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 Nissan to build new $2 bn plant in Mexico
Mexico City: Nissan Motor Co. announced plans to invest $2 billion in building a third manufacturing facility in Mexico. | The new plant in the central state of Aguascalientes will generate 3,000 jobs... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc) Zeenews
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 Remembering Howard Zinn
| Editor's note: Today, January 27, is the second anniversary of the death of Howard Zinn. An active participant in the Civil Rights movement, he was dismissed in 1963 from his position as a tenured p... (photo: Creative Commons) Al Jazeera
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 Groups sue over Navy sonar use off Northwest coast
| Conservationists and Native American tribes are suing over the Navy's expanded use of sonar in training exercises off the Washington, Oregon and California coasts, sayi... (photo: US Coastguard / PA3 BRENT M. ERB) STL Today
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 Bernanke opening the door to the Fed a bit wider
WASHINGTON - | What's next - cameras in the Federal Reserve's meetings? | Don't count on it. | But it's anyone's guess how far the Fed will go in its mission to be more p... (photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite) Seattle Times
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 Bachmann to Run for Re-Election
| WASHINGTON – Representative Michele Bachmann, whose White House quest fizzled after a poor showing in the Iowa caucuses, said Wednesday that she would seek re-electio... (photo: AP / Charlie Riedel) The New York Times
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 YouTube webcam captures birth of bear cubs - and they sound EXACTLY like human babies
| A webcam set up in the den of a black bear recorded the birth of her cubs – and amazingly revealed that they sound just like human babies when they cry. | The cam... (photo: Alaska Image Library) The Daily Mail
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 Pharma's niche focus spurs US aid for antibiotics
| WASHINGTON-The pharmaceutical industry won approval to market a record number of new drugs for rare diseases last year, as a combination of scientific innovation and bu... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag) The Boston Globe
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 Obama renews anti-Iran war rhetoric
Share US President Barack Obama has once again renewed threats against Iran, saying that Washington will maintain pressure on the Islamic Republic over its nuclear progra... (photo: AP / Al Alam TV) Pakalert Press
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 UN's new Afghan envoy heartened by talk of peace
| KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.N.'s new representative to war-torn Afghanistan said Wednesday that he was encouraged by widespread discussion about prospects for maki... (photo: UN / Fardin Waezi) Austin American Statesman
Afghanistan Peace Photos UN Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001present) |
