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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, March 8 — Malaysia’s ruling coalition suffered its biggest electoral upset ever Saturday, losing control of four state governments and more than one-third of Parliament in a show of frustration over racial tensions, crime and corruption.
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The vote was barely 24 hours away when President Bush’s aides held an emergency conference call at 10:45 p.m. last Friday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) had sent a letter that could sink a U.S.-led free trade agreement up for referendum in Costa Rica. The Bush team […]
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RECIFE, Brazil, March 4 — While troops in Ecuador and Venezuela moved toward their borders with Colombia, the leaders of those three countries moved further from a negotiated solution Tuesday. One ratcheted up his rhetoric, another cut trade ties, and the third warned of a broader regional conflict if the worsening diplomatic dispute becomes a […]
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BEAUMONT, Tex., March 3 — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed to press on in her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination after critical primary tests in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday, even as advisers to Sen. Barack Obama said the latest round of voting would do little to improve her standing in a race in […]
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It was a telephone call that drove home Maina Kiai’s worst nightmare.
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BAGHDAD, March 10 — Five U.S. soldiers were killed and three others were wounded Monday when a suicide bomber walked up to their foot patrol in a Baghdad neighborhood and detonated explosives, authorities said.
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BEIJING — The man was a distant relative, so Yuan Cheng thought he could trust him. They both came from the same impoverished village of corn farmers, where most teenagers leave home for city jobs that pay in one month what a family earns off the land in a year.
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BHURBAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif agreed on Sunday to join the late Benazir Bhutto’s party in a coalition, raising the prospect of a government hostile to U.S. ally President Pervez Musharraf.
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NACO, Arizona (Reuters) - When U.S. authorities raised a tall curtain of steel through this tiny Arizona border town to prevent people crossing illegally from Mexico, the smugglers on the south side were ready.
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Mr Kostunica, left, said his cabinet could not agree a united policy
The Serbian government has urged President Boris Tadic to dissolve parliament and hold an early election.
The call follows the collapse of Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica’s governing coalition at the weekend.
Ministers failed to agree on whether to suspend ties with the European Union, in […]
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A female suicide bomber last struck in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad on Feb. 17, detonating herself after soldiers fired three bullets at her. Causalities were disputed in that attack, with Iraqi officials saying four people were killed, while the U.S. military said only the bomber died.
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Barack Obama last night rejected Hillary Clinton’s suggestion that he stand as her vice-president on a Democratic “dream ticket”.
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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero appeared to be headed for a resounding victory in the general election last night.
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JERUSALEM (March 9) - Israel announced plans Sunday to build hundreds
of homes in the West Bank and disputed east Jerusalem, setting off
another crisis in the embattled peace process ahead of the arrival
of a key U.S. mediator.
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The new commandments: The Vatican has issued a modern-day list of moral sins like polluting the environment
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A late-season winter storm slammed into the Ohio Valley on Saturday, forcing flight delays and cancellations at airports before heading out toward the eastern Great Lakes and the Northeast.
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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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Overview: Genocide in DarfurDisarming AfghanistanHugo Chavez - Quick BioFidel Castro Hands Over PowerAfrica’s 10 Great Challenges
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
It’s not surprising that the 82-year-old “Iron Lady” continues to have spells — this, a sudden feeling a faintness while dining at the House of Lords — that land her in the hospital for observation. (Though few would don the red dress and pearls to leave the hospital and […]
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There’s great joy throughout the region this weekend that the relentlessly negative campaign battle between Democrat Bill Foster and Republican Jim Oberweis for the West suburban 14th U.S. Congressional seat is finally over.
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