China’s quality inspection agency has shut down nearly half of the nation’s dairy producers for failing to pass inspection tests and is forcing them to clean up their production policies, according to reports from Beijing. Highly toxic and poisonous…

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China’s Toxic Dairy Industry

If Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shut down, interest rates would rise for most borrowers, but urban and rural residents could see sharper increases than customers in the suburbs.

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Without Loan Giants, 30-Year Mortgage May Fade Away

Gunmen attacked Iraq’s largest oil refinery Saturday, killing a guard and detonating bombs that sparked a fire and forced the facility to shut down, officials said.

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Attack Shuts Iraq’s Largest Refinery

The former Alaska governor said that Congressional Republicans don’t have to shut down the government to pass a budget.

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The Caucus: Palin, on Long Island, Answers Questions

The US can win the Afghan war even if Pakistan does not shut down militant safe havens on its side of the border, a top US commander says.

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Afghan war winnable – US general

The cases of 20 environmental activists convicted of plotting to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station are to be reviewed, the BBC learns.

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CPS reviews power station cases

The collapse of a case against six green campaigners accused of conspiring to shut down a power station is to be investigated by the police watchdog.

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IPCC to probe trial collapse

The city of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, is normally inhabited by two million residents. But now, with flood waters and highs tides, it is a ghost town. Electricity is shut down, residents are forced to leave their homes in boats, and a bull…

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Fears and Water Rise in Brisbane

A group of climate change campaigners who planned to shut down the UK’s second largest power station are given community orders.

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Power plant protesters sentenced

A council-owned waste incinerator in Neath Port Talbot is voluntarily shut down after breaching its limit for emissions.

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Waste plant closed over emissions

Five inches of snow this week virtually shut down Heathrow Airport, and while most flights were back on track, bad weather caused new problems.

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Europe’s Bad Weather Adds to Heathrow’s Woes

PayPal was a tough target. The latest web firm to face Operation Payback DDoS attacks for withholding donations to WikiLeaks was prepared for the well-publicized flood on its server. After hours of blasting PayPal on Friday, the ” hacktivists ” associated with a loose network called Anonymous

A mudslide on rail tracks in Washington state has shut down Amtrak’s route between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, officials said.

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Mudslide causes Amtrak cancellations

A Los Angeles health clinic that had treated porn stars was shut down Thursday by health officials. Adult Industry Medical, located in Sherman Oaks, California, was found to be operating with the wrong license in May, and although the clinic applied…

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L.A. Porn Industry Clinic Shut Down

Officials closed the Panama Canal on Wednesday due to heavy rains and flooding, marking the third closing in its 96-year history. The canal was shut down around noon, and authorities hoped to reopen it by Wednesday evening, but they were hesitant to…

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Flooding Closes Panama Canal