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Bombing at Pakistani funeral kills 27
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 27 people. Among the dead was a newly elected lawmaker who may have been the target, authorities said. The blast was the deadliest attack in...
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Stocks Move Higher on Home Building, Low Inflation
NEW YORK — The stock market is moving higher in midday trading after the government reported gains in home construction and low inflation. Investors are also sending stocks up because they expect the Federal Reserve will keep in place programs meant to prop up the economy. The Dow Jones industrial...
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Singapore pressures Indonesia to identify firms behind haze
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's worst air pollution in 16 years sparked diplomatic tension on Tuesday, as the city-state urged Indonesia to provide satellite data to enable it to act against plantation firms that allow slash-and-burn farming. A tourist bumboat cruises past the hazy skyline of the...
photo: AP / Wong Maye-E
Flash floods leave scores dead in northern India
Early monsoon rains brought flash floods and landslides to the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in northern India, leaving at least 60 people dead and stranding thousands, officials said Tuesday. By News Wires (text) Torrential rains have triggered flash floods and landslides in northern India,...
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100K protesters flood Brazilian streets in protest
BRADLEY BROOKS Associated Press= SAO PAULO (AP) — In some of the biggest protests since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship, demonstrations have spread across this continent-sized country and united people from all walks of life behind frustrations over poor transportation, health services,...
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Afghans to take nationwide security lead from Nato
Afghan forces are formally taking over security for the whole of the country from Nato-led troops, completing a process begun in 2011. President Hamid Karzai is attending a ceremony in which the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) hands over control for the last 95 districts. The event...
photo: US Army / Kelvin Lovelist
Seeking a Syria consensus despite US-Russia divide
Hunting for a glimmer of common ground, the leaders of major economic powers are declaring themselves dedicated to a political solution to Syria's bloody civil war, even as President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin stake out diametrically opposite stands on which side deserves...
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Does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds?
Every 15 seconds a child dies of hunger, says a campaign by charities urging G8 leaders to pledge more aid for the world's poorest families - or every 10 seconds, according to the latest version of the slogan. But does this paint an accurate picture? There is enough food for everyone, but not...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick
Corruption Scandal Ousts Czech PM
Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas said he is resigning over a corruption and spying scandal that has rocked the small European Union nation. Czech President Milos Zeman has said the charges, brought after armed police raids on government and private offices last week, were "serious." Police raided...
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Global Warming and Our Inconvenient Minds
I spent the first 20 years of my climate reporting focused on the buildup of human-generated greenhouse gases as a biogeophysical problem. Fuels and forests burn. Gases rise. Heat flows. Ocean chemistry changes. You get the idea. In 2000, I wrote “Global Waffling: When Will We Be Sure?”...
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