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BERLIN (AP) — Germany and France are preparing to launch a drive to combat the problem of high European youth unemployment, which officials in Berlin say will center on trying to get business involved and make better use of already-pledged public money. Home, commercial, and standby electric generators at GeneratorZoo.Com WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation. Home, commercial, and standby electric generators at GeneratorZoo.Com VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Air Force launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from a California base on Wednesday, a month after the test flight was postponed because of tensions with North Korea. By Tom Perry and Yousri Mohamed CAIRO/ISMAILIA (Reuters) – Seven Egyptian security men kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were freed on Wednesday and President Mohamed Mursi vowed to pursue a crackdown on lawlessness in the desert peninsula. The abduction underlined the threat posed by jihadists who have exploited a security vacuum that [...] The price of oil fell near $95 a barrel Wednesday as the nation’s oil supply fell less than expected and demand for gasoline remained weak. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma medical examiner's office says two infants are among 24 people killed by the tornado that ripped across the Oklahoma City area this week. Home, commercial, and standby electric generators at GeneratorZoo.Com CHICAGO (AP) — Star linebacker Brian Urlacher says he’s retiring after spending 13 seasons with the Chicago Bears. SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. 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Home, commercial, and standby electric generators at GeneratorZoo.Com PARIS (AP) — In France, there’s a brewing debate over whether to speak anglais in universite. LONDON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund has called on Britain to do more to support the economic recovery, urging the government Wednesday to speed up investment in infrastructure and come up with a plan to privatize its bailed out banks. Home, commercial, and standby electric generators at GeneratorZoo.Com By Carey Gillam and Ian Simpson MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) – Rescue workers with sniffer dogs picked through the ruins of an Oklahoma town on Wednesday to ensure no survivors remained buried after a deadly tornado left thousands homeless and trying to salvage what was left of their belongings. "Yesterday I was numb. Today I cried [...] HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s president signs into law a new constitution and vows to hold peaceful and clean elections later this year. BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders on Wednesday sought to advance their fight against tax fraud and close the loopholes for large corporations' tax avoidance schemes. Home, commercial, and standby electric generators at GeneratorZoo.Com LONDON (AP) — Britain and Denmark proposed Wednesday to give hundreds of Afghan interpreters who worked alongside their troops the right to settle in the U.K. and Denmark in recognition of the risks they face if they stay in their war-battered homeland. AMMAN (Reuters) – Western governments are ready to increase support to opponents of President Bashar al-Assad if he rejects a political solution to Syria’s civil war, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday. Kerry said recent military gains by Assad’s forces were only temporary and that if he believed the counter-offensives against the rebels [...] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Below are highlights of the question and answer session of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s testimony on the U.S. economy to the congressional Joint Economic Committee on Wednesday. BERNANKE ON BANKS THAT ARE “TOO BIG TO FAIL”: “I think that many of the suggestions to break them up have either involved relatively [...] MOORE, Okla. (AP) — The cost of a massive tornado that battered an Oklahoma City suburb could be more than $2 billion, according to a preliminary estimate announced Wednesday by the Oklahoma Insurance Department. Home, commercial, and standby electric generators at GeneratorZoo.Com NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Regular train service returned to Connecticut on Wednesday, five days after a derailment injured scores of commuters and damaged tracks. Home, commercial, and standby electric generators at GeneratorZoo.Com KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Police say a suicide bomber on foot has killed an anti-Taliban village elder and at least three other people in a busy marketplace in central Afghanistan. VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Air Force has launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from a California base, a month after the test flight was postponed because of tensions with North Korea. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that a decision by election overseers to disqualify his top aide from next month's presidential race is an act of "oppression" and that he will take the case to the country's supreme leader. Home, commercial, and standby electric generators at GeneratorZoo.Com By Kim Dixon and Patrick Temple-West WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a tax scandal about extra scrutiny of conservative groups told a congressional hearing on Wednesday she had done nothing wrong but asserted her constitutional right not to answer questions. "I have not done anything wrong. I have [...] DUBAI (Reuters) – Customs officials in United Arab Emirates have seized hundreds of elephant tusks shipped from Africa marked as furniture, the Ministry of Environment and Water said. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said in a statement that the container came from Mombasa in Kenya. Poaching has risen in recent years across sub-Saharan [...] |
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