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Iran poll shows people want change, says Obama

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:40:07 -0400

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has urged Iran's newly elected president to prove to the world that the Islamic republic was not pursuing a nuclear weapon programme as the White House welcomed election of a moderate leader as a hopeful sign. "I think it says that the Iranian people want to move in a different direction," Obama said of the election results in Iran that saw a surprising ...

President Rousseff says Brazil has woken up after massive protests

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:37:27 -0400

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Anti-graft protests swept Brazil's main cities as some 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets against alleged mis-governance, forcing President Dilma Rousseff Tuesday to acknowledge the need for better public services and effective administration. The assurance from Rousseff came a day after biggest protests rocked at least ten Brazilian cities, including Sao ...

Talks between UK and Ecuador fail as Assange completes year in embassy

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:37:11 -0400

LONDON - Talks between the United Kingdom and Ecuador have ended without any breakthrough over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's fate with the Andean nation. Ecquador said it was vowing not to succumb to diplomatic pressure and was ready to consider any request from Edward Snowden, another whistleblower, for asylum. As the fugitive anti-secrecy advocate marks one year holed up in the ...

Libya to hold trial of Gaddafi's son in August

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:29:24 -0400

LONDON - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of deceased Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, will stand trial in August along with Gaddafi's last prime minister and a former intelligence director, the prosecutor's office has announced. The men will be tried for crimes against the Libyan people during the 2011 uprising that toppled the former regime. Notorious former spy chief Abdullah ...

Appeals court directs Ex-Im Bank to explain rationale for loan guarantee to Air India

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:24:35 -0400

WASHINGTON - A U.S. appeals court has upheld a decision by the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance the sale of 30 Boeing wide-body jets to Indian state-owned carrier Air India in a legal challenge brought by Delta Air Lines to the loan guarantee. The court has however directed the government-run bank to better explain its rationale for providing loan guarantee, which Delta claimed as a victory ...

Google renews efforts wipe out child porn images from internet

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:23:53 -0400

LONDON - Internet giant Google said it is spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them. "We're in the business of making information widely available, but there's certain 'information' that should never be created or found," wrote Jacqueline Fuller, director of Google Giving, in a blog post. "We ...

GSK negotiating sale of thrombosis drug and plant to Aspen

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:20:31 -0400

DURBAN / LONDON - South Africa's biggest generic drug maker Aspen Pharmacare and its subsidiary Aspen Global Incorporated have made an offer to acquire thrombosis drugs and their associated manufacturing site at Notre Dame de Bondeville, France, from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). "AGI will acquire from GSK the Arixtra and Fraxiparine/Fraxodi brands and business worldwide, except in China, Pakistan ...

Carbon trading to begin in Shenzhen in bid to cut emission

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:12:35 -0400

BEIJING - China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, is set to launch Tuesday its first carbon trading scheme as a pilot project in the southern city of Shenzhen as part of efforts to cut emissions in its key cities. Carbon emissions trading schemes are meant to encourage companies to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by setting a limit or a cap, on the level of emission that can be ...

Group of Eight leaders stop short of calling for Assad ouster

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:28:36 -0400

ENNISKILLEN - The Group of Eight industrialised nations called for a swift end to the bloody civil war in Syria and urgent peace talks but stopped short of calling for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in its joint statement at the end of talks Tuesday. Despite the lack of consensus among the G8 on the fate of Assad, as well as the use of chemical weapons by his regime, Canadian ...

Rise in transportation costs push up UK inflation to 2.7pc

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:12:21 -0400

LONDON - The consumer price index (CPI) inflation increased to 2.7% in May, up from 2.4% in April, mainly due to higher fuel costs pushing up transportation costs particularly airfares, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said Tuesday. The ONS said the rise was due to a record increase in airfares and higher fuel prices. "The inflation rate has returned to the levels seen between ...

Gomez Strong in Final Massachusetts Senate Debate

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:30:49 -0400

News reports from the final debate between Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez conclude that Gomez, a first-time candidate and self-styled "new kind of ...

Fatah warns US against exerting pressure on PA to resume talks unconditionally

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:20:39 -0400

As Kerry set to return to region next week, West Bank leadership calls on US secretary of state to exert pressure on Israel to "fulfill its obligations"; Erekat: Israeli gov't strategy based on "destroying the 2-state ...

Hamas Syria conflict impacting Iran relations financial aid

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:20:36 -0400

Hamas's deteriorating relations with Iran and Syria have impacted financial aid to the Islamist movement, Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, was quoted Wednesday as saying.Noting that Syria had supported Hamas financially and politically, Hamad said that his movement's support for the Syrian "revolution" has resulted in the loss of financial aid from both ...

