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A military jury has sentenced the former driver for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden to five and a half years in prison. The sentence handed down to Salim Hamdan for his conviction of supporting terrorism was far less than the 30 years prosecutors h

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A witness to the terrorist mall attacking Kenya say several attackers were women and one of them white. Kenya officials are so sure that one of them has been the so called white widow or wide has been issued for. Let's get started. Tonight the Kenya

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Harold Hamm is an unlikely billionaire: the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers whose identity as a self-made man could just be his downfall in his impending divorce battle. Hamm, the founder and CEO of Continental Resources, is the world's 34th-ric

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