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McCain rips Obama's Iraq pullout timetable (U.S., 41 articles)
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The Democratic Party's chief will lead a nationwide voter registration effort, seeking to build on the burst of enthusiasm during the primaries and to follow through on Barack Obama's promise of a 50-state campaign this fall. Barack Obama was still on American soil today but that did not stop the McCain campaign and other Republicans from starting the drumbeat of criticism of the presumptive Democratic nominee's impending trip abroad. Later the McCain campaign rolled out a new video that splices together Obama's past statements on Iraq to show his changing positions on the troop surge, troop funding and a timeline for withdrawal. McCain, speaking to reporters, also ridiculed Obama's vow to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq in 16 months as risking losing the hard-fought gains won by U.S. soldiers under a troop build-up ordered 18 months ago. " The stakes are very high for Obama said Lee Hamilton, president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a supporter of the Illinois Democrat. (CNN) Sen. Barack Obama called the war in Iraq a "dangerous distraction" Tuesday and said more emphasis must be placed on the battle in Afghanistan.
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Walter Reed Hearing to Put Spotlight on Kiley's Leadership (U.S., 19 articles)
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A Pentagon review board investigating conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center heard testimony yesterday from injured soldiers and their families describing continued bureaucratic missteps and problems with patient treatment more than three weeks after such problems were disclosed in the news media. Over the past week, follow-up reports, news releases and news conferences have focused on Army and Navy efforts to improve the physical conditions at Walter Reed and other military facilities serving outpatients. Speaking to reporters during a visit to the Army hospital in Northwest Washington, Gates also warned that senior military leaders could be disciplined based on the findings of the review group.
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ABC News: Feds Probe IndyMac Bank Collapse (U.S., 10 articles)
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Media reports say the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) inquiry involves the bank's practice of giving home loans to risky borrowers. The FBI is investigating failed bank IndyMac Bancorp Inc. for possible fraud, an official said Wednesday of the government's latest target following the collapse of the nation's subprime mortgage market. IndyMac Bank's assets were seized by federal regulators after the mortgage lender succumbed to the pressures of tighter credit, tumbling home prices and rising foreclosures.
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Hospitals 'could aid crime fight' (U.S., 13 articles)
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Despite mounting public concern at knife crime, and more than 350 such offences committed every day, attacks with knives and other violent crimes were down, statistics published yesterday showed. Canada's national crime rate declined for the third straight year in 2007, according to Statistics Canada, which attributed the drop largely to a decrease in counterfeiting and property offences such as break-ins and vehicle thefts. StatsCan data released Thursday shows a seven per cent drop in the national crime rate, which the agency said also stems from fewer serious violent offences like homicides, attempted murders, sexual assaults and robberies.
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US report: UBS, other bank aided tax cheats (U.S., 10 articles)
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GENEVA - A Senate subcommittee accused banks in Switzerland and Liechtenstein of helping wealthy Americans evade billions in taxes each year, and urged the establishment of tougher laws to combat offshore tax havens around the world. Mark Branson, chief financial officer for UBS Global Wealth Management and Business Banking, said the bank's 80,000 employees were alarmed by reports of misconduct. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - UBS AG will stop providing offshore private banking services to U.S. residents through unregulated entities, the Swiss bank said on Thursday at a congressional hearing on overseas tax-dodging.
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Jerry Brewer sports columns (U.S., 10 articles)
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Will Ledger's Joker be the next in a long line of great Gotham villains? "Hellboy II" reinforces director's love of monsters. Could Heath Ledger win an Oscar for his role as the Joker in new Batman movie? Friday, July 11. "Gunnin for That # 1 Spot A version of" Hoop Dreams but less enlightening Movie Review.
