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TAIPEI, March 22 — Ma Ying-jeou, a smooth Harvard law graduate who advocates better relations with China, was elected president of Taiwan by an overwhelming margin Saturday, opening the prospect of lowered tensions in the volatile Taiwan Strait.
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BOGOTA, Colombia — An investigation by the Colombian Defense Ministry has found that drug traffickers and rebels from the country’s largest guerrilla group infiltrated the U.S.-backed military here, paying high-ranking officers for classified information to help elude capture and continue smuggling cocaine.
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TAILANDIA, Brazil — The Brazilian government has launched an aggressive crackdown on logging in the Amazon, an operation that pits environmental regulators against people who say they depend on those protected resources to survive.
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MORELIA, Mexico — Sergio Gómez roared into town in a big SUV, entourage in tow, pressed suits, fancy cowboy boots.
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It was an unexpected journey by attorneys for the elusive Joseph Kony, a Ugandan rebel commander with messianic delusions and a ghoulish human rights record. The legal delegation went on an exploratory mission earlier this month to the International Criminal Court, which wants Kony tried on war crimes charges for his role leading the Lord’s […]
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UNITED NATIONS — In the months leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration threatened trade reprisals against friendly countries who withheld their support, spied on its allies, and pressed for the recall of U.N. envoys that resisted U.S. pressure to endorse the war, according to an upcoming book by a top […]
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PEREIRA, Colombia — Hungry, desperate and afraid for his life, Pedro Pablo Montoya shot the commander he was supposed to protect. He then severed the commander’s right hand — as proof he’d killed one of Colombia’s most wanted men — and deserted the once-powerful rebel group to which he had pledged allegiance.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Around 100 anti-war protesters were arrested trying to force their way into NATO’s headquarters in Belgium on Saturday, police said.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan’s main opposition Nationalist Party won the presidential election by a landslide on Saturday, heralding improved ties with giant neighbor China which claims the self-ruled island as its own.
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Opposition’s Ma wins Taiwan poll
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Taiwan and the mainland split amid civil war in 1949, but China still considers the island to be part of its territory. Beijing has threatened to attack if Taiwan rejects unification and seeks a permanent break.
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BARACK Obama received a much-needed boost yesterday when he was endorsed by Bill Richardson, the Hispanic former presidential candidate.
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The family of Shannon Matthews is today facing the agony of not having her back home for Easter.
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A day after a bin Laden audio on a militant Web site threatened Europeans, Al-Jazeera TV broadcast audio excerpts attributed to the al-Qaida leader that urge Palestinians to ignore political parties “mired in trickery of the blasphemous democracy” and to rely on armed might.
“Palestine cannot be retaken by negotiations and dialogue, but with fire and […]
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Police said post-mortem tests showed the 15-year-old had cocaine, morphine and alcohol in her system.
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WASHINGTON - The US State Department apologised on Friday that its workers had snooped into the passport files of presidential candidates senators Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
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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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Here are, in no particular order, some of the world’s most notorious leaders. To win a spot on this list, individuals had to have 1) recently held a position of significant power or influence and 2) have a disproportionately negative impact on human welfare (or at least have enough people claiming so)
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Imagine being suspicious of the government to begin with after years of strife, and then somebody comes along and marks your house, then your neighbor’s, then on down the block. Well, this is President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s Liberia now, and the census is key to her effort to rebuild […]
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Today’s news item, ‘Puff, the Magic Dragon’ not about drugs, says Yarrow inspires me to re-publish the 2003 column in which I revealed the unofficial but very satisfying last verse to Yarrow’s otherwise very melancholy song of lost youth:
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