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24 Jul 2010 13:46

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Music, World: Love Parade tragedy: German music festival’s line turns deadly

  • 15+ people were killed at the Love Parade festival in Germany
  • 40+ people were injured while in the festival’s crushing line source
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24 Jul 2010 13:41

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Music, World: Love Parade tragedy: Mass panic blamed for festival stampede

Apparently something spooked the crowd of German techno fans, leading to the mass stampede. The festival appears to not be going on anymore. source
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24 Jul 2010 10:55

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World: The Taliban: We have two U.S. nationals. The U.S.: We want them back.

  • $20,000 reward for their safe release source
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24 Jul 2010 10:47

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World: North Korea and their famous style of overreaction fail to disappoint

  • The army and people of the [North] will legitimately counter with their powerful nuclear deterrence the largest-ever nuclear war exercises.
  • A message from North Korea’s National Defense Commission • Regarding the building tension over the United States’ war exercises with South Korea. Yeah, they want to pull nukes out just because the U.S. and South Korea plan to begin Operation Invincible Spirit, a series of troop exercises, starting tomorrow. Of course, if North Korea had kept a cool head over the last however many years, would the war exercises even be necessary? source
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23 Jul 2010 14:21

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World: Your life sucks less than this: Bear with its head stuck in a jar

  • Poor guy! For the last two weeks, this Canadian bear has been wandering around the forest with a jar stuck on its head. Jokes aside, this is really scary for the guy, because he can’t eat, drink or anything. Animal control has been trying (and failing) to help him out. Some argue that this is a perfect example of the humans having unintended consequences on the environment. Because, really, who wants to see a bear in such an awful situation? source
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22 Jul 2010 19:39

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World: Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina play a part in Hugo Chavez story

  • cause Colombia claimed that Venezuela had turned into a haven for rebels and guerrillas under Hugo Chavez, a charge that Chavez denies.
  • reaction Chavez severed diplomatic ties with Colombia –  while hanging out with Argentinian soccer legend Maradona. WTF? source
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18 Jul 2010 10:07

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World: Iranian scientist: The U.S. wanted to trade me for those hikers

  • Remember the Russian spy swap? Imagine an Iranian version. While Shahram Amiri sticks by his story that he was held by U.S. agents for over a year, this little detail stands out. Amiri reportedly was going to be used as a bargaining chip to get back hikers Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Josh Fattal, who were captured by Iran about a year ago after hiking in the wrong place. If that’s true, it adds a new layer to the bizarre story. source
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18 Jul 2010 09:44

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World: The “Sons of Iraq” the main targets of deadly suicide blast

  • 43+ killed by the attack aimed at the Sunni militia group source
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18 Jul 2010 09:38

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World: Hillary Clinton’s in Pakistan, and she has money for them

  • $7.5
    billion     set aside for Pakistan in a development deal approved by Congress last fall
  • $500
    million     amount that Clinton is ready to offer the Afghan War outliers – the first product of the five-year plan source
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18 Jul 2010 09:27

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World: Twitter (loudly) celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 92nd birthday

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