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Obama defends Internet snooping program
President Barack Obama on Mondaysought toallay fears about secret US intelligence programs, rejecting comparisons withthe policies of his predecessors George W. Bush and Dick ...
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Brazil cities hit by more protests
Protesters have massed in at least seven Brazilian cities for another round of demonstrations voicing disgruntlement about life in the country, raising questions about security during big events such as the ...
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U.S. names prisoners slated for indefinite detention
The Obama administration had previously declined to disclose which Guantanamo detainees had been designated for indefinite detention in 2010 by an inter-agency review panel. (Bill Gorman/Associated ...
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Data agency to declassify foiled plots
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Protesters back in streets of Brazilian cities
SAO PAULO (AP) -- More than 100,000 people took to the streets in overwhelmingly peaceful protests in at least eight cities Monday, demonstrations that voiced the deep frustrations Brazilians feel about carrying heavy tax burdens but receiving woeful returns in public education, health, security and ...
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Salvadorans to help with gang truce in Honduras
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) -- Two Salvadorans who mediated in a gang truce in their country that cut the homicide rate by at least 50 percent met Monday with gang leaders in Honduras, where they will help do the ...
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15 killed 90 wounded in fresh attacks in Iraq
BAGHDAD, May 21 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 people were killed and 90 others wounded in violent attacks across Iraq on Tuesday, said the police. A car bomb went off near the Abu Ghraib Grand Mosque, a Sunni mosque in Abu Ghraib area, 25 km west of the capital Baghdad, on Tuesday evening, killing eight people and injuring 15 others, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The ...
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A More Secular Europe Divided by the Cross
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G8 summit
>Read a version of this story in Arabic.(CNN) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin says he still doesn't see eye to eye with the United States on Syria. But "all of us have the intention to stop the violence in Syria and to solve this situation peacefully," Putin said Monday after a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the Group of Eight Summit in Northern Ireland. Putin said he and ...
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Tempers flare ahead of Asian World Cup qualifying
SINGAPORE (AFP) - An extraordinary row between South Korea and Iran highlights tensions in Asia's final World Cup qualifying group matches, with Australia also urging caution before trying to book their ticket to Brazil.South Korea's promise to "make life painful" for Iran and to force their captain to cry "tears of blood" have sharply raised the stakes before ...
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Why international flavour gives the Spurs more kick
San Antonio Spurs' Gary Neal (14) and Boris Diaw (33), of France, talk between plays against the Miami Heat during the first half at Game 5 of the NBA Finals basketball series, Sunday, June 16, 2013, in San Antonio. (Eric ...
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Obama Putin estranged on Syria
Barack Obama andVladimir Putin on Monday aired clashing views on Syria, but pledged to at leasttry to keep alive a frail and much-delayed effort to hold a Geneva ...
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Jackson promoter created conflict
The promoter of Michael Jackson's ill-fated series of comeback shows created a conflict of interest with the singer's physician when it negotiated terms of his deal, an expert testifying for the superstar's mother has told a ...
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Manning list could prompt attacks
A huge database of troop names and email addresses a US army private allegedly downloaded to a personal computer could be used by foreign adversaries to launch cyber attacks on service members, a government witness said as the trial of Bradley Manning entered its third ...
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Cameron hopes for unity on Syria
Vladimir Putin at a summit dinner over his support for the regime of dictator Bashar Assad.Downing Street welcomed a "very positive" response from the Russian leader, reviving hopes for a peace conference to pave the way for a political transition in the war-torn Middle Eastern state.While nobody at the summit was in any doubt about the continuing differences between Moscow and the ...
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U.S.-European Union free trade talks unveiled at G8 summit
Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrives at the G8 summit at Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, on Monday. He announced new humanitarian aid money for Syria. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...
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Putin faces isolation over Syria as G8 ratchets up pressure
1 of 15. U.S. President Barack Obama (L) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G8 Summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 17, ...
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U.S. says it will buy Russian helicopters for Afghan military
One of the Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters purchased by Alabama-based Defense Technology Inc (DTI) is seen in Ulan Ude, Russia in this picture taken January 3, ...
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Video What does the new Iranian president mean for the rest of the world
The U.S. and Russia still disagree about the Syrian civil war and how to end it. The tensions translated to awkward body language at a meeting between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Major Garrett ...
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World looks to Bernanke to clarify move
Is the era of ultra-low interest rates nearing an end? When he takes questions this week after a Federal Reserve meeting, Chairman Ben Bernanke will confront investors' fears that rates are headed higher. Financial markets have been gyrating in the three-and-a-half weeks since Bernanke told Congress the Fed might scale back its effort to keep long-term rates at record lows within ...
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Iran nuclear programme advances despite sanctions IAEA chief
VIENNA: Iran is making "steady progress" in expanding its nuclear programme and international sanctions do not seem to be slowing it down, the UN nuclear agency chief said on Monday. Yukiya Amano's comments underlined the difficult challenges facing world powers in seeking to persuade the Islamic state to scale back nuclear activities they suspect could be used to make atomic ...
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Unions give lift to Turkish protest movement
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Turkish labor groups fanned a wave of defiance against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's authority, leading rallies and a one-day strike to support activists whose two-week standoff with the government has shaken the country's secular ...
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Another round of protests in Brazilian cities
Protestors march in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 17, 2013. Protests in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian cities, were set off by a 10-cent hike in public transport fares, have clearly moved beyond that issue to tap into widespread frustration in Brazil about a heavy tax burden, politicians widely viewed as corrupt and woeful public education, health and transport systems and ...
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America has Declared War upon the World Spying on Whoever It Wants
has declared war upon the whole world: spying wherever it pleases, spying on whoever it pleases, no border is secure; no alliance sacred; no law binding and no right absolute. At home or abroad, no person is safe and no man is ...
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Brad Pitts World War Z Marks Evil-lution of the Undead
There are slow zombies, and there are fast zombies. But moviegoers may never have seen the likes of the latest breed of the undead, coming at you in "World War Z" on Friday: the swarming zombie. In the Brad Pitt-produced adaptation of Max Brooks' best selling novel, Pitt plays Gerry, an ex-United Nations investigator and family man who finds his world upended when an epidemic ...
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Cost of driving is becoming punitive in Brisbane
Is driving in Brisbane becoming punitively expensive? With the recent toll increases, on top of those made in 2006 and 2008, as well as last year, and the recent mis-management surrounding the privatisation of major roads in Sydney, it seems that using major roads in Brisbane is going to become even more expensive.
Brisbane, like many cities across Australia, is facing a mounting budget deficit in the wake of the near-crippling financial crisis and ensuing recession, as the state capital, it must also oversee Queensland’s plunge in revenues, which has created a budget deficit of over $2.3 billion for the state. Read more
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