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Kenya’s finance minister and head of civil service have resigned their positions following the International Criminal Court’s recent decision to proceed with their cases.  The two are among four suspects who must stand trial for crimes against humanity in connection with the country’s post-election violence several years ago.  The two suspects have come under increasing pressure to step aside.

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Syrian rights activists say government security forces have stormed a suburb of the capital that has been a hub for protests during the 10-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a large number of troops entered Douma Thursday morning.  The group had reported army deserters took control of the town on Saturday. Photo Gallery:

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The founder of a French company that makes breast implants linked to a health scare was arrested Thursday, the French national police said. Jean-Claude Mas, founder of Poly Implant Protheses, or PIP, was detained in Six-Fours-les-Plages, near Toulon in southern France, police said. PIP Director Claude Couty was arrested around the same time in nearby La Seyne-sur-Mer, and investigators

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President Barack Obama devoted a relatively small portion of his State of the Union Address on Tuesday to U.S. foreign policy issues. Mr. Obama emphasized progress against al-Qaida and support for the Arab Spring democracy movement, and responded to criticism from Republican presidential hopefuls that America's global influence has declined under his leadership. Foreign policy did not dominate

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Since Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860, the new two party system has gone through 3 distinct presidential phases, Republicans dominated in the first and third, Democrats in the 2nd. We may now be in the fourth, another Democratic era. The president’s State of the Union address last night suggests he agrees with our thesis. Many conservative columnists, talk show hosts, digital bloggers, and

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The Arab Spring appears not to have sprung into sub-Saharan Africa, where journalists face increasing repression while trying to cover anti-government protests. In its 2011-2012 Worldwide Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders cites Angola, Uganda and Malawi as cases in point. The group also ranked Eritrea as the worst country for press freedom in the world. However, not all the news

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Safely tucked away in a private room of the diocese headquarters, a mysterious masterpiece is causing quite a stir in Buffalo, N.Y. A rare religious relic, an intricate starburst tapestry, was recently rediscovered after being hidden for more than a century. "We assume that something as elaborate as this had to come from the Holy Father." says Monsignor James F. Campbell. That is the only

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First-quarter profits more than doubled year-on-year to $13.1bn (£8.4bn), leading the company's share price to jump 6.65pc to $448.5 per share in early trading. At that price, Apple has a market cap of around $418bn, which would see it once again surpass oil giant Exxon to become the world's most valuable company. Exxon shares dipped on Wednesday to give it a market cap of $415bn. Sales of

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A New Zealand court denied bail Wednesday to the founder of the shuttered file-sharing site Megaupload, whose extradition is being sought by the U.S. Department of Justice. Kim Dotcom, who is also known as Kim Schmitz, will remain in custody until at least February 22, when an extradition hearing is to be held, the court said. U.S. authorities shut down Megaupload last week and announced

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The Kenyan government has put together a team of 10 lawyers to advise it on how to respond to Monday's ruling by the International Criminal Court. The court said four prominent Kenyans - including the deputy prime minister - must stand trial for alleged crimes against humanity. There is also talk of setting up a structure in Kenya's judicial system to deal with other Kenyans accused of roles in

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The finance ministers focused on Greece's perilous financial state and the difficulties the Athens government is having concluding negotiations with its private creditors to cut about $130 billion in debt Greece owes them. Rehn said an agreement between Greece and the large financial institutions "is very near." The financial institutions said they would not voluntarily accept more than a 50

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Pakistan's upper house of parliament passed a resolution demanding Pervez Musharraf be arrested and tried for treason for unconstitutional acts during his regime, a senator said. The resolution is not binding, but is symbolic and shows the will of the senate, said Muhammad Ibrahim Khan. The resolution, passed Monday, is part of ongoing pressure on Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup and

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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid a 14 percent effective income tax rate in 2010 after making $3 million in tax-deductible charitable donations and drawing most of his income from investments, according to a summary of Romney's 2010 tax form provided by his campaign. Romney reported $21.7 million in income. He paid $3 million in federal taxes, slightly more than the $2.98 million he

