• Afghan army, police pose growing risk to U.S., NATO troops

    Afghan army, police pose growing risk to...

    Nearly one out of every five NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year were killed by Afghan police or army forces. Nine of the 16 victims wer...

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  • Syrians try to clear antipersonnel mines near Turkish border

    Syrians try to clear antipersonnel mines...

    Amid the olive groves of Turkey just a stone's throw away from the Syrian border, he has hidden away several Styrofoam boxes. Their contents ar...

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  • EXCLUSIVE: Activity seen at North Korea launch site

    EXCLUSIVE: Activity seen at North Korea ...

    A new satellite image has captured increased activity on North Korea's launch pad as the country prepares for its controversial missile launch in ...

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  • Unions prepare for general strike in Spain

    Unions prepare for general strike in Spa...

    Spanish unions were making final preparations for a general strike Thursday to protest the new conservative government's labor reforms and austeri...

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  • Energy giant struggles to contain offshore gas leak

    Energy giant struggles to contain offsho...

    Energy giant Total was trying Wednesday to contain a gas leak that forced the evacuation of a platform off the coast of Scotland. A union repre...

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  • Sudan and South Sudan may slide back to war, world powers warn

    Sudan and South Sudan may slide back to ...

    Sudan and South Sudan may be sliding back toward war, the United States and other international powers are warning, amid reports that Sudan is bom...

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  • Will shootings affect French election?

    Will shootings affect French election?...

    Re-election to the Elysée Palace was looking like mission impossible for President Nicolas Sarkozy: Trailing far behind the socialist candidate F...

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  • Pope calls for greater freedoms in Cuba as he ends two-country tour

    Pope calls for greater freedoms in Cuba ...

    Greeted by throngs of Catholic worshipers from across the region, Pope Benedict XVI ended his two-country tour in Havana's Revolution Plaza with a...

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  • Activists: No signs Syria carrying out peace plan

    Activists: No signs Syria carrying out p...

    Even though Syria has signed off on a U.N.-backed peace initiative, there's no evidence yet that the regime is carrying out the plan Wednesday, ac...

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  • Strauss-Kahn charged in alleged prostitution ring

    Strauss-Kahn charged in alleged prostitu...

    Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged in France on Monday with "aggravated pimping" for his alleged particip...

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  • U.S. apology for NATO strike not good enough, says Pakistan foreign minister

    U.S. apology for NATO strike not good en...

    Pakistan's foreign minister says an apology by the U.S. government for the NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers would not satisfy the ...

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  • Pope arrives in Cuba; visit carries political tinge

    Pope arrives in Cuba; visit carries poli...

    Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Cuba's southeastern city of Santiago de Cuba on Monday, delivering Mass before throngs of Cubans in only the second p...

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  • Pakistan lawmakers to debate end to U.S. drone strikes

    Pakistan lawmakers to debate end to U.S....

    Pakistan's parliament is expected this week to debate a committee's recommendation that the United States stop drone strikes inside its territory ...

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  • Officials: Bales sneaked off base twice during rampage

    Officials: Bales sneaked off base twice ...

    Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who is suspected in the shooting deaths this month of 17 Afghans, sneaked off his remote outpost twice during his alleged...

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  • Illness forces Suu Kyi to suspend campaigning

    Illness forces Suu Kyi to suspend campai...

    Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has suspended campaigning for Myanmar's upcoming by-elections after falling ill, her party said Sunday. Nyan...

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current pressure: 101 mb
humidity: 54%
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sunrise: 6:41
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EXCLUSIVE: Activity seen at North Korea ...

A new satellite image has captured increased activity on North Korea's launch pad as the country prepares for its controversial missile launch in mid-April. The DigitalGlobe image taken on March 28 shows trucks on the Tongch'ang-ni launch pad......

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Facebook sets private market exit...

Facebook will permanently halt trades of its stock on private secondary markets at the end of this week. The move is to allow the social network to finalise its shareholder list and tighten information pathways leading up to its initial public of.....

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Athletic ability leaves Schalke shell-sh...

A glorious attacking display by Athletic Bilbao earned the Spanish side a 4-2 win at Schalke in the first leg of the Europa League quarterfinals at the Veltins Arena on Thursday. Fernando Llorente put Athletic ahead in the 20th minute poking t.....

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  • Afghan army, police pose growing risk to U.S., NATO troops

    Nearly one out of every five NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year were killed by Afghan police or army forces. Nine of the 16 victims were U.S. soldiers. This pattern of attacks raises.....

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  • The executive 'adrenaline junkie'

    Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos plans to dive 14,000 feet below the surface and raise the F-1 engines that fired Neil Armstrong to the moon in July 1969. Just days earlier, producer and direc.....

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  • Syrian athletes will attend London Olympics, says British PM

    Syrian athletes will be allowed to attend this summer's London Olympics but officials from the war-torn country will not be welcome, says UK Prime Minister David Cameron. "I don't think we shou.....

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  • Half of U.S. households own at least one Apple product

    Apple has taken firm root in America. Just over half of all households in the country own at least one Apple product, a new survey says, showing just how far the reach of the company has come in t.....

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  • Qantas to charter Australia's first commercial flight powered by cooking oil

    It’s difficult to believe that it’s only been four years since Time Magazine ran the headline “Can Airplanes Fly on Biofuel?”. Now it seems that all airlines are jumping on the biofuel .....

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