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Mugabe signs Zimbabwe?s...

SOURCE: Arab News

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President Robert Mugabe signed Zimbabwe's new constitution into law yesterday, clearing the path to crucial elections later this year. The...
Iran's Nuclear Program Is Seen Making Progress in I.A.E.A. Report

SOURCE: The New York Times

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Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. In its last report before Iranian elections next month, the International Atomic...
House approves Keystone pipeline bill

SOURCE: Fox

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House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline...
Lee Pitches 3-Hitter, Phillies Blank Marlins 3-0

SOURCE: International Herald Tribune

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Cliff Lee pitched a three-hitter for his 12th career shutout and Delmon Young homered for the second straight game, sending...
HSBC China Flash PMI Falls To A 7-Month Low Of 49.6

SOURCE: BusinessInsider

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A sequential slowdown is likely in the middle of 2Q, casting downside risk to China's fragile growth recovery. Moreover, the...
Some business owners resist providing employees with contraceptive ...

SOURCE: Washington Post

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The legal battle took an important step forward Wednesday when an appeals court here heard arguments in two cases brought...
Washington Memo: Torches and Pitchforks for I.R.S. but Cheers for ...

SOURCE: The New York Times

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Armed with a blistering report that said Apple had avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes, senators this week had...
Switch to low-carbon future would save households £1,600

SOURCE: The Independent

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British households will save £45bn, or £1,600 apiece, if the government hitches its electricity supply to low-carbon sources such as...
Warning on poor school swimming

SOURCE: BBC

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More may drown without better swimming lessons' BBC News education reporter The report calls for school sport spending to be...
Japanese climber, 80, becomes oldest atop Everest

SOURCE: The Boston Globe

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Nepal (AP) An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest man to reach the top of Mount Everest, a...
Previous Wembley European Cup/Champions League Finals

SOURCE: International Herald Tribune

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Saturday's Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund will see the European Cup presented at Wembley for a...
North Korea sends...

SOURCE: Arab News

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A top North Korean general and confidant of leader Kim Jong-Un met a senior Chinese official in Beijing yesterday, with...
Good Defending Is Simple Answer to Robben Riddle

SOURCE: International Herald Tribune

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Yet, when the Bayern Munich winger bears down the right in Saturday's Champions League final, Borussia Dortmund's defenders, if they...
Bruins' Daniel Paille and Rangers' Dan Girardi Divide Their Hometown

SOURCE: International Herald Tribune

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Brendan Bannon for The New York Times Carol and Mark Girardi, parents of the Rangers' Dan Girardi, at home in...
Legal Experts Debate U.S. Retailers' Risks of Signing Bangladesh ...

SOURCE: International Herald Tribune

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May 22, 2013 American retailers remain sharply opposed to joining an international plan to improve safety conditions at garment factories...

London terrorist attack leaves soldier hacked to death (Video)

Posted by: Eileen Kersey

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-22 21:32:10 -0700 | disasters-news

In broad daylight, around 2 p.m. BST Wednesday, a suspected terrorist attack unfolded in Woolwich, London. Two men drove their vehicle into a soldier, who was wearing a Help For Heroes charity T-shirt, before attacking him with machetes. There are...

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FBI agent fatally shoots friend of accused Boston bomber; both implicated in triple homicide

Posted by: Phyllis L. Smith Asinyanbi

Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 21:43:59 -0700 | disasters-news

Updated 5-22-2013, 6:45 p.m., PDT Ibragim Todashev, 26, an ethnic Chechen man who knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston bombing suspects, was fatally shot Tuesday in Orlando, Fla., by an unidentified FBI agent. The agent had questioned Ibragim's friend,...

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Libya suffers from chronic violence as militias push their own agendas

Posted by: northsunm32

Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-05-22 21:40:10 -0700 | political-news

The past few weeks have seen continued violence in various places in Libya, including the capital Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi. Militias continue to operate, while the central government seems unable or unwilling to confront them. UPI recently...

