Current Events 11/4

Question 0

U.S.A

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USA blows up leader of the Taliban during a drone strike, and the Taliban is now blaming Pakistan for not doing anything to prevent it. Us calling it “internal matter”

Question 1

Los Angeles

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Price cutters file a murder charge against the man suspected of carrying out Friday’s gun attack at LA airport, which killed a security agent

Question 2

Brazil and Germany

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Brazil and Germany are going to the UN over the United States’ spying

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Mali

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2 journalists for franchise radio station RFl have been killed after vein kidnapped by gunmen in the northern Mali town of kidal

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Egypt

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U.S. sec. Of state calls for an end to all violence and urges progress towards full democracy on his first visit to Egypt since the ousting of president Mohammed Morsi

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India

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India has successfully launched a spacecraft to the red planet with the aim I becoming the fourth space agency to reach Mars.

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Egypt

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Egypt’s ousted leader Mohammed Morsi goes on trial in Cairo and tells the judge the case is illegitimate as he remains president.

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Toronto

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Mayor Rob Ford vows to stay in the job and run for re-election next year, dismissing calls he resign after admitting he snaked crack cocaine

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Brazil

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Says their spying on the U.S. is okay. “It is completely different”

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Angola

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A teenager is arrested after printing t-shirts calling president Jose Eduardo dos Santos a dictator, has gone on hunger strike, his lawyer says

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Greece

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Holding a 24-hour general strike over continuing cuts as international lenders decide whether or not to unlock further bailout money

Question 11

Toronto 2

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Mayor faces angry protesters- and mounting calls to resign- and he arrives for work a day after he admitted smoking crack cocaine

Question 12

Obama

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Obama’s embattled health secretary rejects calls from congress to take the glitch-plagued website of the president’s health law offline

Question 13

Al-Qaeda

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In the Islamist Maghreb (AQIM) killed two French journalists who were abducted in northern Mali on Saturday, a website used by the group says

Question 14

Pakistan

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Pakistani politician Imran Khan threatens to block NATO supply lines to Afghanistan in protests of the killing by US drone of Taliban leader

Question 15

Elections

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Republican New Jersey governor Chris Christie wins a landslide re-election, as democrats seize New York City hall and the Virginia governorship

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Nigeria

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Amnesty international accuses oil firms, including shell, of misrepresenting spills in Nigeria to avoid paying compensation, a claim she’ll denied