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    • Democrats kick off their 2012 convention on Tuesday with First Lady Michelle Obama to fire the first shots of a three-day salvo aimed at breaking the electoral deadlock with Republicans.
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      Al Jazeera brings you up-to-the-minute reporting from the 2012 US presidential elections.
      Share · Tuesday at 4:27pm via Measured Voice
    • Syrian army mortar and artillery shelling of an area of southern Damascus where Palestinian refugees live has killed at least 20 people, residents and local emergency workers have said. Yarmouk camp and the districts surrounding it have seen the most prolonged fighting in the capital since forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad launched a counter-offensive to push rebels out of the capital two months ago.
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      Shelling reportedly kills at least 20 people in Yarmouk district of capital, home to tens of thousands of Palestinians.
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    • President of the ECB has announced new plans to allow unlimited bond-buying in a bid to lower debt for struggling eurozone countries. Mario Draghi's new programme revealed on Tuesday followed his pledge in July to make every effort to preserve the euro. Draghi said the move, aimed at the secondary market, would address bond market distortions and "unfounded" fears of investors concerning the survival of the currency.
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      President of European Central Bank says move addresses "unfounded" fears of investors concerning survival of the euro.
      Share · 56 minutes ago via Measured Voice
    • Farouk Montana, Francesca Sicuteri and 20 others like this.
      • Ryan Bachrach How many "struggling eurozone countries" are there now? I lost count.
      • Kourosh X Fard If you wake up Ryan surly you will find out ;)
      • Sinéad Ní Labhraí Clutching straws now hey... Either way it will only benefit the super rich at the top of the pyramid an the working class struggle to keep the rich in the money..!! They take risks buying bonds yet in reality its win win for them..
    • As Kazakhs continue to come to terms with the drying up of the Aral Sea, Al Jazeera travelled to Kazakhstan and found a faint glimmer of hope on the horizon.
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      The drying up of the Aral Sea was an environmental and human tragedy, but can Kazakhstan undo this man-made disaster?
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    • Vitali Klitschko has never been knocked down in a professional fight, but one man is hoping to rewrite history. Al Jazeera’s Paul Rhys met Manuel Charr, a Syrian boxer and former kickboxing world champion who will take on Klitschko for the WBC heavyweight championship belt on Saturday night.
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      Manuel Charr is trying to become the first Arab heavyweight world champion - only Vitali Klitschko stands in his way.
      Share · 2 hours ago via Measured Voice
    • Abdullahi M Usman, Egg Jose and 51 others like this.
      • Omar Nizar Al-kurdi may he be an example to all arabs and show the world what we're made of
    • Barack Obama, the US president, is set to make his argument for re-election in a high-profile closing act at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), spelling out his plans to revitalise the stumbling economy. Obama will step into a cacophonous sports arena in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday, facing a task daunting even for a man who made his name with the power of rhetoric.
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      US president prepares to accept Democratic nomination for re-election as he outlines plans to kickstart ailing economy.
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    • The US is home to an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. What should the government do to deal with illegal immigration? Who should be eligible for pathways to citizenship? We'll examine the immigration reform debate in this year's US elections. Join the conversation at 19:30GMT.
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      The Stream is a social media community with its own daily television programme on Al Jazeera English. As the tremendous growth of social networks moulds and transforms the news agenda, The Stream aims to share these possibilities and connect its global…
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    • Feature: At the same moment Latino mayor Julian Castro made history on Tuesday by giving the keynote address for President Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention, a group of activists was sitting in a nearby jail for a street protest against the president's treatment of undocumented immigrants. Read more about immigration debates in the US: http://aje.me/SkVWt3
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      False hope and no immigration reform leave king-making Latino community dissatisfied, but stuck with the president.
      Share · 4 hours ago via Measured Voice
      • Joshua Allen Moore As an American I believe that illegal immigrants should be granted legal us citizenship.someone's country has to overpopulate against the Chinese anyway.lol.and it's kinda dumb to go to a town or city hall holding a sign that says "undocumented" when they know they will be deported, thats like going into the middle of a war zone holding a sign saying "shoot me"
      • Malik Abdulfatai ‎@ Merun Neog, is Obama a womanizer? Lets allow him do what he knows how to do well.
    • At least 60 people have died when a fishing boat carrying migrants sank off the western Turkish coast, officials have told the Anatolia news agency. Dozens of survivors, mostly from Iraq and Syria, were able to swim through Aegean waters to the shore, just 50m away, after the accident on Thursday. The boat was carrying about 100 people, mostly women and children, who had been promised refuge in Europe by smugglers.
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      At least 60 people are reported to have died after a boat carrying mainly Arab immigrants sank off the Turkish coast.
      Share · 4 hours ago via Measured Voice
    • With the price of precious metals surging on the world market, Ghana is experiencing a new gold rush as more people try and get access to its most famous export.
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      As Ghana is experiencing a new gold rush, widespread corruption is allowing illegal mining to flourish.
      Share · 5 hours ago via Measured Voice
    • Jony Jahir, Denis Akin and 36 others like this.
      • Bunga Rampai market theory (economics) generates, encourages greed and destructive competition
    • Interactive: Karachi, a sprawling metropolis in Pakistan’s south, is one of the world’s largest cities. It is also one of its most dangerous megacities, according to data compiled by Al Jazeera. Visit our interactive to view the areas of Pakistan's commercial experiencing the worst levels of crime and political violence: http://aje.me/Tlpd6b
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      Wracked by endemic political violence and crime, Karachi is the world's most dangerous megacity.
      Share · 6 hours ago via Measured Voice
    • Leaders of the northern Catalunya region of Spain are using the nation's financial troubles to bolster support for its continued calls for economic independence from Madrid.

