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      <title>Dow Jones industrial average posts 22nd high of the year</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, May 21 (UPI) -- Investors took to heart speeches by two regional U.S. Federal Reserve presidents and sent the Dow Jones industrial average to its 22nd high of the year Tuesday.   Regional Fed Presidents James Bullard and William Dudley reassured investors the central bank isn't ready to abandon its bond purchasing program, which they described as very effective. On Wednesday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is to testify before Congress and the minutes of the most-recent monetary policy committee me<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6439427/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Unspent billions of Chilean defense fund remain a mystery</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[SANTIAGO, Chile, May 21 (UPI) -- More than $4 billion of cash reserved for Chilean military procurement remains unspent because of mysterious workings of funding arrangements between the Latin American country's state mining sector, the government and the armed forces.   Chilean law entitles the military to 10 percent of the proceeds of copper exports. Repeated government efforts to get rid of the law, entrenched in the 1880s and amended many times, haven't managed to achieve a clean transition.   The m<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6439398/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 20:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Oman to buy $2.1B Raytheon missile system</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MUSCAT, Oman, May 21 (UPI) -- The Persian Gulf sultanate of Oman is set to buy a $2.1 billion missile system built by the U.S. Raytheon Co. as part of a U.S. drive to install a coordinated air-defense system linking the region's Arab monarchies to counter Iran.   Details of the contract, including the type of system involved, have not been disclosed, but Oman has been in the market for a medium-range surface-to-air missile system for some time.   Raytheon executives are expected to sign a letter of inte<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6439400/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lawsuit against Indian official tossed in U.S. court</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE, May 21 (UPI) -- An Indian official can not be sued in a U.S. court over allegations he persecuted and killed Sikhs in India because a judge says he was never served the papers.   Parkash Singh Badal, an Indian politician and chief minister of Punjab, was in Milwaukee last year for the wedding of a friend's daughter that happened to be in the days after a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., was stormed by a gunman who killed six people and wounded four others before taking his own life.    Given t<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6439145/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Northrop tapped for laser development</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[REDONDO BEACH, Calif., May 21 (UPI) -- Northrop Grumman has been picked by the U.S. Navy in the first development phase of a prototype laser weapon system.   The value of the contract under the Solid State Laser Technology Maturation program of the Office of Naval Research was not disclosed, nor was the length of the contract.   The Solid State Laser Technology Maturation Program's aim is to develop mature solid-state, high-power laser weapon systems and components for ship defense and open the door for<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6439132/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tunisia teeters as it grapples with jihadists</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[TUNIS, Tunisia, May 21 (UPI) -- Tunisia, cradle of the Arab Reawakening in January 2011, has finally got tough with its hard-line Islamists as, like other North African states that overthrew longtime dictators, it finds itself struggling with the fallout of its groundbreaking pro-democracy uprising.   After weekend clashes with the moderate Islamist government led by the once-outlawed Ennahda Party, the militants seem set to plunge the former French colony into the upheaval that's gripping its neighbors<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6439006/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rajat Gupta's lawyers contest conviction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, May 21 (UPI) -- Lawyers for former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta are arguing in New York his insider trading conviction should be overturned.   Gupta's lawyers contend wiretaps used at his trial should not have been admitted as evidence, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.   Gupta was sentenced to two years in prison last June for passing along confidential corporate information to a business associate, billionaire Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of the hedge fund Galleon Gro<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6438949/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Appeals court says no to release of bin Laden death photos</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court Tuesday ruled the government properly classified more than 50 post-mortem photos of Osama bin Laden and they can remain secret.   The organization Judicial Watch had filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking 52 images of bin Laden taken after his death by U.S. Navy SEALS and other military and Central Intelligence Agency officials, which the Obama administration had classified Top Secret to keep the photos from being used by militants.   &quot;We a<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6439005/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Myanmar extends state of emergency</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[NAYPYITAW, Myanmar, May 21 (UPI) -- Lawmakers in Myanmar voted Tuesday to extend a state of emergency over parts of the country gripped by fighting between Muslims and Buddhists.   Lawmakers had a special session Tuesday to discuss anti-Muslim violence in Meiktila. A state of emergency was declared there in March after about 20 people were killed during the fighting.   Myanmar authorities voted Tuesday to extend the state of emergency for another 60 days.   &quot;We welcome the extension of the state of emer<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6439004/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Man accused of defrauding Walmart of more than $600,000</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 21 (UPI) -- It took scores of investigators to track down a South Carolina man accused of masterminding the theft of more than $600,000 from Walmart stores, officials said.   Robert Michael Milton, 49, has been arrested on federal charges of wire fraud, trafficking in counterfeit goods and conspiracy to traffic, The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer reported.   