Top 50 World News & Stories - July 10
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Iraq says “terrorist groups” have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country's north. Iraq's UN envoy has appealed for help to "stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad."
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The Palestinian death toll has risen to 81 as Israel continues airstrikes on the third day of Operation Protective Edge. At least 18 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Tuesday.
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His black robes and turban may harken back 1,500 years, but Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's taste in wrist-wear is more 21st century.
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Emergency powers to ensure police can continue to access phone and internet records are being rushed through Parliament.
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Strikes are taking place across the UK over a series of disputes with the government, with hundreds of thousands of public sector workers joining the action.
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UN atomic agency says nuclear material taken from Iraq's Mosul University; poses no major risk
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French and German leaders temper support for new truce call with demand for preventing fighters from crossing border.
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The EU's top court says Germany should not impose a basic language requirement on Turks who want to join their spouses in Germany.
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One week. Two different allegations of Germans spying for the United States.
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Israeli PM says there are no ceasefire talks UN security council to hold an emergency meeting Rockets from Gaza land in residential area in Negev Injured to be treated in Egypt to relieve struggling hospitals Palestinian youths killed wh...
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The German government has ordered that a CIA official be thrown out of the country in response to two cases of alleged spying by the US, reports say.
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The Bank of America recently claimed that the US will continue as the world’s biggest crude oil producer in 2014 after overtaking Saudi Arabia and Russia, as extraction from shale rock fuels the nation’s economic recovery.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has asked a U.S. intelligence official at the embassy in Berlin to leave the country in connection with investigations into suspected American spying in Germany, a German government spokesman said on Thursday.
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JERUSALEM — It might beep like an update for Candy Crush or an incoming Snapchat message on your phone, but the Red Alert app — which provides real-time alerts when rockets are launched toward Israel and has been downloaded to smartphone...
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The Iron Dome system deployed by the Israeli military uses radar-guided missiles to intercept incoming rockets.
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Move comes in response to two reported cases of suspected US spying in Germany Continue reading...
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On the one hand the NSA wants all the allies to work with them on the global war on terror, but on the other hand they still want the “old days” when they could spy on other countries with impunity, former MI5 agent Annie Machon told RT.
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Greece jails 9th far-right lawmaker pending trial, part of crackdown on Nazi-inspired party
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A host of British stars including Benedict Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor have been nominated at this year's Primetime Emmy awards.
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"All I know is that I disassociate from this," the company's former auditor told CNBC.
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A U.S. drone strike killed at least six militants Thursday in a Pakistani tribal region, according to Pakistani intelligence sources.
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He has the trademark brown uniform and the badge of a newly minted sheriff's deputy.
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GAZA CITY — Israel’s major military operation against Hamas and other militant groups in the Gaza Strip entered its third day Thursday, with a surge in deaths in the territory, including nine Palestinians killed while watching a World Cu...
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New study says local infrastructure, especially roads, key to ending Somalia's piracy problem
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The 2014 Emmy nominations were announced Thursday, and the competition is going to be fierce.
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Netflix earns 31 2014 Emmy nominations, including 13 for "House of Cards" and 12 for "Orange is the New Black."
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Qatar looks into citizens' detention by UAE following report that intelligence agents held
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The workers – all Afghan – were attacked as they traveled in convoy to a mined filed in Kohsan district of Herat province.
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Ex-Islamic bloc chief launches Turkish presidential election campaign against Erdogan
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Divisions appear among Ukraine's eastern separatists as key commander refuses to fall in line
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Germany is expelling the CIA chief in Berlin in retaliation for the latest espionage scandal.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - The success of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has emboldened like-minded militants in Lebanon who believe they can emulate it, the interior minister said, confirming the militant Sunni group had now appeared in Be...
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Global equity markets slumped as fears over the stability of Portugal's banking industry compounded concerns over U.S. growth.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 27 wounded in clashes with pro-Russian separatist rebels in the east of the country, the military said on Thursday.
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Lisbon stocks fall sharply amid fears over fate of major Portuguese financial group
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Militants in Iraq have taken nuclear materials from a science facility near Mosul.
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Lawmaker: Germany asks top US spy in Berlin to leave country in response to spy case
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Legislation aims to shore up powers requiring phone and internet companies to retain and hand over data to security services Continue reading...
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It's still a bit fuzzy, but Aereo claims that the Supreme Court ruling that forced it to suspend service may still allow it to operate.
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GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - At least 74 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel's Gaza offensive, Palestinian officials said on Thursday, and militants kept up rocket attacks on Tel Aviv and other cities in warfar...
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On the trail of cycling's toughest race as it explores European battlefields to mark a century since World War I.
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Footage from a river monitoring camera captures a landslide sweeping through the town of Nagiso, a mountainous area of central Japan. As it flattened homes, it killed a boy and injured three members of his family, bringing the total dead...
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Bill Hillmann, the America man who wrote a book on how to survive the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, found himself on the wrong end of a horn at this year’s festival.
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Crude oil price falls below $102 a barrel as Middle East supply concerns ease
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The United Nations has evacuated dozens of foreign staff from its mission in Libya due to a deteriorating security situation in the North African country, a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday.
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NASA astronauts practice underwater to prepare for spacewalks.
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KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive to a sceptical audience in Afghanistan this week to try to resolve a deepening crisis over a disputed presidential election which has stirred ethnic tensions in the fragile...
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Two Ukrainian paratroopers wounded during fighting with pro-Russian militants wed their sweethearts from their hospital beds.
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JUBA (Reuters) - The European Union on Thursday imposed travel bans and asset freezes on two South Sudanese military leaders it said were violating ceasefire agreements put in place to stop fighting that has killed thousands.
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Israel's military pounds areas of Gaza with air raids, as Hamas mocks the country's threat to launch a ground offensive "quite soon."
