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Israeli embassy slams Germany party over labeling
BERLIN - The Israeli embassy slammed the German Green Party on Wednesday for its Bundestag efforts to label products from the West Bank, calling those efforts "another try to negatively single out Israel while promoting an economic boycott of it."In a statement ...
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Neighbours View Sharif as Yoked to Personal National History
- Following on Nawaz Sharif's victory in the May 11 national elections in Pakistan, many analysts are indicating cautious optimism on the prospect that the new prime minister can strengthen bilateral relations with the country's neighbours, particularly ...
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Insects from Delicacy to Tool against Hunger
MEXICO CITY, May 22 2013 (IPS) - The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s recommendation to consider using edible insects as a food source to combat hunger may have particular repercussions in Colombia and Mexico, two Latin American countries that have a tradition of eating insects and a high degree of ...
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New Effort Targets the Leading Killers of Children
- PATH, a Seattle-based global health development organisation, is aiming to save two million lives by 2015 by jointly tackling diarrhea and pneumonia, the leading killers of children ...
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Cuban Agriculture Needs Young People
She is not sure where her vocation came from, but she does know that this is what she wants to do. In Cuba, which is seeking to boost agricultural yields, there is a scarcity of young people working in the sector. Blanco, a petite 20-year-old, dropped her math studies after two years to try her hand at ...
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Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangladesh
- Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water.On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh's arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of ...
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Sweden riots Stockholm burns as rioters battle police after three days of violence in immigrant ghetto
It is Sweden's worst disorder in years and has shocked the country and provoked a debate on how Sweden is coping with youth unemployment and an influx of ...
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Woolwich attack More than 100 English Defence League supporters gather near scene of killing
Officers formed a cordon and the men left the immediate area after the brief incident. Some of the EDL supporters gathered at The Queen's Arms pub locally, where they sang nationalistic ...
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Third times a charm Angela Merkel named the most powerful woman in the world three years running
Third time lucky: German chancellor Angela Merkel has been named as the most powerful woman in the world by business magazine Forbes for the third year ...
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Captain Calamity Francesco Schettino faces 20 years in jail as he WILL stand trial over Costa Concordia shipwreck
Francesco Schettino was commanding the giant cruise liner when it ran aground and sank off the island of Giglio in January last year, killing 32 people. The tragedy is considered Italy’s worst maritime disaster since the Second World ...
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Ten more years of Mugabe President of Zimbabwe 89 signs new constitution limiting power to two terms - unless youve been in office for 33 years
A beaming Mugabe, flanked by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, his main political rival, and Deputy President Joice Mujuru signed multiple copies of the charter at State House in the capital Harare to cheers and applause from ...
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Dominique Venner Outrage as Femen protestor mocks Notre Dame suicide by posing with gun in her mouth a DAY after right-wing historian killed himself on altar
A topless Femen activist held a fake gun in her mouth on the altar of Notre Dame cathedral - a day after a right-wing historian shot himself dead inside the iconic Paris ...
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Imran Khan leaves hospital in good spirits 2 weeks after plummeting 15 feet at political rally in Pakistan
Pakistani cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan has left hospital two weeks after he received serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift truck at a campaign ...
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IRS official refuses to testify before Congress
The IRS official who oversees non-profit applications refused to testify Wednesday at a congressional panel probing abuse at the US tax agency but defiantly insisted she had done nothing ...
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Friends of Syria demands withdrawal of Hezbollah Iran fighters
AMMAN (Reuters) - The Friends of Syrian alliance called on Iran and its Lebanese Hezbollah ally on Thursday to withdraw fighters immediately from Syrian territory and described their armed presence in the country as a threat to regional stability. In a communiqué issued after a meeting in Amman, the alliance said any transitional government in Syria being proposed as a core of a ...
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Graphic video Man dead in truly shocking London attack
Warning: graphic video. A man with bloodied hands and knives appears in amateur video that shows the immediate aftermath of an attack in southeast London in which a man was killed. Jessica ...
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Sergio Garcia apologizes to Tiger Woods for fried chicken remark
In this photo made May 12, 2013, Sergio Garcia, of Spain, left, shakes hands with Tiger Woods at the end of the third round of The Players championship golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, ...
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Chicago Board of Ed votes to shut down 50 schools
Protesters of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's plan to close dozens of city schools rally in the rotunda at the Illinois State Capitol Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Springfield ...
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US admits drones killed four Americans
The United States has killed four of its own citizens in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, the Barack Obama administration has formally acknowledged. Eric Holder, the US attorney general, ...
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Art Basel Hong Kong Opens on Thursday
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U.S. acknowledges killing four Americans in drone strikes
Undated handout image courtesy of the U.S. Air Force shows a MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft. The U.S. government has authorized the killing of American citizens as part of its controversial drone campaign against al Qaeda even without intelligence that such Americans are actively plotting to attack a U.S. target, according to a Justice Department memo. ...
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Doctors save Ohio boy by printing an airway tube
In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day.It's the latest advance from the booming field of regenerative medicine, making body parts in the lab.In the case of Kaiba (KEYE'-buh) Gionfriddo, doctors didn't have a moment to spare. Because of a birth ...
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Pickering agrees to be questioned over State Department’s Benghazi probe
WASHINGTON - The retired U.S. diplomat who co-chaired an internal State Department review of the 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday ended his refusal to submit to a closed-door interview with a Republican-led House committee that is investigating the assault. No date was set for the private deposition of retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering by staff of ...
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U.S. U.N. urge Gulf states to donate more for Syrian refugees
WASHINGTON - With its neat rows of carpeted cabins, security monitors and on-site hospital and school, the Mrigb al Fuhud camp in Jordan is opulent compared with the squalid tent cities that house other Syrian refugees. Humanitarian workers, however, privately deride it as a five-star hotel or the Stepford camp. Built by the United Arab Emirates for nearly $10 million, the camp holds ...
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Soldier killed in Golan mine accident to be buried
killed in a minefield accident on Wednesday as Roee Yisrael Alfi, 18, of Gan Yavne, and promoted him posthumously to the rank of corporal.Alfi, who had been in training and was tasked with clearing a minefield on the Golan Heights, died after one of the mines, which had been exposed and marked ahead of its clearance, went off for an unknown ...
Pakistan Feature
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Pakistan's darkest hour
What began as the normal monsoon season has turned into the greatest disaster, the greatest humanitarian crisis and the worst floods ever seen in the history of Pakistan. According to the UN, the disaster in Pakistan from 2010 floods is now worse than the 2005 earthquake in the country and the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia combined.
It is a catastrophe of mammoth proportions and the challenge faced by a centrally weak government is how to get food aid to the some 6 million in need of help and provide relief facilities to the 20 million people impacted by the disaster. Read more
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