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APNewsBreak: 22 states join campaign finance fight

APNewsBreak: 22 states join campaign finance fightTwenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate ...



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T12:56:50Z

Tropical Storm Alberto weakens off Carolina coast

This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, May 19, 2012, shows tropical storm Alberto 140 miles (225 km) east of Charleston, S.C. Alberto is the first tropical storm of the season and formed Saturday off the coast of South Carolina with top winds of 45 mph (75 kph). (AP Photo/Weather Underground)Tropical Storm Alberto weakened slightly off the South Carolina coast on Sunday, canceling dolphin cruises, producing showers along the coast and serving as a reminder that the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is just around the corner.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T16:48:29Z

Two more activists hit with charges related to NATO summit

This undated photo provided May 20, 2012, by the Chicago Police Department shows Sebastian Senakiewicz, 24, of Chicago. Chicago police said Sunday, May 20, 2012, that Senakiewicz has been charged with one felony count of terrorism/making a false threat. He is accused of planning to make a Molotov cocktail to be used during the NATO summit. Prosecutors previously charged three other men after a raid on a Chicago apartment with planning to attack President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home and other targets. They're also accused of trying to make Molotov cocktails. (AP Photo/Chicago Police Department)Prosecutors said Sunday they have charged two more people as part their investigation into activists who planned to take part in demonstrations at the two-day NATO summit.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T16:57:10Z

Bomb explodes near UN observers\' chief in Syria

In this citizen journalism image provided by Sham News Network SNN, an anti-Syrian regime protester, holds up a Cross and Crescent painted with colors of the Syrian revolution flag during a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar Assad, at the Damascus suburb of Yabroud, Syria, Friday, May 18, 2012. Syrian security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition to disperse thousands rallying Friday in Aleppo in what activists said was the largest protest yet in a city that has largely remained loyal to President Bashar Assad during the country's 15-month uprising. (AP Photo/Sham News Network, SNN)THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTOA roadside bomb exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as senior U.N. officials toured the area on Sunday, blowing off the front of a parked vehicle but causing no casualties.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T13:03:35Z

Romney, US Sen. Brown play down past connections

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Romney speaks to supporters in front of Sawyer Bridge during campaign event in HillsboroughMassachusetts Republicans Mitt Romney and Scott Brown have a history of supporting each other throughout their political careers.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T13:59:49Z

North Korea releases detained Chinese fishermen
BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea released a number of Chinese fishermen and boats on Sunday two weeks after seizing them, ending a rare public dispute between the two allies, Chinese state media reported. The boats were taken in the Yellow Sea between China and North Korea on May 8 - although it remains unclear whether the action was authorised by the North Korean government. The North Koreans who took the boats had demanded 1.2 million yuan ($189,800) for releasing the fishermen, then cut their price to 900,000 yuan, the owner of one of the captured vessels said last week. ...
Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T16:00:41Z

Pelosi defends Dems\' Rev. Wright fundraising appeal

Nancy Pelosi Defends Dems Rev. Wright Fundraising AppealHouse Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi defended the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on "This Week" for sending a fundraising email that attempted to capitalize on the apparently dead advertising plan to link President Obama to Rev. Jeremiah Wright.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T12:47:44Z

Three charged in carjacking of pastor Marvin Winans
A Michigan prosecutor has charged three young men in the assault and carjacking of popular Detroit pastor and gospel singing icon Marvin Winans.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T16:12:53Z

Iran MP jibes: Ahmadinejad should \'open nightclubs\'

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is seen through two Shiite womenA hardline Iranian MP on Saturday took a jibe at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for failing to support an Islamic dress code for women, suggesting the president should now move to open "nightclubs" in the Islamic republic.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T16:37:48Z

Earthquake kills at least seven in Italy

A man looks at the damage caused by a quake in Finale Emilia northern Italy, Sunday, May 20. 2012. An earthquake shook northern Italy early Sunday at 4:04 a.m. Sunday between Modena and Mantova, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) north of Bologna at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). (AP Photo/Marco Vasini)At least seven people died and 50 were injured after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck northern Italy early Sunday, authorities there said. According to CNN, two ceramic factory workers were killed in Sant'Agostino di Ferrara, another in a shed collapse in Ponte Rodoni di Bondeno, and three others in under rubble in various locations. Among the [...]



