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Videla was serving life imprisonment for human rights violations, including kidnap, torture and murder, during what the dictatorship called “the Dirty War” against opponents. As an army general, Videla led the March 1976 coup that toppled the government of Maria Estela Martinez de Peron. Under the regime, an estimated 30,000 people disappeared, presumed...
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A published report says a video that appears to show Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine is being shopped around by a group of men allegedly involved in the drug trade. There was no way to verify the video, however, which was the subject of a report on Gawker on Thursday and...
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Two earthquakes shook eastern Ontario and Quebec Friday morning, rattling buildings and nerves as far away as Barrie, Toronto and Waterloo. A 5.2 magnitude quake hit about 20 kilometres northeast of Shawville, Que., at 9:43 a.m., according to Earthquakes Canada. Although the data initially indicated a 4.2 magnitude earthquake shook Braeside, Ont., 10 minutes...
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A Greek member of parliament from the far-right party Golden Dawn is heard shouting ’Heil Hitler’ during an argument with members of the a far-left party, according to reports. Here’s what’s thought to have happened: Iliopoulos, who had recently assaulted some immigrant vendors at an Athens port, got into an argument with members...
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A Syrian rebel militia leader who filmed cutting the heart and organs out of a regime soldier’s body and putting it in his mouth has defended his actions as legitimate vengeance. Mutilating the corpse, Khaled al-Hamad, known by the pseudonym Abu Sakkar, handed an instant propaganda victory to the Syrian government, which accused the...
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A high-tech team of scientists and filmmakers shared pictures of what appears to have been a centuries-old civilization in Honduras, one year after they used laser-mapping technology to identify traces of structures in the thick jungle. The square-shaped and rounded structures, seen in computerized elevation maps of a rugged rain forest, may have been...
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The leaders of the panel that independently reviewed the attack last year in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans have agreed to testify publicly before Congress to counter what they consider unfounded criticism of their work. In a letter to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, veteran diplomat Thomas Pickering says he and...
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Russia’s security services say they have caught a U.S. diplomat who they claim is a CIA agent in a red-handed attempt to recruit a Russian agent. Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, was carrying special technical equipment, disguises, written instructions and a large sum of money when he was...
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A seamstress buried in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days was rescued Friday, a miraculous moment set against a scene of unimaginable horror, where the death toll shot past 1,000. Reshma survived, in remarkably good shape, by eating dried food that was in her area and drinking spare amounts...
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Iran Claims To Have Built A Radar-Proof Drone That Can Do Surveillance And Fire At Targets Iran’s defense minister says Iran has built a new, radar-evading drone that can do surveillance and fire on enemy targets.The semi-official Fars news agency on Thursday quoted Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as saying that the new aircraft — dubbed...
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The moon will block the sun in a potentially spectacular solar eclipse this week — a celestial event that will transform the sun into a cosmic “ring of fire” in the daytime sky. The ring-shaped solar eclipse, known as an annular eclipse, will occur Thursday and Friday (May 9 and 10) Eastern time. Weather...
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A 28-year-old woman miraculously survived after her husband accidentally shot her in the mouth with a harpoon, Brazilian officials said Wednesday. The Rio de Janeiro State Health Department said in a statement that the woman’s husband was cleaning his spear gun when it went off, firing a harpoon that hit her cervical spine. Photo:...
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If any American has the power of persuasion over North Korea’s defiant young ruler, it might be eccentric ex-basketball star Dennis Rodman. So when Rodman digitally called for Kim Jong Un to release U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae, he may have a shot at a response. “I’m calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea...
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Robbers dressed as police and armed with machine guns stole 120 parcels of diamonds from the runway of Brussels airport without firing a shot. The suspect detained in France was believed to be a member of the gang of eight who carried out the heist. reuters
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The death toll from a collapsed building housing five garment factories rose to 761 on Wednesday as authorities started disbursing salary and other benefits to the survivors in the country’s deadliest industrial disaster. According to a control room at the scene, rescue workers recovered more bodies out of the wreckage of the eight-story Rana...
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Connected China is an interactive tracker of the people, organizations and relationships that form China’s elite power structure. Photo: China Premier Li Keqiang seen through a camera during a conference. REUTERS/Jason Lee reuters
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One of the Philippines’ most active volcanoes spewed huge rocks and ash Tuesday, killing at least five climbers and trapping more than a dozen others near the crater, officials say. This was its first eruption in three years. Officials say at least seven were injured from a group of about 20 mountaineers caught by...
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Beate Zschaepe, 38, is accused of being part of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), which killed 10 people, mostly of Turkish background. She denies the murder charges. After entering court, she stood with folded arms and turned her back on the camera. The case sparked controversy as police wrongly blamed the Turkish mafia. The...
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A Pakistani official says a bomb blast has killed at least 14 people at an election campaign rally of a pro-Taliban party in the country’s northwest. Javed Khan, a government administrator in the Kurram tribal region where the bombing took place, says Monday’s attack also wounded 50 people. He says the bomb was apparently...
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Giulio Andreotti, who served as Italian prime minister seven times and whose name was synonymous with political survival and cunning in the land that gave the world Machiavelli, died on Monday at the age of 94. Andreotti, who for more than half a century was known as “Mr Italy” because of the many offices...
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