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VP Biden pays tribute to civil rights leader
From left, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Vice President Joe Biden applaud during a ceremony to dedicate the statue of Frederick Douglass, seen behind them, Wednesday, June 19, 2013, in the Emancipation Hall of the United ...
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Puerto Rican Prisoner distrusts Obamas Possible Pardon
San Juan, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera affirme that the that the meanness of U.S. President Barack Obama, can lead to another decade detained for his ideal of independence. Obama keeps his cards very close to the chest. He has been well stingy on the issue of granting pardon, he said in an interview today in the newspaper El Nuevo Dia, referring to ...
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Obama - save yourself Serve the people and survive
It must suck to be President Obama. He can't buy a break. Some goofball at IRS was actually foolish enough to go near the Tea Party's tax-exempt status. NSA has been snooping into our phone records. Worse still, the day after Bill Clinton called him a wimp for not carpet-bombing Syria to support the rebels and their Al Qaeda buddies, the president caved in and said he'd ...
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Guantanamo Hunger Strikers Must Receive Independent Medical Advice Doctors Urge Obama
Hunger strikers currently detained in Guantnamo Bay should receive independent medical advice, 153 doctors told President Barack Obama in an open letter published today in The Lancet. An increasing number of doctors and healthcare professionals are expressing concern and alarm that the hunger strikers are not receiving a proper or humane standard of medical care by military doctors. There are ...
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Obama Defends Domestic Spying
President Barack Obama defended covert US internet surveillance programmes on Wednesday, telling a Berlin audience they were not directed at ordinary people. "Our current programmes are bound by the rule of law and they are focussed on the threats to our security, not the communications of ordinary persons. "They help confront real dangers and they keep people safe," he ...
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Obama Says Hes Working on Closing Gitmo
US President Barack Obama said Wednesday in Berlin he would work to close the controversial prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "We must move beyond the mindset of perpetual war, and in America, that means redoubling our efforts to close the prison at Guantanamo," Obama said in a major foreign policy speech at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. For more stories covering ...
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Obama Defends Taliban Negotiations Bid
US President Barack Obama defended Wednesday Washington's decision to seek negotiations with the Taliban despite protests from Afghan President Hamid Karzai. "We still believe you've got to have a parallel track to at least look at the prospect of some sort of political reconciliation," he told a news conference in Berlin. "President Karzai himself recognizes the ...
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Brazil v Mexico Confederations Cup – live | Paul Doyle
Preamble: The "festival of champions" continues, in a decidedly unfestive atmosphere, with hundreds of thousands of Brazilians taking to the streets to protest against government misrule, financial chicanery and police brutality, while Sepp Blatter tells them to pipe down and quit ruining his appetite with their spoilsport bleating. So in deference to King Blatter, let's pretend ...
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Obama defends US snooping in uneasy Germany
USA US President Barack Obama has defended the actions of his government's spying on Germany and its citizens on his Wednesday visit to the country, shortly after NSA revelations exposed that Germany was the US's most spied upon European nation. The codenamed 'Prism' operation instigated an outcry in a nation which still remembers the East German secret 'Stasi' ...
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CBO Senate bill still allows illegal immigration
2013. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn ...
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Rep. Grijalva Obama contradicting himself on NSA programs
Rep. Raul Grijalva discusses the president's stance on NSA programs as Obama defended the programs on the world stage on Wednesday during a speech in Berlin saying it's "saved ...
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Obama proposes reducing nuclear arsenal
i've determined that we can ensure the security of america and our allies and maintain a strong and credible strategic deterrence while reducing our ...
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Poloz urges stability and patience in 1st public speech
The central bank will keep its focus trained squarely on keeping inflation in check, Stephen Poloz said in his first public remarks since being named governor of the Bank of Canada. Describing the bank's two per cent inflation target as "sacrosanct" the governor told a business audience at the Oakville, Ont., chamber of commerce that the bank hopes to work closely with business ...
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Man arrested in womens underwear thefts over 12-year span
Huron County OPP have arrested a man for allegedly stealing women's underwear over a 12-year span. The OPP first picked up the trail in September 2001 while investigating a break and enter in which the only items that appeared to have been stolen were women's underwear. Over the next three years, seven similar thefts were reported in the Morris-Turnberry and Huron East areas. In ...
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Montreal to get its new new mayor next Tuesday during special council meeting
MONTREAL — Montreal will have its next interim mayor — the third mayor in less than a year — early next week. The city clerk’s office has announced a vote will be held during a special meeting of council next Tuesday. A handful of councillors have been named as potential successors to Michael Applebaum, who stepped down as interim mayor after being arrested on ...
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Transcript of Obama speech in Berlin
In a wide-ranging foreign-policy speech in Berlin, President Barack Obama called for launching negotiations with Russia aimed at ending the two nations' Cold War military posture and a reduction of nuclear arms by up to one-third. Here is the text of the speech, as provided by the White ...
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Obama Talks Climate Change In Berlin Speech We Will Do More
BERLIN, June 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the United States understood it had to do more to fight climate change and he pledged that more action was ...
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Obama Silent About U.S. Arms For Syria Rebels Praises G8 Peace Plan
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the media following bilateral talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery on June 19, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Timur Emek/Getty ...
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Obama Berlin Speech Renews Calls For Nuclear Reductions
BERLIN - Appealing for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our time." In a wide-ranging speech that enumerated a litany of challenges facing the world, Obama said he wanted to reignite the spirit that Berlin ...
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Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions more attention to climate change
US President Barack Obama, 2nd left, First Lady Michelle Obama, left, German chancellor Angela Merkel, second right, and her husband Joachim Sauer, right, arrive for the Dinner at Orangerie Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. US President Barack Obama is on a two-day visit to the German ...
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Turkish Ambassador to United States Tan stated world continues to watch massacre…
Turkish Ambassador to United States Tan stated world continues to watch massacre although many Syrian people had died WASHINGTON - Turkish Ambassador to United States Namik Tan stated Tuesday that the world continued to watch the massacre although many Syrian people had died, calling on the United Nations Security Council to help put an halt to it.Speaking at the "32nd annual ...
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Syria has crossed chemical red line says Obama
The US government has "high confidence" that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons (CW). In an apparent policy shift, it says it will now provide military support to Syrian rebels. The decision follows the finding of a breakdown product of the nerve gas sarin in urine samples from ...
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PM Netanyahu meets Canadian FM Baird
We cannot accept anything less than: 1. A total cessation of all enrichment of nuclear materials at all levels. 2. The removal from Iran of all enriched nuclear material. 3. The closure of Iran's illicit nuclear facilities. PM Netanyahu meets Canadian FM John Baird We cannot let Iran ride out the clock through endless talks. Iran must comply with UN Security Council resolutions. ...
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New U.S. climate strategy coming within weeks -Obama adviser
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:44pm EDT WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will target carbon emissions from power plants as part of a second-term climate change agenda expected to be rolled out in the next few weeks, his top energy and climate adviser said on Wednesday. Obama will take several steps to make tackling climate change a ...
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Four days after pledging aid for Syrian rebels Obama backs down
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama, less than a week after approving U.S. military aid to Sunni rebels, has backed away from proposals meant to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad. Obama, in his first interview on the subject, acknowledged that he was skeptical over measures to restrain Assad’s military amid its offensive against the ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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