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Kerry presses Egypt on economic reform says aid depends on it
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry urged Egypt to act swiftly on economic reforms to secure a $4.8 billion International Monetary Fund loan, saying the measures were needed to get further aid from the U.S. Congress, an American official ...
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British police arrest three more over killing of soldier
A worker adds flowers to other floral tributes to Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, at the scene of his killing in Woolwich, southeast London May 24, ...
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Thousands of U.S. bridges vulnerable to collapse
SEATTLE Thousands of bridges around the U.S. may be one freak accident or mistake away from collapse, even if the spans are deemed structurally ...
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London brutal attack probe nets additional arrests
LONDON British police on Saturday arrested three more suspects in connection with the savage killing of an off-duty soldier that has raised fresh concerns about terrorism. Scotland Yard said counter-terrorism officers arrested two men, aged 24 and 28, at a residential address in southeast London. A third man, 21, was arrested separately on a London street at the same time. Police said they used ...
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Pentagon chief urges end to sex assault scourge
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets Saturday that they must stamp out the "scourge" of sexual assault within the military, as US leaders grappled with the growing ...
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Two freight trains collide in Missouri bringing down overpass
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in rural Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when at least a dozen rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, authorities ...
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Soldiers death fuels far right march in UK
The march in Newcastle, a city in the north, highlighted growing anti-Muslim sentiment in the UK in the wake of the gory killing. "This won't be the last of right-wing demonstrations," said Al Jazeera's Peter Sharp, reporting from ...
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Worldwide protests held against Monsanto
Protests against seed giant Monsanto are getting under way across the US and in dozens of other countries. "March Against Monsanto" organisers said they calling attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the companies that produce it. Protests were being held in more than 250 cities on Saturday. Genetically modified plants are grown from seeds engineered to ...
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Syria rebels fight on as peace talks pressure mounts
Hezbollah-backed assault on a strategic central town as pressure grew on the opposition to attend a peace conference after the regime agreed to do so. The main opposition National Coalition has met in Istanbul for three days trying to overcome deep divisions over Russian and US proposals to convene a conference to which representatives of President Bashar al-Assad would be invited without any ...
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Thousands run final mile of Boston Marathon as memorial
Thousands of runners and their supporters took to the streets of Boston on Saturday to finish the marathon many started a month ago -- but were forced to abandon after bombs exploded near the finish ...
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Friend of man suspected of killing British soldier on London street arrested after BBC interview
The man who most strongly defended Toronto Mayor Rob Ford against allegations he was filmed smoking crack cocaine is now himself facing a claim he once dealt in ...
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Syrian opposition struggles to find unity as battle rages on
Demonstrators shout Islamic slogans as they wave Syrian opposition flags during a protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul May 24, 2013. (REUTERS/Murad ...
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Swiss capital locked down amid techno protest
- The picturesque heart of Switzerland's capital Berne was locked down Saturday ahead of a politically-tinged techno parade, with crowds of youngsters preparing to take to the streets for the mass unauthorized rally. After last year's edition of "Tanz Dich Frei" (Dance Yourself Free) drew huge numbers and saw a minority of black-clad hardliners make for the Swiss parliament ...
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Copycat fears as soldier knifed in Paris
President Francois Hollande says there is "at this stage" no apparent link between a knife attack on a soldier in Paris and the murder of a soldier in London. His comment comes after a man armed with a box cutter attacked a French soldier patrolling the business district of Paris on Saturday evening and stabbed him in the neck. Police sources said the victim would survive the ...
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Senators lack votes on immigration despite progress
Despite bipartisan progress in both houses of Congress on a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, one of the key senators involved in negotiations warned supporters not to count their chickens before they hatch ...
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Drive or fly What summer travel shows about economy
(CBS News) Now that the seasons are officially switching over to the warm weather months, many families start planning their getaways. Economists use these trips to monitor how our nation's financial system is doing. AAA is not expecting a huge amount of travel on Memorial Day weekend, yet travel experts believe that this summer will have a steady, but slow, increase in people leaving on ...
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Armed Maoist rebels attack convoy in India
Heavily-armed Maoist rebels have killed 17 people, including 12 local Congress leaders, after ambushing a convoy in a remote tribal belt of central India, a top police officer said. "We can confirm 17 deaths. Among those who have been killed are five policemen. The rest are all leaders of the state Congress unit," Rajinder Kumar Vij, the chief of anti-naxal operations of Chhattisgrah ...
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Arrests made at gay rights protest in Russia
Russian police detained about 30 pro and anti-gay activists in central Moscow, imposing the city's ban on gay rights demonstrations. The arrests on Saturday, underlining Russia's tough response to public demonstrations by gay groups, coincided with the first ever gay rally in neighbouring Ukraine, which was allowed by the authorities and protected by the police. Russia's ...
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Kiss protest held at Turkey subway station
Dozens of couples have locked lips at a subway stop in Turkey's capital, Ankara, to protest subway authorities' admonishment of a couple that kissed in public. Some 100 people in the station kissed for several minutes in protest on Saturday. Demonstrators carried signs reading ``Free Kisses'' and chanted slogans. Turkish media reported that, earlier in the week, Ankara ...
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French soldier stabbed in neck outside Paris
A French soldier patrolling a business neighbourhood west of Paris has been stabbed in the neck by a man who quickly fled the scene and is being sought by police, President Francois Hollande said. The soldier was patrolling in uniform with two other men as part of France's Vigipirate anti-terrorist surveillance plan when he was approached from behind around 1600 GMT and stabbed in the neck ...
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Chile blocks Barrick Gold mining project
Chile's environmental regulator has blocked Canada-based Barrick Gold Corporation's multi-billion dollar mining project and imposed its maximum fine, citing "serious" environmental violations.After a four-month investigation, Chile's Environmental Superintendent said on Friday that all construction work on the Pascua-Lama mine must stop until Barrick builds the systems ...
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Attacker stabs uniformed French soldier in Paris
A man armed with a box cutter on Saturday attacked a French soldier patrolling the business district of Paris and stabbed him in the neck, police sources ...
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Soldiers and sex Can men grow up
>Editor's note: Pepper Schwartz is professor of sociology at the University of Washington and the author or co-author of 17 books, the latest of which is "The Normal Bar. " She is the AARP Love and Relationship Ambassador and writes the Naked Truth column for AARP.org. She is a senior fellow at the Council on Contemporary Families, a nonprofit organization that gathers research on American ...
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Roaches evolving to evade traps scientists say
(Fotolia) A strain of cockroaches in Europe has evolved to outsmart the sugar traps used to kill them, researchers have discovered. According to the BBC, American scientists found that the mutant cockroaches had a "reorganized" sense of taste, making them perceive the glucose used to coat poisoned bait not as sweet but rather as bitter. A North Carolina State University team tested ...
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Senator Oklahoma hit hard but were not knocked out
Sen. Jim Inhofe, whose home state of Oklahoma was battered by a massive and deadly tornado less than a week ago, promised perseverance in the face of tragedy in the weekly Republican address on Saturday, declaring, "Oklahoma has been hit hard, but we're not knocked ...
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Hunter's Point redevelopment going forward
Hunter’s Point and the redevelopment project for the idle shipyard may or may not see a neglected part of the city transformed into a upward moving residential and commercial suburb, but the effort will be a long and costly process.
The Hunter’s Point project is an ambitious plan to redevelop a former naval shipyard and make it one of the premier residential and commercial areas of the city of San Francisco, it will cost a fortune at a time when housing prices are down and will throw up many hurdles for the company, Lennar Corporation, undertaking the project. Read more
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