Archive for the January 13, 2016
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New Zealand and Pakistan both have the opportunity to vault to the top of the Twenty20 world standings over the next 10 days, according to the congested rankings released on Tuesday. Although they start their
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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch announced his engagement to former supermodel Jerry Hall on Tuesday and gave details of plans for his fourth marriage in a classified advert in one of his British newspapers. Published in
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The US Supreme Court struck down Florida's death penalty law Tuesday, declaring it unconstitutional because it does not require that a jury make the life or death decision. The 8-1 ruling was the latest blow
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Venezuela sank deeper into a messy political crisis Tuesday as the opposition-controlled National Assembly suspended its session and President Nicolas Maduro's party proposed the Supreme Court take over legislative powers. Speaking before a nearly empty
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Cuba's top diplomat for US affairs said Tuesday she cannot imagine the next president of the United States undoing the historic rapprochement the two countries embarked on under Barack Obama. "I can't imagine a new
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A Swedish man working for a human rights group in China has been detained on suspicion of endangering state security, his colleague said Tuesday, as Beijing steps up controls on civil society. Peter Dahlin, who
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Tens of thousands of junior doctors went on strike in England Tuesday, causing major disruption to hospitals in the first walkout of its kind for 40 years. They are providing only emergency cover during a
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Prosecutors charged four Israelis Tuesday for brutally beating an Eritrean migrant worker as he lay bleeding from gunshot wounds after being mistaken for an Arab militant attacker last year, media said. Habtom Zarhum, 29, was
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British energy major BP said Tuesday that it will axe more than 4,000 jobs world-wide over the next two years in response to collapsing oil prices. The company said in a statement that it would
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Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians during an attempted stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday while a third was killed in unrelated clashes, officials said. Two young Palestinians were killed after one
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