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Activists: Syrian Troops Kill 52 Civilians in Saturday Attacks

Voice of America -
Syrian activists say government forces killed at least 52 civilians in attacks across the country Saturday, as Syria's main exiled opposition group met in neighboring Turkey to pick a new leader to unify the movement.
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Western wildfires force evacuations, destroy structures and threaten others

Washington Post -
ALBUQUERQUE, NM - Firefighters in Colorado and New Mexico are battling wildfires that are moving fast through parched forests, forcing scores of evacuations and destroying or damaging numerous structures.
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1. LeBron James' Best Series So Far

ESPN -
By Brian Windhorst MIAMI -- Until a series ends with LeBron James and the Miami Heat raising a gold trophy instead of a silver one, there will be ways to devalue the performance.
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Left favorites as France votes on new parliament

Reuters -
By Brian Love | PARIS (Reuters) - France voted on Sunday in the first round of an election tipped to give the left control of parliament and consolidate President Francois Hollande's grip on power as he seeks to ease the pain of a debt crisis in Europe ...
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In Obama's slip, easy fodder for Romney to grab

Philadelphia Inquirer -
WASHINGTON - President Obama made Mitt Romney's day by declaring "the private sector is doing fine" and opening himself to the accusation that he - not the rich Republican - is the one who is out of touch with reality.
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Security warning after French soldiers killed in Afghanistan

euronews -
French President François Hollande has restated his plan to withdraw all combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year. It comes after four French soldiers were killed and five others injured in a suicide bomb attack on Saturday.
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Iran Says Cyber Attacks Boost Atomic Resolve, Asia Times Reports

Bloomberg -
Cyber attacks will only increase Iran's resolve to pursue its nuclear work, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, the country's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, said according to the Asia Times.
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Thousands flee after deadly Ivory Coast attacks

Sydney Morning Herald -
Thousands of civilians in Ivory Coast have fled their homes after seven UN peacekeepers and eight civilians were killed in raids near the Liberian border, a UN official and residents said Saturday.
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Former Mubarak prime minister Ahmed Shafiq could be Egypt's next president

Washington Post -
CAIRO - The astonishing rise of Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister to finalist's status in Egypt's first post-revolutionary presidential race owes much to support from business tycoons and other backers of the old regime.
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Peru Finds Helicopter Crash Site in Andes; 14 Presumed Dead

Bloomberg -
Peruvian police found debris from a helicopter that went missing in the Andes and all 14 on board are presumed dead, according to a South Korean company that employed four of the passengers.
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Battleship Iowa docks into final L.A. home

San Francisco Chronicle -
As a fireboat shot a plume of water and crowds waved jubilantly from the shore, the battleship Iowa docked at its new permanent home at Berth 87 on the San Pedro waterfront Saturday, where the historic warhorse will become a floating museum.
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Democrats' Comments Spark Tax Cut Debate

New York Times -
WASHINGTON - Congressional Republicans pounced Wednesday on disputed comments from Bill Clinton and a former senior Obama economic adviser, claiming that the Republican push to extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts beyond the 2012 expiration date has ...
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Eurozone agrees to $126b Spain bailout

Sydney Morning Herald -
Eurozone finance ministers have agreed to lend Spain up to 100 billion euros ($126 billion) to shore up its teetering banks and Madrid said it would specify precisely how much it needs once independent audits report in just over a week.
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Test Drive: Fun Prius c has personality

Tucson Citizen -
by James R. Healey on Jun. 09, 2012, under USA TODAY News Let's start with Prius c hybrid's colors: Habanero, Absolutely Red, Moonglow.
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Obama hits Republicans for lack of action on jobs

CBS News -
UPDATED 12:05 pm ET (CBS News) President Obama urged Congress to take steps to boost the economy and called on Republican lawmakers to explain why they are not taking action if they don't.
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Marco Rubio gets VP nod in conservative straw poll

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Christian Science Monitor -
Sen. Marco Rubio won CPAC's straw poll vote to be Mitt Romney's running mate. Rubio denies wanting the job, but would bring two important things to the ticket: his Hispanic background and tea party support.
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Think Tank: LinkedIn gets hacked and nobody cares

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Telegraph.co.uk -
The British technology press was awoken from Jubilee madness with news that 6.5m passwords had been stolen from LinkedIn's database this week.
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Tech Wars: Can Apple stand up to the Google blitz?

