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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — Fed sticks with bond purchases but offers slightly brighter outlook for the economy… <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Jack Lew was the senior budget adviser to President Barack Obama and President Bill Clinton. He was Obama’s chief of staff. Now he is the US treasury secretary. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Fashion design duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were yesterday each handed a suspended prison sentence of one year and eight months for hiding hundreds of millions of euros from the tax authorities. The designers, who are nearly as famous as the stars they dress, were not present in court in Milan and denied the charges. Given the complexity and length of the appeals process, they are unlikely to spend any time in jail. Public prosecutor Gaetano Ruta had asked that they be jailed for two- and-a-half years. A spokesman for the company declined to comment immediately. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Barack Obama said Russian and US nuclear weapons should be slashed by up to a third, in a keynote speech in front of Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate, where he called for a world of “peace and justice”. Obama used the once-divided city’s rebirth as a metaphor for progress, as he stood on the east side of the route of the Berlin Wall, and warned the “complacent” West that history did not stop with its cold war victory. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In November 2008, Abid Naseer, a Pakistani student living in Manchester, England, began to e-mail a Yahoo account ultimately traced to his home country. The young man’s e-mails appeared to be about four women – Nadia, Huma, Gulnaz and Fozia – and which one would make a “faithful and loving wife”. Investigating terrorism is not an exact science. It’s like a mosaic SEAN JOYCE, FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR British investigators later determined that the four names were code for types of explosives. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The incongruous appearance of a multimillion-dollar yacht at a North Korean fishery station is being cited as evidence that Kim Jong-un has inherited his late father’s taste for the trappings of wealth, and that he’s found a way to get around UN sanctions to satisfy them. Spotted in the background of photos of Kim published by the state-run KCNA news agency, the vessel was identified by the NK News web site on Tuesday as a 29-metre Princess 95MY. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s three-week border stand-off during April in Ladakh, in Indian-administered Kashmir, had misfired, an Indian security expert told a forum in Manila, saying Beijing’s move galvanised Indian leaders into finally sealing an historic security deal with Japan. The dispute strained ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours, but both sides pulled troops back ahead of a visit to New Delhi by Premier Li Keqiang, who agreed to fresh talks to settle their long-running border row. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha yesterday visited key sites of Germany’s troubled Nazi and cold war history, walking through the haunting Holocaust Memorial and laying flowers for those killed at the Berlin Wall. As President Barack Obama attended to matters of state in a 24-hour visit to the German capital, his family went on a whirlwind tour in an armoured limousine on their first visit to the city. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were forced to live in an Ohio basement with snakes and pitbulls and were treated like slaves for more than two years, US prosecutors said. The case came to light after the woman was caught stealing confectionery and told police she would rather go to jail than go home because her roommates “were mean to her”. Three of her tormentors were arrested on human trafficking charges. “We are yet again reminded that modern-day slavery exists all around us,” US attorney for the northern district of Ohio, Steven Dettelbach, said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A joint army and air force operation has evacuated nearly 12,000 Hindu pilgrims stranded in a mountainous area by torrential monsoon rains and landslides in northern India, but nearly 63,000 people remain cut off, a senior official said on Wednesday. The death toll in the affected region totalled 86, according to official statements. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s National Television has brought another case of “food forgery” to the spotlight in a country where fake eggs, beef and tofu have become staple items in national news coverage. Police in Chongqing’s Hechuan district have discovered a production site for fake honey and confiscated about 500 kilograms of the fake nectar, the national broadcaster said in a report on Sunday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ANNIE LOWREY, on June 19th, 2013 The City Council in Washington agreed on regulations for food trucks after a protracted legislative battle that consumed the city.
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Smithfield Foods Inc. may be worth less as a whole than its separate parts, according to an activist investor asking the Virginia pork giant this week to reconsider its recent $4.7 billion sale to a Chinese meat producer. Last month, Shuanghui International Holdings agreed to pay $4.7 billion, sans debt, for the full Smithfield package. The Hong Kong company offered $34 a share. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Belt-tightening in Japan’s diplomatic service is cutting the quality of canapes on offer abroad, leading to fears Tokyo is losing the battle of the buffets to Beijing. Diplomats in Tokyo say China appears to be ramping up its spending on its missions, while Japanese diplomats are being forced to scrimp. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Belt-tightening in Japan’s diplomatic service is cutting the quality of canapes on offer abroad, the foreign ministry has said, leading to fears Tokyo is losing the battle of the buffets to Beijing. Diplomats in Tokyo say China appears to be ramping up its spending on its missions while Japanese diplomats are being forced to scrimp, the ministry said. Allowances for embassy bashes have dropped 40 per cent over the last decade, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida told a parliamentary committee earlier this month. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> South Korea on Monday joined the United States in insisting that rival North Korea take “concrete” steps towards abandoning its nuclear weapons if it genuinely wants to end its international isolation. The South’s comment came a day after Pyongyang sought to circumvent Seoul by proposing direct talks with Washington. The move was widely seen as an effort to drive a wedge between the United States and its South Korean ally after planned North-South talks were cancelled last week in a row over protocol. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By MIREYA NAVARRO, on June 16th, 2013 Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has tried to curb soda consumption, ban smoking in parks and encourage bike riding, is taking on a new cause: requiring New Yorkers to separate their food scraps for composting.
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By Eleanor Clift, on June 16th, 2013 With the House about to take up the farm bill, the Republican Party’s ascendant libertarian wing is taking aim at the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Eleanor Clift on whether food stamps will survive.
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By , on June 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse pledged on Sunday to proceed with the first-ever provincial polls in the island’s former war zone but his government said the powers of the elected council will be clipped. The ruling coalition had promised to share limited power with Tamils, pointing to elections to local councils, after the military crushed separatist Tamil rebels in May 2009 and ended 37 years of ethnic bloodshed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on June 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> “Long live Rowhani,” tens of thousands of jubilant supporters chanted as security officials made no attempt to rein in crowds — joyous and even a bit bewildered by the scope of his victory with more than three times the votes of his nearest rival. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Fed sticks with bond purchases but offers slightly brighter outlook for the economy…
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