Hong Kong riot police fire warning shots in bloody street clashes

Riot police react as they charge protesters supporting illegal hawkers at Hong Kong’s Mongkok shopping district, China early February 9, 2016. Reuters/Liau Chung-ren

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High alert in north as rockets fired at Golan Heights

Archive photo: An Israeli army tank is seen stationed near the village of Majdal Shams, on March 19, 2014, in the Golan Heights. (photo credit: AFP/Jalaa Marey)

Archive photo: An Israeli army tank is seen stationed near the village of Majdal Shams, on March 19, 2014, in the Golan Heights. (photo credit: AFP/Jalaa Marey)

No injuries or damage reported as two missiles land near Hermon ski resort; army returns fire

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Oil Tanker Attacked off of African Coast

Pirate attacks off the coast of Nigeria have increased by a third this year [Al Jazeera]

Pirates snatch men from tanker off Nigeria…

Ukrainian captain and Greek first engineer kidnapped late on Monday night when their boat was besieged by pirates.

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National Weather Service confirms tornado in Atlantic Beach

According to the National Weather Service, an EF2 tornado touched down at Ocean Sands Condominiums in Atlantic Beach at 10:18 p.m. on Nov. 26.

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Nurse dead, four wounded after stabbing spree inside Texas hospital

One hospital worker was dead and at least four other people were wounded after a knife-wielding man went on a stabbing spree inside a Texas hospital on Tuesday.

One hospital worker was dead and at least four other people were wounded after a knife-wielding man went on a stabbing spree inside a Texas hospital on Tuesday.

Kyron Rayshawn Templeton, 22, allegedly attacked several people inside Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview on Tuesday. A nurse was killed and four others were wounded before police cuffed the suspect minutes later.

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Three girls escape from Tucson, Ariz. home after two years held captive: cops

  Tucson Police Department investigators and evidence technicians investigate the scene of a child abuse call that began in the early morning of Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013, in the 2800 block of North Estrella Avenue. 

Tucson Police Department investigators and evidence technicians investigate the scene of a child abuse call that began in the early morning of Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013, in the 2800 block of North Estrella Avenue.

The girls, aged 12, 13 and 17, were held separately in the home and haven’t had a bath in almost half a year. They told cops their captors, their mother and stepfather, fed them only once a day. The adults are in police custody.

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Moroccan parliament moves to outlaw contacts with Israelis

Moroccan Parliament building in Rabat (photo credit: Treasury Tag/Wikimedia Commons)

Even private dealings would be punishable by imprisonment; local NGO calls bill ‘inhuman’ and ‘influenced by Nazi tendencies’

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