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The Police Ombudsman has found that police were justified in using a TASER stun gun when a man they believed to have a gun charged towards them during an incident in Antrim town in June 2016. The man, who was under the influence of drink and/or drugs, had earlier made threats to self harm and to kill police officers. |
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Donald Trump is reportedly interested in adding his own touches onto the traditional inauguration day. One idea that had been bandied about is having Trump bypass, at least temporarily, the traditional congressional luncheon following the swearing-in, and instead have the new president wade into the crowd or join the parade. |
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Vladimir Putin : This is a traditional question and a natural thing to ask. Of course, we are analysing our performance over the past year. As usual, this performance needs to be put into perspective. We need to look at the macroeconomic indicators of 2015 and compare them with what we have achieved in 2016. |
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This Christmas made me only too aware of how many in our government blithely ignore its message. Two recent incidents provoked my musings on this topic. Both involved Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, who at the same time was loudly talking up his own and Australia’s Christian values. |
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The governor of South Sudan’s Wau State has urged opposition fighters in the area to accept dialogue and join the SPLM-IO faction led by First Vice President Taban Deng Gai. Addressing worshipers at a Catholic Church in Wau town on Christmas Day, Governor Andrea Mayar called on the people of Wau to.... |
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Rickman made a career playing villains on stage and screen. Renowned for his roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company during the 1980s, he went on to delight in the role of the ambiguous potions master, Severus Snape, in the Harry Potter films. Rickman was born “a card-carrying member of the Labour.... |
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It was midday and a Klingon couple dawdled at the entrance of “The Horse of the Year Show”, their plastic battle armour a dull grey in the exhibition centre’s soft light. The male scratched his head – or rather, the shaggy black wig on top of his head – and said, in a northern accent, “Oh, no. It must be over there. |
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In August, astronomers announced they'd detected a planet 1.3 times the mass of the Earth orbiting Proxima Centauri, just 4.2 light years away. The planet, called Proxima b, sits in the so-called Goldilocks zone of the faint red dwarf star, where the average surface temperature of the planet is not too hot, nor too cold, to harbour liquid water. |
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Venezuelan opposition has stressed it would not return to the Vatican-brokered dialogue with President Nicolas Maduro's government scheduled for major concessions made by the other side. Head of the Venezuelan opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) Jesus Torrealba pulled out of the crisis talks with government authorities earlier this month. |
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This was the biggest scientific discovery of the year. In February, scientists from LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) detected the tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time caused by the collision of two unbelievably massive black holes, more than a billion years ago. |
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This was the biggest scientific discovery of the year. In February, scientists from LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) detected the tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time caused by the collision of two unbelievably massive black holes, more than a billion years ago. |
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