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| Know a hero? Nominate them! |
| Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:48:10 EST |
| Do you know an everyday person changing the world? It's easy to nominate them as a CNN Hero. |
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| Gay dad finds families for foster kids |
| Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:56:31 EDT |
| David Wing-Kovarik and his partner, Conrad, were ready to adopt a child. They moved through all their requirements smoothly, even enrolling in an orientation and training class for prospective parents. Then they were confronted with their first real stumbling block. |
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| Poisoned water sickens Afghan boys |
| Thu, 17 May 2012 14:55:36 EDT |
| Nearly 400 boys at a school in Afghanistan's Khost province fell ill after drinking water from a well that may have been poisoned, a health official said Tuesday. |
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| Child actress in Nepal crash |
| Thu, 17 May 2012 14:55:05 EDT |
| A 14-year-old Indian actress, Taruni Sachdev, was among the passengers who died in Monday's plane crash in Nepal, officials said. |
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| A return to reactor work in N. Korea? |
| Thu, 17 May 2012 14:53:37 EDT |
| North Korea has resumed work on the construction of a reactor that could help it push forward its nuclear weapons program, according to an academic group's analysis of a recent satellite image. |
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| Replacing Kenya's 'flying toilets' |
| Thu, 17 May 2012 23:28:32 EDT |
| In the slums of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, visiting the bathroom usually means one of two things; a trip to the local pit latrine or the 'flying toilet'. |
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| Turning up the heat, bring down bills |
| Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:30:18 EDT |
| It's an illuminating idea which its creators hope will help drive up energy efficiency and bring down buildings' carbon emissions. |
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| Save the whales? Use the app |
| Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:36:16 EDT |
| A new iPhone app is making waves in the commercial shipping world by providing an early warning system that aims to reduce maritime collisions with endangered whales. |
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| Medal of Honor four decades later |
| Wed, 16 May 2012 00:19:49 EDT |
| Rose Mary Sabo Brown spent just 30 days with her new husband, Army Spec. Leslie Sabo Jr., before he shipped out to fight in Vietnam. But from that month together in 1969 grew a lifetime of love. |
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| Charles Taylor: Preacher, warlord |
| Wed, 16 May 2012 08:14:13 EDT |
| A lay Baptist preacher or a brutal warlord on trial in an international court: in Charles Taylor, the myth and the man, became inseparable. |
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| Oldest yoga teacher - 93 |
| Wed, 16 May 2012 16:18:31 EDT |
| CNN's Ralitsa Vassileva reports on the Guinness World Records naming the oldest yoga teacher in the world. |
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| Syrians vow to fight for freedom |
| Tue, 15 May 2012 22:36:03 EDT |
| Now in a camp on the Syria-Turkey border, Mohammed cannot justify why Syrian security forces killed his sons in Syria. "We just want freedom. What's wrong with asking for freedom?" |
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| What options are left in Syria? |
| Tue, 15 May 2012 22:36:30 EDT |
| Despite a cease-fire deal, violence has continued in Syria. What options do the U.N. and the U.S. have? Is a civil war inevitable? Some key questions answered. |
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| Empowering Pakistan's poor |
| Tue, 15 May 2012 10:23:04 EDT |
| This is a story affecting millions of Pakistanis — and it does not involve suicide bombings, honor killings, extremism or President Zardari's mustache. |
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| Nigeria's bridal boom |
| Sun, 13 May 2012 08:24:33 EDT |
| Weddings in Nigeria are colorful, creative and extravagant productions, with guest lists of up to 2000 people considered standard. |
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| G8 leaders look to head off euro zone crisis |
| 2012-05-18T10:06:45Z |
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of major industrial economies meet this weekend to try to tackle a full-blown crisis in Europe where fears are growing that Greece could leave the euro zone bloc, threatening the future of the common currency. President Barack Obama, the G8 host, has urged European leaders repeatedly to do more to stimulate growth, fearing contagion from the euro crisis that could hurt the U.S. economy and his chances of re-election in November. ...
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| Iran may seek "tactical gain" with UN nuclear deal |
| 2012-05-18T10:50:50Z |
 VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog are making headway towards a framework deal on how to tackle concerns about its atomic activity, diplomats say, a potential bargaining chip for Tehran in next week's negotiations with world powers. Iran says such an agreement is needed before it can consider a request by U.N. inspectors to visit the Parchin military site where they believe explosives tests relevant for developing nuclear weapons may have been carried out. ...