Arab lynch mob attacks two Jews in e. Jlem

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:20:29 -0400

Two Jewish men were assaulted Wednesday in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Orot, narrowly escaping with their lives, when a lynch mob of Arab-Israelis shattered their vehicle's windows with rocks, surrounded the car and attempted to pummel them.According to Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld the attack took place in the morning, while the men, both in their 20s and residents of the ...

Egypts Muslim Brotherhood braces for future trouble

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:20:24 -0400

CAIRO - For the Muslim Brotherhood, running Egypt has been like crossing a minefield. As President Mohamed Morsi ends his first year in office, fortifications being erected at his group's headquarters suggest a looming war.Behind a reinforced wall and a five-inch thick iron gate, the Brotherhood's Cairo compound bears scars of a divisive year that has triggered frequent protests and ...

No easy nuke arms cuts Russia

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:19:54 -0400

ST PETERSBURG, Russia - Russia voiced concern on Wednesday about US missile defences and high-precision conventional weapons, signalling that nuclear arms cuts proposed by President Barack Obama are likely to face ...

Budapest parly evacuated over WWII bomb

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:19:53 -0400

Budapest - Part of Hungary's parliament was evacuated Wednesday after an unexploded World War II bomb was discovered during excavation work for a nearby underground ...

Iceland weighs Snowden asylum

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:19:52 -0400

Stockholm - Iceland said Wednesday it has held informal talks with an intermediary of US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden who reportedly may want to seek political asylum ...

Boston suspect gets Russia burial

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:19:48 -0400

Grozny, Russia - The father of a Russian man killed while being questioned about ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says he has brought the body to Russia for ...

Aldi sees off Waitrose to win best supermarket award for the second time in two weeks as judges declare its prices dont compromise on quality

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:16:27 -0400

It is another accolade for the discount chain, which just last week also beat the major chains and upmarket rivals like Waitrose, to be named the best supermarket in The Grocer ...

Is this Britains fattest dog Mizzy the 11.4 STONE bullmastiff whose collar fits around her vets waist checks into animal fit club

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:16:26 -0400

Mizzy is one of 21 overweight animals - including a two-stone Norwegian Forest cat and an 11lb rotund rabbit - taking part in PDSA's six-month diet and exercise ...

Mother whose eyes were gouged out by abusive boyfriend is attacked again as man is arrested for assault

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:16:25 -0400

A man has been charged with an alleged assault on Tina Nash, who had her eyes gouged by her ex-boyfriend in 2011. A file picture of Miss Nash outside Truro Crown ...

Passenger fury at late-running trains hits six year high as rail companies condemned for failing to deliver basic promises despite fare hikes and bonus pay-outs

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:16:24 -0400

One in eight passengers are unhappy with their unreliable rail services at a time of inflation-busting fare rises and bumper bonuses for rail ...

Who will be at the Duchess bedside for the birth William could be forced to take helicopter from Wales while mother Carole and sister Pippa will also head for the hospital

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:16:23 -0400

Significantly, our sources strongly hinted that Kate's family – particularly her mother, Carole Middleton, and sister, Pippa - are likely to be present at the hospital during her ...

Royal birth announcement will be taken by police escort to Buckingham Palace and displayed on an easel... the same way news of Williams arrival was released

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:16:22 -0400

The birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first child - a future heir to the throne - will be announced in exactly the same way as Prince William's to retain 'the theatre' of a genuine royal ...

Cabinet maker 51 sues furniture company after homophobic campaign of abuse from colleagues who left carved You are gay sign on his workbench

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:16:20 -0400

The tribunal heard the entire cabinet making department was branded 'the queer ones' while Mr Crowther was nicknamed 'gay Mark' by colleagues and a ...

Moors murderer Ian Brady smeared fellow patients chair with jam and honey and remains chronically psychotic says doctor

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:16:20 -0400

Killer: Brady, sketched at the tribunal yesterday taking notes, is not allowed a pen while in the secure hospital in Merseyside, after he carried it as a ...

Lydia Warner 7 makes shock recovery after mother donates part of her liver in pioneering op

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:16:19 -0400

Lydia Warner, 7, had pancreatoblastoma - a rare cancer of the pancreas. She has now been given the all-clear after receiving part of her mother, Kate's, liver during a life-saving transplant ...

Older men make better fathers and even tolerate infidelity

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:16:18 -0400

the aging male beetles made better fathers even when they were unsure whether the offspring were theirs - perhaps because they knew they had little chance ...

Fears of postal chaos as Royal Mail workers vote to stop handling competitors letters and parcels

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:16:17 -0400

The threat of massive disruption to postal services looms over Britain after Royal Mail workers voted in favour of boycotting competitors’ mail and strongly rejected the Government’s controversial privatisation ...

She finally said yes Retired miner Chris Green 75 from Tamworth Staffordshire will marry partner of 40 years Ann Turner

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:16:16 -0400

When retired miner Chris Green from Tamworth, Staffordshire, dropped down onto one knee in front of his partner Ann Turner, 72, at his 75th birthday party in the local pub, he received the best present he could have hoped for when she said 'I will' to his ...

