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Obama silent on US arms to Syria praises G-8 plan
BERLIN (AP) -- President Barack Obama is refusing to describe the type of military support the U.S. will give to Syrian rebels even as he praises a decision by world leaders at a just-completed summit to seek a negotiated ...
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Obama says spies not trawling through emails of Europeans Merkel calls for proportional approach
(57 mins ago) US President Barack Obama said US spies were not ';rifling'' through emails of Germans, French or American citizens, as he defended the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programmes that have come under fire after being exposed. Speaking in Berlin, Obama defended the sweeps of global phone and internet data during a visit to Germany, where they ...
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House of Commons adjourns for the summer after mud-slinging spring session
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is set to return from his European trip but he won’t have to endure another grilling in the House of Commons for a while. All parties agreed late Tuesday night to end the most bitter spring sitting of Parliament since Harper’s Conservatives came to power more than seven years ago. They packed it in a few days early after almost a month ...
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Barack Obama to call for nuclear stockpile reductions in Berlin speech
Barack Obama , will renew his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles, including a proposed one-third reduction in US and Russian arsenals, the White House has said.Obama will make his case during a speech on Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate. His address comes nearly 50 years after John F Kennedy's famous cold war speech in the then divided city.The president ...
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Obama Phone Internet surveillance has saved lives
President Obama escalated his administration's defense of controversial surveillance programs, claiming Wednesday that the efforts have "saved lives." The president addressed what has become a global controversy after his NSA director and other top officials told Congress a day earlier that the surveillance system has helped avert "potential terrorist events" more ...
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Afghans must talk to each other for peace Obama says
1 of 2. U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel shake hands at the end of a joint news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin June 19, ...
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Obama says reports U.S. ready for war in Syria are exaggerated
Barack Obama said on Wednesday reports that the United States was ready to go to war in Syria were exaggerated and he also reiterated his view that the Damascus government had used chemical weapons and could not regain legitimacy. "Some of the stories that have been out there publicly have gotten a little overcranked in terms of the idea that somehow the United States is preparing to go all ...
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Watch Obama to Make Big Speech from Historic Brandenburg Gate
To the latest stop on president obama's european tour, set to make a speech this morning at the historic brandenburg gate in berlin. Jon karl is traveling with the president. That site is packed ...
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Most Wanted alleged child rapist nabbed in Mexico
By Isela Serrano and Gabriel Stargardter, Reuters CANCUN, Mexico -- Mexican authorities arrested a former University of Southern California professor who faces sex crimes charges in the Philippines on Tuesday, just hours after ...
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Ex-USC professor on FBI most-wanted list captured in Mexico
A former University of Southern California professor on the FBI's most-wanted list for alleged sex crimes involving children was caught in Mexico, the FBI said. Bill Lewis, FBI assistant director in charge, said 64-year-old Walter Lee Williams was arrested Tuesday by Mexican authorities, The Los Angeles Times reported. The FBI said authorities have identified at least 10 of the alleged ...
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Midwest rains cause Gulf of Mexico problems
U.S. scientists said heavy spring rains in the Midwest could lead to one of the largest so-called dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico this year. ...
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Obama `Lives have been saved by NSA programs
Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal ...
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Canadian court rules to repatriate Chinese fugitive
A federal court in Ottawa ruled late Thursday to uphold Chinese fugitive Lai Changxing's deportation order, paving the way for his return to China after he stayed here for 12 years.The verdict, made after more than three hours of court hearings, putting an end to all legal proceedings related to the deportation case.According to the law, the deportation should be executed soon after the ...
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Kid upstages President Obama by planting big kiss
(Photo/Agencies) It was the kiss that stole the US president's limelight. Barack Obama surprised the kids of the Daughter of Zion Jr Academy in Delray Beach, Florida with a drop-in photo op after a campaign event at Delray Beach Tennis Centre on Tuesday, Yahoo News reported. The kids appeared excited, as one might imagine. All except for a boy in the back row, who seemed a little ...
