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Obama welcomes Iran's election of moderate president
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has urged Iran's newly elected president to prove to the world that the Islamic republic was not pursuing a nuclear weapon programme as the White House welcomed election of a moderate leader as a hopeful sign. "I think it says that the Iranian people want to move in a different direction," Obama said of the election results in Iran that saw a surprising ...
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No breakthrough in talks between UK and Ecuador over Assange
LONDON - Talks between the United Kingdom and Ecuador have ended without any breakthrough over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's fate with the Andean nation. Ecquador said it was vowing not to succumb to diplomatic pressure and was ready to consider any request from Edward Snowden, another whistleblower, for asylum. As the fugitive anti-secrecy advocate marks one year holed up in the ...
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Leaders of G8 call for peace in Syria and pledge humanitarian aid
ENNISKILLEN - The Group of Eight industrialised nations called for a swift end to the bloody civil war in Syria and urgent peace talks but stopped short of calling for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in its joint statement at the end of talks Tuesday. Despite the lack of consensus among the G8 on the fate of Assad, as well as the use of chemical weapons by his regime, Canadian ...
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Serena Williams sparks outrage with drunk not virgin comments on US teenage rape victim
American tennis star Serena Williams has sparked outrage with her comments about a teenage rape victim, saying that the victim was 'drunk' and 'maybe...not a virgin'. In an excerpt from Rolling Stone magazine, Williams criticised a 16-year-old girl who was raped by two football players, her fellow school students, while she was drunk, in Ohio in August 2012, News.com.au reports. According to ...
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US Taliban to have direct peace talks
The US has decided to hold direct peace talks with the Taliban, senior White House officials have announced. The first meet is due to take place in the coming days in Qatar's capital, where the Taliban have opened their first official overseas office, BBC reported. US officials told reporters the first formal meeting between the US and Taliban representatives was expected to take place in Doha ...
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Beloved
"Beloved" is a film that overwhelms. It overwhelms in many ways, some of them good, and some of them bad, and when the final scene fades to black, it's almost hard to know what to feel. Exhausted. Exhilarated. Confused. Unsure. Unsettled. Reawakened. Haunted. Not all of those feelings are particularly comfortable, and I have the notion that some viewers will interpret them as having disliked the m ... ...
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Man disrupts US flight by screaming about CIA
A man stood up from his seat during a flight to the US, and screamed about the CIA, security leaks and poison, but was subdued by fellow passengers, a media report said Tuesday. The disruption occurred Monday during the United Airlines Flight 116 from Hong Kong that eventually landed safely at its scheduled destination in Newark, CNN reported. Passengers onboard the Boeing 777 flight said the ...
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Obamas approval trust ratings suffer severe drop finds poll
President Barack Obama's approval and trust numbers have dropped sharply among Americans in the past one month, a new poll has found. According to a new CNN/ORC International Poll, Obama's approval was down eight points from May, to 45 percent from 53 percent. The poll found that 54 percent of Americans now disapproved of the president's performance, up from nine point CNN's polling in ...
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Baffled Liverpool to tell Suarez to stop Madrid pronouncements and make transfer request
Fed up with their controversial striker Luis Suarez's almost daily public pronouncements on his future, Liverpool is reportedly set to lay down the law and demand that Suarez put in an official transfer request if he remains determined to leave for Real Madrid. The Uruguay international, currently playing in the Confederations Cup in Brazil, has turned what promises to be this summer's biggest ...
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70 pc Americans oppose Obama administrations decision to arm Syrian rebels finds poll
A majority of Americans oppose Obama administration's decision to arm anti-government groups in Syria, a new poll has found. According to the Pew Research Center Poll, 70 percent of Americans don't want the United States and allies to send arms and military supplies to those Syrian rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. The poll found that the move by the United States was ...
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US Cuba to discuss renewal of direct mail service
The US and Cuba will discuss this week the possibility of re-establishing direct mail, suspended 50 years ago, a State Department spokesperson told EFE Monday. Talks of a "technical" nature will take place Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington among officials of the State Department, the US Postal Service and the Cuban government, said the spokesperson. "We think that re-establishing a direct ...