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Myanmar leader to meet Obama but stalls on reforms
FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama, left, stands next to Myanmar President Thein Sein during a group photo session at the East Asia Summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Thein Seins historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime. Thats been based on a principle of taking action for action by ...
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America Ferrera returning to TV
Ugly Betty star America Ferrera gets hitched America Ferrera is reportedly planning a return to TV. The End Of Watch actress - who shot to fame on TV show Ugly Betty - is said to be preparing to star in telenovela project 'Pedro & Maria, a contemporary adaptation of hakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The series synopsis states: "Pedro and Maria are two opposites cut from the ...
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Mexico violence claims hundreds of US lives
MEXICO CITY--When Malcolm X’s grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years. Excluding terror attacks and US soldiers killed in action, Mexico has seen more homicides of Americans than any other part of the world in the past decade, according to an AFP analysis of US ...
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Veterans from World War II carrier hold final reunion
Veterans of the World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Franklin held their final planned reunion Friday in South Carolina. The gathering, held at the USS Yorktown at the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant brought together about two dozen of the remaining crew members. The Franklin was badly damaged in a Japanese attack on March 19, 1945. During the bomb attack, more than ...
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Trains collide in America
Two trains have collided in Connecticut injuring over sixty people, five critically, and closing the line between Boston and New York. It appears a New Haven-bound train derailed and was then hit by another train. About 250 people were on board at the time of the rush-hour crash. At the moment no cause of the crash is being ...
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Four Examples from the Last Week Prove Obama Is Full of Hot Air on Climate Protection
Police cordon off the area in front of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 17, 2013. A 45-year-old man suspected of sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and a US senator has been charged with threatening the life of the ...
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Obama Agenda Seems to Be Weathering Controversies
Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office. "Absolutely not," Steven Miller, the recently resigned acting head of the Internal Revenue ...
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PHONE TAP PROBEAP Refutes DOJ Claim That Leak Put Americans At Risk
WASHINGTON – Americans were in danger. That was the chief argument Attorney General Eric Holder tried to make this week for why Justice Department officials seized two months' worth of phone records of reporters and editors at The Associated Press. But the AP has strongly refuted from the start claims that it put the country in danger. The accusation that the news organization ...
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Marine reunited with dog he served with in Afghanistan
May 17, 2013: Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach, of Madison, Wisc., gets a kiss from Casey, a four-year-old yellow labrador that he worked with while deployed in Afghanistan, as the two are reunited during a surprise ceremony at the Statehouse in Des Moines, ...
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Canada abuzz over crack video
A video purportedly of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine has caused an uproar in Canada, with Mr Ford calling the allegations ...
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Canadian Giro d’Italia champ Ryder Hesjedal withdraws from this years race
This May 11, 2013 file photo shows Britain’s Bradley Wiggins adjusting his helmet prior to starting the eighth stage of the Giro d’Italia, Tour of Italy cycling race, an individual time trial from Gabicce to Saltara. Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins and defending champion Ryder Hesjedal both withdrew from the Giro d’Italia before the start of the 13th stage, Friday, May ...
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Diane-35 benefits outweigh risks when used as authorized for acne Health Canada
OTTAWA - Health Canada has completed a safety review of the anti-acne medication Diane-35 and determined the drug's benefits outweigh its risks when appropriately used. In Canada, Diane-35 is approved for the temporary treatment of severe acne in women who are unresponsive to other treatments. The federal agency says it should not be used in patients with a history that puts them at risk ...
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Son named as suspect in murder of New Brunswick businessman Richard Oland court documents
The suspect in the slaying of New Brunswick businessman Richard Oland is his son Dennis, state search warrant documents that were executed in the investigation. A Saint John, N.B., judge quashed on Friday a publication ban on the identities of those subject to the search warrants. Dennis Oland's property in Rothesay, N.B., a suburb of Saint John, was searched after his father's death ...
