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US Names New Envoy to Africas Great Lakes

Former Senator Russell Feingold has been named the U.S. special envoy to Africa's troubled Great Lakes region. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who announced the appointment Tuesday, said Feingold will work closely with U.N. envoy Mary Robinson to advance a U.N. framework for peace in the region. The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has endured years of conflict and ...
Eastern Michigan boosts tuition 3.75 Michigan State considers 2.8 hike

Resident undergraduates at Eastern Michigan University will pay 3.75 percent more in tuition for 2013-14, while students at Michigan State University could see a tuition increase that averages 2.8 percent. The new EMU tuition rates were announced Tuesday after the ...
A city up in smoke The arson epidemic plaguing Detroit

middle class . in a city where population and wages are in decline and joblessness is high, it's led to more than 80,000 homes being abandoned and that has led to a rash of ...
Pedestrian 24 killed crossing Oxford Township Road.

A 24-year-old pedestrian died Thursday when he was struck while crossing Lapeer road in Oxford Township.A 28-year-old Ortonville man was driving a 2004 Kia Sorento northbound on Lapeer Rd when he struck the Oxford Township man, according to the Oakland County ...
UPDATE 3-FBI digs for Jimmy Hoffas body in Michigan field

Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:42pm EDT By Joseph Lichterman OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich., June 18 (Reuters) - FBI agents in suburban Detroit widened their search of an overgrown field Tuesday for the remains of former Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared nearly 38 years ago and is thought to have been murdered by mobsters. The search for Hoffa along with a dig at the former home of late New York ...

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Louisiana Story [DVD]

Robert Flaherty was never a conventional documentary filmmaker, and his films, although routinely referred to as documentaries, were often highly fictionalized works that used real-life settings and people for the purpose of evoking deep, primal mythologies. Although they often appeared spontaneous, his films are thoroughly constructed to achieve exactly what Flaherty wanted. To a journalistic pu ... ...

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Datsyuk Red Wings agree on $22.5M 3-year deal

FILE - In this March 24, 2013 file photo, Detroit Red Wings center Pavel Datsyuk, of Russia, skates with the puck during the first period of their NHL hockey game against the Anaheim Ducks in Anaheim, Calif. Datsyuk and the Red Wings have an agreement on a three-year contract. The Red Wings said Tuesday, June 18, 2013, they had agreed to terms on a deal to keep Datsyuk through the 2016-17 ...
Why Detroits art must stay

Let me clear this up so that Donn Zaretsky can have no doubt. When I say that the Michigan attorney general is "absolutely right" that the art collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts cannot be sold to satisfy the city's financial obligations, I mean that he's right both legally and normatively. Zaretsky is a longstanding critic of the laws and norms surrounding ...
Dead zone predictions much less spread than 2012

NEW ORLEANS -- Scientists in Michigan and Louisiana are predicting a big summer "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. In the Chesapeake Bay, a smaller than average dead zone is expected.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released predictions Tuesday for areas with too little oxygen to support life.It says the Gulf zone prediction is 7,286 to 8,561 square miles - anywhere ...
SP cuts Detroit pension debt rating to D on default

June 18 (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Tuesday lowered the rating on Detroit's pension obligation certificates of participation to D from CC in the wake of the city's decision to stop payments on the ...
Mistrial declared in Detroit police officers manslaughter trial when jury cant reach verdict

Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley stands in Judge Cynthia Hathaway's courtroom at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit, Michigan on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 as the judge instructs jurors to continue to work toward a verdict after they sent her a note saying they are "stuck". The judge declared a mistrial Tuesday after jurors failed to reach a verdict in the trial. Weekley ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Ford Motors to increase car exports out of India: CEO

Global automobile major Ford Motor Company considers India as a major market for it to grow as well as ship out more cars to other markets even as it is bringing down production in line with the demand in Europe, said a top company official.

Betting big on the 'B' or compact car platform/chassis, the company also hopes to generate higher sales volume from the Asia Pacific region in few years time from the current levels, president and CEO Alan Mulally told reporters here Monday.

"Ford will be exporting Figo and EcoSport models out of India. The Indian plants will support the market here and also other markets," said Mulally, who was here to flag off the company's new small sports utility vehicle (SUV) EcoSport at its Indian plant near here.

India is one of the third of the five plants globally where EcoSport will be produced. Ford has invested around $142 million at its plant near here to roll out the SUV.

The production line is now capable of producing six different car bodies on one line and ten variants of EcoSport.

Currently Ford rolls out EcoSport at its plants in Camacari (Brazil) and Chongoing (China). Production will also start subsequently at Rayong (Thailand) and Tatarstan (Russia). ...