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Former Blur bassist Alex James has backed a photography exhibition and campaign highlighting the damage done to Colombia by the cocaine trade.
The UK and Colombian governments organised the event, called Shared Responsibility, in Trafalgar Square on Wednesday. Pictures drew attention to the deforestation and exploitation of child labour allegedly caused by the cultivation of […]
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A group of up to 300 young men have burned to death 11 people suspected of being witches and wizards in western Kenya — in some cases slitting their victims’ throats or clubbing them to death before burning their bodies, officials said.
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ZEROING IN ON OLMERT
ISRAEL REVEALS ITS CASE FOR BRIBE RAP
By ANDY SOLTIS
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May 20, 2008 — Israel’s chief prosecutor laid out the corruption case against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for the first time in public yesterday, saying the leader personally received cash-filled envelopes several times from a Long Island millionaire.
State Prosecutor Moshe […]
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — the movie-star-turned-politician now watching the success of Sen. Barack Obama — says that successful political candidates often have elusive star qualities of their own, including a sense of magic and authenticity that makes voters sit up and take notice.
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In Britain, the government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown (Labour Party) is preparing new legislation for Parliament to consider later this year; it would considerably extend the scope of the U.K.’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which already gives “hundreds of government agencies access to communications data” pertaining to British citizens and other residents of […]
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Elirose Pierre-Louis murió el mes pasado a la edad de 56 años de un ataque cardiaco. La inmigrante haitiana que habÃa trabajado legalmente en este paÃs por más de 20 años, era empacadora de tomates en una granja en la costa este de Virginia con un salario de $6 dólares la hora.
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LONDON, May 20 — A high-level British court will hear arguments this week in a press-freedom case in which police are attempting to use anti-terrorism laws to force a journalist to turn over notes and other source material.
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MIANYANG, China, May 20 — The heart of the largest tent city in Sichuan province is at the foot of the steps to Jiu Zhou Sports Stadium, in front of a bulletin board of handwritten appeals for missing parents and children. Above, three Chinese flags fly at half-staff as the newly homeless watch TV news […]
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Kidnappers came for Petit-Frère Desilus in the early afternoon, as he was driving away from his office.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 30 — On the eve of a referendum that President Hugo Chávez has cast as a plebiscite on his rule, the populist leader is escalating his verbal assaults on foes real and imagined, picking a fight with neighboring Colombia one day and assailing Catholic Church leaders as “mental retards” the next.
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EL PASO — Leaders of this sunny desert city peppered Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff during a recent visit with complaints about trade-crimping border-crossing delays, unwanted calls to enlist local police in enforcing immigration laws and recent deaths of immigrants at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol agents.
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Uganda’s rebel army has stepped up a campaign of child abductions in the three countries where it operates, according to foreign investigators, humanitarian groups and Ugandan military authorities in the capital, Kampala.
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Complaints by FBI agents about abusive interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other U.S. military sites reached the National Security Council but prompted no effort to curb questioning that the agents considered ineffective and possibly illegal, according to an internal audit released yesterday.
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CHAPING, China — To reach this shattered, deserted mountain town, Chen Tong Quan hiked for six hours the other day, his third trip back since the earthquake to convince his mother-in-law that it was time to go.
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YANGON (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon headed to southeast Asia on Wednesday on a mission to secure more help for cyclone victims in Myanmar, whose military rulers have finally granted an aid agency the use of helicopters to deliver supplies.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama passed a major milestone to move within reach of the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday, but rival Hillary Clinton refused to surrender.
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Barack Obama says he is now within reach of winning the Democratic Party’s nomination to run in the US presidential election in November.
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The May 12 earthquake’s confirmed death toll rose to more than 40,000, with at least 10,000 more deaths expected, and officials said more than 32,000 people were missing. The State Council, China’s Cabinet, said 80 percent of the bodies found in Sichuan province had been either cremated or buried.
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His eyes turned more than ever toward John
McCain, Barack Obama
will make a symbolic return trip to Iowa tonight even as results from the
primary votes in Kentucky
and Oregon begin to flow in.
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Beatlemania sprung up all over at London’s Chelsea Flower Show yesterday as Ringo Starr rolled up in a gaudily painted Mini to join George Harrison’s widow for the opening of a garden inspired by the “quiet Beatle”.
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