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The Candidates: Sen. Sam Brownback (U.S., 9 articles)
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Read Michelle's latest columns, check out her Color of Money Book Club selection archive or sign up for her weekly e-mail newsletter In her column from May 4, Michelle wrote: " This well-researched book provides a historical perspective on how we got into our current financial jam. Prior to that he served one term in the U.S. House, was a White House Fellow in the first Bush Administration and was the youngest Secretary of Agriculture in Kansas history
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Celebrity Current News (U.S., 7 articles)
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THE PRINCE & THE PAUPER: BLOOMY ON NYC POVERTY The key concept in " The Mayor's Myth (Editorial, July 15) is reality. OBAMA & IRAQ: A DANGEROUS DODGE July 15, 2008 - Barack Obama's op-ed in yesterday's New York Times begins with a major misundestanding and follows with a dangerous pirouette. FIXING THE NATION 'S SACRED MOMENT July 4, 2008 - MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. THE impatient patriots here had splen didly short fuses in 1775.
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Eating tomatoes is safe again despite salmonella outbreak (U.S., 7 articles)
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But Thursday's move, which comes as the tomato industry estimates its losses at more than $100 million, doesn't mean that tomatoes harvested in the spring are cleared. (Las Cruces Sun-News/Associated Press) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday eased its warning on tomatoes, saying it's safe to eat tomatoes again as the salmonella outbreak slows. WASHINGTON - Frustrated tomato growers and sellers have asked the government to lift a five-week-old salmonella warning and want taxpayers to reimburse them for losses that could exceed $100 million, industry officials said yesterday.
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U.S. publisher to print Nelson Mandela comic series (U.S., 5 articles)
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The anti-apartheid icon planned to spend his 90th birthday Friday at home in the southeastern village of Qunu with his family, and the whole village is celebrating. Perched atop a hill, the Nkalane Junior Secondary School overlooks Mandela's sprawling homestead and enjoys a special relationship with its famous neighbor. Nelson Mandela's release from jail after 27 years in 1990 brought hope of sweeping political change after the turbulent days of apartheid.
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Relatives of disabled win groundbreaking victory after Sharon Coleman discrimination case (U.S., 4 articles)
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Millions of workers who care for disabled or elderly people have won greatly improved rights to flexible working following a landmark ruling by Europe's highest court. Businesses are braced for a rise in part-time requests after the European Court of Justice ruled that an EU directive barring disability discrimination in the workplace also covered employees who were associated with a disabled person, such as their carers. The ruling is likely to force the government to revise the Disability Discrimination Act, and existing age discrimination legislation so as to outlaw so-called "discrimination by association", experts said.
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John Templeton, 95; Billionaire Invested in Science, Religion (U.S., 4 articles)
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As a theologian at Georgetown University in Washington DC specializing in the study of science and faith, he laboured in obscurity for years until wealthy philanthropist and devout Christian John Templeton arrived on the scene. Templeton flooded Haught's field with money, and the researcher suddenly found himself invited to conferences and lectures around the world. The work often extends beyond pure science to get at bigger issues of purpose, according to Paul Davies who is a trustee of the foundation and a past Templeton prize winner.
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Families escape to the countryside for the good life (U.S., 4 articles)
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Families are moving to the countryside to bring up their children away from city life and using broadband connections to work from home. Ten years ago the Commission for Rural Communities had reported that the search for a better quality of life in the countryside was being led by the newly retired and those planning retirement. There were concerns that rural areas could soon become enclaves of the elderly and infirm, with insufficient people to help with their care or take on domestic chores.
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Boston schools raise lunch prices to reduce fund gap (U.S., 7 articles)
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The Boston public schools yesterday decided to increase its breakfast and lunch prices this fall by 25 cents, following the lead of many districts statewide that are battling escalating food costs. Does the school have a friendly face? Some schools feel welcoming from the minute you step inside, and other schools feel like forts. The parents say the transfer policy has led to crowding in those schools, which are clustered near the many day-care centers along the main commuter artery in northern Calvert.
