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Wednesday, 05 February 2014

Obama to visit Saudi Arabia amid tensions over Iran, Syria

US President Barack Obama plans to travel to Saudi Arabia in March on a mission to smooth tensions with Washington's main Arab ally over US policy on Iran's nuclear program and the civil war in Syria, a newspaper reported. Obama is preparing to meet with King Abdullah for a summit, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing unnamed Arab officials briefed on...

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'Monuments Men' parts inspired by real WWII-era people Stars and Stripes

DALLAS — The characters in the new George Clooney film "The Monuments Men" were inspired by real people who worked to save cultural treasures across Europe during World War II. Filmmakers fictionalized some of the characters, but the Dallas-based Monuments Men Foundation for the...

Review backs longest execution Stuff

Initial reviews of an execution in which an inmate repeatedly gasped and took 26 minutes to die found no reason to...

Wright-Patterson AFB closes for 3rd time this winter Stars and Stripes

A winter storm that barreled into the Miami Valley has shuttered Wright-Patterson for the third time this winter. Southwest Ohio received a blast of snow and ice accumulation Tuesday and into early Wednesday morning, making travel hazardous and...

Panama Canal expansion halted amid dispute Al Jazeera

Expansion work on the Panama Canal has been suspended as negotiations between the Spanish company leading the works and the waterway's authority broke down. Scheduled to be completed next year, the project has been bedevilled by disputes over costs. Negotiations over who should pay an extra...

US northeast struggles to cope with snow Stuff

The latest in a series of winter storms hit the United States on Wednesday (local time), threatening to drop up to a foot (30 cm) of snow in central New England, snarling travel and eating into supplies of salt needed to keep roads clear. Officials in New York and New Jersey warned they were...

BLACKROCK LATIN AMERICAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC - Net Asset Value(s) (BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust plc) noodls

(Source: BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust plc) NET ASSET VALUE BLACKROCK LATIN AMERICAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC The unaudited net asset values for BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust plc at close of...

Cloud Computing is Fundamental for Reducing Inequality (ECLAC - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) noodls

(Source: ECLAC - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) (4 February 2014) To keep making progress on reducing poverty and inequality, we must pay attention to the goods and services markets of modern technology, in particular those linked to information and communications, Mario...

First major US drugstore drops cigarettes Al Jazeera

CVS Caremark has announced that it will stop selling tobacco products at its 7,600 stores by October, becoming the first national drugstore chain in the US to take cigarettes off the shelf. Public health experts called the decision by the country's second largest drugstore chain a...

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