White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that Obama called relatives of Newtown, Connecticut, shooting victims who were in Washington for the vote to thank them for their efforts to pressure Congress to take up the gun proposals.
The court heard Dickson pretended she was still alive when relatives called and sent texts from her phone.
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Mobile phone networks in London became overloaded on the day of the attacks as millions of people called friends and relatives to check they were safe.
They also learned that the captain and mate were rescued after spending nearly 23 hours in the water, noting that their relatives called and took care of them after the ordeal.
President Dilma Rousseff, who had an emotional meeting with bereaved relatives, called for a stricter stance on safety rules across the country.
President Dilma Rousseff, who had an emotional meeting with bereaved relatives, has also called for a stricter stance on safety rules across the country.
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By the magazine's account, Chen's relatives and a neighbour called Chen Hua then contacted supporters in Beijing, and drove Chen to meet them in the city of Xintai.
The defense called 15 witnesses, including several relatives of the defendant who placed him across town at about the time that police long believed that the murder was committed.
Outside the hospital, groups of men called out names, searching for missing relatives.
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He also called for it to be made plain which relatives should be consulted over consent.
On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee passed bills that would eliminate the advertising ban, raise the investor threshold to 1, 000 from 500, and remove restrictions on so-called crowd-funding (when entrepreneurs raise money from relatives or others who aren't SEC-accredited, within certain limits).
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President Francois Hollande issued a statement extending his condolences to the relatives of the soldier killed and praising what he called the determination and courage of French forces in Mali.
So-called honor killings, in which members of a family kill relatives because of behavior that they say shames the family, claim about 5, 000 lives a year around the world, according to the United Nations Population Fund.
Mr Webb also called for a greater use of "kinship care", where children are looked after by relatives or friends if their parents are not capable of looking after them, saying vulnerable children might do better if kept in their own communities.
But standing with the relatives of other victims, Amardeep Kaleka, the son of the congregation's slain leader, called the killings an act of cowardice.
The study, called Interheart, compared 15, 000 people from every continent who suffered a heart attack with a similar number of relatives or close associates who didn't.
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