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The parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann may be entitled to see the Portuguese police case against them within two weeks, one of their lawyers said yesterday.
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DUBLIN, Ireland (April 2) - Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, who helped broker peace in Northern Ireland but couldn’t survive a scandal over his collection of cash from businessmen, announced Wednesday he will resign.
Ahern said at a surprise news conference he would step down May 6 after 11 years as Ireland’s leader. He denied ever […]
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Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai looks set to be declared president after winning the election.
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Bertie Ahern will step down as Ireland’s prime minister on May 6 to fight corruption allegations that have dogged his final term in office and risk tarnishing his legacy of helping deliver peace in Northern Ireland.
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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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Hezbollah supporters, including some Christians, have camped outside the office of Lebanese prime minister, Fouad Siniora, for a third day. They are calling for Lebanon’s Western-backed government to step down.
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Argentina is no stranger to financial crisis: Seven years ago, a crumbling economy brought the government to its knees. But now, just a few months after succeeding her husband, Nestor Kirchner, as president, Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner seems to be at a loss in the third week of a farmers’ strike […]
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Illinois
students today celebrated the launch of CivilUnionsIllinois.org , a grassroots effort of students who
came together through social networking sites like facebook.com to support
Ill. Rep. Greg Harris’ (D.-Chicago) historic civil unions legislation….
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The programme is coming along nicely. Stories have been found moving across the web, including news of research into whether sleeping patterns can lead to unhealthy weight gain. To find out more about this story and the rest of tonight’s Sky.com News agenda click here.
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The main opposition party in Zimbabwe is releasing more evidence that it claims shows it won last weekend’s election. MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has denied his party is in talks with Mr Mugabe about is future. Sky’s Emma Hurd is inside Zimbabwe.
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David Beckham has revealed that his mother was unhappy with pictures of him posing in his pants for Emporio Armani.
The advertising campaign featured a black and white photo of the England footballer sitting in a pair of tight black briefs.
Speaking about the £20 million deal to Jay Leno, Beckham said he found it hard […]
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Kingston has one of the highest crime rates in the world Jamaica’s poor have been abandoned by the government and left to the mercy of violent criminal gangs, Amnesty International says in a new report.
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April 2, 2008 — GENEVA - Pakistan has dropped out of a $59.6 million Swiss money-laundering case against the widower of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, its lawyers said yesterday.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton said today she was ending her 40-year campaign for the presidency, confessing a baffling and uncontrollable propensity to fib about sniper fire and war votes. She also admitted that she had never once finished an entire Rocky movie, and personally preferred French expressionist films.
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Snapshots from Zimbabwe, in southern Africa, where longtime dictator-president Robert Mugabe’s bag of dirty tricks might be coming up empty, at last - or maybe not, since many voters believe he may still try to steal the election that took place last Saturday; after all, the national electoral commission, which Mugabe’s regime controls, is taking […]
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Like serious minded newspapers around the world, the Schweriner Volkszeitung of northern Germany gave a good deal of coverage to the Group of Eight Summit in Heiligendamm. Apart from news reports on the deliberations of the heads of government, and weighty analysis of the issues at stake, the paper ran brief profiles of the leaders […]
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Are you an April Fool? Read the selection of stories from around the world today and see if you can work out which are true and which are spoofs.
1. The BBC will today broadcast the first ever footage of flying penguins. Until this unique colony was discovered while filming on King George Island, 750 […]
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WASHINGTON — Angelica Vivar sat in the waiting room of a clinic outside Washington this month, eager to share her positive outlook on life.
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In the unfolding drama of Ukraine, the Bush administration and the European Union have committed a flagrant act of transatlantic cooperation. If Ukrainians eventually vote in a free and fair election and thereby thwart the reemergence of an authoritarian Russian empire along the borders of democratic Europe, it will be one of […]
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Willful optimism is Tony Blair’s strong suit. He hurls himself at hard cases with ironclad confidence in his ability to make history see reason. Take the liberation of Kosovo, which he spearheaded, or Northern Ireland’s peace accord, which he coaxed into being. For less happy results, take the war in Iraq.
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