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President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union Address on Tuesday to a joint session of the U.S. Congress.  Mr. Obama hopes to point the way forward for the nation's economic recovery, frame the political debate with opposition Republicans and make a strong case to Americans to reelect him this year. This will be Mr. Obama's third State of the Union Address.  Each to a great extent has

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Tough new rules are expected to be announced on Wednesday, and are likely to enlarge on plans leaked in November. Europe's data laws have not been significantly amended since 1995. Viviane Reding, vice president of the European Commission, said in a speech yesterday that the new data-protection legislation was needed to protect users and cut red tape for businesses in Europe. "Only if consumers

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Tensions are high and security has been tightened in Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria, where police on Monday discovered 10 car bombs and hundreds of other unexploded devices as the death toll from Friday's coordinated attacks continues to rise. Authorities now say at least 184 people, the vast majority of them civilians, died in the bombings and shootings that have been blamed on the

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As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver his annual address to Congress, many goals he outlined in previous State of the Union speeches remain unfulfilled. From reforming immigration laws to meeting monthly with congressional leaders of both parties, the promises fell victim to congressional opposition or faded in face of other priorities as the unruly realities of governing set in. For

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Friday's deadly bomb attacks in Nigeria's second largest city, Kano, are the latest in a series of spectacular strikes by the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram. The coordinated series of assaults on police stations and other government offices killed at least 200 people. The rise of Boko Haram is sparking concerns that Africa's most populous country may be edging closer to civil war. Nigeria's

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An Arizona couple who committed suicide last month planned to lure sheriff's deputies to their remote, desert home and kill as many as possible before ending their own lives, a top local law enforcement official said, as an eerie series of videos the couple made was released this week. Yuma County investigators found elaborate plans, both in writing and in video, in a blast-protected area after

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The United States is ready to lift economic sanctions against Burma if the country’s civilian government presses ahead on political reforms including free and fair elections this April. The call was made by a visiting delegation of senior U.S. senators, led by Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, who made a stop in Bangkok on their way to Burma.  Before the United States makes a final

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The death toll from Friday's bomb attacks in Nigeria's second largest city, Kano, is at least 131 and may be more than 150. The scarred city was under a strict curfew for the second night as shell-shocked police tried to come to terms with the loss of colleagues, as well as the security lapse that allowed at least six teams of attackers to strike so sytematically. Kano is under a news blackout

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More than a thousand stranded people, cold and fearful, escaped blankets of snow and slippery roads Saturday after the Indian air force ferried them to warmer climates. In all,1,100 people on the sole highway linking the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir's winter and summer capitals -- Srinagar and Jammu -- were airlifted out of misery. People had been waiting for days for the treacherous

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Like many members of Congress, I have spoken to constituents and organizations across the country with questions about the Stop Online Piracy Act, a bill that makes it harder for foreign thieves to steal and sell U.S. technology and products. What I have found from those conversations is that once people learn the facts about what the Stop Online Piracy Act really does, they drop their opposition

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In May 2010, 20,662 patients referred for treatment in hospital had to wait longer than the recommended time, according to Department of Health data. But by last November that figure had grown to 29,508 - an increase of 8,846, or 42.8 per cent. A third of hospital trusts across England (47) are now failing to meet the goal of 90 per cent of their inpatients being seen within 18 weeks of being

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The parents of some 600 children have been sent letters asking them to bring them in for another assessment at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool. All were seen by a single doctor who worked in the audiology department from February 2007 and April 2011. Last year managers discovered a child who had been assessed by the doctor as having normal hearing, actually turned out to be

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Italian authorities are considering when to call off the search for survivors aboard the wreck of the cruise liner Costa Concordia, the coast guard said Thursday, as rescuers used explosives to blow new holes in the ship in search of victims. Authorities are mulling when to change the operation from rescue to recovery, coast guard spokesman Cosimo Nicastro said Thursday. Divers continued their

