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In the case of shared stories, all rights reside with the original creator. en 2013-06-19T12:52:37 2013-06-19T12:52:37 httpd:/www.citytools.net/essentials/rss_docs.html http://www.citytools.net/images/rss_logo.jpg http://www.citytools.net 182 35 citytools image http://www.citytools.net/showstory/b5acecd4-d8dd-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ TOKYO (AP) -- Japan&#39;s nuclear watchdog formally approved a set of new safety requirements for atomic power plants Wednesday, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster....<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_NUCLEAR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/b4b00e7e-d8dd-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany&#39;s trade union Verdi on Wednesday said it estimated that around 3,000 jobs will be cut at Commerzbank by 2016 under a negotiated severance deal. <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/businessNews/~3/zhOoAi1WzhQ/story01.htm">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/aed2e8d2-d8dd-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ LONDON (Reuters) - The stories of a dyslexic hero and a little girl who overcomes her family&#39;s fear of a stray dog won two of Britain&#39;s most coveted children&#39;s literature prizes on Wednesday. <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/entertainment/~3/gZQxXG-YdEs/story01.htm">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/adc05844-d8dd-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ A suicide bomber on a motorbike kills two people in Yemen&#39;s northern town of Saada, which is under the control of Houthi Shia rebels.<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22970450#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/acb8ac6c-d8dd-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ The Afghan president on Wednesday suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way his government was being left out of initial peace negotiations with the Taliban meant to find a way to end the nearly 12-year war.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://feeds.nydailynews.com/~r/nydnrss/news/~3/rdfHKO776qs/story01.htm">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/abac8f46-d8dd-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ By Tsvetelia Tsolova SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria&#039;s parliament dismissed a powerful media figure from his post as head of national security on Wednesday, hoping the move will put an end to protest rallies against the country&#039;s fragile three-week-old government. Thousands of Bulgarians have been demonstrating in Sofia and other cities since last Friday demanding that the Socialist-led coalition quit after it hurt its credibility by naming lawmaker Delyan Peevski to head the security service without any debate. ...<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/bulgaria-removes-state-security-boss-protests-121057392.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/aa9e2dda-d8dd-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Fifteen people were killed in the first major assault on the United Nations by Somali Islamist militants in years, including four foreign security staff, local guards and insurgent fighters, the Somali government said on Wednesday. Providing details on the death toll, Interior Minister Abdikarim Hussein Guled told reporters: &quot;So far we have confirmed four UNDP foreign staff who were responsible for security, four Somali guards and seven militants.&quot; (Reporting by Abdi Sheikh; Editing by Richard Lough)<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/four-foreign-security-staff-among-15-dead-somalia-123457992.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/a995892e-d8dd-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up as he embraced a Sunni Muslim political leader in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing the man and four of his family a day before elections in the area. Al Qaeda&#39;s local wing has increased its attacks this year, often targeting moderate Sunni Muslim leaders in a bid to ignite sectarian upheaval and undermine Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki&#39;s Shi&#39;ite-led government. Pretending to be a guest at a family gathering, the attacker hugged Younis al-Rammah before detonating an explosive vest. ...<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/suicide-bomber-embraces-kills-sunni-politician-iraq-120833599.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/a880ce2c-d8dd-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ Efforts to acquire Sprint have been a long and arduous fiasco for SoftBank, but the Japan-based carrier moved one step closer to completing the deal on Tuesday evening. Following SoftBank’s revised offer for Sprint that would see its bid increased to $21.6 billion, Dish announced that it is abandoning the race and will not revise its current offer, which is not expected to be accepted. Dish had previously offered a total of $25.5 billion for Sprint, including $17.3 billion in cash and $8.2 billion in stock, but the SoftBank deal is seen as the more promising option. ...<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/softbank-cleared-sprint-takeover-dish-abandons-bid-115040861.html"> (more) </a><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/softbank-cleared-sprint-takeover-dish-abandons-bid-115040861.