12 killed after Somali Islamist rebels al-Shabaab launch deadly attack on UN compound

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:09:22 -0400

Daniel Howden is Africa Correspondent for The Independent. He has reported from more than 50 countries covering everything from wars and elections to natural disasters and environmental crises. Special interests beyond Africa include southeast Europe, Latin America and global forests. A former Athens correspondent he has returned to Greece regularly during the European debt crisis. Now based in ...

Daycare owner accused of drugging children

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:08:27 -0400

(Fotolia) An Ohio daycare operator is facing charges of child endangerment after allegedly feeding children in her care pancakes spiked with medications that cause drowsiness. Tammy Eppley, 37, is accused of crushing up Benadryl and melatonin and mixing it into the food of the six children she looks after at her home daycare, Caterpillar ...

Prosecutors plan more charges against accused Cleveland kidnapper

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:08:26 -0400

Cleveland women held captive 'like they were POWs' CLEVELAND - Prosecutors want to bring additional charges as soon as possible against a former Cleveland school-bus driver accused of holding three women captive in his home and torturing them for a decade, authorities said on Wednesday. Ariel Castro, 52, has pleaded not guilty to more than 300 charges against him including rape and ...

Analysis Edward Snowden versus the dragons

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:08:26 -0400

NSA leaker says he will fight extradition One measure of our culture’s disdain for whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden can be culled from the pages of a thesaurus. Beyond "source" and "leaker," few neutral antonyms exist to describe people who divulge alleged wrongdoing by the government or other organizations to the press, while negative synonyms abound - spy, ...

Search for Hoffas body continues a third day

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:08:26 -0400

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Investigators looking for the remains of former Teamsters boss, Jimmy Hoffa, in a suburban Detroit field continued their search for a third day Wednesday, seeking to verify a mobster’s claim that the labour leader was buried alive on the property in 1975. The search of the 40- to 50-square-yard (33- to 40-square metre) area would continue for at least another 48 ...

Japan Agrees Nuclear Power Plant Safety Rules

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:07:30 -0400

Japan's nuclear watchdog has approved new safety requirements for atomic power plants, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster. The new measures, approved by the Nuclear Regulation Authority, will take effect on July 8 when operators will be able to apply for inspections. If plants pass the inspections - a process expected to take several ...

Japan to Overhaul Nuclear Safety Guidelines

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:02:59 -0400

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Analysis Putin basks in isolation over Syria as Obamas charm falls flat

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:58:31 -0400

Russia's President Vladimir Putin gestures during a media conference after a G8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 18, ...

Greek coalition parties meet to try to settle state TV row

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:58:31 -0400

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's ruling party leaders met on Wednesday to try to agree when and how to resume state TV broadcasts, two days after a top court ordered the immediate reopening of the state broadcaster ERT, abruptly closed by the government a week ...

FBI No sign of Jimmy Hoffas body in Detroit suburb

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:56:57 -0400

Robert Foley, special agent in charge of the FBI's Detroit division, addresses the media in Oakland Township, Mich., June 19, 2013, where he announced the FBI was ending search operations for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in ...

GOP Sen. Murkowski backs same-sex marriage

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:56:56 -0400

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, on Wednesday announced her support for marriage equality, becoming the third Republican senator to take that position just days before the Supreme Court is expected to announce decisions on two groundbreaking cases addressing the legality of same-sex marriage. In ...

Report Okla. teen vanishes while hiking in South America

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:56:56 -0400

CBS affiliate KWTV, authorities in South America believe the teen may have been kidnapped. U.S. officials with the American Embassy in Ecuador told the station that they are monitoring the situation closely. In a phone interview, Chris Reiger told the station that an extensive search is underway. He said the family was hiking on a mountain near their resort hotel when August walked ahead of the ...

Americas endangered historic places

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:56:54 -0400

President Barack Obama, left, walks around Gay Head Lighthouse while on vacation on Martha's Vineyard in Aquinnah, Mass., Aug. 27, 2009. The lighthouse is on The National Trust for Historic Preservation 2013 list of 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. It was the first lighthouse built on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts and now is in danger of toppling over the edge of the Gay ...

Juneteenth Where to honor slaverys end

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:37:51 -0400

>Editor's note: This story was first published on June 19, 2012.(CNN) -- Maj Gen Gordon Granger of the Union Army announced to the assembled crowd at Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, "In accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. "It was June 19, 1865. Never mind that President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had been written and ...

Elephant killings surge funding terror

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:22:30 -0400

>Editor's note: Mark Quarterman is the research director of the Enough Project, a project of the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity.(CNN) -- The accelerating pace of the slaughter of elephants for their tusks has put African elephants at catastrophic risk in the coming decades. To make matters worse, some of the region's most notorious armed groups are ...

