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Lebanon to vaccinate children after suspected polio cases in Syria
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Lebanon to vaccinate children after suspected polio cases in Syria
Arab Spring Reuters October 25, 2013 - 14:21 By Erika Solomon BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon, which hosts more than 700,000 Syrian refugees, said on Friday it would vaccinate all children under five... (photo: UN / Mark Garten)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon listens at a press conference during the 5th Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations at the Hofburg palace, in Vienna, Austria
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 Sun Star 
UN holds 1st high-level meeting on the disabled
UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a historic UN meeting of world leaders Monday "to break barriers and open doors" for the more than one billion disabled people around the world.... (photo: AP / Ronald Zak)
FILE - This undated frame grab image taken from files made available by IntelCenter and taken from a video posted on a pro-rebel Web site Wednesday March 31, 2010, purports to show Chechen militant leader Doku Umarov.  The Hindu 
Lessons for India from Olympic terror strike
Late this summer, the jihadist leader, Doku Umarov, delivered a grim warning to Russia. “They plan to hold the Olympics on the bones of our ancestors, on the bones of many, many dead Muslims,... (photo: AP / IntelCenter, File)
Photos   Wikipedia: Dokka Umarov   Jihadists   Suicide Bombing   Terrorism in Russia
Japanese Prime Minister and the Liberal Democratic Party leader, Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Monday, July 22, 2013.  South China Morning Post 
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe wants more patriotic tone in school textbooks
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's conservative government has begun to pursue a more openly nationalist agenda on an issue that critics fear will push the country further from its postwar pacifism: adding a... (photo: AP / Koji Sasahara)
Education   Photos   Politics   Tokyo   Wikipedia: Shinzō Abe
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British ten pound note,  £10 note, Bank of England, money currency seen in Manila, Philippines in this December 18, 2008 file photo. The Hindu
Dollar not alone, rupee breaches key levels across the board
As rupee’s record fall against the U.S. dollar continues to hog the limelight, it has also lost ground and breached key levels against a host of other currencies... (photo: WN / RTayco)
Currencies   Dollar   Photos   Rupee   Wikipedia: Pound sterling
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Gay Russians seek refuge in Canada
A Vancouver immigration lawyer says he has seen a jump in business from Russia after new anti-gay laws came into force. While it's still too soon to say whether a... (photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev)
Canada   Human Rights   Photos   Russia   Wikipedia: Gay
Cookbook page of corn recipe - cooking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Five 'Fresh' new cookbooks offer a pile of recipes
If there has been one buzzword for this spring's crop of cookbooks, it has to be "fresh." At one point I noticed enough new cookbooks with "fresh" in their titles to... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Book   Cooking   Photos   Recipes   Wikipedia: Cookbook
President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, walk at the Annenberg Retreat of the Sunnylands estate Saturday, June 8, 2013, in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The Star
Obama confronts Xi on cyber theft, affinity found on North Korea
RANCHO MIRAGE, California (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama confronted Chinese President Xi Jinping over allegations of cyber theft on Saturday but they agreed at a... (photo: AP / Evan Vucci)
China   Cyber   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Cyber-security regulation
his photo provided by Tourism Queensland shows a total solar eclipse observed on Green Island, Queensland state, Australia, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. Starting just after dawn, the eclipse cast its 150-kilometer (95-mile) shadow in Australia's Northern Territory, crossed the northeast tip of the country and was swooping east across the South Pacific, where no islands are in its direct path. Lexington Herald-Leader
'Ring of fire' eclipse crosses Australia, Pacific
SYDNEY — Skygazers across the Australian Outback were among the lucky few to witness a solar eclipse on Friday as the moon glided between the Earth and the sun,... (photo: AP / Tourism Queensland)
Photos   Science   Space   Sydney   Wikipedia: Solar eclipse
Daugaard-Jensen Glacier, feeding into Nordvestfjord/Scoresby Sund, Greenland (view from a helicopter flight about 5 miles inland from the calving line). The New York Times
Fresh Analysis of the Pace of Warming and Sea-Level Rise
Here are two useful articles assessing the latest thinking on the pace at which Greenland ice loss could raise sea levels and the implications of the recent plateau in... (photo: Creative Commons / Hannes Grobe, AWI)
Climate   Greenland   Photos   Scientists   Solomon   Wikipedia: List of glaciers of Iceland
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