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Steelmaker AHMSA eyes shale gas opening in Mexico
By Allison Martell and David Alire Garcia NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 6:59pm EDT NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY, June 18 (Reuters) - Mexico's top steelmaker is hoping to tap the country's ample shale gas reserves if an energy sector overhaul expected this year provides an opening, a senior executive with the company, Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA), said on ...
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Video Obama seeks G8 support on Syria
President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other G-8 leaders attempted to speak with one voice on seeking a negotiated Syrian peace settlement, yet couldn't publicly agree on what this ...
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Rural lawmakers push for farm bill votes in House
WASHINGTON -; Farm-state lawmakers are scrambling to win bipartisan support for a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill on the House floor this ...
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Senators to Obama Arming Syrian rebels not enough
WASHINGTON -; A bipartisan trio of key senators is demanding that President Barack Obama take more decisive action to stem the military advance by Syrian President Bashar Assad's ...
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Officials Man mauled by bear outside Wis. cabin
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the man was attacked in his yard near Shell Lake on Monday night. DNR carnivore specialist David MacFarland says the man's dog apparently initiated contact with the ...
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What it takes to become an Army Ranger
There are many different requirements, standards and tests for the wide variety of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine and commando units - ranging from infantry and combat engineer to pararescue and special ...
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IRS worker No political bias against tea party
WASHINGTON -; An Internal Revenue Service manager and self-described conservative Republican said the close scrutiny of tea party groups' tax forms originated in his Cincinnati IRS office and not in Washington, according to a full transcript of his interview by congressional investigators released ...
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Bus fare rise sees a million people protest on the streets of Brazil
When the Fifa president Sepp Blatter announced in 2007 that next year's World Cup would be staged in Brazil, he predicted it would have "a big social and cultural ...
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Readout of Meeting Between Secretary Chuck Hagel and Canadian Minister of National Defense Peter MacKay
Pentagon Press Secretary George Little provided the following readout: "Secretary Hagel hosted Canadian Minister of National Defense Peter MacKay today at the Pentagon for their second meeting here since Secretary Hagel took office earlier this spring. "The leaders discussed a wide range of topics related to their mutual interest in some of the world's ongoing security ...
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Obama Essentially Fired Bernanke Meyer
President Barack Obama "essentially fired" Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in televised remarks this week, former Federal Reserve Governor Laurence Meyer ...
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Is Obama So Feckless On Climate Change That He’s Influenced By Meaninglesss Dial Testing
Obama expressed concerns about the political pain involved, saying that "dial testing" of his State of the Union speech showed that the favorability ratings "plummeted" when he vowed to act on climate change if Congress refused to do ...
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CBO 8 million to gain legal status in Senate bill
Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, adding the bill would push federal deficits lower in each of the next two decades. The eagerly awaited report by Congress' non-partisan scorekeeping agency said the legislation would increase federal spending in the form of benefits for those gaining legal status, but those expenses would be more than offset by a rise in the labor force, increasing ...
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Hoffa mystery still fascinates after 4 decades
Jimmy Hoffa is an overgrown farm field where the normal calm of chirping crickets is being drowned out by a beeping backhoe, the chop of an overhead news helicopter and the bustle of reporters and onlookers. Over nearly four decades, authorities have pursued multiple leads into Hoffa's death that yielded nothing. Yet the mystery endures, fueled by a public fascination with mobsters and ...
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Report says immigration bill cuts deficit
2013. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn ...
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Top Lines Obama NSA Miss Utah Bill O’Reilly and asphyxiation
Straighten your tie on air; Pres. Obama defends NSA intelligence gathering; Miss Utah says "create education better"; Bill O'Reilly makes fun of everybody - just ask him; and there's no pleasing Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham on Syria in today's "Top ...
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Canada-U.S. team develops promising sharp-shooter drug aimed at several cancers
Dr. Tak Mak, Director of The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research, speaks during a press conference regarding the new breakthrough Cancer CFI-400945 drug that will enter clinical trials next month at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto on Tuesday, June 18, ...
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Ex-Playboy Playmate admits helping Canadian boyfriend enter U.S. illegally
Many key sectors of the Canadian economy have job openings, but no people to fill them. Here are 25 occupations with a future, according to a report by ...
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Saskatchewan artists garner 12 Western Canadian Music Awards nominations
It is perhaps fitting that, as Premier Brad Wall was making his way to a Western Premiers' meeting in Winnipeg this weekend to talk about the evils of bullying, some of his cabinet ministers were ...
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Mexico corn miller Gruma refinances $400 mln debt
MONTERREY, Mexico, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 6:29pm EDT MONTERREY, Mexico, June 18 (Reuters) - Mexican corn miller Gruma said on Tuesday it refinanced $400 million in debt taken out last year to buy back a stake in the company previously owned by U.S. agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland. The company had borrowed $400 million from Goldman Sachs to buy the 23 percent stake. Gruma ...
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Prosecutor 3 Ohioans enslaved disabled mom child
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A mentally disabled woman and her young child were enslaved for more than a year, sometimes denied food and threatened with a pet python and pit bulls, and the woman was beaten and forced to get pain medication for her captors, authorities said Tuesday in announcing federal charges against three ...
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RCMP pay N.S. man $248K to settle lawsuit over unprovoked beating
In 2002, having just been paid for his job at a fish and chip shop, Brendan Clarke tried to buy cigarettes and gum with a $100 bill at a Warwick Street convenience store in Digby, N.S. The clerks asked him to show identification and then refused to take his money over apparent concern it was counterfeit or from an illegitimate source. Protestation from Mr. Clarke, a black man who was 19 at the ...
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Popocatepetl Volcano Erupts Ash Could Reach Mexico City
Popocatepetl, the second highest peak in Mexico, has erupted once again and is spewing ash that could reach Mexico City, which is 40 miles away. The volcano shot chunks of rock into nearby towns and witnesses say the smoke and ash plume rose at least four kilometers into the air. Residents may be evacuated if the eruptions continue, but everyone in the area has been on standby since mid-May, ...
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Key senators urge Obama to go beyond arming Syrian rebels to stem Assads military advance
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan trio of key U.S. senators is demanding that President Barack Obama take more decisive action to stem the military advance by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces. Democratic Sens. Robert Menendez and Carl Levin and Republican John McCain say in a joint letter to Obama that Syrian government forces are advancing so dramatically that providing weapons to the ...
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VIDEO Popocatepetl shoots ash cloud toward Mexico City sparks volcanic alert
Popocatepetl view from Amecameca, Mexico. The volcano shot a plume of ash and gas into the air, putting Mexico City on alert for an ash cloud. Wikimedia ...
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Obama Hollande hold private meeting after G8
Obama said. The two leaders had a private conversation after the Group of Eight meeting at the Lough Erne Resort in Northern Ireland. Obama, describing France as the "oldest ally" of the United States, said he and Hollande discussed a wide range of issues. On Afghanistan, they discussed the announcement that local authorities are now taking the lead on security. And they talked about ...
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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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