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Obama criticized over asking Marines to hold umbrellas
Marines in uniform aren't supposed to hold umbrellas, but a spokesman says President Barack Obama's request Thursday was an "extenuating circumstance." (Jacquelyn Martin, The Associated ...
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White House scandals could Obama lose his mojo
A tsunami of scandals threatens to distract Barack Obama from his second-term agenda as U.S. media and Republicans turn up the heat on the embattled U.S. president. "The recent rash of scandals does complicate the life of the administration. It takes them off-message and distracts from the broader narrative of an improving economy,"Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Washington-based ...
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Obama and Erdogan agree Assad must go
Obama admitted: "There is no magic formula for dealing with an extraordinarily violent and difficult situation like Syria's." The talks came a day before another key player, Russian President Vladimir Putin, was to meet U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and one day after U.N. members voted to condemn an "escalation" by Assad's forces.And even as Obama and Erdogan ...
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Growing camaraderie Manmohan Singh to visit Barack Obama again
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to travel to Washington in a few months at the invitation of US President Barack Obama.Obama's invitation to Singh was delivered by US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns during his recent visit here, sources said.Singh has accepted the invitation and will be travelling to Washington, the sources said.The Prime Minister's visit to ...
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Why the Liberals were able to predict their victory in B.C. while public election polls missed the mark
Late last week, four days before ';E-Day,'; pollster Dimitri Pantazopoulos met senior members of the B.C. Liberal Party’s campaign team, including former MLA and finance minister Colin Hansen. ';We’ve got 48 seats,'; Mr. Pantazopoulos told them. Popular support was in their party’s favour, enough to win a fourth consecutive Liberal majority government. ...
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U.S. Russia and Canada failed to share information from investigations into Canadian jihadi Boston bomber
Set among auto shops on an industrial backstreet, the Imdadul Islamic Centre occupies a low building that housed a furniture business before it was converted into a mosque with a shiny silver dome. Founded by Guyanese Muslims, it has been a federally regulated charity in good standing since 1986. The mosque secretary, Osman Khan, co-chairs Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair's Muslim ...
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Canada’s NDP denounces China signals support for Obama’s “Asia Pivot”
Canada's Official Opposition, the trade union-backed New Democratic Party (NDP), brought forward a motion last month to scuttle the recently negotiated Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA).Though their motion was doomed to be overwhelmingly defeated and quickly forgotten, the social democrats used the occasion to repeatedly denounce the ...
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Notorious dictator Videla dies in prison
Michael Warren Buenos Aires - 18 May 2013 Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens, has died in his sleep while serving life in prison for crimes against ...
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Internet star is charged with murder of lawyer
Tim Walker Los Angeles - 18 May 2013 An internet celebrity known as "Kai the hatchet-wielding hitcher" has been charged with murder, after he allegedly bludgeoned a 73-year-old man to ...
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Suspect in Tim Bosma’s death was always ‘a little different’ and did ‘odd stuff’ at private school classmate says
More than the record-breaking flight as a prodigy pilot or his family's notable history or wealth, schoolmates of Dellen Millard, who is charged with first-degree murder in a shocking kidnapping case of an Ontario father, remember his dog biscuits. In grades 6 and 7, Mr. Millard walked the corridors of his elite private school carrying a box of dog treats, drawing out one bone-shaped ...
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Missing woman contacted murder suspect Dellen Millard shortly before her disappearance
Police are revisiting a months-old missing persons case after receiving information of a possible connection between the missing woman and the man accused with murdering Tim Bosma. Sgt. Stephen Woodhouse -- who was the lead detective in the search for Laura Babcock almost a year ago -- was informed earlier this week that Hamilton and Toronto police were looking into the stagnant ...
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Obama’s goals on thin ice
It’s impossible to predict the lasting impact of the controversies now besetting the Obama administration, but the risks to the president’s agenda are sizable.On the legislative front, they could doom the already cloudy prospects for comprehensive immigration reform. The implementation of President Obama’s health care law is also likely to be a bit more challenging. It’s ...
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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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