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See No Evil - Saudi Arabia & Terrorism - Robert Baer, author of See No Evil, the book upon which the George Clooney movie, Syriana, was based, discusses Saudi Arabia’s role in supporting terrorists and how US dependence on Saudi oil has hampered the United States’ ability to fight terrorism. (Buzzflash.com)
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
After Felipe Calderon was sworn in as Mexico’s president in late 2006, one of his first actions was to send troops to Michoacan state — his native state — to crack down on bloody battles between rival drug gangs. But his get-tough policy on drugs seems to have had […]
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On Monday evening, well into the comment frenzy over the story about the verbal attack that Ill. Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) made on atheist activist Rob Sherman, reader “Tony” made note of a passage from Rob Sherman’s Web site where Sherman had written:
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Martin’s on his hols for a couple of weeks which means that the show has “caretaker” presenters in his absence: last night we had Paula Middlehurst…and incidentally, online viewers got the added bonus of a behind the scenes tour at the end of the show as camera 7 followed her down the stairs to the […]
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Five British women have been killed in a bus crash in Ecuador. There had previously been warnings about the hazardous road conditions in the area. Sky reporter Tessa Chapman spoke to presenter Sasha Twining about the story.
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He’s been a sexy elf, a dashing swash-buckler and an incredibly pretty Prince - it’s about time Orlando Bloom got his own Picture Special. Maggie from Extras might want to look away now, but everyone else should prepare to swoon themselves stupid!
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Haiti’s government fell on Saturday when senators fired the prime minister after more than a week of riots over food prices, ignoring a plan presented by the president to slash the cost of rice.
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April 13, 2008 — With global pressure increasing for a boycott of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, China’s president yesterday for the first time addressed the controversy around his harsh crackdown in Tibet, calling it an internal matter that threatens the nation’s unity.
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The teflon prince Obama finally did it. Just when Bill Clinton was reminding anyyone who had forgotten that his wife not just once but repeatedly claimed, falsely, to be dodging sniper fire on the tarmac, Sen. Barack Obama managed a real gaffe, famously defined by Michael Kinsley as a politician telling the truth, or in […]
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That sound the governments of the U.S., Britain, France, Israel and other concerned countries are hearing now is that of 6000 centrifuges spinning, spinning, spinning away in Iran.
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Four days after the murder of Lindsay Hawker, the British teacher found strangled in a Tokyo suburb, Japanese police raided a suburban sex motel yesterday in a vain search for the Japanese man suspected of killing her.
A team of twenty officers took up positions around the Hotel Chateau, a “love hotel” in Nishi-Funabashi, […]
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WASHINGTON — When the international financial crisis of the late 1990s hit Latin America hard, regional leaders pledged to find their own path to recovery and reduce their dependence on Washington-based lending institutions. Nobody could have imagined at the time that the U.S. would be the epicenter of the next international turbulence, a global credit […]
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The most intense arguments over U.S. involvement in Iraq do not flare at this point on Capitol Hill or on the campaign trail. Those rhetorical battles pale in comparison to the high-stakes struggle being waged behind closed doors at the Pentagon.
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Former Irish president Patrick Hillery, 84, died April 12 in Dublin after a brief undisclosed illness.
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BEIJING — As Chinese security forces blanketed Tibet and other Tibetan-inhabited areas over the past month, the regular army remained discreetly in the background, under orders to let police take the lead in suppressing the unrest that exploded in Lhasa and quickly spread to adjoining provinces.
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NEWPORT, R.I., June 28 — President Bush on Thursday openly anticipated the death of ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro, picturing it as an opportunity to bring freedom to the Caribbean island after nearly half a century of iron-fisted rule by the fiery communist leader.
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ELORZA, Venezuela — Facing criticism that cocaine trafficking is out of control, Venezuela’s government this year has embarked on an aggressive program to track drug-smuggling planes and destroy clandestine airstrips used by Colombian drug clans, Venezuelan drug enforcement and military officials said in a series of interviews.
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TIJUANA, Mexico — Assassins blasted Ricardo Rosas Alvarado, a member of an elite state police force, with a blizzard of bullets pumped out of AK-47 assault rifles.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 10 — Zimbabwe’s opposition party announced Thursday that it plans to boycott any runoff election with President Robert Mugabe. The move abruptly halted the political momentum toward a second and decisive round of balloting that many voters hoped would finally topple their president after 28 years in power.
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Last week’s violence in Basra and Baghdad has convinced the Bush administration that actions by Iran, and not al-Qaeda, are the primary threat inside Iraq, and has sparked a broad reassessment of policy in the region, according to senior U.S. officials.
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