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Reuters – A fire at a Toronto transformer station knocked out power to much of the city on Monday, snarling traffic in the midst of a blistering heatwave, but appearing to have little impact on financial markets.
Read More: Toronto hit by blackout after transformer fire
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AFP – India’s largest phone operator Bharti Airtel said Tuesday it will invest 600 million dollars in Nigeria’s mobile market following a huge recent acquisition deal spanning 15 African nations.
Read More: India's Bharti Airtel plans heavy investment in Nigeria
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OneWorld.net – NAIROBI, Jul 5 (IRIN) – “Crowd-sourcing” is a new buzzword in the world of
humanitarian information. The combined power of mobile phones, mapping
technology and social networking can enable citizens in crisis to seek
help, facilitate aid deliveries, bear witness to abuses and hold
governments and aid agencies more accountable, advocates say.
Read More: Finding Space for Crowd-Sourcing in Humanitarian Response
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Time.com – Bronislaw Komorowski’s victory in Poland’s presidential election opens the way for stronger ties with the E.U.
Read More: Poland: Komorowski's Election Win May Help Boost E.U. Ties
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AFP – Amnesty International called Tuesday for the release of an activist charged with endangering Zimbabwe’s economic interests by highlighting abuses at diamond mines.
Read More: Amnesty demands release of Zimbabwe diamond activist
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AP – Hundreds of protesters, led by a government minister, laid siege to the U.N. compound in Colombo on Tuesday, refusing to let workers out in an effort to force the world body to cancel its investigation of alleged abuses committed during Sri Lanka’s civil war.
Read More: Sri Lanka protesters lay siege to UN compound
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AP – An American soldier suspected of leaking a military video of an attack on unarmed men in Iraq was charged with multiple counts of mishandling and leaking classified data and putting national security at risk, the U.S. Army said in a statement Tuesday.
Read More: US soldier linked to Iraq attack video charged
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AP – Thousands of Italian farmers and farm activists massed at Italy’s border with Austria on Tuesday to protest the importation of what they called sub-quality foods pretending to be from Italy.
Read More: Italy farmers protest import of "blue" mozzarella
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AP – She said he wasn’t intimate. He said she wasn’t faithful. She called him a fame whore. He called her jealous. For weeks, the nasty break-up of “The Bachelor” couple Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi has been fought in the tabloids. In their latest round of sparring, the pair were back in front of the reality TV cameras where it all began.
Read More: 'Bachelor' flap shows ugly side of public breakups
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AP – Rowdy crowds waiting in line for a July Fourth pool party featuring Sean “Diddy” Combs forced the event to be shut down before the rap and fashion mogul had a chance to enter.
Read More: Unruly crowd undoes NJ party featuring Diddy
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AP – Jimmy Buffett says Gulf Coast residents have every right to be mad about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but he’s hoping a free beach concert will help lift spirits.
Read More: Buffett hopes to boost Gulf spirits with concert
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AP – Singer Cesare Siepi, who performed hundreds of times at the Metropolitan Opera and was well known for the role of Don Giovanni, has died at the age of 87.
Read More: Former Met Opera singer Cesare Siepi dies at 87
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Reuters – U.S. DVD rental service Netflix Inc said it has signed a deal with media company Relativity Media LLC to stream major theatrical movies to Netflix customers before they are shown on premium pay-television channels.
Read More: Netflix inks movie deal with Relativity Media
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AP – Lindsay Lohan arrived about 10 minutes early at a Beverly Hills courthouse on Tuesday for a probation revocation hearing that could end with the actress either headed for jail or her next movie role.
Read More: Lindsay Lohan probation revocation hearing begins
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Reuters – French architect Jean Nouvel has brought a vivid splash of red to London’s Serpentine Gallery with an asymmetric structure featuring red table tennis tables among activities on offer to visitors.
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AP – “The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years” (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26), by Sonia Shah: At age 7, author Sonia Shah visits her grandmother in southern India. She must take anti-malaria pills, and she lies in a stuffy cage of netting — mosquitoes perched menacingly above — while her local cousins sleep nearby, unencumbered in the warm breeze.
Read More: `Fever' urges governments to fight malaria locally
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AP – British media reports say George Michael has been arrested after a car crash in London.
Read More: George Michael arrested in London after car crash
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Fashion Wire Daily – One thing that folks here in Paris always insist gives haute couture a certain validity is that its ideas and inventions eventually translate into real fashion trends, which millions of women end up wearing without ever realizing from where the initial thought came.
Read More: Christian Dior's Tulip Couture
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HealthDay – TUESDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) — High concentrations of a
blood plasma protein called clusterin may influence the development,
severity and progression of Alzheimer’s disease, English researchers
report.
Read More: New Alzheimer's Clues Identified
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Reuters – Even if you’re past your prime and have a hard time getting an erection, you might still need to worry about unprotected sex, according to U.S. doctors.
Read More: Viagra-popping seniors lead the pack for STDs
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