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Search for survivors nearly over in Oklahoma as damage estimate is $2bn
MOORE, Oklahoma - Rescue workers were combing through the battered remains of buildings left behind in the path of the gigantic tornado that killed two dozen people, including nine children, in Oklahoma on Monday. Officials say the search for survivors is nearly over as efforts turn towards recovery. Gary Bird, fire chief of the badly hit Moore suburb, said he was "98% sure" there were no ...
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Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects shot dead by FBI
MIAMI - A man known to the Boston Marathon bombers was shot and killed Wednesday by an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent after he turned violent during questioning, the investigating agency said. The Orlando Sentinel newspaper identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, 27. He was killed in the early morning incident in Orlando, Florida. The FBI said the shooting occurred in Orlando, ...
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Senate panel approves plan to ease hiring of foreign techies
WASHINGTON - A US Senate panel has cleared a proposed legislation that relaxes restrictions on IT companies to hire foreign techies, thus clearing one of the major hurdles to ushering changes in American immigration law in a generation. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill after its authors won a bipartisan support with three Republicans joining 10 Democrats in the 18-member ...
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Eight candidates for Iranian presidential race
TEHRAN - Iran has approved eight candidates for the presidential election due next month, rejecting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top aide in a major setback to the hawkish leader of the Islamic republic. Ahmadinejad criticised the decision to remove Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from the final candidate list and said it was an act of "oppression". He announced plans to take up the case with ...
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Top North Korean official visits China
PYONGYANG, North Korea - In an indication that North Korea may give diplomacy a chance to end regional tension, its leader Kim Jong Un Wednesday sent a special envoy to China to win the confidence of its most important ally. The trip by Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers' Party official and the military's top political officer, comes after months of ignoring Chinese warnings to ...
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Bernanke says more positive signs needed before scaling back stimulus
WASHINGTON - Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke Wednesday said it was too soon to scale back the monetary stimulus and the central bank needs to see further signs of traction before taking a decision. A decision to scale back the $85 billion in bonds the Fed is buying each month could come at one of the central bank's "next few meetings" if the economy looked set to maintain ...
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Higher exports fail to plug widening Japan trade deficit
TOKYO - Japan's trade deficit rose substantially more than expected in the month April to 879.9 billion yen ($8.6 billion), which is a 70% jump over the trade deficit during the corresponding month a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.. The deficit, for the tenth consecutive month, was wider than what many economists had forecast. A survey from the Nikkei business daily ...
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Vitamin C offers hope of tackling drug resistant TB
WASHINGTON - Adding vitamin C to existing tuberculosis drugs regime could shorten the therapy for drug resistant TB, claims new research findings published in the online scientific journal Nature Communications. The striking discovery, by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB bacteria in laboratory ...
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IMF warns UK against continuing austerity programme
LONDON - In a critique of the United Kingdom's austerity programme, the International Monetary Fund Wednesday urged the Europe's third largest economy to rebalance the policy to make the transition to a high-investment and more export-oriented economy. "The UK could boost growth by bringing forward measures already included in its fiscal plan, such as spending on infrastructure and job ...
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Labour reforms to top US team agenda on Bangladesh visit
DHAKA - A high level US delegation led by the State Department's Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman will visit Bangladesh this weekend to press for a major overhaul of labour safety regulations following the nation's deadliest industrial accident, an official said Wednesday. The collapse of a nine-storey factory complex housing several garment units outside the capital last ...
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German central bank sees signals of economic pick up in Q2
FRANKFURT - Germany's central bank Deutsche Bundesbank expects the country's economy to improve "markedly" in the second quarter relying on signals of pick up in industrial orders and likelihood of weather related downturn in construction sector no longer impacting investment sentiments a development that could boost the wider eurozone as it struggles to get out of recession. "Overall ...
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Mortgage lending in UK rises highest in four years
LONDON - The UK housing market seems to be picking up with gross mortgage lending up 4.3 per cent in April over previous month to 12.1 billion pounds, the highest in over four years, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). The mortgage lending was 21% higher than April 2012, but this data is skewed by the end of the stamp duty concession on 24 March, 2012. Under the stamp duty ...
