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US Shuts Down Syrian Embassy In Washington; Asks Diplomats Without US Citizenship, Permanent Residence Status To Leave Country
IBTimes - 19 Mar 2014 08:20
The U.S. suspended operations of the Syrian embassy in Washington D.C., and its honorary consulates in Troy, Mich., and Houston, announcing that Syrian diplomats in the U.S. are no longer permitted to perform diplomatic ...
California hotel evacuated after chemical suicide
USA Today - 19 Mar 2014 14:05
Suspect used sodium azide to kill herself in the Berkeley City Club, authorities said.
Putin's popularity soars
CNN - 19 Mar 2014 06:45
In Russia, Putin's brazen annexation of Crimea has made him more popular than ever.
14 teens charged with breaking into Southern California mansion, causing $1 million damage
Fox News - 19 Mar 2014 01:14
Authorities have filed criminal charges against 14 teenagers who allegedly broke into a Southern California mansion and held a party that caused more than $1 million in damage and losses, including the theft of a stuffed...
Rwandan ex-intel chief appeals genocide conviction
Boston - 19 Mar 2014 00:56
PARIS (AP) -- A lawyer for a Rwandan former intelligence chief who was convicted in France's first genocide trial says he's filed an appeal for his client.
New £1 coin to combat counterfeiting
BBC - 19 Mar 2014 00:33
A new £1 coin, modelled on the old threepenny bit, is set to be introduced in 2017 to combat counterfeiting.
Huge US child porn ring dismantled
BBC - 19 Mar 2014 00:32
Officials in the US dismantle one of the largest online child pornography rings ever uncovered, the Department of Homeland Security says.
Vietnam Sends Blogger to Prison for Critical Posts
ABC News - 19 Mar 2014 08:16
Vietnam sentences blogger to 15 months in prison for posts critical of communist government
The Taiwanese Parliament Is Being Occupied By Protestors Unhappy With a China Trade Pact
Time - 19 Mar 2014 08:08
Demonstrators say the draft deal hands too much economic advantage to China
Court to rule on Malaya 'massacre'
BBC - 19 Mar 2014 07:44
Judges sitting in the Court of Appeal will rule on a long-running a battle for an inquiry into the killing of 24 villagers in Malaya in 1948.
Russia warns West over sanctions
BBC - 19 Mar 2014 06:05
Russia tells the US that Western sanctions over the Crimea dispute are unacceptable and will have "consequences".
Man sought in 1995 Boston killing agrees to return
Boston - 19 Mar 2014 05:56
Pennsylvania authorities say a man wanted in a 1995 Massachusetts killing has agreed to be returned to the state. A Lehigh County district attorney's spokeswoman told the Patriot Ledger of Quincy that Joslyn Bailey, 48, ...
News Analysis: Russia's Aggression in Crimea Brings NATO Into Renewed Focus
The New York Times - 19 Mar 2014 02:42
Russia's moves in Ukraine have revived the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's role as a counterweight to Moscow, even as it wrestles with its response.
'Unusual Noises' During Chopper Crash Examined
Boston - 19 Mar 2014 00:54
Officials from the NTSB are investigating witness reports that strange noises were heard coming from a TV news helicopter shortly before it crashed in Downtown Seattle Tuesday killing two people. (March 18)
Ukraine grapples with despair in Crimea takeover
Boston - 19 Mar 2014 00:42
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukraine's leadership simmered with a mix of hopelessness and anger at losing Crimea, tempering an influx of eager young men signing up as reservists with the growing certainty that no savior would d...
UN: Syria war crimes proof enough to indict
Al Jazeera English - 19 Mar 2014 00:37
Human rights investigators expand their list of suspected war criminals from both sides of the conflict.
UN: Thousands killed and abused in South Sudan
Boston - 19 Mar 2014 00:22
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. peacekeeping chief says politically fueled ethnic violence in South Sudan since mid-December has led to the brutal killing and abuse of thousands of civilians and sparked a government camp...
Police car death 'shocks Brazil'
BBC - 19 Mar 2014 00:18
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff offers her condolences to the family of a woman who died after being dragged by a police car along a Rio street.
Meat 'contained wrong animal DNA'
BBC - 19 Mar 2014 00:14
Half of all meat samples tested by Leicester City Council contained the DNA of other animals, a report finds.
Dissident 'IRA' claims mortar attack
BBC - 19 Mar 2014 00:12
The dissident republican group which calls itself the IRA has said it was responsible for a mortar attack on a police Land Rover in west Belfast on Friday night.
The Mobile Ad Market Is Exploding Because of These Two Companies
Time - 19 Mar 2014 19:40
The once-tiny mobile advertising sector is seeing huge growth, mainly thanks to the efforts of Google and Facebook. The two tech giants led a 105 percent gain in mobile ad spending in 2013, according to research firm eMa...
Pamela Anderson: I Was Worried 'Sex With Short Hair' Would Be Weird
ABC News - 19 Mar 2014 18:04
Pamela Anderson has been the object of desire for more than two decades now, but a recent change had the former 'Baywatch' star worried that would change. The actress, 46, worried her new short pixie haircut would affect...