MIAMI, July 11 (APP/AFP) – Coffee addicts and aficionados often say drinking the bitter liquid makes life worth living, but the habit may also help them live longer, according to two major international studies Monday. Experts cautioned, however, that the US and European reports, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, failed to show that […]
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Three cups of coffee a day keep the doctor away: studies
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Haitian factory workers demand higher wages
PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 11 (APP/AFP) – Hundreds of Haiti’s factory workers protested in Port-au-Prince on Monday against a small increase in the minimum wage set by the government. The workers, paid 300 gourdes (4.75 dollars) a day, are demanding 800 gourdes (12.75 dollars) for an eight-hour day of labor making products in factories outsourced to foreign […]
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Colorado camper wakes to find bear biting head
LOS ANGELES, July 11 (APP/AFP) – A staffer at a Christian summer camp in Colorado has told of his shock at waking to find his head clamped in the mouth of a bear. The 19-year-old survival instructor at Glacier View Ranch described his “immense pain” as he heard the black bear “crunching” on his skull. […]
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S.Korean judge set to be elected as head of ICC’s management body
SEOUL, July 7 (APP/Yonhap): A South Korean judge is set to be elected the head of the management body at the International Criminal Court (ICC), the foreign ministry here said Friday. The ICC’s bureau has recently decided to recommend Kwon O-gon, who formerly served as vice president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former […]
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Fresh clashes in G20 summit city Hamburg, police cars torched
HAMBURG, July 7, (APP/AFP) – Protesters clashed with police and torched patrol cars in the German city of Hamburg on Friday in fresh violence ahead of the G20 summit, police said. “An operation is under way against violent individuals” who threw petrol bombs and set fire to patrol cars near a police station in the […]
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Putin attacks sanctions, protectionism on eve of G20
BERLIN, July 6 (APP/AFP): Russian President Vladimir Putin attacked sanctions against his country and called for an end to trade protectionism, in an editorial published in Germany Thursday ahead of the G20 summit. Sanctions against Russia, imposed because of the Ukraine crisis, “are not just short-sighted but go against the principles of the G20 for […]