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Little done in Brazil to improve safety after fire
FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2013 file photo, firefighters work to douse a fire at the Kiss Club in Santa Maria city, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Relatives of the victims of the nightclub fire that earlier this year killed 242 people in southern Brazil, said on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 that little has been done to improve the safety of public gathering places since the tragedy. (AP Photo/Agencia ...
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US pushes Europe to amend arms embargo on Syrian rebels
John Kerry , the US secretary of state, has been urging the EU to reach consensus on a change that would allow weapons to be delivered to the rebels - though without any decision to do so at this stage.Diplomatic sources said on Wednesday that Britain now has the support of France, Italy and Spain, while Germany is neutral. But Austria, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic are still opposed. ...
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IRS official refuses to testify before Congress
The IRS official who oversees non-profit applications refused to testify Wednesday at a congressional panel probing abuse at the US tax agency but defiantly insisted she had done nothing ...
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4 Americans killed in counterterrorism drone strikes
Four Americans, one in a targeted attack, have been killed by drones since 2009, said Attorney General Eric Holder. (U.S. Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Effrain ...
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Lydia Davis wins $93K Man Booker International Prize
Lydia Davis, an American writer of short stories --some of them just a single line long -- has won the 60,000 ($93,230 Cdn) Man Booker International Prize. She was named the winner in London Wednesday, coming out ahead of nine international contenders. Davis, 65, has written nine collections of short stories and one ...
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Karl vomits after worlds hottest pie
The world's hottest chilli pie has claimed another victim after Today show co-host Ben Fordham got one over serial prankster Karl Stefanovic. Courtesy: Channel ...
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Exclusive Glencore Trafigura deals with Iran may have skirted sanctions - U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Metals swap deals with Iran by Switzerland-based commodities giants Glencore Xstrata and Trafigura could have been a way of skirting international sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program, according to a confidential U.N. Panel of Experts report seen by Reuters on ...
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US IDs 4 Americans Killed by Drones
Attorney General Eric Holder has disclosed in a letter to Congress that four Americans were killed by U.S. drones in the course of the government's attacks on terrorists. "Since 2009, the United States, in the conduct of U.S. counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida and its associated forces outside of areas of active hostilities, has specifically targeted and killed one U.S. ...
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Octogenarians Compete for Oldest-Everest-Climber Record
Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura, 80, left, is hoping to become the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest, breaking the record for the oldest person to climb the mountain, currently held by Nepal's Min Bahadur Sherchan, right, who reached the summit at the age of 76, in ...
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Watch Biden Welcomes Grads to Greatest Coast Guard the World Has Ever Seen
Thank you very much -- -- thank you so very very much. Let me -- before began that. -- your words that are. Hearts go and our prayers. Are said for of the people of Oklahoma. Particularly moral problem. Secretary of -- Toronto as the media comment on -- -- was. Scheduled to be here today. I met were there yesterday the situation room. Relative to the situation in. -- Oklahoma. And -- she asked ...
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Chuck E. Cheese Killer Gets Reprieve
U.S. Supreme Court on Feb .19, 2013 denied convicted killer Nathan Dunlap's appeal of his death sentence, moving closer the likely execution of the man who killed four in an Aurora Chuck E. Cheese restaurant nearly 19 years ...
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Opposition Groups Call for Swaziland Election Boycott
King of Swaziland Mswati III (Front) and one of his 13 wives disembark from a plane after arriving at Katunayake International airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 13, 2012. ...
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Vatican releases first report of financial watchdog
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Under pressure from global financial circles, the Vatican has published its first annual report from its financial watchdog agency.It also announced new regulations to fight money laundering and terror financing.The Vatican created the oversight agency in 2010 in an effort to shake its image as a secretive tax haven and improve its reputation in global financial ...
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South African Government Contribution to Fully Fund World Champ Swim Team
By Neville Smith, ZwemZaJOHANNESBURG, South Africa, May 22. SPORT Minister Fikile Mbalula has announced has announced that his department will offer financial assistance to the cash strapped national swimming federation Swimming South Africa.The R2,7million sponsorship will help the national team's campaign at the forthcoming FINA World Swimming Championships that will take place in ...
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IAEA report Iran expands nuclear technology
Herman Nackaerts, left, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, shakes hands with Iran's Ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, after their talks at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. U.N. nuclear agency officials are meeting with Iranian counterparts in a renewed attempt ...
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Argentine Indians ask president for their lands
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -; Argentina's Qom Indians have asked President Cristina Fernandez for help in recovering some of their ancestral ...
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Egypt leader claims victory in captives release
This image made from video broadcast on Egyptian State Television shows members of the Egyptian security forces after their release by kidnappers, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the volatile Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors Wednesday after successful mediation, the country's ...
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Forbes Womens Summit 2013 Some of the Worlds Most Influential Women Share Insights and Lessons Learned
Earlier this month, Forbes was proud to bring together more than 300 of the most influential women in the world - across generations - to discuss the dynamic ways in which they're accelerating change by embracing innovation and disruption -- and collectively, redefining power. They didn't disappoint. Participants of the ...
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London terror attack leaves 1 dead near barracks
LONDON (AP) -- In a brutal daylight attack which raised fears that terrorism had returned to London, two men with butcher knives hacked another man to death near a military barracks Wednesday before police wounded them in a ...
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London attack
>Are you there? Send us your photos, videosLondon (CNN) -- They first hit the man, thought to be a British soldier, with a car in broad daylight. Then the two attackers hacked him to death and dumped his body in the middle of a southeastern London road. As the victim -- dressed in what appeared to be a T-shirt for Help for Heroes, a charity that helps military veterans -- lay prone, one of ...
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Holy See to 66th World Health Assembly
Here is the intervention by the Holy See delegation to the 66th World Health Assembly. The meeting is under way in Geneva, Switzerland. The address by Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, the representative of the Holy See, was given ...
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EU approves sending border security advisers to Libya
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments approved a mission on Wednesday to help Libya improve its border security in response to concerns that Islamist militants and weapons move freely across the North African country's ...
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U.S. says four Americans have been killed in counterterrorism operations
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on ''Oversight of the United States Department of Justice'' on Capitol Hill in Washington May 15, ...
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Take A Breathtaking Trip Around The World In 15 Minutes
9 NASA's Landsat satellites have provided incomparable views of Earthen landscapes since the 1970s. In February, the newest satellite to join the family, called the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, took flight, and thanks to its new imaging technology, the Operational Land Imager, the images of land-masses are more detailed than ever. A recently released video of a fly-over of a swath of ...
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Is Pope Francis an exorcist
VATICAN CITY Pope Francis' fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican's insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old husband and father who traveled to Rome from Mexico to attend ...
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Albuquerque leading the way in sustainable development
The Global Warming debate over whether humans or natural processes are to blame for rising temperatures, is far from settled. But for many environmentalists and conservation groups there is a concern that the debate may detract from the fact that something must still be done about the unsustainable way in which humans currently live.
Albuquerque is leading many cities in the United States, and even the world, in efforts to develop a sustainable development program by which future generations will not have to suffer for the industry and economic growth of the present. Read more
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