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Google to launch music service

Google’s plans are still vague, but it has been "stepping up conversations" about offering music services online as well as over mobile phones that …
Reuters

Survey: Americans hopeful about cancer and computers

More than half, or 58 percent, fear another world war in the next 40 years and 53 percent expect a terrorist attack against the United States using …
Reuters

OSCE calls on Turkey to stop blocking YouTube

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said the law, introduced in 2007, has been expanded to bar over 5,000 sites in the …
Reuters

Hundreds reported missing, 38 dead in Brazil floods

Days of heavy rain in the states of Alagoas and Pernambuco flooded towns, burst a river dam, and left more than 50,000 people without shelter, state …
Reuters

European Union looking for gas import routes to bypass Belarus

The European Commission is also checking how much the possible interruption in supplies would affect the EU, delegation spokesman Denis Daniilidis …
Interfax-Ukraine

Archaeologists find oldest paintings of apostles

The images in a branch of the catacombs of St Tecla near St Paul’s Basilica, just outside the walls of ancient Rome, were painted at the end of the …
Reuters

Komorowski: pullout from Afghanistan in 2012

Bronislaw Komorowski said Tuesday he will start scaling back Poland’s force of some 2,600 troops in Afghanistan in 2011 and end the mission the …
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All 3 bid cities make cut for 2018 Winter Games

The bids from Annecy, France; Munich; and Pyeongchang, South Korea, all made the cut Tuesday after a review by the International Olympic …
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Romanian journalists detained on blackmail charges

Dan Diaconescu and producer Doru Parv were handcuffed and detained by anti-corruption prosecutors for allegedly demanding money from Ion Motz, the …
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Update: Around 50 dead in Congo train accident

The accident happened late on Monday night after the train left the coastal town of Pointe-Noire on the Chemin de Fer Congo Ocean (CFCO) line, which …
Reuters

Heavy rains in south China trigger dyke threat

The Fu River in Jiangxi province burst through a protective embankment late on Monday, threatening the nearby city of Fuzhou. Officials scrambled to …
Reuters

Report shows young Chinese workers more demanding

The report by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions comes in the wake of high-profile strikes at plants run by foreign carmakers including Toyota …
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World Cup hits South African hunting industry

The number of football fans traveling the country means foreign hunters can’t get flights and Adri Kitshoff, chief executive of the Professional …
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Update: Istanbul blast rocks bus carrying soldiers, 4 dead

The remote controlled bomb was detonated near a military housing complex in the district of Halkali. Three of those killed were sergeants, the …
Reuters

Deepwater drill ban in court, more Gulf fishing shut

The ban by President Barack Obama’s administration was imposed in response to the explosion aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20 that …
Reuters

Worker runs over people at Mazda plant, 1 dead

Toshiaki Hikiji, 42, was arrested about an hour later on attempted murder charges after fleeing in his car from Mazda’s Ujina plant in Hiroshima …
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Arizona wildfire near Flagstaff now at 10,000 acres

"That’s scary," he said from a shelter where a community briefing was held a day later. "It moves fast." The combination of high temperatures, low …
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U.S. Senate report says Haiti rebuilding has stalled

Obtained Monday by The Associated Press, the eight-page report is meant to give Congress a picture of Haiti today as U.S. legislators consider …
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