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U.S. ag secretary: I ‘say an extra prayer’ for rain
The drought scouring the farming heartlands of the United States is the worst for 25 years, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday, after briefing President Barack Obama. The United States is the world’s biggest producer of corn and soybeans, and the warning came as prices surged and some farmers warned…
Defense contractor CEOs complain cuts will have a ‘chilling effect’
The threat of massive cuts to the US military next year is already having a “chilling effect,” with devastating impacts looming for the defense industry, chief executives warned US lawmakers Wednesday. A $1 trillion slash in military and domestic spending, known as a sequester and written into last year’s Budget…
HIV/AIDS disproportionately affects black gay men in U.S.
HIV-AIDS is affecting black gay men in the United States on a scale unseen among any other group in the developed world, said a report issued Wednesday ahead of the International AIDS Conference. So grave is the crisis that in some US cities, one in two black men who have…
Study: Millions of East Germans returning home
Many of the millions of east Germans who flocked to the west of the country to take jobs after the Berlin Wall fell are now returning home, a study to be published Thursday showed. In 2010 alone more than 40,000 people born in communist East Germany who had moved west…
Japan looks for ‘active faults’ under restarted nuclear plant
Japan’s nuclear safety watchdog on Wednesday ordered a probe into claims the country’s only working nuclear power station sits on an active tectonic fault. The order came as Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) readied to refire a second reactor at the Oi plant, western Japan, just weeks after the first…
Pakistan puts 240,000 children at risk with polio vaccine ban
Pakistani tribesmen endorsed a Taliban ban on polio vaccinations Wednesday, closing the door to the prospect of any child being vaccinated in North Waziristan as part of a nationwide campaign. Officials had pinned their last hopes of inoculating children in the northwestern district on talks with tribesmen, which were successively…
Study: Millions of voters face ‘structural barriers’ due to voter ID laws
About 3 to 4 million voters affected by existing voter ID laws face enormous difficulties to get to the polls, according to a new study by the Brennan Center for Justice. The study says 1 in 10 voters in states with those laws – Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania,…
Anti voter-ID group to MN Supreme Court: ballot measure isn’t clear enough
The Minnesota Supreme Court took on the debate behind voter identification laws, as it addressed whether a ballot initiative on the matter was clear enough for voters, the Minnesota Star-Tribune reports. In its current form, the proposal, which would go on the November ballot, refers to “valid” IDs. But the…
Woman with thalidomide-related birth defects wins multi-million dollar settlement from drug companies
An Australian woman born without arms and legs after her mother took thalidomide during pregnancy, on Wednesday won a landmark multi-million dollar settlement in her class action against drug firms. Lynette Rowe, 50, is leading a mass lawsuit on behalf of people born with congenital defects in Australia and New…
London Olympics withdraws 500,000 soccer tickets due to lack of interest
The organisers of the London Olympics conceded defeat Wednesday in selling all the tickets for the soccer tournament as they revealed plans to slash the capacity of some stadiums. Organisers LOCOG said more than one million tickets were left unsold, but that figure has been cut in half by reducing…
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