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Wooden beam could be detached part of shipwreck
FAIRPORT, Mich. -; Archaeologists say a wooden beam found embedded in the floor of Lake Michigan wasn't attached to a larger vessel, but that it could be a detached piece of wreckage from a ship that disappeared while exploring the Great Lakes in the 17th ...
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White House Notebook Obama Ditches Jacket
US President Barack Obama takes off his jacket due to warm weather while he delivers a speech in front of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin Wednesday, June 19, 2013. On the second day of his visit to Germany, Obama met with German President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel before delivering a speech at Brandenburg Gate. (AP Photo/Michael ...
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W.Va. man indicted on charges of threatening Obama
ELKINS, W.Va. -; A West Virginia man has been indicted on charges he threatened to kill President Barack Obama and the first family in a letter filled with profanity and racial ...
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Canada Raises Liability for Offshore Atlantic Arctic Operators
The Canadian government will raise the absolute liability for oil and gas companies operating in the Atlantic Basin offshore eastern Canada from $1 billion to $30 billion and for companies working on the Canadian Arctic from $40 million to $1 billion. Officials said the changes would incentivize spill prevention by companies operating in the Atlantic offshore and support job and economic ...
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Worrying Reports on Poverty in Canada
Ottawa, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) At least 200,000 Canadians live in poverty in the streets of the northern country or seek shelter in friends' houses because they do not have their own, informed today non-governmental organizations. The research also brought about that nearly 1.5 million family groups, part of the low-income sector, are in danger of falling into extreme poverty conditions. ...
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Obama...Give Me Five in International Meeting of Design in Cuba
Havana, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) ''Obama...Give me five'', the stimulating slogan of the campaign for the liberation of the five Cuban anti-terrorists sentenced in United States, leads the posters'' exhibition of the event Diseño Forma 2013 (Design Form 2013) held in this capital city. The Cuban artistic director and graphic designer Jorge Martell told to ...
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Obama Batters Great Man Theory
Whatever his ultimate, well-scrubbed narrative, the Obama experiment in learning-on-the-job defies the popular theory that great, overpowering personalities dictate their will, dominate eras and make history. Long past his definitive re-election win, this president exposes a paltry command over his own, his party's, or his country's destiny. His underwhelming electoral coattails ...
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Obama Sounds Peace Justice Themes in Major Nuclear Address
President Obama on Wednesday called for Russia and the United States to each eliminate hundreds of warheads from their fielded long-range nuclear arsenals. If Moscow agrees, the cuts to a new ceiling of roughly 1,000 weapons on each side would constitute a one-third reduction below currently agreed ceilings under the 2011 New START agreement. Speaking in Berlin, the U.S. leader built on the ...
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Obama renews call to reduce nuclear weapons stockpiles
President Barack Obama, left, stands in front of Brandenburg Gate at Pariser Platz in Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. On the second day of his visit to Germany, Obama met with German President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel before delivering a speech at Brandenburg ...
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Obama Policies must improve lives
- The need to balance budgets should not distract from the ultimate goal of economic policy, namely improving people's lives, US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday in what appeared to be a dig at German Chancellor Angela Merkel's focus on austerity. Standing alongside Merkel at a news conference in Berlin, Obama said policies should be changed if they made people worse off, or ...
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Poll 88 Percent of Germans Approve of Obamas Foreign Policy
Eighty-eight percent of Germans approve of U.S. President Barack Obama's foreign policy, data collected by the Pew Research Center indicates. Pew said polling for its 2013 Spring Global Attitudes Survey revealed Germany remains one country where some vestiges of the old "Obamamania" from 2008 still endure. The U.S. president receives high marks for his handling of global ...
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U.S. Happier With Obama Than With Countrys Direction
President Obama's approval rating is higher than Americans' satisfaction with the direction the country is headed, a Gallup survey released Wednesday indicated. The 24 percentage point gap is typical for Obama's presidency but represents a much greater presidential job-approval nod than most presidents since Ronald Reagan enjoyed, Gallup said of its review of polling data. ...
