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Showing posts with label AFP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AFP. Show all posts
Monday, July 16, 2012

US to set water pollution standards for 'fracking'

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson © AFP/Getty Images/File Brendan Smialowski AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) - The...
Friday, July 1, 2011

US debt ceiling deadline still August 2: Treasury

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The deadline for raising the US debt ceiling or risk a default remains August 2, the US Treasury said © AFP/Getty Images/File Chip...

Geithner might quit after debt deal: reports

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Timothy Geithner might leave his job after deal on debt © AFP/File Tim Sloan AFP US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner might le...

Next US defense chief will not gut military: Pentagon

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Robert Gates' Armed Services Farewell Ceremony © AFP/Getty Images Chip Somodevilla AFP Incoming US Defense Secretary Leon Pa...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

US vows to support India's nuclear waiver

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India has an ambitious nuclear programme and in 2008 won a special exemption from nuclear rules © AFP AFP NEW DELHI - The United Sta...

Big banks relieved as Fed sets debit card rule

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The Federal Reserve handed a partial victory to Wall Street on bank card fees © AFP/Getty Images/File Spencer Platt AFP WASHING...

US refocuses on home-grown terror threat

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President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism aide, John Brennan, vowed to pursue the "utter destruction" of Al-Qaed...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Chemical in plastic containers makes male mice act like females

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AFP WASHINGTON — Male mice who were exposed as babies to BPA, a chemical common in canned foods and plastic containers, act more lik...

Obama vows to keep pressure on crippled Al-Qaeda

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US President Barack Obama vowed to keep pressure on the Al-Qaeda terror group following the death of Osama bin Laden © AFP Saul L...

US appeals court upholds Obama's health care law

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A US court upheld the constitutionality of Obamacare © AFP/Getty Images/File Justin Sullivan AFP CHICAGO (AFP) - President Barac...

Key US Senate panel backs limited Libya conflict

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Libyan rebels capture a network of bunkers in the desert around 25 kilometres (15 miles) from the hilltown of Zintan © AFP Floren...

US 'strongly condemns' Kabul hotel attack

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The Inter-Continental hotel in seen in the dark as tracer bullets are shot during an attack in Kabu © AFP Massoud Hossaini AFP ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Greece grinds to a halt as general strike gets underway

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Workers across Greece walked off the job on Tuesday, kicking off a crippling 48-hour strike with a mass protest in the capital, Athens,...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

US says won't rule out options on Venezuela sanctions

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Daniel Benjamin counterterrorism coordinator  © AFP/Getty Images/File Chris Kleponis AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - The United States ...

Hezbollah members confess to spying for CIA: Nasrallah

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Hassan Nasrallah © AFP/TV AFP BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday said members of his group had confessed ...
Friday, June 24, 2011

US debt ceiling talks fold after Republican walkout

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Speaker of the House John Boehner speaks during his weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill © AFP/Getty Images Mark Wilson AFP WA...

US sanctions Iran's national airline

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The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions against Tehran's state-owned national airline, Iran Air © AFP/File Thomas Coex AFP ...

Indian family resists Mumbai's 'Trump Tower'

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Mumbai is India's economic and financial capital © AFP/File Indranil Mukherjee AFP MUMBAI (AFP) - An Indian family is refus...

India to press ahead on nuclear power

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India's Minister of Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma © AFP/File Mandel Ngan AFP WASHINGTON (AFP)  - India's commerce ...

US ready to arm Philippines amid China tension

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Philippines Foreign Minister Albert del Rosario (L) meet in Washington © AFP/File Paul J. Rich...