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Bolshoi Ballet director says acid attack was likely an inside job
MOSCOW -- Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet artistic director Sergei Filin, who was attacked with acid last week, said Tuesday that he believes the assault had to do with his role with the storied ballet company. “I associate what happened with my...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Dance, Entertainment
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Obama inauguration: TV news ratings plummet compared with 2009
TV viewers had a message for President Obama and his second inauguration: Been there, seen that. Ratings on the three cable news networks Monday plunged compared with four years ago, when Obama was swept into office on a message of hope and change....
Tags: The Following (tv program), Beyonce, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Michelle Obama
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In Syria, 20 reported killed in fighting; commander defects
BEIRUT — Twenty people were killed Wednesday in fighting in a small Syrian village, according to opposition activists, as the commander of Syria's military police announced he was joining the rebellion in one of the army's highest-level defections....
Tags: Beirut (Lebanon), Politics, Human Rights, Vladimir Putin, Bashar Assad
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Judge says Times can argue for release of full church abuse files
L.A. NOWMedia organizations will be allowed to argue against redactions in secret church files that are due to be made public as part of a historic $660-million settlement between the Los Angeles Archdiocese and alleged victims of sexual abuse by priests,...... -
Al Jazeera in talks to buy Current TV
Current TV, the struggling news/talk channel co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, is in advanced talks to sell itself to Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based cable news company, a person close to the stituation confirmed. An announcement regarding a sale...
Tags: Keith Olbermann, Current TV (tv network), MSNBC (tv network), Satellite and Cable Service, Television
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6 die in Syria car bombing; gunman slays state journalist
BEIRUT — A car bomb exploded in eastern Damascus on Saturday, an insurgent spokeswoman said, and the Syrian government reported that a gunman killed a state television journalist in the capital. The car bomb exploded in the capital's Kaboun area...
Tags: Politics, Human Rights, United Nations, European Union, Vladimir Putin
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Pro-government TV cameraman slain in Syria
BEIRUT -- A Syrian state television cameraman was slain outside his home in Damascus, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported Saturday. Haidar Smoudi was the ninth state-employed journalist killed by "armed terrorist groups," the news agency said. The...Tags: Bashar Assad, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Rights, Civil Rights
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Qatar poet gets life in prison after 'insulting' emir
A poet will face life in prison in Qatar after penning verses that state officials deemed insulting to the nation's emir and an incitement to topple the government, his attorney told news agencies Thursday. Rights activists say Mohammed Ajami was...Tags: Poetry, Politics, Arab Spring, Punishment, Human Rights
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Russian court deems 'punk prayer' video extremist
Two members of Pussy Riot remain imprisoned for their defiant “punk prayer” at a Moscow cathedral. Now the video of their protest against Vladimir Putin could be cut off from Russia as well, after a Moscow court deemed footage of their punk...
Tags: Moscow (Russia), Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Vladimir Putin, Justice System
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Three managers arrested after deadly Bangladesh factory fire
Bangladesh police have arrested three managers from the garment factory where more than 100 workers perished in a fire this weekend, a Dhaka police official told reporters Wednesday. The three managers have been accused of stopping workers from escaping...
Tags: Dhaka (Bangladesh), Bangladesh, Plant Openings, Walmart
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Jeff Zucker in advanced talks for top job at CNN
Former NBCUniversal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker is in advanced negotiations to become head of the cable news channel CNN, people familiar with the matter said. Zucker would succeed Jim Walton, who said in July that he was stepping down as president...
Tags: Comcast Corporation, Jeff Zucker, Politics, MSNBC (tv network), Companies and Corporations
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Iranian officials praise Assad speech panned in West
TEHRAN — Iranian officials again threw their support to Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday, backing the peace plans the embattled Assad laid out in a rare televised speech. While European leaders dismissed the speech as nothing new and the...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tehran (Iran), Iran, Wars and Interventions
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