Syrian air force on offensive after failed truce

affiliate marketing AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian warplanes bombed rebel targets with renewed intensity on Tuesday after the end of a widely ignored four-day truce between President Bashar al-Assad‘s forces and insurgents.State television said “terrorists” had assassinated an air force general, Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khalidi, in a Damascus suburb,...

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Facebook shares fall as lock-up period expires

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Nic Cage starrer, Christian best-seller “Left Behind,” tops Arclight’s AFM lineup

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – On the eve of the AFM, Arclight Films has taken on international sales duties for the film adaptation of the Christian-themed best-seller, “Left Behind,” a representative for the film told TheWrap on Tuesday.The film, which will star Nicolas Cage and will be directed by Vic Armstrong, is...

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Vaccine Mistrust: Alive & Well in Romania

affiliate marketing Romania has the highest incidence of cervical cancer in Europe, so public health officials launched a HPV vaccination campaign there in 2008.They offered the vaccine to 10 and 11-year-old girls, the optimal age at which to get the vaccine since  HPV, the virus that causes most cervical cancer cases, is sexually...

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Obama touring hard-hit New Jersey

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — President Barack Obama got an up-close look at the devastation wrought by superstorm Sandy on Wednesday, forsaking partisan campaigning days before the close election in favor of a disaster tour guided by the Republican governor of New Jersey. Rival Mitt Romney muted criticism of his foe as he barnstormed battleground Florida.Yet a controversy as heated as any in the long,...

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Cuba’s 2nd city without power, water after Sandy

affiliate marketing HAVANA (AP) — Residents of Cuba‘s second-largest city of Santiago remained without power or running water Monday, four days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall as the island’s deadliest storm in seven years, ripping rooftops from homes and toppling power lines.Across the Caribbean, the storm’s death toll rose to 69,...

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Hurricane Sandy disrupts Northeast U.S. telecom networks

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Power outages and flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy disrupted telecommunications services in Northeastern states on Tuesday, resulting in spotty coverage for cellphones, television, home telephones and Internet services. While all the region's telecom service providers were having problems, Verizon Communications, which serves many of the states in the hurricane's...

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Letterman and Fallon tape sans audiences as Stewart and Colbert cancel shows due to Sandy

affiliate marketing NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon said they would tape their shows without audiences Monday as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert joined Jimmy Kimmel in cancelling tapings because of Hurricane Sandy.All decided to cancel or not admit audiences because of fears of people being injured going to...

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Meningitis outbreak toll: 363 cases, 28 deaths

affiliate marketing An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has been recalled.Latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: affiliate marketing Illnesses:...

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Sandy's death toll climbs; millions without power

NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without electricity, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain. The U.S. death toll climbed to 39, many of the victims killed by falling trees.The full extent of the damage in New Jersey, where the storm roared...

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