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En una cena durante el pasado fin de semana, un asesor del congreso le preguntó a una de las figuras más respetadas de la oposición venezolana sobre lo que podÃa hacer Estados Unidos para ayudar a la nación suramericana. Su consejo fue simple - no hagan nada.
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BRUSSELS — Here in Europe, people ask hopefully if a Democratic victory in the congressional elections will finally shift the direction of American foreign policy in a more benign direction. But congressional elections rarely affect the broad direction of American foreign policy. A notable exception was when Congress cut funding for American military operations in […]
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The power to destroy does not carry within it the power to control. A century of failed colonial rule and the American misadventure in Vietnam etched that lesson on global consciousness for a time. It has taken the huge problems that affluent, nuclear-armed nations are encountering in the miserable ruins of Afghanistan and Iraq to […]
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When Ziad Khalaf al-Kerbouly was captured in Iraq three weeks ago by the Knights of Justice, or Fursan al-Haq , a unit operating under Jordan’s General Intelligence Directorate, insurgents played down the arrest and described him as a “small-timer,” according to Jordan’s ambassador to Washington, Karim Kawar .
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About one in every 20 new cases of tuberculosis worldwide is now resistant to two or more drugs, and in some regions of the former Soviet Union the proportion is closer to one in every five cases, the World Health Organization reported yesterday.
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NOIDA, India — Whenever an exasperated new bride sought guidance on handling an overbearing mother-in-law or a businessman was in need of advice, astrologer K.B. Parsai always found answers for them by looking to the stars, which he says are the source of life’s fortunes.
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MEXICO CITY, Nov. 28 — The funding imbalance in the Bush administration’s new anti-drug plan, which would send 10 times as much aid to Mexico as to all seven Central American nations combined, is generating anxiety in Central America.
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LUSIGNAN, Guyana, Jan. 26 — Gunmen stormed into a coastal village and killed 11 people, including five children, in violence blamed on a gang leader who has threatened widespread attacks. The assault sparked angry protests over rising crime in this impoverished country.
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CLEVELAND, Feb. 26 — In their final debate before critical primaries in Ohio and Texas, Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton clashed sharply on familiar ground, arguing Tuesday night over who has the better health-care plan, who has been right about Iraq and who would move most aggressively to rethink trade policy as president.
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NAIROBI, Feb. 26 — Talks aimed at resolving Kenya’s post-election political crisis were suspended Tuesday as negotiators for President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga failed to make progress on terms of a power-sharing arrangement.
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LONDON, Feb. 26 — A British official on Tuesday ordered the government to release minutes from two meetings of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair’s cabinet in March 2003, saying they could shed light on “uncertainties and controversies” surrounding Britain’s decision to join the United States in the invasion of Iraq.
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ABINGDON, England — Jordan Webb can predict the exact time of day his head will start aching. If the 10-year-old lingers outside the Reynolds grocery store past 5 p.m., a small black device latched onto the storefront and operated on a timer will emit a high-pitched sound that makes the boy’s skull feel like it’s […]
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By Mariam Karouny
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq on Tuesday condemned Turkey’s incursion into northern Iraq to fight Kurdish guerrillas in the strongest terms so far and demanded an immediate end to what it called a violation of its sovereignty.
Thousands of Turkish troops crossed the border last Thursday to root out PKK fighters who have used mountainous […]
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CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton clashed sharply in a high-stakes one-on-one debate on Tuesday, accusing each other of falsely portraying their stances on health care, trade and other issues.
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In the opening minutes of the televised debate in Cleveland, Ohio, the two politely but firmly accused each other of spreading misinformation about their policies.
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An official with ALRDF in Kandahar said the group had received reports in recent days from two Afghan sources that Mizell and Hadi are dead. He said officials were working with the Red Cross to try to recover the bodies. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the media.
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Hillary Clinton dismissed Barack Obama, the Democratic frontrunner, as a novice yesterday, as she sought to press her claims to be the next US commander-in-chief. She said that he would need a “foreign policy instruction manual” as president.
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Long-distance trains don’t stop in Liechtenstein’s capital, Vaduz, because the place has no mainline railway station to speak of. When Crown Prince Alois, the principality’s head of state, wants to travel by plane, he has to take a car to neighbouring Austria because there is no airport either.
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AMSTERDAM (Feb. 26) - A photograph of the boy with the “beautiful brown eyes” who Anne Frank recalled as her “one true love” in the diary she wrote whilst in hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands is to go on display in Amsterdam.
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The brothers, aged 12 and 14, are thought to have survived being thrown into the well before suffering a “slow and terrible death”.
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