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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
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It’s been days of riots in France as striking workers have protested — and burned cars and tires against, and smashed storefronts, and blocked roads to airports, and stopped deliveries of gas to fueling stations — in opposition to a government proposal to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. Put it this way: [...]
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“Once you cede power to an invisible force for which there is no evidence—whether it’s Jesus or Allah or a dead child—you cede power to other human beings who can then claim to use those invisible forces against you. It licenses charlatanry.” Read more
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2:26pm UK, Sunday October 31, 2010 Pete Norman, Sky News Online The hand-picked candidate of Brazil’s hugely popular outgoing president is poised to replace him as voters cast ballots in the run-off [...]
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ITV Cheryl Cole has heaped praise on Cher Lloyd’s performance on last night’s X Factor. Lloyd sang Shakespeare’s Sister’s ‘Stay’ on the Halloween special and broke down in tears at the end of the song. Speaking on The Xtra Factor about her act, mentor Cole said: “I think it was a really important that she [...]
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The hand-picked candidate of Brazil’s hugely popular president is poised to replace him as leader of Latin America’s biggest nation when voters case ballots Sunday in a runoff election. Read more
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HANOI — Russia and Vietnam signed a deal yesterday, worth an estimated $5.6 billion, for the Southeast Asian country’s first nuclear power plant. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev witnessed the signing, part of an effort to boost ties with his country’s former Soviet-era communist ally. Vietnam wants to build eight nuclear facilities in the [...]
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Carly Fiorina campaign manager Marty Wilson just threw out his Election Night prediction. Forget the polls turning against GOP Senate candidate Carly , including the latest Field Poll . … Read more
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Farmer Darrell Anderson burns whins in the hills on the outskirts of Menstrie in Perthshire. Fires are lit to clear undergrowth so that lambs don’t get trapped. I had hoped that this silhouette might work with a piece about the odd rural consituency of Ochil and Perthshire south, in which Gordon Banks is defending a [...]
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MOSCOW – In Russia, the greased palm has overtaken the strong hand. For the past decade, Vladimir Putin, now the prime minister, has been building a tightly centralized, practically unaccountable political structure – a structure that tolerates and is highly susceptible to corruption. But now that corruption appears to have expanded beyond the Kremlin’s control. [...]
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IN BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN When U.S. troops moved into Afghanistan in 2001, Douglas Edelman already had a foothold in Central Asia. He’d opened a bar and hamburger joint here in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, the crumbling, outer rim of the former Soviet empire. Read more
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A division of Johnson & Johnson is recalling 43 over-the-counter medicines made for infants and children — including liquid versions of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl — after federal regulators identified what they called deficiencies at the company’s manufacturing facility. The voluntary recall, which was announced late Friday by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, affects hundreds of [...]
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SAN JOSE MINE, CHILE – A saga that had gripped the world for more than two months ended happily Wednesday night as the last of 33 miners who had been trapped under 2,000 feet of rock in northern Chile was pulled to the surface. Read more
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Consumers will pay more for cars upfront but may save money in the long term under new rules finalized Thursday by the Obama administration that will increase fuel efficiency and for the first time set greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and light trucks. Read more
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BEIJING – Three weeks after jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was named the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the government in Beijing has continued its crackdown on human rights activists and lawyers in defiance of international criticism. Read more
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HANOI – Three weeks ago, an exhibition opened at the Vietnam Military History Museum. On one side of a long hall, the mementos of Vietnam’s 25 years of war against the United States and France – letters of surrender, quotations from Ho Chi Minh, hand grenades and AK-47 rifles – lined the walls. Nothing new [...]
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HANOI (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for peaceful settlement of maritime disputes on Saturday after a flare-up in Chinese anger with Japan raised questions about reconciliation between the Asian powers. Read more
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WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) – Security officials in Britain and Dubai intercepted two parcel bombs being sent from Yemen to the United States in a “credible terrorist threat,” President Barack Obama said on Friday. Read more
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President Barack Obama has said initial examinations of two suspicious packages bound for the US show they appeared to have contained explosive materials. Read more
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BRUSSELS (AFP) – The European Union faced a new round of risky treaty change on Friday after its leaders agreed to embark on landmark reforms designed to fend off another financial crisis by shoring up the euro. Read more