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File - Cattle: Tagged cows in an enclosure.

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Cattle drugs could fuel climate change, study suggests

Dosing farm animals with antibiotics increases greenhouse gas emissions from cow dung, research suggests. Scientists say the drugs boost methane production in cowpats - apparently by favouring antibiotic-resistant, methane-producing organisms in the gut. Antibiotics also change the microbes which inhabit dung beetles, although apparently with no adverse effects. The researchers

Dutch Finance Minister and chair of the eurogroup finance ministers Jeroen Dijsselbloem, center, and Belgium's Finance Minister Johan Van Overtveldt, right, talk with Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble during an EU eurogroup meeting at the EU Council building in Brussels on Monday May 9, 2016.

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Eurozone in 'breakthrough' Greece deal

Eurozone finance ministers agree to extend a further bailout loan to Greece as well as debt relief, in what they call a "major breakthrough". ...

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Brexit could add two years to austerity, IFS says

The UK could face an extra two years of austerity measures if it votes to leave the EU, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said. The consensus of economists was that the UK economy would shrink after a Brexit, the think tank said. It warned ministers could react to a post-Brexit GDP fall with either deeper cuts, or by extending them. But Andrea Leadsom, the energy

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad greets Russian President Vladimir Putin

ISIS strikes in Assad territory are exposing Syria and Russia's weaknesses

War of attrition Now even that best hope has been shaken by the IS bombings. The reaction on the ground was telling: angry residents reportedly attacked some of the more than 500,000 displaced Syrians near Jableh and Tartous, and tents were burned in a camp, injuring refugees. The governor of Tartous Province pleaded for calm: “Please do not

Taliban confirms leader’s death, announce Hebatullah as new chief

The Taliban militants group confirmed the death of the group’s

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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Turkey Parliament will veto if no visa-free travel

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned the European Union that his country's parliament would block laws related to a deal to stem the flow of migrants to Europe, if Ankara was not granted its key demand of visa-free travel. ...

A Sri Lankan coast guard officer, right, evacuates a man from a flood-affected area in Wellampitiya, outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, May 20, 2016.

Sri Lanka floods: Death toll reaches 101 as waters recede

Colombo: Floods subsided across Sri Lanka revealing the full extent of damage from last week’s deluge that also triggered landslides, officials said, as the death toll crossed 100. The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said 101 people were known to have died last week while another 100 people were still listed as missing in the worst hit

A-bomb survivors to attend Obama's Hiroshima memorial

TOKYO: Survivors of the American nuclear bombing of Hiroshima will be present when US President Barack Obama lays a wreath at ground zero this week, reports said on Wednesday. Former United States prisoners of war captured by the Japanese will also attend the event, the Yomiuri Shimbun said, with US officials hoping their presence will

Cigarette smoking increases risk of heart attack - it is injurious to health

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Indonesian 8-year-olds could be picking the tobacco in your cigarettes

(CNN)Thousands of children as young as eight are working in hazardous conditions on tobacco farms in Indonesia, putting them at risk of cancer, respiratory problems and nicotine poisoning, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report claims child tobacco workers are being exposed to nicotine, toxic chemicals and extreme heat throughout Indonesia, the

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Syria: Islamic State's stronghold Raqqa city attacked in twin assault, Iraq piles pressure

--> Islamic State had declared self-styled "caliphate" straddling the Syrian-Iraqi border in 2014, the attack on Tuesday was an effort to make their stand clear against the group. Kurdish-Arab forces launched a major assault against the Islamic State group in Syria's Raqa province on Tuesday and Iraqi forces advanced on it in Fallujah, piling pressure on the jihadists in

File - An Afghan child and his donkey walk through the Froj Village in the Panjshir Province, Afghanistan during a visit by members of the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team on Jan. 02, 2010.

