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Pressure on Stormont budgets has made preventing ill-health in Northern Ireland more difficult, the Public Health Agency says.

HYDERABAD, India (AP) -- An explosion in a state-owned steel plant in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has killed at least 11 people, police said Thursday....

Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster criticises the Co-operative Group over the showing of a documentary opposing fracking.

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan moved closer Thursday to restarting nuclear reactors for the first time since last year's earthquake and tsunami led to a nationwide shutdown after a mayor gave his support to a plan to bring two of them back online....

The Air Force CV-22 Osprey went down during a training mission near Navarre, Florida, injuring five crew members, a military official says.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed three suspected militants in an attack on a building in a town close to the Afghan border....

Ex-News International executive Rebekah Brooks told the PM "professionally we're definitely in this together", the Leveson Inquiry hears.

Don't you find it odd that the word extremism seems to apply only to conservative Republicans? Terminology often drives political discourse and those who control the terms often determine the outcome.2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZCal Thomas

Congress can start using psychology couches for corporate testimony every time a company tied to Obama has a bad quarter or files for bankruptcy. That way executives can confess, apologize, plead the Fifth and quicken the process of “healing,” while satisfying their government overlords. 2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZJohn Ransom

Italy’s prime minister Mario Monti "forcefully denied" Italy would be next in line to seek a eurozone bailout. 2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZMike Shedlock

The source of European optimism is difficult to divine with Italy queuing up for a bank bailout after Greece and Spain. 2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZChris Poindexter

Who does Barack Obama listen to? 2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZMichael Barone

Daily reporting from Afghanistan indicates the Taliban have sustained at least 100 attacks and security incidents per day since the start of the spring offensive. That is a high number for a group supposedly on the ropes. 2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZNight Watch

Outside of the fact that you have nothing to do and nowhere to be, unemployment can be pretty sweet.2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZBob Goldman

If you are still listening to those in the political class who are falling over each other to condemn leaks from the government to the media, you'd think the leaks had revealed private information in which the public has no legitimate interest, or perhaps a planned secret government mission to rescue innocents. Neither is the case.2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZJudge Andrew Napolitano

A great deal of time and energy and gigabytes have been spent in the conservative media over how tax money is used and abused in this nation, which is in fact a republic and whose leaders are supposed to answer directly to the people who elected them. There would be no checks and balances on a global tax. 2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZLincoln Brown

This is an exercise in stupidity. It gives the “fairness” people a bully pulpit to try and dictate CEO salaries and bank practices. 2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZJeff Carter

It's no secret that I have been and remain a vocal critic of Mitt Romney. To say that his conservative bona fides are suspect is an understatement. I have tremendous respect for a number of fellow evangelical Christians who say that they will not support his presidential candidacy.2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZMatt Barber

My dad’s car had an auto loan which also came from the bank. I asked, “How could I get my $3.00 back if it had been lent out to others?” 2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZBill Tatro

Ripley, the modern woman, rebels against the joint program of imperialism, capitalism, war and reproduction, all in one act of forcible expulsion from the narcissistic self. In the words of Camille Paglia, abortion is an act of revolt against the “fascism of nature.” 2012-06-14T00:01:00-04:002012-06-14T20:40:03ZJerry Bowyer