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T15:46:34Z

Hidden fingerprint of weapons-grade plutonium found

Hidden Fingerprint of Weapons-Grade Plutonium Finally FoundAfter 50 years of searching, physicists have spotted the fingerprint of radioactive plutonium, revealing the secrets of this complex molecule behind nuclear weapons.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T13:21:54Z

Boehner insists on tying debt limit increase to spending cuts

Speaker John Boehner Insists on Tying Debt Limit Increase to Spending CutsHouse Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, stood by his call insisting that any increase in the debt limit should be offset by greater cuts in spending and tax reform before the end of the year, saying that working toward an agreement now would improve the economy.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T12:46:46Z

Facebook stock limps into Monday: What\'s next after IPO?

Market trackers say people are much more likely to click on ads at Google than at FacebookFacebook resumes trading on Wall Street on Monday with shares being closely watched to see how well they stand on their own after stumbling out of the gate in a historic but lackluster debut.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T15:05:43Z

Lockerbie bomber dies in Libya hospital

The cockpit of the 747 Pan Am airliner, bombed in 1988 over the town of LockerbieAbdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence official who was sentenced to life in prison in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, has died, the Libyan government said on Sunday. He was 60. The bombing of the Dec. 21, 1988 Pan Am flight from New York to London as it flew over Lockerbie, [...]



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T15:16:47Z

What to look for at the NATO summit

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks to the media before state and government leaders arrive at the NATO Summit in Chicago Sunday, May 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)A look at the main issues for the NATO alliance at the summit meeting for heads of government in Chicago on Sunday and Monday.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T16:38:50Z

Viewing events, eyewear urged for \'Ring of Fire\'

File-In this Jan.15,2010 file photo showing a combination of three separate photographs, the various stages of an annular solar eclipse seen over Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon blots out all but a ring around the sun. This year's solar show can be viewed from eastern Asia to parts of North America. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena,File)The western United States and eastern Asia will be treated this weekend to a rare solar spectacle when the moon slides across the sun, creating a "ring of fire."



Publ.Date : 2012-05-19T20:27:27Z

Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets
Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T13:11:18Z

Protesters stream into Chicago park for NATO march

NATO protestors form a sit-in in response to a police barricade of bicycles, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Chicago. Security has been high throughout the city in preparation for the NATO summit, where delegations from about 60 countries will discuss the war in Afghanistan and European missile defense. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)A diverse crowd of protesters began streaming into a downtown Chicago park Sunday for one of the city's largest demonstrations in years ? a march to the lakeside convention center hosting a historic NATO summit.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T16:57:00Z

U.S. army instructor shot in Yemen attack: security source
SANAA (Reuters) - A U.S. military instructor helping train Yemeni coastguards was shot and seriously wounded in an attack by unidentified assailants in the Red Sea city of Hudaida on Sunday, a Yemeni security source said. The source said two other U.S. instructors, who were travelling in the same car, were not hurt in the attack, which happened before noon on the group's journey to work. A caller told Reuters by telephone - not the group's usual method of communication - that the al Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia group was behind the attack. ...
Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T14:49:56Z

Former Israeli PM: Jerusalem must be partitioned

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a special cabinet meeting marking 'Jerusalem Day' in the Ammunition Hill memorial in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 20, 2012. 'Jeruslem Day' marks the anniversary of Israel's capture of the eastern part of the city in the 1967 Mideast war.(AP Photo/Abir Sultan, Pool)Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want peace, contending in a pair of interviews that years of government neglect have kept the Jewish and Arab sectors irreparably divided.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T15:37:04Z

PCB chief invited to IPL final - ESPNcricinfo.com

The Express Tribune

PCB chief invited to IPL final
ESPNcricinfo.com
Ashraf confirmed that he received the invitation from the Indian board a few days ago. "I see the invitation as another positive step forward in further normalising bilateral cricket ties between the two countries," Ashraf said.
Gesture: India invites Zaka for IPL finalThe Express Tribune
BCCI invites PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf to watch final match of IPLAll India Radio

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Publ.Date : Sun, 20 May 2012 11:51:35 GMT

