A record number of UK beaches have been given the top award for water quality in the latest Good Beach Guide, says the Marine Conservation Society.

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The leader of France’s resurgent, anti-immigrant far right, Marine Le Pen, is refusing to endorse either candidate in the country’s presidential runoff and said Tuesday she will cast a blank protest ballot.

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A man who was with a deployed Marine's wife the last time she was seen alive was arrested on suspicion of murder Tuesday, authorities said.

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A 25-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder in the California death of a deployed Marine's wife, San Diego County authorities said Friday.

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A body found Tuesday in California is that of Brittany Killgore, the missing wife of a deployed Marine, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday.

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A Marine Corps board has recommended that a politically active Marine sergeant who questioned President Barack Obama's authority be dismissed from service with an “other than honorable” discharge.

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A US Marine sergeant faces dismissal for posting criticisms of President Obama on his Facebook page.

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The dark effects of 10 years of warfare on injured fighters — drugs, anger, fear, frustration — are on display in a report on the Marine Wounded Warrior Battalion at Camp Lejeune, N.C., released by the Government Accountability Office. Read full article > >

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TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme Court ordered a retrial for a former U.S. Marine who initially was sentenced to death for spying, the country’s national prosecutor said Monday. Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, 28, an Iranian American who was sentenced in January to be hanged , waited more than a month for the Supreme Court to decide whether he would be the first U.S. citizen to get the death penalty in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Born in Arizona, Hekmati served in the Marine Corps from 2001 to 2005 and fought in Iraq in 2004. He later worked as a contract translator in Afghanistan. He holds an Iranian passport as well as an American one. Read full article > >

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Amir Mizraei Hekmati, 28, a former Marine, was convicted of espionage last year in circumstances that remain murky.

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An earlier 2006 plan aimed at removing 8,000 Marines from the island hinged on relocating an important Marine air base.

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Japan and United States in Talks to Renegotiate Part of Okinawa Deal

One by one, they checked into George Mason’s lopsided victory over Delaware last week: the former team manager, the Marine corporal and, finally, the aspiring singer. Those who had stuck around Patriot Center roared their approval, saluting the exiting regulars and supporting the end-of-the-benchers making rare appearances. Read full article > >

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Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study warns.

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‘Microplastic’ threat to shores

Amir Hekmati, a 28-year-old former Marine, was sentenced to death for espionage on Jan. 9 by Iran’s Revolutionary Court. In December, Iran released videos in which Hekmati in both Persian and English gave his history and “confessed” to being trained to become a double agent by the CIA. Read full article > >

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An American is caught in Iran’s spy game

FLORENCE, S.C. — On the morning after a bellicose debate performance that had the audience leaping to its feet, Newt Gingrich got this challenge from a retired Marine officer who had come to hear him speak at an art gallery here. Read full article > >

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Gingrich sees a South Carolina surge