'My grandsons fight to avenge their father': child soldiers in Afghanistan

Despite government pledges to rid its armed forces of children, the number of minors recruited to fight is rising

People wave from along the street as President Barack Obama passed by in a motorcade after arriving in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 24, 2016.

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President Obama says 'things are going to be OK' after 2016 election

Hi Chi Minh City, Vietnam (CNN)President Obama told an audience of young Vietnamese leaders that Americans usually "correct course" after making mistakes, referring to the divisive 2016 presidential race. "One of the great things about the United States is that even when it makes mistakes it's able to adjust and recognize our mistakes and we correct course and take different

In this June 27, 2012, file photo, Donald Trump stands on the 14th fairway during a pro-am round of the AT&T National golf tournament at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md.

Donald Trump calls global warming a hoax - until it threatens his golf course

Donald Trump has mixed feelings about climate change. In January 2014, he publicly wondered how the United States could be spending

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Ban Ki-Moon Fuels Presidential Speculation With South Korea Trip

Ban Ki-Moon was due to arrive in South Korea on Wednesday for a six-day visit that has fuelled speculation the UN chief is lining up a tilt at the presidency of his home country.

File - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, now Quartet Representative for Middle East peace, addresses the Gaza Donors Conference in Cairo, Egypt, on October 12, 2014.

Blair expresses regret over the Iraq War

Britain and the US underestimated the "forces of destabilisation" that would emerge in Iraq after the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair admitted. ...

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Court reinstates lawsuits alleging collusion by big banks

NEW YORK (AP) -- Lawsuits against 16 of the world's largest banks alleging they colluded to manipulate the primary benchmark for global short-term interest rates have been reinstated by a federal appeals court that found Monday that a judge had rejected the litigation too quickly. Saying it wasn't a close call,

Complex Challenges Need ‘Connected’ Solutions, Deputy Secretary-General Says, Stressing They Cannot Be Dealt With in ‘Silos’ (UN - United Nations)

(Source: UN - United Nations) Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson's remarks on 'Reducing Humanitarian Needs: Peacebuilding and the Prevention of Violent Conflicts', as prepared for delivery in Istanbul, Turkey, today: Thank you for coming together to discuss how we can reduce humanitarian needs through peacebuilding and the prevention of conflicts. This

File - Refugees line up for registration at the temporary registration center of the southern German border town Passau, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015.

Nationalist Party Seeks Limits On German Muslims' Religious Freedom

Weeks after declaring that there is no place for Islam in Germany, a surging nationalist party has sharpened its rhetoric against prominent Islamic groups and suggested limiting the religious freedom of the more than 4 million Muslims in the country, The Associated Press reports. Senior members of Alternative for Germany cut short a meeting Monday with the Central Council of

2016-05-24
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Facebook Changing Guidelines for Trending Topics After Probe

Facebook is changing how it determines which news stories are “trending,” after recent allegations of political bias in its selections. The company said it will no longer require stories to appear on sites considered

I-40 near the New Mexico border. The construction of the 360-mile (579 km) route of I-40 across Arizona took nearly 25 years to complete with the last segment being completed in 1984, much longer than the ambitious goal of finishing by 1972.

Illegal immigrant border crossings surge to highest level in nearly two years

The number of illegal immigrants crossing the southwestern border surged in April, reaching the highest point in nearly two years as Central American families and children traveling alone continued to test the Obama administration's border controls. More than 38,000 illegal immigrants were caught in April, U.S. Customs and Border Protection ... ...

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Rare Mental Illness Causes People To Believe They're Real-Life Zombies

Obama Plans To Release Massive Cache Of UFO Files Prior To Leaving Office

[VIDEO]: Israeli Start-Up Invents Facial Analysis Tool To Identify Terrorists, Pedophiles

UN ends sanctions on Liberia

George Osborne's Google Tax Deal Spotlighted By UK For French Raid

Greece Reaches Landmark $11.5 Billion Debt Deal With IMF

Assange Denied Detention Hearing By Swedish Court