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Heavy rains kill 73 in Pakistan as floods spread

2014-09-05 11:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: At least 73 people have been killed across Pakistan after heavy rains brought flash floods and caused homes to collapse in the Punjab and Kashmir regions, government officials said Friday. Most deaths occurred in the city of Lahore, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's powerbase, further damaging the government's standing after weeks of protests aimed at forcing the premier to step down. As the political crisis dragged through its third week, people's attention turned to the devastation brought by...

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In 'kill, kill, kill' world of social media, PR isn't...

2014-09-03 20:48:19| Food - Topix.net

After days of public outcry, an apology and even a $100,000 donation, the chief executive of food service giant has finally resigned, unable to fend off the growing scandal over his mistreatment of a dog in a Vancouver elevator.

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Smartphone kill switch mandate raises privacy, civil liberty concerns

2014-08-30 20:17:06| Wireless - Topix.net

Megan Boken was chatting with her mom on her new iPhone on August 18, 2012, when a thief shot her dead on the street in St. Louis, Mo.

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Should Microsoft kill Windows Phone?

2014-08-29 14:42:54| InfoWorld: Top News

It's been nearly four years since Microsoft first released Windows Phone, and what it has gotten after many millions of dollars in development and marketing costs, plus its $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia, is this: a worldwide smartphone market share of less than 3 percent. And that number has been going down, not up.

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