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Brazil-Mexico Preview Selecao gunning for semi-final berth
Luiz Felipe Scolari is spoilt for choice ahead of Brazil's second Confederations Cup game against Mexico at the Castelao. With the Selecao in fine form during their comprehensive 3-0 victory in Group A's opener against Japan, and star player Neymar expected to shake off a minor knock picked up in the game, the 64-year-old's main concern is deciding if to change a winning ...
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FBI NYPD announce reward in 2008 bombing of recruiting station
The FBI and the New York Police Department Tuesday announced a reward of as much as $65,000 for information in a 2008 Times Square recruiting station bombing. The March 6, 2008, bombing of the Armed Forces Recruiting Station remains unsolved, the FBI said in a statement released Tuesday with a previously unpublicized video of the suspected attacker arriving, leaving the bomb and departing on a ...
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UPDATE 1-Western Union sees $500 mln online revenue by 2015 - CEO
Tue Jun 18, 2013 2:07pm EDT * Digital revenues currently just 3 percent of total * Africa one fifth of Western Union global business By Chijioke Ohuocha LAGOS, June 18 (Reuters) - Western Union Co expects revenue from its digital business to grow to $500 million by 2015, from $150 million currently, its chief executive said on Tuesday. Chief Executive Hikmet Ersek told reporters during a visit ...
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Edgy Filmmakers Star at Cine Mexico
A political thriller that would make Oliver Stone proud. Youth angst, cutting edge documentaries and the broken dreams about coming to America. It's all there and more in Tucson's Cine Mexico, a five-day movie festival with films from some of Mexico's most daring, young filmmakers. Now in its eighth year, Cine Mexico Tucson returns with some of the best of Mexico's ...
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Reports 236 Oil Gas Sites in New Mexico Failed Inspections
About 85 percent of 276 oil and gas well sites inspected in southeastern New Mexico over the past six weeks have failed to pass after-the-fact electrical safety inspections. Correction notices were issued to those sites that received a ';failed'; grade. None has been ordered to stop operations. The Albuquerque Journal reported that Gov. Susana Martinez’s office had called for ...
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EMERGING MARKETS-Brazil stocks erase early losses as Vale supports
* Vale shares rise on mining law announcement * U.S. Fed beginning policy meeting, bond-buying program eyed * Brazil Bovespa nearly flat, Mexico IPC up 0.61 pct By Asher Levine SAO PAULO, June 18 (Reuters) - Brazilian stocks erased early losses on Tuesday after the announcement of a new mining code led shares of iron-ore mining giant Vale higher, though investors remained cautious over a ...
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Political Risk Is Crime Rising In Mexico City
, "two masked men came and just started shooting." Although some residents worry that the recent increase of violent incidents that appear to be connected to organized crime, could undermine Mexico's City's success story, many analysts continue to view Mexico City's community-focused police program as an adequate buffer from a regression to the sort of crime wave they ...
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Mexican cat draws support for mayoral run
Fed up with politicians they call "rats," a group of friends in the eastern Mexican city of Xalapa have put forward their ideal candidate for mayor: a cat named ...
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EMERGING MARKETS-Mexico peso slips before Fed meeting auctions bolster real
* Mexican peso falls as investors exit some markets * Real gains as Brazil auctions off currency swaps SAO PAULO, June 18 (Reuters) - Mexico's peso weakened for a third straight day on Tuesday as some investors exited positions in local bond and other markets ahead of a key U.S. Federal Reserve policy meeting this week. Investors are awaiting signs of how long the Federal Reserve will decide ...
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Mexico Tourism picture is brightening for Mazatlan
But recent infrastructure changes, coupled with an overhaul of Mazatlan’s police force, have quieted fears. Now the Mexican Riviera city has just had its best spring season ever and is poised to have a record-breaking summer season, according to tourism bureau statistics. The ...
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UPDATE 1-U.S. natgas futures edge higher heat backs more gains
* Front month well above recent 3-month spot chart low * Nuclear power plant outages remain above normal * Tropical depression to move over Bay of Campeche * Coming up: EIA natgas storage data on Thursday By Eileen Houlihan NEW YORK, June 18 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas futures edged higher early on Tuesday, extending Monday's nearly 4 percent gain, as forecasts for hotter weather across ...
