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A U.S. judge has ordered the government to make the emergency contraceptive called the "morning after pill" available to girls younger than 17 without a doctor's prescription. Judge Edward Korman ruled Friday that the federal government's requirement that young girls get a prescription first was "politically motivated" and "scientifically unjustified." It is unclear if the Obama administration will appeal the judge's ruling. The morning after ...
After a plea from U.S. lawmakers, an American mechanic was freed from a Kabul jail, offering a glimpse of a growing Afghan practice of arresting foreigners connected to commercial disputes.
U.S. authorities operating at sea have arrested a former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau who is suspected of being a kingpin in the international drug trade.
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One clear result if DOMA is struck down: Immigration benefits for gay couples
Yahoo! News (blog) Same-sex marriage supporters rally at the U.S. Supreme Court on March 27, 2013. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images). Earlier this week, we wrote about how if the federal Defense of Marriage Act is struck down by the Supreme Court this summer, it may lead to ... and more » |
President Barack Obama plans some intense Mideast diplomacy this month and next, welcoming leaders of Turkey, Jordan and two Gulf states for Oval Office talks on Syria and broader developments in the Mideast. The White House said President Obama will welcome Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for talks on May 16. The two men established a close personal and working relationship in Obama's first term, which has carried over into Obama's second term as they grapple ...
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Fort Campbell soldier recovering from brain injury gets Silver Star, re-enlists to ...
The Republic FORT CAMPBELL, Kentucky — A Fort Campbell soldier who suffered a traumatic brain injury has received the Silver Star for his actions to help evacuate wounded troops during a mission in Afghanistan in 2010. After receiving the honor during a Friday ... and more » |
The search has ended for victims of a building collapse in Mumbai, India, where officials say at least 72 people died, including a number of children. Authorities said Saturday that after an overnight search, there was no chance any more survivors would be found in the ruins. Officials said 36 people are still hospitalized with injuries. The eight-story, illegally-built building on the outskirts of India's commercial capital collapsed on Thursday. Most of the dead and injured were ...
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20 killed, 54 wounded in suicide bombing in eastern Iraq
Xinhua BAQUBA, Iraq, April 6 (Xinhua) -- A total of 20 people were killed and 54 others wounded Saturday when a suicide bombing struck a rally of an election campaign in the city of Baquba, the capital of Diyala province in eastern Iraq, a provincial police source ... Iraq unrest: Deadly blast at Baquba political rallyBBC News Suicide bomber kills 20 at Iraq political rallyUSA TODAY Attack on Iraq election campaign tent kills 22: police, medicsReuters Times of India -Washington Post all 46 news articles » |
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North Korea’s leader looks increasingly isolated in his war of words with the outside world. But Pyongyang’s European spokesman says Kim Jong-un can still rely on a dedicated band of devotees abroad.
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The government warned people to avoid live poultry and slaughtered more than 20,000 birds at a wholesale market in Shanghai.
Japan and the U.S. are intensifying a campaign to shore up local support for American military bases on the Japanese island of Okinawa at a time of rising tensions with North Korea and China.
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Putin says Russia may profit from Cyprus banking crisis
Economic Times MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the banking crisis in Cyprus showed up what he said was the unreliability of Western financial institutions, saying it would encourage Russian depositors to invest at home. "The more you 'pinch' ... and more » |
In remarks to Christian leaders gathered at the White House for an annual Easter prayer breakfast, President Barack Obama spoke about the importance of helping the needy. The prayer breakfast drew some 150 pastors and Christian leaders from across the country for what the White House calls "a time of prayer [and] reflection." Obama has hosted the event since 2010. He has used it, and a separate larger National Prayer Breakfast each year, to reflect on the importance for him ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is traveling to the Middle East with planned stops in Istanbul along with Jerusalem and Ramallah. The trip is designed to solidify progress after U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent visit to the region ended a Turkish-Israeli diplomatic deadlock. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently apologized to Turkey for a deadly 2010 maritime commando raid in a gesture brokered by President Obama designed to restore diplomatic relations between the ...
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Biden says US still needs ambitious agenda to meet export goals, make US ...
The Republic WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden says the U.S. still needs an ambitious agenda to make American products competitive overseas. Biden tells an annual conference of the Export-Import Bank that American workers can still compete with anyone in ... and more » |
Secretary of State Kerry, plowing ahead where so many have become bogged down, is seeking to revive the dormant Arab-Israeli peace process this weekend with his third trip to the Middle East in two weeks.
Puerto Rico's governor has signed an overhaul of the U.S. territory's cash-short public pension system that lawmakers passed late on Thursday in a bid to soothe investors and shore up the country's sputtering economy. The new pension law will raise the retirement age for some state workers, increase worker contributions to the plan and lower monthly pensions and benefits for some public workers. It will also reduce state workers' Christmas bonuses and eliminate summer bonus ...
