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Por primera vez en más de seis años, dos secuestradas de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia fueron liberadas la semana pasada. La participación del Presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez lo hizo posible y los colombianos estaban profundamente agradecidos, incluido el Presidente Ãlvaro Uribe.
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If an air and missile strike could destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program, it might seem the best of many bad options. But the likely costs outweigh the benefits.
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Pakistan is an unusual country — a nation capable of looking into the abyss, pausing briefly to consider its options and then jumping headfirst into darkness. The willingness to go splat has been the backbone of Pakistan’s national survival strategy for its 60-year history.
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It fell to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala , barely 13 at the start of the Nigeria-Biafra war, to save her baby sister, struck down with malaria. Her father had joined the Biafran army, and her mother was too ill and weak to tend to her sick child.
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HAVANA — At first glance, the trophy wall in the Cactus on 33rd restaurant seems to follow a standard local formula.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 12 — Taiwan’s main opposition group, the Nationalist Party, called on its supporters Wednesday to boycott a government-sponsored referendum asking whether the island should apply for U.N. membership under the name Taiwan. The move appeared likely to reduce the chances that the referendum would succeed.
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MEXICO CITY, Oct. 7 — Costa Rica appeared headed late Sunday toward approval of a trade pact with the United States after a count of 88.7 percent of polling stations showed 51.6 percent of voters in favor of the trade deal. The balloting follows a contentious campaign marked by a scandal that toppled one of […]
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RECIFE, Brazil, March 3 — More accusations of cross-border meddling intensified diplomatic tensions Monday between Colombia and its neighbors Ecuador and Venezuela, as other Latin American leaders tried to defuse a crisis they fear could threaten regional stability.
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MEXICO CITY — It was a big idea. Huge, in fact.
The mayor of Mexico City wanted to build the world’s biggest ice rink in one of the world’s biggest squares in the middle of one of the world’s biggest cities. The super-size idea became reality in early December when the city inaugurated a 34,000-square-foot ice […]
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MONROVIA, Liberia — So brazen were the robbers in parts of Monrovia’s Paynesville district that they often sang a terrifying serenade, “I Hear My Blessing Coming,” in the moments before they lifted their victims into the air, rifled through their pockets and ran off into the night.
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The top U.S. commander in the Middle East, whose views on strategy in the region have put him at odds with the Bush administration, abruptly announced his resignation yesterday, calling reports of such disagreements an untenable “distraction.”
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NEW DELHI — Every year in March, Bir Bahadur Singh goes to the local Sikh shrine and narrates the grim events of the long night six decades ago when 26 women in his family offered their necks to the sword for the sake of honor.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas publicly set its terms on Wednesday for a ceasefire with Israel, calling for an end to Israeli raids in Palestinian territory and a reopening of Gaza border crossings.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama easily beat rival Hillary Clinton in Mississippi on Tuesday, giving him new momentum in their heated presidential fight as they head to the next showdown in Pennsylvania in six weeks.
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Adm Fallon reportedly called the Esquire article “poison-pen stuff”
The resignation of the commander of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan does not signal a policy change on Iran, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says.
Admiral William Fallon said on Tuesday he was stepping down because of public perceptions of a rift with Mr Bush.
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Chicago lawyer H. Candace Gorman, who represents a Guantanamo detainee, said she learned on a recent visit with her client that prisoners will be allowed to speak with their families for one hour every six months.
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Tom Leonard in New York
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Residents on the southern coast of England were braced for possible further flooding last night, after authorities warned of more severe storms.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (March 11) - The Netherlands’ highest court on
Tuesday rejected a gay Iranian’s last-ditch appeal to avoid
deportation to Britain, where he fears authorities will send him
back to Tehran and possible execution.
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The 15-year-old from Devon is said to have been high on drugs and drunk when she was raped and murdered on a holiday beach while her mother and family were in another part of India.
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