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Developer Kan. caverns could preserve human race
View Photo Associated Press/Orlin Wagner - A reporter walks through a door to the Vivos Shelter and Resort during a tour of the facility in Atchison, Kan., Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Orlin ...
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Obama pushes Moscow on nuclear weapons
United States President Barack Obama delivers a speech in front of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Wednesday. Obama is on a two-day official visit to the German ...
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Analysis Obama prods gets share of pushback
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Over the past two weeks, President Barack Obama has argued with Chinese President Xi Jinping over cybersecurity, consulted with world leaders over Syria and trade, declared his desire to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons, and embraced the uncertain steps toward reconciliation in ...
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Obamas proxy war in Syria not likely to end well
In Syria, the Obama administration seems to be stumbling back to the future: an old-fashioned proxy war, complete with the usual shadowy CIA arms-running operation, the traditional plan to prop up ostensible "moderates" whose prospects are doubtful and, of course, the customary shaky grasp of what the fighting is really ...
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Canada Meeting Highlights Prince Rupert Port’s Role in Building Prosperity
The Prince Rupert Port Authority announced that 2012 was a year of growth and prosperity for the Port of Prince Rupert and the many communities impacted by the reach of its ...
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Exposed The Harrowing Impact of Americas Deadly Drone War in Pakistan
President Barack Obama's big speech on U.S. counter-terror policy last month promised that drone strikes were "legal," "heavily constrained" and only carried out if there is "near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured." But the use of the most deadly type of drone attacks calls that rhetoric into question. Known as "signature strikes," ...
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Obama to seek limit on existing power plant CO2 fumes
Obama plans to limit existing U.S. power plants' carbon dioxide fumes, officials said, as Obama said slowing global warming required "bold action." Heather Zichal, White House coordinator for energy and climate change, said Obama would announce climate policy initiatives in the coming weeks. Another official told The New York Times Obama could outline the new policy as early as ...
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Obamas minimum-wage recovery in facts and figures
A suddenly seemingly hawkish Ben Bernanke may be giving the impression he is preparing to taper because he feels confident enough about the recovery (just don't ask him about sudden dramatic rises in ...
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First woman chair ‘important milestone’ for Mining Association of Canada
Long-time Rio Tinto executive Zo Yujnovich, currently the CEO of the Iron Ore Company of Canada, has been elected the first female chair of the Mining Association of ...
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Googleleaks In Barack Obama we have a surprise
'Organize and sell limited information inside the box,' is the core business of 'Googleleaks' that has changed the human history forever. Well, it is more profitable than selling 'sugar water in a bottle' like Pepsico and ...
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Canada sends soldiers to support UN mission in Haiti
Canada will dispatch dozens of military personnel to support the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Defense Minister Peter MacKay announced Wednesday.MacKay said a platoon of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) will depart on Friday to operate within a Brazilian battalion in Haiti until December.The 34 CAF members come from the Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group in Valcartier, ...
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N. America trip tedious but worth the effort Su
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairman Su Tseng-chang (???) pronounced his trip to the United States and Canada as tedious but "worth it" upon his return ...
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Barack Obamas farewell to arms in Berlin
When John F Kennedy spoke in Berlin half a century ago and uttered the words "Ich bin ein Berliner", he unwittingly set the standard for every US president who came after ...
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Obama trip to Berlin style over substance
Barack Obama’s first trip to Berlin as president was portrayed as a visit between friends. Both country’s leading families appeared to get along well – even the rarely seen husband of Chancellor Angela Merkel joined in. Using the anniversary of ...
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Moscow rebuffs Obama nuclear arms proposal
Obama 's call for steep nuclear weapons reductions, with a Defense Ministry adviser calling the proposal "absolutely unacceptable." "We cannot allow the balance of the strategic deterrence system to be broken, or the effectiveness of our nuclear forces to be diminished," Russian President Vladimir Putin said in St. Petersburg around the same time Obama said in Berlin he ...
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In Berlin Obama urges bold nuclear arms cuts
E President Barack Obama, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, prepares to speak in front of Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday. Obama, who spoke before 200,000 in Berlin in 2008 as a candidate for president, drew about 4,500 people for his address. (Jewel Samad, AFP/Getty Images) BERLIN - Summoning the harsh history of this once-divided city, President Barack Obama on ...
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Obama to put limits on emissions from existing power plants
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is preparing regulations limiting carbon-dioxide emissions from existing power plants, senior officials said Wednesday. The move would be the most consequential climate policy step he could take and one sure to provoke legal challenges from Republicans and some industries.Electric power plants are the largest single source of carbon-dioxide emissions in the ...
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Off-form Rory McIlroy should borrow from US president Barack Obama
Barack Obama , when addressing an audience in Northern Ireland this week, made mention of one of the country's favourite sons, among such as Seamus Heaney and WB Yeats. "I did ...
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Vets not allowed to wear old uniforms in public without written consent navy says
Canada’s navy brass is lowering the hammer on veterans who are wearing their uniforms to ceremonial and other public functions, demanding that they receive permission in writing before doing so. But the June 13 directive from the head of the Royal Canadian Navy has the potential to create a public relations nightmare in which elderly veterans who wear their old naval uniforms at ...
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Confederations Cup Brazil in emotional win over Mexico
FORTALEZA //Brazil, galvanised by a passionate rendition of their national anthem, produced a high-tempo performance in front of their home fans to beat Mexico 2-0 and plant one foot in the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup. ...
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Two Canadian sites in running for World Heritage status
A Basque whaling station that dates to the 1500s and a largely unspoiled expanse of boreal forest where five First Nations have existed for six millenniums are among the international sites being considered this week for coveted World Heritage designation.Canadian officials are in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, hoping to convince UNESCO's World Heritage Committee that the Red Bay National Historic ...
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Williams says sorry over lucky gang rape girl gaffe
SERENA Williams has been forced to issue a full apology for saying that the 16-year-old victim of a gang rape had been "lucky" and that she "shouldn't have put herself in that ...
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Hitman labelled chronic liar by Bulgers lawyers
John Martorano has been questioned about varying stories he told over the years about killings he says were orchestrated by Bulger (83) and his gang. Martorano, who has admitted killing 20 people, testified yesterday in Bulger's racketeering trial in Boston. Bulger's lawyer branded Martorano a chronic liar, repeatedly pointing out inconsistencies between what he told investigators in ...
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Moscow rejects Obamas call for further nuclear arms cuts
Mr Obama offered to cut deployed nuclear arsenals by a third, however Moscow immediately rejected his proposal. Speaking in Berlin where John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan gave rousing Cold War speeches, Mr Obama urged Russia to help build on the "New START" treaty that requires both countries to cut stockpiles of deployed nuclear weapons to 1,550 each by 2018. The speech, a day after ...
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Country legend Slim Whitman dies aged 90
Country star Slim Whitman has died. The high-pitched yodeller who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film 'Mars Attacks!', died at a Florida hospital aged ...
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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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