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Agassi Green future inevitable – it’s cheaper
As renewable technologies continue to become more efficient and affordable, industries and entrepreneurs will inevitably switch to cleaner fuel sources - even if not for environmental reasons, Shai Agassi said Wednesday.The founder and former CEO of the now bankrupt Better Place spoke at the Israeli Presidential Conference 2013 in Jerusalem on the panel "Is There Hope for a Green ...
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787 Dreamliner is forced into diversion due to a technical fault in latest embarrassment for Boeing
The incident will heap further embarrassment on Boeing, which has seen the Dreamliner get off to a troubled start by being grounded for several months thanks to overheating in its ...
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Brazil protests Even footballers condemn government for spending billions on the World Cup
Some of Brazil's most famous footballers have backed the tens of thousands of people who have continued to protest today over the billions being spent on the 2014 World ...
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Indian court rules that any couple who have sex are legally married... and could technically need to divorce if they wanted to sleep with someone else
If an unmarried couple have sex they are considered husband and wife - and would have to ‘divorce’ if they split, an Indian court has ...
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Vatican pave the way to declaring Pope John Paul II a saint after attributing a mystery miracle to him
Fast-tracked: Pope John Paul II in Gdansk, during his seventh pilgrimage to Poland in 2011 An insider told The Daily Telegraph that details of the miracle are likely to be announced at the end of this month or at the beginning of ...
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Militants claim three Britons dead after bomb attack on UN compound
The United Nations' gradual, peaceful return to Somalia was shattered this morning as a truck full of explosives was detonated at the front gates of its compound in the capital, ...
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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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Louisiana teen allegedly killed half-sister with TV wrestling moves
Police car lights. (QMI Agency) A 13-year-old boy has been charged with murder in New Orleans after causing the death of his 5-year-old half-sister using wrestling moves he had seen on television, police said. Viloude Louis died Sunday afternoon of blunt force trauma to her body, including broken ribs and a damaged liver, police said, after the boy wrestled with her using World Wrestling ...
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Pussy Riot star Maria Alekhina staging play in prison
Freed Pussy Riot star says she's under surveillance Incarcerated Pussy Riot star Maria Alekhina is planning to stage a theatre production for fellow inmates at the prison where she is serving her sentence. The punk star was jailed for two years in 2012 after staging a musical protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin at a church in Moscow. She has been a vocal critic of conditions ...
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Civil rights under attack by big government Beck
Glenn Beck (L) 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 Cameron WASHINGTON -- The United States government is trampling on Americans' civil rights, according to popular conservative commentator Glenn Beck. And the scandal currently embroiling the Internal Revenue Service, that it ...
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Goodfella Home Search Possible Remains Found
The FBI has found possible human remains at the New York City house once occupied by a famous gangster who inspired Robert De Niro's character in Goodfellas. An FBI spokesman confirmed that agents found material they want to test as part of an investigation, but declined to comment further. On Monday, agents began a digging operation at the former Queens home of James Burke, a ...
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Obamas nuke deal wont make us safe
>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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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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Paula Deen says she used racial slur but doesnt tolerate hate
Paula Deen says the celebrity chef "does not condone" racial epithets, following reports that Deen admitted to using "the N-word" and once planned a wedding reception with all black waiters. Deen's admission of using the slur came while she was providing deposition as part of a $1.2M lawsuit filed against her and her brother Earl "Bubba" Biers by Lisa Jackson, ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
Toronto Digest
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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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