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Gary McCloskey may have destroyed more chemical weapons than any man alive, but he barely reacted when the final weapons from the world's largest stockpile of warfare agents came out of an incinerator. McCloskey, a 63-year-old engineer and manager for URS Corp.'s Federal Services division, was on hand as a U.S. Army depot in Utah finished destroying the last of 1.3 million munitions filled with

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Scientists have confirmed that a rocky meteor that broke apart in the atmosphere and crashed last July came from Mars.  The space-faring stones, perhaps blasted free of the Red Planet by an ancient planetary collision, are the first documented Martian debris to fall to Earth in 50 years.  The rare meteorites have been scooped from the African sands by collectors and dealers, who are selling them

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Cindy Crawford’s 10-year-old daughter made her modeling debut this week in a new ad for Versace’s children’s line looking very grown up in full makeup and a miniskirt. Kaia, who is Crawford’s daughter with husband Rande Gerber, poses for the inaugural collection of Young Versace, which caters to children 12 and under, according to the U.K's Daily Mail. Kaia is seen in a leather jacket and

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Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday that a decision on whether to strike Iran's nuclear program was "very far off." Speaking to Israeli Army Radio, Barak would not offer a concrete estimate as to when he believes Iran may develop a nuclear weapon. "I don't know; it's a long way off. Some will say a few years, some will say six months. It really doesn't matter." Pressed on

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A Marine who died from a roadside bomb in Afghanistan was awarded the highest honor given to members of the Corps for his heroic actions as he hurled his body into a fellow serviceman and warned the rest of the his squad of the blast. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Tuesday that 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Donald Hogan is "now part of a part of Marine lore along with the great heroes of the Corps" as

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A 24-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman were arrested for investigation of the murder of a popular high school soccer player who apparently was lured out of his home and gunned down, police said Tuesday. Leaders of a special investigative task force said both suspects, Jason Schuman of Calabasas and Elizabeth Ibarra of the San Fernando Valley, have extensive criminal records, but they did not

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Thailand is investigating a Lebanese man accused of stockpiling illegal explosives. His detention came after the United States and other nations issued a terrorism warning for Bangkok. Thai authorities objected to the warning, making it a rare public rift between the counterterrorism allies. Thai investigators on Tuesday said they are still questioning Atris Hussein, a Lebanese man with Swedish

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The U.S. Border Patrol is moving to halt a revolving-door policy of sending migrants back to Mexico without any punishment. The agency this month is overhauling its approach on migrants caught illegally crossing the 1,954-mile border that the United States shares with Mexico. Years of enormous growth at the federal agency in terms of staff and technology have helped drive down apprehensions of

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New figures from Parkinson's UK show there will be 28 per cent more people with Parkinson's disease by 2020. There are currently around 127,000 people with the disease, which affects muscular control, but this figure is expected to reach 162,000 by 2020, according to a projection based on the General Practice Research Database. The number suffering motor neurone disease is also set to rise by

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Five more bodies have been found in the capsized cruise ship off the coast of Italy, Sky News reports, bringing the death toll to 11. Teams have been searching the ship for passengers and crew missing since the Costa Concordia struck rocks Friday evening and capsized. Rescuers exploded four holes in the hull of the ship earlier Tuesday to gain easier access to areas that had not yet been

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Computer hackers disrupted the websites of Israel's stock exchange and the national airline El Al, the latest attacks in what Israeli officials describe as “cyber-terrorism.” The cyber attacks began 10 days ago when a hacker claiming to be from Saudi Arabia posted the numbers and personal details of more than 20,000 Israeli credit card holders online. He said the aim is to harm Israel and he

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Two explosions killed 12 people in Iraq on Monday, authorities said. The first blast, a car bomb, exploded in eastern Mosul killing at least nine people and wounding 13, police said. Officers discovered another parked car rigged with explosives in the same area, said Mosul police Lt. Col. Hilal al-Ahmedi. No group immediately claimed responsibility. In the second incident, a parked car bomb

