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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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Fed to keep up bond-buying plan
The Federal Reserve in the US has said that it will maintain the pace of its bond-buying programme to keep long-term interest rates at record ...
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Tropical storm Barry forms off Mexicos coast
Tropical storm Barry formed off Mexico's Gulf Coast on Wednesday, prompting Mexican authorities to ready hundreds of shelters. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the Atlantic hurricane season's second tropical storm was drenching areas in its path with up to 25 centimetres of rain in some places, raising the threat of flash floods. In the late evening, Barry was about ...
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Kids removed from Canadian Mennonite community
(38 mins ago) Children have been removed from an orthodox Mennonite community in Canada where adults have been charged with assaulting youngsters using items such as cattle prods and leather straps. Manitoba Family Services would not say Wednesday how many children had been taken into its care and would not reveal any other details about the case. The department said child protection ...
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Mexico prepares for tropical storm
VERACRUZ, Mexico -- Tropical Storm Barry formed off Mexico's Gulf Coast on Wednesday, prompting Mexican authorities to ready hundreds of ...
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No change in position on Kashmir United States
ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the line of control. "Our position has not changed on Kashmir. And those discussions are up to the governments of India and Pakistan," Psaki ...
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Michelle Obama daughters visit Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
US First Lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters, Malia and Sasha, on Wednesday visited Berlin's Holocaust Memorial as part of a tour of key sites of Germany's troubled Nazi and Cold War history. They were also to take in the Cold War-era Checkpoint Charlie, where US and Soviet tanks once faced off, and a remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall that once split the city. The Obamas, ...
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Designation of obesity as disease spurs Canadian debate
A decision in the United States to recognize obesity as a disease has prompted soul-searching within Canada's medical establishment on whether to follow suit.The dramatic move by the American Medical Association on Tuesday, which is expected to spur doctors and insurers to pay more attention to obesity, could also prompt action in Canada. Although no provincial government recognizes ...
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PST Neymars goal assist boost Brazil past Mexico
Bookends ofbrilliance from the Confederations Cup’s most talked-about player defined today’s first match in Brazil, with ...
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Children taken from Canadian Mennonite community
WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Children have been removed from an orthodox Mennonite community in Canada where adults have been charged with assaulting youngsters using items such as cattle prods and leather straps.Manitoba Family Services would not say Wednesday how many children had been taken into care and would not reveal any other details about the case. The department says child protection ...
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FBI uses drones in America director Mueller admits
FBI director Robert Mueller testifies at the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 19, 2013 in Washington, DC. Mueller confirmed that the FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance during the hearing on FBI oversight. (Alex Wong/AFP/Getty Images) While the FBI ...
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New U.S. climate strategy coming within weeks Obama adviser
President Barack Obama walks up the stairs towards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington before departing for San Francisco, June 6, ...
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UPDATE 2-Storm Barry heads for Mexico Gulf coast oil installations
Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:08pm EDT MEXICO CITY, June 19 (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Barry, the second of the Atlantic hurricane season, strengthened as it churned toward Mexico on Wednesday, threatening to bring heavy rains to oil and power installations near the country's Gulf coast. The Minatitlan oil refinery of state oil monopoly Pemex and the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant, both in Veracruz ...
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Kerry calls Karzai twice to smooth waters over Taliban talks
Hamid Karzai twice to try to mend fences over the U.S. outreach to the Taliban. The phone diplomacy occurred after Karzai said the Afghan government had suspended security talks with the United States in Kabul "in view of the contradiction between acts and the statements made by the United States of America in regard to the peace process." "The secretary spoke with President ...
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Rockies swept away by Jays in forgettable three-game trip to Canada
TORONTO - The length of the schedule demands improvisation. The Rockies awoke Wednesday underneath the dome, feeling like they were crawling from underneath a rock. They needed a burst of sunlight. Or a jolt. But apparently that will have to wait until Roy Oswalt's first start.Juan Nicasio wore a different number, but his ordinary performance was exactly what the Rockies weren't ...
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Edward Snowden vs. the Sovietization of America
didn't go to an Ivy League college presume to sit in judgment of his betters! Whatever their disagreements, politicians and talking heads of the left and the right agree: Snowden is a "traitor"! Their big problem, however, is that the American people think he did the right ...
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Obama Calls for Dramatic Decrease in Nuclear Weapons
President Barack Obama said the U.S. could reduce its stockpile of long-range nuclear weapons by up to a third, and called upon Russia to make similar cuts. Margaret Warner gets reactions to Mr. Obama's call from former State and Defense Department official Eric Edelman and Joseph Cirincione of the Ploughshares ...
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Chinese FM says Xi-Obama summit very successful
The first summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart, Barack Obama, in California earlier this month was very successful, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Wednesday.Xi and Obama agreed to build a new model of major-power relations based on mutual respect, cooperation and all-win results, Wang told US Secretary of State John Kerry in a telephone conversation.The ...
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Obama United States not ready to go to war
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The assault appears aimed at decisively pushing rebels back and securing the suburb of the shrine, Abdel-Rahman said. Hezbollah fighters as well as Iraqi Shiite militiamen have been reported fighting in the area in the past weeks. The international community has been largely unable to end the Syrian civil war, now in its third year, which has killed nearly ...
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Russia rejects Obamas nuke cut proposal
US Navy guided-missile frigate USS Vandegrift (background) and a Russian diesel submarine take part in a naval parade at the harbour of Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok in this July 25, 2010 file photo. Russia marks Navy Day on Sunday. US President Barack Obama said on June 19, 2013, he will pursue a new reduction in deployed nuclear weapons by up to a third below the level ...
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Lamphier Canada needs economic pipeline to Asia
Protesters against Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline gather outside the joint review final argument hearings in Terrace on Monday. The joint review panel on the project sits through June ...
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Talking Keystone Redford says Canada and U.S. share energy values
Visting New York for the third time 18 months, Premier Alison Redford stressed that Canada and the U.S. share environmental and political values over Keystone XL pipeline. (Fred Chartrand/Canadian ...
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B.C. First Nation sets fires to save bison
A First Nation band is reviving the age-old practice of controlled burning in order to improve the health of forests and restore the population of the wood bison in a corner of northeastern ...
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Status of Women conference aims to stop web exploitation
Canada's ministers responsible for the Status of Women ended a two-day conference Wednesday in northern P.E.I. expressing concerns about internet luring, cyber bullying and child sexual exploitation. Valerie Docherty, P.E.I.'s minister responsible for the Status of Women, hosted the meeting of federal, provincial and territorial ministers. The conference looked at ways to promote ...
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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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