      The push comes ahead of talks between Angela Merkel, the Gernan chancellor, and Mariano Rajoy, her Spanish counterpart, on how to deal with Spain's economic troubles.

      Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports from Barcelona. http://aje.me/TYHRwN
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      Catalunya is capitalising on Madrid's economic problems to push for financial independence.
      Share · 7 hours ago via Measured Voice
    • Some say Mexico is losing the war on drugs. But its economy is booming. Will it be a Latin American powerhouse or a narco-state that destabilises the region?
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      As Mexico's drug war rages, we ask if the new government can end the violence and steer a democratic path to prosperity.
      Share · 9 hours ago via Measured Voice
    • At a combined age of 818, the Melis siblings of Sardinia, were recently named the world's oldest siblings.

      The nine brothers and sisters, the eldest of whom is 105, say their diet is what got them into the record books.

      Al Jazeera's Claudio Lavanga reports from Sardinia, where 23 out of every 100 people have hit the century mark. http://aje.me/NUpwhF
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      Nine siblings named world's oldest with combined age of 818.
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    • A team of hundreds of scientists has made a discovery about human DNA that has completely changed the way we think about genes.

      The ENCODA project has discovered that by far the majority of genes are active. It is being called the biggest breakthrough since the human genome was mapped in the 1990s.

      Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston reports. http://aje.me/NUo275
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      New project makes biggest breakthrough in science's understanding of DNA since the genome was mapped in 2003.
      Share · 10 hours ago via Measured Voice
    • Mahassen Farah, Alex Smith and 157 others like this.
      • Mustaf Ja I'm not a scientist or anything but how could they thought that most of our DNA was junk???
      • Alexander James Codilla Anton so if youre not a scientist then dont bother to think about it...science is for those who understands it....and not to those people who value religion more than science....
    • Interactive: Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, is a sprawling metropolis of more than 14 million people that suffers from endemic levels of violence.

