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Nepal families of US copter crash victims seek compensation
The families of the five Nepalese who were killed in a U.S. military helicopter crash last month while on an earthquake relief ...Israel launches air strikes in Gaza after rocket attack
Israeli aircraft struck the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday in response to a rocket fired from the Hamas-controlled territory that hit southern ...Thousands protest G7 summit in southern Germany
Thousands of demonstrators packed the German Alpine resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday, protesting over a wide range of causes before the arrival ...US says data on four million government staff hacked
The US government admitted hackers accessed the personal data of at least four million current and former federal employees, in a vast ...Argentine president met Edward Snowden in Moscow
Argentina\'s President Cristina Fernandez held talks with U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden during a visit to Russia in April, Anthony Romero, director of ...FIFA executive committee member Blazer admitted bribes
A former executive committee member of soccer\'s global governing body FIFA told a U.S. judge in November 2013 that he and other ...George W. Bush now more popular than Obama, poll finds
Former US President George W. Bush is now more popular than his successor Barack Obama, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday.Sepp Blatter resigns as FIFA president
Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday in the face of a U.S.-led corruption investigation that has plunged world soccer\'s governing ...Canada court orders tobacco firms to pay smokers $12.4 bn
A Canadian court on Monday ordered tobacco firms to pay Can$15.5 billion (US12.4 billion) to smokers in Quebec province who claimed they ...US Patriot Act spy provisions expire as Senate deal fails
Key provisions of the US Patriot Act expired early Monday after the Senate failed to prevent their lapse, plunging US national security ...