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Iran poll shows people want change, says Obama
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has urged Iran's newly elected president to prove to the world that the Islamic republic was not pursuing a nuclear weapon programme as the White House welcomed election of a moderate leader as a hopeful sign. "I think it says that the Iranian people want to move in a different direction," Obama said of the election results in Iran that saw a surprising ...
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President Rousseff says Brazil has woken up after massive protests
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Anti-graft protests swept Brazil's main cities as some 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets against alleged mis-governance, forcing President Dilma Rousseff Tuesday to acknowledge the need for better public services and effective administration. The assurance from Rousseff came a day after biggest protests rocked at least ten Brazilian cities, including Sao ...
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Talks between UK and Ecuador fail as Assange completes year in embassy
LONDON - Talks between the United Kingdom and Ecuador have ended without any breakthrough over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's fate with the Andean nation. Ecquador said it was vowing not to succumb to diplomatic pressure and was ready to consider any request from Edward Snowden, another whistleblower, for asylum. As the fugitive anti-secrecy advocate marks one year holed up in the ...
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Libya to hold trial of Gaddafi's son in August
LONDON - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of deceased Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, will stand trial in August along with Gaddafi's last prime minister and a former intelligence director, the prosecutor's office has announced. The men will be tried for crimes against the Libyan people during the 2011 uprising that toppled the former regime. Notorious former spy chief Abdullah ...
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Appeals court directs Ex-Im Bank to explain rationale for loan guarantee to Air India
WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court has upheld a decision by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance the sale of 30 Boeing wide-body jets to Indian state-owned carrier Air India in a legal challenge brought by Delta Air Lines to the loan guarantee. The court has however directed the government-run bank to better explain its rationale for providing loan guarantee, which Delta claimed as a ...
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Google renews efforts wipe out child porn images from internet
LONDON - Internet giant Google said it is spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them. "We're in the business of making information widely available, but there's certain 'information' that should never be created or found," wrote Jacqueline Fuller, director of Google Giving, in a blog post. ...
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GSK negotiating sale of thrombosis drug and plant to Aspen
DURBAN / LONDON - South Africa's biggest generic drug maker Aspen Pharmacare and its subsidiary Aspen Global Incorporated have made an offer to acquire thrombosis drugs and their associated manufacturing site at Notre Dame de Bondeville, France, from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). "AGI will acquire from GSK the Arixtra and Fraxiparine/Fraxodi brands and business worldwide, except in China, Pakistan ...
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Carbon trading to begin in Shenzhen in bid to cut emission
BEIJING - China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, is set to launch Tuesday its first carbon trading scheme as a pilot project in the southern city of Shenzhen as part of efforts to cut emissions in its key cities. Carbon emissions trading schemes are meant to encourage companies to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by setting a limit or a cap, on the level of emission that can be ...
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Group of Eight leaders stop short of calling for Assad ouster
ENNISKILLEN - The Group of Eight industrialised nations called for a swift end to the bloody civil war in Syria and urgent peace talks but stopped short of calling for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in its joint statement at the end of talks Tuesday. Despite the lack of consensus among the G8 on the fate of Assad, as well as the use of chemical weapons by his regime, Canadian ...
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Rise in transportation costs push up UK inflation to 2.7pc
LONDON - The consumer price index (CPI) inflation increased to 2.7% in May, up from 2.4% in April, mainly due to higher fuel costs pushing up transportation costs particularly airfares, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Tuesday. The ONS said the rise was due to a record increase in airfares and higher fuel prices. "The inflation rate has returned to the levels seen between ...
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Republican-led House passes bill restricting abortion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation that would ban late-term abortions, a move that could alienate women from the conservative ...
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Innovative Ariz. class turns students dreams into reality
(CBS News) TUCSON, Ariz. - When the Gridley Middle School in Tuscon, Ariz., added a virtual reality class in the fall, 13-year-old Rashad Stevenson was skeptical. But he was truly surprised at how much he liked ...
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Colo. senator who pushed for gun control may lose job
(CBS News) DENVER -- After the massacre last summer in a Colorado movie theater, the leader of the state Senate pushed through a gun-control bill. Among other things, it outlawed the 100-round ammunition magazines used in the murder of 12 people and the wounding of ...
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Brazil leader acknowledges social protests
Brazil’s president has embraced an outbreak of protests against her government across the country, after the South American country saw some of its biggest ever ...
