“We have to be careful in how we choose to make our voice heard to the regime,” a 25-year-old student from Tehran University told Aslan Media. “Since 2009, the regime has shown no mercy with the massive number of political prisoners it has taken.”
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Why the “Iranian Spring” is Taking its Sweet Time
Though the massive Arizona wildfire was officially 6 percent contained on Friday thanks to calm winds, the blaze has still not been extinguished and winds are expected to pick up again Saturday, potentially pushing the fire across New Mexico state…
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AZ Fire Continues to Spread
Toyota says it expects profits for this year to be sharply lower than last year, due in large part to the massive earthquake in March.
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Toyota forecasts slump in profits
When the massive tornado touched down in Joplin last week, Will Norton and his father Mark were caught in the storm while driving home from Will’s high school graduation. The teenager’s aunt reported on Saturday that the newly minted high school grad…
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Missing Joplin Teen Reported Dead
When the massive tornado touched down in Joplin last week, Will Norton and his father Mark were caught in the storm while driving home from Will’s high school graduation. The teenager’s aunt reported on Saturday that the newly minted high school grad…
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Missing Joplin Teen Reported Dead
This is definitely promising. The CIA said Tuesday that it has been able to glean new leads every hour from the massive cache of intelligence snatched from Osama bin Laden’s compound during the raid that killed him. A U.S. official said the SEAL team…
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CIA: New bin Laden Lead Every Hour
One month after the massive earthquake and tsunami which killed thousands, Japan is struggling to move on.
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VIDEO: Japan still mourning disaster victims
The scale of the devastation is becoming clear in Japan 72 hours after the massive earthquake and tsunami struck the northern part of the country.
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VIDEO: ‘Wall of water flattened town’
Japan asks for help from the UK in the aid effort following the massive earthquake, says a Foreign Office spokesman.
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UK asked to help with quake aid
An Aberdeen scientist tells of his terrifying experience in the aftermath of the massive Japanese earthquake.
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Earthquake ‘terror’ of scientist
A third of city centre buildings in Christchurch could face demolition after the massive quake, New Zealand officials warn.
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Central Christchurch ‘faces demolition’
RICHMOND – A federal judge in Virginia ruled Monday that it is unconstitutional for the government to compel Americans to buy health insurance, marking the first time a court has struck down any facet of the massive new law to overhaul the nation’s health-care system.
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Judge tosses part of health-care law
In Berlin, on November 9th, people placed votive candles before a neighborhood synagogue. A sign in front of a busy train station reminded passersby that trains once took passengers to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Flossenbürg, and a host of other detention camps. And crowds thronged to an exhibition at the German Historical Museum: “Hitler and the Germans.” It was the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the massive pogrom perpetrated, in 1938, against Jewish homes, businesses and institutions in Berlin and nationwide. . . .
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SCOTT HORTON—Unpleasant Recollections
Twenty soldiers with ties to Fort Hood have killed themselves this year-four of them in a single September week. 2010 has been the worst year for soldier suicides at the massive Texas base since 2003, when the military started keeping track. The Army…
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125 Soldier Suicides This Year
