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Iowa fireworks accident injures 12
05.07.2008 07:29
usatoday.com
Fire officials in northern Iowa say at least a dozen people were injured during a municipal Fourth of July fireworks display.
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Sole survivor of Ariz. helicopter collision dies
05.07.2008 07:29
usatoday.com
Authorities say the lone survivor of a mid-air crash of two medical helicopters has died at a hospital in Arizona.
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Hundreds remember 9/11 flight crews with sculpture
05.07.2008 07:29
usatoday.com
On a pedestal in a Texas intersection hundreds of miles from where terrorists crashed planes seven years ago, two flight attendants ...
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Spitzer call girl drops lawsuit against 'Girls Gone Wild'
05.07.2008 07:28
usatoday.com
The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" ...
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Statue of Liberty's crown may reopen to public
05.07.2008 07:28
usatoday.com
The National Park Service is considering reopening Lady Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, ...
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5 arrested in Rainbow Family clash with feds
05.07.2008 07:28
usatoday.com
About 400 members of the Rainbow Family threw rocks and sticks at 10 federal officers as they tried to arrest a member of the ...
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Americans celebrate July 4th with fireworks, patriotism
05.07.2008 07:28
usatoday.com
Americans across the country mixed patriotism and plain old good fun to mark Independence Day on Friday, with solemn ceremony ...
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Russia may stop oil exports through Baltic states by 2015
05.07.2008 07:27
rian.ru
Russia may completely stop by 2015 using ports in the Baltic states to transport energy supplies abroad via sea routes, the transportation minister said on Saturday.
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Abkhaz leader says Georgia planned to invade Abkhazia in spring
05.07.2008 07:27
rian.ru
Sergei Bagapsh, the leader of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia said on Saturday that Georgia had plans to attack and invade the region in April-May this year.
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One serviceman killed, several injured in South Russia attacks
05.07.2008 07:27
rian.ru
At least one serviceman was killed, and several others wounded on Saturday in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia after a truck convoy with federal troops came under gunfire, a local police source said.
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Lebanon to announce new Cabinet on July 5 - media
05.07.2008 07:27
rian.ru
Lebanon's prime minister, Fouad Siniora, will announce on Saturday the composition of a new national unity government, the Al Jazeera television channel said.
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Merkel to G8: Food Crisis is Global Security Risk
05.07.2008 06:22
dw-world.de
Days ahead of the summit of leading industrial nations in Japan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged G8 members to act on the current food crisis. She plans to set an example by bringing a major donation to the tab
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Temperature Of +22...+24 C, Intermittent Rain In Kyiv On Sunday
05.07.2008 06:20
ukranews.com
Ukrainian News learned this from the weather center.
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Infiltrators hold key to 53 Bengal Assembly seats
05.07.2008 04:32
b4uindia.com
As many as 53 out of 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal have a high concentration of voters who happen to be illegal migrants from Bangladesh. Similarly, the fate of forty Assembly seats in Assom depends on the votes cast by Bangladeshi infiltrators. All this has been revealed by a recent report of the union home ministry on infiltration from India’s neighbour. The report has been prepared on the basis of facts and figures provided by the Task Force on Border Management and Assom’s former governor S.K. Sinha. According to the report, at present there are 80 lakh Bangladeshi infiltrators in Bengal, 55 lakh in Assom, 4 lakh in Tripura and 5 lakh in Bihar(Katihar, Purnia and Kishenganj districts) and Jharkhand(Sahebganj district). As far as West Bengal is concerned, the concentration of infiltrators is quite marked in the border districts like North and South Dinajpur, Cooch Behar, Nadia, Murshidabad, Malda and North and South 24 Parganas. The affected areas in Assom are Dhubri, Goalpara, Karimganj and Hailakandi, while a similar scenario is noticeable in Kailashar, Sabrum, Udaipur and Belonia areas in Tripura. The illegal migrants are coming mainly from Sayeedpur, Rangpur, Rajshahi, Kushthia, Meherpur, Pabna, Nitpur, Rohanpur, Khulna, Bagerhat and Satkhira areas of Bangladesh. Pakistan’s ISI is believed to have a hand behind this large-scale infiltration which has been playing havoc with the economy of Bengal and Assom. Home ministry sources say Harkat-ul-jehadi-Islami(Huji), the dreaded militant outfit active in Bangladesh, has succeeded in sending a large number of militants along with the infiltrators to West Bengal. The ministry has laid stress on an early completion of barbed-wire fencing along the borders with Bangladesh. Of the 2216 km-long border the fencing could be completed only along 1167 km till last year. The continuous infiltration has brought about serious demographic changes to Bengal’s border areas and made the border-map, drawn after the 1974 Indira-Mujib agreement, somewhat irrelevant. The Centre has consequently sought a detailed report from the state government on changes in the population pattern in 66 blocks of nine border districts. The Bengal administration, which had taken a serious view of the problem in the initial stages of the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government, now seems to have accepted it as a fait accompli.The chief minister had adopted some steps to contain the menace when the BJP strongman L.K.Advani was the union home minister. But his initiative has slackened after the installation of the UPA government at the Centre. (ANI)
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Moderate earthquake shakes Arunachal Pradesh
05.07.2008 04:32
b4uindia.com
A moderate earthquake, measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, shook the Arunachal Pradesh early this morning. There were no immediate reports of any casualty or damages. The quake hit Eastern Xizang on the Arunachal borders at 3:05 a.m., the MeT Department said. The epicentre of the quake was located at a latitude of 29.4 degree North and a longitude of 96.4 degree East. (A
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