Mass protests expose anger at the way Brazil is run. (Euronews video)
It began as a protest over rising public transport costs but is fast spreading into a far wider revolt — over corruption, public services, and spending on the football World Cup.
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Proposed Ohio legislation would allow facial-recognition cameras to be used in casinos.
Move an effort by lawmakers to address money laundering concerns
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Obama assassination bid fears – aircraft carriers on standby off Irish coast during G8 summit
US officials are taking the personal security of Barack Obama so seriously that they will be positioning two aircraft carriers off the coast of Donegal.
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U.S. says it will buy Russian helicopters for Afghan military.
The Pentagon said on Monday it will spend 2 million to buy 30 Russian-built military helicopters that will be used by Afghan security forces.
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Sun sets on Siemens solar division
German tech giant Siemens has drawn a line under its foray into the solar power business and is closing down the division, business newspaper the Handelsblatt reported on Monday.
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Toxic shock: California allows up to one thousand times more glyphosate in drinking water than needed to cause breast cancer in women.
“…Yes, California — the state where more people are concerned about GMOs than seemingly anywhere else — actually used Monsanto-sounding language in its “official” report that set a higher water contamination level than the federal government!..”
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Scientists discover potential screening tool for HPV that causes mouth and throat cancers.
Antibodies to a high-risk type of a virus that causes mouth and throat cancers when transmitted via oral sex can be detected in blood tests many years before onset of the disease, according to a World Health Organisation-led team of researchers.
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Corporate gifts fuel US charity gains
Corporate gifts are still only a “tiny” .15 billion of the 6.23 billion in 2012. Of this sum almost a third goes to religious organizations. Isn’t is strange how the creator of everything under the heaven always needs more money?
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US study links pollution to autism risk – FRANCE 24.
A poisoned environment is not healthy for your unborn child. Gee, who would have guessed?
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Two thirds of Chile faces desertification: president
The third story in an MSM publication in as many days. Is there a desert awareness week or something likewise I wasn’t told about?
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