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3,222 Islamic State Targets Hit, Pentagon Says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria have damaged or destroyed 3,222 targets since August, including 58 tanks, 184 Humvees, 673 fighting...

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Photos: Where Ice and Snow Warm the Hearts of Festival Visitors

The northeast United States might be feeling an uncomfortable chill this week, but for Harbin, a city in China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province, the colder, the better. Rather than complain, chilly...

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After Charlie Hebdo, Moderate Islam Must Speak Out

First they came for the Iraqi soldiers, those young men in uniform, who were massacred and tossed in trenches. Then they dragged off the women and girls who didn’t pray to their god and sold them into...

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FSU’s Jameis Winston Declares for NFL Draft: Big Puppy or Big Dog?

Jameis Winston will never forget his 21st birthday. On Tuesday, January 6, the Florida State quarterback and 2013 Heisman Trophy winner turned 21 and decided to turn pro. “After weighing this decision...

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Three French Media Companies Offer Employees, Support to Keep Charlie Hebdo...

Just before noon in Paris, three armed gunmen who claimed allegiance to Al-Qaeda entered the offices of French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed 10 employees and two police officers before...

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The Ignored Massacre on India’s Forgotten Fringe

“Are you going on to India?” I found myself asking two Swiss tourists whom I met over New Year's in India’s northeastern state of Assam.I could try to justify the question by explaining that they had...

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Police Officer Ahmed Merabet Shot During Charlie Hebdo Massacre

One of the police officers killed in the terrorist attack today in Paris has been identified as 42-year-old Ahmed Merabet.The attack began around 11:30 a.m. local time when three men entered the...

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After Paris Attack, News Outlets Face Difficult Choice Over Controversial...

News outlets around the world are grappling with whether to show potentially inflammatory images from the French leftist magazine Charlie Hebdo after gunmen stormed the magazine’s headquarters...

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NASA Makes Vintage Posters for Futuristic Travel

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology is marketing three other-worldly travel destinations in the form of hypothetical posters from the fictional Exoplanet Travel...

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Yemeni TV Correspondent First Journalist Killed in 2015

Before Wednesday’s deadly attack on the offices of a satirical magazine in Paris, Khalid Mohammed al-Washali, a local Yemeni TV correspondent, became the first journalist to be killed in 2015.His death...

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FBI Director Provides New Evidence Implicating North Korea in Sony Hack

After numerousexperts disputed the FBI’s assertion that North Korea was behind the notorious Sony hack, which revealed sensitive internal information and resulted in the partial canceling of The...

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After the Attack: The Future of ‘Charlie Hebdo’

When heavily armed gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, Gerard Biard, the satirical magazine’s editor-in-chief was on a trip to London. Now, in the aftermath of the assault,...

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Police Hunt Brothers After Paris Attack as Third Man Hands Himself In

The youngest of three French nationals being sought by police for a suspected Islamist militant attack that killed 12 people at a satirical magazine on Wednesday turned himself in to the police, an...

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Police Officer Wounded in New Shootout in Southern Paris

A police officer was wounded in a shootout in southern Paris on Thursday, a police source told Reuters, adding that it was unclear at this stage whether there was any link to the killings at the...

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Second Shooting in Paris Leaves One Policewoman Dead

Another shooting has been reported in Paris this morning although as yet, there is no official confirmation it is linked to yesterday's attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices in which 12 people...

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Anti-Islam Marches Will Come to Britain, Says Former EDL Leader Robinson

The former leader of the far-right English Defence League (EDL), Tommy Robinson, has spoken out in favour of the anti-Islam marches that have been taking place in German cities, and said that he...

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The Turbulent Genius of David Foster Wallace

Read what follows with a stern caveat emptor in mind, for it has been written by an unabashed David Foster Wallace fanboy, one of those forlorn, bespectacled young men covertly handed a copy of...

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French Police Converge on Town as Charlie Hebdo Attackers Spotted

French anti-terrorism police converged on an area northeast of Paris on Thursday after two brothers suspected of being behind an attack on a satirical newspaper were spotted at a petrol station in the...

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Controversial Signing of Convicted Rapist by UK Football Club Collapses

The signing of convicted rapist Ched Evans by third tier English football club Oldham Athletic, which triggered fierce debate about the role of professional football in British society, has collapsed...

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Marine Le Pen Calls for Return of Death Penalty After Paris Shooting

The leader of France’s resurgent far-right party Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen has called for France to bring back the death penalty, in light of the attack in Paris on Wednesday. 12 people were...

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