If It Saves One Life...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:19:56 -0400

CNSNews.com asked DeGette, "Many Democrats, when they were arguing for gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting said even if this saves one life it will be worth doing. Why not support this bill then, if it undoubtedly will save lives of babies that have been carried throughout 5 months of pregnancy?" DeGette said, "Well, this is, this is. ... We already have laws in ...

Obama Warns Against Rising Oceans Climate Change—Global Threat of Our Time

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:19:55 -0400

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Kyrgyz Judges In Hiding After Jailed Opposition Lawmakers Release

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:14:53 -0400

BISHKEK -- Three Kyrgyz judges who acquitted three convicted opposition lawmakers have apparently gone into hiding. A spokeswoman for the Kyrgyz Supreme Court told journalists on June 19 that the judges have not come to work since the previous day and their whereabouts are unknown. Dozens of activists have demanded that judges explain on what grounds the three leaders of the opposition ...

Top cop We need immigration reform

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:10:44 -0400

>Editor's note: George GascÃ³n is the district attorney of San Francisco, and the former chief of police in San Francisco and Mesa, Arizona(CNN) -- Members of the law enforcement community must sound their voices in support of comprehensive immigration reform for the sake of public safety and for the sake of our country. I write this as a former police chief in Mesa, Arizona, who ...

Danon condemns haredi campaign against soldiers

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:10:16 -0400

growing number of attacks on haredi soldiers that have been reported in recent weeks.Danon said on Tuesday that that recent months have witnessed a significant decline in haredi IDF enlistment, which stood until recently at approximately 15 percent of the possible annual ...

Netanyahu announces 40 of natural gas reserves to be exported

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:10:16 -0400

Zemach Committee , tasked with exploring the issue, recommended.Netanyahu said that the 60% of natural gas preserved for domestic use would serve Israel's needs for the next 25 ...

Saudis Syria role driven by fear of Shiite full moon

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:10:15 -0400

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief, Prince Muqrin, once told American diplomats the Middle East's so-called Shi'ite Crescent where the Muslim sect holds sway was "becoming a full moon" as Iranian influence spread.For the kingdom's Sunni ruling princes, that fear, revealed in a 2009 US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks, now focuses on Syria. ...

Yisrael Beytenu warns against dropping periphery grants

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:10:15 -0400

Coalition and opposition members spoke out against an article in the budget canceling grants for housing in the periphery, in a meeting of the Knesset Control Committee.The 2013-2014 budget cancels grants of up to NIS 100,000 to those buying homes outside of the center of the country, as the Finance Ministry determined that the stipends did not successfully encourage people to move to the ...

How to save human trafficking victims

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:10:14 -0400

>Editor's note: Yury Fedotov is the executive director of the U. N. Office on Drugs and Crime.(CNN) -- Thirteen-year-old Anjali didn't just pack her bags and run away to the circus, she signed a 10-year contract with a circus master after fleeing from long hours of domestic servitude in Nepal. Taken to India, she then endured years of appalling and dangerous working conditions for no ...

Nigel Evans denies fresh claims of sex crime allegations as he is released by police after questioning

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:06:04 -0400

New allegations: Commons Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, pictured leaving Preston police station this afternoon where he was told he faces three new claims of indecent ...

China threatens death penalty for serious polluters

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:01:54 -0400

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have given courts the powers to hand down the death penalty in serious pollution cases, state media said, as the government tries to assuage growing public anger at environmental desecration. An increasingly affluent urban population has begun to object to China's policy of growth at all costs, which has fuelled the economy for three decades, with the ...

8000 troops from 19 countries join Jordan war games in readiness for spreading Syria conflict

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:58:43 -0400

The West may be flip-flopping over whether or not to send lethal arms to the Syria rebels, but that has not stopped a 12-day military exercise in Jordan, in which thousands of troops from a variety of countries are preparing for the possibility of fighting in Syria. The war games come to an end ...

Turkish government protesters seek to draw sting from unrest

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:48:13 -0400

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Wednesday he had no objection to silent anti-government protests inspired by a symbolic "Standing Man" vigil, comments that could help draw the sting out of three weeks of often violent ...

Obama defends narrow surveillance programs

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:46:15 -0400

President Obama on Wednesday continued his administration's defense of the controversial NSA surveillance programs at the center of an ongoing national debate, arguing that the data-gathering methods under scrutiny are "narrow" in focus and that their intelligence has helped saved lives. Mr. Obama, speaking alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a trip to Berlin, echoed ...

Somali militants wage deadly attack on U.N. office

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:46:14 -0400

MOGADISHU, Somalia Al Qaeda-linked militants detonated multiple bomb blasts and breached the main U.N. compound in Mogadishu on Wednesday, sparking gun battles with security forces that killed at least 12 people. U.N. personnel who reached the compound's secure bunker all survived, though officials hinted not all reached that bunker. An ambulance driver said that five Somali civilians were ...

