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MANAGUA, Nicaragua — At a secret location somewhere in Nicaragua, shoulder-fired missiles capable of taking down a jetliner lie behind heavy fencing and locked double doors.
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BUENOS AIRES — The conservationists tend to get a little tense when they approach Egg 54, which sits alone on a metal tray inside an incubator, absorbing warm air like some sort of fragile, slow-baked potato.
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MEXICO CITY — Long before the devastating flooding this month in the state of Tabasco, Mexico’s behemoth state-run oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos, was pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into local government coffers for flood abatement projects.
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NAIROBI, March 26 — Islamist insurgents battling for control of Somalia briefly seized a strategic town Wednesday, the latest sign of how feeble the country’s internationally backed transitional government has become.
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DAYTON, Ohio, March 27 — President Bush hailed Iraqi leaders Thursday for making “remarkable” progress toward settling the deep-seated political disputes that have fueled the five-year-old war, and he called on critics in Congress to stop “hectoring” Baghdad over the pace of reconciliation.
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BEIJING, March 26 — In the moment, Canadian backpacker John Kenwood recalled, he was “young and stupid, and it was all adrenaline.” He was running, one in a mob of 200 or so, screaming, “Free Tibet!” and chasing riot police down a narrow street in downtown Lhasa in the early afternoon of March 14.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Tibetan monks stormed a news briefing at a temple in Lhasa on Thursday, accusing Chinese authorities of lying about recent unrest and saying the Dalai Lama had nothing to do with the violence, foreign reporters said.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama called for greater government regulation of the U.S. financial system on Thursday and proposed a new $30 billion economic stimulus plan to help homeowners.
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China rarely lets foreign reporters into Tibet under normal circumstances, so the media tour was meant to underscore the communist leadership’s determination to contain any damage ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August that was supposed to celebrate China as a modern, rising power.
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A worried Democratic party official has begun to describe Hillary Clinton’s strategy for winning the presidential nomination as the “Tonya Harding option”.
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Nicolas Sarkozy lavished praise on the courage and dynamism of the British people yesterday but urged them to play a fuller part in Europe.
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WASHINGTON (March 26) - President Bush sharply confronted China’s
President Hu Jintao on Wednesday about Beijing’s harsh crackdown in
Tibet, joining an international chorus of alarm just months before
the U.S. and the rest of the world parade to China for the
Olympics.
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Bruni’s pert pillbox hat was perfect. Poor Camilla looked like a pheasant crash-landed on her headDemure as a virgin bride, Mrs Sarkoxy arrived in Britain with an oh-so-chic hat perched on her gently curling hair. And then there was Camilla, wearing what can only be called roadkill, says AMANDA PLATELL
• President Sarkozy’s salute to […]
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BOGOTA - Colombia said it seized at least 30kg of uranium from the country’s biggest left-wing rebel group on Wednesday, the first time radioactive material has been linked to the four-decade-old guerrilla war.
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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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The Caspian Sea, the largest lake on earth, is rich in oil and natural gas.
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Pinch me, I must be dreaming: Saudi Arabia is calling for greater dialogue and openness between the world’s monotheistic religions. In the face of rising tensions over Mohammed cartoons, al-Qaida claiming Pope Benedict XVI is leading a crusade, and a stalled Middle East peace process, King Abdullah is saying […]
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If you didn’t know better, you might even have begun to suspect [Hillary Clinton] was hanging in there at least in part to do the maximum damage to her party’s nominee, weakening his chances in the fall and building the I-told-you-so case for Hillary in 2012. But that couldn’t be right. Right?…Melinda Henneberger (Slate)
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A genealogical study has linked the US Presidential hopefuls to the ancestors of celebrities.
Barack Obama is apparently distantly related to Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt whereas rival Hillary Clinton is linked to Pitt’s partner, Angelina Jolie.
Lucky Senator Obama can also count six Presidents - including incumbent George […]