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China warned on cyber-hacking Obama
US President Barack Obama says China has understood his "blunt" warnings against cyber-hacking as he credited new leader Xi Jinping with accepting more global responsibility for ...
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Obama praises Bernanke mum on successor
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- President Barack Obama offered praise for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday, though he declined to comment on a possible successor. In an interview on the Charlie Rose Show, Obama said Bernanke has "done an outstanding job. He has been an outstanding partner along with the White House in helping us recover much stronger than, for example, our ...
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Obama and Putin at Odds on Syria but Want Talks
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland ...
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Obama draws distinction between Chinas purported hacking and standard fare spying
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is drawing a distinction between China's alleged intellectual property theft and what he calls "standard fare" spying on other countries. Obama says every country engages in intelligence gathering, which he called an occasional source of tension. But the president says there's a big difference between China trying to find out what ...
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Obama Very easy to slip-slide into deeper Syrian involvement
Not wanting to get involved in another war in the Middle East region should be "everyone's concern," President Obama told PBS host Charlie Rose in an interview recorded Sunday for air Monday night, four days ...
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Venus Remedies rallies 10 on Mexico patent
Sivathanu Pillai hailed as the 'father of BrahMos' mentions 'missile tech' as one of the 10 key and "unique leap-frog technologies" for building a securer and greater future of ...
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Obama Iranians seek new direction
The victory of the most moderate candidate in Iran's recent presidential election demonstrates a desire on the part of the Iranian public to improve the nation's troubled international relationships, President Barack Obama said in an interview aired Monday. In his first comments on the subject since Hasan Rowhani was declared the victor in the voting, Obama embraced the message of the ...
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Obama Iranian election a sign the people seek change
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama said on Monday that Iran's election of a moderate as its next president is a sign that Iranians want to move in a different direction, but he was uncertain whether it would lead to ...
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Photographer killed women with matching initials
Opening statements have been heard in the trial of a 79-year-old man charged with the decades-old killing of four women in northern California who had matching ...
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Gangster was heartbroken to hear Bulger worked for FBI
Bulger (83) was one of America's most-wanted fugitives for years until he was caught in 2011. He is charged in a racketeering indictment that accuses him of participating in 19 murders in the 1970s and 1980s.John Martorano was questioned about a string of murders he committed while he, Bulger and Stephen 'The Rifleman' Flemmi were members of the Winter Hill Gang."They were my ...
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Obama Putin still can’t agree over ending Syria’s civil war
After meeting for two hours at the G-8 Summit in Northern Ireland, President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated they still disagree over the preferred outcome of the Syrian war, including on the future of President Bashar Assad and the goals of the armed ...
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Barack Obama Iranian people want a different direction
Barack Obama said Monday that Iran's election of a relative moderate shows that the country's people want to change course. But he stressed that Tehran still needs to show the international community that it's not pursuing a nuclear weapon. Obama said in an interview with PBS' Charlie Rose airing on Monday night that the Iranian election of cleric Hasan Rowhani showed that ...
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Obama responds to NSA critcism
NSA leaker Ed Snowden answered questions in an online chat today and President Obama answered questions about Snowden and the NSA's programs in his first interview since the leak was exposed. MSNBC's Alex Wagner discusses with MSNBC.com's Richard Wolffe and The Huffington Post's Sam ...
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Canadian two-armed vibrator maker wins U.S. patent case
WASHINGTON – Couples in the United States looking to spice up their sex lives will have to do without certain adult toys after a U.S. trade panel ruled on Monday that some companies are violating a patent held by a Canadian company for a two-armed vibrator. The U.S. International Trade Commission found that Lelo Shanghai Trading and a number of other vibrator makers infringe on Standard ...
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Beijing was told bluntly about cyber hacking risks says Obama
(57 mins ago) US President Barack Obama said China has understood his ';very blunt'' message that cyber-hacking against the United States will lead to a deterioration of relations between the two powers. ';We've had very blunt conversations about this. They understand, I think, that this can adversely affect the fundamentals of the US-China relationship,'' ...
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Obama Defends Authorization of Surveillance Programs
WASHINGTON -- President Obama defended his authorization of recently revealed domestic and international surveillance programs in comments broadcast Monday night but rejected the suggestion that his policies were basically a warmed-over version of those of the last White ...
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Obama sees Irans election of moderate as hopeful sign
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday that Iran's election of a moderate as its next president is a sign that Iranians want to move in a different direction, but he was uncertain whether it would lead to a breakthrough over Tehran's nuclear ...
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Obama says Bernanke has stayed a lot longer than he wanted at Fed
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, in this June 29, 2010 file ...
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Obama on NSA programs Americans not getting the complete story
Americans outraged by leaked information about two top-secret government surveillance programs are "not getting the complete story," President ...
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Obama Spying Programs Transparent
(Evan Vucci/AP Photo) President Obama said that two National Security Agency programs recently revealed through leaked secret documents were ';transparent'; and, in an interview with PBS’s Charlie Rose on Sunday, he dismissed concerns that the programs were vulnerable to abuse by government officials. ';It is transparent,'; Obama said in the interview, broadcast ...
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In Obama they trust much less these days
Edward Snowden stepped up his assault on government surveillance programs in a lengthy Internet chat, Mr. Obama was confronted with some of the worst poll numbers of his presidency. ...
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Special Committee on Decolonization Approves Text Calling upon United States to Initiate Self-determination Process for Puerto Rico
Meeting to consider the question of Puerto Rico, the Special Committee on Decolonization called again upon the United States today to expedite a process that would allow Puerto Ricans to fully exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and ...
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NTSB stresses track safety after Conn. mans death
HARTFORD, Conn. -; The National Transportation Safety Board has issued an urgent safety recommendation after a railroad track foreman was struck and killed by a passenger train last month in ...
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Obama defends Syria handling to skeptical public critical congressmen
By Michael O'Brien, Political Reporter, NBC News Earlier action by the United States to arm rebels seeking Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow would not have meaningfully slow the violence in that country’s ongoing civil war, President Barack Obama said in his first extensive comments about the situation in Syria.Obama defended his administration’s handling of the ...
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NYC woman faces suspect in her dads 1986 killing
An aspiring New York City actress has finally faced down the suspect she helped police capture in connection with her father's 1986 ...
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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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