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For the modern coffee experience Paris looks to America
Thomas Hamlett, a Virginia native, pours a perfect cup at Paris coffee shop Sugarplum Cake Shop. Cafs are a centerpiece for daily life in Paris, as integral to French culture as a fresh baguette, a glass of wine, or, at least according to Americans, a black beret. Yet somehow, coffee in France is almost uniformly bad. Beans are left out in the open air, machines aren't properly maintained, ...
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Barack Obama defends NSA surveillance programs in Europe
President Barack Obama defended Friday the National Security Agency's massive surveillance programs that have caused an uproar after they were exposed by the Guardian newspaper in London. (Youtube/Screengrab) US President Barack Obama defended his government's widely criticized NSA surveillance programs in Berlin on Wednesday, as he spoke with German Chanchellor Angela Merkel. Germans ...
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In Berlin Obama Warns of Famine Floods Refugees Vanishing Coastlines
President Barack Obama waves to the crowd after the conclusion of his speech in front of the iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin Germany, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd in Berlin Wednesday that nations must unite to fight the "grim" future of climate change, which will produce "severe storms, more famine and floods, ...
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Obama Berlin Speech Touts ‘Gay and Lesbian Brothers and Sisters’ ‘Respect for Faith’
President Barack Obama waves to spectators before he delivers a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate at Pariser Platz in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday June 19, 2013. At right stands German chancellor Angela Merkel.( AP Photo/Michael ...
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Obama Announces New Plans To Reduce Global Nuclear Weapons Stockpile
President Obama delivers speech on foreign policy at Brandenburg Gate on June 19, 2013. (Credit: AP) In a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, ...
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FBI hunt for ex-Teamster boss Hoffas remains ends
Wednesday, June 19, 2013 and announced the FBI was ending the search operations for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in 1975. (AP Photo/Carlos ...
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President Obama Speaks in Germany
President Obama, speaking in Berlin, proposes deep cuts to America's nuclear weapons and addressed the NSA surveillance program. He also discussed Ben Bernanke, reports CNBC's John ...
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Obama delivers address at Berlins Brandenburg Gate
President Barack Obama talks about reducing nuclear weapons, fighting terrorism and the fall of the Berlin Wall while addressing a crowd at the Brandenburg ...
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Obama Urges Further US-Russian Nuclear Cuts
BERLIN, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – US President Barack Obama proposed on Wednesday to cut another one-third of US and Russian nuclear arsenals, stressing that it was possible to ensure a strong deterrent while also limiting nuclear weapons. "After a comprehensive review I have determined that we can ensure the security of America and our allies, and maintain a strong and credible ...
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Bob Rae stepping down as an MP
Bob Rae, who has served as a Liberal and NDP MP and as the NDP premier of Ontario, has announced he is leaving politics. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...
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MPs take stock as they wrap up spring sitting
Parliament Hill will quiet down after today once MPs leave Ottawa for the summer. They voted Tuesday night to wrap up the spring sitting. (Fred Chartrand/Canadian ...
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Windsor councillors want Detroit to keep the noise down
A Windsor city councillor wants to have a say in Detroit's noise bylaw. Coun. Jo-Anne Gignac wants the City of Windsor to at least be in the conversation and organization of music festivals on the U.S. side of the Detroit River. Gignac says she received complaints from residents about the volume of the music from Orion music festival held recently on Belle Isle. West-end councillor Ron ...
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Two guards sanctioned for relations with inmates
(Shutterstock) MONTREAL - Two woman guards at a sprawling north-end Montreal jail were caught in romantic relationships with inmates, and one quit rather than break up with her bad-boy beau. Earlier this month, a guard at Bordeaux jail was caught in a parking lot, kissing a man who had just been released, QMI Agency has learned. A colleague reported the woman to a supervisor and the guard was ...
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Climate change is the threat of our time Obama renews calls to reduce US-Russia nuclear weapons and to confront global warming
Issuing an appeal for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call to reduce US and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our ...
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After terrorising America for decades UFO now spotted in Kerala
The wife of an army officer has made a bizarre claim that her husband took photos of an unidentified flying object (UFO) along a beach in Kannur district of Kerala.The photo shows a saucer-shaped blurry object in the sky above the sea in the background and in the foreground is a beach and a car, supposedly the armyman's.According the wife of Major Sebastian Zachariah, currently posted in ...
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‘This is not about money this is about time’ Bob Rae resigns from Parliament to focus on First Nations work
OTTAWA - Former interim Liberal leader Bob Rae announced that is he stepping down as a member of Parliament Wednesday. Rae made the announcement in an emotional statement at the House of Commons Wednesday morning, saying he was going to focus on his mediation work for northern Ontario First Nations work. ';This is not about money, this is about time. I’m not being paid for my work ...
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Michelle Obama lays roses at bloodiest site along Berlin Wall
1 of 4. U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (L) and her daughter Sasha place flowers as they visit the Berlin Wall memorial in Bernauer Strasse in Berlin June 19, ...
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Barack Obamas Berlin speech – full text
Hello, Berlin! Thank you, Chancellor Merkel, for your leadership, your friendship, and the example of your life - from a child of the East to the leader of a free and ...
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Obamas approval takes a hit over NSA leaks | Harry J Enten
HuffPollster aggregate has his net approval standing at -1.3pt, which is its lowest point (in this aggregation) since last November's election. This decline coincides with ...
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Barack Obama and Angela Merkel discuss free trade deal – video
The US president, Barack Obama, meets the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Berlin following the G8 summit in Belfast. The pair speak to press after agreeing the possibility of a free trade deal between the two countries. Michelle Obama is also in Berlin and visits the city's Holocaust memorial with the Obamas' ...
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Big Bonus for IRS Undercuts Obama Credibility
"IRS is under a legal obligation to comply with its collective bargaining agreement, which specifies the terms by which awards are paid to bargaining-unit employees." -- Agency spokeswoman Michelle Eldridge in a statement to the Associated Press about $70 million in employee bonuses authorized by new director Danny Werfel. President Obama is taking another turn at emulating John ...
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Obama Calls for Nuclear Reduction Defends NSAs Prism Program in Berlin Speech
Obama Arrives in L.A. to Hit the Hollywood ATM The crowd of some 4,000 invited guests who saw the speech live were a tiny fraction of the around 200,000 that flocked to hear then-presidential candidate Obama in 2008 address the city a short distance from the historic site. And while President Obama received applause and cheers on Wednesday, the atmosphere was nothing like the euphoria of five ...
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Analysis Putin basks in isolation over Syria as Obamas charm falls flat
Russia's President Vladimir Putin gestures during a media conference after a G8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 18, ...
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Tropical Depression Flooding Risk Continues for Mexico
AccuWeather.com reports a slow-moving tropical depression will continue to bring torrential rainfall and the risk of flooding to parts of southeastern Mexico, Belize and Guatemala into midweek. Because the system's forward speed has slowed and much of its circulation was over land, it could unravel. The system is forecast to track near the coast of the Mexico states of Tabasco and ...
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Womens Rights Organization Sends Open Letter to Presidents Xi and Obama
urged them to raise the issue of forced abortion in China. The following Open Letter catalogues the atrocities related to the One Child Policy so far this year. Dear Presidents Xi and Obama, As you meet at Sunnylands today, we urge you to discuss ending the coercive enforcement of China's One Child Policy. This brutal policy causes more violence against women and girls than any other ...
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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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