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Veronica Campbell-Brown denies knowingly taking drug
Olympic and World Champion Veronica Campbell-Brown has denied knowingly taking a banned substance Lasix, which also goes by the name Furosemide. Brown's first public reaction came in the form of a statement released by her On Track Management (OTM) group following reports that she has tested positive for the banned drug. The OTM statement says Brown is determined to clear her name and included ...
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Brazil protests will calm down Blatter hopes
FIFA president Sepp Blatter denied that the Confederations Cup and World Cup are the causes for mass protests across Brazil. Demonstrations, which began last week in response to rise in public transport fares, have turned into a nation-wide rally against bad governance and corruption, reports Xinhua. Many marchers expressed their anger at the billions of dollars spent on new football stadiums ...
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Pakistan expresses concern over US drone attacks at UNSC
Pakistan has expressed concerns over drone attacks to the United Nations Security Council. Pakistan told the UNSC that armed drones were violating country's sovereignty, causing civilian casualties, and putting communities at risk of reprisal attacks. According to the Daily Times, Pakistan said drone strikes radicalised disaffected communities and increased the number of terrorists, adding ...
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Protestors hack Brazil World Cup 2014 website
Protestors have reportedly hacked the official website for the Brazil Football World Cup 2014 and replaced the site with a video of a violent police response to a peaceful protest. According to News.com.au, the FIFA website was replaced with an embedded YouTube video, showing protesters marching, before riot police release tear gas and fire on the protesters with rubber bullets. The report ...
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Kim Jong Un distributes copies of Hitlers Mein Kampf to North Korean officials to mark bday
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un handed out copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to mark his birthday. Kim reportedly distributed the copies of Mein Kampf in an effort to sow fear among top officials. According to the Telegraph, North Korea-watchers believe the move is part of an effort to make him seem powerful, rather than drawing on Nazi beliefs. Shirley Lee, the editor of the New Focus ...
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Whatmore to review flop Pak players with World Cup 2015 in mind
Pakistan coach Dav Whatmore has said that national team will be reviewed keeping in mind the 2015 World Cup after their dismal performance in the ICC Champions Trophy in England. Poor batting led to Pakistan's defeat in all three matches as they failed to post a single total above 170 runs, with the flop performance prompting calls from former players, media and fans to overhaul the system and ...
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UN chief hails G8 leaders understanding on Syria
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon Tuesday welcomed the understanding reached on Syria by leaders of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrial nations. Ban welcomed the commitment to bring the Syrian sides to the negotiating table, saying that he stands ready to convene the Geneva Conference on Syria as soon as possible to help the Syrian sides reach "a comprehensive agreement based on the Geneva ...
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World Bank Rich Countries Must Curb Emissions
The warming of the Earth due to climate change could hit the world's poorest people the hardest, the World Bank warned in a report Wednesday, urging rich industrialized countries to cut their emissions. Turn Down the Heat builds on a report released last year, which warned that the world faced temperature increases of 4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the end of ...
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Zombie Maddox Jolie-Pitt Shot in Head in World War Z
Hollywood actor Brad Pitt says his 11-year-old son Maddox gets shot in the head during a brief appearance in his new zombie picture "World War Z." "He gets shot in the head multiple times," UsMagazine.com quoted Pitt as saying at the R-rated film's New York premiere Monday night. "I don't know what that says about me as a parent." Pitt said ...
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Obama in Berlin the world’s big problems are global warming American nukes
President Obama couldn’t have been more out-of-touch if he’d delivered his Berlin speech on Mars, instead of to a shriveled German audience only a fraction the size of the one he addressed in 2008. He identified the absolutely non-existent ';climate change'; issue the ';global threat of our time,'; and according ...
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What World Cup qualification means for Australia
Australia . For Asia, the top two teams in each group automatically qualify. Australia sat equal third with Oman on six points, one point behind second-placed Jordan and seven points behind its greatest Asian rival, Japan. Although Australia and Iraq had a game in hand, such was the confidence level that Football Federation Australia CEO, David Gallop, went on the offensive by declaring that ...
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And the World Food Prize goes to 3 GMO Scientists
The move was an unbridled endorsement of GMOs amidst growing controversy as rising numbers question the technology's safety for people and the environment. The body responsible for handing out the prestigious award-the private World Food Prize Foundation-receives hefty donations from the biotech ...
