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Ukrainian clubs target Brazil winger Osvaldo
Brazil international winger Osvaldo is reportedly a summer transfer target of Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk and Metalist Kharkiv. The 26-year-old has been in impressive form for Brazilian club Sao Paulo and has twice been capped by Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari this year, reports XInhua. Sao Paulo have reportedly already received preliminary offers for Osvaldo from both clubs, considered two ...
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Brazils Embraer to sell 40 jets to US airline
Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer said Tuesday it reached a deal to sell 40 E175 passenger jets to US airline SkyWest for nearly $1.7 billion. The planes have a seating capacity of up to 76 passengers. An additional 60 orders are subject to SkyWest being awarded contracts with major US airline partners, while the agreement also includes options for 100 other E175s, meaning the deal could ...
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Afghanistan Seeks Military Aid from India
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has met with Indian leaders in hopes of securing more military aid before international troops leave the country next year. Mr. Karzai held talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh late Tuesday in New Delhi, after meeting with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee. The Afghan president is expected to seek India's assistance to help strengthen Afghan ...
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Rescuers Searching for Survivors Following Deadly US Tornado
More stormy weather is interfering with rescue efforts in Moore, Oklahoma, the day after a monster tornado destroyed large parts of the central U.S. town. The town's fire chief says emergency workers will not stop searching for survivors and plan to go through the rubble of each building at least three times. Monday's tornado killed 24 people and injured 240, tearing up entire ...
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Coke Ad Hawks Pop Peace to India Pakistan
Massive corporations like Coca-Cola have a primary goal: Sell their products to make money. Sometimes, if they're lucky, that goal aligns with another endeavor: Make peace. A new three-minute advertisement released by the beverage company this week aims to do both. Coca-Cola filmed the advertisement in two locations: Pakistan and India, South Asia's nuclear-armed neighbors mired in ...
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Kerry Mideast Talks on Syria to Include Russian Call for Involving Iran
STATE DEPARTMENT U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in the Middle East this week for talks to promote an international peace conference on Syria. Russia wants Iran to be part of the process. In this fight for control of Syria, Iran is one of the biggest backers of embattled President Bashar al-Assad. So Russia says Iran should be part of the peace process. "Iran has ...
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Group to Take Nigeria Government to International Court
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) will file a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Nigeria's government of human rights violations, according to spokesman Ango Abdullahi. "What we are doing now is to organize our evidence that would make it possible for us to make a very strong case against the government and its agencies, or up to individuals who may be ...
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New iPhone App Speeds Care of Heart Attack Victims
Researchers have developed an experimental iPhone application, or app, designed to help emergency medical technicians diagnose a particularly deadly form of heart attack and send that information quickly to waiting hospital surgical teams. The inexpensive app can greatly improve a patient's odds of survival. The iPhone app is specially designed to identify patients suffering from a ...
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EU Leaders Hold Energy Summit
European energy costs are high, in contrast with those in the United States where new shale oil and gas resources have sent prices tumbling. EU President Herman Van Rompuy, the host of the summit meeting, says Europe risks becoming the only continent to depend on imported energy. However, shale oil and gas production present a potentially high environmental risk. Critics say hydraulic ...
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French Writer Commits Suicide at Notre Dame in Paris
French policemen cordon off in front of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral following the evacuation of the after a man shot himself dead in front of the altar, May 22, ...
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Harper test-drives new extractive industries approach to aid in Peru
Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrives in Lima, Peru on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Following his visit Harper will travel to Cali, Columbia for the Pacific Alliance summit. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean ...
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Chinas Premier Seeks Stronger Ties with Pakistan
A soldier walks near a bus as he helps to secure the area and clear the roads before the motorcade of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang passes by in Islamabad, May 22, ...
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Ai Weiwei Releases Provocative Heavy Rock Music Video
Chinese rebel artist and rights activist Ai Weiwei has released a provocative new heavy rock music video that recreates his 81 days in secretive police ...
