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When even Conservative MPs are joining Facebook, the brand is damaged and the popularity of the site is bound to suffer - this is the view of Nic Howell, Deputy and Features editor, New Media Age, who will appear on Sky.Com News tonight at 7.30pm.
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Raul headed Cuba’s caretaker government for the past 19 months after Fidel announced he had intestinal surgery and was provisionally ceding his powers.
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Welsh singer Duffy has tightened her grip on the UK singles chart, with ‘Mercy’ spending a second week at number one.
Dance track ‘What’s It Gonna Be’ – a collaboration between production duo H ‘two’ O and vocalists Platinum – rockets from seven to two, while Nickelback’s ‘Rockstar’ slips a place to three.
Kylie Minogue’s ‘Wow’ […]
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Raul Castro becomes Cuba’s leader 1 minute ago HAVANA - Nearly 50 years of rule by Fidel Castro ended in Cuba on Sunday as parliament chose his brother Raul to replace him — a transition that leaves the island’s communist system unshaken.
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February 24, 2008 — BAGHDAD - Rockets and mortar shells hit the US-protected Green Zone early yesterday, just a day after powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army militia to extend its cease-fire by another six months.
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Obama Beats Hillary — Again?
Barack Obama has been on a roll, with the ”mo,” the money and the young voters in recent primaries. But is there another under-the-radar test of grassroots energy and viability on his side — the music?
Reader Hector Preciado writes, ”I’ve been paying attention to what is being produced independently by artists […]
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Travelers to such countries as Italy, Mexico, Japan and China (there are many others, to be sure) are often aware that they’re never more than a few feet away from somebody else’s lit cigarette. Not too long ago, People’s Daily reported that one of out every ten minors in China was a smoker, and that […]
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Two other former interpreters are also dismayed at being denied access to the Government’s assistance package because their contracts were “terminated for absence”.I.K. Salman, who has featured in an earlier blog, left his job and fled Iraq with his wife and two children after an armed gang turned up outside his house in Basra in […]
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“It is a fascinating moment, fraught with promise, when this spirit of the times, dozing pitifully and apathetically, like a huge wet bird on a branch, suddenly and without a clear reason … takes off in bold and joyful flight. We all hear the shush of this flight. It stirs our imagination and gives us […]
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The State Opening of Parliament is the main ceremonial event in Parliament’s year, when the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh travel up the Mall by horse-drawn carriage to deliver a speech in the House of Lords on the Government’s legislative plans for the coming year. She is escorted on the short journey by the […]
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WASHINGTON — Until last week, Mark Malloy was one of many Latinos walking away from the Republican Party. The middle school teacher, son of an American father and a Nicaraguan mother, was part of a supposed swing of conservative Latino voters to the Democratic Party, motivated by the GOP’s association with a hard-line immigration stance.
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It’s quite a juxtaposition. In Iraq, American soldiers are finally beginning the hard job of establishing a measure of peace, security and order in critical sections of Baghdad — the essential prerequisite for the lasting political solution everyone claims to want. They’ve launched attacks on Sunni insurgent strongholds and begun reining in Moqtada al-Sadr’s militia. […]
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Vladimir Putin will offer the next American president a frail olive branch in the person of Dmitry Medvedev next Sunday when Russian voters dutifully go to the polls to ratify Medvedev as Putin’s chosen successor.
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Who said diplomats can’t be dreamers?
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GJAKOVA, Kosovo — The last time Florie Myrtaj drew a paycheck was in 2002. Her husband has been out of work, too. The only way they survive is through the charity of a relative living in Germany.
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After six years of relying on President Pervez Musharraf to combat extremism in Pakistan, the Bush administration has begun a slow and awkward separation from its ally, reaching out to disparate new political and military leaders to ensure future cooperation with the United States.
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Under a program to create jobs in rural America, the U.S. Department of Agriculture guaranteed $1.6 million in loans to Aztec Environmental Inc., an asbestos-removal company in Panama City, Fla.
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CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez begins his 10th year in office with inflation in Venezuela the highest in Latin America, food shortages prompting rioting, crime growing and the populist leader’s own popularity sliding.
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PARIS, Jan. 16 — Some of the United States’ closest NATO allies expressed anger and astonishment Wednesday at published statements by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates describing their forces as poorly trained for fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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We’re all pretty much the same except, of course, for the little things that make us different.
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