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Cheruiyot misses world championships for pregnancy
Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot will not be able to defend her 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters titles at this year's Moscow world championships as she is expecting her first child. The runner said in a statement on Wednesday that she felt it was "the right time to start a family" at the age of 29. Cheruiyot planned to return for the 2014 season and compete in the 2015 World ...
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China Solar Talks With Europe Go Dark
Solar panel arrays. Most of these are made in China. Not if Europe can help it. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Chinese solar panel industry isn't having any luck with the European Union, which has slapped high tariffs on Chinese made photovoltaics. China and the E.U. agreed to discuss alleged dumping by China into Europe, undercutting local solar panel producers. The talks were held ...
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British soldier butchered in suspected Islamist attack
Two men wielding knives butchered and beheadeda man believed to be a British soldier in a busy London street on Wednesday,before delivering an Islamist tirade to ...
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Extrajudicial killings of 30 Bangladeshis so far this year Amnesty International
Bangladesh security forces perpetrated at least 30 extra-judicial killings and 10 forced disappearances and carried out widespread torture in 2012, according to the human rights organisation Amnesty International.It yesterday launched an assessment of human rights in 159 countries across the world from January to December 2012.In its assessment of Bangladesh, it also highlighted the deaths of ...
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Sri Lankans held in Europe human smuggling raids
(2 mins ago) Europol said 18 people, mostly Sri Lankans, were arrested in joint police raids in Britain and France on suspicion of being part of a human trafficking ring that smuggled South Asian immigrants into Britain. ';During the joint operation, 11 suspects were arrested in the UK and seven in France. All persons arrested, except [for] one Dutch national, were of Sri Lankan ...
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Murrysville diver Pickens springs into spot on U.S. team for World Championships
Samantha Pickens competes in the World Championship trials in diving on May 19, 2013, in Tallahassee, Fla. Pickens, a Murrysville native and Franklin Regional graduate, qualified for the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona in the 1-meter dive and 3-meter synchronized ...
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U.N. atomic agency Iran expands nuclear technology
Herman Nackaerts, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, left, talks with Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, right, as they face the media at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, May 15, ...
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911 Butt Dial Leads to Murder Charge
Authorities in South Florida say a man is charged with murder because he was overheard discussing the killing when his cellphone pocket-dialed 911. The Broward Sheriff's Office says 24-year-old Scott Simon is charged with first-degree murder in the May 5 shooting of 33-year-old Nicholas Walker. Walker was shot while driving his car onto an Interstate 95 on-ramp. Authorities say Simon ...
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International Justice on an Uneven Playing Field
In his book "With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful," Glenn Greenwald writes, "Those with political and financial clout are routinely allowed to break the law with no legal repercussions whatsoever. Often they need not even exploit their access to superior lawyers because they don't see the inside of a courtroom in ...
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International Friendly Venezuela 2 El Salvador 1
A pair of second-half penalties have secured a 2-1 victory for Venezuela in their friendly international against El Salvador.In preparation for next month's FIFA World Cup qualifier versus Bolivia, Venezuela picked up their second win in five international matches, despite going behind to Darwin Ceren's first-half strike.Venezuela recovered in the opening 25 minutes of the second half, ...
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Bundesliga chief slams Qatar World Cup scheduling
Bundesliga chief executive Christian Seifert has slammed FIFA's decision to host World Cup 2022 in Qatar during the country's summer.Traditionally, the quadrennial showcase tournament is held during June and July.However, numerous senior football figures have called for FIFA to break with that tradition due to predicted extremely high temperatures in the country during those months.And ...
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You just want to break down and cry
>For local coverage of Monday's devastating storms in Oklahoma, go to these CNN affiliates: KFOR, KOCO and KOKH.(CNN) -- With everyone missing now accounted for from this week's deadly tornado, the long and difficult work of recovery can begin. "We are beginning the recovery operations," Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin told CNN's Piers Morgan late Wednesday. "There's a lot of debris removal going ...
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Arena International Aviation to train Chinese pilots for Hainan Airlines
HUNDREDS of Chinese cadet pilots will amass crucial flight training in Port Macquarie to kickstart a ticket to the skies across the world. About 150 pilot cadets a year from China will train under the guidance of Port Macquarie-based Arena International Aviation in a step towards becoming pilots with Hainan Airlines. The relationship between Arena International Aviation and Hainan Airlines ...
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Syria as a Game-Changer US Political Impotence in the Middle East
Limitations of US military power became quite obvious in later years. (Photo: Aljazeera) In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should ...
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Thai police say they know identities of Central World arson suspects
Police are gathering evidence in support of arrest warrants for two suspected arsonists and six alleged accomplices in relation to the Central World Mall fire during the 2010 riots. Following a meeting yesterday to discuss the progress of the Central World arson probe, Metropolitan Police chief Khamronwit Thoopkrajang said investigators had identified two suspected arsonists from photographs ...
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U.S. Republicans aim to take hold of Keystone XL decision
Rail cars arrive in Milton, N.D., in February 2008, loaded with pipe for the first Keystone Pipeline project, which now carries crude oil across Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and ...
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Badass mum confronted terrorist
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett confronted one of the machete attackers at the scene of the horrific murder in London and told him "it is only you versus many people - you are going to ...
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Pay your taxes Europe warns multinationals
Starbucks Corp. have been objects of wrath in Europe in recent months for creative accounting methods that appear to allow them to pay as little into the public purse as possible. This week a Senate subcommittee released a blistering report that detailed how Apple used an elaborate web of offshore subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. By keeping profits in other ...
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Merkel protege struggles with Germanys green revolution
1 of 3. File photo of German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) talking with Environment Minister Peter Altmaier before a cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin November 28, ...
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International leadership changes for Razorfish and DigitasLBi
New international management has been rolled in for Publicis Groupe owned agencies DigitasLBi and Razorfish following the merger of Digitas and LBi. The role of Ewen Sturgeon, formerly chief executive of LBi international, has been expanded to CEO of the merged DigitasLBi International network. Michael Karg has also been elevated into the role of CEO International, from his former COO ...
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Witness These two guys were crazed
>Are you there? Send us your photos, videosLondon (CNN) -- They first hit the man, thought to be a British soldier, with a car in broad daylight. Then the two attackers hacked him to death and dumped his body in the middle of a southeastern London road. As the victim -- dressed in what appeared to be a T-shirt for Help for Heroes, a charity that helps military veterans -- lay prone, one of ...
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Brutal attack in London heightens terror fears
LONDON (AP) -- Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime - shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver. Soon after, arriving police shot and wounded the unidentified assailants and took them into ...
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Europe Pushes to Shed Stigma of Tax Haven With End to Bank Secrecy
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Toronto mayor fired from coaching job
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford enters a council meeting about casino proposals at Toronto City Hall on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday, a close ally of Ford, said Wednesday, May 22, 2013 that Ford has followed legal advice in remaining silent about a purported video that appears to show him smoking crack cocaine. Holyday is urging Ford to address the video. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, ...
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Electricity World Bank to assist Nigeria generate 2000MW
The World Bank has said it will help Nigeria to generate additional 2,000 megawatts of electricity in the next two years through support to independent power ...
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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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