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Moscow blasts alleged vote theft at Eurovision

m.apnews.com — NATALIYA VASILYEVA Published: Today Dina Garipovaof Russia performs her song What If during the final of the Eurovision Song Contest at the Malmo Arena in Malmo, Sweden, Saturday, May 18, 2013. The contest is run by European television broadcasters with the event being held in Sweden as they won the competition in 2012.

News from The Associated Press

hosted.ap.org — Con una longitud de 511 kilmetros de trayecto entre Rio de Janeiro y Sao Paulo y una extensin hacia la ciudad de Campinas, el tren bala brasileo debe ser licitado el 13 de agosto para tener la estructura construida en junio de 2019 con un margen de tolerancia de un ao y un plazo adicional de un ao para poner el tren a funcionar.

News from The Associated Press

hosted.ap.org — En la lista destacan los "aires acondicionados si su capacidad no excede una tonelada", "las cocinas y hornillas elctricas cuyo consumo no exceda 1500 watt", "los hornos microondas de cualquier modelo y que su consumo elctrico no exceda los 2000 watt" adems de "ciclomotores con motor elctrico cuya potencia no sea superior a 100 watt y la velocidad no exceda 50 kilmetros por hora"

Publicist: Founding member of The Doors dies at 74

m.apnews.com — FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2012 file photo, Ray Manzarek of The Doors performs at the Sunset Strip Music Festival launch party celebrating The Doors at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Calif. Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died at 74.

Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines

m.apnews.com — DARKO BANDIC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Published: Yesterday In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013 photo, a scientist inspects bees during a scientific experiment at the Faculty of Agriculture at Zagreb University. Croatian researches, working on a unique method to find unexploded mines that are littering their country and the rest of the Balkans, are confident they can use bees for detecting land mines.

'Britain's Obama' urges ties with West Africa

bigstory.ap.org — ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies.During a trade mission to West Africa last week that included a stop in his father's home country Nigeria, Umunna, a member of the British Parliament, dismissed the comparison to the United States president."Let's not beat around the bush.