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Turkey Outraged As PM’s Aide Kicks Protester

Newspapers in Turkey also published photographs showing the adviser kicking the protester and identified him as Yusuf Yerkel, a deputy chief of staff of the Prime Minister.

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ANKARA, Turkey - A video showing an aide to Turkey's prime minister kicking a protester held on the ground by special forces police sparked outrage Thursday, tarnishing the Turkish leader's image ahead of his expected run for president. Turkish newspapers also published photographs showing the adviser kicking the protester and identified him as

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Secret Lists, Deaths: Claims Roil Veterans Affairs

The VA has acknowledged that 23 patients have died because of problems related to care since 1999, according to an ongoing nationwide internal VA review.

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PHOENIX — A team of federal investigators swept into Phoenix last month amid allegations of a disturbing cover-up at the veterans hospital. Their goal: to unravel the truth behind a secret waiting list supposedly maintained to hide lengthy delays for sick veterans, making it appear as if they were seeing doctors sooner when some may have waited

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UN: Wars Internally Displace 33.3 Million In 2013

“These are people in absolute crisis,” said Egeland, who was the U.N.’s top humanitarian official from 2003 to 2006. “They are the most vulnerable of humankind.”

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GENEVA — A record 33.3 million people worldwide were displaced by conflict and violence inside their own nations in 2013, U.N. and Norwegian officials said Wednesday. The increase of 4.5 million above the 2012 total was driven largely by Syria's civil war, now in its fourth year, which activists estimate has killed 150,000 people. The heads

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Organizations Aim To Train Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Many of them see self-employment as a shot at the “American dream.”

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PORTLAND, Ore. — After immigrating to Oregon from the Mexican state of Oaxaca more than two decades ago, Paula Asuncion worked on farms and in minimum wage jobs at fast-food restaurants — a widow struggling to feed six children, sharing cramped apartments with other families. Her prospects changed two years ago after she joined a program that

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Bush, Ryan Focus On Poverty While Courting Wall Street Donors

Bush and Ryan offered a decidedly softer tone on the nation’s problems than some of their more conservative Republican colleagues.

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Jeb Bush, Rudy Giuliani

NEW YORK — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan courted some of Wall Street's most powerful political benefactors on Monday, insisting that love, friendship and "traditional marriage" can combat poverty better than government programs. The prospective Republican presidential contenders were featured guests at an award

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Feds Seek Prison For Rural Washington Pot Growers

Under federal law, marijuana remains illegal, and what the licensed growers are doing differs little from what Harvey and his family did.

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Larry Harvey, Rhonda Firestack-Harvey, Rolland Gregg

SPOKANE, Wash. — The green-cross storefronts of medical marijuana dispensaries are common in much of Washington, and the state is plowing ahead with licensing people to grow and sell recreational pot to adults. But a federal trial scheduled to begin in the coming weeks for five people in Spokane suggests not all is OK with weed in the

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UN Weighs Laws For Future ‘Killer Robots’

Campaigners say the ruling effectively backs individual privacy rights over the freedom of information.

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United Nations Killer Robots

GENEVA — Diplomats urged the adoption of new international laws Tuesday that could govern the use of "killer robots" if the technology becomes reality someday. At the first United Nations meeting devoted to the subject, representatives began trying to define the limits and responsibilities of so-called lethal autonomous weapons systems that

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