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Kerry meets with runners from Boston Marathon
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- The winner of the men's race at the Boston Marathon says he is returning his winner's medal to honor the city and those killed and injured in the terrorist bombings near the finish line of one of the world's top running ...
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UN expert urges help for Japans 2011 nuclear power plant disaster victims
United Nations expert who investigated the aftermath of Japan's 2011 nuclear power plant disaster says the government and the operator of the facility should do more to help those affected by the catastrophe. A report by special rapporteur Anand Grover, posted on the UN Human Rights Council's website, says the government's takeover ...
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Bitter election aftermath undermines Malaysian PM Najib
A demonstrator holds up a placard that reads ''Laugh at the Election Commission'' during a protest against the recent election results in Petaling Jaya, outside Kuala Lumpur, May 25, 2013. Supporters of Malaysia's three-party opposition coalition held the demonstration to protest what they say was vote fraud, with opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim saying he will expose all ...
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2 rockets slam into Beirut stronghold of Lebanese Hezbollah group wounding 3
A Lebanese army officer investigates part of a rocket which struck a car exhibit on a street at the Mar Mikhael district, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday May 26, 2013. Rockets slammed Sunday into two Beirut neighborhoods that are strongholds of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, wounding at least 4 people, Lebanese security officials and media said. Tensions have been running high in Lebanon, and ...
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China EU to hold talks on trade disputes
The Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Sunday that it will start negotiating with its EU counterparts in Brussels next week regarding recent trade frictions.Vice Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan and Jean-Luc Demarty, the European Commission's director-general for trade, will co-chair talks on China-EU trade and investment on May 27, according to a statement from the MOC.Zhong will also discuss ...
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Backstreet Boys perform during world concert tour in Beijing
American vocal group Backstreet Boys perform during their 2013 world tour concert at the MasterCard Center in Beijing, capital of China, May 25, 2013. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the group. (Xinhua/Yang ...
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Rockets hit Hezbollah Beirut heartland
Four people were wounded on Sunday when tworockets exploded in the Shiite-majority Hezbollah heartland of south Beirut, aLebanese security source ...
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Pipeline explosion halts gas supplies to southern China Xinhua
Xinhua said. The pipeline has a capacity to transport 30 billion cubic meters of gas a year. Energy released from the explosion knocked over people hundreds of meters away, Xinhua said, without detailing the length of the exploded pipeline. The government is investigating the cause of the explosion, the agency ...
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2 women die in south Texas flood
>Editor's note: Are you there? Stay safe, and send photos or video.(CNN) -- Two women died Saturday from raging floodwaters in San Antonio, including one who was swept away after rescue workers nearly reached her. At one point Saturday, a storm and subsequent flash floods had knocked out power to about 12,000 customers and spurred the closure of dozens of streets in the southern Texas city ...
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Middle Easts first Supperclub From Amsterdam to LA to Dubai
DUBAI // Dubai has already established itself as a tourist destination, but two hotels are trying something different - upmarket dining combined with theatre and music. Zabeel Saray, on the Palm, opened Music Hall, the famous Beirut music venue, in January. At the end of this month it plans to open Supperclub, a performing arts and dining venue that already operates in locations around the ...
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World Kerry stresses respect for human rights with Nigerian president
John Kerry , who last week expressed concern about allegations of gross human rights violations by Nigerian forces fighting the Boko Haram Islamist sect, raised the issue with the country's president directly on Saturday, a U.S. official ...
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World Bank sets up $400 facility to help SMEs in MENA
World Economic Forum 2013 in Jordan International Finance Corp, a unit of the World Bank, is launching with several partners an investment facility worth up to $400 million (Dh1.47 billion) for the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) as it tries to spur lending to the region's large pool of small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), its chief executive said on ...
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Mexico reforms knock Slim off worlds richest perch
Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim held the title of the world's richest man for the past three years until a new president rolled into town with a vast economic reform agenda. Enrique Pena Nieto's push to overhaul the telecoms industry, a sector dominated by Slim, has weighed down on stock prices of the billionaire's America Movil phone empire, analysts say. Three weeks after Congress ...
