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10 books to read after the election
Election season is finally almost over. Now it's time to actually tackle America's problems. Here are 10 books that offer context.
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Why no safe zone in Syria, yet? 5 complications
The flood of Syrian refugees entering Turkey – as many as 5,000 a day for the last 10 days – has ratcheted up the pressure for a safe zone’s creation. But a safe zone is complicated and carries many risks.
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5 countries where the death penalty is legal but rare
India’s Supreme Court sentenced the last surviving gunman of the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, to death. Here is a list of 5 countries where the death penalty is a legal possibility, though rare.
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Rio+20: 5 key takeaways
Here are some of the promising developments and bigger disappointments of the Rio+20 global sustainability conference, which ends today.
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Facebook IPO: Six key dates in its debacle
Facebook's first week as a publicly traded company will go down as a terribly botched corporate launch, perhaps one of the worst in recent history for such a highly visible entity. Eight days ago, it was the tech world's most highly anticipated initial public offering in eight years. Now, the social media company faces mounting legal woes and serves as an embarrassing example of how not to run an IPO. Despite rising insider pessimism about its growth prospects, Facebook kept boosting its asking price and the number of shares it would sell. The result: billions of dollars in losses; investigations by two congressional committees, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), an industry watchdog, and the state of Massachusetts; at least 13 class-action lawsuits; and thousands of resentful shareholders who days later still were unsure how many Facebook shares they had or at what price. Here are six key dates in Facebook's unfolding IPO disaster.
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Hacker 'Weev' sentenced to 41 months in jail for iPad hack
'Weev,' whose real name is Andrew Auernheimer, was charged with breaking into AT&T servers and distributing a list of e-mail addresses belonging to iPad users.
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Terrorism & Security War draws closer to Lebanon with Syrian threat of attack
In an ominous turn, Syria warned Lebanon today against continuing to provide refuge for rebels battling the Assad regime, saying its restraint was limited.
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Argentine pope: A reflection of Catholicism 'south of the equator'
Residents of Buenos Aires met the papal announcement with surprise, checking smartphones in the street and asking each other if the news was true.
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Africa Monitor Foreign correspondents in Africa still struggle to tell the whole story
Western journalists in Africa are rightly criticized for simplistic coverage of African affairs, writes Tom Murphy, but are they doing the best with the resources they have?
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Terrorism & Security India bars Italian envoy from leaving, escalating tensions over marines shooting incident
India wants Italy to send two Italian marines accused of shooting Indian fishermen back to stand trial. Italy has refused, despite having promised earlier that it would.
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Terrorism & Security Militant attack in Kashmir shatters years of calm
The armed separatism of the 1990s had largely faded away, but a peace accord never followed. Frustration had been mounting in recent weeks over an execution and an expansive policing law.
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Global News Blog Two prominent Saudi human rights activists receive 10 years in jail
Mohammed Fahd al-Qahtani and Abdullah Hamad were sentenced to at least 10 years in jail Saturday for sedition and providing foreign media with false information.
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Obama moves from confrontation to wooing Republicans. Will it work?
President Obama's job rating has dropped in the latest poll. Now, he's moving away from confrontation, planning to meet with House and Senate Republicans on their turf next week.
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Terrorism & Security UN peacekeepers pull out of Syrian-Israeli DMZ as civil war edges closer
The eight peacekeepers, who were escorted into Israel by the IDF, are part of the same battalion as 21 UN troops who were captured by Syrian rebels on Wednesday.
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Are Congress and Obama moving toward a budget deal?
As the public's patience with partisan politics wears thin, signs in Washington indicate possible movement toward bipartisan budget decision-making. The House passed a bill which would fund government programs through this fiscal year on Wednesday. The Senate is expected to pass a similar measure soon. Also on Wednesday, President Barack Obama invited Republican Senators to dinner.
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Microsoft fined $730 million over browser choice
The European Union imposed a sanction on Microsoft after it failed to comply with a settlement where it promised to present Windows users with easier access to other Web browsers.
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New Facebook lawsuit says company hid important information
A new Facebook lawsuit says the company should have made its revenue situation more clear in the run-up to the 2012 IPO. This is yet another IPO lawsuit against Facebook.
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Global News Blog Forbes 2013 billionaire list: rich get richer, women ascend
The aggregate wealth of the world's billionaires is at an all-time high, and 210 new names, including 34 women, have joined the list.
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Terrorism & Security Sentencing of Islamist leader brings unhealed rifts to surface in Bangladesh
Thousands in Bangladesh protested the death sentence handed to an Islamist political leader for crimes committed during the independence war. At least 40 were killed in the clashes.
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Bradley Manning pleads guilty to some WikiLeaks charges (+video)
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke military rules in providing classified information to WikiLeaks. But he denies the more serious charges of aiding the enemy during wartime, for which he still faces a court martial.
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Global News Blog Benedict XVI pledges support to successor on his last day as pope (+video)
Some 118 cardinals will commence a closed door gathering to select the next pope in the coming weeks.
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Terrorism & Security US will send nonlethal aid directly to Syrian rebels (+video)
Secretary of State John Kerry said that some groups the US doesn't support are gaining more influence with the rebels in the absence of greater Western help.
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Terrorism & Security Amid Palestinian protests, Gaza militants fire rocket into Israel
The rocket launch ended a cease-fire with Israel. Palestinian Authority President Abbas faces powerful voices who say another uprising may be the only way forward after days of large protests.
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Terrorism & Security In shift, Syrian regime says it's ready to talk to rebels (+video)
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said in Moscow that the Assad government wanted to engage in 'dialogue with anyone who's willing for it, even those who carry arms.'
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Simpson-Bowles health-care plan offers $600 billion in cuts, but few specifics
$600 billion in cuts to heath-care spending have been proposed as part of a $2.4 trillion deficit reduction plan Democrat Erskine Bowles and Republican Alan Simpson released Tuesday. But heath-care experts doubt that target could be reached without changes to Medicare and Medicaid.
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Terrorism & Security Hyderabad: Indian government warned of impending terrorist attack
The Indian government said that it had received intelligence indicating an attack was in the works, and informed local police in several cities, among them Hyderabad, two days before the bombing.
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Global News Blog India on high alert: Twin bike bombs kill at least 11 in southern Indian city of Hyderabad
The explosions, which injured scores of market goers, come amid ongoing tensions in India over its recent execution of convicted terrorist Mohammad Afzal Guru.
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Terrorism & Security Mexico state security officials collaborated in civilian abductions: Human Rights Watch
According to Human Rights Watch, police and soldiers played roles in 'disappearing' nearly 150 people amid Mexico's drug war. Tens of thousands have gone missing over the past six years.
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Terrorism & Security State role in cyberespionage campaign? China says report 'lacks technical proof' (+video)
A report by security firm Mandiant provides one of the most extensive cases yet for the Chinese government's hand in massive-scale online data theft. Targets included an array of key businesses.
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Apple joins Facebook in ranks of the recently hacked
Apple says it was the target of a malware attack that exploited vulnerabilities in the Java plug-in for browsers.
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