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Mexicos Maxcom negotiates prepackaged bankruptcy
MEXICO CITY, June 18 (Reuters) - Mexican telecommunications company Maxcom said on Tuesday that it was seeking to negotiate new capital and a restructuring through a so-called prepackaged bankruptcy process in U.S. ...
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Now the yen is joining in the battering of emerging markets
Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:12am EDT * Recent yen rise hits demand for emerging market assets * Volatility jumps as Fed seen withdrawing stimulus * Large outflows from Japanese investors yet to materialise By Sujata Rao LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Wild exchange rate swings in the yen are giving investors an added incentive to sell holdings of the emerging debt that not so long ago was billed as one of ...
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New Mexico woman unmasks robber to find grandson police say
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Police say a New Mexico woman who confronted a masked intruder in her home stumbled upon a shocking discovery when she ripped off his disguise -- the robber was her grandson. KRQE-TV reports that 22-year-old Thomas Clark is facing robbery charges after police say he stole his grandmother's purse during a bizarre robbery at an Albuquerque home. ...
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Tropical Depression Two moving over Northern Guatemala - NHC
(Reuters) - A Tropical Depression Two that formed over the northwestern Caribbean Sea was moving over Northern Guatemala, U.S. government forecasters said on ...
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Tropical depression heads toward southern Mexico
MIAMI, FL (AP) - Forecasters said a tropical depression is expected to bring at least three to five inches of rain to parts of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and southern Mexico. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the Atlantic season's second tropical depression formed Monday off Belize and was moving early Tuesday over parts of Belize and northern Guatemala. At 4 a.m. Tuesday, it ...
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Huge Mexican volcano eruption hurls burning ash into the sky
Thrills&Spills Mexico's active Popocatepetl volcano has registered a massive explosion spewing ash and incandescent rock almost 4 kilometers high. Authorities have warned that winds could blow the ash cloud as far away as Mexico ...
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Offshore oil industry experiments with remote control
Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:14am EDT * BP controlling wells at Valhall offshore field from land * Other oil companies considering following suit * Norway is testing ground for new method By Gwladys Fouche and Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO, June 18 (Reuters) - Oil and gas companies are moving their control of some offshore platforms to offices on land to cut costs and improve efficiency, but labour unions say ...
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Mexican producers promote tequilas gastronomic virtues
Mexican producers will try to undo tequila's reputation as simply a reveler's party shot by promoting the spirit's traditional and artisanal roots at the largest wine trade fair in the world this week. It's an ambitious campaign launched in partnership with the Mexican government that requires a PR overhaul for a spirit used more to induce a quick buzz than for awakening the ...
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Mexican War Streets proposal sparks heated Pittsburgh debate
Mattress Factory co-director Barbara Luderowski, right, speaks into a megaphone held by One Pittsburgh organizer Calvin Skinner as North Side community members march in opposition of proposed new Mexican War Street boundaries on ...
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Venus Remedies rallies 10 on Mexico patent
Sivathanu Pillai hailed as the 'father of BrahMos' mentions 'missile tech' as one of the 10 key and "unique leap-frog technologies" for building a securer and greater future of ...
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Rumbling big ash emission from Popo
The Popocatepetl Volcano emitted a strong plume of ash high into the clear sky this afternoon. This is a speeded up 30-second video of the plume as it occurred around 1:30 p.m. Webcams caught the action. Read a lot more about ...
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San Diego home to important wildlife refuge and treatment group
San Diego is home to an important wildlife group helping to balance the disorder created through the city’s rapid growth over the last few years in a part of the country that previously belonged to the wild, but it needs the constant help of the public.
San Diego is a major city, the eighth biggest in the US and second largest in California and the County Seat of San Diego County. Its economy is supported by several major industries such as defense, manufacturing, real estate and tourism and yet the 1.3 million people who live here share their city with a number of species of wildlife that have been displaced, endangered and disrupted in various ways by the ongoing growth and development in the city. Read more
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