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Search for survivors nearly over in Oklahoma as damage estimate is $2bn
MOORE, Oklahoma - Rescue workers were combing through the battered remains of buildings left behind in the path of the gigantic tornado that killed two dozen people, including nine children, in Oklahoma on Monday. Officials say the search for survivors is nearly over as efforts turn towards recovery. Gary Bird, fire chief of the badly hit Moore suburb, said he was "98% sure" there were no ...
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Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects shot dead by FBI
MIAMI - A man known to the Boston Marathon bombers was shot and killed Wednesday by an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent after he turned violent during questioning, the investigating agency said. The Orlando Sentinel newspaper identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, 27. He was killed in the early morning incident in Orlando, Florida. The FBI said the shooting occurred in Orlando, ...
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Senate panel approves plan to ease hiring of foreign techies
WASHINGTON - A US Senate panel has cleared a proposed legislation that relaxes restrictions on IT companies to hire foreign techies, thus clearing one of the major hurdles to ushering changes in American immigration law in a generation. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill after its authors won a bipartisan support with three Republicans joining 10 Democrats in the 18-member ...
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Eight candidates for Iranian presidential race
TEHRAN - Iran has approved eight candidates for the presidential election due next month, rejecting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's top aide in a major setback to the hawkish leader of the Islamic republic. Ahmadinejad criticised the decision to remove Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei from the final candidate list and said it was an act of "oppression". He announced plans to take up the case with ...
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Top North Korean official visits China
PYONGYANG, North Korea - In an indication that North Korea may give diplomacy a chance to end regional tension, its leader Kim Jong Un Wednesday sent a special envoy to China to win the confidence of its most important ally. The trip by Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers' Party official and the military's top political officer, comes after months of ignoring Chinese warnings to ...
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Bernanke says more positive signs needed before scaling back stimulus
WASHINGTON - Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke Wednesday said it was too soon to scale back the monetary stimulus and the central bank needs to see further signs of traction before taking a decision. A decision to scale back the $85 billion in bonds the Fed is buying each month could come at one of the central bank's "next few meetings" if the economy looked set to maintain ...
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Higher exports fail to plug widening Japan trade deficit
TOKYO - Japan's trade deficit rose substantially more than expected in the month April to 879.9 billion yen ($8.6 billion), which is a 70% jump over the trade deficit during the corresponding month a year earlier, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.. The deficit, for the tenth consecutive month, was wider than what many economists had forecast. A survey from the Nikkei business daily ...
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Vitamin C offers hope of tackling drug resistant TB
WASHINGTON - Adding vitamin C to existing tuberculosis drugs regime could shorten the therapy for drug resistant TB, claims new research findings published in the online scientific journal Nature Communications. The striking discovery, by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB bacteria in laboratory ...
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IMF warns UK against continuing austerity programme
LONDON - In a critique of the United Kingdom's austerity programme, the International Monetary Fund Wednesday urged the Europe's third largest economy to rebalance the policy to make the transition to a high-investment and more export-oriented economy. "The UK could boost growth by bringing forward measures already included in its fiscal plan, such as spending on infrastructure and job ...
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Labour reforms to top US team agenda on Bangladesh visit
DHAKA - A high level US delegation led by the State Department's Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman will visit Bangladesh this weekend to press for a major overhaul of labour safety regulations following the nation's deadliest industrial accident, an official said Wednesday. The collapse of a nine-storey factory complex housing several garment units outside the capital last ...
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German central bank sees signals of economic pick up in Q2
FRANKFURT - Germany's central bank Deutsche Bundesbank expects the country's economy to improve "markedly" in the second quarter relying on signals of pick up in industrial orders and likelihood of weather related downturn in construction sector no longer impacting investment sentiments a development that could boost the wider eurozone as it struggles to get out of recession. "Overall ...
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Mortgage lending in UK rises highest in four years
LONDON - The UK housing market seems to be picking up with gross mortgage lending up 4.3 per cent in April over previous month to 12.1 billion pounds, the highest in over four years, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). The mortgage lending was 21% higher than April 2012, but this data is skewed by the end of the stamp duty concession on 24 March, 2012. Under the stamp duty ...
