BRUSSELS – A top European Union leader has laughed off allegations that Germany’s foreign intelligence service may have spied on his offices on behalf of the United States. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Thursday that given the rumors of spies in Brussels, “the Commission should have a secret service.” …
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia – A U.S. passenger flight has made an emergency landing at Vancouver International Airport. Alaska Airlines Flight 76 was en route from Juneau, Alaska to Seattle, Washington, when problems arose with one of the plane’s two electrical systems. The Boeing 737-400 touched down in Vancouver shortly before …
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BEIJING – Chinese police fatally shot a man in northern China who was on his way to Beijing to ask the central government to help house and take care of his sons and elderly mother. His relatives received approval for the aid three days after the Saturday killing. Lawyer Xie …
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To watch “The Talking Points Memo” in the Screening Room click here. Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. What is really behind theTen Commandments (search)controversy? That’s the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo. It’s not about the commandments monument in theAlabama (search)hallway. This is about a …
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SYLHET, Bangladesh – Police say masked men hacked a blogger and author to death near his home in northeastern Bangladesh while he was on his way to his job at a bank. Police official Rahmat Ullah says Ananta Bijoy Das died instantly after the attack Tuesday in Sylhet city. It …
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Officials said Thursday they are investigating allegations that millions of dollars embezzled from Honduras’ social security institute might have been used to finance the governing National Party. The Public Ministry said in a statement that authorities were studying checks from supplier companies to the agency’s director and …
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ANKARA, Turkey – A news agency says at least two people have been injured in two simultaneous explosions in buildings housing the local headquarters of a pro-Kurdish political party. The Dogan news agency says the explosions occurred Monday at People’s Democratic Party, or HDP, branches in the southern cities of …
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And now the most telling two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: More Americans Believe Saddam Possessed WMD’s Today is the seventh day in a row that no U.S. soldier has died in Iraq…marking the longest such stretch sinceOperation Iraqi Freedom (search)began in March. Meanwhile, a new …
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GADSDEN, Ala. – Lawyers for an Alabama woman are asking a judge to end the secrecy surrounding jury selection in the trial of an Alabama woman charged in her granddaughter’s running death. Attorneys for Joyce Hardin Garrard say barring the public from court during the questioning of prospective jurors is …
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Captain Jack Sparrow is taking shore leave for the summer. Pirates of the Caribbean, the popular ride at Walt Disney World, will be closed from mid-May through the end of September. The Orlando Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1B0O5AQ ) reported Tuesday that the ride is undergoing a routine refurbishment. Disney …
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