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Greece: Police clash with doctors - ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Police in central Athens have used pepper spray to disperse protesting doctors and state hospital staff, in the latest protest against public spending cuts.
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The six-block scar: Amazing satellite photos pinpoint devastation of Joplin
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TSA Threatens To Cancel All Flights Out Of Texas If 'Groping Bill' Passed
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-----------CHARGE: TSA Pats Down Child, Little Old Lady, Ignores Man in Arab Garb
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African swine fever 'may spread to Europe'
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Obama: We're Working on Gun Control 'Under the Radar'



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Frightening Footage of Deadly Oklahoma Twister
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Saudi men launch Facebook campaign to whip women who dare to drive
Saudi Arabian men have launched a Facebook campaign in response to women planning to protest against the law banning them from driving in the ultra-conservative nation. The page, titled 'The Iqal Campaign: June 17 for preventing women from driving', refers to the Arabic name for the cord used to hold on the traditional headdress worn by many men in the Gulf, advocating the cord be used to whip women who dare to drive
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17 Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images
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Belarus Shoppers Panic as Ruble Collapses

Panicky shoppers in Belarus are buying up consumer goods and scarce food supplies as fast as they can, after a sharp devaluation of the ruble failed to halt a slide in the national currency's value. Weeks of economic crisis have prompted many Belarusians to buy foreign currency - usually U.S. dollars or euros - to protect themselves against the ruble's plunge. The government announced Tuesday the official exchange rate would be 4,930 rubles for $1 as of Wednesday, compared to the previous rate of 3,155 rubles, but that triggered an.
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Bid to use gold as collateral advances in Europe

INVESTORS are closer to being able to use gold as a trading security after a European parliamentary committee approved a proposal to allow clearing houses to accept gold as collateral. The European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs agreed unanimously to allow clearing houses to accept gold. The proposal, under the under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation, will be passed to the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union for another round of voting in July. The credit quality
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There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says

You may think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) says it’s worse than you’ve heard. Congress is set to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the surveillance law as early as Thursday. But Wyden says that what Congress will renew is a mere fig leaf for a far broader legal interpretation of the Patriot Act that the government keeps to itself — entirely in secret. Worse, there are hints that the government uses this secret interpretation to gather what one Patriot-watcher
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Alan Colmes: Actually, I'm A "Democratic Socialist"

Alan Colmes corrects FOX News' Bill O'Reilly when he calls him just a "socialist
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Civil war looms as big blasts rock Yemeni capital

SANAA - Heavy explosions rocked the Yemeni capital Sanaa in the early hours of Thursday as fighting to topple the veteran president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, threatened to descend into civil war. More than 40 people have been killed since Monday in a part of northern Sanaa where fighters loyal to powerful tribal leader Sadiq al-Ahmar have been attacking...
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Beijing admits Three Gorges Dam problems China has acknowledged there are problems with its massive Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower station. China Three Gorges Corp. said Sunday that an investigation conducted by China's National Audit Office had found 31 "financial issues" related to accounting, financial management, investment, bidding and corporate management, state-run Xinhua news agency reports... / Black boxes for vehicles to be compulsory by next month / Second largest gas field found in Turkmenistan A new report from Gaffney Cline, the British oil field auditing company, to be released officially next month, has confirmed claims from the former Soviet Republic that many had dismissed as overly optimistic. "It appears that the South Yolotan field is now easily the world's second largest gas field in terms of gas in place – second only to the North Field and South Pars,".. / Scientists unveil most complete EVER map of the universe that extends to 380 million lightyears away