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It started with lesbian couples in Vermont in the mid-90s, freaked out they’d lose their...
By Charles Riley @CNNMoneyInvest May 11, 2012: 1:05 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- What, exactly,...
America's top military officer has condemned a course taught about Islam at one of...

Picture must be drawn up for V-shaped business recovery
Can the nation's businesses bounce back from a string of adversities, including the Great East Japan Earthquake, to achieve an early V-shaped recovery? Every company must exercise its ingenuity in crafting an aggressive strategy. Now is the peak of...
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INDIA-PARTIAL-SOLAR-ECLIPSA view of the solar eclipse as seen from Kolkata on Friday in Eastern India  ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
Posted: May 12, 2012 Did you miss the supermoon? Well, in a few weeks you’ll be able to catch an even cooler cosmic sight. An annular solar eclipse will occur on May 20th and will be visible by most of the United States. Next week’s solar...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
umbilical cord
The attention grabbing Time magazine cover of a young mom, Jamie Lynn Grumet, breast-feeding her four-year-old is no weekend eye candy for sure. But...
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Pak violates truce again, fires on Indian position
Poonch: In yet another ceasefire violation, Pakistani troops on Saturday fired at Indian posts along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district but there was no loss of life or damage to property. Pak troops resorted...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
2 NATO troops die in Afghanistan, 1 in bomb blast
KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO says a bomb attack has killed one of its service members in southern Afghanistan, while another has died of non-battle related injuries. NATO provided no other details about Saturday's deaths, including the nationalities of...
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod
The ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture, left, before its official unveiling at the Olympic Park, London, Friday May 11, 2012
London, May 12 (IANS) Arcelor Mittal Orbit, the tallest sculpture in United Kingdom was unveiled in the Olympic park of London ahead of the Olympic Games Friday. The 114.5-metre-tall steel tower which is 22 metres taller than the Statue of...
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Dr. Lisa Sterman holds up a bottle of Truvada at her office in San Francisco, Thursday, May 10, 2012.
CHICAGO - Condoms and other safe-sex practices have accomplished only so much. Now the 30-year battle against AIDS is on the verge of a radical new phase, with the government expected to endorse a once-a-day pill to prevent infection with the virus....
photo: AP / Jeff Chiu

Protests in Madrid, Spain; updated 02 Feb 2012; published 17 May 2011
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Protests in Madrid, Spain
Zeenews 13 May 2012, Madrid: Thousands of Spaniards angered by their grim economic prospects and political handling of the international financial crisis turned out for street demonstrations in the country's cities on Saturday, marking the one-year anniversary of a movement that inspired similar pressure groups in other countries. Protesters in Madrid converged on the...

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Angela Merkel 'deeply regrets' resignation of German President Christian Wulff; updated 04 Apr 2012; published 17 Feb 2012
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Angela Merkel 'deeply regrets' resignation of German President Christian Wulff
The Australian 13 May 2012, CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel's party faces a drubbing in Germany's most populous state tonight in a snap election that could provide impetus to her main rivals in the countdown to 2013 national polls. A week after voters in Greece and France clearly plumped for anti-austerity policies, the citizens of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) could also...

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Bring out the dead: US troops pose with Afghan body parts; updated 11 May 2012; published 18 Apr 2012
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Bring out the dead: US troops pose with Afghan body parts
The Siasat Daily 12 May 2012, May 12: Four NATO soldiers lost their lives during separate incidents in restive southern Afghanistan, the military alliance said. "Two International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service members died following an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan today," the NATO-led ISAF said in a press release issued here Saturday evening, reported...

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Greek neonazi leader gives Hitler-style speech after the elections; updated 12 May 2012; published 06 May 2012
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Greek neonazi leader gives Hitler-style speech after the elections
BBC News 12 May 2012, Europe central bankers have been openly expressing views on the possibility of Greece leaving the eurozone as its leaders struggles to form a government. Germany's top banker said it was up to the Greeks to decide, but if they did not keep to their bailout commitments, they would receive no new aid. His counterpart in the Irish Republic said a...

