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French anti-corruption law weakened as false information is criminalised but public get only limited access to asset filesFrançois Hollande's anti-corruption crusade aiming at publishing MPs' assets has ended in a watered-down compromise after parliament voted for details of assets to be accessible to voters but not...(more)
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Hastings was fearless and shook things up – especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn't forgive himMy friend Michael Hastings died in Los Angeles on Tuesday. His death leaves a journalistic void, and not just the one created by the loss of...(more)
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The company has admitted liability for two spills but disputes the quantity of oil and damage doneOil company Shell will resume talks next week in London with lawyers representing 15,000 of the poorest people in the world who are claiming millions of pounds' compensation for oil...(more)
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New York is the latest to join the composting trend that doesn't take much time and has great benefits for the environmentNew York's mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced plans to introduce composting into the city's garbage mix with the goal of making it mandatory in a...(more)
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Thirty years ago, the old deal that held US society together started to unwind, with social cohesion sacrificed to greed. Was it an inevitable process – or was it engineered by self-interested elites?In or around 1978, America's character changed. For almost half a century, the United...(more)
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David Dennis “If you have ants in your house,” the great Harvard ecologist EO Wilson once said, “be kind to them.” Keep this in mind the next time you want to flick one off the kitchen table: The tiny critters, which collectively weigh about as much...(more)
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By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist militants carried out a deadly assault on the main U.N. compound in the Somali capital on Wednesday, dealing a blow to fragile security gains that have allowed a slow return of foreign aid workers and diplomats. The assault, claimed...(more)
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By Claire Davenport BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers want to forbid the United States from accessing European citizens' data without the approval of a judge or equivalent authority, a response to the revelations about the Prism spy program. Lawmakers from the European People's Party (EPP),...(more)
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Erika Matthias In an obvious effort to be more like San Francisco, New York is rolling out a composting program. We on the West Coast know imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. We don’t mind at all! In fact, we’re just itching to offer advice....(more)
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A new company is looking to take the road trip out of test driving a car. Tred, a startup with backing from former General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, delivers new vehicles to your home to be tested on your own turf.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Bombs flattened a police station in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Wednesday but there were no casualties as the building had been emptied for repairs following previous attacks, security officials said.
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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's top Muslim cleric says peaceful protests against the president are permitted, dismissing declarations by Islamist hard-liners that those behind protests planned for June 30 are heretics.
