Rabbinic murder in Northeast Miami-Dade prompts police gesture
Miami-Dade police pledged full resources to catch the two shooters who killed Rabbi Joseph Raksin as he walked to temple near Bais Menachem Chabad. Raksin, visiting from Brooklyn, was shot at about 9 am on Saturday, as authorities description two men in a yellow and an orange shirt fled the scene.
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Miami
Miami-Dade
Alfredo Ramirez
Joseph Raksin
Brooklyn
Bais Menachem Chabad
Charges tossed in USS Cole case at Guantanamo
The new judge dismissed collateral charges tied to al Qaida's 2002 attack on the French oil tanker Limburg and the USS Cole bombing. Abd al Rahim al Nashiri faces a death penalty trial. defence argues the oil ship was not within war court jurisdiction. Separately, a Charlotte woman was arrested for aiding her son in a fire challenge video incident.
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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Cuba
USS Cole
al-Qaida
Richard Kammen
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
Air Force
Vance Spath
Iraq names Haider al Abadi as new prime minister choice
President Fouad Massoum designated Haider al Abadi deputy speaker of Parliament to replace Nouri al Maliki and form a new government within 30 days. Al Maliki clung to power as security forces deployed around the Green Zone amid regional opposition and international caution.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Nouri al-Maliki
Fouad Massoum
Haider al-Abadi
al-Maliki
al-Abadi
National Iraqi Alliance
Dawa
Massoum
International Zone
United Nations
Ment
Serwan Abdullat Ismail
Martha’s Vineyard
Mass
Barack Obama
Permanent truce talks resume in Cairo amid Gaza cease-fire
In Jerusalem and Cairo negotiators pursue a permanent truce and long term arrangements after a three day Gaza cease-fire. Egypt mediates between Hamas and Israel with reports of possible concessions including border ease and prisoner exchanges.
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Jerusalem
Gaza Strip
Cairo
Israel
Hamas
Gaza
Egypt
Strip
Ebola quarantines hit three SIM missionaries in Charlotte
In Charlotte three SIM USA missionaries including David Writebol were quarantined on SIM campus as a precaution after arriving from Liberia. Nancy Writebol and Kent Brantly, both exposed in Monrovia, are treated in Atlanta. health officials say no cases are confirmed in North Carolina. The 21 day incubation rule applies and missionaries remain healthy.
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Durham
N.C
Charlotte
SIM USA
David Writebol
Nancy Writebol
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta
Simusa’s
Monrovia
Liberia
West Africa
North Carolina
State Department of Health and Human Services
Mecklenburg
Putin to send aid convoy to eastern Ukraine
Putin announced a humanitarian aid convoy for eastern Ukraine in cooperation with ICRC and Western governments. Barroso and Poroshenko discussed the plan, which Kiev has rejected, amid fears of Russian help to separatists and possible invasion.
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Vladimir Putin
Ukraine
International Committee of the Red Cross
Putin
European Commission
Jose Manuel Barroso
Petro Poroshenko
Kiev
Moscow
Luhansk
Donetsk
ICRC
Bern
Switzerland
Kremlin
NATO
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Barroso
Poroshenko
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Los Angeles Times
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