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64 dead as early monsoon hammers north India
Torrential rains washed away hundreds of homes and roads, leaving at least 64 people dead and thousands stranded, after the annualmonsoonhit northern India earlier than expected, officials said ...
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American business groups claim India hurting US jobs economy
WASHINGTON: A group of major American business organisations and advocacy groups launched a new alliance against what they allege as India's "discriminatory" economic policies, including intellectual property issues, which they claim ...
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Plot against Wall Street foiled US spy chief
National Security Agency said Tuesday the US government's sweeping surveillance programs have foiled some 50 terrorist plots worldwide, including one directed at the New York Stock Exchange, in a forceful defense of the spy operations. Army Gen. Keith Alexander said the two recently disclosed programmes, one that gathers US phone records and another that is designed to track the use of ...
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Arab village in Israel targeted in racial attackVandals daubed Arabs out graffiti and punctured tyres in an Arab village near Jerusalem on Tuesday targeting a community widely seen in Israel as a showcase for Jewish-Arab coexistence.
Jewish-Arab coexistence . Unlike similar attacks that have damaged Arab mosques, homes, vehicles and olive groves, the vandalism took place in an Arab village in Israel popular with Jewish visitors, rather than in a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank. Abu Ghosh, where the tyres of 28 cars were punctured and anti-Arab slogans scrawled on walls, is located along the main Tel ...
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Man charged over US plane bomb threat
US domestic flight , triggering emergency procedures, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Mark Michael Bote, 23, appeared nervous and was shaking and "rocking back and forth" in his seat last Friday on a flight from Knoxville, Tennessee to Denver, Colorado. "One passenger noticed Bote had his eyes closed .. A second passenger also noticed that Bote looked nervous, and that his eyes were ...
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Israeli general warns of unrest if no peace talks
An Israeli-Arab and children are seen on a street next to a graffiti in the village of Abu Gosh near Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Israeli police have launched an investigation to find perpetrators who vandalized cars and sprayed hate graffiti in an Arab town near Jerusalem. The Hebrew graffiti reads, "Racism or assimilation" and "Arabs out." (AP Photo/Mahmoud ...
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Eiffel tower evacuated after latest suicide bid
Eiffel Tower had to be evacuated for two hours Tuesday after a man threatened to throw himself off in the latest of a string of suicide bids to cause chaos for visitors to the Paris landmark. The man, who described himself as Polish and was said by police to have mental health issues, was talked down and arrested just before 3pm (1300 GMT), by which time thousands of would-be visitors had been ...
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Italian court says Knox murder acquittal had inconsistencies
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Amanda Knox (R) walks away holding hands with her mother Edda Mellas after a press conference at Sea-Tac International Airport, Washington after Knox landed there on a flight from Italy ...
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Determining Rivers Vulnerable to Asian Carp Spawning in the Great Lakes Basin
Great Lakes resource managers can now determine rivers that may be vulnerable to Asian carp spawning if they were to spread into the Great Lakes Basin, according to ...
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Syrian warplanes hit rebels near base in northSyrian activists say warplanes have hit rebel positions near a contested military air base in the northern province of Aleppo.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that fighter jets struck near the Kweiras air base early on Tuesday. The group, which relies on a network of informants ...
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Sun reporter prison officer charged in British bribery probe
The Sun has been charged for allegedly paying public officials for information, prosecutors said. Journalist Nick Parker faces three counts of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office relating to alleged payments to a prison officer and a police officer between 2007 and 2009. The prison officer, Lee Brockhouse, also faces two related charges of misconduct and conspiracy to commit ...
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G8 calls for Syria peace conference as soon as possible
G8 leaders on Tuesday strongly endorsed calls for peace talks to be held in Geneva on the Syria conflict "as soon as possible". At the end of a summit in Northern Ireland, the leaders also called for an agreement on a Syrian transitional government "formed by mutual consent", noting that military forces and security services needed to be preserved or ...
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U.S. to hold Afghan peace talks with Taliban in Doha
Reuters © Members of the Taliban voluntarily hand over their weapons and join a peace reconciliation program in Jalalabad province January 6, 2013. ...
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Demonstrators flood Brazilian streets in protest
Protesters massed in four Brazilian cities Monday in what they hoped would be their biggest demonstrations yet against a hike in public transport fares, stoking fears of more clashes with police and raising questions about security during big events like the current Confederations Cup and a papal visit next ...
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Turkey PM claims victory after protest crackdown
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday claimed victory over anti-government protesters after a heavy crackdown on the movement, as police raided homes and arrested dozens of demonstrators to stamp out nearly three weeks of ...
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Turkey Police crackdown on protesters
Riot police in the capital Ankara, briefly fired tear gas and used water cannons on protesters who hurled back stones and hid behind makeshift barricades; but there were no other reports of ...
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Beermen may lose players ahead of Fiba Asia tilt
DESPITE its victory in the Asean Basketball League, there's no guarantee that San Miguel Beer will represent the country in the Fiba Asia Champions Cup this September in Jordan. The Beermen, whose core players are set to go their separate ways, earned an outright slot in the continental club tournament as an incentive for capturing the ABL championship. "It's going to be an ...
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US to begin meetings with Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- American officials say U.S. representatives will begin formal meetings with the Taliban in a few days at the group's new office opening in ...
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Spy programme transparent ObamaPresident Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview and called them transparent - even though they are authorized in secret.
National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview, and called them transparent - even though they are authorized in secret. "It is transparent," Obama told Public Broadcasting Service's Charlie Rose in an interview broadcast late Monday. "That's why we set up the FISA court," he added, referring to the secret court set up by the Foreign ...
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Markets edge higher as Fed meeting starts
LONDON (AP) -- Stock markets edged higher Tuesday as a two-day policy meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve got under way - a meeting that could have a huge influence on how investors see the future path of the country's monetary ...
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Death toll at Pakistan funeral blast jumps to 20
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -; A police officer says the death toll from a bomb that ripped through a crowded funeral in northwest Pakistan has risen to 20 ...
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Bombing at Pakistani funeral kills 27
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -; A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 27 people. Among those killed was a newly-elected lawmaker who may have been the target, authorities ...
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Thailand acknowledges $4.4B loss from rice scheme
BANGKOK -; Thailand's government on Tuesday acknowledged losing more than $4.46 billion in one year in a much-criticized scheme to support rice prices that ended up dislodging the country from its spot as the grain's top exporter. The program is likely to be amended to reduce the losses, the commerce minister ...
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Oil prices climb above $98 before US Fed meeting
The price of oil climbed back above $98 a barrel Tuesday, a day after briefly touching a nine-month high, as traders awaited the start of a Federal Reserve policy ...
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General Meeting and Strategy Conference - IFEX network calls for ASEAN action to protect free expression in Southeast Asia
Brunei Darussalam: H.E. Pehin Dato Dr. Awang Hj. Ahmad bin Hj. Jumat, Cambodia: H.E. Srun Thirith, Indonesia: H.E. Rafendi Djamin, Lao PDR: H.E. Phoukhong Sisoulath, Malaysia: Dato' Sri Dr. Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, Myanmar: Amb. Kyaw Tint Swe, Philippines: Amb. Rosario Gonzales Manalo, Singapore: Amb. Chan Heng Chee, Thailand: H.E. Seree Nonthasoot, Vietnam: Amb.Le Thi Thu, ASEAN ...
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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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