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3.25pm Tokyo
I’m working today in a 4th floor office facing Shibuya, which is half a mile away. For the past half hour there have been increasing numbers of helicopters (six of them now, hired by TV companies, I assume) circling Shibuya at low altitude, and sirens audible. A friend, who is on the ground […]
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After the giggling fit suffered by one of radio’s most trusted voices, we round up a collection of moments broadcasters would prefer to forget.
A message for Radio 4 newsreader Charlotte Green, who lost her composure on the Today programme this morning: You are not alone.
Never preen in front of the autocue
The BBC Breakfast Show goes […]
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WASHINGTON — During his well-publicized endorsement of Barack Obama, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson praised the presidential candidate for his candor about race. “As a Hispanic, I was particularly touched by his words,” Richardson said, “Senator Obama has started a discussion in this country long overdue and rejects the politics of pitting race against race.”
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President Jimmy Carter once asked Americans to abandon an “inordinate fear of communism” that “led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear.” That was back in 1977, when a standard critique of American Cold War policies was that policymakers held a simplistic, monolithic view of communism. […]
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A divided NATO will not extend a blueprint for eventual membership to Ukraine and Georgia at the alliance’s summit in Bucharest next week. Instead, that gathering will focus on increasing European troop totals in Afghanistan and discussing a bold proposal by President Bush to link U.S., NATO and Russian missile defense systems within a single […]
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THE HAGUE, March 27 — A Dutch lawmaker known for his outspoken opposition to immigration posted a graphic film depicting Islam as a religion of violence on a maverick video-sharing Web site Thursday night after government and religious officials spent weeks trying to prevent its release.
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BEIJING, March 26 — Chinese state media reported Wednesday that nearly 1,000 people have surrendered to police following riots and protests in Tibet and neighboring provinces as Chinese officials tried to demonstrate control over the unrest.
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CASITAS, Mexico, Aug. 22 — Now, they wait. Wait and worry.
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BUENOS AIRES — The twisted mystery of an $800,000 suitcase confiscated in Argentina has kicked up so much dirt that almost everyone who gets near it — even if clean — is accused of being filthy.
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MEXICO CITY, Nov. 15 — Plans to extend the U.S. fence along the Mexican border are “medieval” and would severely damage the environment, threatening hundreds of plant species and animals, such as Mexican gray wolves, black bears and jaguars, according to a Mexican government report released Thursday.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, March 28 — On the eve of Saturday’s elections, many Zimbabweans say they have come to believe something that was once all but unthinkable: After nearly 28 years of unbroken power, President Robert Mugabe might lose.
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As U.S. warplanes attacked targets in Basra yesterday, Bush administration officials acknowledged that their hands-off strategy toward southern Iraq in recent years has left them with little knowledge of the conflicts among competing Shiite groups there and few ways of influencing them.
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BAGHDAD, March 28 — The gunfire struck like thunderclaps, building to a steady rhythm. American soldiers in a Stryker armored vehicle fired away from one end of the block. At the other end, two groups of Shiite militiamen pounded back with heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. American helicopters circled above in the blue afternoon […]
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By Cris Chinaka
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabweans began voting on Saturday in the most crucial election since independence from Britain in 1980, with veteran President Robert Mugabe facing the biggest challenge of his 28-year-rule.
Some voters slept at the polling stations while others began queuing before dawn. Voting began just after 7.00 a.m. (1:00 a.m. EDT) and […]
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HAMMOND, Indiana (Reuters) - Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton on Friday vowed to stay in the White House race, rejecting a fellow senator’s suggestion that she pull out to improve their party’s chances in November.
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Voters may be faced with confusing ballot papers
People in Zimbabwe are voting in an election that will decide whether President Robert Mugabe, in power since 1980, wins a sixth term in office.
His challengers are Morgan Tsvangirai of the MDC opposition party and Simba Makoni, a defector from Mr Mugabe’s Zanu-PF now standing as an independent.
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The American support occurred as Iraqi troops struggled against strong resistance in Basra and retaliation elsewhere in Shiite areas — including more salvos of rockets or mortars into the U.S.-protected Green Zone in Baghdad.
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HILLARY CLINTON’S campaign yesterday disowned a senior adviser who branded David Trimble, the former Northern Ireland First Minister, a sexist “crankpot” whose views were suspect because he was Protestant.
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A father who pushed his six-year-old son off a Greek hotel balcony may be prosecuted, after a coroner ruled yesterday that the child had been unlawfully killed.
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HAVANA (March 28) - Cuba said on Friday it will allow all
Cubans to buy and use mobile telephones for the first time in
the latest step by new President Raul Castro to improve access
to consumer goods.
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