      Al Jazeera explores data on homicides in the city, breaking it down by political party and police district, to try and understand the story behind the violence in the world's most dangerous megacity. http://aje.me/Tlpd6b
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      Wracked by endemic political violence and crime, Karachi is the world's most dangerous megacity.
      Share · 11 hours ago via Measured Voice
    • Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm is outspoken, irreverent and controversial - a living legend in the Arab world famous for not holding his tongue. In this rare, intimate portrait he seeks his place in the revolution, and the inspiration to write again.
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      He has been dubbed the voice of Egypt's revolution, but can the 83-year-old find his place in a revolution of the young?
      Share · 13 hours ago via Measured Voice
      • Jernej Cesar Wait...let me guess...he is a secularist with Sufi inclinations? That is why AJE is advertising him...
      • Alae Dinne R'ma ‫دلوقتى تقدر تلعب
        pes 2013
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      • Kenmore Scottish
        ‎:|goodbye america:when you came to me and asked me to do your physics homework for you so you could get into law school did i look you in the eye and say that "that isn't a physics problem go somewhere else" and refuse to do my job or what...
        :

        :|homeless former prelaw students inc: لا قيمة لها فائدة المحامين الأميركيين يرفضون القيام بعملهم الخاصة ليوم واحد من بين كل 10 سنة: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3i9klvJkSc&feature=relmfu
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      • James Adams No one sane flies Qantas anymore. Their prices are through the roof, their service quality through the ground, and all the Aussie jobs are in Asia. Pathetic.
    • Personal stories of a fateful day in Iraq. Victims' families and an ex-US soldier unpick the Wikileaks film of US forces killing civilians in 2007.
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      Victims' families and an ex-US soldier unpick the Wikileaks film that showed US forces killing Iraqi civilians in 2007.
      Share · 17 hours ago via Measured Voice
    • Tony Nicklinson suffered complete paralysis for seven years after a stroke, went on a hunger strike and died after losing a legal bid to end his life. Should assisted suicide be legal?
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      Is the right to die part of human freedom and the right of choice?
      Share · 19 hours ago via Measured Voice
    • As the Obama administration drops any attempts to prosecute those responsible for the torture of prisoners during the Bush administration, we ask how this will affect the US' standing in the world and if we can be sure such abuses have stopped.
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      Any attempts to prosecute those responsible for the torture of prisoners under George Bush have been dropped.
      Share · 21 hours ago via Measured Voice
    • At least 40 people have been killed and 60 others injured, some with serious burns, in a massive blaze that raged on for hours at a fireworks factory in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, police have said. Most of the dead were workers in the Om Siva Shakti factory in the town of Sivakasi, the centre of India's firecracker industry, about 540km southwest of the state capital Chennai.
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      At least 40 killed and 60 others injured in massive fire that raged for hours in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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    • Bill Clinton, the former US president, is set to address the second night of the Democratic Party National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 66-year-old, who, unlike Barack Obama, governed during a period of prolonged economic growth, low unemployment and budget surpluses, will be making the economic case for the re-election of the president.
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      Former US president to make economic case for re-election of Barack Obama in speech to party faithful in North Carolina.
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    • The US' housing bubble burst nearly six years ago, but the worst may be yet to come. After a landmark settlement, the major banks have lifted a freeze on foreclosures and government relief has been too small to make a difference.
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      Owning a home has long been integral to the American dream, but since the foreclosure crisis that dream has turned sour.
      Share · 23 hours ago via Measured Voice
    • Shahzad Malik, Abdullahi M Usman and 63 others like this.
      • Leonardo Castillo oh well...worse things are yet to come... learn from this experience and get ready... :)
      • Manu Yektafard
        The game they ran on everyone was to increase the price of houses to make more money from commission of larger loans and much much more interest you collect from larger loans. In order to increase the price, you increase the demand. You inc...
        rease the demand by approving virtually every unqualified person who has a pulse to take a loan to buy or to build or to buy to fix up and resell or to rent. The government needs to take the money as a collective punitive fine on the whole industry. Many are still paying on overinflated properties as the result of this artificial bubble.
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    • China says the former police chief who sparked off the country's biggest political scandal in recent years has been charged with defection, power abuse and bribe taking. The official Xinhua News Agency announced the charges against Wang Lijun, who was also a former vice mayor in the southwestern city of Chongqing, on Wednesday.
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      Ex-police chief who fled to US consulate in Chengdu, sparking events leading to downfall of his boss, set to face trial.
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    • Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad, Syrian president, have been blamed for using warplanes, tanks and mortars to indiscriminately bombard opposition-controlled areas across the country. Al Jazeera reports on how one family, a married couple and their four children, died after their home in Aleppo was shelled as they slept. The couple's newborn child was the only survivor of the attack.
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      Aleppo couple and four children latest casualties of regime's indiscriminate shelling of residential areas.
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    • Hundreds of thousands of Nigerians living in informal settlements face having their homes demolished. Authorities say the households were built illegally on government land, but the people who live there argue they are the legal owners. Now they are taking their claim to court.