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Obama Visits Berlin on Diplomacy Tour
President Obama began his day in Berlin with meetings with Germany's president and chancellor in advance of a foreign policy speech at the Brandenburg Gate. Obama first met with President Joachim Gauck at Schloss Belevue, his official residence. The two approached a group of school children waving miniature flags of both countries and Obama posed with some some, saying, "Everyone ...
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FBI Most-wanted Suspect Nabbed in Mexico
A former University of Southern California professor on the FBI's most-wanted list for alleged sex crimes involving children was caught in Mexico, the FBI said. Bill Lewis, FBI assistant director in charge, said 64-year-old Walter Lee Williams was arrested Tuesday by Mexican authorities, The Los Angeles Times reported. The FBI said authorities have identified at least 10 of the ...
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Mexico arrests man on FBI’s top list
Mexican officials said late Tuesday that they had arrested former US university professor Walter Lee Williams, an alleged child sexual predator on the FBI's list of top 10 Most Wanted ...
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COLUMBIAS CONS Nest of Felons Runs Schools Social Work Program
CJI Associate Director Cheryl Wilkins listing on the faculty directory for Columbia's School of Social Work also makes no mention of her criminal ...
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Unemployed teacher returns lost bag containing $20G
An unemployed teacher was driving home after dropping her cat off at a veterinarian when she noticed a bag on the street. She stopped but doubted it contained anything, but soon discovered the bag was holding about $20,000. Candace Scott said the bag had a Chase bank label, so she promptly delivered it to a nearby branch. She pound on the glass around 8 a.m. Tuesday to get the branch manager to ...
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After The Obama-Xi Summit Pressure On Japan To Concede On SenkakuDiaoyu
Washington , D.C. in February to meet President Obama, he was given only one hour forty-five minutes of Obama's time. During the just concluded G8 summit in Northern Ireland there was no Obama-Abe meeting. Leading up to the summit, the White House brusquely rebutted the Japanese foreign ministry's supplications, agreeing finally only to announce that the two would "meeting ...
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Canada deploying 34 peacekeepers to serve with Brazilians in Haiti
Canada is sending 34 troops to Haiti to serve as a peacekeepers with a Brazilian battalion, Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced Wednesday. MacKay announced the deployment in Ottawa alongside Calgary MP Diane Ablonczy and Gen. Tom Lawson, Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff. They will deploy from June 21 until December 2013, MacKay said. "Members of the Canadian Armed ...
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Obama Calls for Further Cuts in Nuclear Arms
By Nick SimeoneAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 19, 2013 President Barack Obama today announced his intention to seek deeper cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, provided Russia is willing to negotiate similar reductions. In an address before several thousand people at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, Obama said a comprehensive review has determined America can ensure its own ...
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Nobel Laureates to Obama No Keystone XL
"We are writing to urge you to once and for all reject the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline," begins the letter penned by 10 Nobel Peace Prize winners-including Mairead Maguire, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Betty Williams, and Adolfo Perez Esquivel. "Since we first wrote you, in September of 2011, the risks of tar sands oil and the threats of dangerous climate change have only become ...
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Obama If Catholics Have Their Schools and Buildings and Protestants Have Theirs ... That Encourages Division
President Barack Obama speaks to a town hall meeting of youth in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on June 17, 2013. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - Likening religious schools to segregation--a racist system that forced blacks to attend different schools and use different facilities than whites in the American South--President Barack Obama told a town hall meeting for youth in Belfast, Northern Ireland on ...
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Obama proposes nuclear weapons cuts in Berlin address
President Barack Obamasaid Russian and US nuclear weapons should be slashed by up to a third in a keynote speech in front of Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate in which he called for a world of "peace and ...
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We were told to lie - Bank of America employees open up about foreclosure practices
USA Employees of Bank of America say they were encouraged to lie to customers and were even rewarded for foreclosing on homes, staffers of the financial giant claim in new court documents. Sworn statements from several Bank of America employees contain a number of damning allegations, the latest claims entered as evidence in a multi-state class action lawsuit that challenges the ...
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Obama proposes reductions to Cold War-era nuclear arsenal
While speaking at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, President Barack Obama announces ways the US can combat terrorism by "balancing the pursuit of security with the protection of ...
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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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