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Democratic hopeful Barack Obama won the endorsement of former rival Chris Dodd on Tuesday as Hillary Clinton looked to an evening debate to shake up a US presidential race tilting against her.
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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Evo Morales - The First Indigenous President of Bolivia:
History was made when Evo Morales, an Amayra, was elected president of Bolivia in 2005, becoming the country’s first indigenous head of state.
Mr. Morales has made redressing the effects of centuries of discrimination and oppression experienced by Bolivia’s indigenous groups, which he has compared to apartheid in […]
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Today, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, attended a funeral in Ankara for three servicemen killed during the most recent offensive against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Also today I received an e-mail from a P.R. firm working for the Turkish Embassy in D.C.:
“OPERATIONS AGAINST THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
The […]
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Columnist George Will, chattering on TV Sunday morning, concluded his brief analysis of Hillary Clinton’s chances to win the Democratic presidential nomination with this:
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Sky.Com News - the news with the web’s agenda - is on-air and online from 7.30pm tonight. Presenter Martin Stanford explains what’s on:
And on the award winning Sky.Com News show tonight…
Another example of how web news is setting the news agenda.
It was on Drudge yesterday afternoon our time – on some TV channels […]
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Elation at the rescue of a young boy from a disused well in southern Italy was short-lived as rescuers discovered the remains of two children who had broken his fall. There is no commentary on this clip, which shows forensics teams at the scene.
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Sarah Jessica Parker is to play an Italian air hostess on Broadway.
The actress, who began her career in a theatre production of Annie in the 1970s, will star in a new version of Boeing Boeing.
The hit comedy, which is currently showing in London, tells the story of three flight attendants who become engaged to the […]
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Pakistan Peoples Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that he would seek a working relationship with President Pervez Musharraf since their coalition government may not able to impeach him.
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PLACEBOS JUST AS GOOD AS UPPERS: STUDY
By ANDY SOLTIS
February 26, 2008 — The vast majority of people taking antidepressants would be just as well off taking placebos, British researchers found.
Only a small group of the […]
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One of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s biggest — and most generous — supporters in California has been Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, president of Sacramento-based AKT Development Corp., the firm headed by her father, major Dem donor Angelo Tsakopoulos.
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France’s Sarkozy, ratings tanking, proposes controversial education plan
France’s conservative president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has an idea.
Most of his countrymen think it stinks.
A little over a week ago, in a speech delivered to a dinner gathering, in Paris, of members of France’s Jewish community, Sarkozy proposed revising the nationwide school curriculum, which is set and […]
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The explosion of gunshots shook my bedroom window, yanking me out of sleep in an instant on my third night back in Baghdad.Iraqi police had come under fire from a building near my hotel and were responding. An army unit also stepped in, adding extra rounds of heavy machine gun fire.After three weeks out of […]
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Below I attach my piece about Homer “Yasuo Fukuda” Simpson from this morning’s paper. It’s written in the assumption that he will defeat Julie “Taro Aso” Walters in Sunday’s LDP presidential election, and such assumptions can be very dangerous, of course. But the only thing that could stop Mr Fukuda now would be a full-scale […]
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Marion Cotillard took the best actress Oscar for her haunting portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, the first time a French actress has won the award in almost half a century. Watch her acceptance speech below:
Tilda Swinton beat Cate Blanchett to the best supporting actress award for her role in Michael Clayton, […]
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WASHINGTON — At a dinner gathering here over the weekend, a congressional staffer asked one of Venezuela’s most respected opposition leaders what the United States could do to help the South American nation. His advice was simple — do nothing.
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As Americans struggle to find an answer to the serious problems in Iraq, larger and broader questions beckon. How did we wind up in Iraq in the first place? Some argue that we were too aggressive and self-righteous in promoting our principles, too meddlesome, too arrogant in seeking to transform the world, too quick to […]
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Americans should broaden their primary-season debate about religion and politics. This debate is not just about Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, and it is not limited to our shores. Religion has again become, for better and for worse, a far more visible driving force in world affairs.
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By the time she was 7, Miria Matembe was already aware of the unfairness women and girls endured in Uganda.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus, Feb. 24 — Communist leader Demetris Christofias won a crucial presidential runoff in Cyprus on Sunday. He pledged to restart moribund talks to reunify the island and immediately agreed to meet the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots.
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