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Iran poll shows people want change, says Obama
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has urged Iran's newly elected president to prove to the world that the Islamic republic was not pursuing a nuclear weapon programme as the White House welcomed election of a moderate leader as a hopeful sign. "I think it says that the Iranian people want to move in a different direction," Obama said of the election results in Iran that saw a surprising ...
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President Rousseff says Brazil has woken up after massive protests
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Anti-graft protests swept Brazil's main cities as some 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets against alleged mis-governance, forcing President Dilma Rousseff Tuesday to acknowledge the need for better public services and effective administration. The assurance from Rousseff came a day after biggest protests rocked at least ten Brazilian cities, including Sao ...
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Talks between UK and Ecuador fail as Assange completes year in embassy
LONDON - Talks between the United Kingdom and Ecuador have ended without any breakthrough over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's fate with the Andean nation. Ecquador said it was vowing not to succumb to diplomatic pressure and was ready to consider any request from Edward Snowden, another whistleblower, for asylum. As the fugitive anti-secrecy advocate marks one year holed up in the ...
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Libya to hold trial of Gaddafi's son in August
LONDON - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of deceased Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, will stand trial in August along with Gaddafi's last prime minister and a former intelligence director, the prosecutor's office has announced. The men will be tried for crimes against the Libyan people during the 2011 uprising that toppled the former regime. Notorious former spy chief Abdullah ...
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Appeals court directs Ex-Im Bank to explain rationale for loan guarantee to Air India
WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court has upheld a decision by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance the sale of 30 Boeing wide-body jets to Indian state-owned carrier Air India in a legal challenge brought by Delta Air Lines to the loan guarantee. The court has however directed the government-run bank to better explain its rationale for providing loan guarantee, which Delta claimed as a ...
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Google renews efforts wipe out child porn images from internet
LONDON - Internet giant Google said it is spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them. "We're in the business of making information widely available, but there's certain 'information' that should never be created or found," wrote Jacqueline Fuller, director of Google Giving, in a blog post. ...
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GSK negotiating sale of thrombosis drug and plant to Aspen
DURBAN / LONDON - South Africa's biggest generic drug maker Aspen Pharmacare and its subsidiary Aspen Global Incorporated have made an offer to acquire thrombosis drugs and their associated manufacturing site at Notre Dame de Bondeville, France, from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). "AGI will acquire from GSK the Arixtra and Fraxiparine/Fraxodi brands and business worldwide, except in China, Pakistan ...
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Carbon trading to begin in Shenzhen in bid to cut emission
BEIJING - China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, is set to launch Tuesday its first carbon trading scheme as a pilot project in the southern city of Shenzhen as part of efforts to cut emissions in its key cities. Carbon emissions trading schemes are meant to encourage companies to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by setting a limit or a cap, on the level of emission that can be ...
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Group of Eight leaders stop short of calling for Assad ouster
ENNISKILLEN - The Group of Eight industrialised nations called for a swift end to the bloody civil war in Syria and urgent peace talks but stopped short of calling for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in its joint statement at the end of talks Tuesday. Despite the lack of consensus among the G8 on the fate of Assad, as well as the use of chemical weapons by his regime, Canadian ...
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Rise in transportation costs push up UK inflation to 2.7pc
LONDON - The consumer price index (CPI) inflation increased to 2.7% in May, up from 2.4% in April, mainly due to higher fuel costs pushing up transportation costs particularly airfares, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Tuesday. The ONS said the rise was due to a record increase in airfares and higher fuel prices. "The inflation rate has returned to the levels seen between ...
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State Dept. Officials Might Have Committed Perjury
Two top officials at the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service (DS) -- the federal law enforcement agency that protects American diplomats and investigates allegations of criminal misconduct by State Department employees -- gave sworn testimony earlier this year that appears to be evasive at best, and untrue at worst, according to evidence obtained by Fox News. The officials are ...
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United States Once Again Russias Worst Enemy
considered by the greatest number of Russians to be an enemy of their country. Asked to list the five countries they considered to be hostile or unfriendly to Russia, 38 percent included the United States on the list, followed by Georgia at 33 percent, and the three Baltic states -- Latvia at 21 percent, Lithuania at 17 percent, and Estonia at 16 percent. Georgia and the United States ...
