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29

Prowler at Cruise’s home turns out to be neighbor

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affiliate marketing BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Police say a security guard at actor Tom Cruise‘s house used a stun gun on a would-be prowler, but the man turned out to be an intoxicated neighbor who may have mistakenly entered the property.Lt. Lincoln Hoshino says the confrontation occurred at Cruise’s Beverly Hills residence about...
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More Immigration, Not Less, Will Drive U.S. Growth

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affiliate marketing For those in favor of immigration reform, it might have been a relief that the presidential candidates spent more time describing how workers overseas are stealing American jobs than they did accusing foreign workers of stealing jobs right here in the U.S.A. But the status quo on immigration apparently supported by...
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Plant compounds tied to less stomach cancer in women: study

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affiliate marketing (Reuters) – Getting a moderate amount of plant substances called flavonoids through food may be linked to a lower stomach cancer risk in women – but not in men, according to a European study.The researchers, writing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that women with the highest intake of flavonoids...
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Facebook used to kidnap, traffic Indonesian girls

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affiliate marketing DEPOK, Indonesia (AP) — When a 14-year-old girl received a Facebook friend request from an older man she didn’t know, she accepted it out of curiosity. It’s a click she will forever regret, leading to a brutal story that has repeated itself as sexual predators find new ways to exploit Indonesia’s growing obsession...
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More than ever, Barca more than club for Catalans

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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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Oct
28

1960s music hero Riley: “The pendulum will swing”

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affiliate marketing ARLES, France (Reuters) – American composer Terry Riley, who penned the 1960s piece “In C” that earned him his reputation as “the father of minimalism” in music, thinks the pendulum will swing back to that magical time.“I don’t really look on it with nostalgia, I just wonder how we didn’t hold onto it longer,” Riley,...
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Thousands join new Spain protest

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Thousands of people flocked to Spain’s parliament building, chanting anti-austerity slogans



Thousands of people have joined fresh protests in the Spanish capital, Madrid, angered by budget cuts and calling on the government to quit.


Demonstrators held a minute’s silence with their backs to parliament, then shouted “resign” with fists clenched.


Parliament was guarded by hundreds of police officers.


PM Mariano Rajoy’s government plans spending cuts of about 40bn (£32bn) euros for next year as it tries to prevent the need for an EU bailout.


The Spanish government has found itself in financial difficulty since the 2008 global financial crisis caused a big crash in the country’s over-heated property market.


New figures this week showed about a quarter of working-age people in Spain were now unemployed.


‘Taking everything’


Saturday’s protesters came from all over the country and were met by vans of riot police, says the BBC’s Pascale Harter in Spain.


Just hours earlier, she says, 300 police had staged their own protest in the capital, setting off fire crackers and blowing police whistles over the same issue – budget cuts.


One banner read: “The police can’t take it any more.”


Austerity protests also took place in Barcelona, Valencia and other cities.


One protester in Madrid, Sabine Alberdi, told Agence France-Presse: “I came to demonstrate because they’re taking everything away, our health, our education, our houses.”


Mr Rajoy’s programme will require spending cuts of 150bn euros between 2012 and 2014.


Having spent almost a year in office, Mr Rajoy has tried to head off a full-blown EU bailout by introducing tax increases, labour reforms and public sector cuts.


However, output has now contracted for five quarters in a row.


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S.Africa’s Zuma drops suit over rape cartoon: paper

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affiliate marketing JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma intends to drop a four-year-old lawsuit claiming nearly $ 600,000 in damages from a cartoonist who depicted him poised to rape “Lady Justice“, a newspaper said on Sunday.The Sunday Times, named as a defendant in the case, said it had reached an agreement...
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Lithuania opens 2nd round of national election

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affiliate marketing VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Voting stations have opened in the second round of Lithuania’s parliamentary elections, with the results likely to determine whether the small East European nation continues tough austerity measures in an effort to join the euro zone.Nearly half of Parliament’s 141 seats are at stake in single-mandate...
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