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Feds Captives forced to eat dog food
>Editor's note: For more information on this story, check out CNN affiliates WKYC, WOIO and WJW.(CNN) -- A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were held in an Ohio apartment crowded with people and animals for more than a year, forced to perform manual labor and threatened with dogs and snakes to keep them compliant, authorities said Tuesday. Federal prosecutors said the people accused ...
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Iran and U.S. New hope on nukes
>Editor's note: David Rothkopf writes regularly for CNN.com. He is CEO and editor-at-large of the FP Group, publishers of Foreign Policy magazine, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Follow him on Twitter.(CNN) -- It would be easy to dismiss Friday's election of Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran as little more than a sham -- a rigged election that ...
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Turkeys standing man
>Are you there? Share your story on CNN iReport, but please remember to stay safe. Istanbul (CNN) -- Turkish protesters are giving their government the silent treatment. Hundreds of men and women stood silently Tuesday in Istanbul's Taksim Square emulating the performance artist whose quiet protest Monday night quickly gained him the nickname "Standing Man. "For more than five hours, Erdem ...
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The 5 stories you want us to cover
>Editor's note: John D. Sutter is a columnist for CNN Opinion and head of Change the List. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook or Google+. E-mail him at ctl@cnn.com.(CNN) -- Remember that scene at the end of that Facebook Movie ("The Social Network") when Mark Zuckerberg's character sits alone at a computer screen hitting the refresh button over and over again -- stuck in a loop of anxiety and ...
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Philadelphia-Area Congressman Cant Explain Difference Between Gosnell Slayings and Late-Term Abortions
Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania was one of only six Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted Tuesday night against a bill restricting post-viability abortions (six Democrats voted for the bill). Dent was also the only Republican to publicly criticize House leadership for bringing the bill to the floor for a vote. "The stupidity is simply staggering," Dent ...
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House Passes Bill Restricting Post-Viability Abortions
The House of Representatives voted 228 to 196 on Tuesday evening to pass a bill that prohibits most abortions later than 22 weeks in pregnancy (20 weeks after conception), the point by ...
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Afghan peace talks with Taliban at hand but not without their bumps
Qatari Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali bin Fahd al-Hajri, right, and Muhammad Naeem a representative of the Taliban attend a press conference at the official opening of the Taliban office in Doha, Qatar | Osama ...
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Soldiers’ ombudsman blasts young commanders for verbal violence
The Defense Ministry's soldiers' ombudsman released his annual report on Tuesday and criticized the conduct of some young commanders.He cited verbal violence and an excessively confrontational approach as problems that require the army's ...
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Arens Israel does not need US aid
The more than $3 billion in annual foreign aid that Israel receives from the United States is not essential for the country's survival, former foreign minister Moshe Arens said on Tuesday at a meeting launching a Knesset caucus on US-Israel relations.Arens and former US ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer spoke at the Knesset Caucus on US-Israel Relations inaugural event. The caucus, ...
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On the road to recovering Spain’s Jewish roots
barrios (neighborhoods), which had all but disappeared and been reduced to redeployed buildings and ancient street signs, have begun to see serious evidence of Jewish presence thanks to a project called the Red de Juderas, or the Network of Spanish Jewish Quarters. Old synagogues are being reclaimed and filled with displays of Jewish artifacts and explanations of Jewish customs, and there ...
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‘I would convert and make aliya if it weren’t for the camels’
Ben-Gurion U center to study conversions "I've always wanted to do Israel," he says, although his wife Michelle "was nervous because she thought she'd be shot or killed by rockets as soon as she got here.""So far no," he notes.Barry, whose widely syndicated Miami Herald column ran from 1983 to 2005, is the author of numerous best-selling humor books ...
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Latin American unity plagued by tensions
Division and suspicion seem the order of the day in Latin America at present, negating any optimism that the countries of the region may one day move toward a regional integration model based on that of the EU.
Latin America has seen itself become heavily divided over the issue of whether to readmit Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS) after the 2009 coup, with all the Central American states accepting the new government while big regional players like Brazil and Mexico insist that more must be done before they’ll recognize it. Meanwhile, President Alan Garcia of Peru has told Latin America news providers that there is a quiet arms race occurring in the region. In all, it seems that regional integration along the same lines as the EU remains a long way off at present. Read more
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