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Obama wants to cut U.S. nuclear arsenal if Russia will do the same
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama plans to use a speech in Berlin on Wednesday to outline plans for further reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal if Russia agrees to pare back its weapons at the same time, administration officials said Tuesday.Resuming a drive toward disarmament that he had largely shunted aside over the past two years, Obama will propose trimming the number of strategic ...
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Professor on US FBIs most wanted list nabbed in Mexico
This 2011 image provided by the FBI shows Walter Lee Williams. He is wanted on charges of sexual exploitation of children and traveling abroad for the purpose of engaging in sexual acts with ...
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Obama Cheney and Snowden’s revelations
It was in November 1973 that President Richard M. Nixon, ensnared in the deepening Watergate scandal, uttered the phrase for which he will always be remembered: "I am not a crook."Nearly 40 years later, President Barack Obama used a Monday night television interview to give his own variation on the same theme, insisting to the American public that he is not Dick Cheney.Obama gave the ...
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Obama visits Berlin amidst mounting US-German tensions
In keeping with the protocol of such occasions, the first official visit to Germany by US President Barack Obama is being used to evoke historical memories and proclaim mutual friendship. The fact that 50 years ago this month President John F. Kennedy gave his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in front of Schneberg Town Hall is being exploited to this end.Behind the carefully ...
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World Obama in Berlin to give Brandenburg Gate speech
Berlin as American president and his address to students and government officials at the Brandenburg Gate comes almost 50 years after John F Kennedy's celebrated "Ich bin ...
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Former USC professor arrested in Mexico
LOS ANGELES -; A former University of Southern California professor indicted on child sexual abuse charges has been arrested in Mexico, a day after being added to the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted ...
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Obama to call for nuclear cuts
Barack Obama is about to unveil plans for a one third reduction in Cold War nuclear arsenals when he makes a speech at Berlin's Brandenburg ...
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Obamas approval trust ratings suffer severe drop finds poll
Washington, June 18 : President Barack Obama's approval and trust numbers have dropped sharply among Americans in the past one month, a new poll has ...
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Russian Church in America marks 400th anniversary of Romanov dynasty
NEW YORK, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia /ROCOR/ has marked the 400th anniversary since accession of the Romanov dynasty to the Russian throne. The main events of the celebration were held in the Cathedral of the Icon of Our Lady of the Sign in New York City. Tuesday night, a remembrance vespers service for the late czars and emperors of Russia was held there. ...
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Canada on ice as Harper fails to secure EU trade deal
CANADIAN Prime Minister Stephen Harper will conclude his eight-day European trip unable to complete a trade agreement with the EU, just as the opening of EU-US talks raises the risk that his country will be left ...
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’Shocking’ half of Canada’s First Nations kids living in poverty new study finds
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Thousands of screaming fans brought Times Square to a standstill as they waited to catch a glimpse of Brad Pitt at the premiere of his new thriller, "World War ...
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Obama to set new goals to cut nuclear weapons senior official
U.S. President Barack Obama (L) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 Summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 17, ...
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Barack Obama to propose nuclear weapons cuts
Barack Obama will Wednesday propose the United States and Russia cut strategic nuclear warheads by a third and will call for cuts in tactical nuclear arsenals in Europe, a US official said. Obama, who will make the proposals in a major speech in Berlin, will also commit to attending ...
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Nigeria Mass Infanticide in America
A report from the office of the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that, in 2009 alone, 784,708 successful abortions were carried out in that country. "That's a breathtaking number, no matter which side of the abortion debate you sit on," the report admits. "What this statistic doesn't convey is a more mysterious number: how many ...
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Thief takes bicycle Canadian retiree used for cross-country ride
An elderly man in British Columbia is hoping for the recovery of a bicycle he used for a trip across Canada in 1985. Cor Dykstra was 57 when he biked from his home in Burnaby to visit relatives in Ontario, The Province reported. He told the newspaper he still hopes to get it back. "It was about freedom. I did it for the joy of it," he said of his trip. Cpl. Rick Skolrood, a ...
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3 arrested in suspected slavery case
>Editor's note: For more information on this story, check out CNN affiliates WKYC, WOIO and WJW.(CNN) -- A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were held in an Ohio apartment crowded with people and animals for more than a year, forced to perform manual labor and threatened with dogs and snakes to keep them compliant, authorities said Tuesday. Federal prosecutors said the people accused ...
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Mexico detains FBI Ten Most-Wanted fugitive in beach resort
CANCUN (Reuters) - Mexican authorities on Tuesday arrested a former U.S. university professor, who recently was added to the FBI's 10 most-wanted list and faces sex crimes charges in the Philippines. Walter Lee Williams, 64, was arrested in the southern beach resort of Playa del Carmen. The FBI said he was an anthropology and gender studies professor at the University of Southern California ...
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Obamas transparent NSA interview points debunked
USA Despite reports indicating the opposite US President Barack Obama has continued to perpetrate the vague assertion that the controversial NSA surveillance programs, primarily PRISM, are responsible for stopping a major terrorist attack in New York City. American officials have maintained that the National Security Agency has been "transparent" in its explanation of mass ...
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Cluster bomb victims call on Canada to ratify convention to ban dirty weapon
Raed Mokaled is pictured in Geneva in April, 2013 at a major international meeting on the Convention on Cluster Munitions. His son, Ahmad, was killed on his fifth birthday by a cluster bomb near their home in Lebanon in February 1999. Mokaled now works to have the weapons banned. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mike ...
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Outside View America strikes out
Using a baseball metaphor, in the field of national security, when the United States comes to bat, it often starts with 2 1/2 strikes against it. Strike 1 is the chronic tendency to misinterpret, distort and even invent threats often for politically expedient reasons. Strike 2 is the failure to address the question of "what next?" once crucial foreign or national security policy ...
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Barack Obama to invoke call of history in Berlin speech
Barack Obama will invoke the Cold War history of German-US solidarity in a speech he will give today on his first visit to Berlin as ...
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Calif.-based burger chain Johnny Rockets sold
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -; Johnny Rockets, the Southern California-based burger chain with 1950s flair, has been sold to a private equity firm that targets underperforming and specialty ...
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Boy 6 dies after dog attack at N. Calif. home
UNION CITY, Calif. -; A 6-year-old San Francisco Bay Area boy died after he was attacked by a dog that belongs to his uncle, who is a police officer, authorities and a family spokesman said ...
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Govt report Smooth launch unsure for health law
WASHINGTON - There's no guarantee that President Barack Obama's health care law will launch smoothly and on time, congressional investigators say in the first in-depth independent look at its progress.But in a report to be released Wednesday, the congressional Government Accountability Office also sees positive signs as the Oct. 1 deadline approaches for new health insurance markets ...
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Misconduct investigations put Canada in different light
MONTREAL - Canada, among the 10 least corrupt countries in the world the past six years according to rankings by Transparency International, is mired in scandals. Quebec’s anti-corruption task force Monday arrested Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum over fraud allegations, adding to controversies rocking political circles in Toronto and Ottawa that have taken the shine off Canada’s ...
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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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