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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey deployed additional tanks and missile defence systems to the Syrian border as artillery units responded to fire from President Bashar assad’s armed forces Monday for a sixth day. Turkish batteries fired into...

Doing Darwin shots eh...sounds like another excellent idea. Teenager has stomach removed to save her life after drinking lethal liquid nitrogen cocktail Gaby Scanlan had been drinking at a bar in Lancaster to celebrate her 18th birthday when she was left feeling breathless She was taken...

California. :lol: Fraud rings bring cans and bottles from other states and illicitly 'redeem' deposits that were never paid. And some private recycling centers might claim bigger reimbursements than they deserve. Just over 8.5 billion recyclable cans were sold in California last year. The...

CBS News has learned that congressional investigators have issued a subpoena to a former top security official at the US mission in Libya. The official is Lt. Col. Andy Wood, a Utah National Guard Army Green Beret who headed up a Special Forces "Site Security Team" in Libya. Lt. Col. Andy...

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Police Union Says ‘War-Like’ Detroit Is Unsafe For Visitors via sda: Travel to the following areas is not recommended. Canadian Consular staff may be unable to provide assistance in the case of kidnapping, assault, rape, police brutality or murder". Tehran, Benghazi, Mogadishu, Detroit...

California’s average gasoline price set a record Saturday of $4.614 for a gallon of regular, up 12.8 cents overnight – but anyone who filled up in the last few days probably isn’t surprised. Gasoline prices skyrocketed after the Exxon Mobil refinery in Torrance was knocked offline Monday by...

Vito Rizzuto, the erstwhile head of the Sicilian Mafia in Canada and once the most powerful figure in Montreal's underworld, arrived at a Toronto airport Friday night, hours after being released from a Colorado prison. His Air Canada flight departed around 8:22 p.m. ET and touched down at...

PC'ers run amok. Does the Toronto District School Board’s latest policy make it OK for a boy to enter the girl’s washroom whenever he ‘feels’ like it? In another controversial move, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has declared that transsexual and ‘gender non-conforming’ students...

ISRAEL ARMY Shoots Down Unmanned AIRCRAFT, Is This A HEZBOLLAH DRONE ? - YouTube BBC News - Israel downs unmanned aircraft

CALVERTON, N.Y. -- The U.S. Navy's newest warship will not be named for a former president, distinguished member of Congress or some historic figure from the past. The USS Michael Murphy, a 510-foot destroyer, is being commissioned this weekend in New York City for a Long Island native and...

3,000 local ship workers labored two years building the biggest, fastest, and most luxurious ocean liner to sail from North America. She was longer than the Titanic and much quicker. Few knew her secret. Her engines and propellers were developed as Cold-War weapons. She was a luxury liner...

Last year the journal Nature reported an alarming increase in the number of retractions of scientific papers — a tenfold rise in the previous decade, to more than 300 a year across the scientific literature. Other studies have suggested that most of these retractions resulted from honest...

Yeah and a 'slide show' ta boot so you can throw rocks at the source site if it doesn't grab your ghee-ghee: The Top 10 James Bond Theme Songs: Tom Jones, 'Thunderball' 1965 | Rolling Stone

Syrian rebels downed a military aircraft near Damascus on Friday, as fighting between the two nations—which began when a Syrian mortar shell killed five in Turkey—continued. The status of the four officers on board is still unknown. The attack came hours after Turkish Prime Minister Recep...

Radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, the man authorities said tried to set up a terrorist training camp on American soil, is finally on his way to stand trial in the U.S. after an eight-year delay. Hamza, along with four other suspected terrorists, will fly to the States in the custody of...

OTTAWA – Canada is poised to claim ownership of a vast new expanse of undersea territory beyond its Atlantic and Arctic coasts that’s greater in size than Quebec and equal to about 20 per cent of the country’s surface area, Postmedia News has learned. The huge seabed land grab has been in...

OTTAWA — An RCMP and House of Commons security proposal to more than double the number of video cameras on Parliament Hill, without warning the public it’s being watched, alarms the privacy commissioner, who says it’s an ironic symbol of how pervasive government surveillance is becoming...

OTTAWA -- One of National Defence's signature deficit-fighting measures was realized Friday with the establishment of a single command to handle domestic, overseas and support operations. But it remains a mystery as to how much the new Canadian Joint Operational Command will contribute...

via Blazing Cat Fur: Confirmed: Terry Jones To Appear At Queen's Park 6 PM October The permit was granted. As I understand it Terry will be one of several speakers at the event which will examine whether or not Islam is compatible with Western society. Among the list of possible guest...