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Tariq Khdair’s cousin, Mohammed Abu Khdair, was abducted and murdered in Jerusalem

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A US teenager was beaten while in Israeli police custody in East Jerusalem. Tariq Khdair, 15, from Florida, is a cousin of Mohammed Abu Khdair,...
Angela Merkel has begun a three-day visit to China with trade issues high on the agenda

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German leader Angela Merkel has begun a three-day visit to China with trade issues high on the agenda. Germany and China are important trading partners...
Paul McCartney played an arena in Albany as part of his Out There tour

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Paul McCartney has resumed his Out There tour in the US after being forced to take nearly two months off due to a virus...
Tropical storm Arthur has battered south-east Canada leaving more than 200,000 homes and businesses without power

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Hurricane Arthur, which was weakened to a post-tropical storm, has battered south-east Canada leaving more than 200,000 homes and businesses without power. Nova Scotia and...
Justin Jedlica has spent a whopping $170,000 on plastic surgery

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Justin Jedlica was first dubbed "The Human Ken Doll" in a 2012 20/20 segment on extreme plastic surgery. In an April 2014 interview with the...
Eleven people have been killed when the Polish plane carrying members of a parachute club crashed near Czestochowa

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A plane carrying members of a parachute club crashed in southern Poland killing 11 people. Rescue workers said only one of the 12 people on...
Ukrainian rebels abandoned several strongholds in the Donetsk region to government forces

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Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine rebels have pulled back to the main city of Donetsk, abandoning several strongholds in the Donetsk region to government...
Abdulmecid II was the last Sunni Caliph of Islam from the Ottoman Dynasty

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A caliphate is an Islamic state ruled by a single political and religious leader, or Caliph. Caliphs are regarded by their followers as successors to...
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has called on Muslims to obey him, in his first video sermon

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ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has called on Muslims to obey him, in his first video sermon. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been appointed caliph by...
Petra Kvitova has won her second Wimbledon title after defeating Canada's Eugenie Bouchard in this year's final

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Czech tennis player Petra Kvitova has won her second Wimbledon title after defeating Canada's Eugenie Bouchard in this year's final. The Czech sixth seed reclaimed...
New reports claim Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowels will divorce after nine years of marriage

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Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowels will divorce after nine years of marriage, GLOBE Magazine claims. Meanwhile, Celebdirty Laundry reported that Queen Elizabeth allegedly called Camilla...
Mohammad Abu Khdair’s death in Jerusalem followed the abduction and murder of three young Israelis

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Mohammad Abu Khdair, the Palestinian teenager found dead in Jerusalem this week, was burned alive, first post mortem examination findings quoted by the Palestinian...
The NSA bugged Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone as part of a huge surveillance program

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Germany has summoned the US ambassador in Berlin after a man was arrested on suspicion of spying for the NSA. The US diplomat "was asked...
Katy Parry has been sued for ripping off Joyful Noise for her mega-hit Dark Horse

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Katy Perry has been sued by Christian hip-hop stars, who claim her hit Dark Horse ripped off their track Joyful Noise. They accused Katy Perry...
Senegal’s President Macky Sall has asked Aminata Toure to stand down, after less than a year in office

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Senegal’s PM Aminata Toure has been sacked after her ruling party's poor results in local elections last Sunday. Local officials said President Macky Sall had...
Russia's State Duma has passed a law requiring internet companies to store Russian citizens' personal data inside the country

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Russia's State Duma (lower house of parliament) has passed a law requiring internet companies to store Russian citizens' personal data inside the country. The Kremlin...
The NSA was last year accused of bugging the phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel as part of a huge surveillance program

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Germany's intelligence service has arrested one of its employees on suspicion of spying for the US, reports say. The man is said to have been...
Forty six Indian nurses were trapped in fighting engulfing parts of Iraq

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Forty six Indian nurses, who were trapped in fighting engulfing parts of Iraq, have been freed, Indian authorities say. The nurses have been handed over...
The Second Continental Congress declared the United States of America an independent nation not on July 4, but on July 2

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In 1776, the Second Continental Congress declared the United States of America an independent nation not on July 4, as more than two centuries...
Billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife helped finance the election campaigns of Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan

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Billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife has died aged 82. Richard Mellon Scaife’s death comes less than two months after he had announced he had an untreatable...
HMS Queen Elizabeth has been named with a bottle of whisky smashed on the hull of the 65,000-tonne vessel

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The UK’s largest warship was officially named in Queen Elizabeth II’s honor at a ceremony at Fife's Rosyth Dockyard. The vessel marks "a new phase...
Mya collaborated with Jay-Z on her 2000 song Best of Me

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Mya has slammed rumors suggesting she and Jay-Z have been secretly dating behind Beyonce's back. The singer blamed gossip-hungry bloggers for spreading the false speculation. Mya...
Hurricane Arthur has weakened to Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds around 90 mph and additional weakening expected

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By 9 a.m. Friday, Hurricane Arthur had weakened to Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds around 90 mph and additional weakening expected, the...
Anthrax disease is caused by a bacterium that occurs naturally in soil

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Five people have been hospitalized in Hungary after the discovery of the deadly anthrax disease in samples of beef, reports say. The five were admitted...
Rolf Harris has been sentenced to five years and 9 months in jail for 12 assaults against four girls

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Rolf Harris has been sentenced to five years and 9 months in jail for 12 assaults against four girls. Rolf Harris, 84, who was found...
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