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David Stockman is the most mainstream figure to argue America’s economic problems stem from the welfare state and the end of the gold standard.
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said he would pardon U.S. Col. Joseph L. Romano III, an Air Force officer convicted for his role in the 2003 kidnapping of an Islamic cleric in Milan.
Russian president says €17bn eurozone bailout deal will encourage foreign investors to put their money into his country’s lenders
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Putin and Merkel set for a prickly Russian-German summit?
Christian Science Monitor When Russian President Vladimir Putin flies to Germany on Sunday to open this year's Hannover Messe, the world's biggest industrial fair, it will be one of those key milestones – like the upcoming Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Russia's chairmanship of ... Putin critic who faces trial says he wants to be presidentReuters Putin to Take up Literature, Sports After Quitting PoliticsRIA Novosti Cyprus Deposit Seizure Hurts Trust in Europe's Banks, Putin SaysBloomberg WLOS all 52 news articles » |
In today's pictures, family members grieve at a funeral in Texas for a district attorney and his wife, workers cull birds at a poultry market in China, women go to the races in England, and more.
Femen protest Italy. By Karima Wakrim Morocco World News Agadir, April 5, 2013 In a previous article entitled... more»... By Zakaria El Idrissi Morocco World News Fez, April 2, 2013 History is very important in... more» ...
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Venezuelan authorities late Thursday raided the home and office of what they say is a local representative of Oppenheimer & Co., the brokerage subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings, for allegedly violating foreign-exchange regulations.
Since the recession took hold, demand for foreign skilled workers has ebbed
BY MELISSA EDDY
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tax evasion
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Berlin hopes the disclosures will provide leverage in its effort to fight international financial systems that make it easy for the wealthy to hide their money.
Many analysts and economists say the next Venezuelan leader will inherit a country with a toxic mix of inflation, government overspending and a shortage of hard currency that is rapidly becoming unsustainable.
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North Korea warns embassies over safety
The Guardian North Korea has warned foreign embassies in Pyongyang that it cannot guarantee their safety from the threat of conflict after 10 April, and has advised them to consider pulling their staff out of the capital. The message to diplomats came as tensions ... The World in Photos This WeekForeign Policy (blog) Around the WorldBuzz Log (blog) Understanding Your World: North Korea resumes threatsSanta Fe New Mexican.com Chandigarh Tribune -New Yorker- TVNZ all 3,262 news articles » |
U.S. President Barack Obama has called for passage of a budget he is sending to Congress next week, saying it includes ideas both parties can support. In his weekly address Saturday, the president said his top priority is improving the economy by supporting the growth of a rising, thriving middle class. He warned that deep, across-the-board budget cuts now in place will cost the economy hundreds of thousands of jobs a year. Watch President Obama's weekly address: On Friday, the ...
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Thousands of members of a hardline Muslim group protested Saturday in the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, demanding the government enact anti-blasphemy laws. Members and supporters of the group Hifazat-e-Islam are calling for the law in reaction to a group of bloggers the Muslim activists accuse of being atheists who have been insulting Islam. The bloggers have been under pressure in recent weeks for writings critical of Islam. The bloggers are demanding capital punishment for militants found ...
Street Art of the Arab World on YouTube
New York Times (blog) The Cairene journalist and blogger Soraya Morayef, who has written extensively about the Egyptian revolution's graffiti, has produced a series of new video reports on street art of the Arab world, as part of a series for MOCAtv, the YouTube channel of ... |
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Soraya Morayef has produced new video reports on street art of the Arab world, as part of a series for MOCAtv, the YouTube channel of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
The White House, under pressure from key allies and U.S. lawmakers, is reviewing a new set of potential military options for assisting rebels in Syria, according to U.S. officials.
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A federal judge in Louisiana upheld the system used to compensate victims of the giant BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, which BP says it will appeal.
Leaning on the world to save women and girls
Washington Post Brown's fourth annual “Women in the World” summit at Lincoln Center is testament to what one woman can do to change the world. Disclosure: I am a Tina Brown fan and sometimes write for her publications, Newsweek and the Daily Beast. But I became a fan ... and more » |
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The Vatican: Pope Seeks Decisive Action to Resolve Church's Sexual Abuse ...
New York Times Pope Francis on Friday directed the Vatican to act decisively on sexual abuse cases involving members of the clergy and to punish pedophile priests, saying the Roman Catholic Church's credibility was on the line. The pope pushed for action during a ... and more » |
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Obama's budget plan draws fire from both sides
Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — The budget that President Obama is scheduled to release next week drew attacks Friday from both the left and right — a reaction that White House aides appeared to welcome as they sought to portray the plan as a middle-of-the-road ... Obama Budget Is Dismissed by GOP and Attacked by LeftNew York Times Eyeing Syria, White House woos regional rulersAlbany Times Union White House, GOP point fingers on jobs reportUSA TODAY Bloomberg -Greek Reporter -Christian Science Monitor all 108 news articles » |
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Italy’s president pardoned a United States Air Force colonel convicted in absentia for the abduction of an Egyptian terrorism suspect in Milan in a Central Intelligence Agency operation.
