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Americans are paying for it, literally, with their tax dollars, and symbolically, diplomatically and politically, too, since now, human-rights-abusing governments around the world are simply ignoring their calls for justice against whomever they may apply their heavy-handed crackdowns. And someday, somewhere, if the news ever emerges that American civilians or military personnel have been tortured […]
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El Rey Juan Carlos de España alegró a mucha gente cuando le dijo al Presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez que se callara. Pero para muchos en las clases más marginadas de América Latina, el incidente les demostró que políticamente habían triunfado.
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BEIJING, April 22 — After weeks of expressing outrage at Western protests over Tibet and the Olympics, officials here have begun tempering their rhetoric in recent days and telling Chinese people to be “rational” about their response.
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NEW YORK, June 3 — In the heart of the Queens neighborhood known as Little Guyana, Mohamed Sattaur stood Sunday over his plate of deep-fried cassava, wearing an expression of disbelief. Like many of his neighbors, Sattaur, 46, a Muslim from Guyana, was stunned by the news that men from his country and faith had […]
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BOGOTA, Colombia, April 22 — Authorities on Tuesday arrested former senator Mario Uribe, a cousin and close ally of President Álvaro Uribe, for alleged ties to death squads in a widening inquiry that has implicated nearly a quarter of Colombia’s Congress.
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For scientists, global warming is a disaster movie, its opening scenes set at the poles of Earth. The epic already has started. And it’s not fiction.
The scenes are playing, at the start, in slow motion: The relentless grip of the Arctic Ocean that defied man for centuries is melting away. The sea ice reaches only […]
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JOHANNESBURG, April 22 — A Chinese ship carrying weapons and ammunition for Zimbabwe’s military may be headed back home, reports said, after repeated attempts to deliver its cargo were frustrated by a coalition of legal activists, union workers and human rights groups.
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BAGHDAD, April 22 — Sabriyah Hilal Abadi began sleeping with a loaded AK-47 by her bed shortly after the war began.
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KUWAIT CITY, April 21 — Iraq is resisting U.S. proposals for a pair of new bilateral security agreements, saying it expects Washington to compromise on “sensitive issues,” including the right to imprison Iraqi citizens unilaterally, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Monday.
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Iraqi Christians Struggle With Fear After Slayings
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has agreed to clarify intelligence alleging that it studied how to design nuclear bombs, a gesture the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief on Wednesday called a “milestone”.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton on Wednesday hoped for momentum from her decisive victory over Democratic rival Barack Obama in Pennsylvania to show she had the broad support to win the U.S. presidential election in November.
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Hillary Clinton has beaten rival Barack Obama in a critical vote in the state of Pennsylvania as the two battle to be the Democrats’ presidential candidate.
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Tehran has denied ever trying to make nuclear weapons and has rejected the evidence as fake. But U.S. intelligence agencies say Tehran experimented with such programs until 2003 and other countries believe it continued past that date.
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Hillary Clinton pulled off a thumping 10 percentage point victory over her rival Barack Obama in Pennsylvania.
The dramatic sweep of her victory last night threw a financial lifeline to
her near bankrupt campaign and boosted her case for remaining in the race.
“Some people counted me out and said to drop […]
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Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest, has been hit by the global credit crunch so badly that it has issued a memorandum to senior executives telling them that brothel visits and adult channels in hotel rooms cannot be claimed on expenses.
Irish employees of the bank, which has 78,000 workers worldwide, will also
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WASHINGTON (April 22) - An 84-year-old former U.S. Army mechanical engineer was arrested Tuesday on charges he slipped classified documents about nuclear weapons to an employee of the Israeli Consulate who also received information from convicted Pentagon spy Jonathan Pollard, authorities announced.
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Don’t tell us you’re too scared to pose in a bikini without the aid of an airbrush, Liz?Liz Hurley posed happily in her own bikini designs for Mango’s swimwear range. So onlookers were surprised to see her covered up at the exclusive presentation for the campaign in Madrid
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WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton has beaten rival Barack Obama in a do-or-die showdown in Pennsylvania, according to TV projections, prolonging the Democratic presidential race and keeping alive her White House hopes.
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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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The security situation in Afghanistan has been deteriorating in recent months as US-led forces have failed to quell the ongoing insurgency in the southern and eastern regions of the country.
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