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Chicago man crushes Ferris Wheel ride world record
A man from Chicago rode Ferris Wheel for more than two days - 384 times, up and around - to break the existing world record. Clinton Shepherd, a park operations manager of Chicago's Navy Pier, who spent 48 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds riding Navy Pier's Ferris wheel over the weekend, said that he thought that Chicago - birthplace of the ride - should have the title, People magazine ...
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US report says discrimination against Jews Muslims on rise across globe
Discrimination against Jews and Muslims is on the rise around the world, according to a new report in the US. The annual US Department of State report for 2012 has revealed an increase in anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe and Asia. The report also said there was growing anti-Semitism, especially in Venezuela, Egypt and Iran. According to the BBC, the International Religious Freedom Report ...
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Indo- Swiss bilateral meet held at Geneva
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad and Minister of Health Switzerland Alain Berset held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of World Health Assembly at Geneva with the aim of giving further impetus to cooperation in the field of healthcare. Speaking on the occasion, Azad said that friendship between India and Switzerland goes as back as Independence of India, ...
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World Bank UN chiefs to visit African Great Lakes region
The World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make a joint visit to Africa's Great Lakes region, a World Bank statement said Monday. The visit is to be undertaken in support of a landmark peace agreement and to push for economic development in the troubled region. "The visit will draw attention to the plight of fragile and conflict-affected countries ...
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World Bank reviews $5.4bn investments in Nigeria
The World Bank on Tuesday began a review of its investments and activities worth $5.4bn in Nigeria. The investments are in 26 projects and involve 200 entities across the ...
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Oil Prices Have Been Rigged For Years European Union Just Now Starting To Investigate
they’re launching an investigation into the rigging of oil prices. It’s long been known that much of what drives the price of oil, and therefore gasoline, food, and other products, is not the free market, but rather, the biggest players in the oil market, and yet this has largely gone untouched while people throw blame here, there and everywhere for the high price of gasoline. The ...
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‘US opened Pandora’s box in Iraq regional sectarian violence almost impossible to stop now’
Violence Sectarian violence unleashed after the US disintegration of Iraq is linked to the Syrian conflict and the death toll will only climb since extremist elements hijacked the sectarian instability in the region, political analyst Chris Bambery told RT. "Everyone in Iraq must be terrified that the situation in Syria is spilling over into Iraq" Bambery said as Tuesday's ...
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Canadian killed in Iraq violence Baird says
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says a Canadian is among those killed in a spate of recent sectarian violence in Iraq. A string of attacks in the Mideast country has killed more than 270 people in just the past week. Baird says consular officials are in touch with the Canadian's family and are offering assistance. He says he's grown "increasingly concerned" about the ...
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Incoming Bank of England chief sees more dark days for Europe
(13 mins ago) Europe faces a ';decade of stagnation’’ if it does not move on momentous reforms to put its fiscal house back in order, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney warned yesterday. He will head the Bank of England from July 1. ';Europe remains in recession, with economic activity constrained by fiscal austerity, low confidence and tight credit ...
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Guatemala trial of Rios Montt has likely collapsed lawyers
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt enters in the Supreme Court of Justice on the sixth day of his trial in Guatemala City, March 26, ...
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Updates Home of singers sister hit
>For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO, KOKH, KOKI(CNN) -- At least 24 people -- including nine children -- were killed when a massive tornado struck an area outside Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, officials said. Read more: Heartbreaking scenes in Oklahoma City after disasterAt least seven of those children were killed at ...
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Japan considers resuming talks with North Korea media
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has started looking into resuming inter-governmental talks with North Korea after a surprise visit to Pyongyang by an aide to Japan's prime minister, the Asahi Shimbun and other newspapers said on ...
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Opinion Sky terrifies and inspires Okies
>Editor's note: Nathan Gunter is the managing editor of Oklahoma Today magazine, the state's official magazine. A graduate of Westmoore High School in Moore, Oklahoma, he holds degrees from Wake Forest University and the University of Oklahoma.(CNN) -- Oklahomans have a special relationship with the sky. We know how to look up. On the prairies of western Oklahoma, the skies are so big, and so ...
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North Korean leader sends special envoy to China
China is North Korea's only major political and economic benefactor. Beijing has faced pressure from Washington to use its influence to push Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ...
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The making of a nightmare tornado
>Editor's note: Louis Wicker is a research meteorologist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma. Norman, Oklahoma (CNN) -- On Tuesday morning, the residents of Moore, Oklahoma, woke again to another nightmare. In the past 14 years, Moore and its nearby neighbors have been subjected to devastation from three major tornado events. The latest chapter in this nearly ...
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Venezuela parliament resumes 3 weeks after brawl
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during the departure of Simon Bolivar's school sailing ship at the naval dock in La Guaira Venezuela, Monday, May 20, 2013. The ship with 175 people on board starts his twenty-fifth cruise abroad instruction. (AP Photo/Ariana ...
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Eagles future hangs on World Cup ticket — Oboabona
"We know the importance of clinching the World Cup ticket and the coach has also let us understand that our careers will be built on this ticket, that is why we can't let it go. We are ready to give everything so that we are victorious at the end," the Sunshine Stars skipper told ...
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China defeats Kazakhstan at China International Mens Volleyball Tournament
Chinese national men's volleyball team defeated Kazakhstan 3-0 at the China International Men's Volleyball Tournament here in Luohe, central China's Henan Province on Tuesday.China beat Kazakhstan 25-20, 25-23, 25-16 with no difficulty because Kazakhstan was not a strong team."My team consists of young players who didn't completely obey my order, so I'm very ...
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US missile test delayed for a day
The US Air Force delayed for a day an intercontinental ballistic missile test Tuesday because of a "range safety instrumentation ...
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Landmark immigration bill passes key Senate hurdle
The sweeping overhaul of the US immigration system took a major step towards viability Tuesday when the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13-5 to approve a landmark bill offering a path to citizenship for ...
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Oklahoma tornado was strongest category weather official
The massive tornado that cut a wide and deadly swath through a suburban Oklahoma City town was a top category EF5 system with winds over 200 mph (321 kmh), a weather official told AFP ...
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EU set to brand Hezbollah terrorists
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Visitors evacuate after suicide at Paris Notre Dame Cathedral
PARIS Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head. It's the first suicide in decades at the landmark site, Monsignor Patrick Jacquin, the cathedral's rector, told The Associated Press. "It's unfortunate, it's dramatic, ...
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Photographer Discusses Capturing Kids Rescue
Associated Press photographer Sue Ogrocki saw the tornado warnings for the Oklahoma City area Monday, she didn’t run into a storm shelter or take cover in her office. She grabbed her camera equipment and her car keys. Then she rushed outside, got into her car and raced towards the approaching twister. ';We had advanced warning that tornadoes would probably be developing ...
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Man Enters Plea in Picasso Vandalism
A man accused of vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting in a Houston museum -- an act that was caught on cellphone video -- agreed Tuesday to a two-year prison term as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. Uriel Landeros had faced felony graffiti and criminal mischief charges accusing him of spray-painting "Woman in a Red Armchair" at the Menil Collection. Emily Detoto, ...
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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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