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2Sweden cleanest, S. Arabia dirtiest: climate indexSad but perhaps fitting, that Saudi Arabia comes in last, helped along mightily by the next two bottom-dwellers - the US and Canada.JDP added to World News 11 months ago
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U.S. losing global cyberwar, commission says - Security- msnbc.comThe U.S. faces a cybersecurity threat of such magnitude that the next President should move quickly to create a Center for Cybersecurity Operations and appoint a special White House advisor to oversee it. Those are among the recommendations in a 44-page report by the U.S. Commission on ...
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US: Blackwater used grenades on unarmed Iraqis - Yahoo! NewsBlackwater Worldwide security guards opened machine gun fire on innocent, surrendering Iraqis and launched a grenade into a girls' school during a gruesome Baghdad shooting last year, prosecutors said Monday in announcing manslaughter charges against five guards. A sixth guard involved in the ...
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Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US | Energy BulletinClosing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US
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Bill Gates presses Obama on stimulus package, foreign aid - CNN.comMicrosoft founder Bill Gates told CNN on Wednesday that he hopes President-elect Barack Obama and Congress immediately craft a wide-ranging stimulus package, to help jump-start the nation's sputtering economy, and double the United States' commitment to foreign aid. "Clearly we need a stimulus ...
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US, China headed for possible currency clash - Yahoo! NewsThe United States and China are headed for a possible clash over currency as they open wide-ranging talks on the future of their economic relations. U.S. officials say Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will press Beijing to let its yuan rise against the dollar to ease trade tensions at the ...
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NATO backs US missile shield over Russian protest - Yahoo! NewsNATO foreign ministers on Wednesday affirmed their support for U.S. plans to install anti-missile defenses in Europe despite Russia's strong opposition. The ministers said the planned U.S. defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic will make a "substantial contribution" to protecting allies from ...
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Commentary: How social media shared pain and rage of Mumbai - CNN.comDina Mehta is an ethnographer, social media consultant and blogger based in Mumbai, India; she recounts how social networks channeled the sadness and rage of the attacks into action - I celebrated my 42nd birthday on November 26. We were thinking of stepping out for a coffee at the Taj hotel ...
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Fear of more terror attacks could hurt business in IndiaMumbai is trying to limp back to normalcy after terrorist attacks last week left about 195 people dead and close to 300 injured. But there are questions about whether foreigners will continue to take the risk of doing business in the city and the rest of the country, which have faced repeated ...
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U.S. agency sees robots replacing humans in service jobs by 2025A U.S. government intelligence agency thinks robots may be so capable by 2025 that questions such as "Would you like fries with that?" may be uttered by a smiling machine at the order counter. In a report titled "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World" that was released last week, the National ...
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