And now the most engaging two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: FOX Fans: Missed the Grapevine? Click here to watch it! A False Sign in Palestine? ThePalestinian Authority’s (search)fight against Palestinian extremist groups has literally been staged, according to a report by the Israeli news agency …
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LISBON, Portugal – Portuguese authorities say a 6-year-old girl has died after a yacht sank in the mid-Atlantic at night and she spent about seven hours in the water amid 10-meter (33-feet) waves. The Portuguese Navy said in a statement Thursday that a French yacht carrying what was believed to …
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KHAR, Pakistan – A government official says a roadside bomb has targeted an anti-Taliban tribal elder, killing him and his five aides in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border. Local government official Fayyaz Khan said the attack Monday in Mamound saw a remote-controlled bomb explode as the elder’s car passed …
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MADRID – Spain’s foreign minister says the security chief for the country’s embassy in Brazil, under investigation in a homicide case, could lose his diplomatic immunity if the probe determines that the case is domestic violence. Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo on Wednesday declined to provide details about the investigation of Jesus …
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UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations says it is rushing aid to nearly 25,000 people fleeing Ramadi for the second time in a month after the Islamic State group seized the key Iraqi city. The deputy spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general, Farhan Haq, told reporters Tuesday that most of those …
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LOS ANGELES – Police say a 21-year-old man suspected of participating in an illegal street race that killed two spectators in Southern California has been booked on suspicion of murder. Henry Michael Gevorgyan turned himself in Saturday night accompanied by his lawyer. Jail records show he’s being held on $2 …
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HOBOKEN, N.J. – A homeless man set himself on fire in the middle of a city street near where hundreds of revelers were hopping bar to bar for an annual St. Patrick’s pub crawl on Saturday night, police said. Hoboken police received a call about 11 p.m. that a man …
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JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi’s attorney general is asking a judge to keep the identity of the state’s execution-drug supplier secret while he appeals her order to release the name. Hinds County Chancery Judge Denise Owens ruled earlier this month that the state’s public-records law requires officials to release the information, …
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Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s (search) is scamming consumers with a new campaign that just may land the company in deep fudge brownie. Ben & Jerry’s has introduced a new line of ice cream called “Organic Ben & Jerry’s” in select stores in Boston and San Francisco. As part …
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GADSDEN, Ala. – An Alabama grandmother charged in the running death of her 9-year-old granddaughter is due in court. Etowah County Circuit Judge William Ogletree has scheduled a hearing for Friday morning in the capital murder case against 49-year-old Joyce Garrard of Boaz. The judge will make sure things are …
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