Firstpost -
by Poornima Gupta/Reuters When Apple Inc kicks off its annual conference for software developers on Monday, all the power players in the Apple universe will be on hand, save the one that is in many ways driving the agenda: Google.
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E3 2012 - Change is in the air

News10.net -
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is considered to be the Super Bowl of the video game industry. While gaming is big business, it's a business that is down 27 percent compared to last year according to market research groups like NPD.
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AT&T and Verizon Galaxy S III ditch 48GB Dropbox promo

SlashGear -
Samsung may have dug in its heels and refused to carrier-customize the Galaxy S III in the US, but differences in availability of the free 48GB Dropbox promotion show not all phones are created equal.
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Matthew McConaughey weds longtime girlfriend Camila Alves

CNN International -
(CNN) -- Matthew McConaughey tied the knot with longtime girlfriend Camila Alves at an intimate ceremony in Texas. The pair wed before close friends and family in Austin on Saturday evening.
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'Mad Men' creator details decisions as season comes to a close

Sacramento Bee -
By MARTIN MILLER LOS ANGELES - The fictional ad executive Roger Sterling has now done hallucinogens. The real show runner Matthew Weiner has not, though he had his chances.
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Pacquiao's deserved better than unjust ending against Bradley

SI.com -
Manny Pacquiao outlanded Timothy Bradley in 10 of 12 rounds, yet lost in a controversial decision Saturday night. LAS VEGAS -- Injustices like the split decision that gave Timothy Bradley a controversial victory over Manny Pacquiao on Saturday are not ...
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Zach in it!

FOXSports.com -
When Peter DeBoer had finished tossing verbal bouquets toward his captain, Zach Parise, the New Jersey Devils coach had an odd request for the assembled media at the Prudential Center.
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Sharapova back on top

Boston.com -
PARIS - Sidelined in 2008 by a right shoulder that needed surgery, putting her tennis future suddenly in doubt, Maria Sharapova decided to use the free time to study a new language, the one spoken at the only Grand Slam tournament she had yet to win.
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If you don't like LeBron James, you don't like basketball

Boston.com -
Guess we'll have to wait at least one more game to see if LeBron James is going to come up big in a fourth quarter of a meaningful playoff game.
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Justin Wilson wins Texas IndyCar after Rahal wreck

SI.com -
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Justin Wilson was the surprise winner Saturday night at Texas Motor Speedway, where Graham Rahal wrecked while leading a topsy-turvy race that took out several contenders.
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China to carry out manned space flight

BBC News -
China has announced it will carry out a manned space flight at some point in the middle of June. A rocket carrying the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft has been moved to a launch pad in the north-west of the country.
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National Academy of Sciences: Microbial life could survive on Mars

The Capitol Column -
A new DNA analysis of the Martian-like landscape on top of some South American volcanoes has found communities of bacteria, fungi, and archaea.
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Venus to star in evening sky

Washington Post -
It seldom happens. It will not be visible from Earth again for more than 100 years. But it will be possible to see it Tuesday. And it's free.
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'Depraved' sex acts by penguins shocked polar explorer

BBC News -
By Matt McGrath Science reporter, BBC World Service Accounts of unusual sexual activities among penguins, observed a century ago by a member of Captain Scott's polar team, are finally being made public.
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Aggressive pre-diabetes approach needed, say researchers

BBC News -
An "early and aggressive" approach to people on the cusp of developing Type 2 diabetes is justified to reduce cases of the disease, a study suggests.
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Study: Patients Suffering From Pre-Diabetes Possibly at Future Risk of Stroke

Daily Disruption -
By Duane Barnhart | @dailydisrupt Millions of pre-diabetic Americans may be at increased risk of future stroke, say researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new meta-analysis of epidemiological studies, ...

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