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Job market gains could lead Fed to taper QE3 early
(Reuters) - The beginning of the end of the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program might come sooner than many investors think if recent gains in the U.S. labor market do not prove ...
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Two imprisoned over killing Malcolm Xs grandson
MEXICO CITY A judge on Saturday issued an order for the imprisonment of two waiters accused in the beating death of Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of civil rights activist Malcolm X, the Mexico City attorney general's office ...
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Afghanistan to ask India for military aid
KABUL, Afghanistan An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will seek military aid from India during a three-day visit this week. Karzai's trip comes during escalating border tension with Pakistan, India's archrival. Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi says the president will discuss recent border skirmishes with Pakistan when he visits New Delhi starting Monday. He added that Karzai ...
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Salafist group clashes with police in Tunisia
Clashes have broken out between police and supporters of the Salafist movement Ansar al-Sharia in two places in Tunisia. One clash occurred on Sunday in a Tunis suburb where the group had told supporters to meet for their annual congress in defiance of a government ban, according to an AFP journalist. Hundreds of Salafists erected barricades in the streets of Ettadhamen, a poor neighbourhood ...
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North Korea fires short-range missiles second day in a row
South Korean officials condemned the launching of another short-range missile Sunday by North Korea, saying the action was provocative. North Korea fired the missile Sunday afternoon into the ocean off the country's east coast, one day after the country fired three short-range missiles into the same body of water, Yonhap News Agency reported. Kim Hyung-suk, a spokesman for the South ...
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Two North Caucasus Republics Set Election Precedent
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (left) chairs a meeting of the Government Commission on Social and Economic Development of the North Caucasian Federal District in Grozny in June 2012, flanked by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, Ingushetia head Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, and Daghestan's Magomedsalam Magomedov (left to ...
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Jordan scuttles attempt to expel Israeli envoy
expel Israel's ambassador ended when several members of parliament backed-down according to official sources. Despite the failure of the move to send Israeli Ambassador Daniel Nevo packing, the incident underscores the viability of opposition to normalization with the Jewish state.A strong majority of 86 out of 150 lawmakers had signed a memorandum calling for a parliamentary session to ...
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Bollywood bad boy in ‘terrorist’ jail cell
New Delhi - Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, is being held in a cell built for militants where he cannot see daylight and wants to be transferred, a report said on ...
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Ellie Jones dead Three teenage boys arrested after girl 16 dies hours after taking an illegal drug
A spokeswoman for Cheshire Constabulary said: 'Police investigating the death of a Warrington teenager have arrested three local males on suspicion of supplying drugs and perverting the course of ...
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NHS 111 Family slams hotline after terminally ill Anne Anthony waited NINE hours for help
'My dying wife waited NINE hours for district nurse to turn up': Family slams NHS 111 hotline as whistleblowers reveal a 'computer says no' mentality worthy of Little Britain ...
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Arab League to hold emergency Syria meeting
An Arab League committee on Syria will hold anemergencymeeting on Thursday ahead of an international peace conference on ending the country's civil war, the bloc's deputy leader said on ...
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Cameron losing control as rift with party core widens
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is "losing control of his party", Conservative Party grandee Geoffrey Howe said on Sunday, as a row raged over whether a close aide to Cameron had labeled grassroots activists "mad, swivel-eyed ...
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Long Island police defend Hofstra student killing
MINEOLA, N.Y. In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered a front door that had been left open at a New York home near Hofstra University. A short time later, the intruder, Dalton Smith, and a 21-year-old college junior, Andrea Rebello, were both dead. The two were killed early Friday by a Nassau County police ...
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Home tweet home Birdhouses
--> Fifteen years ago Thomas Burke gave up building houses for people -- and his career took flight, so to speak. With a business card that now reads "Builder of Fine Bird Homes," Burke has created ornate, whimsical birdhouses that replicate historic buildings or his clients' own homes. Left: Burke's rendition of Essex Farm in Royal Oak, Md. By CBSNews.com senior ...
