Independence Day News
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Nigeria’s Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said it has suspended plans to bomb mosques and kill Muslim clerics after heeding appeals from religious groups and prominent citizens including Henry Okah.
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Deborah Bernstein, who worked at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Pequot Capital Management Inc. and Aquiline Capital Partners LLC in the 15 years since she graduated from Stanford University’s business school, has died. She was 41.
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Hog futures slumped to a two-week low on speculation that demand for U.S. pork is slowing and supplies are increasing. Cattle prices were little changed.
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Cattle futures fell for the first time in three days on speculation that U.S. grocers may have filled meat orders for the Memorial Day holiday. Hogs also dropped.
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The two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings initially targeted the city’s July 4 celebration and attacked last month’s race after building their bombs faster than expected, according to a U.S. official.
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On Independence Day 1914, New York experienced a powerful dynamite explosion that killed four people and injured dozens.
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Elliott Roosevelt Jr., a grandson of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, grins and leans toward visitors in his Dallas office to describe his biggest discovery in 53 years as an oilman.
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Belarusian protesters received sentences of as much as 15 days in jail today after police arrested almost 400 people yesterday during demonstrations on the country’s Independence Day, human rights groups said.
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Attacks on Ivory Coast’s military were meant to disrupt security before a national holiday, with officials looking into a possible link with a postponed appearance by ex-leader Laurent Gbagbo at the International Criminal Court, according to a government official.
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Nigeria’s State Security Service said it arrested three additional suspects in connection with a double car-bombing on Independence Day last year that killed 12 people in Abuja, the capital.
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