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Obama defends drone strikes but sets more stringent guidelines
President Barack Obama delivers a speech about drone and counterterrorism policies, as well as the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, on Thursday at the National Defense University in Washington. (Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. has reached a "crossroads" in the fight against terrorism and it is time to redefine and ...
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Obama defends drone use renews push to shut Gitmo
Washington - President Barack Obama on Thursday defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy. But he acknowledged the targeted strikes are no "cure-all" and said he is haunted by the civilians unintentionally killed. The president also announced a renewed push to close the Guantanamo Bay ...
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Barack Obama in heated exchanges with Code Pink anti-war protester
WASHINGTON: The woman who interrupted President Barack Obama's speech on counterterrorism policy on Thursday is well-known around Washington as a perennial protester on national security ...
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Obama lifts ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen
Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen , a step toward his goal of closing the US military-run prison that he said "has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law." Nearly 100 of the 166 terrorist suspects held at the prison in Cuba are from Yemen and have had nowhere to go even if they had been cleared for transfer. Obama wouldn't send them home, and ...
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Canadian Press NewsAlert No deaths in partial collapse of Wash. state bridge
People look on after the Interstate 5 bridge collapsed over the Skagit River in Mount Vernon, Wash., Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Rick Lund) TV OUT; USA TODAY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES; SEATTLEPI.COM OUT; MANDATORY ...
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Canadian driver Williamson making long trips to Western Pa. worthwhile
"Right now, we plan on running some of the Big Block touring races," Williamson said. "And we need Big Block Dirt points that go toward the series, and the only other place I can get that on a Friday night is over in Vermont. I can go to Canandaigua Speedway on Saturday, but with my parents at Merrittville, it's kind of tough to get away from ...
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Obama U.S. is not at war with Islam
Barack Obama said. Speaking at the U.S. Defense Department's National Defense University in Washington, Obama referred to various terrorism threats and how some are fueled by extremists claiming Islam being in conflict with the West. "Most, though not all, of the terrorism we faced is fueled by a common ideology -- a belief by some extremists that Islam is in conflict with the United ...
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Vancouver is least affordable city to buy a house in Canada RBC
Vancouver remains the least affordable city to buy a house in Canada while home ownership in Toronto is becoming more difficult, Royal Bank of Canada Economics Research said. The costs of owning a detached bungalow in Vancouver take up 82.3 percent of a typical household's income, up 0.1 percentage points from the previous quarter. In Toronto, the largest city in Canada, that figure is ...
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Rob Ford chief told him to go to rehab Source
Rob Ford ducks reporters asking about crack allegations Mayor Rob Ford fired his chief of staff Thursday after growing tired of Mark Towhey urging him to go to rehab, the Toronto Sun has learned. Towhey was walked out of the mayor’s office by City Hall security and at least one councillor said his firing was "football" related. But a source familiar with the situation told the ...
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Ottawa to fund $5M study of effects of climate change on western Canadian rivers
John Pomeroy, Canada research chair in water resources and climate change, said research into Western Canada’s river systems is especially important as Alberta aims to prove it is developing the oilsands responsibly. ';It makes sense for Canada to be investing in this,'; he ...
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Police oppose call to decriminalize drugs in Canada
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Four Canadian police officers face drug charges www.privateofficer.com
– Four policemen - two from the Montreal police force and two from Longueuil police — were arrested Wednesday and will face various offences, including drug trafficking. According to SPVM spokesman Ian Lafreniere, the arrests are the result of a year-and-a-half long joint investigation by both police forces. "In total this is 17 people that are or will be accused in this ...
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Prominent United States swimming coach sentenced to prison for sexual abuse www.privateofficer.com
Rick Curl, the prominent United States swimming coach who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing one of his students in the 1980s, was sentenced Thursday to seven years behind ...
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How Canadian YouTube sensation ‘Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker’ went from hero to inmate
Caleb McGillivary first came to celebrity in a viral video -- a foul-mouthed, yet funny drifter recounting how he helped rescue a woman being attacked by a crazed, 136-kilogram man. ';A guy that big can snap a woman’s neck like a pencil stick,'; the bedraggled backpacker known as ';Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker'; animatedly told a local Fresno, Ca., news team. ...
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Obama denounces deadly attack on British soldier
US President Barack Obama on Thursday denounced the deadly attack on a British soldier in a London street a day ago. "I condemn in the strongest terms the appalling attack against a British service member in Woolwich on May 22," the president said in a statement. "The United States stands resolute with the United Kingdom, our ally and friend, against violent extremism and ...
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I-5 bridge collapse in Washington state sends cars people into water
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the water, the Washington State Patrol said. The four-lane bridge over the Skagit River collapsed about 7 p.m., Trooper Mark Francis said. There was no immediate estimate of how many people were in the water or whether there were any injuries or deaths, ...
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Obama to take on GOP anew over Guantanamo closure
Rachel Maddow reports on how much political will there was for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, including from leading Republicans like President Bush and then-presidential candidate John McCain, and how that all disappeared once Barack Obama became ...
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Obama ‘America does not take strikes to punish individuals’
america does not take strikes when we have the ability to capture individual terrorists. our preference is always to detain, interrogate and ...
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Mexico wants to attract US retirees
Mexican legislators, seeking to make their country more attractive to US retirees, may soon lift a major impediment for foreigners who want to own a piece of Mexico's Pacific or Caribbean coasts. For the first time in nearly a century, lawmakers are moving to allow non-Mexicans to buy coastal real estate and hold the deeds to it, without having to set up bank trusts or find silent Mexican ...
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Obama limits the use of drones
United States President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defence University at Fort McNair in ...
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US President Barack Obama urged to push for economic reforms in India
Washington: Ahead of a crucial Indo-US Strategic Dialogue in New Delhi next month, US President Barack Obama has been encouraged to push for economic reforms in India and to address the concerns of the Indian companies with regard to H-1B visas."The US and India have accomplished much in recent years, but we need a strong push to restore confidence that India is investment- and ...
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Barack Obama says US faces real threat from radicalised individuals
Washington: Citing Wisconsin Gurdwara shootout last year that killed six Sikh worshippers, the US President Barack Obama, has expressed concern over increasing instances of acts of violence inside the country by home-grown terrorists."We face a real threat from radicalised individuals here in the United States. Whether it's a shooter at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin, a plane flying into a ...
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The Caucus Obama Defies Critics With State Dept. Choice
WASHINGTON -- President Obama defied Republican critics on Thursday by nominating to a high-ranking State Department job an official involved in editing controversial talking points about the attack last year in Libya. Mr. Obama sent the Senate his choice of Victoria Nuland, a former spokeswoman for the State Department, as assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs. Ms. Nuland had ...
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What Mattered in Obamas Speech Today Ending the Open-Ended War on Terror
my profile of Jerry Brown! And I didn't expect anyone to listen to me read my article aloud. Also, I am not going to deal with the part of the speech that has been most thoroughly discussed: changes, or not, in the administration's drone policy.Instead I'll focus on a part of the speech that I think matters even more: his argument that the time has come to end the "war on ...
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Boy Scouts of America Lifts Ban on Gay Youth 61 Percent Voted for Resolution
May 23, 2013 7:04 pm After a contentious challenge to their membership policy, 1,400 delegates of the 103-year-old Boy Scouts of America youth organization voted overwhelmingly to adopt an amendment that effectively lifts the ban on homosexual youth in the organization on Thursday.The ban on gay adult scout leaders will remain.Sixty-one percent of the delegates voted in favor of the resolution ...
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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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