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  • Obama welcomes Iran's election of moderate president Obama welcomes Iran's election of moderate president

    WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has urged Iran's newly elected president to prove to the world that the Islamic republic was not pursuing a nuclear weapon programme as the White House welcomed election of a moderate leader as a hopeful sign. "I think it says that the Iranian people want to move in a different direction," Obama said of the election results in Iran that saw a surprising ...

  • Leaders of G8 call for peace in Syria and pledge humanitarian aid Leaders of G8 call for peace in Syria and pledge humanitarian aid

    ENNISKILLEN - The Group of Eight industrialised nations called for a swift end to the bloody civil war in Syria and urgent peace talks but stopped short of calling for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in its joint statement at the end of talks Tuesday. Despite the lack of consensus among the G8 on the fate of Assad, as well as the use of chemical weapons by his regime, Canadian ...

  • US to join direct peace talks with Taliban over Afghanistans future in Qatar

    The United States is to open direct talks with Taliban leaders within days. The development comes after Washington agreed to drop a series of preconditions that have previously held back negotiations over the future of Afghanistan. According to the Guardian, political representatives of the Taliban will meet Afghan and US officials in Doha, the capital of Qatar. They will have discussions on ...

  • US first lady daughters tour Irish park

    US first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha Tuesday wrapped up their brief visit to Ireland with a private guided tour of Wicklow Mountains National Park. Michelle Obama and the girls have been taking in the sights here as President Barack Obama meets with other world leaders at the G8 summit in neighbouring Northern Ireland. Malia, 14, and Sasha, 12, listened attentively ...

  • Mexican telecom firm in talks to restructure debt

    Mexico's Maxcom Telecomunicaciones said Tuesday it was looking to raise new capital and restructure debt after failing to make an interest payment. In a filing with the Mexican Stock Exchange, Maxcom said it would use a 30-day grace period with respect to Tuesday's scheduled interest payment of roughly $11 million to continue talks with a new investor and certain of its bondholders with a view ...

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The Frighteners

There is rarely a peaceful moment in Peter Jackson's new horror-comedy "The Frighteners." I don't know if there is a single scene in the whole film where the camera stays still for more than a second, and I'm quite positive that never more than a minute transpired before some form of special effects filled the screen. The fact is, this manic send-up of the ghost story genre is almost too manic for ... ...

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  • Putin Obama agree to push for Syria talks in Geneva

    Beijing, June 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday held here face-to-face talks on Syria on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Lough Erne, Britain. At a press conference after their two-hour talks, the two leaders admitted they had big differences on Syria, but they agreed to push for a summit in Geneva, Switzerland. "Our positions do not ...

  • Inmates at California prisons demand to move as valley fever death toll rises

    San Francisco court heard that since 2006, the potentially deadly infection, caused by an airborne fungus, had killed more than 30 prisoners and afflicted hundreds more at the Avenal and Pleasant Valley state prisons, both in northern California's San Joaquin Valley.Eighteen of the deaths occurred in 2012 and January 2013 alone.A lawyer representing inmates argued that 3,250 of the 8,100 ...

  • Obamas Job Approval Easily Outpaces U.S. Satisfaction

    PRINCETON, NJ -- President Barack Obama's job approval rating thus far in 2013 has averaged 24 percentage points higher than Americans' satisfaction with the direction in which the country is going. This gap is typical for the Obama presidency, but represents a much greater presidential job approval premium than most other presidents since Ronald Reagan have ...

  • Crucial finding made in search for long-lost shipwreck

    A wooden beam embedded at the bottom of northern Lake Michigan appears to have been there for centuries, underwater archaeologists announced Tuesday, a crucial finding as crews dig toward what they hope is the carcass of a French ship that disappeared while exploring the Great Lakes in the 17th century. Expedition leaders still weren't ready to declare they had found a shipwreck or the ...

  • Obama Putin on a New START duo agrees to reduce nuclear weapons

    A reduction in U.S. and Russian deployed nuclear weapons is set to be announced by President Barack Obama on Tuesday, a senior administration official said. The move aims to cut the weapons by up to one third below the level achieved in the last "New START" treaty with Russia. (Al Bawaba file photo) A reduction in U.S. and Russian deployed nuclear weapons is set to be announced by ...

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