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AP – A man opened fire with a rifle Tuesday at a drug-testing laboratory in suburban Portland, killing a female employee and wounding two other workers before fatally shooting himself, police said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A massive power failure blacked out Brazil’s two largest cities and other parts of Latin America’s largest nation for more than two hours late Tuesday, leaving millions of people in the dark after a huge hydroelectric dam suddenly went offline.
Paraguay was also affected when the Itaipu dam straddling the two nations’ border stopped producing 17,000 megawatts of power, resulting in outages in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and at least several other huge Brazilian cities, Brazilian Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobao said.
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Eight months into President Barack Obama’s administration, his Middle East peace “road map” is crystal clear.
First, he dialed down the pressure on Iran, whose nuclear weapons program presents an existential threat to Israel.
Second, he shifted the blame for Islamic extremism to Israel and solely blamed it for the Palestinian’s plight. Then
he unilaterally ratcheted up the pressure on Israel to stop building settlements and to ease its self-defense blockade
of Gaza. Now, Obama has upped the ante even further, framing lasting peace in the Middle East as requiring Israel
to retreat to its 1967
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