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Huffington Post The 4 Dumbest Things Obama And Romney Say About China
You might hear a lot about China at tonight's foreign-policy-themed presidential debate. We'd better hope that most of it is bogus posturing, because most of what the candidates usually say about China is dumb. Aside from al Qaeda there are few more reliable bogeymen in politics than China. They took our jerbs! Plus, they're foreigners. Also, Chinese-Americans are not yet a big ...
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Obama Romney plunge in intense campaign as election enters last stretch
U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney embarked on a swirl-wind campaign tour Tuesday following the conclusion of three presidential debates, as election enters its last stretch. The most intense campaigning will be done by Obama. He is scheduled to visit seven battleground states in two days, and two of them, Florida and Ohio, will be visited by the incumbent twice. ...
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Final Obama Romney presidential debate begins
The third and final debate of the US presidential campaign began on Monday, with Democratic incumbent Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney due to discuss foreign policy. The candidates shook hands on stage at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida before their last head-to-head, which pundits said may prove decisive, with opinion polls predicting an extremely close vote on November ...
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Obama daughters school evacuated
Michelle Obama with daughters (Photo/Agencies) The D.C. private school attended by the daughters of President Barack Obama says it briefly evacuated after it received a phone call that it considered suspicious. Sidwell Friends School, the Washington school attended by Sasha and Malia Obama, was evacuated after what the school described as "a suspicious phone call." D.C. police ...
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Obama viewed as winner of 2nd presidential debate
U.S. President Barack Obama was viewed by more Americans who watched the second presidential debate of this election cycle as the winner of his second face-off with Republican challenger Mitt Romney, according to a latest Gallup poll released on Friday. The poll found that more Americans believed Obama did a better job than Romney, by 51 percent to 38 percent. The rating showed a sharp reversal ...
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Obama nominates Rodriguez to head U.S. Africa Command
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has nominated General David M. Rodriguez as the next commander of U.S. Africa Command, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta announced on Thursday. Panetta said Rodriguez, currently commander of U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, has served in "a variety of key leadership roles on the battle field." ...
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Mexico to exhume parents of killed drug cartel boss
Sina English Mexican authorities are set to exhume remains of the parents of drug cartel "Zetas" leader Heriberto Lazcano, killed in a shootout with police, for the purpose of DNA testing. The authorities were forced to resort to this since after his death Lazcano's body was stolen by unknown perpetrators. This leaves law enforcement bodies still unable to confirm that the ...
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China welcomes Canadian courts rule on Chinese fugitive
China on Friday welcomed the Canadian Federal Court's decision to uphold the deportation of Lai Changxing, one of China's most wanted fugitives.Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu made the remark in a statement posted on the ministry's website.Ma said Lai is the prime suspect in a smuggling case in the city of Xiamen and has been sought by law enforcement for several ...
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Record-high heat scorches parts of Canada strains power grids
by Mark BourrieA heat dome that has been hovering over parts of Canada several days are setting record highs across Eastern and Central Canada on Thursday, which could be the hottest day of the year.Environment Canada, the federal government agency that monitors weather, released a special weather statement for the region, warning residents that a "sultry tropical air mass" will make ...
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U.S. not concerned about Chinas influence in L.America White House official
CARTAGENA, Colombia, April 14 (Xinhua) -- The United States is not concerned about China's growing influence in Latin America, a senior White House official said here Saturday."We're not concerned at all," Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications, said at a press briefing on the sidelines of the sixth Summit of the Americas."In fact, if ...
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Air Canada plane returns safely to Sydney after smoke in cabin
An Air Canada plane landed safely after being forced to return to Sydney Airport because of smoke in the cabin, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said on Thursday.The plane landed in Sydney shortly after 12.10 p.m. (local time) on Thursday, an ATSB spokesman said.It had left Sydney Airport at about 10.30 a.m. (local time) for Vancouver and Toronto."Air Canada reported smoke in ...
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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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