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Saturday, 14 September 2013

Hundreds rescued by National Guard as muddy mountain floods hit Colorado

The rescue of hundreds of people stranded by epic mountain flooding in Colorado has been stepped up as food and water supplies run low. Meanwhile thousands more were driven from their homes on the plains as debris-filled rivers became muddy seas inundating towns and farms miles from the Rockies. For the first time since the harrowing mountain floods began on Wednesday,...

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Overpopulation Is Not the Problem The New York Times

BALTIMORE — MANY scientists believe that by transforming the earth’s natural landscapes, we are undermining the very life support systems that sustain us. Like bacteria in a petri dish, our exploding numbers are reaching the limits of a finite planet, with dire consequences. Disaster looms as humans...

EU to quicken pace on Single Resolution Mechanism Xinhua

VILNIUS, Lithuania, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- European Union finance ministers and central bank governors on Friday expressed their intention to quicken the progress of Single Resolution Mechanism, which is the second step in building a genuine Banking Union in Europe. According to a statement by...

Four charged over bank plot bid Belfast Telegraph

Four men have been charged over an attempt to take control of computers at a bank branch to steal millions of pounds, Scotland Yard said. Police thwarted the cyber gang after one of the plotters allegedly posed as an engineer to fit a computer in a branch of Santander with a "keyboard video mouse"...

UN report boosts Assam's fight against Bangla influx The Times of India

GUWAHATI: The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) report in which the UN, for the first time, has termed the exodus of Bangladeshis into India as "the single largest bilateral stock of international migrants" in the eastern hemisphere has provided teeth to the Assam...

U.S. Backs Off Syria Strike for More Talk Wall Street Journal

By JAY SOLOMON and CAROL E. LEE CONNECT Enlarge Image Close GENEVA—The Obama administration took two steps back from its push for a prompt attack on Syria, allowing several weeks more for diplomacy on eliminating Syrian chemical weapons and acknowledging that an eventual United Nations resolution...

Pakistan, Yemen And Afghanistan Have Children Too, And They Are Being Killed by Our Drones Huffington Post

The death of a child -- any child -- is always painful and shocking. The awful gassing of children in Syria breaks the heart and tortures the soul. We all should and must speak up about this outrage. But the deaths of 178 Pakistani children by American drones must also be acknowledged. We must put...

Family of Pablo Escobar attempt to register his name as a brand The Daily Telegraph

The family of Pablo Escobar, a cocaine lord venerated by Colombia's poor and hunted relentlessly by police, are attempting to register his name as a commercial brand. Pablo Escobar Photo: AP AFP 12:35AM BST 14 Sep 2013 Comments But a government body overseeing intellectual property has ruled...

Colo flooding prompts evacuation of thousands more Grand Junction Sentinel

LYONS, Colo. (AP) — This is what Associated Press reporters on the scene Friday are learning about unfolding events: 1:56 p.m. MDT The football game between Fresno State and Colorado is being postponed because of the flooding devastating the state. Chancellor Philip DiStefano said the...