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Extending a Hand Abroad Obama Often Finds a Cold Shoulder
The next morning, Mr. Xi punched back, accusing the United States of the same computer hacking tactics it attributed to China. It was, Mr. Obama acknowledged, "a very blunt ...
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After weeks of negotiations EU blames Canada for stalled trade deal
The European Union is accusing Canada of holding up a major trade deal in an undiplomatic bout of finger-pointing as each side blames the other for an apparent impasse in negotiations.In an unusually frank statement, the EU said it's ready to make the hard political decisions necessary to bridge differences. Canada, in reply, is saying it has yet to receive an offer that addresses its core ...
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Michelle Obama under fire for $5 million Ireland visit
Michelle Obama waves during a visit to Finnegans Pub in Dalkey, Ireland on June 18.(Photo:Agencies) U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama won't exactly be roughing it during her two-day trip to Ireland, reports the Washington Times. Mrs. Obama is staying at a $3,300-per-night hotel suite in Dublin's five-star Shelbourne hotel. She and her entourage have booked 30 rooms in the hotel. The ...
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Job action by foreign service hurting Canadian tourism industry
Hundreds of foreign service officers walks out of Department of Foreign Affairs headquarters June 06, 2013 in Ottawa. (Dave Chan for The Globe and ...
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Oklahoma executes inmate for couples 2000 deaths
McALESTER, Okla. -- Oklahoma executed a 36-year-old man on Tuesday for taking part in the brutal killing of a ranching couple 13 years ago.James Lewis DeRosa was killed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, becoming the state's second inmate executed this year.At a clemency hearing last month, DeRosa took responsibility for his role in the Oct. 2, 2000, ...
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US online surveillance to overshadow Obamas Berlin trip
US President Barack Obama's visit to Germany on Tuesday and Wednesday is expected to be overshadowed by pubic outcry over concerns about intrusion into privacy after reports on the American online surveillance program.German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she would discuss with Obama on the scale of American online surveillance and call for more transparency over the issue, which caused ...
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Award-winning journalist dies in car accident at 33
Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings has died in a car accident in Los Angeles. Buzzfeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith says he learned from a family member that the 33-year-old died early Tuesday. Hastings wrote about politics for the popular news site and has written books about dealing with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Hastings won a Polk Award for magazine ...
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Obama family trip under fire amid sequester cuts- Walter Reed plans to furlough thousands
President Obama's trip this month to Africa, with the first family tagging along, is projected to cost taxpayers as much as $100 million, sparking criticism as the federal government scrimps along during sequester-related budget cuts. Among the related costs will be fighter jets; hundreds of Secret Service agents; a Navy ship with a full trauma center; and military cargo planes to bring 56 ...
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United Airlines Becomes North American Launch Customer for Boeing 787-10 as It Increases Dreamliner Order to 65
United Airlines (NYSE: UAL) today increased its 787 Dreamliner order to 65 aircraft (including six previously delivered aircraft) with an order for 20 787-10s. United is the North American launch customer for the 787-10 and it expects delivery of its first aircraft in 2018. United ordered 10 incremental 787-10 aircraft and will convert 10 existing 787s on order to 787-10s, enabling the airline ...
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Obama Has Plans to Cut U.S. Nuclear Arsenal if Russia Reciprocates
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Senators call for zero tolerance on harassment in RCMP
An RCMP cruiser sits parked on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 29, 2013. Senators are recommending the force change its code of conduct regarding harassment. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian ...
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A poet without poems Canada’s taxpayer-funded wordsmith laments scarcity of assignments from Ottawa
Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate, wondering aloud why the government never asks him to write poems, has inadvertently answered his own question. "I wish that my government had asked me to write poetry about immigration policy, about Idle No More, about Canada's complicity in the Middle East, the Enbridge pipeline," Fred Wah, a Saskatchewan-born poet now living in ...
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Wolf that chased motorcyle on B.C. highway likely ‘accustomed’ to being fed by humans park officials
The mysterious grey wolf that gained international attention for chasing a Banff, Alta., motorcyclist along a B.C. highway seems to have appeared at least two other times, leading wolf-watchers to the grim conclusion the animal's days are likely numbered. "This is not normal behaviour for a natural wild wolf," said Shelley Black, co-founder of the Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf ...