TWA Flight 800 gets another look 17 years later

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:46:11 -0400

Air safety officials stand in the hangar where the remains of TWA Flight 800 have been re-assembled at the National Transportation Safety Board(NTSB) training facility July 16, 2008, in Ashburn, ...

Obama pledges reduction in nuclear stockpiles

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:44:55 -0400

US President Barack Obama has renewed his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles during a speech in front of Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate.Obama pledged on Wednesday to reduce the number of nuclear weapons held by Russia and the US by one-third during a speech which used the theme "peace through ...

Egypt minister quits over new Luxor governor

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:44:54 -0400

Egypt’s tourism minister has resigned a day after President Mohamed Morsi appointed a new governor to Luxor province from an Islamist party linked to a massacre of holidaymakers in the temple city. Hesham Zazou said on Wednesday he "couldn't continue in the role of tourism minister" after the appointment of Adel al-Khayat, a former member of the political arm of Islamist ...

Merkel Challenges Obama on Surveillance

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:40:02 -0400

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Obama Cites Immanuel Kant

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:09:07 -0400

"For thousands of years, the people of this land have journeyed from tribe to principality to nation state to reformation and enlightenment. Renowned as the land of poets and thinkers, among them Immanuel Kant, who taught us that freedom is the unoriginated birthright of man and it belongs to him by force of his ...

Obama Im Actually Going to Take Off My Jacket

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:09:07 -0400

"In fact, it's so warm and I feel so good that I'm actually going to take off my jacket and anybody else who wants to, feel free to," said Obama said. "We can be a little more informal among ...

Berlin Speech 200000 for Obama in 2008 Only 6000 Today

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:09:06 -0400

The stage for the president's speech is set up on the East side of the Brandenburg Gate, in the old East Berlin. The sun is pounding down and there are around 6,000 invited guests according to German authorities. There are bleachers set up either side of the square, with a big two storey riser facing the stage which has a row of bullet proof glass and 12 US, German and EU flags and the grand ...

Pelosi Hid Behind the Skirt of Her Own Bassinet

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:09:06 -0400

former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi . When challenged about the difference between late-term abortion and the killing of babies who survived late-term abortions at the hands of the convicted murderer Dr. Kermit Gosnell, Pelosi hid behind the skirt of her own bassinet. Rather than answer the question, she invoked her five children and declared any discussion of abortion "sacred ground" ...

Viral Video Puts Russian Post Office On The Back Foot

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:04:01 -0400

videos of traffic accidents recorded in Russia have become something of a YouTube sensation. A new video from Russia, however, features an incident of a different kind. The footage shows what appears to be an employee not so gracefully throwing boxes of mail packages outside of a train car at the Novosibirsk main railway station Recorded by a phone camera and uploaded on June 17, the ...

U.S. Defends Peace Talk Efforts With Taliban As Kabul Responds Coolly

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:04:01 -0400

Muhammad Naeem (right), a spokesman for the Office of the Taliban of Afghanistan, speaks during the opening of the Taliban Afghanistan Political Office in Doha on June ...

Michelle Obama visits Holocaust memorial in Berlin

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:59:19 -0400

BERLIN - First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha visited the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, amid tight security.According to Uwe Neumaerker, director of the memorial, Michelle Obama and her daughters spent about half-an-hour Wednesday morning visiting the sea of 2711 steles that make up the memorial, which was designed by American-Jewish architect Peter Eisenman and opened to the ...

NSA boss defends surveillance

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:58:48 -0400

General Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, looks at his notes during testimony before a US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on recently disclosed NSA surveillance programmes, at the US Capitol in ...

Fresh hope for couple held captive

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:58:42 -0400

Cape Town - A local NGO believes it can not only pinpoint where two South African hostages are being held in Yemen, but can also negotiate their safe ...

Commons Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans is rearrested over three more claims of indecent assault by young men

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:55:23 -0400

New allegations: Commons Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, pictured arriving at Preston police station today before he was told he faces three new claims of indecent ...

A childs IQ can be determined by how much weight it gains in its first month of life

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:55:21 -0400

Children who gain more weight, and whose heads grow quickly, during the first month of life tend to have a higher IQ when they start school, the study ...

Is Facebook about to add video to its Instagram app

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:55:20 -0400

Rumours suggest that Facebook is about to add video features to its photo-sharing app Instagram and will announce the changes at a conference later this ...

Nigel Farage sprayed with a bottle of Coke by a protester as another visit to Scotland ends holed up in a pub

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:55:20 -0400

The Coke attack came just a month after Mr Farage was forced to seek refuge in a pub after being surrounded by protesters during an earlier campaign trip to ...

