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March 14, 2008 — ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkey blocked access to YouTube yesterday in response to a video clip deemed insulting to the country’s founder.
The state-run Anatolia news agency said an Ankara court […]
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Ever since he started doing his “Special Comment” feature two years ago, Keith Olbermann’s occasional personal commentaries at the end of his nightly “Countdown” show on MSNBC have been aimed largely at conservatives, namely G.W. Bush. We all remember when KO told the Prez, “You, sir, are a bold-faced liar.” And on another night, he […]
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In Scotland, there’s a man in a long, black dress (note to fashionistas: technically, a robe) and a cute pink belt, like a ribbon on a box of luscious bonbons, who also boasts naturally rouged cheeks that no make-up need accentuate. As one of the Roman Catholic Church’s main men in Scotland, this Bishop of […]
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In the good old days of the 1980s, as the Soviet Union was sagging to its doom, the country was led by a series of men about whom it could charitably be said that they might as well have been dead.
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WASHINGTON — Jesus Antonio Soriano had long wanted to give something back to his native Chalatenango, a province in northern El Salvador devastated by civil war in the 1980s. And so four years ago, the agronomist, with three partners, developed a plan to improve land values and create jobs by building a residential and recreational […]
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The striking thing about the present international situation is the degree to which America remains what Bill Clinton once called “the indispensable nation.” Despite global opinion polls registering broad hostility to George W. Bush’s United States, the behavior of governments and political leaders suggests America’s position in the world is not all that different from […]
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Iran is working to produce a 20-to-50-pound stockpile of enriched uranium that it can use to build atomic weapons within eight to 10 weeks, once it decides to do so — and has consistently lied to the United Nations about those efforts.
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The U.N. undersecretary general for communications said yesterday that a recent vote to delay action on a U.S.-backed effort to allow more managerial flexibility at the United Nations threatened to divide the institution. He also said the dispute was more about power than reform.
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LONDON, March 13 — Britons were up in arms on Thursday about the imposition of “sin taxes” that will increase the cost of alcohol, cigarettes, gas-guzzling cars and, potentially, plastic bags.
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BEIJING, March 14 — Police surrounded at least two Buddhist monasteries Thursday in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in an attempt to contain an increasingly desperate protest by monks who oppose China’s rule of the region, according to news reports.
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SANTIAGO ATITLAN, Guatemala The shaman looked annoyed.
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Colombia’s U.S.-backed security forces struck a major blow against the country’s main guerrilla group Saturday, for the first time tracking down and killing a member of the organization’s ruling echelon, the Defense Ministry said.
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MEXICO CITY, March 13 — The lower house of Mexico’s Congress launched a corruption investigation Thursday targeting the interior minister, a move that politically weakens the nation’s second most powerful official and imperils a major energy initiative.
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JOHANNESBURG — Author Heidi Holland’s route to her interview with one of the world’s most notorious dictators was a travelogue of decay, down crumbling streets, past half-empty stores, through neighborhoods where hawkers touted goods in an increasingly desperate bid to survive a once-proud nation’s collapse.
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BAGHDAD, March 13 — The body of a senior Christian cleric was found Thursday in the northern city of Mosul, two weeks after gunmen abducted him there and killed three of his associates.
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BERLIN, March 13 — Americans with PhDs beware: Telling people in Germany that you’re a doctor could land you in jail.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and Chadian President Idriss Deby signed a peace agreement on Thursday designed to end cross-border rebel attacks in a region which includes Sudan’s conflict-ravaged Darfur area.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives abruptly postponed a vote on a spy bill on Thursday after Democrats agreed to a Republican request to hold a rare secret session to discuss classified security matters.
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The 65-year-old archbishop was the latest in a long line of Chaldean clerics to be abducted in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003.
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Hill said the United States, South Korea and China were well on the way to living up to their commitment to provide energy aid to North Korea in exchange for the declaration and disarmament.
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