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  • The city of Dallas will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy next year with a ceremony featuring the tolling of church bells, a moment of silence and readings by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough from the president's speeches.
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  • An Uzbek man who pleaded guilty to plotting to assassinate President Barack Obama was never admitted to Columbia University's medical school, the university said Saturday, contrary to defense claims before he was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.
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  • A man from Uzbekistan who pleaded guilty Friday to plotting to kill President Barack Obama with an automatic rifle claimed he was acting at the direction of an Islamic terror group in his home country.
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  • Iran says it has evidence that the United States was behind the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist this week in Tehran.
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  • A long-lost version of the Air Force One recordings made in the immediate aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with more than 30 minutes of additional material not in the official version in the government's archives, has been found and is for sale.
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assassination, john f. kennedy, local/state
  • Parole officials have refused to give Sirhan Sirhan a date with freedom, saying he hasn't shown sufficient remorse for Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's death and doesn't understand the enormity of the assassination that changed U.S. history more than 40 years ago.
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  • Hundreds of Pakistani Christians demonstrated Thursday against the slaying of a Catholic government minister who had long been their most prominent advocate in the Muslim-majority country, burning tires, demanding justice and even shouting for "a revolution."
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pakistan, religion, assassination, national/world