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World President fires army chief after leaked letter
Uganda's president has made a major change in the army, removing the chief of the armed forces to the interior ministry and replacing him with a generalin charge of land ...
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Fitz The Tantrums On World Cafe
. Undeniable songs and exciting concerts led the group to festival dates and other high-profile live appearances around the world. The band formed when L.A. studio engineer and musician Michael "Fitz" Fitzpatrick gathered friends such as fellow vocalist Noelle Scaggs to perform songs he'd written following a breakup. The core of the band convened again in 2012 to record the ...
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Iranian candidate vows to resist West
Tehran, Iran - Iran's top nuclear negotiator, a candidate in next month's presidential elections, vowed Friday he will pursue a policy of resistance against the West if ...
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Syrian rebels trapped in Qusayr army
Qusayr, Syria - Syrian troops have captured much of the rebel stronghold of Qusayr, in central Homs province, squeezing opposition fighters into the north of the strategic town, a military officer told AFP on ...
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London attack puts pressure on spooks
Tributes are seen near the scene of the attack on a British soldier in Woolwich, south-east London. The soldier was hacked to death on Wednesday by two men shouting Islamic slogans, in what Prime Minister David Cameron said appeared to be a terrorist ...
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Zetas suspects admit killing US agent
Washington - Three men have pleaded guilty in US federal court for the 2011 killing of a US immigration and customs agent and the attempted murder of a second agent, the Justice Department ...
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Indias Tata Steel reports loss on falling demand in Europe
MUMBAI -- India's Tata Steel, one of the world's biggest steelmakers, on Thursday swung to a quarterly net loss from a profit a year ago due to falling demand in its key European ...
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Furlough Friday hits US federal employees
The first day of US government furloughs imposed by a budget crunch saw more than 100,000 federal workers ordered to stay home Friday, including those at the scandal-plagued Internal Revenue Service ...
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British spy services under pressure over soldiers murder
Britain's intelligence services came under pressure on Friday to explain how they let two Islamic extremists suspected of hacking a soldier to death in London slip through their ...
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EU Leader Federal Europe to Become a Reality
Jose Manuel Barroso, the most powerful leader in the European Union, says Europe will become a united political federation within the next few years. The European Commission president is laying out plans for an "intensified political union" that matches the economic cooperation in the EU. That includes plans for an elected "president of Europe." "This is about the ...
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Unrest may spread across Europe warns Red Cross chief
Rocketing unemployment and poverty in some areas of Europe could lead to widespread civil unrest, unless governments take measures to address the humanitarian consequences of austerity measures, the secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has ...
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Amanda Bynes charged for allegedly tossing bong out window
Amanda Bynes, seen here at an awards show in 2011, was arrested at a Manhattan apartment after a building official complained that she was smoking marijuana, police say. (Chris Pizzello/Associated ...
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Water running out scientists
Surface melt water runs along the Greenland Ice Sheet. Of all the world's fresh water, 70 per cent is locked up in ice and permanent snow cover. Picture: Ian ...
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Shes a maniac N Korea says of Park
NORTH Korea accused South Korean President Park Geun-Hye of hurting the dignity of its leadership and slammed her as "a confrontation ...
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Climbers feared dead on third-highest peak
FIVE climbers including two Hungarians and a South Korean are missing on the world's third-highest mountain and feared dead, a mountaineering official said ...
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You will always be our hero
Rebecca Rigby, mother of their two-year-old son Jack, said: "I love Lee and always will. I am proud to be his wife and he was due to come up this weekend so we could continue our future together as a family."Mrs Rigby, sobbing back tears, added: "He was a devoted father to our son Jack and we will both miss him terribly."Asked about the shock of the attack being on British ...
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France tries to win back business
THE French government is trying to woo business, amid concerns that it has antagonised the very sector needed to reinvigorate the ...
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Suicide bomber hits heart of Kabul
A SUICIDE bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police ...
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Limbless Aussie preaches in Vietnam
THE 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the message he had come to Communist-ruled Vietnam to ...
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Holidays or holy-days are a great time to relearn enchantment with the world | Giles Fraser
Naxos . We are having a few days of half-term father/son bonding and reading Greek myths together. On this island, Dionysus wooed Ariadne away from Theseus, giving her the stars as a wedding crown. Felix has never been this far from home, and so much of the surrounding culture and geography is being experienced as new and extraordinary. Our friend Dimitrios explains to him the Greek alphabet. He ...
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Guatemalan ex-president extradited to U.S. on money laundering charges
1 of 4. Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo (C), accused of corruption, is escorted before boarding a plane for his extradition to the United States for money laundering, at the Air Force Base in Guatemala City, May 24, ...
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Worlds First 3-D-Printed Bullets Join A Growing DIY Arsenal
. That gun, dubbed "The Liberator," was first created by Defense Distributed, a firm that fashioned the weapon almost entirely from ABS plastic, using an $8,000 3-D printer. The Liberator got ...
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Video How new constraints on drones will affect counterterrorism efforts
Flash Points: CBS News National Security Correspondent Bob Orr talks with CBS Senior National Security Analyst Juan Zarate about the "more constrained standards" the president outlined regarding the use of unmanned drone strikes on terrorist targets, exploring what constitutes "sufficient information or evidence" to allow the president to authorize a drone strike under the ...
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Reporters notebook Going undercover inside a Bangladesh garment factory
(CBS News) DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Getting inside a garment factory in Bangladesh isn't easy. It's an enormous industry. There are more than 4,000 factories, employing an estimated 4 million people. Garments and textiles make up about 80 percent of Bangladesh's export ...
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Photos Michelle Obama Visits D.C. Public School
Michelle Obama and actress Kerry Washington say goodbye after a visit to Savoy Elementary School in Washington, May 24, 2013. The Savoy School was one of eight schools selected last year for the Turnaround Arts Initiative at the President's Committee on the Arts and ...
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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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