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Did Obama admin. know of IRS targeting during campaign
(CBS News) WASHINGTON - There were new questions Saturday night concerning if anyone in the White House was aware of the IRS' targeting of conservative groups. Inspector General Russell George said he informed a deputy at the Treasury Department in June of 2012 about the probe into the IRS. The Treasury Department confirmed the timeline but said they did not know the details of the ...
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Exposs of Chinas Elite a Big Lure in Hong Kong
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MK proposes 5-years in jail for posting sex tapes
Disseminating nude photos or videos without the subject's permission could be punishable by a prison sentence of up to five years, according to a new bill proposed by MK Yifat Kariv.The bill is an amendment to the Law to Prevent Sexual Harassment and will be brought to a vote in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on ...
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Clegg officials ordered to hand over key emails following pressure over his role in obtaining funding for charity linked to his wife Miriam
Nick Clegg was last night facing fresh pressure over his role in obtaining funding for a charity linked to his wife Miriam after the Liberal Democrat leader’s officials were ordered to hand over key emails to Britain’s data ...
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Second wife leaves the Rampant Rabbi Preacher Philip Sharp now has just FIVE spouses after another leaves harem
Karyn Sharp shared her ‘husband’ Philip with six other women for ten years in a bizarre arrangement that saw them dubbed Britain’s most unconventional ...
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Three teenage boys arrested after girl 16 dies hours after taking an illegal drug
A spokeswoman for Cheshire Constabulary said: 'Police investigating the death of a Warrington teenager have arrested three local males on suspicion of supplying drugs and perverting the course of ...
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Tories are in a frenzy - but Soapbox Ed is caught with his pants down
This week, the Conservatives have been working themselves into another Euro frenzy. But this has masked a more significant – and dark – mood that has settled over Ed Miliband and his ...
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Last of the boy soldiers Bid to end centuries of tradition by banning the Army from recruiting under-18s
The issue will be discussed in the Commons on Tuesday and could eventually lead to a ban on enlistment of those under 18. According to military watchdog Forces Watch, of the 22,000 recruits who join up each year, 4,700 are boys and girls under 18 and 80 per cent choose the Army over the RAF or ...
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My dying wife waited NINE hours for district nurse to turn up Family slams NHS 111 hotline as whistleblowers reveal a computer says no mentality worthy of Little Britain comedy
A devastated husband has told how his dying wife was left waiting for a district nurse for nine hours as an NHS 111 call centre superviser revealed a catalogue of appalling failings at the heart of the system, which doctors say is putting lives at ...
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Sex-claim Rolf goes back on stage in Bristol after sex claims
And in his first public reference to the claims against him, he read a note of support from a couple he identified only as ‘Helen and ...
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Camerons prepared to run the country without Clegg following series of bitter rows
The Prime Minister said he is prepared to run the country without his Deputy PM unless Tory-Lib Dem feuding that has paralysed his administration ...
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Suspects are left dangling on bail for too long says top police chief as he calls for a six month limit
Andy Trotter, Chief Constable of the British Transport Police, has joined calls for limits on the length of time people are left on bail before they are charged or ...
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MS customers pay twice on contactless payment cards - despite standing a foot from the till
Marks & Spencer customers are unwittingly having money taken from their accounts through contactless payment cards – despite standing a foot from the ...
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Far-right French politician Marine Le Pen is seriously injured after fracturing her spine in swimming pool fall
Le Pen, who is leader of the National Front (FN), is one of the most high-profile right-wing politicians on the continent, with her hardline anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim agenda regularly winning a huge number of votes at ...
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Is this nurse serving 30 years for murders that never happened Compelling new evidence suggests Angel of Death is innocent
For his crime he was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in jail. He is serving his sentence in the forbidding, maximum-security jail HMP Frankland, near Durham, alongside Soham murderer Ian ...
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Telescope catches the moment a 40kg rock hits the moon and creates a giant ball of light which could be seen from Earth
The explosion on March 17 was the biggest seen since NASA began watching the moon for meteoroid impacts about eight years ago. So far, more than 300 strikes have been ...
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Dont go breaking my gnome As the Chelsea Flower Show finally allows the tiny figures see how Elton John and other stars decorated theirs
It's a big week for the little people. For a 100 years, gnomes have been banned from the Chelsea Flower Show – but this year not only have they been allowed into the gardens, they have been actively embraced by the esteemed gatekeepers of the Royal Horticultural ...
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My Google glimpse of the future... or am I making a spectacle of myself The revolutionary smartphone in your glasses which fans admit makes you look stupid
It's 4pm and I need a caffeine fix on the unfamiliar streets of San Francisco. I would normally whip out my phone, go online to find the nearest coffee shop and put the address into its navigational ...
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LIZ JONES Old women are great with cakes - but far too prickly for TV news
But with their loud cries for comebacks, Angela Rippon, Joan Bakewell and Selina Scott, who surely landed their TV careers due to their good looks (and, in the case of Rippon, great legs), remind me why this particular sort of older woman is a ...
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BLACK DOG Skiing accident MP Graham Stuart a victim of power politics as officials reject expenses claim for electric wheelchair
'My doctor told them that to carry out my MPs' duties, I probably needed an electric wheelchair. The expenses officials said that since I only 'probably' needed an electric one, I'd have to make do with a manual one. I ask ...
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How Jill Dandos death convinced me everything you know about crime is wrong NICK ROSS tells the shocking truth about the murder of his friend and the real cause of crime
Rather than punishing the miscreants, it might have been better had he put the forbidden fruit higher up the tree. We have been too slow to realise how strongly crime levels are dictated by temptation and ...
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King of Swaziland wants to make me his virgin bride... so you must let me stay in the UK Womans plea for asylum after fleeing African monarch
Tintswalo Ngobeni, 22, fled to England from the southern African nation as a teenager after she caught the attention of the millionaire monarch, a notoriously oppressive ruler known for his lavish ...
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The pyjama-clad hero robbed of Everest glory The bizarre story of the genius who helped Hillary to the summit 60 years ago... wearing his night clothes
Today, the name of this pioneering physiologist is barely known. Yet without his tireless devotion and extraordinary eye for detail, the conquest of Mount Everest in May 1953 could never have taken ...
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Put babies in the baggage hold Clarksons latest gaffe causes outrage as he claims that children should not be able to sit in an aeroplane cabin
Clarkson, 53, has a long history of talking himself into trouble. He has joked about the deaths of 23 Chinese cockle-pickers in Morecambe, suggested striking public sector workers should be shot, mocked Korean automobile workers for eating dogs and branded BMW ...
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Support for UKIP reaches a record 19 as the party steals supporters from Labour and Tories
Despite a week of controversy, in which UKIP leader Nigel Farage visited Edinburgh and was locked in a pub by angry protestors, public backing for the party has never been ...
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Saudi Arabia's massive infastructure drive
Saudi Arabia is in the midst of a major construction boom being implemented and supported by the national government in order to improve infrastructure and living standards in the largest economy in the Arab world.
It was recently announced by the director-general of the Saudi Industrial Property Authority (MODON), Tawfig Fawzan Alrabiah, that a new industrial city would be built in Taif in order to cope with growing demand for industrial land in Saudi Arabia. The Taif Industrial City will in fact be a ‘city within a city’ so to speak, but will measure 11 square miles in size and will function as a fully-fledged industrial city, providing all the infrastructure required in such zones. Read more
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