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Well after midnight, hours after they declared the North Carolina result, the former first lady had taken Indiana by just 21,000 votes out of 1.2million ballots cast for a victory margin of 51 percent to 49 percent.
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YANGON - Myanmar’s military government came under pressure on Wednesday to open its borders to international help after a devastating cyclone that a US diplomat said may have killed more than 100,000 people.
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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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As the Afghan constitutional assembly or Loya Jirga is at the end of its third week, the 500-member gathering is still to ratify a single article of the country’s post conflict constitution.
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
And further hampered by a few points:
The unwillingness of the military junta to ask “enemies” for help
The abject poverty created by the junta’s leadership, as well as general distrust of the people for the regime due to years of brutal rule
The continued denial of visas to […]
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Every time I walk past the big and often nearly empty Garmin GPS store on North Michigan Avenue—coordinates 41 degrees 53.65 minutes north latitude, 87 degrees 37.45 minutes west longitude—I wonder why more people don’t.
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Things have been a bit quiet on the blog front for the last few days with Sky.com News off air over the bank holiday. On tonight’s show we are talking travel and terminal 5 and the new Russian President. No mention of US elections tonight though - its a popular topic online but our […]
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Josef Fritzl planned to build his secret dungeon six years before he actually imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth. Austrian police also say there were eight locked doors separating the cellar prison from the rest of the house. Sky’s Greg Milam reports.
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Skins has won this year’s Rose d’Or award for best drama.
The awards are presented annually at the Rose D’Or television festival in Lucerne, Switzerland and recognise the best of television from broadcasters around the globe.
The judges said of Skins: “The action is enhanced by an irreverent comedic approach, which in no way reduces its emotional […]
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The Chaiten volcano spewed lava and blasted ash 12 miles into the sky on Tuesday, prompting officials to order a total evacuation of nearby area.
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DEATHS SOARING TOWARD 60K
MYANMAR JUNTA FINALLY OKS STORM AID
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YANGON, Myanmar - The cyclone death toll soared above 22,000 yesterday and more than 41,000 others were missing as foreign countries mobilized to rush in aid, state radio reported.
Up to 1 million people may be homeless after […]
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We just heard from conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, who described his goals for ”Operation Chaos” for the first time in print last week in The Chronicle.
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With the death toll from Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar last Saturday, now surpassing 22,000, the “number of people reported missing has risen to 41,000″ and millions “are still without water and electricity.” (Radio Netherlands) The catastrophic effects of the natural disaster have put the country’s military dictators on the spot. Last September, they showed […]
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WASHINGTON — A few years ago, Bolivia’s dependence on Washington as a source of cash was such that its ministers made frequent treks begging for loans to meet the government payroll. They usually had no trouble getting them because Bolivia could be counted on to follow to the letter the economic prescriptions of the international […]
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Who is changing the way people work, think, consume or create? Innovators, a regular feature beginning today, will profile some of the world’s ground-breakers and contrarians, problem solvers and restless minds.
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An excerpt from “Secrets of Tibet,” one of the few poems by Woeser that have been translated into English:
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GUATEMALA CITY — Day and night, workers at the port of Quetzal on Guatemala’s Pacific coast load fruit from surrounding plantations and clothing stitched in local factories onto freighters bound for Long Beach, Calif., a flow of goods that has swelled since a Central American trade agreement with the United States took force last year.
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SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia, Dec. 6 — Evo Morales has always maintained that the cornerstone of his presidency would be a new constitution that fundamentally alters the country’s social order.
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NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — The job offer was tempting.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Troops fired into tens of thousands of rioting Somalis on Monday, killing two people in the latest eruption of violence over soaring food prices around the world.
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