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Obamas Turbulent European Vacation
President Obama's honeymoon with the world is over. What was it, exactly, about Obama's controversy-marred trip to Germany and the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland that fell so flat? Ummm, how about everything? There were the snarky words from Vladimir Putin, who expressed an almost Soviet-esque distance from Washington in his views about Syria. "Of course our opinions do not ...
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Is America’s Iraq Imploding
In March 2013, America's invasion of Iraq reached its 10th anniversary. After a decade of nation building, Iraq is falling apart. In April 2013, deadly clashes between government forces and demonstrators in the city of Hawija set off a chain reaction of retaliatory attacks across Iraq. The situation now threatens to plunge the country into the kind of war it experienced in the midst of the ...
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NHU Canada College Partner on B.A. in Child Development
The National Hispanic University and Canada College are partnering up to offer a four-year degree aimed at early childhood professionals who want to strengthen their knowledge and skills while working in the ...
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Rupert Murdoch Splits News Corp. Confidence Waning in Emerging Markets Inflation at 53-Year Low… Means Very Little to Middle America
Bloomberg ) Rupert Murdoch relented to shareholder demands, splitting his News Corp. media empire into two separate investments. Tuesday's move was a procedure more akin to separating Siamese twins than spinning off a new company, as two new, nearly equal businesses were created. The new entities are: "News Corp." (NNC), which consists of the Wall Street-based publishing company ...
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Brazil vs Mexico Live Stream Free Football Watch Online Confederations Cup 2013 Soccer
Jesus Zavala of Mexico celebrates after scoring a goal against Costa Rica during their World Cup qualifying soccer match at the National Stadium in San Jose September 7, ...
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Obama Urges US Russia to Cut Nuke Stockpile
President Barack Obama called on Russia to partner with the United States in its effort to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles. During a speech in Germany Wednesday he said the two nations should embrace the spirit that Berlin displayed when it fought to reunite during the Cold War. "We may no longer live in fear of global annihilation, but so long as nuclear weapons exist, we are ...
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Climate change is the threat of our time President Obama pledges new arms pact with Russia and a greener world
In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate that instantly invited comparisons with visits to the same spot by some of his predecessors, President Barack Obama sought to make a historic imprint of his own, pledging to forge a new pact with Russia to further cut nuclear arsenals and to step up the fight against global ...
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Bank of Canada will raise interest rate in July 2014 BMO economist
TORONTO -- The Bank of Canada is likely to start raising its benchmark interest rate in July 2014, a full year before the U.S. Federal Reserve, BMO's chief economist Douglas Porter said Wednesday.Porter predicts the overnight rate will go up by half a percentage point, which could put upward pressure on the Canadian dollar until the U.S. raises its interest rates the following ...
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Twin lions in Barrhaven park a ‘monument’ to Chinese-Canada relations
OTTAWA -- Two Chinese guardian lion sculptures were "awoken" Wednesday morning in a Barrhaven park as a symbol of the neighbourhood's large Chinese community, and Ottawa's close ties to the Asian country.The two, 2,000-kilogram white marble statues stand at the entrance of the recently renamed Water Dragon Park on Chapman Mills Drive. They were met by about 100 people from ...
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Positives for Canadian soccer team in friendly loss
Isabelle Linden (back) of Germany and Canada's Melissa Busque, right, battle for the ball during a women's friendly at Benteler Arena in Paderborn, Germany on Wednesday. (Martin Rose/Bongarts/Getty ...
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Bank of Canada in uncharted territory Poloz
Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz prepares to speak before a parliamentary committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in this June 6, 2013 file photo. (REUTERS/Blair ...
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Canadas insulin discovery enshrined in UNESCOs Memory of World register
A woman fills a syringe as she prepares to give herself an injection of insulin in a file photo. The Discovery of Insulin collection from the University of Toronto Libraries records one of the most significant medical discoveries of the 20th ...
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Health group wants pregnancy test dispenser in bar washroom
Healthy Brains for Children wants to install a pregnancy test dispenser in the bathroom of a bar in Thunder Bay, Ont. It would be the first such dispenser installed in a Canadian pub. Healthy Brains for Children is based in the U.S., but has a chapter in Thunder Bay. Its goal is to prevent prenatal exposure to alcohol. The local chapter has purchased a dispenser and is talking to officials at ...
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Obama speech in Berlin looks to shared values of iron curtain era
Barack Obama to live up to the "Ich bin ein Berliner" or "Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall" lines of John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.Yet as the US president admitted himself, after delivering the greeting "Hello Berlin!" - which despite its lack of oratory prowess drew huge cheers from the Berlin crowds at the Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday - times have ...
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Obama pledges nuke cuts
In a wide-ranging foreign policy speech in Berlin – his first in Germany as US President – Barack Obama has pledged to negotiate more nuclear weapons cuts with Russia. This was at the Brandenburg Gate, symbol of East-West division and reunification. ';So long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not truly safe, so today I’m announcing additional steps forward, after a ...
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Feds 2 upstate NY men tried to make X-ray weapon so they could secretly harm Israel foes
ALBANY, N.Y. - Federal authorities on Wednesday accused two upstate New York men of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel. Prosecutors said 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight have been charged with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists following a yearlong undercover investigation. Investigators ...
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NYT Utah one of 6 states President Obama has avoided during time in office
During his time in office, President Barack Obama has failed to visit six ...
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The United States working with European allies has concluded that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons …
WASHINGTON (AFP) The White House on Friday all but ruled out the notion of mounting a no-fly zone in Syria, billing it as difficult, dangerous and costly, and unsuitable to halting close quarters ground battles. A day after US officials pledged to stiffen military help to Syrian rebels, likely moving towards sending some form of arms for the first time, they made it clear that swift US ...
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Agricultural runoff could create record Gulf of Mexico dead zone
Spring floods across the Midwest are expected to result in a very large and potentially record-setting 2013 Gulf of Mexico "dead zone," researchers say. Farmland runoff containing fertilizers and livestock waste, some of it from as far away as the Corn Belt, is the main source of the nitrogen and phosphorus that cause the annual Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone, an oxygen-depleted area ...
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Marshall Co. man indicted for allegedly threatening Obama
Marshall County man has been indicted for threatening to harm the President Barack Obama.U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II said 20-year-old Ryan Kirker, of McMechen, has been charged by a grand jury in Elkins, W.Va., with a felony offense of threats against the president.According to the indictment, in April 2013, Kirker "knowingly placed in the United States mail a letter threatening ...
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Obama relishes weather crowds in trip to Berlin
U.S. President Barack Obama waves before speaking at the Brandenburg Gate as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit look on on June 19, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup, Getty ...
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The NSA Guns and Privacy in the Obama Administration
"You just worry that you're going to see searches of the databases and an expansion for purposes that were not intended when the information was collected," theorized Chris Calabrese, an American Civil Liberties Union privacy ...
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JFK casts long shadow on Obama
US president Barack Obama and German president Joachim Gauck review a guard of honour during a welcoming ceremony at Schloss Bellevue Presidential Palace in ...
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Five things about the Canadian radio market
It may not be the sexiest of mediums, but radio continues to churn consistent profits despite competition from competitors beaming signals from outer space and online listening services designed to pull listeners away from traditional radio.The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said Canada's 675 commercial radio stations saw their revenues increase incrementally ...
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GOP targets high-speed rail transportation grants
WASHINGTON -; House Republicans are pushing to eliminate money for high-speed rail and a popular grant program for transportation ...
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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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