N.C.A.A. Preview: For Duke, Faceoffs Will Be a Factor - New York Times Blogs
Meeting for the third time this season and the sixth time in the past two years, Duke and Maryland are hardly strangers to one another. In a rematch of last season’s N.C.A.A. semifinal, No. 3 seed Duke (15-4) will face Maryland (11-5) in the ...
N.C.A.A. Preview: Can the Orange Beat the Gators Again? - New York Times Blogs
When Syracuse and Florida met for the first time on March 3 in Gainesville, Fla., the matchup didn’t exactly look like a Final Four preview. The Orange entered the game 1-2 and was coming off back-to-back losses to Virginia and Northwestern.
N.Y. man admits to pouring bleach into children's milk - CBS News
(CBS/AP) SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Authorities say an upstate New York man angry over getting tossed out of his brother's home poisoned his sibling's two toddlers by pouring bleach in their milk. Syracuse police say Friday that 20-year-old Aaron Hickman ...
CNH Global N.V. : CNH Global Suspends Sales to Iran - 4-traders (press release)
BURR RIDGE, IL, May 25, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --CNH Global N.V. supports the international efforts for a diplomatic solution of the issues relating to the relations with Iran. In this respect, CNH announces that, effective immediately, its ...
U.N. inspectors find higher-grade uranium traces in Iran - msnbc.com
VIENNA (Reuters) - United Nations inspectors have found uranium particles enriched to a higher-than-expected level at an Iranian underground site where Tehran has installed more than 50 percent more enrichment centrifuges, a U.N. watchdog report said on ...
N.J. judge: Text sender not liable in car crash - CBS News
(CBS/AP) MORRISTOWN, N.J. - A New Jersey woman who sent a text message to her boyfriend cannot be held liable for a car crash he caused while responding to the message. A judge made that decision Friday in state Superior Court in Morris County.
U.S. says working to get U.N. missions bank accounts - msnbc.com
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Responding to a complaint by Syria's U.N. envoy, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations said on Friday it was working to ensure that foreign diplomatic missions whose accounts have been closed by U.S. banks are able to get new ones.
U.N. stands ready to help Beirut - United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 25 (UPI) -- The United Nations supports Beirut in its efforts to ensure stability and security in Lebanon is safeguarded, a U.N. delegate said. Derek Plumbly, U.N. special envoy to Lebanon, met in Beirut with Lebanese Prime ...
PML-N rolls out three names for CEC - Pakistan News Service
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), after finalising a panel comprising three names for the chief election commission (CEC), has started a campaign to seek support of all the opposition forces, our sources has learnt. The PML-N on Thursday ...
U.N. climate talks stall over rich-poor divisions - San Francisco Gate
U.N. climate talks ran into gridlock Thursday as a widening rift between rich and poor countries risked undoing some advances made last year in the decades-long effort to control carbon emissions that scientists say are overheating the planet.
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