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Lawyer: Mladic won't live to see a trial
The Associated Press - ‎3 hours ago‎



BELGRADE (AP) - The lawyer for war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic said Monday that the former general is so ill he won't live to see the start of his trial on genocide charges.
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Five Things You Need to Know About Memorial Day
Patch.com - ‎33 minutes ago‎



From the holiday's founding to efforts to end the three-day weekend, learn more about Memorial Day. By Lauren Burgoon | Email the author | 6:00am Today, Memorial Day, is one of America's most solemn observances.
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Obama consoles tornado-ravaged Joplin
The Associated Press - ‎3 hours ago‎



JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - Exactly a week after Joplin was nearly leveled by the deadliest tornado to strike the US in decades, President Barack Obama visited the Missouri city to offer hope to survivors and promises of help.
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Lockheed attack highlights rise in cyber espionage
BusinessWeek - ‎8 minutes ago‎



By CHIP CUTTER and LOLITA C. BALDOR This cyber attack didn't go after people playing war games on their PlayStations. It targeted a company that helps the US military do the real thing.
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Yemen hits Islamic militants with airstrikes
The Associated Press - ‎46 minutes ago‎



SANAA, Yemen (AP) - Yemeni warplanes carried out airstrikes Monday on a southern town seized by hundreds of Islamic militants over the weekend, witnesses said, as the political crisis surrounding the embattled president descended into more bloodshed.
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Wheldon gets improbable Indy 500 win
Hattiesburg American - ‎10 minutes ago‎



INDIANAPOLIS - Dan Wheldon was zipping toward the final corner of Sunday's Indianapolis 500, surely figuring the best he could do was another runner-up finish.
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NATO Promises to Keep Up Pressure on Qaddafi
Fox News - ‎1 hour ago‎



| AP SOFIA, Bulgaria - NATO's secretary-general said on Monday that the military campaign in Libya is achieving its objectives but he added that pressure will be kept up until all attacks on civilians have stopped.
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Afghanistan: Suicide bombers launch twin attacks in west
Ynetnews - ‎14 minutes ago‎



Taliban insurgents led by suicide bombers launched attacks on an Italian military base and near a government building in the main city in Afghanistan's west on Monday, killing four people and wounding dozens, officials said.
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Germany to exit nuclear power by 2022
Xinhua - ‎7 minutes ago‎



BERLIN, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The German government announced early Monday a plan to shut down all its 17 nuclear power plants by 2022 after a twelve-hour discussion within the ruling coalition.
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Nigeria blast kills 15 hours after inauguration
The Associated Press - ‎46 minutes ago‎



BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) - A bomb tore through a bar in a military barracks in Nigeria's restive Muslim north, killing 15 people just hours after a southern Christian president was inaugurated, an official who participated in the rescue efforts said Monday ...
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Assad, Nasrallah discuss 'Syrian reform'
Ynetnews - ‎1 hour ago‎



Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in order to discuss reforms in Syria, the Lebanese daily al-Akhbar, identified with Hezbollah, reported on Monday.
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Joplin twister's death toll rises to 142
CNN International - ‎May 28, 2011‎



(CNN) -- Missouri authorities have identified additional people killed in last weekend's tornado, bringing the toll of the United States' single deadliest twister ever recorded to 142 deaths, authorities said Saturday.
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Sarah Palin Joins Bikers for 'Ride to Freedom'
Bloomberg - ‎2 hours ago‎



Sarah Palin's ride through Washington on a Harley-Davidson Inc. (HOG) motorcycle yesterday as part of the Rolling Thunder “Ride for Freedom” put her back in the national spotlight as the race for the ...
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Arab oil faces higher 'break-even' price
MarketWatch - ‎13 hours ago‎



HONG KONG (MarketWatch) - A sharp rise in domestic government spending by Saudi Arabia and other key Arab oil exporters threatens to upset the mutually beneficial relationship they've kept for decades with energy ...
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Who's to blame when gas costs $1 more than last year?
USA Today - ‎45 minutes ago‎



DES MOINES, Iowa - Gasoline costs $1 per gallon more than it did last Memorial Day, and the the Wall Street speculator, more than Texas oilmen and OPEC ministers, is often seen as the bad guy at the gas pump.
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Bond Auctions Test Contagion Fears
Wall Street Journal - ‎34 minutes ago‎



A team of European and International Monetary Fund officials is scheduled to conclude a closely watched examination of Greek government finances this week as bellwether bond auctions test whether anxiety over Greece's ...
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Nikkei edges lower in year's thinnest trade
Reuters - ‎4 hours ago‎



