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In Texas conservative Republicans are rewriting the textbooks to be used in the state's schools to fit their political agendaWhen people worry about the US economy being surpassed by the likes of India and China, it's often slipping educational standards that are identified as a possible...(more)
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AP - China plans to bid for contracts to build U.S. high-speed train lines and is stepping up exports of rail technology to Europe and Latin America, a government official said Saturday.
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AFP - The European Union will unilaterally impose new sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear programme if there is no consensus at the UN, Finland's foreign minister said on Saturday.
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AFP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sealed a visit to India Friday with a raft of multi-billion-dollar arms and energy deals, including the construction of 16 Russian nuclear reactors.
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At a summit in Dubai, scholars and clerics are gathering to destroy the Somalian rebels' religious credibilitySomali president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has been busy of late. This weekend he is attending a summit in Dubai, along with an international cast of scholars and clerics, to...(more)
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AP - Factory worker Chen Qinghai frowned as he looked at a tall bulletin board full of help-wanted notices from companies making everything from photocopiers and DVD drives to mobile phones and car parts.
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A suicide bomber in a rickshaw kills at least nine people in Pakistan, police say, a day after twin blasts leave dozens dead in Lahore.
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After waiting more than a month for Chicago Public Schools to provide him with federally mandated bus service to Fenger, Termel Jennings gave up Friday and decided he would return to school in Joliet under the provisions of a law that protects the educational rights of...(more)
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By its continued settlement expansion, Israel makes the two-state solution ever harder to realisePolitics is ultimately about interests. Morals and highfalutin principles have their place, but a more reliable truth is that governments and countries usually act in their own self-interest. Usually. The way Israel greeted...(more)
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Last year, during protests against the attack on Gaza, a mixed group of demonstrators clashed with police. But when the alleged culprits were arrested in dawn raids, nearly all those taken were young MuslimsBadi Tebani and his wife were sleeping peacefully when all hell broke loose....(more)
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New Delhi signs five deals, buying fighter jets, an aircraft carrier and nuclear reactors. India signed five deals Friday to purchase more than $7 billion in hardware and expertise from Russia, including an aircraft carrier, a fleet of MIG-29 fighters, defense and space technology and at...(more)
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An audit finds that USAspending.gov doesn't disclose all it's supposed to about federal contracts. When he was a senator, Barack Obama pushed through a law setting up a kind of "Google-for-government" website -- a one-stop-shop for tracking the $1 trillion handed out in federal contracts.
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