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Moscow rebuffs Obama nuclear arms proposal
Obama 's call for steep nuclear weapons reductions, with a Defense Ministry adviser calling the proposal "absolutely unacceptable." "We cannot allow the balance of the strategic deterrence system to be broken, or the effectiveness of our nuclear forces to be diminished," Russian President Vladimir Putin said in St. Petersburg around the same time Obama said in Berlin he ...
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In Berlin Obama urges bold nuclear arms cuts
E President Barack Obama, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, prepares to speak in front of Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday. Obama, who spoke before 200,000 in Berlin in 2008 as a candidate for president, drew about 4,500 people for his address. (Jewel Samad, AFP/Getty Images) BERLIN - Summoning the harsh history of this once-divided city, President Barack Obama on ...
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Obama to put limits on emissions from existing power plants
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is preparing regulations limiting carbon-dioxide emissions from existing power plants, senior officials said Wednesday. The move would be the most consequential climate policy step he could take and one sure to provoke legal challenges from Republicans and some industries.Electric power plants are the largest single source of carbon-dioxide emissions in the ...
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Off-form Rory McIlroy should borrow from US president Barack Obama
Barack Obama , when addressing an audience in Northern Ireland this week, made mention of one of the country's favourite sons, among such as Seamus Heaney and WB Yeats. "I did ...
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Vets not allowed to wear old uniforms in public without written consent navy says
Canada’s navy brass is lowering the hammer on veterans who are wearing their uniforms to ceremonial and other public functions, demanding that they receive permission in writing before doing so. But the June 13 directive from the head of the Royal Canadian Navy has the potential to create a public relations nightmare in which elderly veterans who wear their old naval uniforms at ...
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Confederations Cup Brazil in emotional win over Mexico
FORTALEZA //Brazil, galvanised by a passionate rendition of their national anthem, produced a high-tempo performance in front of their home fans to beat Mexico 2-0 and plant one foot in the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup. ...
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Two Canadian sites in running for World Heritage status
A Basque whaling station that dates to the 1500s and a largely unspoiled expanse of boreal forest where five First Nations have existed for six millenniums are among the international sites being considered this week for coveted World Heritage designation.Canadian officials are in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, hoping to convince UNESCO's World Heritage Committee that the Red Bay National Historic ...
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Williams says sorry over lucky gang rape girl gaffe
SERENA Williams has been forced to issue a full apology for saying that the 16-year-old victim of a gang rape had been "lucky" and that she "shouldn't have put herself in that ...
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Hitman labelled chronic liar by Bulgers lawyers
John Martorano has been questioned about varying stories he told over the years about killings he says were orchestrated by Bulger (83) and his gang. Martorano, who has admitted killing 20 people, testified yesterday in Bulger's racketeering trial in Boston. Bulger's lawyer branded Martorano a chronic liar, repeatedly pointing out inconsistencies between what he told investigators in ...
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Moscow rejects Obamas call for further nuclear arms cuts
Mr Obama offered to cut deployed nuclear arsenals by a third, however Moscow immediately rejected his proposal. Speaking in Berlin where John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan gave rousing Cold War speeches, Mr Obama urged Russia to help build on the "New START" treaty that requires both countries to cut stockpiles of deployed nuclear weapons to 1,550 each by 2018. The speech, a day after ...
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Country legend Slim Whitman dies aged 90
Country star Slim Whitman has died. The high-pitched yodeller who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film 'Mars Attacks!', died at a Florida hospital aged ...
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Fed to keep up bond-buying plan
The Federal Reserve in the US has said that it will maintain the pace of its bond-buying programme to keep long-term interest rates at record ...
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Tropical storm Barry forms off Mexicos coast
Tropical storm Barry formed off Mexico's Gulf Coast on Wednesday, prompting Mexican authorities to ready hundreds of shelters. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the Atlantic hurricane season's second tropical storm was drenching areas in its path with up to 25 centimetres of rain in some places, raising the threat of flash floods. In the late evening, Barry was about ...
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Kids removed from Canadian Mennonite community
(38 mins ago) Children have been removed from an orthodox Mennonite community in Canada where adults have been charged with assaulting youngsters using items such as cattle prods and leather straps. Manitoba Family Services would not say Wednesday how many children had been taken into its care and would not reveal any other details about the case. The department said child protection ...
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Mexico prepares for tropical storm
VERACRUZ, Mexico -- Tropical Storm Barry formed off Mexico's Gulf Coast on Wednesday, prompting Mexican authorities to ready hundreds of ...
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No change in position on Kashmir United States
ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the line of control. "Our position has not changed on Kashmir. And those discussions are up to the governments of India and Pakistan," Psaki ...
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Michelle Obama daughters visit Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
US First Lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters, Malia and Sasha, on Wednesday visited Berlin's Holocaust Memorial as part of a tour of key sites of Germany's troubled Nazi and Cold War history. They were also to take in the Cold War-era Checkpoint Charlie, where US and Soviet tanks once faced off, and a remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall that once split the city. The Obamas, ...
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Designation of obesity as disease spurs Canadian debate
A decision in the United States to recognize obesity as a disease has prompted soul-searching within Canada's medical establishment on whether to follow suit.The dramatic move by the American Medical Association on Tuesday, which is expected to spur doctors and insurers to pay more attention to obesity, could also prompt action in Canada. Although no provincial government recognizes ...
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PST Neymars goal assist boost Brazil past Mexico
Bookends ofbrilliance from the Confederations Cup’s most talked-about player defined today’s first match in Brazil, with ...
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Children taken from Canadian Mennonite community
WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Children have been removed from an orthodox Mennonite community in Canada where adults have been charged with assaulting youngsters using items such as cattle prods and leather straps.Manitoba Family Services would not say Wednesday how many children had been taken into care and would not reveal any other details about the case. The department says child protection ...
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FBI uses drones in America director Mueller admits
FBI director Robert Mueller testifies at the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 19, 2013 in Washington, DC. Mueller confirmed that the FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance during the hearing on FBI oversight. (Alex Wong/AFP/Getty Images) While the FBI ...
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New U.S. climate strategy coming within weeks Obama adviser
President Barack Obama walks up the stairs towards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington before departing for San Francisco, June 6, ...
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UPDATE 2-Storm Barry heads for Mexico Gulf coast oil installations
Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:08pm EDT MEXICO CITY, June 19 (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Barry, the second of the Atlantic hurricane season, strengthened as it churned toward Mexico on Wednesday, threatening to bring heavy rains to oil and power installations near the country's Gulf coast. The Minatitlan oil refinery of state oil monopoly Pemex and the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant, both in Veracruz ...
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Kerry calls Karzai twice to smooth waters over Taliban talks
Hamid Karzai twice to try to mend fences over the U.S. outreach to the Taliban. The phone diplomacy occurred after Karzai said the Afghan government had suspended security talks with the United States in Kabul "in view of the contradiction between acts and the statements made by the United States of America in regard to the peace process." "The secretary spoke with President ...
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Rockies swept away by Jays in forgettable three-game trip to Canada
TORONTO - The length of the schedule demands improvisation. The Rockies awoke Wednesday underneath the dome, feeling like they were crawling from underneath a rock. They needed a burst of sunlight. Or a jolt. But apparently that will have to wait until Roy Oswalt's first start.Juan Nicasio wore a different number, but his ordinary performance was exactly what the Rockies weren't ...
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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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