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Aleksandar Vucic: Kosovo Serbs ‘should accept deal’
“I’m not saying that the agreement is good, but at this stage we could not get anything better,” he said at the meeting, quoted by AFP news agency.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford faces drug video allegations
The mayor’s lawyer, Dennis Morris told the Toronto Star that in any video, it was impossible to tell what a person was doing.
Working gun made with 3D printer
The controversial group which created the firearm, Defense Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online.
Boston Marathon bombing: FBI reveals pressure cooker clues
Doctors treating the wounded say their injuries indicate that the bombs contained metal shards and other shrapnel. A number of victims have had limbs amputated.
Baroness Thatcher funeral invitation list released
Meanwhile, the Foreign Office has said “an administrative error” led to inaccurate guidance being issued to diplomatic staff in embassies around the world after it was reported they had been told to wear mourning clothes on the day of the funeral.
France’s top rabbi Gilles Bernheim quits in plagiarism row
Rabbi Bernheim had admitted to plagiarising several authors and lying about an academic status on his CV, reports said.
NKorea says it is in a ‘state of war’ with SKorea
Analysts say a full-scale conflict is extremely unlikely, noting that the Korean Peninsula has remained in a technical state of war for 60 years. But the North’s continued threats toward Seoul and Washington, including a vow to launch a nuclear strike, have raised worries that a misjudgment between the sides could lead to a clash.
Scooter ads face scrutiny from gov’t., doctors
Insurance executives say doctors who don’t understand when Medicare is supposed to pay for scooters are partly to blame for unnecessary purchases.
David Cameron ‘to toughen’ European migrants’ benefits rules
Europeans will have to prove they are “genuinely seeking employment” to claim UK jobless benefits for more than six months, David Cameron has said.
