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NASA says competition is key to private space race |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:33 GMT |
| AFP - Competition is vital to the race among private companies to replace the space shuttle, NASA said Thursday, after Congress called for the US space agency to fund a single company. | |
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Man, 52, charged over explosives |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:33 GMT |
| Martin Howard Counsell was charged with making an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose, contrary to section 4 of the Explosive Substances Act (1883). | |
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NASA Announces 2012 Space Technology Research Fellowship Grants |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:32 GMT |
| NASA has selected the 2012 class of Space Technology Research Fellows. Forty-eight students will receive graduate student fellowships from NASA's Space Technology Program to pursue master's or doctoral degrees in relevant space technology disciplines at their respective institutions. | |
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Teva’s Board of Directors Votes to Re-Elect Dr. Phillip Frost as Chairman of the Board |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:32 GMT |
| Teva’s Board of Directors Votes to Re-Elect Dr. Phillip Frost as Chairman of the Board | |
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Obama puts international spotlight on Camp David |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:32 GMT |
| Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, refuge and relief. | |
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Academic terrorism or the abdication of responsibility? |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:32 GMT |
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Police Efforts to Ban Citizen Taping Beaten Back by Department of Justice |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:32 GMT |
| Feds back ACLU in arguing that taping is necessary to prevent police brutality; some cops disagree | |
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For Chicago, NATO summit brings commuter headaches |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:32 GMT |
| CHICAGO - As President Barack Obama and 50 heads of state arrive for a weekend NATO summit, parts of Chicago are all but shutting down , the result of dire warnings about heightened security, snarled transportation and the threat of large protests downtown. | |
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S. Korean satellite successfully reaches earth's orbit |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:32 GMT |
| SEOUL, May 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's multipurpose satellite equipped with a high-resolution camera successfully reached the earth's orbit after blasting off from a Japanese space center, the government said Friday. | |
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G-8 leaders to discuss N. Korea: Donilon |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:32 GMT |
| WASHINGTON, May 17 (Yonhap) -- President Barack Obama plans to discuss North Korean when he hosts a key summit with his counterparts from seven major nations later this week, Obama's top security aide said Thursday. | |
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Sheikh al-Habib Sends A Sharp Message To Muqtada al-Sadr: "Evil is that for which you've knowingly confounded truth with falsehood" |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:32 GMT |
| His Eminence Sheikh Yasser al-Habib has sent a written message with a sharp language to Muqtada al-Sadr in condemning his conference in Najaf, in which he raised the status of the murderers and the enemies of the Messenger of Allah and his family (may peace be upon them), Abu Bakr, Omar and Uthman (... | |
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Fresh clashes kill teenager in Lebanon |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:31 GMT |
| TRIPOLI: Fresh sectarian clashes erupted between pro-Syrian and anti-Syrian districts in the north Lebanon port city of Tripoli on Thursday, leaving one person dead and seven wounded, a security official said. | |
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APNewsBreak: Minn. man targeted Mexican consulate |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:31 GMT |
| MINNEAPOLIS -- A Minnesota man with suspected ties to white supremacist groups had devised a plan to attack the Mexican consulate in St. Paul and believed his actions would "manifest national awareness," according to a federal affidavit obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. | |
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MINNEAPOLIS |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:31 GMT |
| MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota man with suspected ties to white supremacist groups had devised a plan to attack the Mexican consulate in St. Paul and believed his actions would "manifest national awareness," according to a federal affidavit obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. | |
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Blast on bus in Nigerian city kills driver |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:31 GMT |
| PORT HARCOURT: An explosion caused by dynamite on a bus in the Nigerian oil hub city of Port Harcourt on Thursday killed the driver and wounded two others, the state governor and a rescue official said. | |
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CORRECTING and REPLACING ACT-IAC Announces Participants for Inaugural MOC 2012 Technology Exhibitor Showcase |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:31 GMT |
| Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. | |
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Will Obama get the Pakistanis to re-open supply routes? |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:31 GMT |
| Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari is heading to Chicago for next week's NATO summit. But there's still no official word on whether the Pakistanis will reopen supply lines for NATO forces in Afghanistan that Islamabad closed after a cross-border strike by NATO last November left 24 of their soldi... | |
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What will Hillary Clinton's diplomatic legacy be? |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:31 GMT |
| DHAKA, Bangladesh – She's just come from convincing Chinese leaders to free blind dissident Chen Guangcheng. Soon she'll cajole India's leaders to reduce oil imports from Iran. But at the moment, Hillary Rodham Clinton is renewing old friendships in one of the world's poorest nations. | |
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Indian Ocean piracy impacting on the real economy |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:31 GMT |
| After months of uneventful patrolling in the northern Mozambique Channel, the call to action for the South African Navy (SAN) came in early April. Somali-based pirates launched an unsuccess- ful attack on a merchant ship from the Philippines at the northern entrance to the channel. | |
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Questions about Clinton |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:30 GMT |
| Amid the generally glowing reviews Hillary Rodham Clinton has received as secretary of State, experts on foreign policy pose three caveats: | |
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Super PAC plan denounced as ‘divisive’ by Obama spokesman |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:30 GMT |
| President Barack Obama's chief spokesman on Thursday denounced as "divisive" ato assail President Barack Obama. Press secretary Jay Carney also stressed that the president's focus remained the struggling economy. | |
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Safety Zone; Carnival Fireworks Display, Nantasket Beach, Hull, MA |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:30 GMT |
| SUMMARY: The Coast Guard proposes to establish a temporary safety zone on the navigable waters off of Nantasket Beach in the vicinity of Hull, MA for a Carnival fireworks display. This temporary safety zone is necessary to protect spectators and vessels from the hazards associated with fireworks dis... | |
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Written testimony of the Federal Emergency Management Agency U.S. Fire Administration for a House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology hearing titled "Working for a Fire Safe America: Examinin |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:30 GMT |
| Good morning, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee. My name is Ernest Mitchell, Jr. and I am an Assistant Administrator at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the United States Fire Administrator in charge of the United States Fire Administration (USFA) at the Department of Homel... | |
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Written testimony of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection for a House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade hearing titled "Supporting Economic Growth and Job Creation through Customs Trade Moderniz |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:30 GMT |
| Chairman Brady, Ranking Member McDermott, and distinguished Members of the Trade Subcommittee, I am pleased to appear before you today with Deputy Assistant Secretary Skud, and Deputy Director Kumar Kibble. My name is David Aguilar, and I am the Acting Commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protec... | |
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Written testimony of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade hearing titled "Supporting Economic Growth and Job Creation through Customs Trade Mo |
Fri, 18 May 2012 06:33:30 GMT |
| Chairman Brady, Ranking Member McDermott, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee: | |
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