed or dream pet by using photo-matching software to find the closest match in your area. PetMatch lets you upload a picture of a dog or cat, or use one from its gallery. It then tries to find you a pet available for adoption that is the closest possible match to the one you posted. The app is from startup Superfish and uses its patented image-recognition technology. It scans your photo, registering details like the shape of an animal's mouth, the distance between its eyes, its coloring and its general size and shape.
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New PetMatch app lets you upload photos to find a lookalike for a dog or cat
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App's photo-recognition searches PetFinder for the closest match
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He created his first snow drawing, a star on a lake near his apartment at @placeholder, to pass the time after a day of skiing in 2004. | (CNN) -- If you frequent the pistes of the French Alps, you may see more than just skiers and snowmen scattered around the trails below. For the last 10 years, British artist Simon Beck has been decorating snow-covered lakes and mountainsides with massive geometric designs, often based on fractal patterns, using his footsteps as his implement. Beck's snow drawings have attracted attention and opportunity beyond the Les Arcs ski resort in France where he got his start. This year alone, he's delivered TED Talks in Austria and Cyprus, collaborated with New Zealand clothing brand Icebreaker on a series of garments, and has seen his international Facebook following grow to 280,000. Now he adds Snow Art, a book of over 200 photos he has taken of his work, to his list of accomplishments.
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Simon Beck creates geometric shapes in the snow with his footsteps
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The designs are often inspired by fractals and other mathematical patterns
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Beck previously worked as an orienteering map-maker, and as an engineer
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His new book, Snow Art, includes over 200 images of his best works | 19,294 | record_train |
@placeholder children last year but, from January 1, such moves will be | By Will Stewart PUBLISHED: 09:49 EST, 28 December 2012 | UPDATED: 12:54 EST, 28 December 2012 Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been accused of betraying dozens of children hoping for a new life in the West after signing a new law blocking all adoptions by American families. From January 1 it will be illegal to take a baby from Russia to the US under the law signed by president Putin today. The move will have an immediate effect on as many as 52 children in Russia who were preparing for adoption - many of whom suffer disabilities or live in bleak orphanages according to charities.
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President Putin accused of treating needy children as 'political footballs'
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Today he signed bill banning any US family from adopting from Russia
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Many orphans and children with disabilities now lose chance to move
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US families adopt more Russian children than any other country in world
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But @placeholder said the commission has never decided to apply the logic of the legal opinion to the case on Friday's agenda. | (CNN) -- A Texas state board is set Friday to revisit questions surrounding a controversial 2004 execution, with supporters of the man's family warning the panel is trying to bury its own critical review of the case. Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004 for a fire that killed his three daughters. Prosecutors argued that Willingham deliberately set the 1991 blaze -- but three reviews of the evidence by outside experts have found the fire should not have been ruled arson. The last of those reports was ordered by the Texas Forensic Sciences Commission, which has been looking into Willingham's execution since 2008. But a September 2009 shake-up by Texas Gov. Rick Perry has kept that panel from reviewing the report, and the commission's new chairman has ordered a review of its operating rules. Critics say that may kill the probe.
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NEW: "A lot of misinformation" is fueling concerns, the chairman says
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Outside reviews say the fire in which Cameron Willingham's daughters died wasn't arson
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"I think Mr. @placeholder is a great producer and we look forward to hearing from him about the scope of this agreement," Bernice King said. | LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- DreamWorks Studios will back out of plans to produce a movie about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. unless King's three surviving children settle their differences over the deal, the studio said Wednesday. From left, Dexter, Bernice, Martin and Yolanda King. The three surviving siblings have had several public rifts. A longtime friend of the three Kings predicted peace may be at hand for the squabbling siblings and that all of them want Steven Spielberg's studio to portray their father's life on the big screen. The latest public rift between Dexter King, the chief executive of the King estate, and his brother and sister -- Martin Luther King III and Bernice King -- erupted Tuesday after it was made public that Dexter King, 48, had finalized the deal with DreamWorks.
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DreamWorks Studios hesitates on movie about Martin Luther King Jr.
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Studio says film won't go ahead unless King's three children agree
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Dexter King has OK'd project without notifying his siblings
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VIDEO Scroll down to watch @placeholder talk about Manchester United's difficult season | By Chris Wheeler and Jack Gaughan Will Moyes survive until the end of the season? Manchester United great Paul Scholes has delivered a grim assessment of his old club – and singled out £27.5million flop Marouane Fellaini for criticism. Fellaini was outclassed by David Silva, Fernandinho and Yaya Toure at Old Trafford on Tuesday night as United slumped to a humiliating 3-0 defeat in the Manchester derby in front of their own fans. The Belgian, whose only goal this season was for Everton against Stevenage in the Capital One Cup, was also lucky to escape a red card when referee Michael Oliver only booked him for blatantly thrusting a forearm into the face of Manchester City defender Pablo Zabaleta.
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Paul Scholes says Marouane Fellaini 'has not been great' for United
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Felliani should have sent off against City 'without a shadow of a doubt'
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Scholes says United have to stand by David Moyes and back him in summer
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Meanwhile, as @placeholder bury their heads in the sand, China has an eye toward the future. | (CNN) -- President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping just announced a major agreement to cut carbon emissions in both countries and tackle global warming over the coming decades. As the news site Vox puts it, "This is a big deal." It's a big deal for citizens of both countries who will literally breathe easier due to reduced pollution. It's a big deal for the future of our planet. And it's even a big deal for Republicans, who had used inaction on the part of China to justify not doing anything about climate change here at home. And yet Republican leaders, many of whom remain inexplicably skeptical of the conclusive science about climate change, insist they will use their new congressional majority to try to obstruct clean air and water regulations enacted by the Environmental Protection Agency. For added measure, they will try to force President Obama to approve the construction of the Keystone pipeline extension. They will, apparently, be joined by centrist Democrats like Sen. Mary Landrieu, facing a tough run-off election for her seat in Louisiana in December.
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Sally Kohn: The U.S.-China agreement to cut carbon emissions is a big deal
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Kohn: Republicans need to wake up to the fact that global warming is real and man-made
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She says the Keystone XL pipeline would be bad for climate and U.S. economy
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