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BOGOTA, Colombia, May 11 — El Espectador, Colombia’s oldest newspaper, has been bombed, torched and occupied by troops, and its most legendary editor, Guillermo Cano, was slain in a hail of gunfire. The paper published Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez’s first stories, long before he became a Nobel Prize winner, and has printed verses from the renowned [...]
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BERLIN, Oct. 1 — A Bosnian man was arrested Monday after he tried to enter the U.S. Embassy in Vienna with a backpack stuffed with explosives and nails, police said. Read more
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VIENNA — At least 40 developing countries from the Persian Gulf region to Latin America have recently approached U.N. officials here to signal interest in starting nuclear power programs, a trend that concerned proliferation experts say could provide the building blocks of nuclear arsenals in some of those nations. Read more
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Mud sucks at their boots in this brief cold they call spring in Mosul. Read more
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BEIJING, May 12 — A powerful earthquake hit central China on Monday, killing at least 8,500 and injuring 10,000 others as schools and other buildings collapsed throughout Sichuan province. Read more
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By Ben Blanchard CHONGQING, China (Reuters) – China’s most devastating earthquake in three decades killed nearly 9,000 people on Monday, with the toll likely to soar as authorities struggle to reach casualties in large areas cut off from relief. The earthquake that hit China’s southwestern province of Sichuan [...]
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CHONGQING, China (Reuters) – China’s most devastating earthquake in three decades killed nearly 9,000 people on Monday, with the toll likely to soar as authorities struggle to reach casualties in large areas cut off from relief. Read more
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A powerful earthquake has killed at least 8,500 people in China’s south-western Sichuan province, up to 5,000 of them in just one county. Read more
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China’s deadliest earthquake in modern history struck the northeastern city of Tangshan on July 28, 1976, killing 240,000 people. Read more
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SENIOR Republicans expressed grave fears yesterday about the prospects of Senator John McCain, their candidate, against Senator Barack Obama in November’s general election. Read more
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THE teenage boyfriend of the Austrian woman locked in her father’s cellar has spoken for the first time about their relationship. Read more
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YANGON, Myanmar (May 12) — The U.S. launched its first relief airlift to Myanmar on Monday after prolonged negotiations with the country’s isolationist junta, which considers Washington its enemy and has restricted international aid to as many as 2 million cyclone victims. Read more
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American aid agencies have been fighting a bureaucratic battle to help the tens of thousands of survivors after Burmese military leaders refused to allow them access. Read more
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YANGON – Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis headed out of Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta in search of food, water and medicine, but aid workers said on Sunday that thousands will die if emergency supplies don’t get through soon. Read more
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Karzai Escapes Another Assassination AttemptTaliban fighters marred one of Afghanistan’s most celebrated days by staging an attack aimed at President Hamid Karzai. What’s the Story Behind All the ‘Stans?Why there are all those countries with the suffix “stan” at the end. CIA World Factbook – AfghanistanA primer on Afghanistan’s leaders, geography, demographics, economy, military, infrastructure, [...]
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The amounts of money owed by the thousands of farmers taking their own lives would seem really managable to most of us, recession or not. But the crop-to-crop woes leave many of India’s growers feeling left behind as the country embraces globalization. The Associated Press examines this troubling trend in the second-most populated country [...]
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In these snarling political times, there’s one thing that you, I, Barack, Hillary, John McCain and everybody else have in common. We all have a mother. Read more
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Blogger Donal Blaney was in the Sky.Com News hot seat last night to talk about the stories moving up the web. He wasn’t impressed to hear Gordon Ramsay had said he was shocked by his young son swearing, as the chef is known for turning the air blue on his TV shows. Click below to [...]
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State-run television in Burma has put the cyclone death toll at 28,458 with the number of people missing at 33,416. Relief agencies say the figures are likely to be much higher. Sky’s chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay reports from Bangkok. Read more