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Canadian relatives granted custody of children after mom slain in N.C. (U.S., 10 articles)
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(Courtesy of Jill Dean) A North Carolina court has granted the Edmonton-based parents and twin sister of Nancy Cooper temporary custody of the slain woman's two children. Her body was found Monday night near her home in Cary, N.C. Police are investigating her death as a homicide although no cause of death has been released. " At around 2 a.m. this morning the Cary Police Department obtained a search warrant for the home that the Cooper's shared, both vehicles and for Brad Cooper himself Police Chief Pat Bazemore said in an early morning press conference.
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Ladies frontman Page told police substance was cocaine: court documents (U.S., 5 articles)
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The Barenaked Ladies announced Thursday they are cancelling an upcoming kids concert in New York following the arrest of the band's lead singer on a drug charge. The Canadian band's manager, Terry McBride, said the members have decided to cancel their appearance at the Disney Music Block party in August on Long Island. " Members of the band completely support Steven Page McBride said in a statement posted on the group's website Thursday night.
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Law repeal paves way for gay marriages (U.S., 5 articles)
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WASHINGTON- Same-sex marriage is legal in two states, but not a single one will show up in the 2010 census. The Census Bureau says the federal Defense of Marriage Act bars the agency from recognizing gay marriages in the nation's 10-year count, even though the marriages are legal in Massachusetts and California. The agency's director, Steven Murdock, said in an interview Thursday that the 1996 federal law " has that effect, in terms of being a federal agency.
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Times Online (U.S., 4 articles)
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World in brief: Turkey's Islamic party should remain Last call to save thousands of unprofitable phoneboxes. Forget texting, a gloating postcard is still best for saying we 're having a lovely time By Simon de Bruxelles. Tory MPs 'use of staff budgets to pay for PR advice against rules' By Sam Coates and Francis Elliott.
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Council workers walk out over pay (U.S., 4 articles)
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A third of schools are likely to be shut tomorrow and rubbish will pile up in streets as up to 600,000 council workers join a 48-hour strike over pay. The dispute over a 2.45 per cent pay award coincides with the start of a series of walkouts over the next ten days by 100,000 civil servants, including coastguards, driving-test instructors and immigration services officers over pensions and pay. Teaching assistants and support staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been taking part in the walk-out by local government workers over pay.
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Devon and Cornwall police criticised over student’s heroin death (U.S., 4 articles)
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MORE an afternoon special than a real movie-movie, "Girl Positive" is one of those Lifetime fear-mongering (and necessarily so) morality tales wrapped up in a soap opera. When a new substitute teacher, Sarah (Jennie Garth comes to school to teach a science course, the class discussion turns to AIDS. Exmouth The original police inquiry into the death of Rachel Whitear from a heroin overdose was seriously flawed, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said.
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Canoe husband John Darwin cheated on his wife (U.S., 8 articles)
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A U.K. court heard how John and Anne Darwin staged the disappearance to try to escape a financial crisis by defrauding insurance companies of $500,000. In 2002, John Darwin vanished after his canoe was found in the sea close to his home in Seaton Carew, England. She is accused of taking part in a "complicated plot" to fraudulently claim $250,000 in pension and insurance funds and start a new life.
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Downtown Dallas Rental Guides (U.S., 4 articles)
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Many of the residents are medical students or hospital employees because of the three hospitals in close proximity. Why North Dallas? " I think because we 're starting a family, and I 'm a social worker, we wanted a very affordable place. The List: North Dallas - The Cooper Fitness Center in North Dallas is a multi-divisional health and fitness complex that includes a fitness center, spa, clinic, and hotel.
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News for Dallas, Texas (U.S., 7 articles)
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The dream scenario for someone selling his or her home is a long line of prospective buyers shouting at the top of their lungs in a protracted bidding war for the home. Real estate agents generally have a variety of standard forms, including residential purchase agreements that are kept up to date and made available to those who use the services of an agent. Finally, in many states there are disclosure laws a seller must comply with, and real estate agents can make sure that happens as well.
