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(Reuters) - Turkey's military fired an artillery round into Syria on Sunday in immediate retaliation after a shell fired from Syrian landed in the Turkish border town of Akcakale, the Dogan news agency reported, the second such incident in five days.

The latest Syrian shell hit land near a plant belonging to the Turkish Grain Board, several hundred metres from the centre of Akcakale, where five civilians were killed on Wednesday in previous Syrian shelling.

There were no immediate reports of casualties in the latest incident.
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Amy Goodman and Democracy Now broadcast from Colorado Springs Col. to discuss the war from the eyes of soldiers.

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Jose Antonio Vargas, the writer and activist who went public last year with his status as an undocumented immigrant, was arrested for a driving infraction in Minnesota on Friday, but federal immigration authorities elected not to detain him, officials said Saturday.

Vargas, a former Washington Post reporter who revealed his status in the New York Times Magazine and touched off a debate in the journalistic community, was initially pulled over by a state trooper for driving while wearing head phones, Lt. Eric Roeske, public information officer for the Minnesota State Patrol, told POLITICO.

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