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13 killed in assault on UN compound
Seven al Qaida-linked militants on a suicide mission attacked have a UN compound in Somalia with a truck bomb and then poured inside, killing at least 13 people before dying in the ...
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US Fed set to ease stimulus measures
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Magnitude 5.7 quake hits central Chile no damage reported
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit the central Chilean region of Valparaiso at 5:30 p.m. (1730 ET) on Wednesday, causing buildings to sway in the nearby capital of Santiago but no reports of ...
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Skal International Asia elects new president and board
NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka - The 42nd Skal Asia Congress was successfully held in Negombo, Sri Lanka from May 30-June 2, 2013 with about 100 international delegates and local members and VIPs, including Mok Singh, Skal International President; Bernhard Wegscheider, Secretary General of Skal International; Hon. Faiser Mustapha, the Sri Lankan Deputy Minister for Investment Promotion; Hon. Nimal Lanza, ...
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Nice Catch Joe Torres Daughter Snags Falling Baby
(Image Credit: Jimi Celeste/Patrick McMullan) The daughter of baseball legend Joe Torre made the perfect catch today when she caught a 1-year-old boy who fell out of a New York City building, according to reports. Cristina Torre, 44, who was biking past the building, was able to catch the child before falling to the ...
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WikiLeaks Helping Snowden Get Asylum
Jun 19, 2013 6:16pm Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday that his group has been in touch with Edward Snowden’s legal team, the man who says he’s behind the National Security Agency leaks. ';We are in touch with Mr. Snowden’s legal team and have been, are involved, in the process of brokering his asylum in Iceland,'; Assange said on a conference call with ...
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Mexican Roots for Majority of Latinos
Jun 19, 2013 6:19pm Mexican Latinos make up more than two thirds of all Latinos in the United States, according to a new Pew Hispanic report. Of the 51.9 million Latinos living in the United States in 2011, more than 33.5 million trace their family back to Mexico. The report looked at demographic data collected from the 2011 American Community Survey. The report also examined U.S. ...
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Franco Latest Star to Use Crowd-Funding
It worked for Zach Braff and "Veronica Mars" creator Rob Thomas. Now James Franco has turned to crowd-funding to bankroll a trilogy of movies. Franco launched his campaign on June 17 to raise $500,000 ...
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FBI Foils Plot to Build X-Ray Weapon
A New York man who allegedly wanted to kill President Obama and apparently blamed him for the recent Boston bombings has been arrested for trying to build and detonate a weapon of mass destruction. Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, of Galway, N.Y., spent months designing and constructing an X-ray system that would emit deadly amounts of radiation and could be detonated remotely, according to the ...
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World rights groups say Jordan trying to censor online media
AMMAN (AFP) - International rights groups and media freedom defenders expressed concern on Wednesday about a recent Jordanian government decision to block unlicensed local news websites saying it was a censorship attempt."We are on an urgent press freedom mission with my colleagues," Anthony Mills, deputy director of the International Press Institute, told a joint news conference in ...
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FIFA World Cup Qualifying Wrap Australia Iran South Korea qualify
Australia, Iran and South Korea secured their places at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in the last round of AFC qualifying on Tuesday. Iran secured their fourth finals appearance thanks to a 1-0 win over South Korea in Ulsan. Ahead of the game, each team knew a win would secure their place in Brazil, with Uzbekistan hoping to overtake the losers. With the Koreans going into the game a point clear, ...
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Indian Mining The Human Rights Risks of International Success
What does this mean for Indian companies with projects in countries like Mozambique? Instead of rushing forward recklessly they should move deliberately and cautiously, and encourage governments to do the ...
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International financial news
A ROUNDUP of news in finance, economics and business from around the world: INTERNATIONAL NEWS WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve has kept its stimulus program for the US economy locked in place, saying that unemployment remains high and growth is still being held back by government spending cuts. WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve has kept its stimulus program for the US economy unchanged and given ...
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Nepal reaches out for help to save tiger population
Nepal’s tigers, along with tigers across the Asian region, are being killed off by poachers and human encroachment on their habitats, with an extinction crisis mounting, the government has appealed to the international community for help.
The tiger, there is arguably no land animal so beautiful and majestic as this magnificent member of the Felidae family. These creatures have invaded the human imagination for centuries and are the national animals of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Malaysia, as well as North and South Korea. Read more
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