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Remarks by President Bush and Governor Schwarzenegger after Aerial Tour of California Wildfires (U.S., 6 articles)
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REDDING, Calif. - President Bush offered federal help and encouragement Thursday to some of the 25,000 firefighters working under a blazing sun to contain wildfires that make up the single largest fire event ever recorded in California. " I always come to make sure the federal government is coordinating closely with the state government Bush said. The Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has ordered 200 National Guard troops to report for fire training to begin assisting nearly 19,000 firefighting personnel who have been battling with more than 1,400 separate fires in the state in the past two weeks.
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Pressure mounts over school tests (U.S., 6 articles)
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Pressure is growing on the government to sever links with the US company responsible for marking millions of school test papers. BBC News education correspondent James Westhead says the impact has been more widespread, leading to growing calls for the company's five-year contract to be terminated. Some schools have been getting scripts back unmarked and in some cases pupils who took the tests are officially recorded as having been absent.
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Menthol manipulated to hook young smokers, researchers say (U.S., 6 articles)
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A leading tobacco company denied such product targeting, while anti-smoking groups said the strategy had not yet been tried in the UK. Veteran smokers, the companies are said to have concluded, favored stronger doses of menthol for its cooling effects on their throats. Earlier studies found that 70 percent of African-American smokers prefer menthols, and the Harvard researchers report that nearly 44 percent of adolescents who smoke choose menthols.
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Bush claims privilege to withhold CIA leak records (U.S., 6 articles)
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WASHINGTON - President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records related to the administration's leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity in 2003. The president's decision drew a sharp protest Wednesday from Rep. Henry Waxman which had subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over the documents. " Ashcroft's refusal created a tense standoff and was the only time in the attorney general's tenure that Bush was called upon to resolve a personnel dispute, the sources said.
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Vet saves shark that swallowed hook (U.S., 6 articles)
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The Times and the Daily Mail lead on a warning by Centrica, the owner of British Gas, that customers face a new round of price increases. July 16: Divers from Sea World use a lasso to catch a nurse shark with a large fishing hook stuck in its throat. SYDNEY, Australia- A veterinarian in Australia plunged his arm up to his shoulder into the throat of a rare shark to save the animal after it swallowed a grappling hook.
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Former Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee avoids prison (U.S., 5 articles)
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Lee's entire cabinet offered to resign in order to take responsibility for the beef dispute and to take heat off the president, who has been in office less than four months. Because, apparently, the world's appetite for all things Bruce Lee knows no limits, there will be Bruce Lee, the musical, coming to Broadway. Dozens of other Lee projects are in the works, including a proposal to raise $50 million to build a museum in Seattle, where Lee lived from 1959-64.
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McCain courts skeptical blacks at NAACP event (U.S., 5 articles)
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Let's just say that conjuring up the specter of mass murder as being helpful to a presidential candidate doesn't strike the most uplifting tone. John McCain's campaign continues to pay attention to New Hampshire, which saved his presidential bid by giving him a crucial primary win in January. This afternoon in Manchester, Tom Ridge former Pennsylvania governor, former US homeland security secretary, and Vietnam War vet helped announce the formation of New Hampshire Veterans for McCain.
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Gore says transfer to clean energy vital for U.S. - (U.S., 5 articles)
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The Nobel laureate and former US vice president, Al Gore, has urged Americans to abandon electricity generated by fossil fuels within a decade. Mr Gore, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year for his work on climate change, insists his goal is achievable and affordable. Nobel Prize-winner Al Gore issued an audacious challenge to the United States on Thursday, calling on the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years.
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RICHARD BRADY: A TEACHER'S LESSON (U.S., 5 articles)
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They were hustling out of the house to get their picture taken a Doherty family portrait when somebody smelled something burning in the bathroom. It dead-ends into a block of row houses that are in a row, all right, but a row with the same sense of uniform logic as the streets. Not limestone or flagstone or any of your suburban shales, but brownstone, big, chunky blocks the color of the Industrial Revolution.