India grew at 9% with same policies: Montek - Zee News

Zee News

India grew at 9% with same policies: Montek
Zee News
New York: Dismissing concerns about policy paralysis in the Indian government, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has said the country has grown in the past at over 9 percent with the same set of policies. ".
Achieving 7.5% growth in 2012-13 tough task: Montek Singh AhluwaliaTimes of India
7.5 percent growth in 2012-13 not impossible: AhluwaliaFirstpost

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Publ.Date : Sun, 20 May 2012 07:01:36 GMT

As funds flee, India\'s pain is Southeast Asia\'s gain - Times of India

Jagran Post

As funds flee, India's pain is Southeast Asia's gain
Times of India
HONG KONG: Southeast Asian nations are swallowing an outflow of money from India, as foreign investors lose patience with its policy paralysis and slowing growth and aim instead for more promising emerging markets such as Indonesia.
OF MUTUAL INTEREST: India gets onto mutual fund investors' radarsTuscaloosa News

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Publ.Date : Sun, 20 May 2012 15:21:26 GMT

Protesters stream into Chicago park for NATO march

NATO protestors form a sit-in in response to a police barricade of bicycles, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Chicago. Security has been high throughout the city in preparation for the NATO summit, where delegations from about 60 countries will discuss the war in Afghanistan and European missile defense. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)A diverse crowd of protesters began streaming into a downtown Chicago park Sunday for one of the city's largest demonstrations in years ? a march to the lakeside convention center hosting a historic NATO summit.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T16:57:00Z

India to miss \'Ring of Fire\' during Monday\'s solar eclipse - Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times

India to miss 'Ring of Fire' during Monday's solar eclipse
Hindustan Times
As sky gazers in various parts of the world gear up to watch Monday's annular solar eclipse - a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon - people in India will miss the 'Ring of Fire' as it will be over before sunrise. the ...

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Publ.Date : Sun, 20 May 2012 17:08:33 GMT

India\'s foodgrain production to grow by 0.6% in 2012-13 : CMIE - Hindustan Times

India's foodgrain production to grow by 0.6% in 2012-13 : CMIE
Hindustan Times
PTI India's foodgrain production is projected to grow by 0.6 % to 247.6 million tonnes (mt) in 2012-13 as against 246.2 mt in 2011-12. growth, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) said in its monthly report in Mumbai.

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Publ.Date : Sun, 20 May 2012 08:54:00 GMT

Coal India hopes to break fuel pact deadlock in two weeks - Hindu Business Line

Zee News

Coal India hopes to break fuel pact deadlock in two weeks
Hindu Business Line
Coal India is expecting to resolve the fuel supply agreement (FSA) deadlock in next two weeks. While 14 private and public sector units have already entered the long-term pact, the largest power producer NTPC is yet to sign an agreement.
Coal India board decides to exit ICVL consortiumEconomic Times

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Publ.Date : Sun, 20 May 2012 16:34:17 GMT

Viewing events, eyewear urged for \'Ring of Fire\'

File-In this Jan.15,2010 file photo showing a combination of three separate photographs, the various stages of an annular solar eclipse seen over Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon blots out all but a ring around the sun. This year's solar show can be viewed from eastern Asia to parts of North America. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena,File)The western United States and eastern Asia will be treated this weekend to a rare solar spectacle when the moon slides across the sun, creating a "ring of fire."



Publ.Date : 2012-05-19T20:27:27Z

India-Italy ties turn sour over naval guards case - Times of India

AFP

India-Italy ties turn sour over naval guards case
Times of India
NEW DELHI: India and Italy seemed headed for a diplomatic showdown on Saturday with Rome stepping up the pressure to secure the release of two of its naval guards, who were arrested for the killing of two Indian fishermen, while expressing strong ...
India denies bail to Italian marinesAFP
India charges Italian marines with murder of fishermenBBC News
Italy pressures India as marines denied bailIBNLive.com
Firstpost -Reuters -Indian Express
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Publ.Date : Sat, 19 May 2012 20:01:00 GMT

Hidden fingerprint of weapons-grade plutonium found

Hidden Fingerprint of Weapons-Grade Plutonium Finally FoundAfter 50 years of searching, physicists have spotted the fingerprint of radioactive plutonium, revealing the secrets of this complex molecule behind nuclear weapons.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T13:21:54Z

India: the delights of devotion in Tamil Nadu - Telegraph.co.uk

Telegraph.co.uk

India: the delights of devotion in Tamil Nadu
Telegraph.co.uk
Tamil Nadu has some of the oldest, most beautiful Hindu temples in India. And you won't have to share them with hundreds of other visitors, says Anna Murphy. By Anna Murphy Temples are what the state of Tamil Nadu, on the eastern side of India's ...

