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HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 23 — The beaten, the battered and the bruised have straggled in from Zimbabwe’s terrified countryside over the past two weeks. And they have set up camp in Harvest House, a dingy downtown office block that has long been the headquarters of opposition politics. Now it has the grim, grimy look of […]
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MANAMA (Reuters) - NATO’s secretary-general told Gulf Arab states on Thursday that Iran’s nuclear ambitions were a major threat to regional stability.
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By Arshad Mohammed and Paul Eckert
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States laid out intelligence on Thursday it believes shows North Korea helped Syria build a suspected nuclear reactor destroyed by Israel last year, a step that may complicate its diplomacy both on the Korean Peninsula and in the Middle East.
In breaking its official silence on […]
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Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was the “clear victor” of last month’s poll, a top US envoy says.
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“I was sitting in the front of the boat. The boat was speeding,” Boucher said through an interpreter, his eyes filling with tears. “Water was coming inside of the boat and we couldn’t see where it was coming from. Women started screaming to turn back.”
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A defiant Hillary Clinton took her campaign to Indiana yesterday, fresh from a convincing victory in Pennsylvania that kept alive her slim hopes of seizing the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
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A quarter of a century ago, a German reporter called Gerd Heidemann shocked the world when he claimed he had unearthed the diaries of Adolf Hitler.
It was a great story – and would have been even greater had it been true.
Now, still licking his wounds, the formerStern magazine journalist is living
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Padre Pio, who died in 1968 at age 81, was a mystic monk who
many Catholic faithful believe bore “stigmata,” or wounds like
those Jesus suffered at his crucifixion, on his hands and feet. He
was made a saint in 2002.
Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Vatican’s sainthood
office, lead an open-air Mass for thousands of faithful before […]
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Intelligence officials were set to show members of the U.S. Congress a video recording and other “extremely compelling” evidence showing that Syria had been constructing a reactor with North Korean assistance before it was bombed by Israeli planes in September last year.
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SYDNEY - A New Zealand man has pleaded guilty to drink-driving and causing the death of a female pedestrian when his 4WD mounted the kerb in Sydney’s Chinatown.
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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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Hugo Chavez - Quick BioTop Ten World Oil ExportersThe 1994 Rwandan GenocideDisarming AfghanistanChildren in Afghanistan
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
If you’re of the faint of heart or sensitive to the discussion of certain sensitive body parts, don’t read on. If you love the kind of odd news that Reuters dishes out on a daily basis, read on.
So nobody’s ever surprised at a story of violence in Congo. This […]
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Coming up later will be more on today’s theme of Disunited Kingdom, more on Prince William being made Knight of the Garter and the best of the popular web videos. To whet your appetite, check out this dramatic CCTV of a family’s close call.
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The Olympic torch has arrived in Australia on the next leg of its relay around the world. Hundreds of police have been drafted in to guard the flame from the anti-Chinese protests which have plagued its journey so far. Sky’s Peter Sharp reports.
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Yoko Ono is taking Massachusetts-based World Wide Video to court over footage that shows her late husband John Lennon smoking marijuana.
Recorded in 1970, the video shows Lennon smoking drugs, writing songs and talking about spiking President Richard Nixon’s tea with LSD.
World Wide Video, which is claiming ownership of the nine hours of footage, wants […]
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“It’s an interesting question. I’m not aware of anyone else looking at it in this mannerâ€
Snips and snails and puppydog tails … and cereal and bananas? That could be what little boys are made of, according to surprising new research suggesting that what a woman eats before pregnancy influences the …
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Last night’s election gave doubt root. Sen. Barack Obama’s 11-contest winning streak is a distant memory and the exit polls spell nothing but trouble: deep splits by age, race, religion, gender, urban and rural, on down the line.
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