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BEIJING, March 3 — Violent protests erupted in several southern Chinese fishing towns after residents heard a chemical factory rejected as environmentally dangerous by the nearby city of Xiamen would be built in their area instead, witnesses and other residents said Monday.
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GUATEMALA CITY, Nov. 3 — Guatemalans vote Sunday in a presidential runoff election shaped as much by the candidates’ pasts as their visions for the future.
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Calling a Colombian military strike that killed a guerrilla commander “a cowardly assassination,” Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on Sunday closed his country’s embassy in Colombia and ordered tanks, planes and thousands of troops to the 1,300-mile border the two countries share.
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MEXICO CITY, Jan. 4 — Drug cartels are trying to influence the outcomes of major elections in Mexico by kidnapping and threatening candidates, according to Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora.
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NORTON, Zimbabwe — Meals come only once a day for Helen Goremusandu, 67, and the six children she is raising. With prices for the most basic food products increasingly beyond her reach, that daily meal often consists of nothing more than boiled pumpkin leaves, washed down with water.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. — Five years into a deeply unpopular war in Iraq, one of the surest applause lines for a Democratic candidate has been a promise to bring home the troops. But as Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign in Texas and Ohio ahead of Tuesday’s critical primaries, they are encountering an […]
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JERUSALEM, March 3 — Israel pulled its ground troops from the Gaza Strip early Monday morning, pausing an offensive against Palestinian militants on the eve of a visit to the region by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops pulled out of the Gaza Strip on Monday after a U.S. appeal to end days of fighting that killed more than 100 Palestinians and rescue peace talks.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton and rival Barack Obama are running neck-and-neck in Ohio and Texas one day before their crucial Democratic presidential showdowns, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll released on Monday.
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RESURGENT RUSSIA
ELECTION NEWS
Muted welcome for Russia leader
Medvedev ‘to continue Putin work’
Voters wooed with caps and food
FEATURES
More of the same?
World expects little difference from Russia’s new president
Power shift may not be smooth
Viewpoints: Presidential polls
Your Russia questions answered
Volga road trip: Stalingrad
How Putin is inspired by history
KGB old boys tighten grip
Dancing with the Russian bear
Moscow Diary: A Putin […]
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In all, 117 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the fighting erupted last Wednesday, according to militants and medical officials. Roughly half the dead were civilians, the officials said. One Israeli civilian was killed by a rocket, and two Israeli soldiers were killed in the Jebalya fighting.
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Lagging in Texas polls and tied with her rival Barack Obama in Ohio, Hillary Clinton was engaged in a frantic dash across the two must-win states with just 48 hours to rescue her White House dream.
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SIMON Cowell has claimed he was offered £1m (€1.3m) to become the face of Viagra.
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On Saturday, Colombian security forces killed senior rebel leader Raul Reyes and 16 other Colombian guerrillas at a camp across the border in Ecuador.
Correa said on Saturday that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe had informed him of the raid, but later announced that he was misled after Ecuadorean officials inspected a bombed rebel camp.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his cabinet: “Let it be clear that Israel has no intention to stop the fighting for a single moment.”
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LONDON - British nurses have come under fire after a survey revealed that thousands believed that having an affair with a patient was alright.
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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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In 1994, over 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were hacked to death with machetes wielded by their own neighbors. And the rest of the world watched.
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Time magazine summed up the death of Raul Reyes, the guy with a $5 million State Department bounty on his head, in one sentence:
“It was by far the most severe blow to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia since hardline President Alvaro Uribe took office in 2002.”
For Uribe, the […]
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The arrogant fatuity of hard-core bicyclists was on display last night on ABC-7 news when Chuck Goudie interviewed “longtime cycling organizer Alex Wilson ” about the death of a Chicago man Sunday who ran a red light while engaged in an illegal cycle race through city streets and was struck by an SUV:
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