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Seven Cubans to participate in World Judo Masters
Five female and two male Cuban judokas will participate in the 2013 World Judo Masters tournament, to be held in Russia's Tuymen city. The team is led by Idalis Ortiz, 2012 Olympic champion in the over 78 kg category, as well as London 2012 silver medallists Yanet Bermoy (52 kg category) and Asley Gonzalez (90 kg), reports Xinhua. Ortiz is ranked world No.1 in her class, while Gonzales is ...
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EU regulators seek tax transparency from companies
The European Commission said Thursday that it is working on a proposal to require corporate giants with operations in the European Union to publicly report profits, taxes paid and subsidies received on a country-by-country basis. Representatives of the 27 member-states agreed to seek ways to prevent multinationals from avoiding their obligations by channeling profits through subsidiaries in ...
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UN plans six-day mission to Afghanistan Pakistan
Beijing, May 24 (Xinhua-ANI): Humanitarian emergency directors from various UN agencies will travel on a six-day mission to Afghanistan and Pakistan, the United Nations said Thursday. During the visit from May 26 to June 1, the directors will see for themselves "the ongoing humanitarian operations in the countries and look into ways in which the humanitarian community can strengthen its ...
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An international political strategy for Ford Australia workers
The pending shutdown of Ford Australia's operations is part of a vast restructuring of the international auto industry that is devastating the jobs, wages and conditions of car workers around the world. It raises the necessity for the working class to respond with its own global political strategy, based on a socialist and internationalist perspective, in defence of its independent ...
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Split on gay marriage and Europe UK Tories rescued by Labour Party
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition managed to pass its Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill in parliament this week, but only after making an eleventh-hour plea to Labour.The legislation, supposedly placing marriage between same-sex partners and heterosexuals on an equal footing, was passed by 366 to 161 and will now go to the House of Lords.However, 133 Tory MPs voted against the bill, ...
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The well-styled world of Chromeo’s Dave Macklovitch
The frontman of New York-based musical outfit Chromeo, Dave 1, also known as David Macklovitch, is as well-known in style circles for his spot-on sartorial approach as he is for his band's electro-funk beats.This week, the Montreal musician cemented his tastemaker status with the launch of a capsule collection that he co-designed with the Canadian men's e-tailer Frank & ...
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Google to develop wireless in third world
Google is developing wireless internet systems to deploy in South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to give web access to one billion more people, a report ...
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International Bowl Invitational to kick off in Sanya
The 2013 International Bowl Invitational and National Bowl Championships will be held from June 5 to 9 in Sanya, according to local sports authorities on Saturday.Three hundred and fifty players from all over the country will join in the two events, which will be shown to the spectators both on the lawn and beach and are also considered as a way to select national team players for the Asian ...
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Bridging differences between the West and the Muslim world seeing past religion and through culture
One among too many who have turned ignorance into hatred, Islamophobic Anders Behring Breivik killed over 70 people through terror attacks in 2011 in Norway. From the ...
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Lebanese singer Razan introduces dubstep to the Arab World with new video
Who would have thought that scandalous Razan would be the one introducing dubstep to the Arab world? The Lebanese bombshell Razan Moghrabi had been trying to lay low ...
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Intense training tests aid workers mettle
International aid workers are heading to a small Ontario township to come face-to-face with child soldiers, militia groups and other threats they'll face as they carry out their work. As civilian aid workers go abroad to help victims of war and natural diasters, they often become victims themselves. They're easy prey for the violence and corruption endemic in many regions they enter, ...
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Photos Recent bridge collapses around the world
Rescue workers at the site where a bridge under construction collapsed in Trondheim, Norway, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. One person is confirmed killed in the accident, and one person still ...
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Racist attack on stars grave
THE grave of Hollywood star Michael Clarke Duncan has been vandalised in an apparent racial attack, say the Green Mile star's ...