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      Hundreds of thousands of people living in informal settlements face having their homes demolished.
      Share · Yesterday at 12:46pm via Measured Voice
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      • Victor James Make $5000 in 30 days, 4 me I ave made $800 in five days to make go to this link http://referraltask.com/ref.php?page=act%2Fref&invcod=90316
      • Seadorf Saheed Can nigeria govt be wise and learn how to rule,can't govt take note while dis pple start to settle on this land?but Nig govt are so bad to hurt this people n make dem homeless,a good govt will warn her citizen aganist this kind of mass shortage. If dis pple could sue govt dere are like get some human right back. Tell ur citizens not to commit crime rather than puniching them
    • More than 10 years ago, the 9/11 attacks left a gaping hole in New York - and across the US. This open would continues to divide communities to this day. In this two-part documentary, American Muslims share their experiences of rising Islamophobia.
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      We follow the stories of some American Muslims caught up in the crackdown that followed the 9/11 attacks.
      Share · Yesterday at 12:01pm via Measured Voice
    • Opinion: In 2004, "Azerbaijani Army Lieutenant Ramil Safarov took an axe and bludgeoned to death Gurgen Margaryan, an officer in the Armenian army. ... In 2006, he was sentenced to life in prison. On August 31, 2012, Ramil Safarov was extradited to Azerbaijan, where he was greeted as a hero." Read Sarah Kendzior's article here and let us know what you think: http://aje.me/OWwyoH
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      Azerbaijan has brazenly promoted a murderer as a national hero, despite Western condemnation, writes Kendzior.
      Share · Yesterday at 11:02am via Measured Voice
    • Strong 7.6-magnitude earthquake has struck near Pacific coast of Costa Rica, briefly cutting power and communications and initially triggering tsunami warnings. The tsunami warning issued after the quake struck on Wednesday has now been cancelled, the PTWC said. The warning for Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua had been prompted by the quake that has so far caused no casualties or sizable damage, authorities said.
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      Powerful 7.6-magnitude quake struck near Pacific coast, initially triggering tsunami warnings across region.
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    • In the US the conservative Tea Party and progressive Occupy movements are seen as polar opposites on many issues. But are there policy areas where they agree? And could these areas create a basis for radical political change? We talk with organisers in both communities about the possibilities. Join the conversation at 19:30GMT.
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      The Stream is a social media community with its own daily television programme on Al Jazeera English. As the tremendous growth of social networks moulds and transforms the news agenda, The Stream aims to share these possibilities and connect its global…
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    • Jimmy Carter became more respected, revered and perhaps even loved after he left the White House. He took control at a difficult time. The US was just emerging from its Watergate nightmare, inflation was high, trust in central institutions was leaking away and a Middle East oil embargo hit the economy and hit it hard... (Read on...)
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      Mitt Romney likes to compare President Obama with President Carter, channelling memories of President Reagan.
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    • A strong 7.6-magnitude earthquake has struck near the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, briefly knocking out power and communications and triggering tsunami warnings, authorities said. A tsunami warning was issued for Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua, the US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said on Wednesday, scaling back an earlier warning that extended from Mexico to Peru.
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      Tsunami alert issued after 7.6-magnitude quake struck near Pacific coast, briefly knocking out power and communications.
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    • Opinion: "There is indeed much hope that one can safely place in the future of Egypt for a free and democratic Arab and Muslim world and beyond - but only if the petty sectarian quarrels execrated by a nasty history of colonialism are not allowed to facilitate the disfiguring power of Saudi potentates to decide the democratic aspirations of so many valiant nations," opines Hamid Dabashi here: http://aje.me/Ncgb9a
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      With all its uncertainties, Egypt has emerged as a moral voice from the heart of its revolution, writes Dabashi.
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    • A strong 7.9-magnitude earthquake has rocked Costa Rica, triggering tsunami warning from Mexico to Peru, the US Geological Survey has said. The quake hit close to Samara, a coastal area on Pacific about 150km from capital San Jose, on Wednesday. Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru were under a tsunami warning, and a tsunami watch was in effect for Chile.
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      Tsunami alert issued from Mexico to Peru after 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck off coast 150km from capital San Jose.
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    • Colombia is known for many things - its vibrant lifestyle, its diverse and beautiful landscape, its rich culture and history, and of course its fabulous coffee. It also has the unfortunate place at the top of the world league of cocaine producers and prolonged armed violence.
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      Could the impending death of the controversial 'godfather' of Colombia's emerald industry trigger a violent gang war?
      Share · Yesterday at 8:01am via Measured Voice
    • Shewaz Rose, Ilham Muslimah and 26 others like this.
      • Tom Zachariapov Sure, the death of a godfatherc ould trigger a gang war.... Definitely...
      • Arturo Rojas García did you know colombia is another "american territory"??? sabias que colombia ya forma parte de los territorios anexados a estados unidos???... if you didnt, now you do. and if you cant realize about it, you are as blind as most common people in that third world country.
    • Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's president, has told an Arab League conference that "change" of government is needed in violence-wracked Syria and that time should not be wasted "speaking of reform".

