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SENATOR Hillary Clinton fuelled speculation that she was on the verge of dropping out of the race for the White House yesterday when she referred to the next president as “he”.
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Irena Sendlerowa, a Polish woman who smuggled thousands of children out of the Warsaw Ghetto saving them from certain death at the hands of the Nazis, has died at the age of 98.
As a social worker, she had neither the financial might nor the contact book
of Oskar Schindler, to whom she […]
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YANGON, Myanmar (May 13) - The United Nations said Tuesday that only a tiny portion of international aid needed for Myanmar’s cyclone victims is making it into the country, amid reports that the military regime is hoarding good-quality foreign aid for itself and doling out rotten food.
The country’s isolated military regime has agreed to accept […]
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Disaster relief officials put the number of dead at 11,921 but Chinese authorities said 18,700 more were feared buried in Mianyang, the province of Sichuan’s second largest city.
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The president of the University of Massachusetts recommended that the school revoke an honorary degree of law awarded two decades ago to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe.
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These are the stories that will be making headlines for many months — or many years — to come.
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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, and more.
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Felt as far away as Vietnam, Thailand, and Taiwan, the massive temblor struck Sichuan province at 2:28 p.m. — that’s just east of Tibet, a region that has already seen misery lately as ethnic Tibetans joining in anti-government protests came under the People Republic’s crackdown. One of the casualties was a school that collapsed, trapping […]
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Nor
did the governor insist to reporters that “for lawmakers to say we
can’t [fund an anti-violence initiative is] exactly the reason why
there’s so much violence out there today. And so,” he did not conclude,
“we’re just not gonna take no for an answer.”
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Martin Stanford was joined by web strategist Jag Singh on Sky.Com News on Friday. Have a listen to what he had to say about the stories moving up the web agenda - including why research suggests you’d be happier if you didn’t have any children, and where there is a town slowly sinking…
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Xinhua said that 18,645 victims were trapped under rubble in the city of Mianyang, near Wenchuan county, the epicentre of Monday’s devastating earthquake.
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Muse singer Matt Bellamy has confessed to taking drugs once a year.
In an interview with Q, the rocker claimed taking hallucinogens every 12 months ‘opened new doorways’ for him.
He said: “I’m not really in favour of drugs. Setting aside one day a year for hallucinogenics definitely opens up new doorways.”
The rocker recalled his last drugs […]
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Irena Sendler — a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities — has died. She was 98.
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PUTIN BUILDS NEW CABINET
By OLEG SHCHEDROV and MICHAEL STOTT, Reuters
May 13, 2008 — MOSCOW - Incoming Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced a Cabinet line-up yesterday that combined key ministers and powerful Kremlin figures into an unusually […]
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It was only a few weeks ago, that we were innundated by stories about how “Saturday Night Live” was shilling for Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign with their skits about her skewering Sen. Barack Obama’s lack of experience/cuddly treatment by the media, etc. SNL was back, the media herd said, and were changing the course of […]
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Or, more precisely, back on Mother Earth, with an eye to changing the status quo in the heavens, and maybe soon: Even as the United States’ wearily militarized economy plods along, richly rewarding defense-contractor corporations like Halliburton and Blackwater Worldwide, and even as Russia’s armed forces boldly strut their tanks and ballistic missiles in […]
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A flock of pigeons has taken roost in a busy square in central Baghdad, where three fountains also recently started to spout water. The rare display prompts some passers-by jokingly to liken this tiny fraction of their otherwise broken city to London or Paris.
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LÃderes polÃticas como la presidenta chilena Michelle Bachelet y Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, la casi segura próxima presidenta en Argentina, acaparan titulares a medida que derriban barreras de género. Pero lejos de la atención pública, mujeres de mucha menor prominencia están ganando también terreno en esferas tradicionalmente dominadas por los hombres.
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BANGKOK, May 12 — The head of the U.S. Pacific Command flew into Burma on Monday aboard the first U.S. military aid flight, to press for a full-scale international relief operation for victims of Cyclone Nargis. Facing mounting international pressure to open their country’s borders, Burmese officials promised to consider the request.
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MERIDA, Mexico, March 13 — Mexican President Felipe Calderón chided President Bush on Tuesday for trying to build a wall between their two countries and lamented that the American leader never made Mexico the priority he once promised it would become during his presidency.
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