Madagascar village hit by fatal bubonic plague outbreak
- 10 HOURS AGODECEMBER 11, 2013 1:32PM
A VILLAGE in Madagascar has been hit by a deadly outbreak of the bubonic plague.…
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Monsanto deal with Novozymes aims to accelerate new crop products
BY CAREY GILLAM
Tue Dec 10, 2013 12:12pm EST
Dec 10 (Reuters) - Monsanto Co, the world's largest seed company, said Tuesday that a deal with Danish company Novozymes to form a long-term research and development alliance should accelerate the release of microbial-based…
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500 of the worlds most notable writers slam NSA surveillance
Authors from 81 countries call on UN to create an international bill of digital rights
CBC News Posted: Dec 10, 2013 3:53 PM ET Last Updated: Dec 10, 2013 3:53 PM ET…
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WTO hails 'historic' first global trade agreement
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Xinhua | 2013-12-8 19:46:16
A Greek police officer and two Albanian nationals were killed during an exchange of gunfire in northern Greece, police said Sunday.
The shooting occurred late Saturday when three police…
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Twenty-nine convicted sex offenders are serving in armed forces: Offences include 'indecent assault and downloading child porn'
- All are on sex offenders' register, with at least 10 convicted in civilian court
- One is a category one, level two offender, described as a risk to the public
- Soldiers convicted of sexual…
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Was Kenya mall massacre 'mastermind' backed by CIA cash? Disturbing claims by 'double agent who worked with terror suspect for years'
- Morten Storm was an informant for intelligence agencies for five years
- Met Abdukadir Mohamed Abdukadir, or Ikirma, in Nairobi in 2008
- At the time,…
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Sweden 'spied on Russian leaders for US'
Published time: December 05, 2013 10:06
Edited time: December 06, 2013 04:37
Swedish signals intelligence agency FRA spied on Russian leaders and shared the data collected with the US, local media report citing Edward Snowden leaks. Sweden’s ‘cable access’ made its position ‘unique’ in the eyes of the NSA.
The NSA…
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Family of 11 'pedophiles' arrested in case of missing Alabama teen Brittney Wood, 19, including her MOTHER and BROTHER on rape charges
- Mother-of-one Brittney Wood hasn't been seen since May 2012
- She disappeared after visiting uncle, Donald Holland, who killed himself
- Police suspect that she may have wanted to confront Holland about abuse
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Baby boy kicked and stamped on, then 'thrown to his death from a balcony' by girl aged TEN after his mother accidentally left him behind in a lift
- The boy, who is thought to be just under two, was in a lift with his mother
- The murder took place in Chongqing, southwest China
- CCTV footage caught the 10-year-old girl abusing the child in the lift
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Brazilian mother forced to flee to her country's embassy in Norway after officials try to take her daughter, 3, into care 'for not eating like a Norwegian'
- Vitoria Alves Jesumary, 37, is hiding at the Brazilian Embassy in Oslo
- Social services want her three-year-old daughter taken into care
- Jesumary claims it is because she 'is not eating like a…
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Terrified people rescued from storm floods as 140mph winds leave two dead and 120,000 without power: Worst yet to come with 10pm tidal surge expected to swamp east coast
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More than 240 Environment Agency flood alerts in place in England and Wales, with most in East Anglia
- Gusts of 140mph in parts of…
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EU Commission fines banks $2.3 billion for benchmark rigging
BY FOO YUN CHEE
BRUSSELS Wed Dec 4, 2013 12:34pm EST
(Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators vowed to keep…
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110,000 expelled in Saudi foreign labor crackdown
Monday, December 02, 2013 8:11 PM
Saudi Arabian authorities said Monday they had expelled more than 110,000 migrants since the November 4 launch of a campaign against foreign workers.
"The number of offenders expelled from the beginning of the campaign on…
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US base in Greenland part of spy programme
The information gathered at Thule is used by the American intelligence services and drone programme
December 2, 2013
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by Ray Weaver
Fully one third of the information gathered at Thule Tracking Station (TTS) – the US…
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Pregnant woman has unborn baby girl forcibly removed by caesarean after social workers obtain court order because she had suffered a mental breakdown
- Italian woman claims she was not warned she would be given a ceasarean
- Essex council obtained order allowing them to sedate her against her will
- The case has now escalated into an international legal row
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Paul Walker: Hollywood left stunned by death
By Breeanna Hare, CNN
December 1, 2013 -- Updated 0440 GMT (1240 HKT)
(CNN) -- Paul Walker's sudden death has left many in…
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Turkish Hackers Hacks official Vodafone Iceland website, leaks 77,000 accounts and SMS logs
Posted date: November 30, 2013
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Britain's personal debt mountain hits record high of £1,429,624,000,000 as mortgage approvals soar to pre-crash levels
- Mortgage and credit card debts smash though 2008 record high
- Rise could signal growing confidence as the economy recovers
- Mortgage approvals rise to highest level in over five and-a-half years
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The bunny boiler app: Spy software lets you track a partner's movements, listen in on calls and even lock their phone
- MSpy can be installed to Apple, Android, BlackBerry and Windows devices
- It costs from £24.99 a month and the firm claims it is 100% undetectable
- Spies can use it to track movements, read messages and listen to calls
- It can be…
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