October 2012
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September 2012
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Chicago teachers suspend strike, classes to resume
Chicago teachers union officials voted to end a strike that halted classes for 350,000 students in the nation’s third-largest district and illustrated the bitter national struggle over changing how teachers are evaluated, hired and fired.
Classes are expected to resume Wednesday, city officials said, bringing a close to the seven-day...
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Rahm Emanuel deems Chicago teachers strike “illegal”
The Chicago Teachers Union extended its strike into a second week on Sunday, after significant divisions emerged among union delegates over a deal that only a day before had been described by the union’s leader as “a good contract”.
The announcement came after nearly 800 union representatives, the House of Delegates,...
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Fed undertakes QE3 with $40 billion in M-BS purchases a month
The Federal Reserve said it will expand its holdings of long-term securities with open-ended purchases of $40 billion of mortgage debt a month in a third round of quantitative easing as it seeks to boost growth and reduce unemployment.
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“If the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially, the committee will...
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“iPad accounts for 91% of web traffic from tablets. I don’t know what these...”
– Tim Cook at Apple’s iPhone 5 event. (Classic!)
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At least 44 killed in wave of attacks across Iraq
A menagerie of attacks, handed out by insurgents against Iraqi military and police, has left more than 44 people dead, the latest in a string of attacks that has targeted security officials in the country.
The first and most deadly attack, which killed at least 10 soldiers and wounded more than eight other people, struck a secluded Iraqi Army...
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Teenage suicide bomber strikes near NATO’s Afghan HQ
(AP) — A teenage suicide bomber blew himself up outside NATO headquarters in the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing at least six civilians in a strike that targeted the heart of the U.S.-led military operation in the country, officials said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast, which was the latest in a series of...
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Quakes hit southwestern China, killing at least 80
(AP) — A series of earthquakes caused houses to collapse and triggered landslides in a remote mountainous part of southwestern China on Friday, killing at least 80 people with the toll expected to rise. Damage was preventing rescuers from reaching some outlying areas, and communications were disrupted.
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The quakes started with a...
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“It will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up...”
– An excerpt from President Obama’s prepared remarks (which he will deliver later this evening at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina)
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Third Yosemite visitor dies of hantavirus; eight now infected
Two more cases of hantavirus have been linked to Yosemite National Park, including one that resulted in the death of a West Virginia resident, officials announced Thursday.
Three people have now died of the rare, rodent-borne disease after visiting the park this summer; five others have been sickened.
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Girl hid under bodies after French Alps shootings
A four-year-old British girl spent eight hours cowering among the bodies of three adults, thought to be her mother, father and grandmother, who were shot dead in a car in the French Alps.
The child, apparently on a family camping holiday from Britain, was found by police unhurt shortly before midnight yesterday huddled on the floor behind the...
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Pacific Tsunami Warning Center: Tsunami warnings cancelled for Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua after a magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Costa Rica.
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Dozens feared dead in Indian fireworks factory blast
An explosion at a fireworks factory in southern India left up to 30 people dead and dozens of others with serious burns on Wednesday, fire and medical officials said.
Television footage showed smoke billowing into the sky above a factory in Sivakasi, which is the centre of the Indian fireworks industry some 700 kilometres (430 miles) south of...
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Fatal shooting overshadows narrow win by Quebec separatists
A gunman opened fire during a midnight victory rally today for Quebec’s new premier, killing one person and wounding another. The new premier, Pauline Marois of the separatist Parti Quebecois, was whisked off the stage while giving her speech. Marois wasn’t injured in the ordeal.
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PHOTO: Parti Quebecois leader...
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Suicide attack at Afghan funeral kills 20, wounds dozens more
A suicide bombing at a funeral in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday killed 20 civilians and injured about three dozen others, officials said, an attack apparently targeting a district governor, who survived.
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The explosion took place in the Dur Baba district of Nangarhar province, where villagers had flocked to pay tribute to a...
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42 dead as Morocco bus plunges into ravine
A bus plunged into a ravine in the Atlas Mountains of southern Morocco early on Tuesday killing at least 42 people, a security official said, in the worst such accident recorded in the kingdom.
All the victims were Moroccan, a local official told AFP. “But we are still in the process of identifying the bodies, as well as the injured,” he said.
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“I would never want to detract from another athlete’s moment of triumph and...”
– South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius apologising for the timing of his comments regarding the running blades used by T44 200 metres gold medalist Alan Oliveira immediately after last night’s race.
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Egypt lifts ban on veiled television presenters
Wearing a cream-coloured headscarf and a dark suit, Fatma Nabil read the 12 o’clock news bulletin on Sunday and became Egypt’s first female news presenter ever to appear on state television while wearing a veil.
Nabil and several other female news presenters scheduled to go on air mark the end of a ban on presenters wearing the...
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