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Officials confirm theres only 1 Powerball winner
DES MOINES, Iowa It's all about the odds, and one lone ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials said Sunday. The single winner was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O'Connell. She told The Associated ...
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Chinese premier arrives in India for talks
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in India Sunday afternoon on the first stop of his maiden foreign trip, for talks on issues ranging from an unresolved border dispute to a festering trade-imbalance.Li, who brought with him a large Chinese delegation, will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday and meet other Indian leaders including from the main opposition BJP ...
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France in talks with US Israel to buy drones
PARIS - France is in talks with the United States and Israel to buy intelligence-gathering drones to build up a modern fleet, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Sunday.France's existing hardware is outdated and its military intervention in Mali this year has exposed its shortage of surveillance drones suitable for modern warfare. The United States provided French commanders with ...
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WJC calls for investigation into Claims Conference
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder has written to senior executives of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany to inform them that he has tasked WJC CEO Robert Singer with "appoint[ing] a task force chaired by Michael Schneider and including himself and WJC General Counsel Menachem Rosensaft" to investigate what senior executives knew of massive fraud within ...
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Guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison sells for $400k
The Beatles Vox guitar, a custom prototype made in 1966 and later given to "Magic Alex" Mardas, a friend of the band, was sold by Julien's Auctions at the Hard Rock Cafe on Times Square.The instrument raised a hundred thousand dollars more than its pre-auction estimate, which was between 200,000 and 300,000 US dollars (130,000-200,000).Harrison can be seen rehearsing with the ...
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Iran hangs alleged U.S. Israeli spies
TEHRAN, Iran Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy agency. Sunday's report says Mohammad Heidari, who was accused of providing Mossad with classified information in return of money, and Kourosh Ahmadi, who allegedly gave the CIA intelligence on Iran, were hanged. The report didn't say when ...
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The gene 7 questions
>Editor's note: Dr Susan Domchek is a board-certified medical oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center. She is director of the Mariann and Robert MacDonald Women's Cancer Risk Evaluation Center and executive director of the Basser Research Center for BRCA, a newly founded center focused exclusively on issues related to BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations.(CNN) -- News ...
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Police Officer accidentally killed student
View Photo Associated Press/Sleepy Hollow High School - In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra ...
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Iran Hangs Two For Allegedly Spying For Israel U.S.
Iranian authorities have hanged two men who were convicted of spying for Israel and the United States. ISNA news agency quoted a statement by the Tehran prosecutor's office saying that the two, Mohammad Heydari and Kourosh Ahmadi, had gathered classified information and sold it to Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies. The statement gave no details where the two were hanged. It ...
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Mitzna Inexperienced cabinet cant handle Syria
The Diplomatic-Security Cabinet is inexperienced and will have difficulty dealing with security issues arising from the situation in Syria, Knesset Education Committee chairman Amram Mitzna (Hatnua) said Sunday, in a thinly veiled reference to Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett.Mitzna, a Major-General in reserves, said he is "disturbed and concerned, ...
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S.Korea deploys Israeli missile on border with North
South Korea deployed Israeli precision-guided missiles on Yellow Sea islands bordering North Korea, Yonhap News Agency reported on Sunday."Dozens of Spike missiles and their launchers have recently been deployed on Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands," a South Korean army official ...
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Spain drags its feet on cloud computing
Cloud computing, a new computing model seen by many as a major advancement in information technology, has been catching on in many developed parts of the world due to the significant benefits the new system offers, but in Spain, where experts say it may be most useful, it has failed to find a home.
Spain is traditionally known as a country that does not like to take risks and likes to maintain the status quo, for this reason other new technologies such as 3-D televisions and the like have not caught on either. But, whereas 3-D TV is a service that is marketed as enhancing one’s viewing pleasure and therefore costs more, cloud computing is a new service that offers real-world savings financially. Read more
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