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New 'Obamacare' exchanges could miss enrollment deadline - GAO

(Reuters) - New health insurance exchanges being set up by the federal government in more than 30 states under President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul could miss an October 1 deadline for open enrollment, a government report said on Wednesday.Full story

Why Is Africa Ripping Apart? Seismic Scan May Tell

Arrays of sensors stretching across more than 1,500 miles in Africa are now probing the giant crack in the Earth located there — a fissure linked with human evolution — to discover why and how continents get ripped apart. Full story

Student test can determine the course of life in China

  Across China millions of teenagers-and parents-are going through the notoriously tough university entrance exam.  Known as the gao kao the two day test is thought to decide the life course of students.  Jackie Long, Channel Four Europe reports.

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Improvements needed in U.S. IRS financial controls: GAO report

IRS may be missing offshore tax evasion: government watchdog

U.S. high-security labs lack standards, strategy: study

South Korea firm had U.S. contract while investing in Iran gas: GAO

French troops fire on suspected Islamists in Mali town of Gao

U.S. government risks financial exposure from climate change - GAO

Gunbattle rocks Gao after rebels surprise French, Malians

Suicide bomber injures soldier at Mali checkpoint: source

Liberated Malians celebrate, French-led forces clear Timbuktu

French target Islamist posts in Gao, Timbuktu strikes: minister

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  GAO on 'Political Intel'

Political intelligence firms are legal, have grown quickly, with CNBC's Eamon Javers.

  Justice under Mali’s jihadists

International Editor Lindsey Hilsum hears the brutal and distressing testimony of those who lived through the rule of Al Qaeda in the Maghreb in Gao. After liberating the cities of Gao and Timbuktu, French forces have now taken control of the airport of Kidal, the last remaining northern urban stron

  'Liberty!' Malians celebrate fall of town

Thousands of residents came out to celebrate after French and Malian troops entered the town of Gao on Sunday, with a parade of motorbikes honking their horns and people weeping in disbelief. Lindsey Hilsum of the UK's Channel 4 News reports.

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Bill Wolff, executive producer of the Rachel Maddow Show, shares a preview of Thursday’s show--the U.S. Senate votes overwhelmingly to speed up the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, plus a new report released by the GAO gives President Obama the go-ahead on something he promised to do long ago, and

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A woman poses for a picture while cleaning the destroyed main market in Gao
A woman poses for a picture while cleaning the destroyed main market in Gao

A woman poses for a picture while cleaning the destroyed main market in Gao, March 2, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney

French soldiers drive VBCI armoured vehicles through the mud outside Gao
French soldiers drive VBCI armoured vehicles through the mud outside Gao

French soldiers drive VBCI armoured vehicles through the mud outside Gao, March 9, 2013. REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun/Files

A French soldier stands next to an VBCI armoured vehicle during an operation to collect explosives found in a house in Gao
A French soldier stands next to an VBCI armoured vehicle during an operation to collect explosives found in a house in Gao

A French soldier stands next to an VBCI armoured vehicle during an operation to collect explosives found in a house in Gao, February 27, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney/Files

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TOPSHOTSA malian boy sits in a is leaving his house in a cart a street of Gao, on April 5, 2013. The United Nations expressed concern over reprisal attacks against ethnic Tuaregs and Arabs in Mali, where a French-led intervention recently routed Islamist rebels. AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGETJOEL SAGE