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Obama to Speak at Berlins Brandenburg Gate
BERLIN -- U.S. President Barack Obama is in Berlin, where he will speak Wednesday at the historic Brandenburg Gate and meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The president arrived in Berlin after two days at the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland, where the leaders focused much of their attention on efforts to end the bloody conflict in Syria. Obama and six other world leaders ...
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Ottawa names former Conservatives to Canada-U.S. water agency
The federal government has appointed two former Conservative politicians to fill vacancies at the International Joint Commission, a key bilateral institution that oversees water that Canada shares with the United States.Benot Bouchard and Gordon Walker were each appointed to four-year terms, which began earlier this month. The Commission's current chair, Joseph Comuzzi, remains in that role ...
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Ark. AG seeks to uphold verdict against JJ
The Justice Department and the state of Arkansas filed suit against the oil giant ExxonMobil over a March 29 pipeline rupture that spilled 210,000 gallons of oil into a residential neighborhood and waterways in the small town of ...
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Dish passes on making new offer for Sprint
Sprint is suing to stop Dish Network's buyout of wireless data network operator Clearwire. The nation's third-largest cellphone carrier said the proposed deal violates the rights of Sprint and other Clearwire ...
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Defining ‘White’ And ‘Hispanic’ In Majority-Minority America
its latest population data last week, providing a portrait of the nation through July of 2012. Among the most interesting findings was that, for the first time, deaths among white Americans exceeded births. While this does not mean, of course, that white people are about to disappear, it is nonetheless a harbinger of the vast race-ethnic changes that are leading us inexorably toward a ...
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Two ghosts will loom large over Obama’s highly anticipated speech at Brandenberg gate today
John F Kennedy , half a century after his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech promised US solidarity to West Berliners living on the chilliest front in the cold war. His words - grammatical error and all (the "ein" was superfluous) - were enough to banish lingering resentment some Berliners felt that the US had abandoned them two years earlier when the Berlin Wall was ...
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Canadas eavesdropping agency helped spy on G20 documents suggest
OTTAWA - Leaked documents suggest Canada helped the United States and Britain spy on participants at the London G20 summit four years ago. Britain's Guardian newspaper says spies monitored the computers and intercepted the phone calls of foreign politicians and officials at two G20 meetings in London in 2009. The newspaper says the effort included penetration of delegates' BlackBerry ...
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Canadian Women’s Open organizers hunt for new title sponsor for 2014 event
EDMONTON - Canada's national women's golf championship is set to get a new name in 2014.With CN ready to pull its sponsorship of the Canadian Women's Open into the station for a final time Aug. 19-25 at Edmonton's Royal Mayfair Golf Club, Golf Canada and tournament director Brent McLaughlin are putting the finishing touches on securing a new sponsor for the first time in ...
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Mexicos Pemex names bidders for Chicontepec oil auction
MEXICO CITY, June 18 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:40pm EDT MEXICO CITY, June 18 (Reuters) - Spanish oil company Repsol and China's Sinopec are among the 16 energy firms and consortia that have qualified for next month's auction of six blocks in Mexico's Chicontepec basin, state-run oil monopoly Pemex said on Tuesday. The Chicontepec basin, discovered more than 80 years ago, is ...
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Dateline Doha At last it’s time for America to talk to the men from the Taliban
No more long dinners in Qatari restaurants, or idle afternoons in the capital's many shopping centres. Since they were first secretly delivered by US plane to Doha in 2010, the senior Taliban emissaries whom Washington hoped would eventually agree a peace deal with Kabul have not been rushed off their feet; efforts to kick-start a formal negotiating process to end the war repeatedly ...
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Obama to prod West to take on global challenges in Berlin speech
1 of 3. U.S. President Barack Obama along with first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha (L) and Malia (R) are welcomed as they step off Air Force One in Berlin June 18, ...
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Reception for Obama Is More Sober Than in 2008
cheered on by 200,000 Germans eager to see the back of George W. Bush and, as one member of that crowd recalled Tuesday, "full of wholly unrealistic expectations of what kind of miracles Obama could ...
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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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