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Breaking News Tue, 22 Oct 2013
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is surrounded by reporters after leaving the office of Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ken., on Capitol Hill on Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 in Washington. Reid reported progress toward a deal to avoid a threatened default and end a two-week partial government shutdown as President Barack Obama called congressional leaders to the White House to press for an end to the impasse. "We're getting closer," Reid told reporters.
Economy   Photos   Politics   Washington   Wikipedia: Harry Reid  
 NZ Herald 
Leaders' talks fail to bring US back from brink of default
The United States moved closer to a default that could seriously harm the economy as a partial government shutdown entered its third week. | Senate Democratic and Republican leaders remained at odds o... (photo: AP / Evan Vucci)
Ancient 'Strip Mall' Unearthed In Greece
Ancient   Archaeologists   Greece   Photos   Wikipedia: Ancient Greece  
 Huffington Post 
Ancient 'Strip Mall' Unearthed In Greece
Along the scenic coast of the northern Aegean Sea, archaeologists have uncovered a Greek portico, which, 2,500 years ago, would have been a bustling public space, something like an ancient strip mall.... (photo: WN / Marzena J.)
File - President Barack Obama, looks up at the ceiling of the Cabanas Cultural Center before a trilateral meeting with Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon at the North American Leaders' Summit in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Aug. 10, 2009.  New Straits/Business Times 
Mexico demands US answers on German media reports of spying
MEXICO CITY :Mexico has demanded answers from Washington following a report in a German weekly that US agents hacked into former president Felipe Calderon’s email account. | Der Spiegel cited docume... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
Edward Snowden   NSA Surveillance   PRISM Program   Photos   Wikipedia: PRISM (surveillance program)  
A supporter holds a picture of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong Thursday, June 13, 2013.  Stuff 
NSA delayed anti-leak software at Snowden base
The US National Security Agency failed to install the most up-to-date anti-leak software at a site in Hawaii before contractor Edward Snowden went to work there and downloaded tens of thousands of hig... (photo: AP / Kin Cheung)
Photos   Politics   Security   US   Wikipedia: Edward Snowden  
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In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2013, Rami Abdurrahman, gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Coventry, England. He's practically a one man band, but Rami Abdurrahman's influence extends far beyond his modest home in this small English city. The bald, bespectacled 42-year-old operates the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights from his house in the cathedral city of Coventry  and a review of recent media coverage suggests its running tally of killings and clashes is the most frequently cited individual source of information on Syria's civil war for the world's leading news organizations. Huffington Post
Rami Abdurrahman Feeds Western Media On Syria From England
COVENTRY, England -- COVENTRY, England (AP) — He's practically a one man band, but Rami Abdurrahman's influence extends far beyond his modest home in this small English... (photo: AP / Raphael Satter)
England   Photos   Politics   Syria   Wikipedia: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights  
Senator Marco Rubio speaking at the 2012 CPAC in Washington, D.C. Huffington Post
Marco Rubio Rewrites Government Shutdown History
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday attempted to distance himself from the government shutdown strategy he and other potential GOP presidential candidates i... (photo: Creative Commons / Gage Skidmore)
Photos   Politics   US   Washington   Wikipedia: Marco Rubio  
File - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, arrives to talk with the staff of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 20, 2011. The Observer
Hillary Clinton returns to the campaign trail, hinting at national agenda
Hillary Clinton speaks in support of Terry McAuliffe at the Falls Church rally. Photograph: Jose Luis Magana/AP | Hillary Clinton returned to the campaign trail on Saturd... (photo: US DoD / S.K. Vemmer)
2016 Election   Hillary Clinton   Photos   US Politics   Wikipedia: Hillary Rodham Clinton  
William bridge colors full light ,new york. The Wichita Eagle
New York threatens to end rental of apartments for vacations
In its impact on the ability of Americans to travel, no legislation could be more misguided or harmful than the ban against the short-term rental of apartments enacted in... (photo: WN / Periasamy)
Lawmakers   NewYork   Photos   Tourism   Vacations   Wikipedia: New York  
Wind turbines - wind energy - renewable energy Detroit Free Press
State's new tourist attraction? Like them or not, wind turbines
DELAWARE TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Whether they are beautiful or a blight on the landscape is beside the point. | Michigan’s wind farms are here, en masse. And travelers ca... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Attraction   Delaware   Photos   Tourism   Wikipedia: Delaware   Wind  
A life-guard stands next to a red flag meaning high hazard of high surf and/or strong currents as tropical storm Alex nears the region in the resort city of Cancun, Mexico, Saturday, June 26, 2010. Swissinfo
New storm off Mexico's Pacific coast threatens battered Acapulco
  | Reuters | October 20, 2013 - 05:12 | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico issued storm warnings on its Pacific coast on Saturday evening as a new tropical depression f... (photo: AP / Israel Leal)
Acapulco   Mexico   Pacific   Photos   Storm   Wikipedia: Mexico  
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, accompanied by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor  of Va., speaks to reporters after their closed GOP caucus meeting ahead of President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. South China Morning Post
House Speaker John Boehner emerges weakened from budget and debt fight
The debt and budget crisis that gripped Washington was the story of a Republican Party at war with itself. | Rebellious conservatives, over the objection of party moderat... (photo: AP / Charles Dharapak)
Debt   Photos   Politics   Washington   Wikipedia: John Boehner  
Snow In London 2013. The Observer
Future of London: the New York Times on the foreign rich buying up property
Aerial view of Tower Bridge and the River Thames at night. Photograph: Jason Hawkes/theguardian.com | Our neighbours Lauren and Matt and their kids moved out of London to... (photo: WN / Periasamy)
Future   London   Photos   Property   Times   Wikipedia: London  
Mexican soldiers take part in a shootout during which Eduardo Arellano Felix, leader of Tijuana-based drug cartel, was captured together with his daughter in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008. Soldiers arrested the leader of the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel after a shootout in a middle-class neighborhood of the border city across from San Diego, Mexico's Defense Department announcedSunday, Oct. 26 The Times Of India
Former Mexican drug lord killed: Report
MEXICO CITY: The former head of a major Mexican drug cartel was shot dead by an unknown gunman at a family party on Friday night, newspapers said. | Francisco Rafael Arel... (photo: AP / Guillermo Arias)
Drug War in Mexico   Francisco Arellano Felix   Photos   Tijuana Drug Cartel   Wikipedia :Francisco Arellano Felix  
File - President Barack Obama meets with the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, including Caucus Chair Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., in Room 350 of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, July 23, 2013. Al Jazeera
The US debt crisis: Mission postponed
This week, the US Congress finally passed a measure to avert a threatened default and reopen the federal government, a move aimed at ending a prolonged crisis that has gr... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
Barack Obama   Debt Ceiling   Photos   US Shutdown   Wikipedia: United States federal government shutdown of 2013  
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and British Prime Minister, David Cameron in one on one meeting at Prime Minister's House, Islamabad on 30th June, 2013 The Siasat Daily
Sharif visit to U.S. 'short of expectations', but hopeful about economic support
Islamabad, October 19: | Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be visiting Washington, but not with any grand expectations, except for hopes of getting economic assi... (photo: Press Information Dept. of Pakistan)
Pakistan Muslim League   Pakistani   Photos   Washington   Wikipedia: Nawaz Sharif  
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File - President Barack Obama, looks up at the ceiling of the Cabanas Cultural Center before a trilateral meeting with Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon at the North American Leaders' Summit in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Aug. 10, 2009.
Mexico demands US answers on German media reports of spying
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A supporter holds a picture of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong Thursday, June 13, 2013.
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