How to avoid those dinner party squabbles Sit your guests around a circular table and NOT a square one

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:55:19 -0400

King Arthur had the right idea - seat people on a round table and they are less likely to be argumentative and more likely to feel 'they belong', new research ...

Afghanistan to boycott peace talks with Taliban

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:48:14 -0400

HamidKarzaisaid he will not meet the Taliban unless the United States steps out of the negotiations and the militant group stops its violent attacks on the ...

Award-winning war correspondent Michael Hastings dies in Los Angeles car crash

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:48:14 -0400

The award-winning American war correspondent Michael Hastings, 33, died in a car crash in Los Angeles. Described as a "fearless journalist", the news of his death was announced by his employer ...

Defense officials Four US troops killed in Afghanistan

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:48:10 -0400

The Afghan Taliban have claimed responsibility for an attack that killed four US troops on the same day that peace talks between America and the group were ...

Militants Breach U.N. Compound in Mogadishu

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:47:49 -0400

MOGADISHU, Somalia ...

UN compound in Somalia attacked

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:47:20 -0400

Security agents arrive to secure the United Nations compound following a suicide bomb attack in the capital Mogadishu, June 19, 2013. REUTERS/Omar Faruk MOGADISHU - Islamist militants carried out their first major assault for years on a U.N. compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, dealing a blow to fragile security gains that have allowed a slow return of foreign aid workers and ...

Three Die In Dutch Liquid Manure Tank

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:46:36 -0400

Three men have died after becoming trapped in a manure tank in a rural part of The Netherlands. A fourth was taken to hospital in a critical condition. De Telegraaf said that one victim was the 26-year-old youngest son of the farm owner. The detail was attributed to a neighbour who was involved in the rescue. He added that a 29-year-old man from Joure and a 42-year old man from ...

Immigration reform helps cops

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:44:03 -0400

Listening to terror calls Worth it

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:43:14 -0400

>Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst and a director at the New America Foundation. David Sterman is a graduate student at Georgetown University's National Security Studies Program.(CNN) -- Sometime in late 2007, Basaaly Saeed Moalin, a cabdriver living in San Diego, began to have a series of phone conversations with Aden Hashi Ayrow, one of the leaders of Al-Shabaab, ...

Saving human trafficking victims

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:42:10 -0400

Opinion Elephant slaughter surges

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:38:06 -0400

Orders top $100 billion as Ryanair gives Boeing a boost

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:37:58 -0400

1 of 6. President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Ray Conner (R) and Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary share a light hearted moment as they pose during a signing ceremony at the 50th Paris Air Show, at the Le Bourget airport near Paris, June 19, ...

North Korea says is willing to return to nuclear talks

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:37:58 -0400

North Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister and envoy to the six-party talks Kim Kye-gwan (2nd L) enters a hotel after a meeting with U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Glyn Davies in Beijing in this photo taken by Kyodo on February 23, ...

Obesitys new classification may open up treatment options

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:36:05 -0400

recognized obesity as a disease , a decision that could change the way physicians and insurance companies deal with the condition. The move, announced on Tuesday, will open up a range of medical interventions for the prevention and treatment of obesity and changes the status of obesity from "a major public health problem" to a disease. ...

Atty Martin family confident Zimmerman will be convicted

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:36:02 -0400

Sybrina Fulton, lower left and Tracy Martin, center, the parents of slain teen Trayvon Martin, arrive in court with their attorney, Benjamin Crump for the first day of the trial of George Zimmerman, Monday, June 10, ...

50 years after JFKs Berlin speech

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:16:53 -0400

>Editor's note: Nicolaus Mills is professor of American studies at Sarah Lawrence College and author of "Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America's Coming of Age as a Superpower. "(CNN) -- The White House has announced that on Wednesday, at the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Obama will speak in Berlin at the city's landmark Brandenburg Gate. The president's ...

Afghanistan Rejects Talks With Taliban and the U.S.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:13:17 -0400

KABUL, Afghanistan ...

California and Shenzhen China Sign Climate Change Agreement

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:59:46 -0400

The state of California and Shenzhen, China have signed an agreement to cooperate together in fighting climate change. "Moving to further strengthen California's ties with China, California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols and Director of the Shenzhen Development and Reform Commission Xu Anliang signed a memorandum of understanding today in Shenzhen that will expand ...

Obama Wont Be Specific On Military Aid To Syrian Opposition

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:54:44 -0400

U.S. President Barack Obama has refused to be specific about what weapons Washington would provide to Syrian opposition forces. U.S. officials said last week that military aid would be sent to the Syrian opposition. At a news conference in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Obama said he "cannot and will not" be specific about what sort of military equipment would be ...

