Reuters – Partial remains from some people killed in the September 11 attacks in 2001 ended up in a landfill, according to a Pentagon-commissioned report released on Tuesday that revealed previously undisclosed blunders at the U.S. military’s main mortuary.
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Some September 11 dead’s remains ended in landfill
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Reuters – Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said on Monday, potentially engulfing social media in the patent battles and lawsuits raging across much of the tech sector.
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Yahoo threatens Facebook as patent war looms
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Reuters – At least 31 Syrian civilians and soldiers were killed on Sunday in bloodshed that coincided with a vote on a new constitution that could keep President Bashar al-Assad in power until 2028.
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Syria referendum goes ahead amid military onslaught
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AP – Back in this town’s darkest days, Jeff Shrock, a third-generation autoworker, would cruise down the streets where he grew up, past the foreclosed homes and four giant Chrysler factories, knowing their future — and his job — were in jeopardy. He sometimes imagined the worst.
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Auto town on the mend, but bailout still divides
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AP – Meryl Streep might join the acting three-peat club with a third Academy Award. Jean Dujardin could become the first Frenchman to win best actor. Christopher Plummer is in line to become the oldest acting winner ever at 82.
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‘The Artist’ aims to bring silence back to Oscars
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The Christian Science Monitor – Woody Allen, up for best screenplay Oscar Sunday night for âMidnight in
Read More...The Christian Science Monitor – In announcing, though not naming, a successor at Berkshire Hathaway, US billionaire Warren Buffett moved Saturday to shore up concerns about the future of his investment firm amid rare criticisms of a man seen by many as a model baron of industry.
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Warren Buffett ends rocky week by announcing heir apparent
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Reuters – Western and Arab nations will demand on Friday that Syria allow aid to be delivered to desperate civilians in the absence of any international resolve to intervene to end a crackdown on a near year-old revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.
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"Friends of Syria" to demand immediate access for aid
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AP – Government troops shelled rebel-held areas in central Syria on Friday, killing at least four people, activists said, as the United States, Europe and Arab nations met in Tunisia to seek ways to ease the crisis.
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4 killed in renewed shelling of Syrian city
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Reuters – Hundreds of demonstrators marched towards the palace of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Friday, as a fourth day of protests erupted over the burning of Korans at a NATO base, with riot police and soldiers on high alert.
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Afghan protesters march towards presidential palace
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