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Archives for March 2014

Obama Meets With Saudi King, Weighs New Syria Weapon Aid To Rebels

Allowing compact missile launchers to be delivered to Syria would mark a shift in strategy for the U.S. in looking for ways to boost the rebels, but the administration insists Obama remain opposed.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — President Barack Obama is considering allowing shipments of new air defense systems to the Syrian opposition, a U.S. official said Friday, as Obama sought to reassure Saudi Arabia's king that the U.S. is not taking too soft a stance in Syria and other Mideast conflicts. A key U.S. ally, Saudi Arabia would be likely to

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In New Row, Israel At Odds With US Over Travel Visas

Israel is presses to join the U.S. Visa Waiver Program, but their efforts have been rebuffed and the country has seen a spike in number of young people and military officers rejected entry to America.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — With the United States irked at Israel over its settlement policies and the lack of progress in peace talks, an obscure diplomatic classification has emerged as a new sticking point between the two close allies. To ease the travel of its citizens, Israel is pressing to join 38 other countries in the U.S. Visa Waiver

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Community Suffers From Bus Strike ln Vermont

The bus agency’s management and its unionized drivers are haggling over wages, disciplinary action from anonymous tips, part-time drivers and split shifts, but the strike is testing the community’s ability to care for its neediest and youngest.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — In this lakefront city once nicknamed the People's Republic of Burlington for its liberal politics and social services, a long bus strike is testing the community's ability to care for its neediest and youngest. New immigrants have waited for transportation that never came, food pantries are overwhelmed by demands for

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Detroit Group: $1.5 million needed To Save Historic WWII Site

The Willow Run Bomber Plant is where worker “Rosie the Riveter” became an icon of American female empowerment and workers of different races and sexes worked side-by-side during WWII.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) — A group trying to save the Detroit-area factory where Rosie the Riveter became an icon of American female empowerment during World War II said Friday that it must raise $1.5 million in little more than a month to save the site from being demolished. Those behind the Save the Bomber Plant campaign said they have raised $6.5 million

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Drug Companies To Phase Out Animal Antibiotics

Citing a potential threat to public health, the FDA asked drug companies to voluntarily stop labeling drugs important for treating human infection as acceptable for animal growth promotion.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-five pharmaceutical companies are voluntarily phasing out the use of antibiotics for growth promotion in animals processed for meat, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. Citing a potential threat to public health, the agency in December asked 26 companies to voluntarily stop labeling drugs important for

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Afghan Women Lawmakers Fight For Rights

Today’s Afghan woman has choices she didn’t have during the Taliban rule that lasted from the mid-1990s to 2001 — like running for parliament.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, women rarely left their home. When they did venture beyond their four walls, they wafted through crowded markets covered from head to toe in the all-encompassing burqa. While most women in conservative Afghanistan may still wear the burqa, today's Afghan woman has choices she didn't

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