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May 20, 2013 14:55
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- Battle for strategic Qusair: Syrian army, Hezbollah fight rebels for supply corridor
- Intense fighting is reported from the strategic Syrian town of Qusair, as rebels and government forces fight to control the area. Opposition activists say 30 members of Hezbollah were killed, while the government claims to have captured the area. 287
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FSB foils terror plot: 2 militants 'trained in Afghan-Pakistan region' killed in Moscow manhunt
- Russia’s FSB has foiled a terror attack in Moscow as they managed to kill two and detain one of the militants planning it, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said. 165
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Swedish extradition request for Assange ‘a fit-up’ - UK intel chatter
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cited unclassified messages exchanged inside a UK intelligence agency to back his refusal to be extradited to Sweden. One of the messages calls sex-related allegations against Assange “a fit-up”. 117
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Rioters in Sweden protest alleged brutality, racism after police shoot elderly man
- Rioters took to the streets of a Stockholm neighborhood on Sunday, torching cars and throwing stones at police. Officers reportedly called residents “monkeys” and other derogatory terms as they protested against a recent police shooting. 83
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‘Like hardened criminals’: UK police sample DNA from 120,000 children in 2 years
- British police collected the DNA of more than 120,000 children in just two years, with a thousand of them aged 10 at the time of the swab. Most of the youngsters have committed no punishable crime, but their DNA data will be stored for years. 30
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Car bomb explosion kills 4, injures 46 in Dagestan, southern Russia
- Double car bomb explosion killed four and injured at least 46 as blasts struck outside the headquarters of the court bailiffs' service in the capital of Russia’s Dagestan Republic, Makhachkala. 49
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N. Korea continues short-range missile launches for 3rd day - South
- North Korea has fired two short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan on Monday, South Korean Defense Ministry reports. It’s the third day in a row of such launches, despite calls from the UN to cease them. 194
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At least 95 dead, dozens wounded as string of bombings hit Iraq
- A series of bombings across Iraq has left at least 95 people dead. The blasts targeted Shia Muslims in Baghdad and Basra. 84
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100 days of hunger: Anonymous stands up for Gitmo prisoners
- Over the last three days Anonymous ‘Operation Guantanamo’ hashtags #OpGITMO and #GTMO have skyrocketed in popularity on Twitter, drawing attention to the 100th day of the inmates' hunger strike, as their protest becomes a question of life and death. 22
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Rice seeds sown in former Fukushima evacuation zone
- Farmers in Fukushima have started planting rice in the former radioactive no-go zone, as close as 15 km from the TEPCO plant which suffered a meltdown in March 2011. They intend to sell the grain for mass consumption. 15
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Israel’s ‘illegal’ military entry permit bars selected tourists from West Bank - report
- Many tourists hoping to visit the West Bank are finding it impossible to do so – because Israel requires certain visitors to have an entry permit. Obtaining permission is anything but easy, because Tel Aviv doesn't explain the process, Haaretz reported. 29
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