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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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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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US names dangerous Cuba prisoners
Pentagon , Army Lieutanant Colonel Todd Breasseale.The names of all Guantanamo prisoners have been public for years, but the administration of ...
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Europe to pay the price for arming Syria rebels al-Assad
Europe will "pay the price" if it sends arms to Syrian rebel forces, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned on Monday in an interview with a German newspaper."If the Europeans deliver weapons, then Europe's backyard will become terrorist and Europe will pay the price for that," the Syrian president said in the interview with Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ...
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Aussies non-stop flights to Europe yes please
More than half of Australian travellers say they would rather stay couped up on a plane for over 18 hours than make a stopover, according to a new study. Research conducted by Skyscanner found that 57 percent of Australians would choose to travel non-stop to Europe and avoid stopovers. Although the non-stop option won over the majority of Aussies, 23 percent said they would choose whatever ...
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Obama defends Internet snooping program
President Barack Obama on Mondaysought toallay fears about secret US intelligence programs, rejecting comparisons withthe policies of his predecessors George W. Bush and Dick ...
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Brazil cities hit by more protests
Protesters have massed in at least seven Brazilian cities for another round of demonstrations voicing disgruntlement about life in the country, raising questions about security during big events such as the ...
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U.S. names prisoners slated for indefinite detention
The Obama administration had previously declined to disclose which Guantanamo detainees had been designated for indefinite detention in 2010 by an inter-agency review panel. (Bill Gorman/Associated ...
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Standing man inspires protests
>Are you there? Share your story on CNN iReport, but please remember to stay safe. Istanbul (CNN) -- A single man stood silently in Istanbul's Taksim Square for hours Monday night, defying police who broke up weekend anti-government protests with tear gas and water cannon and drawing hundreds of others to his vigil. For more than five hours, he appeared to stare at a portrait of Kemal ...
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Biggest protests in 20 years sweep Brazil
* Sparked by cost of public transport, complaints grow * Demonstrations unfold as Brazil hosts Confederations Cup * Protests mostly peaceful, though clashes in some cities (Updates size of protests, adds fresh quotes, details) By Todd Benson and Asher Levine SAO PAULO, June 17 (Reuters) - As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil's biggest cities on ...
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Data agency to declassify foiled plots
Open the Google Chrome browser Click Tools icon>Options>Under the Hood>Content Settings Check Allow local data to be set Uncheck Block third-party cookies from being set Uncheck Clear cookies Close ...
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Protesters back in streets of Brazilian cities
SAO PAULO (AP) -- More than 100,000 people took to the streets in overwhelmingly peaceful protests in at least eight cities Monday, demonstrations that voiced the deep frustrations Brazilians feel about carrying heavy tax burdens but receiving woeful returns in public education, health, security and ...
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Salvadorans to help with gang truce in Honduras
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) -- Two Salvadorans who mediated in a gang truce in their country that cut the homicide rate by at least 50 percent met Monday with gang leaders in Honduras, where they will help do the ...
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15 killed 90 wounded in fresh attacks in Iraq
BAGHDAD, May 21 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 people were killed and 90 others wounded in violent attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, said the police. A car bomb went off near the Abu Ghraib Grand Mosque, a Sunni mosque in Abu Ghraib area, 25 km west of the capital Baghdad, on Tuesday evening, killing eight people and injuring 15 others, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The ...
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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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