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He had the look. He had the resume. He had the money. He had the beautiful family. By golly, he had the hair. But Jon Huntsman, despite the hype, never seemed to have the votes. And on Monday, he bailed out of the Republican presidential primary contest, trying to keep his dignity intact as he slammed his own party for going negative on one another. "Rather than trying to advance our common

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Yoga has never been so fashionable, its benefits as a stress-buster and body toner advocated by celebrities from Madonna to Ricky Martin. And while it suits all ages – pre-schoolers are stretching and twisting on the mat, thanks in part to the BBC children’s series Waybuloo – it is especially good for older people. In fact, Fenella Lindsell, a consultant on the CBeebies show and co-founder of

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Hollywood veterans and newcomers alike took home the big awards at the 69th Annual Golden Globes, with Meryl Streep, George Clooney, "The Descendants" and "The Artist" winning top honors for awards season’s first major show. Clooney's took home a best actor award for his role in "The Descendants," which also won the best drama honor. The critically-acclaimed film, which centers on a man dealing

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President Barack Obama and Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney are essentially tied in a hypothetical general election matchup. Still, Obama’s support is stronger and more positive than Romney’s. That’s according to a Fox News poll released Monday. In a potential Obama-Romney election, 46 percent of voters would back Obama and 45 percent Romney if the election were held today. The president’s

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Intercepted militant radio communications indicate the leader of the Pakistani Taliban may have been killed in a recent U.S. drone strike, Pakistani intelligence officials said Sunday. A Taliban official denied that. The report coincided with sectarian violence — a bomb blast in eastern Pakistan that killed 14 people in a Shiite religious procession. The claim that the Pakistani Taliban chief

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a call to Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad Sunday to stop killing his own people. In a keynote address at a conference in Lebanon focused on democracy in the Arab world, Ban said "the path of repression is a dead end." Ban told those in attendance in Beirut that the Arab world's revolutions show that people there are no longer content with

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Retired army Gen. Otto Perez Molina was sworn in as Guatemala's president Saturday, pledging to take a tough stand on crime amid growing insecurity in the Central American nation. "We have a country in crisis ... a nation very close to an economic and moral breakdown," he said. "Today, there is an air of hope." Concerns about violence in Guatemala, which has worsened as Mexican drug cartels

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Arab leaders and top officials are in Tunisia to share in celebrations marking the North African country's one-year anniversary of the ousting of strong-arm President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Tunisia's revolution sparked popular protests across the Arab world that also toppled leaders in Egypt and Libya. A year ago - on January 14, 2011 - Habib Bourguiba Boulevard in downtown Tunis was a sea of

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Firefighters have reached two survivors trapped in a cabin on the stricken Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia in the Tiranian Sea. The firefighters had made voice contact with the couple Saturday and found them in a cabin. At least three people were killed when the ship ran aground Friday evening off the northern Italian coast and flipped on its side with a breach in its hull. More than 30

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Iran said Saturday it has evidence that the United States was behind the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist this week in Tehran, state media reported. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was killed in a brazen daylight assassination Wednesday when two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to his car in the Iranian capital. The killing bore a strong resemblance to earlier killings of

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Rauf Denktas, the first president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, died Friday in Nicosia after a long illness, the self-declared republic's current leader announced. Denktas, 87, was instrumental in the independence of Turkish Cyprus, which, outside of Turkey, is not recognized internationally. He became its first president in 1983 and was re-elected in 1985, 1990, 1995 and 2000.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrapped up his five-day, four-nation tour in Latin America on Friday and is on his way back to Tehran, state news reported. He and his delegation were seen off by the Ecuadorean foreign minister and other senior officials, the state-run IRNA news agency said. A day earlier, Ahmadinejad defended his country's nuclear program, criticizing the United States