Homeland Security investigator Brian Boze said in an affidavit that the cases against Milton stretch back to 2010.   Milton's schem<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6438696/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cadmium-tainted rice closes three mills in central China</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[BEIJING, May 21 (UPI) -- Three mills in central China have been closed and the rice they produced recalled after officials said Tuesday the grain was found to be tainted with cadmium.   The mills, located in Youxian County in Hunan province, have been told to suspend operations while samples of rice stored at the mills is tested by the provincial quality inspection agency, Xinhua reported.   A May 16 statement by the Guangzhou Food and Drug Administration said eight of 18 batches of rice and rice produc<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6438733/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>M23 clashes erupt in eastern DRC</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS, May 21 (UPI) -- Renewed fighting between DRC forces and the rebel March 23 Movement is cause for serious concern, a U.N. spokesman said.   U.N. spokesman Eduardo del Buey said the peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo had reports that fighting broke out between Congolese forces and M23 rebels near Goma, the capital of North Kivu province.   &quot;The mission reports that initial skirmishes escalated to the use of heavy-caliber weapons, mortars and rocket launchers,&quot; he said<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6438729/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Nigeria relaxes state of emergency</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ABUJA, Nigeria, May 21 (UPI) -- Nigerian authorities said they've relaxed a curfew in northern states as military forces gain ground against Islamic militant group Boko Haram.   Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency over three states near Nigeria's northern border. The government is fighting militants from Boko Haram, a militant group trying to establish an Islamist state in Nigeria.   The Economic Community of West African States this week described the state of emergency a<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6438734/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Focus on politics problems would help Ivory Coast recovery</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, Kenya, May 21 (UPI) -- Long-term recovery in Ivory Coast would be supported by focusing on the country's political problems, Human Rights Watch said.   Ivory Coast was pushed to the brink of civil war following competing claims of victory in 2010 presidential elections. Defeated candidate Laurent Gbagbo was captured with the help of French peacekeepers in 2011. He's awaiting trial for war crimes at The Hague.   Human Rights Watch called on Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara to mark the sta<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6438705/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Nigeria arrests 120 militants as they plan funeral for slain commander</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ABUJA, Niger, May 21 (UPI) -- About 120 extremist militants were arrested in northern Nigeria as they planned the funeral of a commander killed earlier in the week, military officials say.   The arrests came Monday in the Borno state capital of Maiduguri, where military authorities have relaxed a 24-hour curfew after they said the security situation in the state had improved, the Nigerian Tribune reported Tuesday.   Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, the director of defense information in Abuja, confirmed the<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6438704/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Myanmar commits to energy transparency</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. government said it was committed to helping Myanmar improve transparency in the management of its natural resources.   U.S. special envoy for international energy affairs Carlos Pascual met with Myanmar Energy Minister Than Htay, who was part of a visiting delegation from Naypyitaw.   Both officials signed a joint declaration committed to transparency in the management of natural resources, including oil and natural gas. Both sides pledged to implement the Extractive<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6438089/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Crude oil tops $96</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, May 21 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices topped $96 in New York Tuesday morning with prices buoyed by a prolonged rally in equities.   On the New York Mercantile Exchange, West Texas Intermediate crude oil added 43 cents to $96.13 per barrel.   Gasoline prices dropped 1.98 cents to $2.877 a gallon. Home heating oil added 1.47 cents to $2.9406 a gallon. Natural gas lost 0.9 cents to reach $4.119 per million British thermal units.   At the pump, the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6438098/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Nabucco gets European member support</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[BUCHAREST, Romania, May 21 (UPI) -- Governments in central and southern Europe issued a joint declaration from Romania expressing support for the planned Nabucco natural gas pipeline.   The Nabucco pipeline consortium said some of its host countries expressed their support in a declaration from Romania for potential supplies for the energy markets in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.   The planned Nabucco West natural gas pipeline would deliver Azerbaijan's natural gas from the Turkish b<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6438091/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Dozens of deaths reported in fighting in western, southern Afghanistan</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[KABUL, Afghanistan, May 21 (UPI) -- An explosion in Herat province Tuesday killed seven police officers while at least 23 militants died in clashes in Helmand province, Afghan officials said.   Provincial officials said a police vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Herat province, Khaama Press reported. At least two police officers were injured.   Abdul Rauf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial security commander, said no one immediately claimed responsibility for the incident.   In Helmand province in the<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6438379/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Guatemalan general's war crime conviction, sentence overturned</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[GUATEMALA CITY, May 21 (UPI) -- The Constitutional Court, the highest court in Guatemala, voided the genocide conviction and prison term of former dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt.   