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US Fed set to ease stimulus measures
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FBI says it uses surveillance drones on U.S. soil
FBI Director Robert Mueller gestures at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing about the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 19, ...
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3 football players charged in Naval Academy rape case
ANNAPOLIS, Md. The U.S. Naval Academy has announced charges against three football players accused of sexually assaulting a female midshipman. The academy said Wednesday the students have been charged with making a false official statement as well as rape, sexual assault or other sexual ...
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Goo from naked mole rat may protect against cancer
The naked mole rat may hold the secret to cancer resistance. Scientists have identified a chemical that they say prevents the notoriously ugly rodent with a long lifespan from developing cancer. They hope the substance could one day lead to effective cancer treatments in humans. "A lot of cancer research focuses on animals that are prone to cancer," study author Vera Gorbunova, a ...
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Confusion over planned US-Taliban talks
Tensions over the Taliban's new political office in Qatar have thrown planned talks between the Afghan anti-government group and the US into disarray. The meeting was expected to take place in Doha on Thursday but the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has said he will not be attending it. Wednesday's developments came one day after the ...
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There is no safe number of nukes
>Editor's note: Ira Helfand is a past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Alan Robock is a distinguished professor of climate science at Rutgers University and a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He ...
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ITEX Toronto wins award for outstanding performance
Toronto, Ontario – June 19, 2013 ITEX in Toronto, Canada'se leading business bartering network, announced Wednesday it has earned three awards for outstanding performance, leadership ...
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Reforming Veterans Affairs Preserving Promises to Those Who Serve
- Roughly 900,000 veterans are awaiting their Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation claims, with 70 percent backlogged for more than 125 days. Veterans' waiting in line for claims--sometimes for years--is utterly unacceptable; yet the VA says they can't resolve the backlog until 2015.On June 20 ...
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Vitamins
>Editor's note: To see Offit's interview with Dr Sanjay Gupta, check out "Sanjay Gupta, M. D. " Saturday at 4:30 p.m. and Sunday at 7:30 a.m.(CNN) -- Dr Paul Offit doesn't take any ...
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Why Brazil was burning
>Editor's note: Frida Ghitis is a world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review. A former CNN producer and correspondent, she is the author of "The End of Revolution: A Changing World in the Age of Live Television. " Follow her on Twitter: @FridaGColumns.(CNN) -- Presidents, prime ministers and assorted rulers, consider that you have been warned: A massive protest can ...
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Swiss Parliament Scuttles U.S. Deal on Bank Secrecy
Switzerland's Parliament on Wednesday scuttled an information-sharing agreement with the United States that the Swiss government had hailed just weeks ago as a breakthrough in a dispute over banking secrecy, but left open the possibility for another ...
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U.S. slow to deliver promised aid to Syrian rebels
WASHINGTON - While State Department officials are fond of saying they’re providing hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance to the Syrian opposition, only a fraction of the promised funds has arrived, and none has gone to the political body the U.S. looks to as an alternative to President Bashar Assad’s regime. The State Department this month released the most in-depth aid ...
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Iran’s president-elect may shift country’s policies toward Persian Gulf Israel
TEHRAN, Iran - To understand the changes likely to occur under Iran’s new president, Hasan Rowhani, consider this summation of the outgoing regime by a veteran foreign policy analyst. Iran’s approach to the world was ideological and focused attention on the Arab-Israeli conflict and Lebanon – issues far from the country’s vital interests, said Davood Hermidas Bavand, a ...
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Senators pressure Obama on no fly zone in Syria
WASHINGTON - Less than a week after the White House announced findings of chemical weapons use in Syria and the initiation of a policy that would allow the CIA to provide Syrian rebels with light weaponry and ammunition, President Barack Obama is answering critics who say that small arms are no longer enough to turn the direction of the war.In a letter from leading senators on foreign ...