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Argentina's First Lady Wins Presidency by Wide Margin (U.S., 4 articles)
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Argentina's vice president Julio Cobos has dealt the government a major defeat by rejecting a controversial export tariffs bill in the Senate. With senators tied 36 to 36 after more than 16 hours of debate, Vice-President Julio Cobos cast the deciding vote to reject his government's proposals. Farmers have won a critical battle but the dispute is not over and Argentina faces some tough days and weeks ahead, says the BBC's Daniel Schweimler in Buenos Aires.
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Tad & Molly: do women prefer rich or funny men? (U.S., 4 articles)
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How times have changed since 1900, when the founder of the modern Olympics , Baron Pierre de Coubertin, lifted the original ban on women competing in the Games. That's not to say that is the only thing a guy needs to be to make any woman happy, and its importance will vary among women. Last month marked 793 years since Magna Carta was signed, a great step forward for the cause of liberty in Britain.
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CNN Presents: Black in America Parent Discussion Guide (U.S., 4 articles)
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(CNN Student News) Forty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., CNN launches a sweeping on-air and digital initiative, CNN Presents: Black in America. These documentaries, "The Black Woman and Family" and " The Black Man focus on fresh analysis from new voices about the real lives behind the stereotypes, statistics and identity politics that frequently frame the national dialogue about Black America. Before and after viewing these programs, use the overview questions and discussion activity that follow to facilitate a discussion with your pre-teen and teenaged children.
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Teen guilty of dog walker murder (U.S., 4 articles)
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Adrian Jones was convicted at Swansea Crown Court on Thursday of beating Kelly Hyde from Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, with a barbell. Swansea Crown Court was told a dog lead stained with Ms Hyde's blood was found in the attic where Jones lived. Ms Hyde had a number of jobs including trainee hairdresser, barmaid, working at a riding stables and at Leekes department store in Cross Hands.
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Survey shows Russian museums missing 50,000 items (U.S., 4 articles)
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Former Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the survey after his government was deeply embarrassed in 2006 by hundreds of thefts from the crown jewel of Russia's art world, St. Petersburg's Hermitage gallery. Over 1,600 museums have been inspected since then, and most of them have items missing, Interior Ministry Col. Ilya Ryasnoi told The Associated Press in a phone interview. Citing specific cases, Ryasnoi said 88 World War II medals had vanished from a museum in the Altai region, and weaponry had disappeared from a museum in the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk.
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Parties count down to by-election (U.S., 4 articles)
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The Conservatives will focus on the impact of retrospective road tax charges while the Lib Dems will again campaign to save Parkhead fire station. Conservative candidate, Davena Rankin, and Scottish party leader, Annabel Goldie, will be speaking about the Labour Government's proposed retrospective road tax charges. Lib Dem candidate, Ian Robertson, will take the second day of his campaign to save Parkhead fire station to the doorsteps of the constituency.
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Week 10 - January 5-11: Cheshin pulls the plug on Sharon (U.S., 4 articles)
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In other times this combination of words - Bibi, right-wing Neve Ya'akov, and four days before elections - would have been a sort of chemical brew, a catalyst creating a political explosion of emotions. Rhythmic chants of "Bibi-Bibi" and " Bibi, king of Israel would have filled the air, only to be brushed aside by some dismissive Netanyahu gesture of false modesty. There are gray politicians the public regards with suspicion, indifference and disgust - worse, these politicians seem have no relevance to the people's lives.
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Relocate species endangered by climate change: scientists (U.S., 4 articles)
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A policy paper to be published in the July 18 issue of the journal Science says saving endangered species like sea corals may have to include relocating them to new habitats. (NOAA/Associated Press) Consider it the modern equivalent of Noah's Ark: scientists say policy-makers should consider moving species outside their historic ranges to prevent extinction caused by climate change. A group of Australian and U.S. researchers suggests that if current conservation practices are not enough, more drastic measures may need to be taken.
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