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President Bush announced yesterday that he is sending a Colombian free-trade agreement to Congress, moving toward a confrontation with Democrats and labor unions that he could lose during a hotly contested election year. Read more
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MEXICO CITY, Nov. 14 — Mexican President Felipe Calderón took the unusual step Wednesday of injecting himself into U.S. presidential politics, calling Mexican migrants “thematic hostages” of the race and urging candidates not to use them as a talking point. Read more
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 8 — Opposition officials accused President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday of deploying ruling party supporters to beat and intimidate opponents as his government prepared for a second and decisive round of voting in the presidential election. Read more
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Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker returned to Congress this morning to urge House lawmakers to support a pause in troop withdrawals from Iraq, a day after pleading with skeptical senators that such a halt is necessary to consolidate security gains after five years of war. Read more
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BARINAS, Venezuela — Wilmer Azuaje is baby-faced, and his house here in this provincial capital is decorated with kitsch, including a giant painting of a voluptuous, naked blonde. Read more
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Twenty people were killed in Baghdad’s Shi’ite slum of Sadr City on Wednesday, security sources said, despite vehicle bans aimed at preventing unrest from spreading on the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush proposed on Wednesday expanding a program to help homeowners meet mortgage payments while Democratic lawmakers pressed ahead with a broader plan, setting the stage for a political showdown over how best to aid the housing market. Read more
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The IMF forecasts that the US economy will grow by just 0.5% during 2008 and will actually contract in the first half of the year. Read more
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Channel 2 TV said the militants cut through a border fence to enter Israeli territory, killed two workers at the fuel terminal, and set fuel depots afire. Read more
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GENERAL David Petraeus called the achievements of the US Army “surge” in Iraq “fragile and reversible” and said that Iran now posed the greatest long-term threat to achieving stability in the country and the region. Read more
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When the News of the World revealed that Max Mosley, the president of Formula 1 and son of the fascist poseur Oswald, had been videotaped in a basement enjoying sadomasochistic sex with five prostitutes dressed in Nazi death-camp uniforms, it had no hesitation in calling the activity an orgy. Read more
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MADINAT ZAYED, United Arab Emirates (April – Dubai’s crown prince paid $2.7 million for a camel during a desert festival celebrating Bedouin traditions in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, state-run media said Tuesday. Read more
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Mr Obama, who voted against the war, described the conflict as a “massive strategic blunder”, but Mr McCain said he believed US forces are succeeding and it would be the “height of irresponsibility” to pull out before the country is ready. Read more
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WELLINGTON – The Fire Service will provide around the clock monitoring service for civil defence emergencies, Civil Defence Minister Rick Barker says. Read more
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts. Read more
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Government officials eradicate a poppy field. Read more
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism How often does a journalist get to use that headline without referring to knockoff DVDs? In fact, this photo of Tanzanian-flagged fishing trawlers Mavuno I and Mavuno II meeting up with a U.S. Navy ship after being released from pirate control Nov. 4, 2007, in the Indian [...]
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This question has come up many times here in the discussion thread concerning the tirade that Ill. Rep. Monique Davis (D. Chicago) directed last week at atheist activist Rob Sherman of Buffalo Grove. Read more
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To get up to speed with the stories and videos moving across the web today, including the future of the internet; is it doomed? Click here to find out more. Read more
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General David Petraeus, the man in charge of the US troop surge in Iraq, tells Sky’s political editor Adam Boulton why he believes history will judge the war as an “honourable” one. Read more