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Massacre-inspired teens six bombs
AN AMERICAN teenager who intended to blow up his school will be charged with attempted aggravated murder after six bombs were found in his bedroom, a prosecutor ...
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Two rockets hit southern Beirut district residents
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two rockets hit a Hezbollah-controlled district in the southern part of Lebanon's capital on Sunday, residents said, wounding several ...
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Opposition parties enforce strike in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh -; Police say opposition activists have set off homemade bombs and smashed several vehicles in Bangladesh's capital as they enforce a general strike demanding that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resign before general ...
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World Muslim leader condemns violence brings message of peace to Calgary
A world Muslim leader denounced recent violent attacks carried out in the name of Islam on Saturday as he brought his message of peace to Calgary.Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the spiritual head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, said the slaying of a British soldier, the Boston Marathon bombings and the Via Rail bomb plot "give the wrong message of the true teachings of Islam.""We ...
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Construction legal disputes most costly in Middle East
The global built asset consultancy said it has found that construction disputes in the Middle East are taking, on average, 14.6 months to be settled compared to just nine months in the previous year, an increase of 62 ...
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Arab world faces up to competitive challenges
World Economic Forum . The findings of the Arab World Competitiveness Report were presented at the WEF Middle East meeting in Jordan yesterday. Some Arabian Gulf countries, including Qatar and the UAE, improved their competitiveness in 2012-13, moving up the global leagues. Other economies - such as those of Egypt and Yemen - deteriorated compared with world rivals. The WEF said: "The ...
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Jordan to Host Worlds Largest Refugee Camp
-- Al-Zaatari refugee camp near Jordan's northern border with Syria is the second largest refugee camp in the world. On days when violence in Syria worsens, between 2,000-4,000 Syrians flood into Zaatari, and the stories they tell are horrific. "Things are happening in Syria that our minds couldn't even imagine," 65-year-old Nada Salim Abdullah, who has been in the camp four ...
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Rotating stage sends MSOE graduates out into world
Unlike most commencements, this one involved a seemingly complicated engineering problem: How do you get 427 graduates up six stairways and across a circular stage that does one full rotation every 20 minutes? "The reality is it works well," said Nick Seidler, after the Milwaukee School of Engineering class of 2013 had all received their diplomas. Most of the students traveled up ...
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Ryan Lochte Obliterates Meet Record at Mel Zajac Jr. International
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 25. DURING the second evening of the Mel Zajac Jr. International Meet, Olympic star Ryan Lochte smashed the meet record in the men's 200-meter IM after a double last night. Lochte, serving as the centerpiece of the meet this weekend, opened the night by finishing second in the men's 50-meter backstroke with a 26.52 after picking up wins in the 200-meter ...
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World Bank to help develop village tracts in southern Myanmar
The World Bank (WB) will provide assistance worth of 27,000 US dollars annually for the development of village tracts in Kyunsu township, Myanmar's southern Tanintharyi Region, local daily reported Sunday.An initial assistance for three years worth of 81,000 dollars will be spent for education, health and social affairs for the township, said the 7-Day Daily.In February this year, the ...
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Video 525 Cold start to summer season for Sandy-impacted shore towns Therapy dogs help victims in distress
Towns along the Jersey Shore hard hit by superstorm Sandy kicked off the summer season this Memorial Day weekend on a cold and wet note; and therapy dogs were at the Boston bombings and most recently when the Oklahoma tornado hit. Scientific evidence has proven that therapy dogs can effectively lower blood pressure and anxiety for victims of disasters and ...
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Teen Accused of Bomb Plot Modeled on Columbine
An Oregon high school student has been accused of plotting a school bomb attack "specifically modeled" after the Columbine shooting, prosecutors said today. The student at West Albany High School allegedly hid at least six bombs and bomb-making material in a secret compartment under the floor of his bedroom, Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson said. Grant Acord, 17, ...
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Thorne Miniature Rooms go fictional
If you live in Chicago and do not know about the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, then you must have been living under the proverbial rock before you came across this article.
The Thorne rooms are one of the most famous museum exhibits in the city. They are a collection of 68 rooms contained within glass boxes and are notable because each room is constructed at a 1-inch to 1-foot scale and all 68 rooms together display a range of historical periods from various cultures. Read more
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