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Baby scam tricked clients to look pregnant
She had spent many years trying to conceive and now, at 61, she was finally with child, twins in fact - or so she thought.Even when it came time to give birth, the woman still believed she was an expectant mother. She went back to the midwife, was given seeds to chew and started feeling drowsy.The woman, Desope Cecilia, says the midwife told her to start pushing and that soon after she heard the ...
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Militants attacks kill 9 in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A pair of suspected militant attacks killed nine people in two different areas of northwest Pakistan on Friday, police ...
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Worlds tallest structure with down-to-earth purpose
Futurists who have been predicting "exponential growth" in mankind's technological development might just give a "we told you so" shrug on hearing the news that the world's next tallest building will only take six or seven months to construct. The rest of us can only marvel. The "future" seems to be coming so fast that in some places it appears to be ...
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Elite school in sex abuse apology
Thomas Kelly wrote that the "unconscionable betrayals of trust never should have happened".The letter also said the school's board would axe a position of trustee emeritus and create an advisory board on student safety.The school said a private mediation report produced 31 impact statements by abused pupils and that settlements had been reached "with the great majority" ...
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Fierce fighting between Alawites and Sunnis in Tripoli Lebanon brings Syrian war home
Syria Street - an aptly named thoroughfare that divides Tripoli's two warring neighbourhoods of Bab el-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen - whence came a single sniper's round."It hit me in the buttock and the side but I kept driving to safety, 200 metres and the pain was terrible, but I made it to a shop doorway where I collapsed." The bullet came from Jabal Mohsen, the Alawite ...
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Stockholm unrest may spread across Europe warns Red Cross chief
Speaking ahead of hosting the Champions League final tonight, the ITV presenter Adrian Chiles said that the biggest English clubs cannot match the vocal support produced by fans in other parts of Europe and appealed to clubs to consider lowering ticket ...
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Toronto’s mayor Rob Ford denies taking crack
Rob Ford has denied accusations of drug use, breaking a week-long silence over a raging media storm surrounding a video that allegedly shows him partaking of ...
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Syria opposition unity talks face specter of collapse
ISTANBUL - Syrian opposition talks aimed at presenting a coherent front at an international peace conference to end the civil war faced the prospect of collapse after President Bashar al-Assad's foes failed to cut an internal deal, opposition sources said on ...
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Ex-Guatemala president extradited to US
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan funds through U.S. bank ...
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Tornado Alley Life in the cross hairs
>Editor's note: John Sutter, the human rights columnist for CNN Opinion, is from Oklahoma City. Follow him on Twitter -- @jdsutter -- for continued updates about the tornado. E-mail him at ctl@cnn.com. Oklahoma City (CNN) -- Nancy ...
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World Bank Pledges to Listen with Heart and Soul to Indigenous Peoples But Intergovernmental Organizations Permanent Forum Members Sceptical
told the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues today, as meeting participants scrutinized the expressed commitments and project portfolios launched and supervised by global and regional financial ...
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Worlds largest Lego model unveiled in NY
The world's largest Lego model, a replica of a Star Wars spacecraft, has been unveiled in New York's Times Square.It took 32 builders 17,000 hours and five million Lego bricks to build the one-to-one-scale replica of a Star Wars X-Wing starfighter, which was three metres tall and 13 metres long.The model, which weighs more than 20,000 kilograms, was built in a Lego Model Shop in the ...
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Dallas city core development hindered by roadways
The Dallas freeway loop is a series of highways that wrap round the center of Downtown Dallas, built at a time when the inter-connectivity of neighborhoods was not yet appreciated, but with changing attitudes, a series of projects are underway to enhance the appeal of downtown.
Downtown Dallas, it’s the heart of the city, which is the commercial hub of Dallas County and the third largest city in Texas and the ninth largest in the entire United States. Yet, this area’s full potential has been hindered by a zoning decision in the 1980s that saw major freeways routed through the city and created a complex ring of highways (the Dallas freeway loop) around the core downtown area. Read more
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