New Posts to BBC News - US & Canada on Sep 20, 2013:
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1) Blackberry to cut 4,500 global jobs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24182038#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Shares in smartphone maker Blackberry plunge 17% as the company announces thousands of job losses and issues a profits warning.
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2) US budget bill defunds health law
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24178690#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
House Republicans push through a temporary budget measure that would keep the government operating, while defunding President Obama's healthcare law.
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3) Knox: I won't attend Italy appeal
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24179036#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
American Amanda Knox says she will not travel to Italy for an appeals trial over the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
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4) Apple fingerprint ID security fears
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24177851#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
A senior US senator believes the fingerprint recognition technology featured in Apple's new iPhone 5S raises "substantial privacy questions."
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5) Boy hurt in Chicago park shooting
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24173003#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Up to 13 people, including a three-year-old boy, are wounded as bullets fly at a basketball court in a park in the US city of Chicago.
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6) Obama proposes new carbon limits
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24181341#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
The White House unveils a proposal to limit carbon emissions on new coal and gas power plants built in the US.
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7) US case dropped for Saudi princess
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24183135#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Prosecutors in the US state of California drop charges against a Saudi princess who was accused by her Kenyan maid of human trafficking.
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8) Microsoft boss admits phone failings
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24178512#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Microsoft was too slow to react to the smartphone revolution, its departing chief executive Steve Ballmer admits to investors.
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9) US votes to cut food stamp benefits
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24170617#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
US Republican lawmakers narrowly vote to cut food stamp benefits from next year despite a veto threat from the White House.
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10) Rancher convicted over US nun murder
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-24177359#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
A court in Brazil has convicted a rancher for ordering the murder of American nun Dorothy Stang over a land dispute.
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11) Bruckheimer and Disney part company
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24172013#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Pirates of the Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney film studio end their working partnership after more than 20 years.
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12) VIDEO: Don Quixote original goes on display
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24119406#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
The BBC gets a tour of the US Library of Congress' collection of Hispanic literature and maps.
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13) VIDEO: New Yorkers enjoy mass picnic
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24177181#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Almost 4000 diners dressed in white descended on Manhattan's Bryant Park for a glamorous picnic.
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