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Joe Ludwig launches national food plan to grow industry
Australia Federal Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig has unveiled a new plan designed to grow the local food industry and put Australia on the world food map. First promised in the 2010 election campaign, ...
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Bigger stronger faster Walsh aims for world stage
Source: Photosport Up-and-coming shot putter Tom Walsh hopes some mentoring from Olympic and world champion Valerie Adams will see him qualify for the world championships in August. The Timaru 21-year-old has seen his chances increase with significant strength gains in the last six months. To be truly world class at this event, you have to be a bit of a beast. "We're talking between ...
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Computer Attacks On U.S. Energy Companies Traced To Iran Officials Say
SAN FRANCISCO -- American officials and corporate security experts examining a new wave of potentially destructive computer attacks striking American corporations, especially energy firms, say they have tracked the attacks back to Iran. The targets have included several American oil, gas and electricity companies, which government officials have refused to identify. The goal is not espionage, ...
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MasterCard and Visa battle it out with retailers in world war fees
Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich her battle looks like peanuts compared to the action by American retailers on credit card fees. Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext ...
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Mozambique Coal Mining Still Harming Communities
It is deeply depressing to see how little has changed in the coal fields of Mozambique in the 18 months since the publication of a damning report into the poor behaviour of multinational mining companies back in January 2012. Released by the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW), that report - entitled Coal vs. Communities: Exposing poor practices by VALE and Rio Tinto in Mozambique - ...
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Business Notes May 20
Staff ReportsA group of women have formed a network of profession women to interact, exchange ideas, educate and empower each other. The National Association of Professional Women (NAPW) members will enjoy a wealth of resources, benefits and services dedicated to enhancing their lives and promoting their business and careers. NAPW will provide seminars, podcasts, webinars, keynote speakers and ...
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World War II experiences set tone for today’s female troops
Millions of Americans are familiar with the iconic image of Rosie the Riveter, the scarf-clad symbol of World War II "We Can Do It!" patriotism. Approximately 300,000 housewives and single women left the home and office to help America produce planes and weapons for the Allied ...
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World s most beautiful girls live in Stockholm Sweden
Traveler's Digest, a magazine for travelers, has made a list of countries and cities where world's most beautiful women live. Russia and its capital of Moscow do not take the last place on the list, although the country and the city can not be found on such lists as "the safest, most fashionable and pleasant country in the world to ...
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An international political strategy for Ford Australia workers
The pending shutdown of Ford Australia's operations is part of a vast restructuring of the international auto industry that is devastating the jobs, wages and conditions of car workers around the world. It raises the necessity for the working class to respond with its own global political strategy, based on a socialist and internationalist perspective, in defence of its independent ...
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The well-styled world of Chromeo’s Dave Macklovitch
The frontman of New York-based musical outfit Chromeo, Dave 1, also known as David Macklovitch, is as well-known in style circles for his spot-on sartorial approach as he is for his band's electro-funk beats.This week, the Montreal musician cemented his tastemaker status with the launch of a capsule collection that he co-designed with the Canadian men's e-tailer Frank & ...
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Google to develop wireless in third world
Google is developing wireless internet systems to deploy in South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to give web access to one billion more people, a report ...
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SOFAZ Executive Director takes part at 6th EITI Global Conference
A delegation headed by the Chairman of the National EITI Committee, a member of the EITI International Board and the Executive Director of the State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan Shahmar Movsumov is participating at the 6th EITI Global Conference in Sydney. Various issues, including re-election of the EITI Board, achievements on EITI implementation in different countries and election ...
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Bridging differences between the West and the Muslim world seeing past religion and through culture
One among too many who have turned ignorance into hatred, Islamophobic Anders Behring Breivik killed over 70 people through terror attacks in 2011 in Norway. From the ...
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Lebanese singer Razan introduces dubstep to the Arab World with new video
Who would have thought that scandalous Razan would be the one introducing dubstep to the Arab world? The Lebanese bombshell Razan Moghrabi had been trying to lay low ...
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Pete McMartin Gregor Robertson and Rob Ford — a tale of two itineraries
After an abstemious and early start to the day, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson announces the Engaged City Task Force to encourage citizen involvement in city hall. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, meanwhile, is still waking ...
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Photos Recent bridge collapses around the world
Rescue workers at the site where a bridge under construction collapsed in Trondheim, Norway, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. One person is confirmed killed in the accident, and one person still ...
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China sees wider role for private business
Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang reacts at the end of a press conference after the signing ceremony of several agreements between Switzerland and China, in Kehrsatz near Bern, Switzerland, Friday, May 24, 2013. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is in Switzerland to seal a free trade pact with the Alpine nation ? the first comprehensive agreement his country has reached with a major western economy. Li ...
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RMB to become one top 3 global trade currencies HSBCs Flint
The RMB, or Chinese yuan, would be able to become one of the top three global traded currencies in volumn term by the end of 2015, said Douglas Flint, chairman of HSBC Holdings plc, in London Friday."The RMB is increasingly the part of nomal day-to-day business for anyone trading or investing in China," said Flint at the Annual General Meeting (AGM)."Every international business ...
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Microsoft Reveals The Xbox One
Microsoft promises the Xbox One will be more than just a game console, but a "living room" with a TV tuner and cable box. Users will be able to switch between watching TV and gaming instantly through the Kinect ...
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Worlds tallest structure with down-to-earth purpose
Futurists who have been predicting "exponential growth" in mankind's technological development might just give a "we told you so" shrug on hearing the news that the world's next tallest building will only take six or seven months to construct. The rest of us can only marvel. The "future" seems to be coming so fast that in some places it appears to be ...
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Global march challenges Monsantos dominance LIVE UPDATES
The March Against Monsanto will see hundreds of thousands in 40 countries unite to challenge biotechnology corporations and protest against genetically modified foods, which despite bans in some countries due to health hazards remain legal in many others. 3:00 GMT: Watch RT's Anastasia Churkina report on the upcoming global ...
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Toronto’s mayor Rob Ford denies taking crack
Rob Ford has denied accusations of drug use, breaking a week-long silence over a raging media storm surrounding a video that allegedly shows him partaking of ...
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B.C.’s tourism industry bloodied by recession but unbowed
Tourists pose in front of the Tantalus range mountains at a scenic spot along the Sky-To-Sky Highway north of Sqamish. Tourism accounts for about 126,700 direct jobs in British Columbia, and in 2011, the industry generated $13.4 billion in revenue, an increase of 1.4 per cent from the previous ...
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Social responsibility key to aviation industrys success HNA chairman
One of the most successful Chinese businessmen of their generation, the co-founder and chairman of the HNA Group loves to be in the limelight these days not because of vanity but rather for his social responsibility in sharing his ...
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World Bank Pledges to Listen with Heart and Soul to Indigenous Peoples But Intergovernmental Organizations Permanent Forum Members Sceptical
told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today, as meeting participants scrutinized the expressed commitments and project portfolios launched and supervised by global and regional financial ...
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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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