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The world’s preferred refugees
For millions of refugees, World Refugee Day is a day like any other. From Mali to South Sudan and from Myanmar to Haiti, countless men, women and children will once again awaken today to an uncertain future.They are aided in their perilous journey by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which works with governments to advocate and seek asylum for all refugees. That is, ...
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Media Comment The media and their icons
Media outlets report the news. They also serve as a platform for public debate and the exchange of views. Many critics see the media as also managing the news and setting agendas."The news" then morphs from being a collection of facts into an opinion-driven manipulation of events. A reporter and his/her editor, if biased, can alter reality.The academic literature has long ...
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European Commission fines drug companies for delaying generics
drug manufacturers , including Denmark’s Lundbeck, Germany’s Merck, Ranbaxy Laboratories, Arrow Group and Zoetis Products, for colluding to keep a generic drug off the market. Officials for the commission, the European Union’s anti-trust regulator, claim that the companies agreed not to introduce generic versions of Lundbeck’s antidepressant citalopram when its basic ...
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Iceland Informal talks about Snowden asylum
A WikiLeaks spokesman who claims to represent Edward Snowden has reached out to government officials in Iceland about the potential of the NSA leaker applying for asylum in the Nordic country, officials there said today. Johannes Skulason, an Icelandic government official, told The Associated Press that WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson had held informal talks with assistants at the ...
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Stripes set to be big for Dolce and Gabbana as fashion designers get 20 months in prison for tax evasion
A court in the fashion capital of Milan found the pair guilty of failing to declare EUR1bn (860m) of income.Prosecutors said the designers sold their D&G and Dolce & Gabbana brands to their own holding company, Gabo, in Luxembourg in 2004 for EUR360m - a third of its market value - to slash their tax liability.This, plus other dodges, meant the designers owed more than EUR400m in tax. ...
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Snowden Iceland Talks About Potential Asylum
Iceland says a spokesman who claims to represent Edward Snowden has held talks with government officials about the potential of the NSA leaker applying for asylum in the Nordic country. "A representative of his has, to my knowledgehad some informal discussions with some employees of a couple of ministries, but no formal discussions," Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur David ...
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TWA Flight 800 Investigators Want New Probe
Calls have been made for a new inquiry into the 1996 crash of a TWA jet off the coast of New York amid fresh claims that a missile was involved. TWA Flight 800 came down just minutes after taking off from JFK airport, killing all 230 people on board. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that a centre fuel tank explosion, sparked by faulty wiring, was to blame. ...
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Budget cuts hit security checks for defense contractors
A new National Security Agency (NSA) data gathering facility is seen under construction in Bluffdale, about 25 miles (40 kms) south of Salt Lake City, Utah June 11, ...
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Ex-Playmate pleads guilty in immigrant smuggling case
Syracuse's The Post-Standard newspaper says Shannon pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to a felony charge and faces a sentence ranging from no jail time to 10 months. Federal agents say the 35-year-old Los Angeles resident and her boyfriend were arrested after he illegally crossed the border and rendezvoused with her in Fort Covington. Officials say the boyfriend has a criminal record ...
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Rare twin gorillas born in Dutch zoo
Burgers' Zoo in the Netherlands gave zookeepers two little surprises: twins! The baby great apes are in the care of 20-year-old mom N'Gayla, who already has three offspring. What makes the event even more special is that twins are extremely rare among gorillas, especially those in captivity. In fact, they're said to be a once-in-a-decade experience. "In gorilla world, twins ...
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James Franco blasts Spider-Man reboot
"Man of Steel," Franco took issue with the "new Spider-Man series that arose even before there was time to bury the corpse of the old one and enshroud it in the haze of ...
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CDC HPV vaccine reduced disease rates in teen girls 56
University of Miami pediatrician Judith L. Schaechter, M.D. gives an HPV vaccination to a 13-year-old girl in her office at the Miller School of Medicine on Sept. 21, 2011 in Miami, ...
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FBI admits to using surveillance drones in US
The Federal Bureau of Investigation uses drones for surveillance over the US soil, but does so very rarely, the FBI director has told Senate Judiciary Committee. Robert Mueller told the Senate Committee that the FBI was developing guidelines for drones and that the privacy implications of using drones are, in Mueller's words, worthy of debate and legislation down the road. The aerospace ...
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Kiwi dies in freezing Queensland conditions
A New Zealand man was found dead on the patio of a central Queensland home today after he slept outside in what were described as freezing conditions. Reports suggested the 40-year-old man told friends he was going to sleep outside the house in Clermont on Tuesday night. It was believed his friends covered him with a blanket but when they found him in the morning he was dead. Wellington Police ...
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Kiwi freezes to death in Queensland
A New Zealand man was found dead on the patio of a central Queensland home today after he slept outside in what were described as freezing conditions. Reports suggested the 40-year-old man told friends he was going to sleep outside the house in Clermont on Tuesday night. It was believed his friends covered him with a blanket but when they found him in the morning he was dead. Wellington Police ...
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In Germany Obama Says U.S. Lags Behind By Not Teaching Youth Second and Third Language
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MSNBC Panelist Suggests Opponents of Late-Term Abortions Are Racist
Democrats criticized Republicans for what they see as a new attack on abortion rights. In a recent MSNBC panel discussion on the bill, University of Pennsylvania professor Salamisha Tillet suggested that this is a racial issue. She expressed the possibility that Republicans support abortion bans so that white women will keep having babies, thereby "reproducing whiteness, white supremacy, ...
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How Many Chechens Are Fighting In Syria
It is almost a year since the first reports surfaced that some Chechens, together with fighters from elsewhere in the Russian Federation, had joined the ranks of the armed opposition to Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad. Since then, Western journalists have met with some of those Chechen fighters, and video footage of them has been posted on YouTube. While their numbers remain unclear, it seems that ...
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Family learn of death via radio
The family of a Dunedin man found dead in a Thai apartment complex are distraught and angry they learnt of his death through media reports rather than police yesterday. Alan Patrick Mouncey, 38, was found dead with a head wound in the bathroom of his apartment at P Place Apartments in Pattaya, a tourist mecca on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand on Monday night. The ...
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Secret hearings debated in Guantanamo 911 case
The war crimes tribunal for the Guantanamo prisoner charged in the attack on the USS Cole is going into a closed session dealing with a subject so secret even the defendant can't hear ...
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Britain fails to get EU backing for Hezbollah blacklisting
UK pushes to place Hezbollah's armed wing on EU terror list; diplomats say British proposal gains support amid Hezbollah involvement in Syria, but Austria, Italy, Czechs among those preventing required unanimous ...
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Right-wing MKs slam pretentious Peres birthday celebration
star-studded birthday party thrown in honor of his 90th birthday party.Knesset members on the Right called the 11 million shekel event a waste of money, even though it was funded by contributions and not ...
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Encountering Peace Decision-making time
Naftali Bennett's "the idea of a Palestinian state has come to a dead end," if true, should be restated as "the idea of the Zionist movement has come to a dead end." That is the only logical conclusion of the ideology of Bennett and his followers. If the idea of the partitioning of the land between the river and sea into a "Jewish state and an Arab state" ...
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Washington Watch Iranian elections worry Netanyahu
Binyamin Netanyahu is a worried man. The results of the Iranian presidential election were a deep disappointment, judging by his rhetoric lately. He's afraid that partners in the no-nukes-for- Iran coalition might be seduced by descriptions of President-elect Hassan Rohani as a moderate.He is reminding everyone that "moderate" is a relative term when it comes to describing ...
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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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