Federal Reserve Bomb Plotter Jailed For 30 Years

A 22-year-old man who admitted plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, from Bangladesh, begged for leniency during his sentencing, having pleaded guilty...

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Zimbabwe's Opposition Appeals Mugabe Poll Win

Zimbabwe's main opposition party has gone to the country's top court to challenge the result of last month's election which gave President Robert Mugabe another five years in power. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) claims the poll on July 31...

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Venezuela: Maduro Sleeps In Chavez's Tomb

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro makes no secret of his devotion to the late leader Hugo Chavez - and now he has admitted he sometimes sleeps in the mausoleum where his mentor's remains are kept. Mr Maduro, who served as Mr Chavez's vice president,...

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Olympic Boycott Urged Over Russia Gay Rights

By Katie Stallard, Russia Correspondent Calls are growing for a boycott of next year's Winter Olympics in Russia in protest at what campaigners have called its "barbaric" new homophobic laws. Broadcaster Stephen Fry has appealed directly to David...

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Malaria Jab a Step Closer After Vaccine Trial

Tests on a new malaria vaccine have raised hopes the battle is being won against the disease which kills hundreds of thousands of people every year. The experimental drug, which is known as PfSPZ and is made from living Plasmodium falciparum parasites,...

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Oprah Winfrey 'Victim Of Racism' In Swiss Shop

Oprah Winfrey has said she recently became a victim of racism when a shop assistant in Switzerland refused to show her a handbag saying it would be "too expensive" for her. The US chat show host, who is one of the richest women in the world, was in...

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Canada Snake Attack: Boys Died Of Asphyxiation

Police have confirmed that brothers Connor and Noah Barthe died of asphyxiation after they were strangled to death by a 13-foot-long African rock python in Canada. Post-mortem examinations on the children's bodies have confirmed the cause of death as...

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Two British Women In Acid Attack In Zanzibar

Two teenage British charity workers have had acid thrown in their faces in a late night attack on the island of Zanzibar. The 18-year-old women were attacked as they were walking through the streets of Stone Town, the historical centre of the capital...

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Syria: Assad 'Unharmed After Rebel Attack'

Syrian authorities have denied claims that President Bashar al Assad's motorcade was attacked by rebels in Damascus. Rebel groups claimed they launched the attack as Mr Assad travelled to attend prayers to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al Fitr, but...

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Iran's Rouhani Urges Nuclear Talks With West

Iran's new President Hassan Rouhani has said he is "seriously determined" to resolve a dispute with the West over Tehran's nuclear programme. Addressing his first news conference as leader, Mr Rouhani said was ready to enter "serious and substantive"...

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Iraq Bombs: Dozens Killed In Car Blasts

At least 51 people have been killed by a series of car bombs that ripped through busy markets and shopping streets in and around Baghdad. More than 100 were wounded in the blasts as Iraq battles with its worst surge of sectarian violence in five years....

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Kenya Airport Fire: Inbound Flights Diverted

Kenya's main international airport has been closed as firefighters tackle a large blaze in the arrivals area. Inbound flights have been rerouted to other Kenyan airports while the fire continues to burn at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi....

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Python Attack: Snake Kills Two Sleeping Boys

A python that escaped from a pet shop has killed two children by asphyxiating them in their sleep in eastern Canada. The two boys - named locally as Noah Barthe, five, and his brother Connor, seven - were having a sleepover at their best friend's...

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Embassy Threat Came From Bugged Al Qaeda Call

Opportunity Knocks With Embassy Scare Updated: 1:39pm UK, Monday 05 August 2013 By Sam Kiley, Middle East Correspondent Talk about an opportunity. Intelligence, from somewhere, indicated a serious plot to attack US interests - notably an embassy,...

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Cannes Jewellery Heist: Reward Offered

Lloyd's of London has offered up to one million euro (£864,000) for information leading to the recovery of jewels stolen from a Cannes hotel. An armed man pulled off a brazen daylight heist at the luxury Carlton Hotel on July 28, in one of the world's...

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