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Nine Arrested In Connection With Georgian Arms Caches
Georgian investigators say they have found several caches filled with weapons, explosives, drugs, and documents targeting opponents of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's ...
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ADL blasts Alice Walker over shocking new book
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker "has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level" in her latest book on intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies, according a review of the book by the Anti-Defamation League ...
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Bennett Price Tag biggest threat to settlements
"Price Tag" attacks are immoral and un-Jewish, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett told the Knesset Wednesday.Bennett and Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich responded to an urgent parliamentary question from MK Hana Sweid (Hadash) following ...
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Ex-mistress sacked as foul tycoons PA after his wife discovered affair is in line for big payout as tribunal warns his behaviour has no place in a 21st Century office
A property tycoon who sacked his PA after his wife was tipped off about their affair faces a huge pay-out after his former lover won her unfair dismissal claim. The 32-year-old had a three year affair with her boss who treated her to a car, a London flat and whisked her away on luxury holidays to Cuba and Australia. The chief executive, who cannot be named for legal reasons but whose company has ...
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Whats YOUR risk of impotence As our new calculator reveals your lifestyle could to increase the chance by 85
The results are startling. For example, according to our impotence calculator, if you are 50, smoke and have high blood pressure, your risk of developing ED is 14 per cent - double the average man's ...
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Schoolboy 12 who was fascinated by TV magician Dynamo accidentally hanged himself in his bedroom
A 12-year-old schoolboy accidentally hanged himself in his bedroom just two weeks after jokingly wrapping a cable around his neck in a classroom prank, an inquest heard ...
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Cannabis-smoking father Simon Redclift is banned from his own SHED by judge
A father has been banned from his own garden shed and a judge warned him he could be jailed if he goes inside in what is believed to be the first court order of its ...
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Couple who suffered SEVEN miscarriages and stillbirths over 10 years finally take home their miracle baby
Last year Sara Sills was fitted with a cervical stitch and baby Mabel was born in April. Despite being born three months prematurely, she has now been able to go ...
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Truly alarming Worldwide refugees hit highest number for almost two decades
By the end of 2012 there were 45.2m people considered as forcibly displaced due to persecution, conflict, and human rights violations, of which over 15m were international refugees and almost one million were still seeking asylum. The figure nearly matches the one at the height of the crises in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia.According to a report from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ...
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Internet monitoring must have proper limits Merkel tells Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a news conference after their meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, June 19, ...
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Brazil protesters flood Sao Paulo streets for 2nd night
SAO PAULO Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to raise a collective cry against a longstanding lament -; people are weighed down by high taxes and high prices but get low-quality public services and a system of government infected with corruption. That was the repeated message Tuesday night in Sao Paulo, where upward of 50,000 people ...
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Conditions subhuman
>Editor's note: For more information on this story, check out CNN affiliates WKYC, WOIO and WJW.(CNN) -- A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were held in an Ohio apartment crowded with people and animals for more than a year, forced to perform manual labor and threatened with dogs and snakes to keep them compliant, authorities said Tuesday. Federal prosecutors said the people accused ...
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Ohio captives
>Editor's note: For more information on this story, check out CNN affiliates WKYC, WOIO and WJW.(CNN) -- A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were held in an Ohio apartment crowded with people and animals for more than a year, forced to perform manual labor and threatened with dogs and snakes to keep them compliant, authorities said Tuesday. Federal prosecutors said the people accused ...
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The Pier in danger after decades of memories and pictures
Advocates for The Pier want it to be renovated and restored in its current form, kept as the tourist attraction it is, while city officials feel it would be more economical and feasible to tear it down and replace it with a new structure. The advocates for The Pier want us to decide.
The Pier, as it is called by St Petersburg residents, or the St Petersburg Pier, as it is known nationally and even internationally, is one of the major landmarks of the city and a seminal tourist attraction and has been visited by tens of millions of people during the course of its existence, but it may soon be demolished and replaced, which has courted the anger of many residents. Read more
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