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Spain not yet on Brazils level Iniesta
Andres Iniesta says Spain cannot yet claim to be on the same pedestal as Brazil in football's international hierarchy. The Barcelona midfielder has been a key member of a Spain team that has won the two European Championships and the 2010 World Cup. In an interview with Brazilian daily O Globo, Iniesta said Brazil had maintained a unique aura owing to the country's rich football history. "To ...
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2018 FIFA World Cup stadium may be delayed until 2017
The completion date for Zenit St. Petersburg's $1.1 billion stadium has been put back again and it may not open until 2017, a decade after construction work began, the head of the government agency auditing the project said. The stadium is to host a 2018 World Cup semifinal, but the new date means there could be a rush to prepare it for scheduled Confederations Cup games in 2017. "The ...
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Irans Ahmadinejad denounces election decision
TEHRAN, Iran -; Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says a decision by election overseers to disqualify his top aide from an upcoming presidential race is an act of "oppression" and he will take the case to the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ...
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Chinese premier begins 2-day visit to Pakistan
A man walks next to huge portraits of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, right, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, left, displayed near the presidency in Islamabad, Pakistan. Keqiang will arrive in Islamabad on May 22 on a two day official visit to hold talks with Pakistani leadership to discuss international, regional issues and enhance co-operation in bilateral ties. (AP Photo/Anjum ...
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Octogenarians race to be oldest Everest climber
In this Friday, May 17, 2013 photo distributed by Miura Dolphins, 80-year-old Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura, right, and his son, Gota, rest on their way to a camp at 6,500 meters (21,325 feet) from a camp at 6,050 meters (19,849 feet) during their attempt to scale the summit of Mount Everest. According to his management office, Miura plans to reach the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak on ...
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World Biodiversity Day May 22 to highlight extinction challenge
Science News: Chennai: As May 22 is being observed as International Bio Diversity Day, funding agency - Japan International Cooperation Agency's (JICA) role in safeguarding the resources is ...
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North Korea sends top aide to China
Choe Ryong Hae, the director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army, left Pyongyang Airport for China as a special envoy of Kim Jong-un on ...
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Tornado survivors reveal their terror
Moore, Oklahoma - Rescuers went from building to building in search of victims and survivors picked through the rubble of their shattered homes on Tuesday, a day after a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, wiping out blocks of houses and killing at least 24 ...
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Imran Khan leaves Pakistan hospital two weeks after forklift fall
Imran Khan has left hospital more than two weeks after he suffered serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift at a campaign event, a spokesman has said.Khan will remain at his home in the eastern city of Lahore for a while so doctors can monitor his progress, said the spokesman for the ...
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Market Buzz World waiting to see if US Fed will end stimulus
Asian stocks traded mostly higher on Wednesday due to the positive sentiment on Wall Street. Tokyo's Nikkei added 1.6 percent to reach 15,500 for the first time in over five years, after the Bank of Japan kept its monetary policy unchanged as expected.Investors will also be eying testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke due later in the day. European stocks may see a boost ...
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Consulate raid suspects monitored
The White House believes that there is enough proof for a military force to seize the five as terrorist suspects but it prefers to wait until investigators have enough evidence to try them in a US civilian courtroom, officials said.The decision not to seize the men militarily underscores the White House aim to move away from hunting terrorists as enemy combatants.Instead, the White House is ...
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Nick Clegg warns David Cameron Dont let Coalition get blown off course by Tory infighting over Europe and gay marriage
Nick Clegg will insist today that the Coalition will last until 2015 but will warn David Cameron not to allow it to be blown off course by Conservative ...
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Map Room Borders on Top of The World
Yes, the melting polar ice caps are opening up new transportation routes and revealing untapped mineral wealth that will benefit us all. Uh, hold on, say Mark Terry and Adam Scholl. They remind us that increased accessibility could well lead to overlapping and dangerous territorial claims. By Mark Terry and Adam Scholl for World Policy ...
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Europe Markets Europe stocks weak ahead of Bernanke comments
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European stock markets slipped from multiyear highs in downbeat action on Wednesday, as investors stayed cautious ahead of comments from the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben ...
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Watch Oklahoma Tornado Stories of Survival and Hope
It was a normal Monday afternoon in the town of Moore Oklahoma. Then a super tornado over a mile wide -- to a vast expanse of homes hospitals and schools. Killing dozens and injuring countless ...
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Watch Oklahoma Tornado Shocking Images After the Storm
We turn out images taken in the direct aftermath of yesterday's twister images that for the brave people of Moore Oklahoma. -- a somber reflection on what they have endured. Each of these ...
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Watch Oklahoma Tornado Search and Recovery
200 miles per hour that's held fast yesterday's twister ripped through Moore Oklahoma. Destroying everything in this but -- the rubble that littered the ground the number. That captures our hearts and minds is not the speed of the storm. But the number also lives is expected. We mourn those lost at least in an all of those -- managed to smile here's ABC's Cecilia Vega ...
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7 Egyptian security men kidnapped in Sinai freed
CAIRO (AP) -- Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped by suspected militants in the volatile Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors Wednesday after successful mediation, the country's military spokesman ...
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Germany celebrates composer Wagners 200th
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner with the unveiling Wednesday of a monument in the composer's birthplace of ...
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6 kids among 7 injured in south China knife attack
BEIJING (AP) -- Authorities in southern China say a mentally ill man stabbed six primary school students and an adult in the latest of several attacks on Chinese ...
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Afghan students protest womens rights decree
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Hard-line Islamist students are protesting in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is ...
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France deserts the sinking ship of Europe
A few days ago the news emerged that France might be preparing to leave the EU. Marine Le Pen, head of "National Front" party, argues that France has no future in the EU, and if the country wants to develop further, it should seriously consider the option of self-navigation. Is this the case and what could France expect if it is no longer a member of the ...
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World W. Bank pledges sh 83 billion to aid peace in Africas Great Lakes
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim unveiled the proposed aid financing for one of Africa's most intractable conflict regions on the first day of a trip with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to Democratic Republic ...
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Weak yen a help for Japan but headache elsewhere
TOKYO -; A steady decline in the yen is proving a godsend for exporters such as Toyota and has won solid support from Japan's main trading partners, who are betting the impact on their own currencies will be offset by gains from a recovery in the world's third-largest economy. It's not such good news for entrepreneurs like Thamonwan Thawornthaweewong, whose Angry Bird fish balls, ...
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World’s two most powerful men to meet next month
Signalling a major thaw in their relations, US president Barrack Obama and Chinese president Xi Jinping will meet in US next month to give shape to future course of China-US ...
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