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THE BUZZ: Denmark’s de Forest wins Eurovision song contest
Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest has won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only Teardrops,” despite tough competition from spectacular ... Full story
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FRANCE will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption by same-sex couples ... Full story
USA: Up to 60 injured after car drives into Virginia parade
An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain town and investigators were looking into whether ... Full story
Editorial roundup: Sacramento Bee on overreaching federal investigation of leak to AP threatens press freedoms
Protecting national security is one thing. Fishing expeditions that could intimidate and impede important watchdog reporting are another matter entirely.The Justice Department certainly ... Full story
The Telegraph, on Syria being on the brink
As the poison from Syria’s civil war spreads, the pace of diplomatic exchanges is quickening. At the White House today, David Cameron, fresh from meeting ... Full story
SYRIA: Assad - “I won’t step down”
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won’t step down before elections and that the United States has no right to ... Full story
Reporter remembers fear in Videla’s Argentina
It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning. ... Full story
THE BUZZ: Protesters picket Barbie-themed house in Berlin
It probably wasn’t the reception Barbie was hoping for at the start of her European tour. Feminist protesters burned a doll on a cross and ... Full story
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BANGLADESH The outer bands of Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh yesterday, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds that ... Full story
UK casino accuses poker star of cheating
A major casino operator is accusing Phil Ivey, an American who is one of the world’s top professional poker players, of amassing millions of dollars ... Full story
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