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Musical world celebrates Wagners 200th birthday
BAYREUTH, Germany--Opera houses the world over are scrambling to pay tribute to Richard Wagner, the controversial German composer often referred to as Hitler's favorite, who would have turned 200 this ...
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Dubai laborers stage rare strike for more pay
DUBAI (Reuters) - Thousands of workers employed by Dubai's largest construction firm, Arabtec, stayed away from work on Sunday to back wage demands, a rare labor protest in the Gulf emirate, where trade unions are banned, staff ...
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Nigeria offers amnesty to insurgents who surrender
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria offered an amnesty on Sunday to Islamist militants who surrender and said 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush the Boko Haram insurgency in the country's ...
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Tunisian Islamist protester killed in clash with police
TUNIS (Reuters) - One protester died and several were injured when Tunisian Islamists defied a ban on their demonstration and clashed with police on ...
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Photos Kingfisher Shows Off Fishing Skills
This accomplished hunter shows off her skills as she plucks a number of small fish from the water. On numerous occasions the colorful kingfisher dived into the pond and grabbed an unsuspecting minnow from the ...
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Israeli seeks interim deal with Palestinians
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's senior coalition partner says that reaching a final peace agreement with the Palestinians is unrealistic at the current time and the sides should instead pursue an interim ...
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Nigeria military 17 killed during offensive
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigeria's military says its offensive against insurgents in the country's restive northeast has killed at least 14 suspected Islamic extremists and three ...
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Slim broadcasters take fight to soccer field
Mexicans often feel that billionaire Carlos Slim owns everything in their country, from telephone and Internet companies to banks and chain stores, but his latest acquisitive foray is meeting resistance after touching a national passion: ...
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Israel acts to deny Hezbollah arms says PM Netanyahu
Israel is "acting" to prevent weapons from Syria from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah and will continue to do so, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on ...
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US robots Israeli drones to help make 2014 World Cup in Brazil one of safest sporting events ever
World Cup 2014 Brazil has added 30 US military robots to the Israeli drones and 'Robocop-style' glasses with face recognition cameras to its arsenal after the country allocated $900 million to make 2014 World Cup "one of the most protected sports events in history." The 30 PackBot 510 units, which usually cost between $100,000 and $200,000 apiece, will arrive in Brazil as ...
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Could honeybees save Europe from land mines Croatian scientists believe so
In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013 photo, bees gather at a glass filed with a solution containing traces of explosives, during a scientific experiment at the Faculty of Agriculture at Zagreb University. Croatian researches, working on a unique method to find unexploded mines that are littering their country and the rest of the Balkans, are confident they can use bees for detecting land mines. (AP ...
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Jailed Russian oligarch granted appeal
RUSSIA'S Supreme Court says it will hear an appeal against the second conviction of jailed oil tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail ...
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Scandals not hurting Obamas approval rating
The survey of 923 adults by CNN and the ORC International polling organization found that 45 per cent of respondents disapprove of Mr Obama's job performance.In early April, the same poll gave the president a 51 per cent approval rating, showing that Mr Obama is holding steady despite a brutal week in which the White House attempted to control damage from three simultaneous scandals which ...
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Hezbollah steps up Syria battle Israel threatens more strikes
AMMAN (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah militants attacked a Syrian rebel-held town alongside Syrian troops on Sunday and Israel threatened more attacks on Syria to rein the militia in, highlighting the risks of a wider regional conflict if planned peace talks ...
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Cairo airport baggage handlers end strike that left passengers on 20 flights waiting
CAIRO - Cairo airport officials say baggage handlers have resumed work after a strike that left passengers on 20 international flights from Europe and Arab countries waiting several hours for luggage. Baggage handlers went on strike Saturday afternoon to demand stronger safety measures after a colleague died when a conveyer belt used to unload luggage fell on his head. His EgyptAir co-workers ...
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Israeli government report disputes French TV claim about Gaza boys death in 2000
JERUSALEM - Israel has completed an investigation into a decade-old French TV report that claimed Israeli forces killed a Palestinian boy in a gunbattle with Palestinian militants, saying the video was misleading and unfairly blamed Israel. France 2 network's images from Sept. 30, 2000, days after a Palestinian uprising erupted, allegedly showed the death of Mohammed al-Dura, cowering with ...
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Video The bells are still ringing for the last 1000 years
Allen Pizzey visits Agnone, a town in Italy that owes its success to never changing the design of the bells they've been making for a thousand ...
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College Role Terrified Kerry Washington
Kerry Washington returns to her alma mater to address graduates at the George Washington University's Commencement ceremony on the National Mall on May 19, ...
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South Korea The little dynamo that sneaked up on the world
South Korea, long in the shadow of other Asian 'tiger economies,' is suddenly hip and enormously prosperous - so much so that it may have outgrown its thankless dream of reuniting with the ...
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Algerian editor accuses government of censorship
Hicham Aboud, editor of the My Journal and Djaridati newspapers, said that happened after he rejected an order from the Communication Ministry on Saturday night to remove an article from the papers that claimed hospitalized President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had slipped into a ...
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Scientists unravel secret world of mammoths from clues in ivory tusks
The first time I met palaeontologist Dan Fisher was in a hotel in the Arctic frontier town of Salekhard, in Siberia. I was there to film an expedition to recover a new mammoth specimen with a BBC crew. We were keen to head north into the tundra of the Yamal Peninsula, where we'd heard new mammoth carcasses had been discovered. After sharing a large Mi-8 helicopter with a load of ...
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NZ ready to aid Middle East deal
Foreign Minister Murray McCully will tomorrow offer the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, New Zealand's assistance in the event that he can broker a breakthrough agreement between Israel and Palestine on a two-state solution. Mr Kerry has had an intense focus on the region with three visits there since taking over from Hillary Clinton in February. Mr McCully is scheduled to have his first ...
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Li wins world title completes grand slam
PARIS, France (AFP) - China's Li Xiaoxia claimed her maiden world championship title in Paris on Sunday to complete a career grand slam after defeating compatriot Liu Shiwen in an enthralling final.Runner-up to Ding Ning in 2011 and four years earlier to Guo Yue, Li went one step further in the French capital with an 11-8, 4-11, 11-7, 12-10, 6-11, 13-11 victory at the Bercy Arena.Liu ...
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EU Leader Federal Europe to Become a Reality
Jose Manuel Barroso, the most powerful leader in the European Union, says Europe will become a united political federation within the next few years. The European Commission president is laying out plans for an "intensified political union" that matches the economic cooperation in the EU. That includes plans for an elected "president of Europe." "This is about the ...
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Spy-accused US man leaves Moscow
One man is threatening to lift the veil of secrecy that surrounds Coca Cola's 'secret formula' as he claims to publish a copy of the original recipe in a new ...
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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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