TOKYO, May 30 (Reuters) - The Nikkei average edged down in the lowest volume of the year on Monday with a stronger yen countering bargain hunting, and market players saying the benchmark will likely hover around 9500 at least until US ...
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Oil hovers below $101 in light holiday trading
BusinessWeek - ‎8 minutes ago‎



By ALEX KENNEDY Oil prices hovered below $101 a barrel Monday in Asia in light trading volume ahead of the US Memorial Day holiday.
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Apple Mac Defender scamware linked to Russian payment site ChronoPay
International Business Times - ‎27 minutes ago‎



Mac Defender, the first major attack ever to strike Apple computers, has been traced to a Russian online payment service site ChronoPay, according to Brian Krebs, an online security researcher.
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NASA Shuttle Endeavour Bids Farewell to Space Station (PHOTOS)
International Business Times - ‎47 minutes ago‎



By IB Times Staff Reporter | May 30, 2011 06:56 AM EDT NASA space shuttle Endeavour has left the International Space Station for the last time late Sunday and is headed home ending nearly two weeks of joint flight.
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Samsung Expands Ties to Android on Tablets
Wall Street Journal - ‎2 hours ago‎



Samsung plans more tablets despite ongoing legal battles with Apple, and Computex, Asia's answer to Las Vegas's Consumer Electronics Show, starts this week, with Acer and Intel expected to make a splash.
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Herald app goes live tomorrow
Sydney Morning Herald - ‎20 hours ago‎



FAIRFAX MEDIA will release new iPad applications for the Herald and The Age tomorrow, promising a ''bespoke'' way of presenting its journalism, which it hopes will be a ''catalyst for change'' in the economics of news.
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Asus Demos Phone-tablet Combo, Meego Netbook
PCWorld - ‎1 hour ago‎



Taiwan's Asustek Computer has previewed a smartphone-tablet PC combo device that seeks to bring together the strengths of both devices without completely duplicating the hardware.
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Sean Kingston in hospital following jetski accident
AHN | All Headline News - ‎12 minutes ago‎



"Beautiful Girls" hitmaker Sean Kingston was injured following a jet skiing accident in Miami Beach. The 21-year-old singer and a female passenger were taken to a hospital after his personal watercraft crashed into a bridge around 6 pm on Sunday.
CTV.ca

Brad Pitt Looking to Help Missouri Flood Victims, Opens Up About Kids
Fox News - ‎May 26, 2011‎



In the years following Hurricane Katrina, Brad Pitt and his non-profit organization Make it Right have been tirelessly working to rebuild New Orleans.
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Harvick wins 600 when Earnhardt runs out of gas
SportingNews.com - ‎1 hour ago‎



CONCORD, NC—You didn't have to open a Superman comic to find Bizarro World—Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway had all the strangeness a fan of cosmic weirdness could hope to find.
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Florida Marlins' Hanley Ramirez leaves game with back problem
MiamiHerald.com - ‎7 hours ago‎



Florida Marlins' Hanley Ramirez is congratulated by teammates after scoring on an RBI single by Greg Dobbs during the sixth inning of their baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Friday, May 27, 2011, in Los Angeles.
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Valcke confirms Warner email
ESPN - ‎58 minutes ago‎



By ESPNsoccernet staff FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke has confirmed he sent suspended vice-president Jack Warner an email claiming the 2022 world Cup in Qatar had been "bought".
Globe and Mail

Verlander helps Tigers earn split with Red Sox
USA Today - ‎8 hours ago‎



DETROIT (AP) - Jose Valverde and David Ortiz (FSY) had the two biggest matchups of an exhausting Sunday. By Duane Burleson, AP Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander serves to the Boston Red Sox during the second game of a doubleheader in Detroit.
Reuters

Li Na first from China to reach quarters
ESPN - ‎8 minutes ago‎



AP PARIS -- Australian Open runner-up Li Na reached the quarterfinals of the French Open with a 2-6, 6-1, 6-3 win over Petra Kvitova on Monday and became the first Chinese player to advance that far at the clay-court Grand Slam.
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CVD Risk History Predicts Gestational Diabetes
MedPage Today - ‎May 27, 2011‎



A woman's cardiometabolic profile predicted the risk of gestational diabetes as early as seven years before pregnancy, data from a case-control study showed.
MedIndia

What's worse than bad cholesterol? Meet ultra-bad cholesterol
CBS News - ‎May 27, 2011‎



Researchers say they have discovered "ultra-bad" cholesterol in some patients and the discovery can be a game changer for treating heart disease.
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