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10 years ago+16 16 0China's Jurassic Park yields yet more feathered dinosaurs
Remarkably preserved skeletons dating back 160million years were discovered in rocks beneath the famous Jehol Biota in north eastern China.
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10 years ago+17 17 0India supports Russian interests in Crimea
New Delhi, March 6: India has said Russia holds “legitimate interests” in Ukraine, becoming the first major nation appearing to publicly lean towards Moscow at a time it is largely isolated internationally over its military intervention in the Crimea ...
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10 years ago+14 14 0Armed men confiscate AP equipment in Crimea
Armed men in Crimea's capital city have confiscated equipment from Associated Press employees and contractors working th
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10 years ago+15 15 0For First Time, Kremlin Signals It Is Prepared to Annex Crimea
Leaders of both houses of Russia’s Parliament said that they would support a vote by Crimeans to break away from Ukraine and become a region of the Russian Federation, ignoring sanction threats and warnings, from the United States and other countries ...
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10 years ago+24 24 0Snowden: I raised NSA concerns internally over 10 times before going rogue
Edward Snowden says he had no legal avenue for blowing the whistle on NSA spying.
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10 years ago+41 41 0Vietnamese Navy has confirmed the plane crashed into the ocean, MH370 removed from the arrivals board at Beijing airport
Malaysia Airlines said it has lost contact with a plane carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
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10 years ago-1 2 3Malaysia Airlines loses contact with plane carrying 239 people
A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing lost contact with air traffic controllers early on Saturday, the airline said in a statement, the plane likely missing in Vietnamese airspace
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10 years ago+19 19 066 students expelled for cheering Pakistan cricket
Dozens of Muslim students from the disputed Indian territory of Kashmir were expelled from their university and briefly threatened with sedition charges because they cheered for the Pakistani cricket team during a televised match against archrival In ...
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10 years ago+15 15 0Suspected Russian spyware Turla targets Europe, United States
A sophisticated piece of spyware has been quietly infecting hundreds of government computers across Europe and the United States in one of the most complex cyber espionage programs uncovered to date.
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10 years ago+15 15 0Fireball turns the night sky blue as it explodes over Yellowknife
the fireball was a meteor 1m in size.
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10 years ago+20 20 0There have already been almost 3,000 murders in Venezuela since the start of the year
While protests ravage Venezuela's streets, murders continue to climb in its back alleys. In the first two months of 2014 (link in Spanish) 2,841 people were murdered, a more than 10% jump from the same period last year, when 2,576 murders were r ...
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10 years ago+11 11 0Ukraine crisis: Crimea military base stand-off 'ends'
Pro-Russian soldiers reportedly briefly take over a Ukrainian military base outside Sevastopol, as tensions continue on the Crimean peninsula.
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10 years ago+11 11 0CNN team told to stop broadcasting from Crimea
A CNN team in Crimea was told to stop broadcasting on Thursday or they'd be kicked out of their hotel. CNN International correspondent Anna Coren told Anderson Cooper her team was told by the management of the hotel they are staying in that unl ...
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10 years ago+25 25 0The Muslim Tatars in Crimea are getting giant "X"s marked on their doors
As Crimea prepares for a referendum on its future, its native Muslim residents are preparing for the worst.
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10 years ago+12 12 0TIL a bite from a grizzly bear can crush a bowling ball
The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos ssp.) is any North American subspecies of the brown bear, such as the mainland grizzly (U. a. horribilis), the Kodiak (U. a. middendorffi), the peninsular grizzly (U. a. gyas) and the recently extinct California grizzly ...
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10 years ago+11 11 0TIL purple cloth was rare in medieval Europe partially because blue and red dyes were made by separate guilds
Purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue.[1][2] The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as a deep, rich shade between crimson and violet.[3]
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10 years ago+14 14 0South Korea ranks 3rd in global suicide rates, and the biggest cause for youths? Bad scores related to an extremely difficult exam.
South Korea came to a grinding halt on Thursday morning as 650,000 high school seniors prepared to take the most important exam of their lives.
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10 years ago+9 9 0In 1989, Trump paid $85,000 for an ad pushing death penalty for 14 year old boy who was later exonerated of the crime. Trump refuses to apologize.
Liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news.
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10 years ago+15 15 0Florida man builds a backyard gun range in a residential neighborhood; the mayor finds he's powerless to do anything about it
ORLANDO, Florida - Every Wednesday afternoon, Doug Varrieur steps into his backyard in the Florida Keys, aims his .380 caliber Smith & Wesson pistol and fires shots.
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10 years ago+24 24 0Army’s top sex assault prosecutor suspended after assault allegation
The top Army prosecutor for sexual assault cases has been suspended after a lawyer who worked for him recently reported he’d groped her and tried to kiss her at a sexual-assault legal conference more than two years ago.