Cuba’s 2nd city without power, water after Sandy

affiliate marketing HAVANA (AP) — Residents of Cuba‘s second-largest city of Santiago remained without power or running water Monday, four days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall as the island’s deadliest storm in seven years, ripping rooftops from homes and toppling power lines.Across the Caribbean, the storm’s death toll rose to 69,...

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Clinton: Facebook post about Benghazi attack not hard “evidence”

affiliate marketing WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday a Facebook post in which an Islamic militant group claimed credit for a recent attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya did not constitute hard evidence of who was responsible.“Posting something on Facebook is not in and of itself...

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European fashion buyers look to Nigeria

affiliate marketing LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A model struts the runway wearing a flowing newspaper print gown in this African megacity where international high-end fashion buyers are looking beyond the country’s bleak headlines to uncover the next new thing.There have been steady efforts to turn Lagos, a city with a fearsome reputation,...

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GSK raises bet on AIDS drug with new Shionogi deal

affiliate marketing LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline has raised its bet on a promising drug for HIV/AIDS by redrawing a deal with Japan’s Shionogi which gives it a much bigger economic interest in the new product.Dolutegravir, a once-daily drug that has performed strongly in clinical trials, is seen by analysts as a potential...

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TSX may open lower; volumes seen down on storm

affiliate marketing (Reuters) – Canada‘s main stock index looked set to open lower on Monday, hurt by uncertainty prevailing over Spanish bailout and lackluster global corporate earnings.Trading volumes are expected to be thin with U.S. stock markets closed because of the huge and potentially damaging hurricane expected to hit the U.S....

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More than ever, Barca more than club for Catalans

affiliate marketing BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Nearly 20 minutes into the latest clash between Spain’s most popular football teams, Barcelona‘s 98,000-seat Camp Nou stadium erupted into a deafening roar. Tens of thousands of Catalans in the city at the heart of their separatist movement chanted in unison: “Independence!”More than ever,...

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New York police officer charged with plan to cook, eat women

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York City police officer was charged on Thursday with conspiring to kidnap, torture, cook and eat women whose names he listed in his computer.In a criminal complaint unsealed in Manhattan federal court, Gilberto Valle III, 28, of Forest Hills, Queens, was charged with conspiring to cross...

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Beethoven discovery gets first performance in UK

affiliate marketing LONDON (Reuters) – A previously undiscovered musical arrangement by Ludwig van Beethoven was performed for the first time at a British university on Thursday.The two-minute long piece is an organ harmony to the 1,000-year old Gregorian hymn “Pange Lingua”, University of Manchester Professor Barry Cooper told Reuters...

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IBA signs $40 million U.S. cancer facility deal

affiliate marketing BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian cancer treatment equipment maker IBA said it has signed a $ 40 million deal for the installation of a treatment facility in Louisiana.The treatment room, which will receive its first patients in early 2014, will use a system designed by Dutch group Philips, which will allow patients to...

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Why the Yuan Is Rising

affiliate marketing China’s currency hit a 19-year high against the U.S. dollar on Friday. Not coincidentally, on the same day the yuan rose to 6.238 against the greenback, disgraced former Politburo member Bo Xilai suffered his latest indignity, with the official Xinhua News Agency announcing his removal from the National People’s...

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