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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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Afghanistan suspends talks on US security pact
KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has decided to suspend talks on a security pact with the United States, accusing Washington of mixed messages regarding peace talks with the Taliban, his spokesman said on Wednesday."In a special meeting chaired by President Hamid Karzai, the president has decided to suspend talks about a security pact with the US because of their inconsistent ...
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Voices of Jerusalem Ultimate felafel family
felafel business in Jerusalem," says Yossi Vashady, owner of Shalom Felafel, a franchise with ten branches in total: eight in Jerusalem, one in Modiin and one in Mevasseret Zion. The stores are either Glatt Kosher Parev and specialize in felafel (recognizable by their green branding) or Kosher Rabbinate meat restaurants that also offer shwarma and meat on the grill. The store on Bezalel ...
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Home is where the cookbook is
After a colorful career as a trained nutritionist and setting up her own successful business offering culinary tours of Israel, Orly Ziv thought long and hard about what her next step would be. As a food lover, it only seemed natural to concentrate her expertise and write a cookbook sharing her vast knowledge of the local Israeli cuisine.Her first cookbook, the ...
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Montreal mayor vows to fight charges
Montreal - Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum resigned on Tuesday, a day after he was charged with fraud and corruption in the latest major Canadian municipal ...
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Kim Jong-un ‘stresses Hitler’s skills’
Seoul - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly given copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to his top officials, urging them to study it as a leadership skills ...
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No date for Afghan peace talks Taliban
Muhammad Naeem (L), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha. The Afghan Taliban opened an office in Qatar on Tuesday to help restart talks on ending the 12-year-old war. REUTERS/Mohammed ...
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Jeremy Forrests wife Emily flees witness box in tears as she described their last meal together
He tucked me in and told me he loved me: Wife of married teacher who ran to France with schoolgirl, 15, flees witness box in tears as she described their last ...
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Pictured Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson dining at same restaurant where he choked her
Pictured: Saatchi and Nigella dining at the same restaurant where he choked herjust 24 hours before she left him as storm over the assault ...
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Syria crisis David Cameron pledges not to remove Assad military if they overthrow tyrant
David Cameron last night made an appeal to Syria's military and security leaders in an extraordinary attempt to spark a coup against Bashar ...
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Taliban Attack and Afghan Move Cast Pall on Peace Talks
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Taliban We killed 4 U.S. troops at Afghan air base
KABUL, Afghanistan The Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for an attack in Afghanistan that killed four American troops just hours after the insurgent group announced it would hold talks with the U.S. on finding a political solution to ending the nearly 12-year war in the country. The deadly attack underscores the challenges ahead in trying to end the violence roiling Afghanistan via peace ...
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Suicide bomber strikes Yemen town
Several people have been killed and wounded in Yemen's northern Saada town when a suicide bomber riding a motorbike blew himself up in a busy market, a defence ministry statement said.No further details were immediately available on the incident on Wednesday.Saada, near the Saudi border and about 130km north of the capital Sanaa, has been under the control ofShia Houthi rebels for several ...
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China executes ex-official for raping minors
China has executed a former official of the ruling Communist Party after he was convicted of raping 11 underage girls, state media reports. Li Xingong, 44, was executed after he was found guilty by a court in the central city of Yongcheng, Henan province, state broadcaster China Central Television quoted court officials as saying on Wednesday. Li, the former deputy secretary of ...
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Obama To Urge U.S. Russia To Reduce Nukes By One-Third
A senior U.S. official says President Barack Obama is planning to propose that the United States and Russia cut their strategic nuclear warheads by a further one-third. The official said Obama will deliver the proposal in a speech on June 19 in Berlin. Under the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that the Obama administration negotiated with Moscow during Obama's first term, Russia ...
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U.S. Journalist Known For Afghan Iraq Work Dead At 33
The American award-winning war correspondent Michael Hastings, who authored notable articles and books about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has been killed in a car accident in Los Angeles. He was 33. The news website BuzzFeed, for which Hastings wrote, said he died early on June 18. Hastings is known for a 2010 profile in "Rolling Stone" magazine of General Stanley ...
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Montreal Metro still trying to replace ageing fleet
The Montreal Metro is ageing, or its trains are at least, with some of them over 60 years old this year, it’s high time for massive investment in an overhaul of the fleet, but the bidding process has been controversial and highly competitive, leading to delays, which it is hoped will provide a lower cost.
Montreal’s metro system is operated by the Société de Transport de Montréal (STM) and was first opened back in 1966, since then it has grown into one of the largest subways in the country and is the busiest in Canada with over 290 million trips taken on the system last year. The 759 trains that operate on the network are ageing and tired, having each carried an estimated 7900 people and plans are afoot to replace them. Read more
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