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A federal judge has ruled that Rick Perry and three other Republican presidential candidates will not be added to Virginia's primary ballot. District Court Judge John Gibney Jr. rejected their requests, arguing that they filed their challenges to Virginia's stringent ballot requirements too late. "They played the game, they lost, and then they complained about the rules," he said. The

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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady may not need the help, but some witches are planning to cast a spell to put an end to Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow’s miraculous season. Witches Lorelei and Lori Bruno were scheduled to hold a seance at noon today – Friday the 13th – at Haven Crow Corner in Salem, Mass. to fix a win for the Pats. “I’m going to raise the energy of the universe

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The Indian government has formally agreed to allow foreign companies to own 100 percent of stores that sell a single brand.  The move could boost investor confidence which sagged after the government backtracked from an earlier decision to allow superstores such as Wal-Mart to enter the country. In recent years, foreign companies selling single brands such as Nike, Calvin Klein, and Marks and

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British Prime Minister David Cameron is visiting Saudi Arabia, an important British partner in the Middle East, for the first time since he took office, Downing Street said Friday. Cameron has arrived in Riyadh, where he will meet with King Abdullah and Crown Prince Nayef later, his office said. Security, the global economy and regional issues, such as the Syrian government's crackdown on

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Iranian state media are raising the specter of revenge assassinations on Israeli and possibly Western targets in response to the killings of nuclear scientists that Iran has blamed on Israel and the U.S., the latest development in an escalating, multiple-front war of words. The U.S. has denied any involvement in the violence, most recently the bomb blast Wednesday that killed Iranian scientist

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Myanmar plans to release 651 prisoners starting Friday, state television reported, one day after the country's leadership announced a cease-fire with an ethnic rebel group that has waged a bitter, decades-long insurgency for greater autonomy. Democracy activists are expected to be among those released throughout the day. On Thursday, a cease-fire deal with the Karen National Union (KNU) was

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Human Rights Watch released a statement Thursday accusing Kenyan security forces of abusing Kenyan Somalis and Somali refugees in northeastern Kenya, particularly in the provincial capital and around the Dadaab refugee camp.  A military official, in turn, says that the army has nothing against Somalis and Kenyan-Somalis. Human Rights Watch East Africa researcher Neela Ghoshal tells VOA she

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Two 10-year-old Houston boys could face up to 40 years in prison if convicted of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy on a school bus. The boys were arrested last week after authorities reviewed a security videotape from the bus, Fox affiliate KRIV-TV reports. The alleged incident happened in August, but the investigation took several months. Houston police spokesman Kese Smith said Tuesday it

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A respected London research organization says the Afghan government likely will be able to retain control of the country after foreign troops end their combat role in three years. But the International Institute for Strategic Studies says Western nations will need to provide financial and military support for Afghanistan for much longer. The 300-page report says the challenges ahead for

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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani fired his defense secretary Wednesday, a move that spiked tensions between the South Asian nation's civilian government and its all-powerful military. The prime minister's spokesman confirmed to CNN the firing of Naeem Khalid Lodhi. State media reported that it was for "gross misconduct and illegal action." The move came after Pakistan's military

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Tropical Cyclone Heidi slammed into northwestern Australia as a Category 2 storm early Thursday morning, dousing the region with torrential rain as residents remained on "red alert" over reports of strong winds and flooding, officials said. The storm system, which prompted several major ports and oil fields to shut down in anticipation of tidal surges, packed gales of up to 145 kilometers per

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A U.S. drone strike has occurred in Pakistan, killing four militants in the town of Miranshah in the North Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday, according to eyewitness reports. U.S. officials confirm to Fox News that this is the first drone strike in the region since a November NATO cross-border air attack last year left 24 Pakistani troops dead. Civilian and military officials in the U.S.