Russian Gay-Rights Group Fined For Refusal To Follow Controversial Law

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:54:44 -0400

A gay-rights organization in St. Petersburg has been fined for refusing to register as "a foreign agent.'' A court fined the Vykhod (Coming Out) organization 500,000 rubles ($15,600) for not obeying the recently adopted law requiring nongovernmental organizations that receive foreign funding and engage in political activity to register as foreign agents. Vykhod's lawyer, ...

For Many Filipinos Jobs and the Good Life Are Still Scarce

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:53:02 -0400

But Mr. Tagarro's experience -- of being left behind by the country's newfound prosperity -- mirrors that of many Filipinos, according to the latest government poverty and employment ...

Search for Hoffa’s remains continues

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:49:07 -0400

Oakland Township, Michigan - FBI agents in suburban Detroit widened their search of an overgrown field on Tuesday for the remains of former Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared nearly 38 years ago and is thought to have been murdered by ...

Police probe into secondary school shooting after teacher fired starter pistol in pupils face

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:44:32 -0400

A male teacher has been suspended while officers quiz staff and witnesses at Le Rocquier School, a mixed secondary school for youngsters aged 11 to ...

Jeremy Forrest weeps as his lawyers reveal he will not give evidence in his defence

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:44:30 -0400

Arriving: Teacher Jeremy Forrest is taken into Lewes Crown Court where it was revealed he would not give evidence and cried when his sister gave a statement in his ...

Puya berteroniana Exotic plant that blooms once a CENTURY flowers on hottest day of the year

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:44:29 -0400

For horticulturists it is a moment of great beauty tinged with even greater sadness. An exotic plant that flowers once in its lifetime before dying has ...

Ed Miliband accuses government of allowing bankers to delay bonus payout until top rate of tax was cut

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:44:29 -0400

Bonuses in the City soared to record levels in April this year as bankers deferred pay outs to take advantage of the cut in the top rate of tax, new figures ...

Charlie Kelsey-Neil 12 who was fascinated by TV magician Dynamo accidentally hanged himself in his bedroom

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:44:28 -0400

A 12-year-old schoolboy accidentally hanged himself in his bedroom just two weeks after jokingly wrapping a cable around his neck in a classroom prank, an inquest heard ...

Female student 18 faced exclusion from college for bringing it into disrepute after accusing three men of sexual assault

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:44:27 -0400

An 18-year-old woman was recommended for exclusion by her college 'for bringing it into disrepute' after accusing three fellow students of rape and sexual assault, a court has ...

Husband 33 battered 42-year-old wife to death with ornamental elephant after she asked for divorce

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:44:26 -0400

Stafford Crown Court heard Singh flew into a rage and battered his wife of three years with the 4lb wooden object following an argument at their ...

Surrogate-born children are more likely to suffer depression than those carried by their real mother

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:44:25 -0400

The study suggests that children find it more difficult to handle the idea that they were carried by another woman than that they are not biologically related to their ...

Barack Obama to renew calls to reduce US-Russia nuclear weapons

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:37:55 -0400

President Barack Obama will renew his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles, including a proposed one-third reduction in US and Russian arsenals, the White House ...

Brazil Protests 50000 Take To The Streets

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:36:22 -0400

Tens of thousands of Brazilians have once again taken to the streets in Sao Paolo, protesting at the high cost of staging the World Cup next year. The protests followed Monday night's demonstrations in the country's biggest city as residents vent their anger about the high cost of public transport - and its inefficiency - and a government that they see is riddled with corruption. ...

Alaska Baking In Unusually Strong Heatwave

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:36:22 -0400

People in Alaska are having a surprise heatwave, with temperatures climbing above 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26C). The official afternoon high in Anchorage on Tuesday was 81 degrees, breaking the city's record of 80 set in 1926. Mid-June normally brings highs in the 60s. In other parts of the state, temperatures have been even higher, with temperatures in the town of Talkeetna reaching 96 ...

Suicide bomber embraces and kills Sunni politician in Iraq

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:28:42 -0400

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up as he embraced a Sunni Muslim political leader in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing the man and four of his family a day before elections in the ...

Afghans must talk to each other for peace Obama says

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:28:42 -0400

1 of 2. U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel shake hands at the end of a joint news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin June 19, ...

World Bank watching Fed ready to respond

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:28:41 -0400

LONDON (Reuters) - The World Bank is concerned about the spillover effects on developing countries of a slowing of U.S. money creation and will move to provide affordable capital when borrowing costs rise, its president said on ...

Smooth on-time Obamacare rollout no sure thing GAO

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:26:45 -0400

WASHINGTON There's no guarantee that President Obama's health care law will launch smoothly and on time, congressional investigators say in the first in-depth independent look at its progress. But in a report to be released Wednesday, the congressional Government Accountability Office also sees positive signs as the Oct. 1 deadline approaches for new health insurance markets -- called ...

