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DMITRY Medvedev, Russia‘s new president, delivered a coded rebuke to the West yesterday as Russia paraded its nuclear missiles through Red Square in a show of force not seen since Soviet times. Read more
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BEIRUT, Lebanon (May 10) – Hezbollah gunmen were melting away from the streets of Beirut late Saturday, heeding an army call to clear out fighters after the Shiite militants demonstrated their military might in a power struggle with the U.S.-backed government. Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, in his first [...]
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Two Red Cross planes loaded with emergency relief supplies have now landed in the stricken country with another due to land later today. Read more
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For the people living alongside the Payapon River – a branch of the mighty Irrawaddy – the slow-moving waters have always been a sustainer of life. The river has provided irrigation for their crops, as well as clean water for bathing, and the fish from which so many make their livelihoods. Read more
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CIA World Factbook – United Arab EmiratesA primer on the United Arab Emirates’ leaders, geography, demographics, economy, military, infrastructure, and more. Read more
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As about a million Burmese have no roof over their heads, and up to 100,000 have perished in Cyclone Nargis, the junta in Myanmar is trying to push Burmese to the polls today to vote on a constitutional referendum. The lack of response to the victims — like hampering international aid efforts — is staggering, [...]
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Tonight on Sky.Com News – the latest on the crisis in Burma plus the most clicked stories. Also – how safe are travel networking websites? For more of what’s on at 7.30pm tonight, click here. When our TV viewers go to the break, web viewers stay with us as Martin serves up more of the [...]
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Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, said: “We have already seen regional commanders putting their names on the side of aid shipments from Asia, saying this was gift from them and then distributing it in their region. Read more
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Ashes To Ashes star Philip Glenister has admitted to turning into his iconic character Gene Hunt in order to evade speeding tickets. Glenister told Virgin Radio about an incident when his chauffeur was recently pulled over for speeding: “This copper is questioning [my driver] about his speed so I wound the window down and just [...]
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The World Food Programme has halted aid shipments to Burma after the contents of its first delivery were impounded on arrival in the military-ruled country. Read more
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‘EHUD WILL KILL ME’ LI WITNESS VOICES FEAR IN ISRAEL By TODD VENEZIA Loading new images… May 10, 2008 — The Long Island businessman at the center of a bribery scandal threatening to bring down Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he fears the leader may send thugs to silence him. Morris Talansky – who [...]
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California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a super delegate supporting Sen. Hillary Clinton for president, told reporters on Capitol Hill today that she spoke with Clinton today about her strategy going forward. Read more
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So asks Germany’s RP Online in the aftermath of this week’s North Carolina and Indiana Democratic presidential primaries. The New York Senator and Democratic presidential aspirant is now “looking for a way out” of her candidacy, France’s Libération notes, as neither her “combative rhetoric” nor her “determination to want to stay in the race” have [...]
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WASHINGTON — The decline of U.S. influence in the world has been fodder for a lot of media analysis lately. “We’re just not that strong anymore,” columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote this week in The New York Times. “We are not who we think we are. We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes.” [...]
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MOSCOW, May 9 — The Red Square parade, once a Soviet standard, enjoyed a revival Friday as phalanxes of military hardware, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, rumbled noisily over paving stones to deliver a message: The bear is back. Read more
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TOKYO, May 9 — The two economic giants of Asia courted each other this week during a five-day visit to Japan by Chinese President Hu Jintao that played down wartime grudges and played up pragmatic cooperation. Read more
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Rufina Amaya, the woman who was often identified as the last, or only, survivor of the massacre at the village of El Mozote, died last week. She was not, strictly speaking, the only survivor of that monstrous event, but she appears to have been the only one who emerged with her wits about her, a [...]
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BUENOS AIRES — Most of them would be in their 90s now, men who have kept their identities hidden for decades to escape punishment for their Nazi pasts. Read more