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US House panel backs stiff new Iran sanctions
Iran could face tightened sanctions within months after a US congressional panel Wednesday adopted a measure targeting the nation's auto and mining industries as well as its foreign currency ...
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Victim of savage face-eating attack still recovering
Miami cannibal may have been high on 'bath salts' The Miami man who nearly had his face chewed off in a gruesome attack last May has a message for the public: "Just generally thanks for contributing and helping out. People in my predicament need to be helped out," Ronald Poppo says in a video posted by Jackson Memorial Perdue Medical Center. Poppo, 65, has been in hospital ...
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Nations to boost aid to Syria rebels until Assad goes
AMMAN (AFP) - World powers urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to commit to peace, but warned Thursday that if he fails to negotiate a political transition they would boost their backing of the opposition.The stark warning came from a meeting of the Friends of Syria group, which held talks on Wednesday in Amman to try to agree the contours of a peace conference to end the war.The conflict, ...
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New Details Emerge in Aurora Theater Shootings
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U.S. House votes to force approval of Keystone pipeline
WASHINGTON | Wed May 22, 2013 7:09pm EDT WASHINGTON May 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday declaring that a presidential permit was not needed to approve the Canada-to-Nebraska leg of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline. The Republican-controlled House voted 241-175 with support from some Democrats. The bill, which would take authority for ...
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Jordanian FM hopeful Kerry will relaunch talks
Nasser Judeh in Amman says US Secretary of State's round-the-clock-efforts may create "inducing environment" to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian negotiations; Kerry scheduled to meet Netanyahu, Peres, Livni in ...
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Shapira to investigate Netanyahu over foreign trips
investigate the financial controversies surrounding Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as well as other public officials relating to their foreign trips.It was unclear what the scope of the investigation would be and what aspects it would add to ongoing investigations, but it was expected to include all of the latest developments in everything from the "Bibi Tours" affair to the ...
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Govt bulldozers demolish 2 east Jerusalem homes
Government bulldozers demolished two residential buildings in east Jerusalem on Tuesday morning for being illegally constructed on a national park, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.However, Meretz city councilman Dr. Meir Margalit, who holds the east Jerusalem portfolio, dismissed the ministry's claim as a "dirty trick" that the government was using to confiscate land ...
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High Court summons A-G over east Jlem property
In an unheard-of development, a seven-judge panel of the High Court of Justice ordered Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein to appear personally to explain the state's position on using a 1950 property law to confiscate east Jerusalem properties from Arabs for the benefit of Jews and the state, the courts announced on Wednesday.Weinstein essentially never attends hearings; he sends ...
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Prosor angered by UNRWA’s map of Arab Palestine
NEW YORK - Early this month, Ann Dismorr, director of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Lebanon, stood in front of cameras holding a map of Israel labeled "Arab Palestine." Framed in green and black and shoddily printed, the projected Palestinian state is shown surrounded by countries with modern borders: Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.Israeli officials are well used to seeing maps ...
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Israeli embassy slams Germany party over labeling
BERLIN - The Israeli embassy slammed the German Green Party on Wednesday for its Bundestag efforts to label products from the West Bank, calling those efforts "another try to negatively single out Israel while promoting an economic boycott of it."In a statement ...
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Neighbours View Sharif as Yoked to Personal National History
- Following on Nawaz Sharif's victory in the May 11 national elections in Pakistan, many analysts are indicating cautious optimism on the prospect that the new prime minister can strengthen bilateral relations with the country's neighbours, particularly ...
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Insects from Delicacy to Tool against Hunger
MEXICO CITY, May 22 2013 (IPS) - The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s recommendation to consider using edible insects as a food source to combat hunger may have particular repercussions in Colombia and Mexico, two Latin American countries that have a tradition of eating insects and a high degree of ...
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New Effort Targets the Leading Killers of Children
- PATH, a Seattle-based global health development organisation, is aiming to save two million lives by 2015 by jointly tackling diarrhea and pneumonia, the leading killers of children ...
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Cuban Agriculture Needs Young People
She is not sure where her vocation came from, but she does know that this is what she wants to do. In Cuba, which is seeking to boost agricultural yields, there is a scarcity of young people working in the sector. Blanco, a petite 20-year-old, dropped her math studies after two years to try her hand at ...
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Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangladesh
- Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water.On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh's arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of ...
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Sweden riots Stockholm burns as rioters battle police after three days of violence in immigrant ghetto
It is Sweden's worst disorder in years and has shocked the country and provoked a debate on how Sweden is coping with youth unemployment and an influx of ...
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Woolwich attack More than 100 English Defence League supporters gather near scene of killing
Officers formed a cordon and the men left the immediate area after the brief incident. Some of the EDL supporters gathered at The Queen's Arms pub locally, where they sang nationalistic ...
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Third times a charm Angela Merkel named the most powerful woman in the world three years running
Third time lucky: German chancellor Angela Merkel has been named as the most powerful woman in the world by business magazine Forbes for the third year ...
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Captain Calamity Francesco Schettino faces 20 years in jail as he WILL stand trial over Costa Concordia shipwreck
Francesco Schettino was commanding the giant cruise liner when it ran aground and sank off the island of Giglio in January last year, killing 32 people. The tragedy is considered Italy’s worst maritime disaster since the Second World ...
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Ten more years of Mugabe President of Zimbabwe 89 signs new constitution limiting power to two terms - unless youve been in office for 33 years
A beaming Mugabe, flanked by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, his main political rival, and Deputy President Joice Mujuru signed multiple copies of the charter at State House in the capital Harare to cheers and applause from ...
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Dominique Venner Outrage as Femen protestor mocks Notre Dame suicide by posing with gun in her mouth a DAY after right-wing historian killed himself on altar
A topless Femen activist held a fake gun in her mouth on the altar of Notre Dame cathedral - a day after a right-wing historian shot himself dead inside the iconic Paris ...
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Imran Khan leaves hospital in good spirits 2 weeks after plummeting 15 feet at political rally in Pakistan
Pakistani cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan has left hospital two weeks after he received serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift truck at a campaign ...
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IRS official refuses to testify before Congress
The IRS official who oversees non-profit applications refused to testify Wednesday at a congressional panel probing abuse at the US tax agency but defiantly insisted she had done nothing ...
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Friends of Syria demands withdrawal of Hezbollah Iran fighters
AMMAN (Reuters) - The Friends of Syrian alliance called on Iran and its Lebanese Hezbollah ally on Thursday to withdraw fighters immediately from Syrian territory and described their armed presence in the country as a threat to regional stability. In a communiqué issued after a meeting in Amman, the alliance said any transitional government in Syria being proposed as a core of a ...
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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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