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India floods strand thousands more than 100 dead
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- Days after floods killed more than 100 people - possibly many more - Indian officials say rescuers are using helicopters and climbing through mountain paths to reach nearly 4,000 people trapped by landslides in a narrow valley near a Hindu shrine in the northern ...
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Why Taliban peace talks are critical to Afghanistans future
Flash Points: CBS News correspondent Bob Orr talks with CBS News senior national security analyst Juan Zarate about the ongoing struggle to begin peace talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan, and why you "can't see stability" in Afghanistan "until there's a political solution" that incorporates the ...
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L.A. to give every student an Apple iPad
Los Angeles' school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks. The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday approved the purchase of $30 million worth of iPads as the first part of a multi-year commitment. It found that the iPad was the least ...
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TWA Flight 800 disaster
An aerial view of the U.S. Coast Guard station at East Moriches, N.Y., July 27, 1996. The base was the operations center for the National Transportation Safety Board in its investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800. Former investigators of the Paris-bound TWA flight, which crashed off Long Island killing 230 people, are now calling on the National Transportation Safety Board to ...
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Paula Deen says she used slur but doesnt tolerate hate
Paula Deen says the celebrity chef "does not condone" racial epithets, following reports that Deen admitted to using "the N-word" and once planned a wedding reception with all black waiters. Deen's admission of using the slur came while she was providing deposition as part of a $1.2M lawsuit filed against her and her brother Earl "Bubba" Biers by Lisa Jackson, ...
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Chinese astronauts deliver lecture from space
China has held its first classroom lecture from its orbiting space station as part of efforts to popularise the successful manned space flight programme among young people.Female astronaut Wang Yaping took questions live from among 330 elementary and middle school students at a Beijing high school from aboard the Tiangong 1 prototype space station on Thursday morning.The class lasted ...
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Study Jordan teens support honour killings
The belief that so-called "honour killings" are justified continues to be common among Jordanian teenagers, a new Cambridge University study says. The study by researchers from the university's Institute of Criminology found that almost half of boys and one in five girls interviewed in the capital, Amman, believe that killing a daughter, sister or wife who has ...
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Experts Trifecta of elements says no ...
>Editor's note: Note language in story(CNN) -- A documentary on the 1996 explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 offers "solid proof that there was an external detonation," its co-producer said Wednesday. "Of course, everyone knows about the eyewitness statements, but we also have corroborating information from the radar data, and the radar data shows a(n) asymmetric explosion coming out ...
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Panic over MERS virus fades in Saudi Arabia
People in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province have again started greeting friends with the traditional kiss on the cheek, and face masks in public are becoming rarer, as panic subsides over the outbreak of a deadly respiratory disease that hit the country last ...
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Obama urges bold nuclear cuts in Berlin speech
Summoning the harsh history of Berlin, US President Barack Obama cautioned the US and Europe against "complacency" brought on by peace, pledging to cut America's deployed nuclear weapons by one-third if Cold War foe Russia does the same. The president also declared that his far-reaching surveillance programs had saved lives on both sides of the Atlantic, as he sought to defend the controversial ...
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US Postpones Taliban Talks Amid Karzai Fury
Talks between the US and the Taliban aimed at ending the Afghan war have been delayed for several days following anger from President Hamid ...
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30 dead after bus plunges into river in Peru
At least 30 people have died after a bus plunged off a highway into a river in central Peru, authorities say. "So far, I have 30 confirmed dead, but the police are continuing to search for victims," said Rodoricao Cubas Hurtado, chief of the local highway police. Cubas said nine people were still unaccounted for, and the search for additional victims was focused on the vehicle, which was still ...
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Film TWA 800 crash was no accident
>Editor's note: Note language in story(CNN) -- A documentary on the 1996 explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 offers "solid proof that there was an external detonation," its co-producer said Wednesday. "Of course, everyone knows about the eyewitness statements, but we also have corroborating information from the radar data, and the radar data shows a(n) asymmetric explosion coming out ...
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TWA Flight 800
>Editor's note: Note language in story(CNN) -- A documentary on the 1996 explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 offers "solid proof that there was an external detonation," its co-producer said Wednesday. "Of course, everyone knows about the eyewitness statements, but we also have corroborating information from the radar data, and the radar data shows a(n) asymmetric explosion coming out ...
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TWA Flight 800
>Editor's note: Note language in story(CNN) -- A documentary on the 1996 explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 offers "solid proof that there was an external detonation," its co-producer said Wednesday. "Of course, everyone knows about the eyewitness statements, but we also have corroborating information from the radar data, and the radar data shows a(n) asymmetric explosion coming out ...
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China Manufacturing Contracts to Lowest Level in 9 Months
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FBI Chief Drones Used In U.S.
FBI Director Robert Mueller says U.S. authorities deploy drones for surveillance in America in some limited law enforcement situations. Mueller affirmed the use of the unmanned aircraft in America on June 19 in response to questions from U.S. senators. The FBI later released a statement that said drones are used only to watch stationary subjects and to avoid serious risks to law ...
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Brazil Protests Elite Troops Sent To Hot Spots
Brazilian protesters outraged over the costs of hosting next year's World Cup have clashed with police outside a football stadium, as the government deployed elite forces to contain the unrest. Violence erupted near the £155m Castelao stadium in the city of Fortaleza where the national side faced Mexico in the Confederations ...
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Nameplate to blame for halt in Afghan-Taliban talks
Secretary of State John Kerry personally pleaded with Hamid Karzai to keep alive the possibility of peace talks with the Taliban. Over the course of two phone calls with the Afghan president, Kerry reportedly gave assurances that the U.S. would not give the Taliban political ...
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Top Democrat presses Pentagon on Gitmo force-feeding
WASHINGTON The force-feeding of terror suspects at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, runs counter to international standards, medical ethics and the practices at American prisons, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Wednesday in pressing the Pentagon to establish a more humane treatment. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who traveled to Guantanamo earlier this ...
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Fierce fighting for control of Syrias Aleppo
Rebel fighters say they need support to battle Syrian government forces in Aleppo in the country's north. The Free Syrian Army says it is trying to defend the area from a military force armed with helicopters, tanks and a lot of artillery - far superior to the weapons and supplies the FSA has. But other opposition groups nearby seem to have acquired the kind of weapons being sought. The ...
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US Fed weighs slowing down bond-buying
Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, has said the central bank is likely to slow its bond-buying programme this year and end it by next year because of a strengthening economy. The announcement on Wednesday implies that a reduction in the Federal Reserve's $85bn-a-month programme would probably mean higher rates on mortagages and other consumer and business loans. After a ...
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Nuclear expert Israeli warheads are a threat to its own security
Israel has 80 to 100 warheads, "more powerful than what was used in Hiroshima," says nuclear expert; research finds even a limited nuclear war would lead to world's temperature dropping, result in widespread ...
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Brazil fare hikes rolled back in victory for protests
Brazil's two biggest cities rolled back transit fare hikes that had triggered massive protests as demonstrators clashed with police outside a Confederations Cup ...
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Jury Selection Reaches Final Stages in Trayvon Martin Murder Case
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Kansas City Digest
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Kansas City women focus on micro-finance
Kansas City women are trying to make an impact in the world by teaming up with micro-finance providers for people living in poverty.
All too often charitable causes and organisations looking for funding focus on symptomatic poverty, responding to the causes of poverty worldwide in a similar manner to a doctor giving a patient painkillers for a cancer tumor instead of removing the tumor. We donate so that children in poverty around the world can get food, education, clothing, medicines and various other basic needs. But it doesn’t solve the problem of why they’re in poverty in the first place. Read more
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