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/a7637c56-d8dd-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ TOKYO (Reuters) - High levels of toxic strontium-90 have been found in groundwater at the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the utility that operates the facility said on Wednesday <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/h7Rupl18yBg/story01.htm">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/a64595fc-d8dd-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ Mexico&#39;s second highest peak Popocatépetl exploded into life on Monday as it blew its top to relieve some of the building pressure within.<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2344231/Amazing-time-lapse-video-shows-dramatic-moment-worlds-dangerous-volcanoes-explodes-life.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/a4e1926a-d8dd-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ LONDON (AP) — The FA Cup final has been restored to its traditional place as the last match of the English football season.<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fa-cup-restored-last-match-english-season-094614653.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/53db355e-d8d5-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ BERLIN (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday a free trade agreement between the United States and the European Union could boost jobs and growth on both sides of the Atlantic and he also stressed the need for economic structural reforms. <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/businessNews/~3/JVaSDfjpS5I/story01.htm">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/52b6db10-d8d5-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ BEIJING (Reuters) - Wanda Group, China&#39;s largest commercial real estate developer, aims to invest about $1 billion to build a five-star hotel in New York as its third major investment outside its home market, Chairman Wang Jianlin said on Tuesday. <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/businessNews/~3/GuA5kYhurDw/story01.htm">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/4cdaf9b0-d8d5-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ LONDON (Reuters) - British actor Daniel Radcliffe won plaudits on Tuesday for a new stage role as a bullied Irish cripple that takes him a critical step further away from his days as boy wizard Harry Potter. <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/entertainment/~3/J23URNn3lfY/story01.htm">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/4bc68bca-d8d5-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ MAPUTO (Reuters) - The opposition party Renamo, a former guerrilla organization, threatened on Wednesday to paralyse the only railway line leading from Mozambique&#39;s northwest coalfields. Renamo information chief Jeronimo Malagueta told a news conference in Maputo the disruption of the Sena line from Tete to the Indian Ocean port of Beira would last &quot;as long as it takes&quot;. &quot;From Thursday June 20 we will take action to make the logistics of the country fragile,&quot; he said, without providing details. ...<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/mozambiques-renamo-threatens-paralyse-coal-export-line-105210406.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/4ac5e78e-d8d5-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ By Christian Lowe and Jana Mlcochova PRAGUE (Reuters) - It was a moment of high drama: the Czech prime minister stood up in parliament to try to salvage a political career torpedoed by the arrest of an aide, and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, sitting next to him, had dozed off. Schwarzenberg&#039;s habit of napping has, instead of being a liability, made him popular among Czechs fed up with their political class and its endemic corruption, and desperate for someone who breaks the mould. ...<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/dozing-prince-cult-hero-disenchanted-czechs-102554706.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/49bc8924-d8d5-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ By Clare Hutchison LONDON (Reuters) - The UK&#39;s highest court has ruled that the British government was wrong to have imposed sanctions on an Iranian bank in 2009 over alleged links to Iran&#39;s nuclear program. The Supreme Court decision on Wednesday mirrored a January ruling by the European Union&#39;s General Court, which overturned sanctions imposed in 2010, and could result in the bank suing Britain for damages. ...<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/uks-supreme-court-quashes-british-sanctions-iranian-bank-112524392.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/48ba0600-d8d5-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he welcomed Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s announcement that Afghan forces would soon take responsibility for security from the U.S.-led NATO peacekeeping force. &quot;We do think that ultimately we&#39;re going to need to see Afghans talking to Afghans about how they can move forward and end the cycle of violence there so they can start actually building their country,&quot; Obama said at a joint news conference in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (Reporting by Jeff Mason and Roberta ...<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-welcomes-karzais-announcement-security-transfer-111029614.html"> (more) </a><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-welcomes-karzais-announcement-security-transfer-111029614.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/47b71996-d8d5-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe&#39;s highest court says it has received an application from the president&#39;s party to delay crucial elections by at least two weeks.<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/zimbabwes-president-goes-back-court-polls-112214753.html">[original story]</a>