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Alaska Baking In Unusually Strong Heatwave
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 ...
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Suicide bomber embraces and kills Sunni politician in Iraq
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 ...
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Afghans must talk to each other for peace Obama says
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, ...
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World Bank watching Fed ready to respond
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 ...
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Smooth on-time Obamacare rollout no sure thing GAO
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 ...
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Customs officers get high-tech to prevent car theft
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 ...
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Afghan threat to boycott Taliban talks
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 ...
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Spectacular infrastructure projects
>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. ...
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State Dept. Officials Might Have Committed Perjury
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 ...
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E.U. Fines Drug Companies for Delaying Generics
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United States Once Again Russias Worst Enemy
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 ...
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Nine Arrested In Connection With Georgian Arms Caches
Georgian investigators say they have found several caches filled with weapons, explosives, drugs, and documents targeting opponents of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's ...
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ADL blasts Alice Walker over shocking new book
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 ...
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Bennett Price Tag biggest threat to settlements
"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 ...
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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
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 ...
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Whats YOUR risk of impotence As our new calculator reveals your lifestyle could to increase the chance by 85
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 ...
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Cannabis-smoking father Simon Redclift is banned from his own SHED by judge
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 ...
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Couple who suffered SEVEN miscarriages and stillbirths over 10 years finally take home their miracle baby
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 ...
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Japan Moves Toward Restarting Nuclear Reactors
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Truly alarming Worldwide refugees hit highest number for almost two decades
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), ...
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Internet monitoring must have proper limits Merkel tells Obama
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, ...
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Brazil protesters flood Sao Paulo streets for 2nd night
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 ...
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Conditions subhuman
>Editor's note: For more information on this story, check out CNN affiliates WKYC, WOIO and WJW.(CNN) -- A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were held in an Ohio apartment crowded with people and animals for more than a year, forced to perform manual labor and threatened with dogs and snakes to keep them compliant, authorities said Tuesday. Federal prosecutors said the people accused ...
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Ohio captives
>Editor's note: For more information on this story, check out CNN affiliates WKYC, WOIO and WJW.(CNN) -- A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were held in an Ohio apartment crowded with people and animals for more than a year, forced to perform manual labor and threatened with dogs and snakes to keep them compliant, authorities said Tuesday. Federal prosecutors said the people accused ...
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Conditions subhuman
>Editor's note: For more information on this story, check out CNN affiliates WKYC, WOIO and WJW.(CNN) -- A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were held in an Ohio apartment crowded with people and animals for more than a year, forced to perform manual labor and threatened with dogs and snakes to keep them compliant, authorities said Tuesday. Federal prosecutors said the people accused ...
Dubai In-Depth
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Olympics may be Dubai's next goal
Dubai is famous for being ambitious, sometimes to its detriment, but mostly to its advantage. It was ambition that made it the city the way it is now. For some, the recent announcement of a possible Olympic bid may seem overly optimistic, but what are Dubai’s chances realistically?
Dubai does nothing half-heartedly. Fifteen years ago, Dubai was just another city in the Gulf, there was nothing particularly special about it, apart from the fact that, for western workers, it was an attractive location because of the lack of income tax, but this it had in common with many other GCC cities. Read more
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