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Focus Terrorist watch lists: Are they working as they should?

Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was one of 875,000 names in a database the US uses to produce at least nine watch lists, but the naming didn't prevent the attack. Some security experts worry that data overload may be hindering US counterterrorism efforts.
Mais non! French in uproar over English in the classroom.
Global News Blog Kremlin 'outraged' by electoral fraud... in Eurovision song contest
Olive Press Musical Arab-Jewish youth seek the key to coexistence

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Doing Good

What happens when ordinary people decide to pay it forward? Extraordinary change...

Scott Budnick works in the dining room as customers arrive for a free meal at the Mathewson Street Friendship Breakfast in Providence, R.I.

Scott Budnick serves breakfast – with a side order of respect – to the homeless

Sunday breakfast at a Providence, R.I., church is more than a free meal. Half the volunteers are homeless themselves: 'It's their [own] breakfast that they're putting on.'

Brazil becomes antipoverty showcase

Farming superpower Brazil spreads its know-how

A Brazilian's shrine to bromeliads may one day save the plants

Brazil has top Olympic sailors? Who knew?

Brazil bucks global economic downturn

Brazil defends ethanol in food-versus-fuel fight

In the Amazon, a forestry cop matches wits with illegal loggers

Mayor in Brazil transforms 'deadliest' town

Brazil alcohol ban hard for retailers to swallow

Is Latin America heading for an arms race?

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MLS deal with billionaire oil sheikh could be bigger than Beckham

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Scott Budnick serves breakfast – with a side order of respect – to the homeless

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