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IRS official pleads the 5th at US House hearing

Posted by: Dava Castillo

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 18:56:47 -0700 | political-news

Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency’s targeting of conservative political groups, invoked her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination Wednesday and declined to testify at a House hearing on the matter,...

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Mother of expelled daughter alleges anti-gay bias

Posted by: Samantha86

Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 16:26:46 -0700 | disasters-news

The mother of an 18-year-old girl who was arrested in Florida for having an alleged sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female student says that her daughter is being discriminated for being gay. The 18-year-old girl is Kaitlyn Hunt, who has...

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Oklahoma tornado death toll likely to stand at 24

Posted by: Robert Weller

Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 18:04:38 -0700 | disasters-news

The fire chief of the Oklahoma City suburb smashed by a tornado Monday says the death toll likely will stay at 24. Gary Bird told Fox News he is "98 percent sure " there are no more dead in the...

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Actress Helen Mirren makes dying boy's wish come true after queen refuses

Posted by: VeronicaS

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-22 21:46:14 -0700 | entertainment-news

I have always liked Helen Mirren, and now I admire her even more. The ageless British-born actress who can give younger women a run for their money in the stylishly sexy department, made a dying boy’s wish come true. Well,...

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Tsarnaev brothers highlight shifting movements within Chechnya, expert says

Posted by: Mirjana Pantic

Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-22 21:43:59 -0700 | disasters-news

Searching for a motive behind the attack on the Boston Marathon in April that killed three people and injured more than 260 others, the media has speculated that the answer may lie in the alleged perpetrators’ Chechen origins. The Russian...

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When media disaster coverage turns into ‘disaster porn'

Posted by: VeronicaS

Moore :: OK :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 20:42:27 -0700 | disasters-news

It’s no news that comedian/host Bill Maher likes to push the envelope and that what comes out of his mouth makes some cringe and run for the smelling salts, so this is no exception. The host of the HBO show...

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity back to work, drills second hole in Martian surface

Posted by: arkar

Pasadena :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 18:29:47 -0700 | technology-news

Having been in standby mode for the past month or so, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is up and running again, and, according to the US space agency, has recommenced its work by drilling another hole in the Martian surface to...

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Obama needs to fire staff

Posted by: PJesep

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 21:21:24 -0700 | political-news

President Barack Obama is languishing politically. He must shake up his team. Calling the three controversies now embattling the administration Nixonian are inaccurate, or at least an exaggeration. In addition, comments that his second term is derailed are premature. The...

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Afghan interpreters will be allowed to settle in Britain after another coalition U-turn

Posted by: Eileen Kersey

London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-22 20:26:09 -0700 | political-news

The British government has had a rethink and taken another U-turn, this time with regards to British citizenship for hundreds of Afghan interpreters who have worked with foreign military during the war. The men had claimed that they would be...

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Sharpton kicks press out of meeting, bullies membership into silence

Posted by: Harold Michael Harvey, J. D.

Atlanta :: GA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 10:56:43 -0700 | political-news

Rev. Al Sharpton convened a general membership meeting of the National Action Network Tuesday night in Atlanta at the historic West Hunter Street Baptist Church, once pastored by Rev. Ralph David Abernathy. Before Sharpton appeared at the meeting the organization’s...

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Nearly 40 percent of Syrians in need of humanitarian aid

Posted by: Robert Myles

Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-22 20:31:53 -0700 | disasters-news

The number of Syrians in need of humanitarian aid has reached 8.3 million, or 38 percent of the country's population, the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated, labeling the situation in Syria a “humanitarian catastrophe.”...

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Seven abducted Egyptian security forces in Sinai released

Posted by: saleh1966

Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2013-05-22 20:14:21 -0700 | disasters-news

Seven Egyptian security officers who had been abducted in the Sinai Peninsula last week by a Jihadists group with alleged ties to al-Qaida have been released Wednesday, following efforts by Egyptian military intelligence in coordination with Bedouin tribal leaders in...

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