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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – Thousands of teen-aged boys behaved perfectly as the world watches in amazement.
At the Zen Shaolin Grand Ceremony, the largest outdoor music festival in China, more than 2,000 teenage martial art students displayed perfect form and symmetry as they performed their martial arts moves at the foot of Songshan Mountains, in the shadow of the Shaolin Monastery near Dengfeng.
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(WIDK By Remus Lee) - Afghanistan remains dangerous for those still in the country as the United States continues to draw down its troop levels.
A suicide bomber has claimed the lives of six foreign workers and an untold amount of Afghan civilians in the deadliest attack this year to take place in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – A supposed American spy was caught in Moscow with a blond wig, a huge amount of money, and a letter promising $1,000,000 in return for a Russian agent’s defection.
Ryan Fogle, 29, a low-level U.S. diplomat located in Moscow, was detained by the Russian authorities who allegedly caught him with a pile of cash, a blond wig and a letter promising $1,000,000 to a senior member of Russia’s special services if he would defect.
A video was posted of Mr. Fogle in a wig and a baseball cap being arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB.
According to ABC News, Fogle was questioned briefly in the Lubyanka complex before being released to the American authorities.
No American diplomat has been accused of spying in Russia in more than a decade.
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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) – Two elderly women collapse and die after drinking “Holy Water.”
In Zimbabwe, Africa, two elderly women accused of being witches died after a local healer forced them to drink “holy water” to purify their souls.
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(WIDK By Jon Foster) – An American citizen has been sent to prison in North Korea.
This week, the Supreme Court of North Korea sentenced American citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years of hard labor at one of the communist dictatorships numerous prison camps.
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(WIDK By Brittany Hahn) – A violent explosion left many injured.
What is thought to be a giant gas explosion has damaged an office building in Prague injuring up to 40 people.
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(WIDK By Rebecca Arden) – Unfortunately this man learned not to hitchhike the hard way.
A Zimbabwean soldier picked up a ride with some strangers and a week later found himself abandoned in the Dangamvura Mountains after being abducted and abused.
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(WIDK By Rebecca Arden)- President Obama is getting some pressure to act concerning Syria.
New photos and videos showing a possible chemical attack using sarin gas has Congress, the White House and politicians debating over what to do while President Obama asks for more information and evidence.
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(WIDK By Jon Foster) - The ongoing civil war in Syria may have just escalated.
On Thursday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced that U.S. now believes the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against its own people.
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(WIDK By Jon Foster) – Both sides in the current standoff seem open to discussion.
As tensions have escalated on the Korean peninsula, both sides and their allies are trying again this week to reach some form of diplomatic relations.
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(WIDK By Jon Foster) – A plan to derail commuter trains was thwarted.
On Monday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested and charged two individuals in a plot to derail passenger trains operating in the greater Toronto area.
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(WIDK By Brittany Hahn) – Violent Buddhist action against a Muslim man… this is not the way Buddha taught.
‘Burmese Bin Laden,’ a Buddhist monk, is using social media to spread his message of hatred towards Muslims; he set fire to a Muslim man during a riot.
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(WIDK By Rebecca Arden) – This barbaric inhumane way of killing a beautiful creature needs to be stopped.
Japan has always been well-known for its seafood but there is major controversy over the way they capture some of their food, especially dolphins, whales and other large sea animals, mostly because of the incredibly inhumane way they do it.
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