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An American sports quote says "Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit."  You are about to meet some Haitian soccer players who know a little about both.  The Haiti amputee soccer team is made up of many who lost legs and arms during the 2010 earthquake. At times, it doesn't look like a regular soccer field.  It is someone's desperate home.  It is not a manicured pitch - cattle

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India's prime minister says malnutrition is a national shame, as a new survey finds that 42 percent of India's children are underweight.  India has long ranked low on the global hunger index but, an alliance of lawmakers, eminent citizens and voluntary groups hopes to change that. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in New Delhi Tuesday that levels of hunger remain too high in India despite

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Japan said Tuesday that it would hand over to Australian authorities three Australian anti-whaling activists being held aboard a Japanese vessel, but that it would press on with its annual whale hunt in the seas near Antarctica. The activists had illegally boarded the ship, a patrol vessel supporting Japan's whaling mission in Antarctic waters, to protest the hunting of the giant marine mammals

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Previously a hugely popular mobile phone app, Cut the Rope will be the latest in Microsoft’s bid to use its Internet Explorer 9 browser as a vehicle to showcase ‘the beauty of the web’. In collaboration with Windows 7, the new web app will unlock new levels of the game that are exclusive to IE9 users who ‘pin’ the bookmark for cuttherope.ie to the Windows taskbar. The announcement formed part

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At least 12 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in car bomb attacks on two predominantly Shiite areas in Baghdad Monday, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said, the latest incidents in a wave of sectarian violence. At least five died and 32 others were wounded when a parked car bomb detonated at a Shiite mosque in an area of southwestern Baghdad, the ministry said. In addition, the ministry

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Malam Bacai Sanha, the president of Guinea-Bissau, died Monday in a Paris hospital. The West African nation has a long history of internal conflict and now faces a troubling power vacuum just two weeks after a suspected coup attempt. Guinea-Bissau's national radio announced that President Sanha had died in a Paris from a protracted and undisclosed illness, though it is thought to be related to

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Experts have warned that elderly patients are being discharged too early, putting their health at risk and increasing the likelihood of them being readmitted to hospital. The full scale of the cuts emerged after a year in which the NHS faced sustained criticism for its treatment of the elderly. The Daily Telegraph surveyed 172 NHS trusts about how many beds they had closed. Of the 39 trusts

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A senior Iranian official says Iran will launch a second uranium enrichment facility later this month at an underground site that is well protected from potential air strikes by nations opposed to the Iranian nuclear program. The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Fereidoun Abbasi said late Saturday the injection of uranium gas into centrifuges at the Fordo enrichment facility will begin

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In U.S. politics, the Republican presidential contenders who would like to run against President Barack Obama in the November election are intensifying their campaign efforts in the northeastern state of New Hampshire, before a Tuesday primary vote. In the final days leading up to the primary vote on Tuesday, the six Republican candidates engaged in two televised debates. In Sunday’s debate

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Say what you like about PIP, the disgraced French company at the heart of the implants scandal: they might have had a serious problem with their quality control, but no one could question their productivity. Their faulty little fillets, jammed with industrial-grade silicone, travelled everywhere: into 40,000 British women, including some who were having NHS breast reconstructions after

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NASA has sent its Mars Rover, Opportunity, on its first winter working vacation since the solar-powered vehicle began exploring the red planet’s surface several years ago. Similar to humans who travel to sunny locations during the winter, the robotic rover will spend the next several months literally soaking up sunlight. The U.S. space agency, NASA, says it positioned Opportunity with its solar

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Many people – such as Susanne Finlay – are delighted by the results regular exercise can bring. But once some have got the running bug, they find it hard to stop. They may aim at a local 10km race or take part in a charity marathon. A few dedicated souls, like those gathering today in the car park of a pub outside Halifax, take it even further than that. The athletes donning wet-weather gear

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Ernesto Zedillo said in a court filing Friday that his status as Mexico's former president gives him immunity from being prosecuted for a massacre in 1997 that left 45 people dead in a Chiapas village. Zedillo, who is now employed at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, delivered the filing to a U.S. district court in Hartford. The former president, who was Mexico's leader between 1994

