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Manmohan Singh to visit US on Obamas invitation
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 Washington could be clubbed with his tour to New York when he travels there to attend ...
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Treasury IG says Obama administration officials knew of IRS targeting during 2012 campaign
Ousted IRS chief Steve Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013, prior to testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political ...
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Obama Burmese President to Discuss Reform Progress Challenges
WHITE HOUSE -- Obama, Burmese President to Discuss Reform Progress, Challenges Burma's President Thein Sein holds talks on Monday with President Obama at the White House. The discussions will focus on progress in reforms, barriers toward greater democratization and next steps in the changing U.S. - Burma relationship. November 2012. Barack Obama becomes the first serving U.S. president ...
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Possible tornado surprises north Alabama city
Residents whose homes were torn apart or blown away by a North Texas deadly tornado can soon return to retrieve what belongings may be left and start cleaning up, authorities said ...
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Canadian PM to visit Peru Colombia to enhance economic ties
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper will pay a four-day visit to Peru and Colombia next week to enhance economic relations with South American countries.Senior officials of the Prime Minister's Office said at a news briefing that Harper will meet with leaders, representatives from the private sector and Canadians who are helping to increase economic prosperity, reinforce democratic ...
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Luna Rossa calls for safer Americas Cup
video The head of the Italian sailing team in the America's Cup called today for lowering limits on wind speeds and other safety measures to make the regatta less dangerous following a deadly accident last week. Prada fashion house co-founder Patrizio Bertelli said if the other three participants cannot agree on ways to improve safety, his team Luna Rossa Challenge could withdraw from ...
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Michelle Obama says bye bye to bangs
michelle obama nearly stole the show. it was the day we found out about the bangs. for her 49th birthday, she tweeted this picture, revealing her new look, and it instantly was anything that anyone was talking about. it was fodder for washington. it was fodder for the talk shows. the first lady joked about what inspired her to make the ...
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Cynthia Vanier began plotting Saadi Gaddafi’s escape in early 2011 SNC-Lavalin
MONTREAL - A court document filed by SNC-Lavalin alleges that a Canadian mediator and the bodyguard to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son began planning the son's escape from Libya as early as February 2011. And Canada was their first choice of destination in the early days of the uprising against the Gaddafi regime. "The plan in the beginning before your involvement was to try to get ...
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Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 percent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistan and other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting his plans to wind down the U.S. presence in that ...
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Republican efforts to skewer Obama and Holder over IRS and AP are blunted
lose the momentum of their eight-month-long Benghazi caterwauling, the White House also weakened any leverage they might have gained by taking decisive action over the IRS's using ...
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No more boring politics Canada’s moved on to cynical contempt
I was always quite proud of the Canadian political system during the time I lived in Britain, especially when their Parliament was mired in some scandal involving Rupert Murdoch or the cleaning of ancestral moats.When anyone asked about politics back home, which was not often, I would bore them with stories of peace, order and good government until their eyes glazed over and they reached for ...
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UPDATE 1-Americas Cup team calls for changes to make regatta safer
Fri May 17, 2013 9:32pm EDT By Noel Randewich and Ronnie Cohen ALAMEDA, California May 17 (Reuters) - The head of the Italian sailing team in the America's Cup called on Friday for lowering limits on wind speeds and other safety measures to make the regatta less dangerous following a deadly accident last week. Prada fashion house co-founder Patrizio Bertelli said if the other three ...
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Mexico to create special police unit to search for the missing
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's government says it will create a special investigative unit to search for the missing, heeding a request by relatives of the disappeared who have been on a hunger strike for nine days. Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam made the announcement Friday after meeting with a group of parents who have been on a hunger strike and living in tents outside his office. ...
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South America contraception up to 79 Middle Africa 19
Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women worldwide wanting to avoid pregnancy and in need of contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with growth concentrated among women in the 69 poorest countries where modern method use was already very low. A young Chinese boy walks past a neighborhood 'sex shop', full of contraceptive suggestions, in central Beijing. (UPI ...
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Obama puts Marines on umbrella duty irking conservative pundits
U.S. Marines move into position with umbrellas as rain falls during a joint news conference between U.S. President Barack Obama (C) and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) in the White House Rose Garden in Washington, May 16, 2013. (REUTERS/Jason Reed) WASHINGTON - Slogging through a drizzly Rose Garden news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ...
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Yachting Changes wanted to Americas Cup
A panel of investigators assembled by organisers to look into the Artemis accident has asked the teams to hold off sailing until May 23. Patrizio Bertelli, the owner of the Italian entry in the America's Cup said his boat will compete in this summer's races, but he suggested a new precaution. Speculation has swirled over whether Luna Rossa Challenge would pull out of sailing's most prestigious ...
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STXNEWS LATAM-CSN still considering purchase of Thyssens Steel America unit
RIO DE JANEIRO | Fri May 17, 2013 9:04pm EDT RIO DE JANEIRO May 17 (Reuters) - Brazilian steelmaker CSN, or Cia Siderrgica Nacional SA, is still evaluating the possible purchase of the Steel Americas unit of ThyssenKrupp AG, the company said in a regulatory filing late Friday. CSN has made no binding bids or agreements regarding the possible purchase, the company added. Earlier this ...
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Why Conrad Black thinks the United States is in decline
For someone who vowed to keep a low profile now that he is back in Canada, Conrad Black has been extremely visible.Although he is still dealing with the messy legal aftermath of the crash of his newspaper empire, he is a popular fixture on Toronto's social circuit, continues to write a weekly newspaper column and is active in various business ventures ("only non-public companies," ...
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Calif. fire crews work to douse 2 blazes
FRAZIER PARK, Calif. -; Firefighters battled terrain and flames as they worked to surround a wildfire burning for a third day in harsh hills and mountains north of Los ...
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UN panel Sanctions delaying NKorea nuke program
UNITED NATIONS -; A U.N. expert panel's report says North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related material but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on their prohibited weapons ...
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Firefighters say Castaic fire grows to 250 acres
FRAZIER PARK, Calif. -; Firefighters in Southern California say a brush fire that briefly threatened an elementary school in a rural community has grown to 250 acres as it churns through thicker ...
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Canadas inflation level down to 0.4 in April
(MENAFN) Statistics Canada stated that the country's inflation level declined to 0.4 percent last month from 1 percent in March, reported Reuters. The agency said that on monthly basis, prices dipped by 0.2 percent.It attributed the remarkable decline in annual inflation rate to a fall of 6 percent in gasoline prices, and a decrease of 0.7 percent in prices of passenger cars.However, ...
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America’s “voluntary” tax system
described the tax system as ';voluntary.'; Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) supported him. Of course, every sane person listening to this drivel immediately declared their desire to un-volunteer. A sharp-eyed Twitter correspondent, TalkRadio200, spotlighted ...
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Obama seeks to regain footing amid controversies
/enpproperty--> US President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred federal tax agency and pressed Congress to approve new security money to prevent another Benghazi-style terrorist attack on US diplomatic missions abroad. Obama's efforts on Thursday did little to satisfy ...
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Healthcare Costs Are Destroying America New Study Shows Correlation Between Cancer And Bankruptcy
A new study gives evidence that Americans who get cancer are twice as likely as healthy Americans to go bankrupt, regardless of whether they have insurance or not. White women were the most likely demographic to go broke, and thyroid cancer, which mostly affects young women, was the type of cancer most closely associated with bankruptcy. Prostate cancer among older men was the least likely to ...
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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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