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Chinese Premier Li seeks trust in India border issue irks
1 of 4. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang inspects a guard of honour during his ceremonial reception at the forecourt of India's presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi May 20, ...
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Deadly car bombs rock Iraqs Basra
Iraqi officials say two car bombings in the southern city of Basra have killed at least 10 people and wounded 27.A police officer said the two parked car bombs went off early on Monday morning near a restaurant and a bus station. A doctor in a nearby hospital confirmed the casualty figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to the media.No ...
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Twister kills 1 in Oklahoma
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. (CNN) -- A rash of tornadoes wreaked havoc in Oklahoma and the Midwest on Sunday and Monday, destroying homes and tossing trees around like toothpicks. But the destructive weather isn't ...
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Lapid Jlem shouldnt be capital of Palestinian state
Lapid tops Post's 50 most influential Jews list In regard to Israeli settlements, Lapid said he would make no move to obstruct their "natural expansion" in the West Bank. The finance minister told ...
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Al-Dura says he is willing to exhume sons body
Jamal al-Dura, father of 12-year-old Gazan Muhammad al-Dura who became a symbol of the second intifada, dismisses Israel inquiry c'tee's findings as "lies," calls for impartial international investigation into son's ...
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Lottery winner bags $590.5m
Florida - A single winning ticket for a record US Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organisers said late on Saturday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state the ticket was ...
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Five things to know about the Dreamliner
>Editor's note: CNN's Thom Patterson boards the 787 Dreamliner Monday for its first commercial US domestic flight after it was grounded for battery problems. Watch for his report this afternoon on CNN.com and follow his progress on Twitter.(CNN) -- Aviation fans have already named it Dreamliner 2.0. No longer grounded for safety concerns, Boeing's embattled 787 Dreamliner now has a few things ...
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Yahoo to buy Tumblr in $1.1bn deal
would be Marissa Mayer's, Yahoo chief executive, largest deal since taking the helm of the once-iconic internet company in July 2012. Mayer is expected to make an announcement later on Monday at an event in Manhattan in which the company promised to "share something special," without elaborating. Peter Kafka, media reporter at the technology ...
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Dubai workers hold rare strike for more wages
Thousands of workers employed by Dubai's largest construction company have gone on strike for a second day to back wage demands in a rare labour protest in the Gulf emirate, where trade unions are banned. Blue-collared labourers employed by Arabtec, the company behind projects including the world's tallest building Burj Khalifa, did not show up for work on Sunday, said a spokesman for ...
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At 20 Russias Gazprom Struggles To Stay Dominant
MOSCOW -- Russia's biggest company turned 20 this year. But at Gazprom, there appears to be little cause for celebration. The state-controlled natural gas monopoly, which was established as a publicly traded corporation in 1993, recently announced that its net profits fell by 11 percent last year and its valuation dipped below $100 billion for the first time since 2009. Moreover, ...
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Burmese Leader To Make First U.S. Visit In 47 Years
President Thein Sein is due to make the first visit by a leader of Burma to the United States in almost 47 years. Thein Sein is expected to meet on May 20 with President Barack Obama at the White House. The visit is being seen as a gesture of U.S. support following a series of pro-democracy reforms after decades of repressive military rule in the southeast Asian country, which is also ...
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Visiting Chinese Premier Calls For Trust Cooperation With India
Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang says Beijing wants to build up mutual trust and cooperation with India. He was quoted as making the remark as he met on May 20 in New Delhi with his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh. Li said "world peace" cannot become reality without "strategic cooperation" between the world’s two most populous nations. It is the Chinese ...
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Analysis Shrinking deficit reduces pressure for budget deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chances of a deal between Democratic and Republican lawmakers that would overhaul the tax system, trim government spending and reform safety net spending programs appear to be ...
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Insight The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill
Apart from the relative success of Tesla Motors Inc in putting nearly 10,000 of its pricey luxury electric cars on the road, the electric vehicle sector has been among the biggest duds in clean ...
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Deadly twisters tear through Midwest
At least four separate twisters touched down in central Oklahoma late Sunday afternoon, including one near the town of Shawnee, 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, that laid waste to much of a mobile home park. A 79-year-old man was found dead at mobile home park severely damaged by tornado. Across the state, 21 people were injured, not including those who suffered bumps and bruises and chose ...
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Tornadoes cause havoc in Oklahoma
Oklahoma , leaving at least one man dead, turning homes in a trailer park into splinters and rubble and sending frightened residents scurrying for ...
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One reported dead as tornadoes hit US states
A powerful storm system churning through the US Midwest spawned tornadoes Sunday in the states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa, destroying homes and killing at least one person, US media ...
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Insight The fight for North Dakotas fracking-water market
WATFORD CITY, North Dakota (Reuters) - In towns across North Dakota, the wellhead of the North American energy boom, the locals have taken to quoting the adage: "Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for ...
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Analysis At margins of shale oil boom a tempered euphoria
HOUSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - For the past three years, the boom in the U.S. shale oil industry has outstripped all expectations. Production surged far faster than any forecasts; drillers raced to secure space in new pipelines to get their crude to ...
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Imran Khans party wins revote in Karachi protests expected
1 of 2. Imran Khan, Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician and chairman of political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), addresses his supporters after his visit to the mausoleum of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder and first governor-general of Pakistan, during an election campaign in Karachi May 7, ...
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Lack of communication factor in plane crash inquest
An inquest has begun into the deaths of a pilot and a spotter who were taking part in a goat cull in Western Australia's Gascoyne when their plane collided with a helicopter. Daniel Joseph Kean, 39, and Bradleigh Michael Roulston, 23, were contracted by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Environment and Conservation to help in a goat cull in February 2008. The men were ...
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France Children Killings Briton Due In Court
A British man is due to be brought before a court in France where he is expected to be formally charged with the murders of his two children. The man, named by the Foreign Office as Julian Stevenson, was held after the bodies of his daughter, five, and 10-year-old son were found by police in his flat in Saint-Priest, a suburb of Lyons. Their throats had been ...
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Powerful tornadoes strike in four central U.S. states
(Reuters) - A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had ...
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Larger Union Enforcing Immigration Opposes Overhaul
A labor union representing 12,000 federal officers who issue immigration documents will join forces on Monday with the union representing deportation agents to publicly oppose a bill overhauling the immigration system that is making its way through the Senate, arguing that the legislation would weaken public safety. The two unions represent a total of 20,000 employees in the Department ...
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Myanmar president set to meet Obama
Myanmar President Thein Sein is set to become the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century, in one of the most symbolic US gestures yet to support his reforms. In a scene that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago, the former general will meet with President Barack Obama on Monday and later seek to woo US businesses that see a lucrative market in ...
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Seattle fixing Mercer Mess
Seattle’s Department of Transport has plans to improve the Mercer Corridor or Mercer Mess as it is known to many residents of the city, Seattle news media have been reporting on the plans for some time, but a groundbreaking ceremony now marks the beginning of the major project.
The Mercer Corridor was built over forty years ago when the city’s transportation needs and traffic volumes were entirely different to present day. Mercer Street is a primary artery for the city of Seattle and over 80,000 people drive along it every day, but because of increased traffic and inefficient infrastructure, major bottlenecks occur at peak rush hour and limit access to the South Lake Union area, the Seattle Waterfront, the port, major highways and the Seattle Center. Read more
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