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| Spain beset by bank crisis, downgrades, bond pressure |
| 2012-05-18T09:12:37Z |
 MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's borrowing costs shot up at a bond auction on Thursday and its troubled banks suffered a double blow, with shares in part-nationalized Bankia diving and 16 lenders - including the euro zone's biggest - having their credit ratings cut. Official data confirmed Spain was back in recession and a newspaper reported a big outflow of deposits from Bankia, but the government said it had taken a fundamental step to strengthen Spain's credibility by agreeing big budget cuts with the country's free-spending regions. ...
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| Poll shows Greece electing pro-bailout government |
| 2012-05-17T19:13:46Z |
 ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek voters are returning to the establishment parties that negotiated its bailout, a poll showed on Thursday, offering potential salvation for European leaders who say a snap Greek election next month will decide whether it must quit the euro. The poll, the first conducted since talks to form a government collapsed and a new election was called for June 17, showed the conservative New Democracy party in first place, several points ahead of the radical leftist SYRIZA which has pledged to tear up the bailout. ...
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| China "bars" blind dissident's family choice of lawyers |
| 2012-05-18T07:46:38Z |
 BEIJING (Reuters) - The nephew of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has been denied his family's choice of lawyers to defend a charge of "intentional homicide" in what one said was an attempt to manipulate a case that has focused world attention on China's human rights. The decision by police in Yinan in northeastern Shandong province is the latest in a series of moves to deny Chen Kegui legal representation and underscores the hardline stance taken against the family of Chen Guangcheng. Chen Guangcheng's escape from house arrest last month and subsequent refuge in the U.S. ...
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| U.S. firms eye Myanmar as sanctions suspended |
| 2012-05-18T10:04:31Z |
 WASHINGTON/HONG KONG (Reuters) - The suspension of U.S. sanctions barring investment in Myanmar in response to political reforms in the poor southeast Asian state gives a green light to U.S. firms queuing to scout for business in one of the last frontier markets. "Today we say to American business: invest in Burma and do it responsibly," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at a news briefing on Thursday with Myanmar's Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin, on his long-isolated nation's first official visit to Washington in decades as ties between the two countries warm. U.S. ...
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| Palestinians see settlements thwarting state |
| 2012-05-18T10:43:42Z |
| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Surrounded by aides, including one whose only task seems to be light his cigarettes, Mahmoud Abbas sits in a vast presidential office and speaks of his ambition to create a Palestinian state. But outside his sprawling compound on the hills of the West Bank town of Ramallah reality on the ground is different - his dream is being built over by ever-expanding Jewish settlements. ... |
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| Syria's Assad: Nations that sow chaos will suffer |
| 2012-05-18T09:25:09Z |
 AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday that countries trying to "sow chaos" in Syria could be infected with it themselves, an apparent warning to Arab Gulf nations that back the insurgency aimed at forcing him from power. Assad's remarks, to a Russian TV channel, came after U.N. staff monitoring an increasingly shaky ceasefire were caught up in an attack that killed at least 21 people, and had to spend a night with rebel forces. ...
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| West African mediator opens talks with Mali rebels |
| 2012-05-18T11:03:53Z |
| OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - West African bloc ECOWAS has opened talks with Mali's rebel groups, including fighters linked to al Qaeda, as part of its effort to restore constitutional rule in the country in the wake of its March 22 coup, Burkina Faso's foreign minister said. The talks are the first publicly acknowledged negotiations with the armed groups by the regional bloc since a mix of separatist rebels and Islamist gunmen took control of northern Mali following the coup in the capital. "We have to ensure that all factions feel involved in the peace process ... ... |
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| Israeli court ruling to help fight gender pay gap |
| 2012-05-18T09:49:06Z |
| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's high court on Friday put the onus on employers to pay men and women equally in a landmark ruling that may help narrow wage gaps, which are bigger than in most Western countries. The high court struck down the decision of a lower court against a female former store employee whose wages were 35 percent lower than those of a male colleague. That court had said the difference was legitimate and a result of contract negotiations not gender discrimination. ... |
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