Putin’s Guessing Games
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MOSCOW — Put Iowa and New Hampshire on the back burner for a moment: Election fever also grips Russia, which chooses a new Duma in December and a president in March.
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Risking His Life for Grass-Roots Environmentalism
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S ilas Kpanan’Ayuong Siakor is more than an environmental hero. He helped save a nation.
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London’s Political Theater
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LONDON — The incumbent buys London’s bus fuel from Venezuelan President Hugo Ch¿vez and raises newts for fun. The challenger is a conservative product of England’s snootiest schools who has made a career out of wit and a startling squall of white-blond hair.
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U.S. Markets Fluctuate After Bear Stearns News
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U.S. stocks stabilized midday today after an early morning plunge that saw jittery investors dumping financial shares on news that venerable investment bank Bear Stearns would be sold at a fire-sale price.
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Fed Takes Broad Action to Avert Financial Crisis
OPINION: A Bear Stearns Market
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Guatemalan Businessman, Ex-General Head to Runoff
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ANTIGUA, Guatemala, Sept. 10 — Three-time presidential candidate Ãlvaro Colom and former army general Otto Pérez Molina easily outdistanced 12 opponents in Sunday’s presidential election and will face each other in a Nov. 4 runoff, according to results announced Monday.
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And Then There Was One
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There’s an Indian living in the woods around here, some local ranch hands were saying in 1996. He wears no clothes. Get near him, and he vanishes. He is utterly alone.
Marcelo knew a lot about elusive Indians — more than just about anyone. He was a sertanista, a uniquely Brazilian profession that is part jungle […]
Beyond the Border of War
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TORONTO In from the cold they come, gangly young men and graying grandfathers alike, filling a downtown church with the kind of polite anticipation more befitting an afternoon wedding than an antiwar rally. Banners dangle from the choir loft, bearing the same appeal as the T-shirts for sale in the foyer: “Let Them Stay.”
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Report: Kenya’s Post-Election Violence ‘Meticulously’ Organized
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NAIROBI, March 17– Post-election attacks on villagers in Kenya’s western Rift Valley were often “meticulously” organized by local opposition leaders who called for “war” against people from President Mwai Kibaki’s Kikuyu tribe, according to a report by the group Human Rights Watch released Monday.
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In Iraq, Cheney Praises ‘Remarkable Turnaround’
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Vice President Cheney, making an unannounced visit to Baghdad this morning, hailed the progress made by U.S. forces in stabilizing Iraq in recent months and declared that five years of war and nation-building have produced a “successful endeavor” that has “been well worth the effort.”
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Police Crack Down on Anti-Chinese Violence in Tibet
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BEIJING, March 17 — Vowing a harsh crackdown, Chinese police conducted house-to-house searches in central Lhasa Monday and rounded up hundreds of Tibetans suspected of participating in a deadly outburst of anti-Chinese violence, exile groups and residents reported.
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China says using restraint to quell Tibet unrest
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Monday it had shown great restraint in the face of violent protests by Tibetans, which it said were orchestrated by followers of the Dalai Lama seeking to wreck the Beijing Olympics in August.
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JPMorgan to buy Bear, Fed opens lending to Wall St
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co set a deal to buy stricken rival Bear Stearns for a rock-bottom price, while the U.S. Federal Reserve expanded lending to securities firms for the first time since the Great Depression to prop up the financial system.
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Kosovo clashes force UN pullout
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Kosovo Serbs are refusing to recognise Pristina’s authority
United Nations police in Kosovo have been forced to withdraw from Serb areas in the divided city of Mitrovica after clashes with Serb demonstrators.
At least 22 UN police and two Nato troops were reported injured after a raid to retake a court seized by Serbs.
Troops used teargas as […]
Baghdad rocked as McCain, Cheney visit (AP)
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McCain, the Republican party’s likely presidential nominee who has linked his political future to U.S. military success in Iraq, met Monday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shortly before the Iraqi leader began talks with Cheney.
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Four killed as crane crushes NY building
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A giant crane fell and crushed a residential building in Manhattan at the weekend killing four construction workers.
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Emigration and despair stalks small Polish town that nearly ‘choked to death’
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There can be few places in Poland that have endured as much tragedy as the village of Sczcucin, just 100 miles north of Krakow.
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Nazi Pilot Fears He Killed Saint-Exupery
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PARIS (March 16) - Horst Rippert, an 88-year old former
pilot of Germany’s Luftwaffe, has said in a forthcoming book
that he may have killed French writer and war pilot Antoine de
Saint-Exupery in 1944.
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The body of Antoine de Saint-Exupery was never recovered after his his plane came down near Marseilles while on a reconnaissance mission […]
Violent Tibet protests spead as fears of Tiananmen-style crackdown increase
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Holly doesn’t disappoint for Dancing On Ice final: Presenter steals the show with revealing black dressHolly Willoughby hosted the Dancing on Ice final tonight wearing one of her most daring dresses yet
Up close and personal: Sarah and Nicola get cosy after a Girls Aloud night outLooking more glamorous than ever, Sarah Harding and Nicola Roberts […]
Second spacewalk for astronauts (+video)
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The crew of the NASA space shuttle Endeavour has gone on the second space walk of their current mission.
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Overview: Africa's Civil Wars
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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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