Observers said the decision Monday was a major defeat for human rights advocates who had called Rios Montt's conviction earlier this month evidence that the courts would no longer allow Guatemala's powerful to act with impunity, The New York Times reported.   The attorney general's office was expected to appeal the court's 3<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437794/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Obama schedule for Tuesday, May 21</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) -- President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden discuss the nation's immigration system with those directly affected by it Tuesday, the White House said.   The daily schedule indicated Obama will:   -- Receive, with Biden, the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office.   -- Meet with those who received deferred action and U.S. citizen family members of undocumented immigrants directly affected by the immigration system.   -- Meet with Biden and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437796/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 10:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Oil production starts offshore Australia</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[SYDNEY, May 21 (UPI) -- Australian energy company Santos said it expects to produce 15,000 barrels of oil per day from its Fletcher Finucane project offshore Western Australia.   Santos said it started oil production from the facility ahead of schedule and on budget. The $490 million development was sanctioned in January 2012.   &quot;Fletcher Finucane is projected to have an average gross production rate of 15,000 barrels per day for the first 12 months of production,&quot; the company said in a statement. &quot;The<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437713/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 10:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>More oil pipeline capacity planned for Texas</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[HOUSTON, May 21 (UPI) -- A 95-mile pipeline extension from western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle will carry as much as 75,000 barrels of oil per day, a pipeline company said.   Plains All American Pipeline announced it was building a 95-mile extension for an Oklahoma crude oil pipeline system to accommodate expansions in production from the region.   &quot;The new Western Oklahoma pipeline will provide up to 75,000 barrels per day of new takeaway capacity,&quot; the company said in a statement. &quot;The new Wester<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437711/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 10:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Oil production starts offshore Vietnam</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[CALGARY, Alberta, May 21 (UPI) -- Canadian company Talisman Energy said it expects to produce 15,000 barrels of oil per day from its newly launched development offshore Vietnam.   Talisman said it started oil production at the offshore Hai Su Trang and Hai Su Den development ahead of schedule. Once the facilities are commissioned, the company expects gross production to reach 15,000 bpd.   &quot;We are delighted to have achieved first oil ahead of schedule and under budget,&quot; Talisman Regional Vice President<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437712/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Libyan gas complex attacked by militants</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[TRIPOLI, Libya, May 21 (UPI) -- Militants stole as many as 20 military vehicles when they raided the Mellitah oil and natural gas complex in western Libya, a military leader said.   Sources in the Libyan military told the Libya Herald that several soldiers guarding the Mellitah facility were injured during an attack by unknown militants. Attackers took about 20 vehicles from a western military battalion, the sources said.   The Libyan news service reports that gas production at the Mellitah complex wasn<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437537/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Iran has funds to develop South Pars</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[TEHRAN, May 21 (UPI) -- Iran will invest $16 billion in development of the offshore South Pars gas complex over the next 10 months, a natural gas company director said.   Managing Director of the Pars Oil and Gas Company Mohammad Reza Zahiri said the company would use the financing to fund development plans aimed at raising gas production by as much as 1.7 billion cubic feet in the current Persian year, which ends in March.   Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the economy should diversify beyond<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437601/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM, May 21 (UPI) -- Israel, at the last minute, postponed the visit of a UNESCO delegation to Jerusalem's Old City, a foreign ministry official said.   &quot;The delegation as a delegation has been postponed,&quot; foreign ministry spokesman Paul Hirschson told The Jerusalem Post. &quot;The Palestinians violated all the agreements we had with UNESCO: that this was to be a purely professional, not a political visit.&quot;   Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs was to host the delegation from the U.N. Educational Scie<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437539/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
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      <title>Senate panel's turn to grill IRS officials on targeting</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. Senate panel holding a hearing Tuesday into Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups asked about any White House ties to the targeting.   Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the second-most senior panel member, demanded in a six-page letter to acting Commissioner Steven Miller the IRS provide documents about possible White House involvement in or knowledge of the targeting.   The letter contains 41 point<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437501/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Apple CEO: Offshore units not a 'tax gimmick'</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) -- Apple Inc.'s stateless subsidiaries beyond any taxing authority's reach are not a tax-avoidance trick, the U.S. company's top executive is to testify Tuesday.   &quot;Apple does not use tax gimmicks,&quot; Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook is expected to tell the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.   The Cupertino, Calif., technology giant released testimony ahead of his 9:30 a.m. appearance. It can be found at tinyurl.com/Apple-Testimony.   Also testifying will be Apple Ch<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437503/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 06:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Monstrous Oklahoma tornado kills at least 91</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MOORE, Okla., May 21 (UPI) -- Disaster workers toiled in hail, lightning and rain early Tuesday in Moore, Okla., hoping to find survivors of a giant tornado that killed at least 91 people.   Hundreds of crews, including National Guardsmen, Red Cross workers and city and county employees, worked feverishly under stadium lights through the night, cutting through fallen beams and clearing debris.   Three thunderstorms pummeled them with rain and hail, and created mud, hours after the monstrous, vast tornad<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437441/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