Customs officers get high-tech to prevent car theft

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:26:43 -0400

Luxury vehicles are a big target for car thieves. Bill Whitaker reports on how law enforcement is using technology to target the international theft ring that specializes in smuggling luxury ...

Afghan threat to boycott Taliban talks

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:25:38 -0400

The Afghan government says it will boycott talks with the Taliban in the Qatari capital Doha until the "process is Afghan-led". "As long as the peace process is not Afghan-led, the High Peace Council will not participate in the talks in Qatar," President Hamid Karzai said in a statement, referring to a body he set up in 2010 to seek a negotiated peace with the Taliban. The ...

Aims Widen as Brazilian Protesters Press On

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:21:55 -0400

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Spectacular infrastructure projects

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:01:38 -0400

>The Gateway goes behind the scenes of the world's major transport hubs, revealing the logistics that keep goods and people moving. This month, the show is in Singapore.(CNN) -- Austerity, spending cuts and deficit reduction. With all the talk of fiscal restraint, it's easy to assume there's little in the coffers for the sort of vast infrastructure projects we've seen over the last century. ...

Spectacular infrastructure projects

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:01:38 -0400

Spectacular infrastructure projects

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:01:38 -0400

Spectacular infrastructure projects

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State Dept. Officials Might Have Committed Perjury

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:53:12 -0400

Two top officials at the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service (DS) -- the federal law enforcement agency that protects American diplomats and investigates allegations of criminal misconduct by State Department employees -- gave sworn testimony earlier this year that appears to be evasive at best, and untrue at worst, according to evidence obtained by Fox News. The officials are ...

E.U. Fines Drug Companies for Delaying Generics

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:49:05 -0400

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United States Once Again Russias Worst Enemy

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:48:33 -0400

considered by the greatest number of Russians to be an enemy of their country. Asked to list the five countries they considered to be hostile or unfriendly to Russia, 38 percent included the United States on the list, followed by Georgia at 33 percent, and the three Baltic states -- Latvia at 21 percent, Lithuania at 17 percent, and Estonia at 16 percent. Georgia and the United States ...

Nine Arrested In Connection With Georgian Arms Caches

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:48:33 -0400

Georgian investigators say they have found several caches filled with weapons, explosives, drugs, and documents targeting opponents of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's ...

ADL blasts Alice Walker over shocking new book

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:43:47 -0400

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker "has taken her extreme and hostile views to a shocking new level" in her latest book on intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies, according a review of the book by the Anti-Defamation League ...

Bennett Price Tag biggest threat to settlements

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:43:47 -0400

"Price Tag" attacks are immoral and un-Jewish, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett told the Knesset Wednesday.Bennett and Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich responded to an urgent parliamentary question from MK Hana Sweid (Hadash) following ...

Ex-mistress sacked as foul tycoons PA after his wife discovered affair is in line for big payout as tribunal warns his behaviour has no place in a 21st Century office

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:39:59 -0400

A property tycoon who sacked his PA after his wife was tipped off about their affair faces a huge pay-out after his former lover won her unfair dismissal claim. The 32-year-old had a three year affair with her boss who treated her to a car, a London flat and whisked her away on luxury holidays to Cuba and Australia. The chief executive, who cannot be named for legal reasons but whose company has ...

Whats YOUR risk of impotence As our new calculator reveals your lifestyle could to increase the chance by 85

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:39:58 -0400

The results are startling. For example, according to our impotence calculator, if you are 50, smoke and have high blood pressure, your risk of developing ED is 14 per cent - double the average man's ...

Cannabis-smoking father Simon Redclift is banned from his own SHED by judge

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:39:56 -0400

A father has been banned from his own garden shed and a judge warned him he could be jailed if he goes inside in what is believed to be the first court order of its ...

Couple who suffered SEVEN miscarriages and stillbirths over 10 years finally take home their miracle baby

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:39:55 -0400

Last year Sara Sills was fitted with a cervical stitch and baby Mabel was born in April. Despite being born three months prematurely, she has now been able to go ...

Japan Moves Toward Restarting Nuclear Reactors

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:33:55 -0400

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Truly alarming Worldwide refugees hit highest number for almost two decades

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:33:02 -0400

By the end of 2012 there were 45.2m people considered as forcibly displaced due to persecution, conflict, and human rights violations, of which over 15m were international refugees and almost one million were still seeking asylum. The figure nearly matches the one at the height of the crises in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia.According to a report from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ...

Internet monitoring must have proper limits Merkel tells Obama

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:21:57 -0400

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a news conference after their meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, June 19, ...

Brazil protesters flood Sao Paulo streets for 2nd night

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:19:46 -0400

SAO PAULO Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to raise a collective cry against a longstanding lament -; people are weighed down by high taxes and high prices but get low-quality public services and a system of government infected with corruption. That was the repeated message Tuesday night in Sao Paulo, where upward of 50,000 people massed ...

Conditions subhuman