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Briton tells of Homs 'slaughter'

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
British photographer Paul Conroy, injured in Syria, describes the attacks on the city of Homs as "a systematic slaughter of the civilian population".
Categories: BBC, News

Official accused of Dover misconduct has resigned

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of three officials accused of mismanaging the mortuary at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware has resigned....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Pensioner dies in three car crash

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
An 80-year-old woman dies following a three car crash in Crossgar, County Down.
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Firm fined £25,000 over asbestos

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
A company in Carmarthenshire is fined £25,000 after being found guilty of failing to protect its employees from asbestos.
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Fifa raps Brazil over World Cup

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
Fifa's general secretary expresses concern about Brazil's preparations for the 2014 World Cup, and says the organisers need a "kick up the backside".
Categories: BBC, News

Mortician resigns in Dover probe

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
A civilian mortician who was recently demoted for misconduct in handling remains of the U.S. military's war dead has resigned, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel said Friday.
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In Ga., Gingrich helped build conservative base

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
ATLANTA (AP) -- It wasn't so long ago that the Republican Party in Georgia was just an afterthought, and Democrats were in firm control of all the levers of state government. Back then, Newt Gingrich and other die-hard GOP stalwarts ventured across the state with the far-fetched message that Republicans could reverse the tide....

In Ga., Gingrich helped build conservative base

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
ATLANTA (AP) -- It wasn't so long ago that the Republican Party in Georgia was just an afterthought, and Democrats were in firm control of all the levers of state government. Back then, Newt Gingrich and other die-hard GOP stalwarts ventured across the state with the far-fetched message that Republicans could reverse the tide....

In Ga., Gingrich helped build conservative base

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
ATLANTA (AP) -- It wasn't so long ago that the Republican Party in Georgia was just an afterthought, and Democrats were in firm control of all the levers of state government. Back then, Newt Gingrich and other die-hard GOP stalwarts ventured across the state with the far-fetched message that Republicans could reverse the tide....

In Ga., Gingrich helped build conservative base

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
ATLANTA (AP) -- It wasn't so long ago that the Republican Party in Georgia was just an afterthought, and Democrats were in firm control of all the levers of state government. Back then, Newt Gingrich and other die-hard GOP stalwarts ventured across the state with the far-fetched message that Republicans could reverse the tide....

In Ga., Gingrich helped build conservative base

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
ATLANTA (AP) -- It wasn't so long ago that the Republican Party in Georgia was just an afterthought, and Democrats were in firm control of all the levers of state government. Back then, Newt Gingrich and other die-hard GOP stalwarts ventured across the state with the far-fetched message that Republicans could reverse the tide....

In Ga., Gingrich helped build conservative base

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
ATLANTA (AP) -- It wasn't so long ago that the Republican Party in Georgia was just an afterthought, and Democrats were in firm control of all the levers of state government. Back then, Newt Gingrich and other die-hard GOP stalwarts ventured across the state with the far-fetched message that Republicans could reverse the tide....

Egyptians angry with military over US NGO case

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's ruling generals faced a backlash Friday over the departure of Americans on trial over charges that their pro-democracy groups fomented unrest, with the country's powerful Muslim Brotherhood and others accusing military leaders of bowing to pressure from Washington....

Egyptians angry with military over US NGO case

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's ruling generals faced a backlash Friday over the departure of Americans on trial over charges that their pro-democracy groups fomented unrest, with the country's powerful Muslim Brotherhood and others accusing military leaders of bowing to pressure from Washington....

Egyptians angry with military over US NGO case

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's ruling generals faced a backlash Friday over the departure of Americans on trial over charges that their pro-democracy groups fomented unrest, with the country's powerful Muslim Brotherhood and others accusing military leaders of bowing to pressure from Washington....

Q&A: Understanding Syria's uprising

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
After weeks of bloody siege, Syrian troops have moved into one of the most restive neighborhoods of Homs, one of the cities at the center of the country's uprising against President Bashar Assad. The Red Cross is preparing to move in, and opposition activists accuse troops of carrying out a scorched-earth campaign of reprisals in the district, called Baba Amr....

VIDEO: Conroy: Homs 'the next Srebrenica'

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
The British photo journalist wounded in the Syrian city of Homs, Paul Conroy, has told Newsnight's Gavin Esler he fears the slaughter there may be comparable to past murderous events in Srebrenica or Rwanda.
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Jamaica's famed coffee industry facing hard times

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
BRANDON HILL, Jamaica (AP) -- A few years ago in this mist-shrouded mountain town, steep slopes were quilted with some of the world's most valuable coffee trees. Farmers scrambled to increase acreage and pickers painstakingly filled wooden boxes with ripened berries at harvest time....

Oil boom and a kidnapping alter Montana town

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
SIDNEY, Mont. (AP) -- Sidney isn't the first small town in the West to get run over by a gold rush, in this case black gold - more than 16 million barrels of crude being pumped every month from the massive Bakken oil field beneath eastern Montana and western North Dakota....
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Obama calls student in contraception debate

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:23
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says President Barack Obama has called a Georgetown law student whose stand on contraception coverage prompted Rush Limbaugh to deride her as a "slut" on his radio talk show....
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