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      <title>GOP distrust of Obama, fears of voter fraud fuel polarization</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[CLINTON, N.Y., May 21 (UPI) -- A substantial portion of Republicans say President Obama is not a legitimate president and many still believe he was not born in Hawaii, a survey indicates.    The survey conducted by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., indicates Americans are as divided as ever.    &quot;A substantial portion of Republicans is inclined to accept the worst about President Obama, regardless of facts, and believe that he is not a legitimate president, mak<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437439/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
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      <title>France deports Moroccan accused of calling for 'acts of murder'</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[PARIS, May 21 (UPI) -- France is continuing a crackdown on suspected Islamic radicals with the expulsion of a 24-year-old Moroccan man who allegedly called for &quot;acts of murder.&quot;   French Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced Friday the man, living in La Rochelle, France, had been deported for &quot;repeated acts and calls for murder&quot; posted in French on a &quot;jihadist website.&quot;   Valls said the man posted regularly posted comments &quot;supporting and glorifying terrorist violence, abroad or in France,&quot; under a p<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437428/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 03:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Report: Japan, India set to resume nuclear cooperation talks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[TOKYO, May 20 (UPI) -- Japan is likely to restart talks with India on bilateral civilian nuclear cooperation as it seeks markets for nuclear plant exports, sources told Kyodo News.   The two sides may agree to resume their talks when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a summit meeting with Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh May 29 in Tokyo, the report said. The nuclear cooperation talks, which began in 2010, were interrupted after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan's Fukushima prefecture that cr<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437487/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 03:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Warning: Avoid open flames if using testosterone gels</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[YONKERS, N.Y., May 20 (UPI) -- Investigators at Consumer Reports say the directions for testosterone gel say the gel is flammable until dry and avoid smoking or an open flame until dry.    Consumer Reports said testosterone drugs such as Androgel 1.62 percent and Axiron, which increase a man's libido, are already associated with an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular events in men. TV commercials already warn children accidentally exposed to testosterone can experience earl<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437407/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 03:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Apple called international tax dodger</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[CUPERTINO, Calif., May 20 (UPI) -- A congressional report said U.S. technology giant Apple was using gaps in international tax laws to avoid paying tax on tens of billions of dollars.   The report says Apple had moved $74 billion beyond the reach of the IRS from 2009-12 using a variety of loopholes to do so, some of which are used to declare tens of billions of dollars were earned unattached to any country.    Apple seems to claim billions of dollars exist in limbo, The New York Times reported.   &quot;Apple<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437401/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 02:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Coffee drinking linked to reduced risk of a liver disease</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ROCHESTER, Minn., May 20 (UPI) -- Regular coffee drinking is associated with a reduced risk of primary sclerosing cholangitis, an autoimmune liver disease, U.S. researchers say.    Study author Dr. Craig Lammert, a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist, said PSC is an inflammatory disease of the bile ducts that results in inflammation and subsequent fibrosis that can lead to cirrhosis of the liver, liver failure and biliary cancer.   &quot;While rare, PSC has extremely detrimental effects,&quot; Lammert said in a statem<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437398/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Carney: Obama kept in dark about impending IRS audit report</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- President Obama's staff deliberately kept him in the dark about an impending report on the Internal Revenue Service scandal, his press secretary said Monday.   White House press secretary Jay Carney said during his daily briefing with reporters White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler had been notified a Treasury Department inspector general's audit report was on the way but decided it &quot;wouldn't be appropriate&quot; to tell the president.   Carney said Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437400/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>State Department says it's implementing security recommendations</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department Monday laid out a series of actions being taken to help protect diplomatic outposts following the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya.   The actions, taken in response to the 29 recommendations issued by the independent Benghazi Accountability Review Board, &quot;will require fundamentally reforming the organization in critical ways, the State Department said in a release.   &quot;While risk can never be completely eliminated from our diplomatic duties, we must a<a href=http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/6437392/>[More...]</a>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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