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U.S. right to arm Syrian rebels says Israeli president
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli President Shimon Peres has thrown his weight behind U.S. plans to arm Syrian rebels, shrugging off fears the weapons could be turned on Israel and exacerbate the ...
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Obama sees Irans election of moderate as hopeful sign
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday that Iran's election of a moderate as its next president is a sign that Iranians want to move in a different direction, but he was uncertain whether it would lead to a breakthrough over Tehran's nuclear ...
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100000 line streets of Brazil to protest taxes corruption
Protestors are reflected on the glass of a building, left, as they march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 17, 2013. Protests in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian cities, set off by a 10-cent hike in public transport fares, have clearly moved beyond that issue to tap into widespread frustration in Brazil about a heavy tax burden, politicians widely viewed as corrupt and woeful ...
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Obama Spying Programs Transparent
(Evan Vucci/AP Photo) President Obama said that two National Security Agency programs recently revealed through leaked secret documents were ';transparent'; and, in an interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose on Sunday, he dismissed concerns that the programs were vulnerable to abuse by government officials. ';It is transparent,'; Obama said in the interview, broadcast ...
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Uncertainty over US stimulus drags shares lower
TOKYO (AP) -- Jitters over a possible change in U.S. stimulus efforts by the Federal Reserve helped pull share prices mostly lower in early Asian trading ...
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Sports Briefing | Basketball Russian Women Out of World Championship
Russia did not advance past the opening round of the EuroBasket ...
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RNW wins top honours at the New York International Radio and TV Festival
Radio Netherlands Worldwide won four major prizes at the 2013 New York International Radio and TV Festival, it was announced yesterday (Monday June 17). It won a gold medal and a Grand Prize Award for an interview entitled ...
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International - G8 nations have patchy record on free expression
While the G8 nations generally perform well in indicators of media freedom, digital freedom and civil liberties more widely, there are some key weaknesses including constraints on the media, and digital surveillance. Russia is an outlier with a deteriorating record on free expression with the Russian government having increasingly pursued a course of restrictions on speech and free ...
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US programme marks birth of one millionth HIV-free baby
This month somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa the one millionth baby will be born without HIV to a mother who suffers from the disease, thanks in large part to a decade-old US aid ...
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Qatar chief ponders winter 2022 World Cup
Qatar's World Cup bid has come under scrutiny Since Qatar was awarded the right to host the 2022 World Cup, debate has raged over temperatures which many consider will be a hinderance to players, officials and spectators, despite air-conditioned stadia.However, Al Thawadi insists the tournament will be held at the most appropriate time, and in accordance with the wishes of the game's ...
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FBI searches for Hoffa remains
Federal agents are digging in a field in the Detroit area where reputed Mafia captain Tony Zerilli says Hoffa's remains are buried.Zerilli told Detroit TV station WDIV in February that he knew where Hoffa was buried. The search site is in Oakland Township, about 25 miles north of Detroit.Hoffa was president of the once ...
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Supercomputer is worlds fastest
China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous US holder and underlining the country's rise as a science and technology ...
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Supercomputer is worlds fastest
China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous US holder and underlining the country's rise as a science and technology ...
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Showdown over dinner Putin urged by world leaders to back Syria peace moves
Enbridge Inc. shot back at critics of its proposed Northern Gateway pipeline Monday, arguing the project is making enormous and costly commitments to avoid ...
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Airborne laser reveals city under Cambodian earth
SYDNEY (AP) -- Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples ...
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World Briefing | Middle East 15 Die in Iraq Bomb Attacks
Three bombings in Iraq killed 15 people on Monday, officials said. A bomb left inside a restaurant in Taji, which serves travelers on the highway linking Baghdad to several northern Sunni-majority cities, killed eight people, including two women and a 12-year-old child, the police said. Twenty-four others were wounded. Also in Taji, a bomb placed inside a minibus killed two commuters and wounded ...
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Caution of Assault Given in Nigella Lawson Incident
Nigella Lawson (L) and Charles Saatchi attend a dinner hosted by Joseph Group CEO Sara Ferrero and Vogue UK editor-at-large Fiona Golfar at Joe's Restaurant on January 19, 2012 in ...
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The Wolf on Wall Street Trailer Shows Leonardo DiCaprio Rolling in Mega-Wealth Debauchery
(Paramount Pictures/YouTube) The newly-released trailer for ';The Wolf of Wall Street,'; starring Leonardo DiCaprio, gives a first glimpse at Martin Scorsese’s new crime thriller about the wealth of Wall Street moguls in the ...
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G8 Leaders World Economic Prospects Still Weak
After the first day of their annual summit in Northern Ireland Monday, the G8 said significant policy actions taken by the eurozone, U.S. and Japan have reduced the risk of an economic downturn. The leaders said promoting growth and jobs remains their priority. They called the fight against long-term and youth unemployment critical. Earlier Monday, the United States and European Union said ...
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G8 challenges Russia to sign up to Syria peace plan
ENNISKILLEN, United Kingdom (AFP) - World leaders were to fight for a consensus on Syria on the final day of the G8 summit Tuesday, after challenging Russian President Vladimir Putin to get on board or be left out in the cold.The meeting of world leaders in Northern Ireland was also due to seek a deal on tax evasion but it was the divisions over the civil war in Syria that threatened to ...
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World Briefing | Asia Floods in India Kill at Least 23
Torrential rain and floods washed away buildings and roads, killing at least 23 people in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, officials said Monday. More than a dozen people died in the ...
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Jobs program gives Milwaukee teens real-world experience
With youth unemployment hitting 24.5% nationally in May, several Milwaukee teenagers are getting real-world work experience this summer, thanks to the St. Charles Youth and Family Services Youth Employment Services program, ...
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U.S. Russia still dont agree on Syria
>Read a version of this story in Arabic.(CNN) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin says he still doesn't see eye to eye with the United States on Syria. But "all of us have the intention to stop the violence in Syria and to solve this situation peacefully," Putin said Monday after a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the Group of Eight Summit in Northern Ireland. Putin said he and ...
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Supercomputer is worlds fastest
China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous US holder and underlining the country's rise as a science and technology ...
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Obama defends spying programmes
"It is transparent," the US President said in an interview. "That's why we set up the FISA court," he added, referring to the secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that authorises two recently leaked programmes - one that gathers US phone records and another designed to track the use of US-based internet servers by foreigners with possible ...
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Asia's largest ever infastructure project
The Trans-Asian Railway has been faltering since it was first proposed in the 1960s by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific (ESCAP). Throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s the project was hindered by political instability, the wars in Indochina, the reticence of China and a subsequent lack of finance in Asia for mega-projects of this kind.
Now, however, with China emerging as the number two most dominant economy in the world, the project to link two major continents (Asia and Europe) is finding its feet once more and the Chinese are looking into investment opportunities, with some aspects of the project, such as the several thousand kilometers that pass through Thailand, being slated for possible construction in 2013. Read more
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