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The U.N. Human Rights Office is expressing alarm at the significant increase in the use of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia.  It says the number of people executed in 2011, a total of 79, was almost three times higher than in 2010 Last month, one woman was executed on charges of sorcery and witchcraft, said spokesman Rupert Collville. “What is even more worrying is that court proceedings

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Nasa astronaut Dan Burbank, who has flown two space shuttle missions, recorded the video whilst weight-less in the International Space Station. "I've been very fortunate to have a great career with Nasa," Mr Burbank said. "But now we need new astronauts to continue working on board the International Space Station conducting world class scientific research for the benefit of everyone on Earth."

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The troubled company had previously been working on handsets codenamed ‘Colt’, ‘Milan’ and ‘London’, but the Canadian firm is now focusing all its energies on one device, according to BGR.com. It is currently being shown to networks, and BlackBerry has already confirmed to journalists that demonstration of BlackBerry 10 will take place at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona next

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The latest in a series of church attacks in northern Nigeria left six dead and 10 wounded outside of Kano on Thursday. The radical Islamist sect Boko Haram is suspected of the attack, and of pushing the country toward religious conflict.  The attack began when gunmen opened fire during a service at the Deeper Life church in Nasarawa. Theresa Munyok says that her father and her brother were among

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Every ‘Facebook Card’ is made from a set template which will take a user’s profile picture as the image and glean the rest of a members’ personal details from their description on the site. The first 200,000 users to sign up to the new scheme will receive a bundle of 50 free personalised cards, which means 10 million cards in total will be given away over a short period of time. To apply for

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Arab League monitors made "mistakes" during their fact-finding mission in Syria, a top Qatari official said Thursday. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani told reporters the league is seeking technical assistance from the United Nations for its mission, which has been lambasted by many critics for failing to halt violence. Al-Thani serves as Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister He didn't

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As the U.S. Republican Party presidential nomination race moves to the northeastern state of New Hampshire, the two frontrunners are turning their verbal fire toward President Barack Obama. At campaign events Thursday, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum accused the president of steering the United States away from its tradition of

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The updated app, however, will not allow users to either pre-order or specify their drinks electronically. The service is available to owners of Starbucks' loyalty card, and synchronises their account and balance information with their iPhone so they are charged the correct amount. An Android version is set to be launched soon as well. The company has increasingly been using technology to try

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A landslide in a remote area of the southern Philippines has killed 25 people and left more than 100 missing, the provincial governor said Thursday. It is the latest natural disaster to strike the island of Mindanao after a tropical storm killed more than 1,200 people there last month. The weather again appears to have played a part in Thursday's disaster, which took place in an area where

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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is in Iran for talks that are expected to address the burgeoning political crisis in neighboring Iraq, where Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi has fled to the semiautonomous Kurdistan region to escape a warrant for his arrest. Al-Hashemi has taken sanctuary in the disputed northern territory in the wake of charges he led Sunni death squads against Shi'ite

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The government of the Maldives has reversed a ban on the sale of spa treatments, alcohol and pork, the country's president told CNN Wednesday. The country's Supreme Court is expected to rule similarly in favor of reversing the ban Wednesday, President Mohamed Nasheed said. The court originally was to rule whether the ban was constitutional. The court's involvement stems from an acrimonious

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Long before his opponents were celebrating strong finishes or spinning disappointing results in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses, Newt Gingrich was airborne for New Hampshire. It sounded like he'll be lying in wait for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Gingrich never mentioned Romney by name as he spoke to supporters after an underwhelming fourth-place finish in the caucuses, but he did take a

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The United States military says it will continue to deploy warships in the Persian Gulf, after Iran warned a U.S. aircraft carrier not to return to the region. "The deployment of U.S. military assets in the Persian Gulf region will continue as it has for decades," Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement. U.S. Navy officer Bill Speaks said in an email to reporters on Tuesday that

