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Floods close Lourdes pilgrimage site in Pyrenees

AP - World - 5 min 16 sec ago
PARIS (AP) -- Heavy floods in southwest France have forced the closure of the Catholic pilgrimage site in Lourdes and the evacuation of pilgrims from nearby hotels....
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Karzai suspends talks with US over Taliban move

AP - World - 14 min 54 sec ago
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Afghan president on Wednesday suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way his government was being left out of initial peace negotiations with the Taliban meant to find ways to end the nearly 12-year war....
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Vietnam hunger strike tests official intimidation

AP - World - 19 min 42 sec ago
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Cu Huy Ha Vu's books come with pages torn out by prison guards. Only some of his letters reach home. He is not allowed to access evidence from his trial or to see his wife alone....
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Obama's Berlin speech: History raises the stakes

AP - Politics - 21 min 22 sec ago
BERLIN (AP) -- Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement....
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Obama's Berlin speech: History raises the stakes

AP - World - 21 min 22 sec ago
BERLIN (AP) -- Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement....
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UN says 45.2 million refugees and displaced people

AP - World - 42 min 5 sec ago
GENEVA (AP) -- The Syrian civil war contributed to pushing the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide by the end of 2012, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday....
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Senator: IRS to pay $70M in employee bonuses

AP - Politics - 45 min 6 sec ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator....
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House to consider cuts to food stamps

AP - Politics - 54 min 5 sec ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A wide-ranging farm bill the House is considering would cut food stamps by $2 billion a year and make it more difficult for some people to qualify for the domestic food aid program....
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World Bank highlights climate-poverty link

AP - World - 54 min 44 sec ago
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- The World Bank says it will increasingly view its efforts to help developing countries fight poverty through a "climate lens."...
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Obama to call for nuclear warhead reduction in U.S., Russia

Washington Post - Politics - 1 hour 1 min ago
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Capitol's Frederick Douglass statue to be unveiled

AP - Politics - 1 hour 2 min ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The 19th-century orator and writer Frederick Douglass will once again stand tall in the U.S. Capitol....
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Turkey's 'standing man' to join ranks of icons?

AP - World - 1 hour 16 min ago
The image was stark (AP) -- a silent, solitary figure standing in passive defiance to the Turkish prime minister's demand for protesters to clear Taksim Square in central Istanbul....
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Obama relying on untested oversight board on NSA

AP - Politics - 1 hour 41 min ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The obscure oversight board that President Barack Obama wants to scrutinize the National Security Agency's secret surveillance system is little known for good reason. The U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has operated fitfully during its eight years of low-profile existence, stymied by congressional infighting and, at times, censorship by government lawyers....
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Budget office view boosts Senate immigration bill

AP - Politics - 1 hour 42 min ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supporters of a far-reaching immigration bill in the Senate see fresh momentum from a report by the Congressional Budget Office that says the measure would boost the economy and reduce federal deficits by billions of dollars....
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Social issues still fire up GOP despite 2012 loss

AP - Politics - 1 hour 43 min ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican lawmakers have a message for those who want the party to soften its emphasis on social conservatism in hopes of reaching a wider national audience: Not so fast....
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Protesters out again in Brazil's biggest city

AP - World - 2 hours 38 min ago
SAO PAULO (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to raise a collective cry against a longstanding lament - people are weighed down by high taxes and high prices but get low-quality public services and a system of government infected with corruption....
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Obama's Berlin speech: History raises the stakes

AP - World - 2 hours 45 min ago
BERLIN (AP) -- Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement....
Categories: News

Obama's Berlin speech: History raises the stakes

AP - Politics - 2 hours 45 min ago
BERLIN (AP) -- Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement....
Categories: News