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UNESCO to include Yad Vashem database in world register
UNESCO, the United Nations' organ which aims to promote international cooperation in the field of science and culture, announced that it has included Yad Vashem's database of the names and stories of those who have perished in the Holocaust as part of its Memory of the World Register.This marks the first time that UNESCO has included an Israeli archival collection in its ...
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Bid to block Berlusconi verdict fails
ROME - Italy's constitutional court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Silvio Berlusconi to block a tax fraud conviction from October, clearing the way for a final verdict this year and deepening the uncertainty facing Prime Minister Enrico ...
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James Gandolfini dead The Sopranos actor dies in Italy following a suspected heart attack
The Sopranos cast and crew led tributes to the star, with creator David Chase and co-star Steve Schirripa mourning the loss of their 'brother' ...
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Education minister Dont allow TVs or computers in childrens bedrooms
'Don't allow TVs or computers in children's bedrooms': Education minister reveals concerns parents don't realise their offspring can access hard core ...
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UNESCO lists 6 Syrian heritage sites as endangered
UNESCO on Thursday added six ancient sites in Syria to the endangered World Heritage list, warning that more than two years of civil war had inflicted heavy ...
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European Union fines drug companies for delaying generics
BRUSSELS - European antitrust officials Wednesday fined a group of drug companies, including Denmark’s Lundbeck, a total of $195 million for colluding to delay market entry of a less-expensive generic version of a blockbuster antidepressant, ...
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U.S.-Taliban talks in Qatar not expected Thursday source
DOHA (Reuters) - Preliminary Afghan peace talks in Qatar between U.S. and Taliban officials are unlikely to take place on Thursday as had been expected, a source familiar with the matter told ...
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Haze casts shadow over Singapore-Jakarta ties
Indonesia has accused Singapore of "behaving like a child" by complaining about severe haze from raging forest fires on Sumatra island that has cloaked the city-state. "Singapore should not be behaving like a child and making all this noise," Agung Laksono, the minister who is coordinating Indonesia's response to the haze crisis, told reporters in Jakarta on ...
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US lauds Israel for efforts in combating trafficking
Israel, for the second year in a row received a "Tier 1" ranking for it's efforts to prevent human trafficking, prosecute offenders, and protect victims, according to this ...
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Hungary exposes huge fake sugar deal
Budapest - Hungary's tax authority has questioned two men over a fake contract that, if fulfilled, would have involved the sale of nearly half a million tonnes of sugar - more than the country's annual sugar consumption - and a massive tax ...
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Investigation sought in U.S. plane crash missile-strike theory
The reconstructed wreckage of TWA Flight 800 is shown during the original investigation, which concluded that the crash was caused by an explosion in a fuel tank. ...
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Hologram Videos Could Be On Laptops Soon
Scientists say they have cracked a major technological hurdle to make low-cost, high quality holographic videos a reality. Until now, the video hologram has generally been confined to science fiction - the most famous example being the projected image of Princess Leia in the first Star Wars film. Existing systems that project moving holographic images are costly and suffer from severe ...
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New MERS virus spreads easily deadlier than SARS - Boston.com
LONDON (AP) - A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after investigating the biggest outbreak in Saudi ...
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Afghanistan threatens to boycott US-backed peace talks in anger at Talibans Qatar office
The United States was racing to gather up the pieces of its always fragile relationship with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan after he broke off security talks with Washington and denounced plans for the start of peace negotiations with the ...
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India floods strand thousands more than 100 dead
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- Days after floods killed more than 100 people - possibly many more - Indian officials say rescuers are using helicopters and climbing through mountain paths to reach nearly 4,000 people trapped by landslides in a narrow valley near a Hindu shrine in the northern ...
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Why Taliban peace talks are critical to Afghanistans future
Flash Points: CBS News correspondent Bob Orr talks with CBS News senior national security analyst Juan Zarate about the ongoing struggle to begin peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan, and why you "can't see stability" in Afghanistan "until there's a political solution" that incorporates the ...
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L.A. to give every student an Apple iPad
Los Angeles' school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks. The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved the purchase of $30 million worth of iPads as the first part of a multi-year commitment. It found that the iPad was the least ...
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TWA Flight 800 disaster
An aerial view of the U.S. Coast Guard station at East Moriches, N.Y., July 27, 1996. The base was the operations center for the National Transportation Safety Board in its investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800. Former investigators of the Paris-bound TWA flight, which crashed off Long Island killing 230 people, are now calling on the National Transportation Safety Board to ...
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Paula Deen says she used slur but doesnt tolerate hate
Paula Deen says the celebrity chef "does not condone" racial epithets, following reports that Deen admitted to using "the N-word" and once planned a wedding reception with all black waiters. Deen's admission of using the slur came while she was providing deposition as part of a $1.2M lawsuit filed against her and her brother Earl "Bubba" Biers by Lisa Jackson, ...
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Chinese astronauts deliver lecture from space
China has held its first classroom lecture from its orbiting space station as part of efforts to popularise the successful manned space flight programme among young people.Female astronaut Wang Yaping took questions live from among 330 elementary and middle school students at a Beijing high school from aboard the Tiangong 1 prototype space station on Thursday morning.The class lasted ...
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Study Jordan teens support honour killings
The belief that so-called "honour killings" are justified continues to be common among Jordanian teenagers, a new Cambridge University study says. The study by researchers from the university's Institute of Criminology found that almost half of boys and one in five girls interviewed in the capital, Amman, believe that killing a daughter, sister or wife who has ...
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Experts Trifecta of elements says no ...
>Editor's note: Note language in story(CNN) -- A documentary on the 1996 explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 offers "solid proof that there was an external detonation," its co-producer said Wednesday. "Of course, everyone knows about the eyewitness statements, but we also have corroborating information from the radar data, and the radar data shows a(n) asymmetric explosion coming out ...
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Panic over MERS virus fades in Saudi Arabia
People in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province have again started greeting friends with the traditional kiss on the cheek, and face masks in public are becoming rarer, as panic subsides over the outbreak of a deadly respiratory disease that hit the country last ...
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Obama urges bold nuclear cuts in Berlin speech
Summoning the harsh history of Berlin, US President Barack Obama cautioned the US and Europe against "complacency" brought on by peace, pledging to cut America's deployed nuclear weapons by one-third if Cold War foe Russia does the same. The president also declared that his far-reaching surveillance programs had saved lives on both sides of the Atlantic, as he sought to defend the controversial ...
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US Postpones Taliban Talks Amid Karzai Fury
Talks between the US and the Taliban aimed at ending the Afghan war have been delayed for several days following anger from President Hamid ...
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Silicon Valley's Expo ambitions
Moffet Field, a fairly unknown former military airbase in Silicon Valley near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, may become the centerpiece of the 2020 World Expo if Governor Schwarzenegger and other advocated of a California bid get their way.
California wants one of its cities to host the 2020 World Expo, the event is a seminal one on the world calendar and is expected to draw in over 70 million visitors to Shanghai, the city currently hosting the exhibition, which last six months. Read more
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