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It’s back to basics for Venezuela
A customer leaves a private supermarket with her purchases, including toilet paper, in Caracas, Venezuela. First milk, butter and coffee ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities - toilet ...
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Ahmadinejad Criticizes Aides Election Ban
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is speaking out in defense of a close aide whom authorities have barred from running in next month's presidential ...
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Imran Khan leaves Pakistan hospital two weeks after forklift fall
Imran Khan has left hospital more than two weeks after he suffered serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift at a campaign event, a spokesman has said.Khan will remain at his home in the eastern city of Lahore for a while so doctors can monitor his progress, said the spokesman for the ...
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Venezuela is running out of toilet paper
Supermarket staff work next to partially empty shelves of toilet paper in Caracas, May 16, 2013. Supplies of food and other basic products have been patchy in recent months, with long queues forming at supermarkets and rushes occurring when there is news of a new stock ...
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US Homeland Security Secretary to Survey Tornado Response
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano travels to Oklahoma on Wednesday to assess recovery efforts in the city of Moore, where a devastating tornado killed at least 24 people and injured 240 ...
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Venezuela moves to relieve toilet paper shortage
CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuela's National Assembly approved a $79 million credit to import toilet paper and other personal hygiene products to relieve shortages in the petroleum-rich state.The South American OPEC member has the world's largest proven oil reserves but has wrestled with periodic shortages of several consumer goods since price controls were imposed in 2003 under the late ...
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Notre-Dame de Paris suicide a political act – far-rightist Marine Le Pen
France's far-right party leader Marine Le Pen has paid tribute to the man who killed himself in the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, saying it was a "political ...
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SkyWest buys 40 jets from Brazil
(34 mins ago) Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer on Tuesday announced the sale of 40 E-175 jets to U.S. carrier SkyWest. SkyWest will operate the aircraft under a Capacity Purchase Agreement with United Airlines, Xinhua news agency reports. According to Embraer, before the sale of 40 E-175 jets, the company has made contracts with United Airlines for 30 E-175 jets last month. In addition to ...
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Ex-Ford Motor executives charged with Argentina brutalities
(40 mins ago) Three former Ford Motor Co executives have been charged with crimes against humanity for allegedly targeting Argentine union workers for kidnapping and torture after the 1976 military coup. All three men are now in their 80s. Their case is part of a new wave of prosecutions focusing on corporate support for the dictators who ran Argentina in 1976-1983, and the 150-page indictment ...
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Uruguay joins the women’s presidential club Mujica flies to China and Astori to Colombia
For several days beginning Wednesday Uruguay, as its neighbours, Brazil and Argentina will be ruled by a woman. Lucia Topolansky, Fist Lady but also Senator and third in the succession line will become interim president since her husband is off on an official trip to China and Europe, and Vice-president Danilo Astori will be attending the Alliance of the Pacific summit in ...
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Uruguay Mujica on a most ambitious mission to China after investments for ports and railways
Uruguayan President Jose Mujica begins on Wednesday the longest and most ambitious of his overseas trips hoping to convince China to invest in infrastructure projects that are crucial for the development of the country and its foreign trade: a deep water port and recovering the rail cargo ...
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Uruguay’s main problem is high inflation but no policy changes planned says Astori
Uruguay's main economic problem is high inflation, and policymakers will continue to use interest rates and bank reserve requirements to bring it under control, Vice President Danilo Astori said on Tuesday. Consumer prices in Uruguay rose 8.14% in the 12 months through April, far outside the country's official annual target range of 4 to ...
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Chemical castration in Argentina for rapists?
Chemical castration of rapists seems a good way to prevent them from re-offending. But, if the 'treatment' is reversible by simply not taking the medicine anymore, and if taking the treatment get the rapist a light sentence, is it fair that the victim still has to carry his child if he makes her pregnant in the attack?
It was announced by officials in Argentina’s Mendoza province on the 21st of March, 2010, that chemical castration has been authorized for rapists convicted in the province. The move came after what the authorities called, a “significant rise” in the number of sexual assaults last year. Read more
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