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Cisco CEO Israel will be the first digital state
Israel will be the first end-to-end digital nation, Cisco CEO John Chambers said on Wednesday in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Chambers agreed earlier in the day to establish a working group to explore how Cisco can help upgrade Israel's digital infrastructure.Whereas most countries upgrade one area at a time, Israel is moving to connect homes with fiber-optic ...
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AIPAC warns on Iranian president-elect Rohani
WASHINGTON - In a memo to supporters, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee expressed deep suspicion of Iranian President-Elect Hassan Rohani, saying that he "has signaled no willingness to halt Iran's illicit nuclear program."The powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington said the Iranian people voted for Rohani because they saw him as the best chance for sanctions ...
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Russia China among worst in human trafficking Report
Chinese tourists look up at the Chinese national flag as it flies at half-mast on Beijing's Tiananmen Square October 17, 2012. (REUTERS/David Gray) WASHINGTON - An annual U.S. State Department report on Wednesday cited Russia and China among the world's worst offenders in fighting forced labor and sex trafficking, which could lead to U.S. sanctions. The U.S. designation drops Russia ...
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As Tea Party rallies FBI says IRS probe a top priority
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) addresses the crowd during a Tea Party rally to "Audit the IRS" in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Gary ...
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Analysis Brazils protests Not quite a Tropical Spring
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's blossoming protest movement is a coming-of-age for what had been one of Latin America's most politically disengaged youth populations, but does not appear to constitute a major threat to governability or established political ...
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Bernanke sends stocks bonds skittering
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is on a television screen as specialist James Naughton works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, June 19, ...
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Fast-Spreading Virus Under Inquiry in Saudi Arabia
A man in a Saudi hospital has pneumonia. The patient in the room next door gets sick, and before anyone realizes what is happening he infects seven others, each of whom infects at least one more. An outbreak is born. A detailed investigation of the viral illness first detected last year in Saudi Arabia has revealed the chilling ease with which the virus can spread to ill patients in the ...
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Opponents protest Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s appointments
CAIRO - The decision by Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to name 17 new provincial governors, including several who belong to his former party, triggered another round of violence here and the reported resignation of a top minister. The events stoked fears that Egypt’s first democratically elected leader was increasing Islamists’ control over the nation. Such violence, which ...
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Palestinians fire rocket at South shattering calm
Shattering a lengthy period of calm, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired an unknown number of rockets at southern Israel, triggering air raid sirens in Ashkelon and surrounding areas early on Wednesday morning and awakening residents.As of Wednesday evening, the IDF, which launched a search of the area, found no projectiles in Israeli territory, and an army source indicated the rockets may ...
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Netanyahu recommends keeping 60 of natural gas
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will propose to the cabinet on Sunday that Israel maintain 540 billion cubic meters of natural gas in its reservoirs - a 20-percent jump from previous government recommendations.Netanyahu presented the proposed export policy, which has been a contentious subject since the discovery of Israel's copious gas supplies, at a press conference in his Jerusalem ...
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Michigan Governor hopes Waze will reroute to his state
recently purchased Israeli firm Waze to the US, why not to the search company's R&D facility in the state instead of its headquarters in Silicon Valley? That is a question Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder asked this week on a visit to GPS-based navigational app company Waze's headquarters in Ra'anana that he described as one of the highlights of his nine-day trade mission to ...
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The world’s preferred refugees
For millions of refugees, World Refugee Day is a day like any other. From Mali to South Sudan and from Myanmar to Haiti, countless men, women and children will once again awaken today to an uncertain future.They are aided in their perilous journey by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which works with governments to advocate and seek asylum for all refugees. That is, ...
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Toronto's historical hospital due for upgrade
Toronto East General Hospital is undergoing a massive redevelopment and expansion plan that aims to update the tired facility, which is one of the oldest in the city.
Toronto East General Hospital was opened in 1929 and has been in continual operation ever since, located at 825 Coxwell Avenue in the capital of Ontario, the hospital is a community teaching hospital and has a bed capacity of 470. It treated over 60,000 people in its emergency room last year and provided in-patient care to over 19,000 people. Read more
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