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Wave of Attacks Kills At Least 76 in Iraq
A wave of car bombings and suicide attacks against Shi'ite Muslims ripped through Iraqi cities Monday, killing at least 76 people and wounding scores more, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew from the country in December 2011. The attacks increased the number of Iraqis killed in sectarian clashes over the past week to more than 200, including 70 who died Friday ...
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61 killed in Iraq attacks
A series of car bombings and shootings, mainly targeting Shia Muslim areas across Iraq, Monday killed at least 61 people, including Iranian pilgrims, and wounded around 200 others, officials said. The worst violence occurred in Baghdad, when eight car bombs and a roadside bomb ripped through bus stops, marketplaces and other crowded areas in Shia neighbourhoods in the capital city, killing 12 ...
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Bank of Canadas Carney says Europe needs big reforms
Reuters © Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney (L) speaks to the President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi as they pose for a group photograph at the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Aylesbury, southern England May 10, 2013. REUTERS/Alastair ...
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How America Became a Third World Country
latest updates from TomDispatch.com . The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. The air in city after city hangs brown and heavy (and rates of ...
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Globe Editorial Prime Minister needed to say more in speech to caucus
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper points to the door as he speaks to members of Caucus on Parliament Hill Tuesday May 21, 2013 in Ottawa. (Adrian ...
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China vice-premier arrives in Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe -; Chinese vice-premier Wang Yang has arrived in Zimbabwe at the start of an official trip to view his nation's burgeoning trade and development ties in ...
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New Egypt tax law cuts for poor business hikes
CAIRO -; Egypt's president has signed a new tax law that cuts the amount paid by poorer Egyptians while increasing taxes on small and medium-sized ...
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Egyptian troops mistakenly fire on a Sinai funeral
An Egyptian Army vehicle with a tank heads to the closed Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip, in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt, Monday, May 20, 2013. Security officials said 17 military and more than 20 police armored vehicles were deployed in northern Sinai Monday as a response to the kidnapping by suspected militants of six policemen and a border guard there last ...
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Rebels in C. African Republic protest conditions
BANGUI, Central African Republic -; Some members of the rebel alliance who overthrew the president of Central African Republic are protesting outside the luxury hotel where their leader is ...
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Court frees man in murder that shocked SAfricans
JOHANNESBURG -; A magistrate drops charges against the boyfriend accused in the brutal gang-rape and killing of a teenager that shocked South ...
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India offers more aid for rebuilding Afghanistan
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, right, listens to Afghan President Hamid Karzai during a meeting at the Indian Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Karzai is meeting with Indian leaders and is expected to seek increased military aid from India. India has invested more than $2 billion in Afghan infrastructure, including highways and hospitals and rural electricity ...
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Spain backs sending defensive arms to Syria rebels
Mouaz al-Khatib, former chief of the Syrian National Coalition, left, shakes hands with Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo on his arrival at the foreign ministry in Madrid, Spain Tuesday May 21, 2013. Syrian opposition groups meeting in Spain say they oppose all negotiation with President Bashar Assad's government unless it is aimed at his giving up of power. Some 80 ...
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Kyrgyzstan bent on evicting US air base in 2014
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -; Kyrgyzstan's president has reaffirmed that next year the Central Asian nation will evict the U.S. air base that supports military operations in nearby ...
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World Bank Group chief urges delivery of health coverage to end
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday called on countries gathered at the 66th World Health Assembly (WHA) to ensure universal access to quality, affordable health services to help end extreme poverty by 2030.It is estimated that out-of-pocket health spending forces 100 million people worldwide into extreme poverty every year and inflicts severe financial hardship on another 150 ...
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Tornado victims recount race to survive
Americans who survived the massive tornado that barrelled through an Oklahoma City suburb described racing for shelter only to emerge scarred and bloodied on a moon-like landscape of ...
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Gay marriage could lead to lesbian queen
London - The debate in Britain over legalising gay marriage took a surreal turn on Tuesday after a senior politician said it could result in a lesbian queen giving birth to an heir by artificial ...
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Gardeners world of botanical escapes
Sunvil (020-8568 4499; sunvil.co.uk) has a new one-week group tour of Sao Miguel, "the green island" in the Azores, led by renowned plantsman David Sayers. The group will visit private gardens as well as botanical and historic palace gardens and Europe's first tea plantation. The trip departs on 8 June and costs 1,691pp including flights and half board.More than 12,000 species of ...
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That figures Professor who had to work at Subway dazzles world of maths after solving centuries-old prime number riddle
A university professor who was forced to work at Subway when he couldn't find a job as an academic has solved a prime number riddle that has puzzled the best mathematical brains for ...
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Middle East North Africa - Restricting speech restricts Arab freedom
The sight of hundreds of thousands of Arabs marching on the streets of a number of Arab countries, demanding their dignity and rights, will remain among the iconic images of the twenty-first century. The willingness of so many citizens to take such tremendous risks to their own lives, with thousands dying for their freedom, stunned a world long accustomed to the image of the resigned, ...
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The worst tornado in the history of the world
the worst tornado in the history of the world '; by an Oklahoma meteorologist – tore through suburban Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon. Various reports put its size at anywhere from half a mile, to almost two miles, wide. It was packing 200-mile-per-hour winds, putting it at EF-4 on the five-step tornado intensity scale, and it moved across the community of Moore for an ...
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Academy forward Jordan Morris on U.S. U-20 roster for pre-World Cup tournament
made the squad. The U.S., grouped with Colombia, Congo DR and host France, will be in action starting May 28 in Toulon, France, as both preparation for this summer’s FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey and one last evaluation toward that final roster. Morris, a Mercer Island native, is one of three academy players nationwide to make the team and had starred in a training camp earlier this year ...
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Paris Notre Dame evacuated after man shot himself dead
A man shot himself dead Tuesday in front of the altar of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral, forcing the evacuation of the French capital's famed tourist spot, police told ...
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Saudi authorities arrest 10 Iranian spy suspects
Saudi authorities have arrested 10 more suspects in an alleged Iranian spy ring unveiled two months ago, an interior ministry spokesman said on ...
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Oklahoma tornado death toll revised amid frantic search
US rescue teams launched a massive hunt for survivors Tuesday after a tornado tore through a suburb of Oklahoma City, causing chaos and leaving dozens dead, including ...
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Kerry in Oman to help ink $2.1b defence deal
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived inOmanon Tuesday aiming to help finalise an estimated $2.1 billion deal to supply a US-made air-defence system to the Gulf ...
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