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Jamie Lynn Spears’s mother has demanded her daughter gets a pre-nuptial agreement before marrying Casey Aldridge.
According to In Touch magazine, Lynne Spears is worried the 17-year-old will lose all her earnings from TV show Zoey 101 if the relationship falls apart.
A source said: “The contract is already drawn up and ready to go.
“Lynne’s […]
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The International Olympic Committee will discuss whether to terminate the international leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay if the event, already marred by radical anti-Chinese protests in London and Paris, is disrupted further in San Francisco, the next stage, sources close to the situation said Tuesday.
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Jyoti Amge is like any other 15-year-old girl. She likes watching DVDs and listening to pop music and dreams of becoming a movie star.
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Edwards Donors Going to Obama — Will John Folo The $$?
Interesting nugget from Congressional Quarterly today: A lot of former Edwards donors are now dropping their coins in Barack Obama’s kitty.
Here’s what CQ sez: “The analysis by CQ MoneyLine identified 287 former Edwards contributors who donated to Obama for the first time during his record-breaking […]
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The Australian daily the Age offers a summary of recent events in Tibet and what the fallout might mean for the communist government of China that controls the region. Meanwhile, some China watchers have noted that, given the intensity of its rhetoric lambasting the Dalai Lama, the exiled, Tibetan-Buddhist spiritual leader, the Beijing government might […]
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Richard Lloyd ParryTokyo
The Japanese property owner Joji Obara was acquitted of raping and killing the British bar hostess Lucie Blackman this morning in a devastating blow for her family and a grave embarrassment for Tokyo police and prosecutors.
Mr Obara received a life sentence in prison, nonetheless, after guilty verdicts on eight other charges of rape […]
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WASHINGTON — Strange as it might sound, my New Year’s resolution for 2008 is not for me but for Jose Miguel Insulza, secretary-general of the Organization of American States. I’d like him to be more presidential as leader of the watchdog for democracy in the Americas, and less of a wannabe president of Chile.
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India celebrated its 60th birthday last week with a raucous parliamentary debate over nuclear energy and its new strategic relationship with the United States. New Delhi had the air of the capital of an emerging world power looking ahead into a promising, if complicated, future.
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The Olympic torch arrived in San Francisco this morning amid heightened security concerns and a suggestion from Olympic organizers that disruptive protests could put the rest of the round-the-world relay at risk.
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Charm Tong was born in Burma’s conflict-lacerated countryside 26 years ago. She was 6 when her parents stuffed her into a straw basket strapped onto a donkey and sent her to join a caravan of villagers snaking its way through lush jungles to an orphanage inside the Thai border. Their desperate choice seemed a better […]
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TAIPEI, Taiwan, July 8 — The news came as a shock to many Taiwanese. After 63 years as a faithful ally of this self-ruled island, Costa Rica was switching diplomatic relations to mainland China, acknowledging that money was the big lure.
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Outside the office of Hector Timerman, Argentina’s new ambassador to Washington, across from an oval ballroom, are photographs of his 50 predecessors.
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Ten years ago, almost to the day, Jamie Rappaport Clark walked through the snow in Arizona’s Apache National Forest to release 11 Mexican wolves into the wilderness. At the time, Clark directed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and was confident she was beginning another successful effort to reintroduce wolves into the wild. Now, as […]
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ARCTURUS, Zimbabwe, April 7 — There was a thriving farm here once, big and lush and bursting with life. It grew potatoes and tomatoes, cut flowers for export, and wheat and corn. Dairy cows were here for milking, chickens for laying eggs. And the black Zimbabweans who did most of the work toiled in the […]
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In a reprise of their testimony last September, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker plan to tell Congress today and tomorrow that security has improved in Iraq and that the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has taken steps toward political reconciliation and economic stability.
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PARIS, April 7 — Thousands of rowdy demonstrators forced cancellation of the last leg of the Olympic torch ceremony in Paris on Monday with repeated attacks on the procession, escalating international protests over China’s human rights record ahead of the 2008 Games in Beijing this summer.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal stages a historic election on Thursday meant to rope a once-feared Maoist guerrilla army into democratic politics and bring an end to a once-loved 240-year-old Hindu monarchy.
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DALLAS (Reuters) - Authorities have now removed 401 children from a remote ranch in west Texas belonging to a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, local media reported on Monday.
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Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed were unlawfully killed due to the “gross negligence” of driver Henri Paul and the paparazzi, an inquest has found.
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The chaos started at the Eiffel Tower moments after the relay began. Green Party activist Sylvain Garel lunged for the first torchbearer, former hurdler Stephane Diagana, shouting “Freedom for the Chinese,” before security officials pulled him back.
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