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 New York |
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Two convicted in JFK airport bomb plot  Map of JFK New York| Russell Defreitas and Abdul Kadir were accused of conspiring to blow up jet-fuel supply tanks and pipeline in 2007 | |
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Manhattan |
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'Ground Zero mosque' moves closer Map of Ground Zero USA| An attempt to stop a plan for a mosque near New York's Ground Zero has failed after the site was denied landmark status | |
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| Aug.13 |
Washington |
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 Obama backs 'Ground Zero mosque'  | Obama has defended controversial plans to build an Islamic cultural centre and mosque several hundred feet away from the site of the Twin Towers | |
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Virginia |
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Titanic salvagers awarded $110m| A judge has awarded RMS Titanic Inc, a US exhibition company, $110m for salvaging artefacts from the wreck of the RMS Titanic | |
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| Aug.27 |
Virginia |
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 Would-be pirate pleads guilty to attacking| Jama Idle Ibrahim, a Somali man became the second person convicted in the U.S. of acts related to high-seas piracy in more than a century | |
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