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Japan's radiation cleanup is trial and error

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Workers in rubber boots chip at the frozen ground, scraping until they've removed the top 2 inches (5 centimeters) of radioactive soil from the yard of a single home. Total amount of waste gathered: roughly 60 tons....

AP source: Holder will address targeted killings

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five months after the CIA sought out and killed an American-born cleric and al-Qaida operative in Yemen, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to explain how the U.S. can legally kill U.S. citizens on foreign soil....
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AP source: Holder will address targeted killings

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five months after the CIA sought out and killed an American-born cleric and al-Qaida operative in Yemen, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to explain how the U.S. can legally kill U.S. citizens on foreign soil....
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Israeli leaders praise Obama's AIPAC speech

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli leaders say President Barack Obama's speech on Iran's nuclear program is an unprecedented show of support for the Jewish state....

HET publish report on UVF killing

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
Eight undercover soldiers were at the scene of a killing claimed by the UVF in Lurgan, a new report has revealed.
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Mitt's Muddle

Mitt Romney has devoted most of the last six years to running for president, but he still hasn't won over conservative voters...

AUDIO: Same sex marriage 'an aberration'

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, defends his comparison between legalising same sex marriage and the slave trade.
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EPA heightens scrutiny of Pa.'s Marcellus Shale

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) -- Tugging on rubber gloves, a laboratory worker kneels before a gushing spigot behind Kim Grosso's house and positions an empty bottle under the clear, cold stream. The process is repeated dozens of times as bottles are filled, marked and packed into coolers....
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Deportation a risk in Rutgers webcam trial

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- Jurors deliberating in the hate-crime trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of webcam spying against his roommate won't be deciding just whether he'll go to prison - they also could indirectly determine whether he's deported to his native India....
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Issue not aired in Rutgers webcam trial: Suicide

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- For all the attention Tyler Clementi's suicide got, it has a place only at the edge of the invasion-privacy trial of the roommate who's accused of using a webcam to spy on his intimate encounter with a man....
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'Third Jihad narrator plans rally to support NYPD

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
NEW YORK (AP) -- The narrator of "The Third Jihad," a controversial documentary that uses dramatic footage to warn against the dangers of radical Islam, planned to speak at a rally Monday to support the New York Police Department's aggressive counterterrorism efforts, even though city officials have disavowed the film....
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'Third Jihad narrator plans rally to support NYPD

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
NEW YORK (AP) -- The narrator of "The Third Jihad," a controversial documentary that uses dramatic footage to warn against the dangers of radical Islam, planned to speak at a rally Monday to support the New York Police Department's aggressive counterterrorism efforts, even though city officials have disavowed the film....
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Warburton wants 'ruthless' Wales

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
Sam Warburton wants Grand Slam-chasing Wales to impress against Italy to send a message to final opponents France.
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Chelsea embarrassing, says Bevan

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
League Managers' Association boss Richard Bevan says the dismissal of Blues manager Andre Villas-Boas is "a serious embarrassment".
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Wave of Iraq attacks kills police

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
At least 27 policemen have been killed in a wave of shootings blamed on al-Qaeda in the western Iraqi city of Haditha.
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Brain metal level 'beyond belief'

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
An inquest into the death of a woman who lived in a Cornwall town where the water supply was poisoned in the 1980s hears aluminium levels in her brain were "beyond belief".
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AP Exclusive: Obama's transgender ex-nanny outcast

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Once, long ago, Evie looked after "Barry" Obama, the kid who would grow up to become the world's most powerful man. Now, his transgender former nanny has given up her tight, flowery dresses, her brocade vest and her bras, and is living in fear on Indonesia's streets....

AP Exclusive: Obama's transgender ex-nanny outcast

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Once, long ago, Evie looked after "Barry" Obama, the kid who would grow up to become the world's most powerful man. Now, his transgender former nanny has given up her tight, flowery dresses, her brocade vest and her bras, and is living in fear on Indonesia's streets....

VIDEO: Prince Harry's boat breaks down

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
Prince Harry was supposed to join the crew of a Royal Bahamian Defence Force patrol boat on a naval exercise but the vessel broke down. He eventually landed on tiny Harbour island, where he greeted crowds of tourists and locals.
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Tropical birds 'face extinction'

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-24 08:43
Between 600 and 900 species of tropical birds could become extinct by 2100 due to climate change, researchers say.
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