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France backs call to put Hezbollah on EU terror list
Official say Paris is ready to support British initiative to blacklist armed wing of Hezbollah on EU's list of terrorist organizations; France has been cautious of such a move fearing it could destabilize ...
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Peres to Sarkozy at breakfast Friends are friends
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who came to Israel primarily to receive an honorary doctorate from Netanya Academic College had a breakfast meeting on Thursday morning with President Shimon Peres, whom he knows well and with whom he had enjoyed previous meetings in Jerusalem and Paris over the past decade, spoken on the phone, and exchanged correspondence.If Sarkozy, instead of being ...
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Formula 1 UEFA Maccabiah all on way to Jerusalem
attractions forming the backdrop along the route. Some of the greatest professionals in the field will be arriving for the event including a team of drivers and technicians from Ferrari in Maranello, Italy.In addition to Formula One cars, Ferrari Challenge cars will also participate in demo drives, as well as drift cars with high horsepower V8 engines and other sports cars. The road show will ...
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We will never buckle to terror Cameron leads emergency Cobra committee with pledge to face down threat from extremists
David Cameron has convened a meeting of the government's emergency committee today after issuing a defiant message that Britain will ’never buckle’ to terrorists in the wake of the horrific knife attack in ...
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French prosecutors to grill IMF chief over payout
French prosecutors were grilling IMF chief Christine Lagarde in a Paris court on Thursday as they seek to determine whether she should be charged over a state payout to disgraced tycoon Bernard Tapie during her time as finance ...
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Obama to reset US terror war in key speech
Barack Obama will renew his failed vow to close Guantanamo Bay and argue his drone war is legal and just Thursday, in a speech reframing US anti-terror policy that will shape his presidential ...
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Blast in Pakistan Kills 13 Police Officers in Restive Region
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Barred from election Rafsanjani lambasts Iranian authorities - report
DUBAI (Reuters) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani sharply criticized the country's leadership, opposition website Kaleme said on Thursday, two days after he was disqualified from running in next month's presidential ...
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Miners Vale Rio Tinto accused of neglecting displaced Mozambicans
MAPUTO (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch accused Mozambique's government and foreign mining companies on Thursday of "serious shortcomings" in resettling communities to make way for coal mines, leaving thousands without proper homes, food or sources of ...
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Five killed 50 wounded in Lebanons Tripoli
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Five people were killed and more than 50 wounded in overnight clashes in Tripoli between Lebanese gunmen loyal to rival factions in Syria's civil war, doctors and security sources said on ...
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Bangladesh govt report pins down building collapse cause
DHAKA, Bangladesh A government investigation found that "extremely" poor quality construction materials and a series of violations caused the collapse of a garment factory building in Bangladesh that has been called the worst garment-industry disaster in history, the committee head said Thursday. Last month's disaster killed more than 1,100 workers and highlighted the hazardous ...
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Octogenarian Japanese climbs Everest
An 80-year-old Japanese mountain climber who has had four heart surgeries has reached the top of Everest, becoming the oldest person to conquer the world's highest mountain. Yuichiro Miura, who took the standard southeast ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay 60 years ago, reached the top of the 29,028ft mountain at roughly 9am local time (03:00 GMT) on Thursday. ...
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UN and World Bank in DR Congo peace push
The UN and World Bank chiefs are visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) amid reports of fresh fighting in the country’s east which has sent thousands fleeing. Ban Ki-moon and Jim Yong-kim arrived in Kinshasa, the capital, on Wednesday, embarking on a trip largely seen as a fresh push for peace and development.Ban and Kim met Joseph Kabila, the DRC president, and the ...
Haiti Feature
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Haitian language offers insight
Grief for Haiti quickly turned to contempt for a country of poverty-stricken victims of the greatest tragedy in the country’s history, but there is more to this nation than destruction and underdevelopment and a Haitian-born teacher, who now lives in the US is doing something to try and show this fact.
Haiti has become a country known only for the devastation that was wrought by the January 12th earthquake, a date now infamous in the media. In the wake of the destruction, there was an outpouring of concern and grief followed by condemnation of the country for its third world ways and the inability of government to deal with the chaos and devastation. Read more
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