      "This time has passed now. Now it is time for change," Morsi, who was making his first presidential address to the league, said on Wednesday in the capital Cairo.
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      Mohammed Morsi addresses Arab League summit and announces quartet of regional states will discuss the Syrian crisis.
      Share · Yesterday at 6:31am via Measured Voice
    • A crackdown on journalists and artists in Egypt and Tunisia has raised concerns over the freedom of expression in so-called Arab Spring countries. Is this freedom now in danger?
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      As state censorship threatens freedom of expression, we ask if new leaders have adopted the old practices of oppression.
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    • Domestic violence is a growing problem in the occupied Palestinian territories.

      Nearly 40 per cent of married women have experienced some form of abuse in the past year in the West Bank and Gaza, according to new figures.
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      More than one-third of women in West Bank and Gaza have reportedly suffered from physical or verbal attacks at home.
      Share · Yesterday at 5:31am via Measured Voice
    • Feature: Members of a self-financing art collective in Berlin were recently evicted. "One by one, the 40 Tacheles artists inside filed out, some carrying the final canvases they produced in the house. ... There was no fight or bitter sloganeering - only a sombre recognition that the Kunsthaus is no more." Read more here: http://aje.me/RDVjZ3
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      Artists and sculptors lament loss of creative space as centre is forced to close by new owners of building.
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    • Fashion has long been an important trademark of Italy, but the country's economic recession has forced many independent clothing outlets to shut down as consumers are spending less on branded clothing items.

      Since the beginning of 2012, around 1,500 fashion stores have been forced to close down and thousands more are expected to follow.
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      Independent fashion boutiques, once the pride of Italy are now closing down due to economic hard times.
      Share · Yesterday at 4:31am via Measured Voice
    • More than 1,000 striking South African miners have demonstrated at Lonmin's Marikana mine, where police shot dead 34 of their colleagues last month.

      Dozens of police arrived at the scene on Wednesday while a helicopter hovered above the protesting rock-drill operators, whose strike to demand a hefty pay hike is now in its fourth week, crippling Lonmin.
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      At least 1,000 protest at mine where police shot and killed 34 miners, demanding a pay rise in renewed demonstration.
      Share · Yesterday at 3:31am via Measured Voice
    • A second round of strikes has left thousands of commuters stranded as Lufthansa Airlines has been forced to cancel over 200 flights in and out Germany.

      Tuesday's cancellations at the German flag carrier's Frankfurt hub came as a union chief threatened to hit every airport in Germany with a 24-hour strike on Friday.
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      Over 200 flights are cancelled as dispute over pay and working conditions remains in deadlock with German air carrier.
      Share · Yesterday at 1:31am via Measured Voice
      • Dujana Adam That's a very unusual behavior by Germans.......sounding more like a British influence
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