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Cameron Returns To U.K. To Coordinate Response After Brutal Killing
British Prime Minister David Cameron has returned to London to coordinate his government's response after a man was butchered to death by two attackers shouting Islamic slogans near an army barracks in London on May 22. Cameron condemned the attack before cutting short a visit to France. "Tonight our thoughts should be with the victim, with their family, with their friends," ...
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Senate US must back Israel in case of Iran strike
WASHINGTON - The Democratic-led Senate voted 99-0 - with one senator not present - on Wednesday night, on a resolution that the United States should support Israel if it were forced to defend itself from an Iranian nuclear threat. The measure also urged Obama to strengthen enforcement of existing sanctions on Iran. Earlier Wednesday, a US House of Representatives committee approved legislation ...
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Analysis Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisias stability
TUNIS (Reuters) - For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashes in two Tunisian ...
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How one Oklahoma family cheated death during tornado
CBS News Jamie was all alone in her house with her two-year-old son, and the tornado was bearing down. "I was terrified, but I didn't want him to be scared," she said. "I just thought, 'I'll hold onto him.'" What Jamie didn't know was that her husband, Matt, was racing home. "I just wanted to get home, you know?" he said. "I ...
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Parents ask why some Okla. schools lack tornado shelters
(CBS News) MOORE, Okla. - The mayor of Oklahoma City said Wednesday as many as 13,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in Monday's tornado, and 33,000 people have been affected. The mayor says the damage could total $2 billion. The state medical examiner said there were 24 deaths. Two were infants: four months old and seven months ...
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Deadly blast targets Pakistan security force
A bomb planted in a rickshaw has struck a vehicle used by security forces in southwest Pakistan, killing several security personnel and wounding many more, sources say. The bomb, containing about 100kg of explosives, targeted a lorry carrying members of a government paramilitary force on Thursday on the Northern Bypass road in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province. Quetta is the capital ...
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Obama to visit Oklahoma on Sunday tornado damage could top $1 billion
2013 Moore Tornado: Find all the coverage from the Moore tornado, including photo slideshows and a video from the World's award winning ...
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Amnesty International urges governments to do more for refugees
LONDON: Human rights group Amnesty International has launched its 2013 annual report into global welfare.The organisation, which focuses mainly on dangers faced by refugees, displaced people and migrants, is now calling on global governments to do ...
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Amnesty condemns abuse of refugee rights
The rights of millions of refugees and migrants have been abused in the past year, Amnesty International has said in its annual report on global human rights. The London-based rights group said on Wednesday that state authorities and employers were equally responsible for the suffering of vulnerable groups. "The world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place" said Salil Shetty, ...
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Survey shows China manufacturing contracting
HSBC economist Hongbin Qu in a statement, "The cooling manufacturing activities in May reflected slower domestic demand and ongoing external headwinds." He said that showed a possible "downside risk to China's fragile growth recovery" while signs of weakness in the labor market "call for more policy support" from the ...
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PA hammers Israel at WHO annual assembly
Palestinian territories, Golan only sliver on planet to gain slot on World Health Organization's Geneva meeting; Foreign Ministry urges states to oppose resolution blasting Israel for poor health conditions in ...
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British soldier butchered in suspected Islamist attack
Two men wielding knives butchered and beheadeda man believed to be a British soldier in a busy London street on Wednesday,before delivering an Islamist tirade to ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Roulette Is Part Of Life
If you live in this part of Oklahoma you are playing tornado roulette. That much was clear from one street we visited. On one side most houses had sustained very little damage; on the other side there was complete devastation. The capricious physics of tornadoes adds cruelty to the misfortunes of those who have lost everything. Like Rob and Jennifer Voss, picking through the remains ...
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Honolulu to finally have a family justice centre
The Justice Department of Honolulu has announced to Honolulu news media that most of the funding for a family justice centre has now been secured, and it hoped the centre will act as a comprehensive facility to meet all the needs of victims fleeing the physical and psychological effects of domestic violence.
The plans for a center aimed at family justice was announced by city prosecutor Peter Carlisle who said funds of $400,000 had been secured through federal grants for the planning of the center, the training of staff as well as rent and equipment. Read more
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