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Alaska’s ‘Thousand-mile’ race on final stage
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The Iditarod race considered by some to be the hardest on earth is in its final stage in Alaska. A total of 66 teams of dog-sledders - or mushers -- are racing across the frozen landscape of the northern US state. D...
Detroit on verge of state takeover
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Time is running out for politicans in Detroit trying to avoid a plan being imposed on them, to prevent the city going bankrupt. Detroit was once known as Motown, the centre of the US car industry and the heart of Am...
Judge strikes down New York sugary drinks ban
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A New York City court has struck down a ban on large sugary drinks proposed by the city's mayor, a day before it was due to come into effect.The State Supreme Court Justice Milton Tingling described the regulation a...
Venezuelans gear up for fresh election
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Venezuelans have begun preparing for a snap election to choose a new leader after the death of Hugo Chavez. Thousands of the late president's supporters thronged the National Election Council on Monday as acting pre...
Guatemala nuns help deprived children
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While the church's faithful wait for the new leader to be appointed, their work continues. In Guatemala, nuns provide education and healthcare that the state can't provide to some of the country's poorest people. Al...
Venezuela’s Capriles to run for president
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a's opposition leader has confirmed he'll be running in the presidential race to replace the late Hugo Chavez. Henrique Capriles will face vice-president Nicolas Maduro in the election on April the 14th. Al Jazeera'...
Mexico oil reform plans meet resistance
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Mexico's president says reforming the oil industry is key to improving the economy. Mexico is among the world's top oil producing nations but it's been closed off to foreign investment for decades. And as Rachel Lev...
Alaska sled dog race half way through
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Participants in the Iditarod, an annual 1600 kilometre-long sled dog race in a remote area of the US state of Alaska, are almost half way along the route Si...
Mexican president marks 100 days in power
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It has been 100 days since Mexico's president came into office. As a candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto pledged to bring down spiralling violence, to reform publi...
Abuse costs church ‘moral standing’
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It is estimated that up to 100000 children in the United States were abused by members of the Catholic Church. With a new Roman Catholic Pope set to replace Benedict XVI, the victims of sexual abuse say the church m...
Chinese eye Argentina investment
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Argentina is one of China's new investment frontiers. Bi-lateral trade reached 15-billion dollars in 2012. China's investments in Argentina are mostly in the oil and gas sector, but there are also 6-thousand Chinese...
Smart phone applications help prevent rape
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A quarter of women at US colleges could become victims of sexual assault by the time they graduate, according to a new report from the Justice Department. But new technology could offer some of the support and prote...
‘Last great race on earth’ begins in Alaska
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The Iditarod, an annual 1600 kilometre-long sled dog race, has begun in a remote area of the US state of Alaska . Sixty-six teams on Saturday set out from downtown Anchorage in the east of Alaska, snaking their way ...
Venezuela sets presidential poll for April 14
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Venezuela will hold a presidential election on April 14, the country's electoral commission has announced. The council's announcement on Saturday came a day after Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's handpicked successor, was s...
Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law pleads not guilty
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Osama bin Laden's son-in-law was picked up in Turkey, deported to Jordan and then flown by FBI agents to New York City. Suleiman Abu Ghaith has now appeared in court there - and pleaded not guilty to conspiring to k...
Chavez legacy lives on in Venezuela’s interim president Maduro
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Hugo Chavez is gone, but his legacy lives on. That was the clear message as his designated heir, Nicolas Maduro, was sworn in as Venezuela's interim president at the national assembly in Caracas. He pledged to follo...
Chavez hometown mourns death of leader
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Late President Hugo Chavez is being mourned by Venezuelans across the country, but nowhere more so than in his home town. The Chavez family are akin to royal...
Jesse Jackson attends Chavez funeral
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Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., US civil rights leader, attended the funeral of Hugo Chavez, the anti-American Venezuelan leader who died earlier this week. Jackson, who ran for president twice in the 1980s, gave a prayer, ...