Greek neonazi leader gives Hitler-style speech after the elections; updated 12 May 2012; published 06 May 2012
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Greek neonazi leader gives Hitler-style speech after the elections
San Francisco Chronicle 12 May 2012, Athens -- The ascendant leader of a left-wing party on Friday rejected calls to join a unity government, pushing Greece closer to new elections in a climate in which it is becoming increasingly difficult for any party to enforce Greece's debt deal with foreign creditors. Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left, or Syriza,...

Dec 28, 2011 Chavez Cancer of Latin American leaders could be provoked; updated 12 May 2012; published 29 Dec 2011
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Dec 28, 2011 Chavez Cancer of Latin American leaders could be provoked
Deccan Chronicle 12 May 2012, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home from Havana on Saturday, declaring success in his fight against cancer after a week in which he received what was supposed to be his last session of radiation therapy. "I have to tell you that in recent days...

Patriot Act, Liberty; Pakistan
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Patriot Act, Liberty; Pakistan "terrorism", Afghan "strategy", economic "recovery"; EU Behemoth
Wall Street Journal 12 May 2012, By MATTHEW DALTON BRUSSELS—The European Union sharply downgraded its forecasts for employment across the euro zone and predicted that the 17-nation bloc's economy will contract this year, further underscoring the difficult road troubled member countries will face keeping their reform plans on track and their budget deficits in check. The...

Afghan Attacks by Haqqani Network: Official; updated 18 Apr 2012; published 16 Apr 2012
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Afghan Attacks by Haqqani Network: Official
The Times of India 12 May 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetWASHINGTON: The leaders of US congressional intelligence committees, who recently returned from a trip to Afghanistan, urged secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Friday to immediately designate the militant Haqqani network as a "terrorist" group. US officials blame the al-Qaida-linked network for attacks in Afghanistan...

Bahrain: Human rights and arms sales; updated 04 May 2012; published 14 Feb 2012
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Bahrain: Human rights and arms sales
The Star 12 May 2012, WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will resume some military sales to Bahrain, a key Gulf ally facing Iran, despite human rights concerns linked to months of popular protests against the island kingdom's rulers, the State Department said on Friday. The Obama administration notified Congress that certain sales would be allowed for Bahrain's...

Lead Poisoning and Gold; updated 04 May 2012; published 09 Jan 2012
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Lead Poisoning and Gold
Al Jazeera 12 May 2012, A deadly lead poisoning outbreak that began two years ago in northern Nigeria continues to claim young victims even today, an aid agency official has said. Ivan Gayton of Doctors Without Borders criticised the government of oil-rich Nigeria on Thursday for not taking the threat seriously, despite 4,000 children already being sickened by the...

Bring out the dead: US troops pose with Afghan body parts; updated 11 May 2012; published 18 Apr 2012
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Bring out the dead: US troops pose with Afghan body parts
Toronto Sun 12 May 2012, TORONTO - NATO is not losing the war in Afghanistan. Canadians can be proud of all that has been accomplished there and feel some comfort that there are millions who have gained from our human losses. Of course those are just my opinions based on what I saw there late last year and through communications I still have with people still...

charles taylor - war criminal or man of peace,you be the judge / The Order 777; updated 28 Apr 2012; published 03 Jan 2010
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charles taylor - war criminal or man of peace,you be the judge / The Order 777
The Independent 12 May 2012, In submissions to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the former Liberian warlord's defence team complained that the 80-year term recommended by the prosecution was "vindictive and excessive". Furthermore, they pleaded for him not to be incarcerated in the UK, as is expected, because he would have to "intermix and interact with...

Greek neonazi leader gives Hitler-style speech after the elections; updated 12 May 2012; published 06 May 2012
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Greek neonazi leader gives Hitler-style speech after the elections
The Guardian 11 May 2012, Athens has become the centre of a storm as radical parties on the left and right challenge the old two-party system Greece has seen a dramatic increase in popularity of radical political parties on the left and right. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty...

Escobar: Al-Qaeda agents worm into Syrian rebel army; updated 09 May 2012; published 18 Feb 2012
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Escobar: Al-Qaeda agents worm into Syrian rebel army
Huffington Post 11 May 2012, TOKYO -- The head of Syria's main opposition group said Friday the twin suicide car bombings that killed 55 people in Damascus appeared to be the work of al-Qaida forces he said were linked to the regime of President Bashar Assad. Paris-based Burhan Ghalioun, chief of the opposition Syrian National Council, said the cease-fire brokered by U.N....





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