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Tunisian authorities are trying former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali in absentia Tuesday for his alleged role in the death of protesters in January 2011. Ben Ali was ousted in the first uprising of last year's Arab Spring and fled the country. A military tribunal is hearing the case of the former president and dozens of former senior officials. The trial focuses on who gave orders for

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Two Navy pilots were among four people found dead in a New Year's Day shooting at a condominium, a military spokeswoman said Tuesday, as investigators reaffirmed there were no suspects at large. Friends and family identified two victims as siblings, David Reis, a 25-year-old Navy pilot, and 24-year-old Karen Reis, an aspiring occupational therapist. The pilots were stationed at Marine Corps

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In a move that could escalate a decades-long territorial dispute between China and Japan, several Japanese politicians have been spotted landing on a disputed islet in the East China Sea. Japanese authorities say four municipal politicians from Okinawa arrived Tuesday on the eight-hectare Uotsuri island, 170 kilometers northeast of Taiwan, and spent about two-and-a-half hours there. The

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Spain warned Monday that the government's deficit for last year could be even higher than it predicted just days ago. Spain's new conservative government last week projected the 2011 deficit at 8 percent of the country's annual output of goods and services. But Monday, Finance Minister Luis de Guindos said the deficit could be even bigger. His assessment came as the government said that later

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Reports from Iran say the nation's currency has slumped to a record low against the U.S. dollar, two days after U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law new sanctions that could affect Iran's central bank and financial system. Traders said Monday the exchange rate dipped to around 17,000 rials to the dollar, which is about a 10 percent slide from Thursday's exchange rate. The new U.S.

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A Pirate-themed cruise ship carrying about 100 passengers ran aground in heavy fog on New Year's Eve, but no one was apparently injured. Public safety officials in Clearwater said late Saturday that crews responded at the Memorial Causeway Bridge when the cruise ship, the Pirate's Ransom, ran aground in the Intracoastal Waterway. A second vessel, Island Times, attempted to take some of the

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North Korea is urging its people to show allegiance to the death for new leader Kim Jong Un. State media KCNA published North Korea's annual New Year's Day message, saying, "The entire army should place absolute trust in and follow Kim Jong Un and become human rifles and bombs to defend him unto death." The editorial is jointly published in the North's leading newspapers and is often

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A 16-year-old boy was killed at an anti-government demonstration in the city of Sitra on Saturday, Bahrain's largest opposition bloc said. Sayed Hashim Saeed was knocked out after a tear gas canister hit him, but attempts to rescue him were disrupted by riot police, the opposition Al-Wefaq group said in a statement. Hundreds of people were protesting the regime, the group said. The boy was

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Television stations in Baghdad are calling it "Iraq Day," the Saturday deadline for American troops to completely withdraw from the country under a U.S.-Iraqi security pact. Stations aligned with Sunni and Shiite extremist groups, many of whom attacked U.S. troops, have dubbed it the "Day of Defeating the Occupier" -- others have called it the "Day of Fullfillment" or "Day of Evacuation." It's

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The death toll from a storm that has pummeled India's southeastern coastline rose Saturday to 27, with thousands forced to seek refuge in emergency shelters, officials in the worst affected area said. The Tamil Nadu district of Cuddalore, south of the city of Chennai, bore the brunt of Cyclone Thane's fury Friday, with winds gusting at almost 90 miles per hour at its peak. The storm uprooted

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We are born to run. You only have to watch a child sprint across a playground to understand it is a natural instinct. But in later life, it’s often more than you can bear to pull on your trainers and get outside. Half the battle is knowing how to tell yourself that you can do it. Our natural reaction to pain is to avoid it. Hit your hand while hammering nails and you quickly adjust your approach

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Ive, who is Apple's senior vice president of industrial design, receives a KBE from the Queen "for services to design and enterprise". "I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making," he said. "To be recognized with this honour is absolutely thrilling and I am both humbled and sincerely grateful." "I discovered at an early age that all I've ever

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