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Publ.Date : Sun, 20 May 2012 06:50:53 GMT

Former Indian cricketer Kirti Azad begins hunger strike for scrapping of IPL - Times of India

Firstpost

Former Indian cricketer Kirti Azad begins hunger strike for scrapping of IPL
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Former India cricketer Kirti Azad on Sunday began a fast, demanding that the Indian Premier League, which has been a hit by a series a controversies, be scrapped. Azad, who is also a BJP leader, began the hunger strike outside the Feroz Shah ...
The IPL is truly Indian, let us be proudFirstpost
Controversies can't undermine IPL, says ClarkeCricketnext.com

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Publ.Date : Sun, 20 May 2012 10:20:32 GMT

What to look for at the NATO summit

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks to the media before state and government leaders arrive at the NATO Summit in Chicago Sunday, May 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)A look at the main issues for the NATO alliance at the summit meeting for heads of government in Chicago on Sunday and Monday.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T16:38:50Z

Air India crisis enters 13th day, Rs 230 cr loss so far - Zee News

Zee News

Air India crisis enters 13th day, Rs 230 cr loss so far
Zee News
New Delhi/Mumbai: The crisis in Air India raged on for the 13th day Sunday and the national carrier's losses mounted to Rs.230 crore as the impasse between agitating pilots and the management continued. "The loss due to ticket cancellations, ...
Ajit Singh to meet leaders of 13 AI unions tomorrowThe Hindu
Air India pilots' stir continues, strikers ignore govt appealsHindustan Times
Ajit Singh promises to solve Air India woes within 3 monthsTimes of India
Newstrack India
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Publ.Date : Sun, 20 May 2012 15:01:47 GMT

U.S. army instructor shot in Yemen attack: security source
SANAA (Reuters) - A U.S. military instructor helping train Yemeni coastguards was shot and seriously wounded in an attack by unidentified assailants in the Red Sea city of Hudaida on Sunday, a Yemeni security source said. The source said two other U.S. instructors, who were travelling in the same car, were not hurt in the attack, which happened before noon on the group's journey to work. A caller told Reuters by telephone - not the group's usual method of communication - that the al Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia group was behind the attack. ...
Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T14:49:56Z

Boehner insists on tying debt limit increase to spending cuts

Speaker John Boehner Insists on Tying Debt Limit Increase to Spending CutsHouse Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, stood by his call insisting that any increase in the debt limit should be offset by greater cuts in spending and tax reform before the end of the year, saying that working toward an agreement now would improve the economy.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T12:46:46Z

Facebook stock limps into Monday: What\'s next after IPO?

Market trackers say people are much more likely to click on ads at Google than at FacebookFacebook resumes trading on Wall Street on Monday with shares being closely watched to see how well they stand on their own after stumbling out of the gate in a historic but lackluster debut.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T15:05:43Z

Lockerbie bomber dies in Libya hospital

The cockpit of the 747 Pan Am airliner, bombed in 1988 over the town of LockerbieAbdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence official who was sentenced to life in prison in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, has died, the Libyan government said on Sunday. He was 60. The bombing of the Dec. 21, 1988 Pan Am flight from New York to London as it flew over Lockerbie, [...]



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T15:16:47Z

Former Israeli PM: Jerusalem must be partitioned

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a special cabinet meeting marking 'Jerusalem Day' in the Ammunition Hill memorial in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 20, 2012. 'Jeruslem Day' marks the anniversary of Israel's capture of the eastern part of the city in the 1967 Mideast war.(AP Photo/Abir Sultan, Pool)Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday urged Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want peace, contending in a pair of interviews that years of government neglect have kept the Jewish and Arab sectors irreparably divided.



Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T15:37:04Z

Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets
Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-20T13:11:18Z

 

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