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Ivory Coast stampede kills dozens, mostly children
New Year's Day celebrations took a deadly turn early Tuesday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, when a stampede following a fireworks show killed dozens of people, most of them children, according to a fire department official.
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Friend knocks out his friend to prevent him from driving drunk
A tale of some friends.
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Social media casts spotlight on Ohio rape case
The videos, pictures and tweets are chilling. A picture of a girl dangling limply from the arms of two young men.
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Malala Yousafzai was discharged from a hospital in Birmingham, England, on Thursday
In an attack that propelled her to global recognition, Malala was targeted in Pakistan by Taliban gunmen for speaking out in favor of education for Pakistani girls. She was left with life-threatening head and neck wounds.
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Japanese Man Vacations on Syrian Front Lines
Toshifumi Fujimoto has been taking pictures with his cameras and a compact video camera in Aleppo, the heart of the Syrian conflict.
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Former NRA President: Banning Assault Weapons Is Like Banning People of Color
The National Rifle Association has repeatedly thumbed its nose at calls for stronger gun safety measures after the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. Current NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre shocked many by attacking these efforts and calling instead for armed guards in every school.
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US condemns Assad 'puppet' speech
The state department said a peace plan outlined by Mr Assad was "detached from reality", calling it "another attempt by the regime to cling to power".
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Torture in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ film is fictional, says ex-CIA agent
Bloody interrogations like those depicted in Hollywood’s take on the hunt for Osama bin Laden “Zero Dark Thirty” never really happened, according to the former CIA official who ran such programs.
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Pakistan bombings kill at least 100
Attacks in city of Quetta, including two bombs in ten minutes at snooker club, come at time of heightened political tension.
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Moises Saman's Photographs of the Egyptian Revolution
The Cairo-based photographer Moises Saman has been covering the Arab Spring and its repercussions since the revolution’s inception. “The past two years in Egyptian politics have been like a turbulent soap opera, playing out on the streets of Cairo for all the world to see,” he told me.
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Don’t Regulate Guns. Regulate Who Can Get Them.
To beat the NRA, don’t focus on guns. Focus on keeping them away from dangerous people.
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A Maid's Execution in Saudi Arabia
Although their remittances lift their societies from stark poverty, a foreign maid steps into a world of abuse, overwork, and suspicion in Saudi Arabia.
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Six held after new Indian 'bus rape'
Police in India have arrested six men after they allegedly gang-raped a woman on a bus, just weeks after a similar attack shocked the nation.
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Another gang rape in India
In an incident eerily similar to a sexual assault that sent shock waves worldwide, Indian police say a woman was gang-raped over the weekend by seven men after she boarded a bus at night.
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Best answer to gun violence is ending the “War on Drugs.”
Melissa Harris-Perry and her guests on Sunday discussed whether the best answer to gun violence is ending the “War on Drugs.”
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Senator Asks CIA Nominee When Drones Can Kill Americans
Sen. Ron Wyden wants John Brennan, President Obama's nominee to lead the CIA, to explain the administration's rationale for targeting U.S. citizens with drone strikes.
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Syria crisis: Dozens killed by Aleppo university blasts
More than 80 people have been killed by two blasts in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, activists and officials say. The explosions reportedly struck an area between the University of Aleppo's halls of residence and the architecture faculty on the first day of exams.
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Video games don't create violence in society, they reflect it
Last week the long-debated subject of violence in video games hit a crescendo of sorts. A topic often debated among game makers, game players, parents and politicians found itself at the center of a discussion in the White House about the broader topic of violence in America.
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How unrealistic is murder on television?
There is a great deal of fictionalised murder on television. But does it give us the wrong idea about crime?
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I’m Mentally Ill, I Love Violent Video Games, And They’ve Never Made Me Feel Like Killing Anyone
When it was reported that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre were big fans of Doom, the original first person shooter in the eyes of many, I dismissed the idea that violent video games could have been responsible for inspiring the event.
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