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BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned in comments broadcast Friday that the fall of his government or the breakup of his country will cause a “domino effect” that will fuel Middle East instability for years. It was his sharpest warning yet about the potential for Syria’s civil war to affect neighboring states.
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White House promises more funding to address VA backlog of disability claims
Washington Post The White House said Friday it is proposing a 13.6 percent increase in funding for the handling of veterans benefits, an effort to reduce the Veterans Affairs Department's massive backlog of disability claims. The proposed $2.5 billion for the Veterans Benefits ... Obama's VA budget boosts funds to cut claims backlogNavyTimes.com Backlog of VA Disability Benefits ClaimsLawyersandSettlements.com all 19 news articles » |
CRAIG WHITLOCK
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After lengthy investigations, the Pentagon has determined that three Army generals committed misconduct in separate incidents, adding to an unusually long list of senior military commanders who have been censured over the past year.
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BY MARK LANDLER
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The Obama administration, seeing signs of Chinese frustration toward Pyongyang, is pressing China to crack down or face more of an American military presence in Asia.
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A Unicef official says that with 1.25 million Syrians registered as refugees, “the needs are rising exponentially and we are broke.”
A new poll finds 52% of Americans are now in favour of legalising the drug as producers say it creates jobs.
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The gap between exports and imports fell 3.4 percent, to $43 billion in February.
At the end of her rope with four young kids, a mother turns to an unlikely adviser—and learns how hardheaded rule can secure stability and happiness in the home.
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A visa program for skilled workers has hit its quota just days into the application period, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services said.
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Families refuse to acknowledge an official memorial in Mexico City until the government documents those killed in the drug war.
Japan and the United States said Friday that they have agreed on plans for returning land to Japan near Kadena Air Base, on the southern island of Okinawa, that is used by U.S. troops, in an effort to balance local concerns with support for the countries’ military alliance.
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Employer Demand Soars for Skilled-Worker Visas
Wall Street Journal Employer demand for skilled-worker visas, known as H-1Bs, outstripped the entire year's supply in the first week that companies were allowed to file applications, prompting the government to resort to a lottery to award them. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ... Application deluge for high-tech visas forces lotteryLos Angeles Times Visa Program for Skilled Workers Hits Limit EarlyNew York Times H-1B visa cap reached, lottery will decide fate Indian Express Atlanta Journal Constitution-Bloomberg all 30 U-T San Diego all 27 news articles » |
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The New York Times stood by the preparation of an opinion piece that Roberto Zurbano wrote before being removed from his post as an editor of a Cuban publishing house.
Washington Post
The next giant leap in space exploration may be a short hop on a small space rock. Next week, President Obama will request $105 million in NASA's 2014 budget for a mission that would capture a small asteroid, tug it near the moon, and later send astronauts ...
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World powers and Iran start second day of nuclear talks
Reuters ALMATY (Reuters) - World powers and Iran started the second day of nuclear talks on Saturday with little hope of striking a quick deal in the long-standing dispute that threatens to erupt into war. Negotiators failed to narrow their differences in ... Iran nuclear talks in Kazakhstan stumbleThe Guardian World powers, Iran seek to break deadlockInquirer.net Iran, world powers fail to make progress in nuclear talksAl-Arabiya Haaretz -The Daily Star -Zee News all 320 news articles » |
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BY INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
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Investor concern on Korea; advances on exam grading; arrest shows China’s reach; and U.S. overhauls food aid.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry heads to the Middle East Saturday to push for progress on Syria and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is to meet in Istanbul with Turkish officials including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss efforts to end the civil war in Syria that has continued for two years. The State Department says he will also push for confidence-building measures between Israel and the Palestinians, and for Turkey to try to improve the relationship damaged when ...
A second day of talks is under way in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Saturday as delegates from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany and Iran continued efforts to reach a compromise on Tehran's controversial nuclear programs. The delegates are discussing proposals to allow Iran to trade some products now under international sanctions, if it agrees to close a nuclear facility and get rid of its stockpile of enriched uranium. U.S. State Department Spokeswoman Victoria ...
The US brings forwards its drone deployment to Japan after North Korea moves two missiles on mobile launchers to its east coast.
The top U.S. military officer has made a previously unannounced visit to Afghanistan to assess the number of U.S. troops to leave behind to train the Afghan army after the U.S. completes its troop drawdown at the end of 2014. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey arrived in Afghanistan Saturday to meet with U.S. and Afghan officials and talk with soldiers in the field. The United States has promised to reduce the number of troops in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, after a ...
The US economy sees a dramatic fall in new job creation in March, down to a third of the previous month as austerity cuts bite.
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Campus police decided to deactivate Holmes' student ID. His psychiatrist said she was worried because he was making "homicidal statements."
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