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Alan Goldsack Remove children from criminal families at birth to save them from crime says top judge
Alan Goldsack QC, the Recorder of Sheffield, said drastic action was sometimes needed ‘because crime runs in families’ and that it was ‘frightening’ he is now seeing in his courtroom the grandchildren of criminals he prosecuted or defended 40 years ...
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David Cameron to launch new terror task force to stamp out religious extremism
David Cameron is planning new powers to muzzle Islamic hate preachers accused of provoking terrorist outrages such as the killing of soldier Lee ...
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Omar Bakri Hate preachers rant that will fuel Prime Minsters crackdown on extremist teachings
Extremist cleric Omar Bakri yesterday described the Woolwich terrorist he inspired as a ‘hero’ and praised him for remaining at the murder ...
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Lee Rigby Woolwich attack Three more men arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder
The arrests came as authorities in France investigated whether the killing was linked to an attack on a French soldier who was stabbed in the neck in a busy shopping area outside Paris ...
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Abu Nusaybah Friend who claimed Woolwich suspect was offered MI5 job is linked to banned Islamist group
The childhood friend of one of the Woolwich suspects who was dramatically arrested at the BBC has disguised his identity and is linked to a banned extremist group, The Mail on Sunday can ...
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Sarah McClay death Police probe whether zookeeper was mauled by tiger because of technical fault
Police were last night investigating if a technical failure led to a young female zoo keeper being mauled to death by a tiger. Sarah McClay, 24, was killed when the animal pounced on her in its enclosure on ...
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Madeline McCann Police contacted Army for information days before confirming they had identified new persons of interest
Maddie mystery of ex-soldier and his camper van: Police contacted Army for information days before confirming they had identified new 'persons of ...
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Italy holds local polls in test for parties
Italians voted in local elections on Sunday that will test political parties three months from a general election that left no clear winner and a month after the start of a fragile coalition ...
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US teenager planned school bomb attack inspired by Columbine
Grant Acord, 17, planned to attack his school in Oregon in a plot "forged and inspired" by the 1999 mass shooting at a high school in Columbine, Colorado, said Benton County district attorney John Haroldson.Acord will be charged as an adult and also faces six counts of manufacturing and possessing a destructive device after investigators found the six bombs in a secret compartment in ...
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Car bomb attacks kill five in Iraqi city
A police officer said the car bomb went off early this morning at a house as a joint army-police unit was conducting door-to-door searches, killing two policemen and one soldier. He said 21 people, including 4 civilians, were wounded. In the city centre militants gunned down a policeman in his car. Authorities also found a body floating in the Tigris river, shot at close range with the hands ...
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Rockets strike Lebanese Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut suburb sparking fears that Syria conflict is spreading across border
Hezbollah has heavy backing from Shia Iran, with analysts in the region fearing that the Syrian conflict is turning into a proxy war in the ...
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Japans Abe ends Myanmar visit with aid debt write-off
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Myanmar's President Thein Sein toast during lunch at the Myanmar International Convention Centre in Naypyitaw May 26, ...
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French president Hollandes popularity inches up poll
France's President Francois Hollande delivers his speech during the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Organization of African Union (OAU), at the 21st Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Government in capital Addis Ababa May 25, ...
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Iran asks the West to keep off poll process
Iran has accused the US and France of "interference" for criticising it for barring hundreds of would-be candidates in next month's presidential election. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Sunday that Tehran was "highly sensitive" about comments targeting its internal affairs, while his spokesman Abbas Araqchi said: "Elections in Iran are free and ...
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Laughing all the way to the bank The comics who are earning a fortune and even overtaking Premier League footballers
Publicly available accounts have revealed Britain's funny men - and women - are laughing all the way to the bank, out earning some of the most high profile football ...
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Cameron sparks row by swanning off on holiday to Ibiza with his family as Britain is gripped by terror crisis
Sun : 'While the country struggles to come to terms with the vile crime in Woolwich this week and investigations continue, he has swanned off to ...
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Pope visits his first parish on Rome outskirts
Pope Francis on Sunday visited a Rome parish for the first time, choosing a church on the outskirts of the city following his call for clergymen to take God's message to the "fringes" of ...
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Canadian truck in Washington state bridge collapse was too tall
A span of highway bridge sits in the Skagit River May 24, 2013 after collapsing near the town of Mt Vernon, Washington late Thursday. (REUTERS/Cliff ...
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Insight Nigerias war on terror wins tentative support
Goodluck Jonathan took a gamble when he launched a big offensive this month on Boko Haram's four-year-old attempt to establish an Islamic state in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria. The crackdown risks stoking, rather than quashing the rebellion, but has so far met with a surprising degree of support in a region that has long accused the oil-rich Christian south of neglect. "We felt let ...
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Texas flooding
>Editor's note: Are you there? Stay safe, and send photos or video.(CNN) -- Two women died Saturday from raging floodwaters in San Antonio, including one who was swept away after rescue workers nearly reached her. At one point Saturday, a storm and subsequent flash floods had knocked out power to about 12,000 customers and spurred the closure of dozens of streets in the southern Texas city ...
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Texas flooding
>Editor's note: Are you there? Stay safe, and send photos or video.(CNN) -- Two women died Saturday from raging floodwaters in San Antonio, including one who was swept away after rescue workers nearly reached her. At one point Saturday, a storm and subsequent flash floods had knocked out power to about 12,000 customers and spurred the closure of dozens of streets in the southern Texas city ...
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Texas flooding
>Editor's note: Are you there? Stay safe, and send photos or video.(CNN) -- Two women died Saturday from raging floodwaters in San Antonio, including one who was swept away after rescue workers nearly reached her. At one point Saturday, a storm and subsequent flash floods had knocked out power to about 12,000 customers and spurred the closure of dozens of streets in the southern Texas city ...
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Texas flooding
>Editor's note: Are you there? Stay safe, and send photos or video.(CNN) -- Two women died Saturday from raging floodwaters in San Antonio, including one who was swept away after rescue workers nearly reached her. At one point Saturday, a storm and subsequent flash floods had knocked out power to about 12,000 customers and spurred the closure of dozens of streets in the southern Texas city ...
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Texas flooding
>Editor's note: Are you there? Stay safe, and send photos or video.(CNN) -- Two women died Saturday from raging floodwaters in San Antonio, including one who was swept away after rescue workers nearly reached her. At one point Saturday, a storm and subsequent flash floods had knocked out power to about 12,000 customers and spurred the closure of dozens of streets in the southern Texas city ...
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Police probe Paris soldier stabbing as 3 held over London murder
French anti-terror investigators on Sunday probed the stabbing of a soldier in Paris in an attack that echoed the grisly killing of another soldier in London, where British police were holding three new ...
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San Antonio planning facelift for downtown
River North is widely considered to be one of the most rundown, neglected and unsafe areas of the city. It has stood for years at the edge of downtown like a blight on the conscience of San Antonio, reminding city officials and the community constantly that something must be done. But, finding the money to proceed with a redevelopment project has proven difficult, until recently.
River North will be entirely overhauled in a new project that aims to revamp the area and make it an integral part of the life and culture of the city’s core, rather than a ghost town that people avoided at all costs. The project is finally underway following the injection of over US$24 million in funding for the overhaul. Read more
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