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More EU pressure on Iran Israel PM tells Ashton
JERUSALEM: Europe must take a firmer line with Iran over its controversial nuclear programme, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday at the start of a working meeting with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton."We need to exert pressure on them. We're not talking about political spin but about the spinning of centrifuges," he said in remarks communicated by ...
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India pushes for energy security in Iraq meet
Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid held talks with senior Iraqi officials on Thursday as New Delhi, Baghdad's biggest buyer of oil, pushes for greater energy security as it looks to ensure sustained economic ...
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Save the Children release images of Syrias children on death journeys trying to escape civil war
The charity have teamed up with photographer Moises Samen to capture children and their families crossing boarders into neighbouring countries as part of today's World Refugee ...
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World stock markets tumble as US stimulus slowdown prompts mass sell-off
Nikhil Kumar is The Independent's New York correspondent. He was formerly assistant editor on the foreign desk and has also done a variety of jobs on the city desk, where he wrote about markets, commodities and other business and economics ...
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Security tight as Iraqis vote in Sunni-dominated provinces
1 of 2. A youth casts his vote into a ballot box during the Iraq's provincial elections at a polling station in Ramadi, 100 km (62 miles) west of Baghdad, June 20, ...
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Boy with Down Syndrome gets a spin on popemobile
Francis invited Alberto di Tullio up onto his open-top Mercedes at the end of his general audience Wednesday, letting him spin around on the pontiff's white chair while tens of thousands of people looked on. The boy's father, Celestino di Tullio, told The Associated Press he choked up when Francis approached his son: "The pope saw him, embraced him. Then Alberto pointed to the ...
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Kyrgyz Parliament Sets Date For Manas Transit Center Closure
BISHKEK -- The Kyrgyz parliament has set a date for the closure of the NATO Transit Center at Manas International Airport near Bishkek. Lawmakers voted on June 20 to end the U.S.-Kyrgyz agreement on the center as of July 11, 2014. According to the legislation, the Kyrgyz authorities must officially notify Washington 180 days in advance of the closure. The legislation must be signed by ...
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Reports Russia Railway Chief Fired Called False
Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin has denied reports that the head of Russian Railways was fired. Naryshkin's comments on June 20 come after Russian news agencies Interfax, ITAR-TASS, and others were sent an e-mail statement late on June 19 that appeared to be a government press release announcing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev had dismissed Russian Railways chief Vladimir ...
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Jew 2 Arabs involved in Temple Mount fight arrested
A Jewish man and two Islamic religious officials were arrested by Jerusalem police on Thursday after the former was determined to have instigated a shoving match atop the Temple Mount complex. The Jewish suspect was alleged to have physically assaulted an official from the Waqf religious trust, Israel Radio ...
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Lebanese president urges Hezbollah to leave Syria
BEIRUT - President Michel Suleiman has called on the Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah movement to pull its guerrillas out of Syria, saying any further involvement in its neighbor's civil war ...
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Palestinians rally behind Gaza Arab Idol star
GAZA - Palestinian fans and big business are rallying behind a 22-year-old singer from the Gaza Strip in a final push to vote him the next "Arab Idol" in a TV talent contest choosing a winner in Beirut on ...
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Weekly Schmooze Girls Season 38
Gail Lerner , producer of "Will and Grace" and other sitcoms, decided to take action and create her own episode of the popular HBO show with an incredible cast, imagining what its four stars would be up to in season 38, when they're 65 years old. Hannah (played by SNL ...
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Suu Kyi faces long road to top job
But to emerge as president after a 2015 general election, Suu Kyi, 68, must overcome challenges that would daunt a less formidable political ...
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FBI We use drones on home soil
FBI Director Robert Mueller listens at the US Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing about the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Capitol Hill in ...
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Top court rejects Berlusconi’s bid
Rome - Italy's Constitutional Court on Wednesday rejected a claim by former premier Silvio Berlusconi which the billionaire had hoped would block a trial against him which could see him booted out of ...
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Nigella Lawson is seen without her wedding ring close to Mayfair bolthole where she has been living apart from husband Charles Saatchi
Nigella Lawson has been spotted for the first time since she walked out on her husband Charles Saatchi almost a week ago - but was not wearing her wedding ...
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Bernadette Lee Dental nurse 25 froze to death in the snow without shoes or coat outside sisters house when she called around after night out and found her away from home
Bernadette Lee, 25, who was wearing a short dress, had no coat and had taken her shoes off, was found lying dead in the snow near to her older sister Jodie's house in ...
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Dramatic moment couple spark full-scale rescue after getting stuck in quicksand up to their waists just yards from the shore
The woman was submerged up to her waist and the man stuck from his knees down before they were pulled from the quicksand on Sunday afternoon in a 40-minute rescue ...
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UK weather Electrical storm warnings issued as Britains hot spell descends into weekend wash-out
The Met Office have issued yellow weather warnings for the south-east and south-west with up to half a months rainfall expected in the space of three hours ...
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Jeremy Forrests father collapses as the jury in his sons abduction trial start considering their verdict
The father of Jeremy Forrest has collapsed and was then taken to hospital as the jury in his son's abduction case was about to start considering its ...
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Singing lullabies to premature babies helps them leave hospital sooner
The researchers found that slowing a premature baby’s heart rate and improving their sleep and feeding behaviours, helps them to gain weight which means they may be able to leave hospital ...
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Ugly employees are more likely to be bullied by their cruel and harsh attractive colleagues
The study by Michigan State University found that unattractive workers were treated more harshly than their attractive colleagues when it came to promotions and which tasks they were given to ...
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British explorer leads team to the lowest depths recorded by cavers venturing almost a mile underground through pitch black tunnels including 600m underwater swim
Jason Mallinson, from Huddersfield, pictured carrying diving gear through a sump reached the deepest into the earth that anyone has been in the Western ...
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Pedestrian mobile phone injuries DOUBLE in five years
The number of pedestrians admitted to A&E because they're too busy on their mobile phone to watch where they are going has doubled in the last five years - and is expected to double again in the next ...
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EasyJet passengers told they need passport valid for at least three months
Holidaymakers travelling to Cyprus could be turned away at the airport by budget airline easyJet if their passports are due to expire within the next three months - despite UK and Cypriot authorities insisting that their passports are still valid for ...
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Historical schooner Bowdoin is a state asset
The Bowdoin recently undertook a short tour of Maine’s coastline, stopping in Portland and Bath so that the public could explore the ship and get a taste of the state’s maritime history, the historical schooner, built in 1921 and operated by the Maine Maritime Academy, is a historical jewel with a rich and fascinating history.
Nowadays ships are built to be big and imposing, the Oasis-class cruise ship Oasis of the Seas, the biggest cruise ship in the world at 47 meters wide, 360 meters long and capable of carrying 6000 passengers and the Mærsk E-class container ship Ebba Mærsk at 397 meters long and 47 meters wide, have set benchmarks in the size of these various kinds of ships. Read more
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