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The military regime told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Friday that all aid workers would be let into the country as long as it was clear what they were doing and how long they would remain.
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Barack Obama, who appeared on the cusp of winning the Democratic presidential nomination, has begun a top-secret search for a running mate, officials said yesterday.
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Pope John Paul II is on course for the fastest ascent to sainthood in the modern era, according to the priest in charge of managing the process.
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BEIJING (May 23) - The photographer was waiting for the bride and
groom when the ground began shaking. Then they were enveloped in
dust thrown up by the mighty earthquake, and the photographer kept
shooting, documenting a remarkable wedding day.
The wedding shots by Wang Qiang and other photographers on May
12 in the town of Bailu are an eerie […]
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Gordon Brown tried to pin the crushing by-election defeat to the Tories on the credit crunch today as David Cameron declared it was the ‘end of new Labour’.
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Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard tried not to let news of a break-in at his Sydney home spoil his enjoyment of Australia’s Test match against the West Indies in Jamaica.
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A. It’s definitely a possibility. In the wake of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lead a lifting of the ban on headscarves in universities — and a charge by his party, the AKP, to ban booze in restaurants — the 11-member Constitutional Court agreed at the end of March 2008 to hear the case charging […]
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It’s only been more than two weeks after Cyclone Nargis, right? Well, corpses are still strewn across Burma/Myanmar, the junta has still demanded that donations of foreign aid be accepted only on a drop-and-run basis, and journalists are still forced to work undercover without bylines. But at least the junta is now going to let […]
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Wednesday afternoon, Mary Schmich and John Williams somehow managed to have a nice chat without me, though each of many mentions of Triscuits was, I think, a coded reference to my “refreshing” absence.
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Seems everyone has an opinion on the race to the White House - even the animals.
One of our guests tonight will be Dizzy Thinks blogger Phil Hendren. Stay tuned at 7.30pm.
Click here for the links to the rest of the videos we’ll feature and the stories moving up the web agenda.
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Wang Youqun, 60, has been rescued 195 hours after the Chinese earthquake struck central China on May 12. Wang suffered only a hip fracture and bruises on her face. She was in a temple in Pengzhou when the quake hit.
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Rex Features
Kelly Rowland has claimed that having boob jobs in no different to getting your teeth cleaned.
The singer said that she was shocked by all the media coverage about her enhanced breasts because she didn’t think it was particularly obvious.
“It was something I didn’t really think that people would notice, but I guess it’s kinda […]
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The earthquake in Sichuan has left more than 4,000 children orphaned, officials say.
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May 23, 2008 — These pictures paint the sad tale of one of the deadliest earthquakes in modern times, from a new angle - through the lens of a wedding photographer.
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Code Pink visits McCain in Stockton
Sen. John McCain had some unexpected guests at his Stockton rally tonight — Medea Benjamin and the Code Pink crowd, who disrupted the event.
Benjamin spoke to us just a few minutes ago from outside the event, where she and two other Code Pinkers were tossed out after chanting and bringing […]
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Sitting down at the negotiating table with your perceived or real enemy, maybe even the kind that is assumed to have or that really has supported terrorists: If it’s good enough for the government of Israel, why shouldn’t it be good enough for the government of the United States?
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For an embed set up to investigate a new breed of Iraqi female guard it was a complete disaster. But fortunately, thanks to an amusing helicopter crew and some friendly soldiers on the ground, the trip was not an utter waste of time.In fact, things got off to a promising start. I mean, it’s not […]
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WASHINGTON — Elirose Pierre-Louis died last month at age 56 of a heart attack. A Haitian immigrant who labored in this country legally for more than 20 years, she last worked as a tomato picker on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, making $6 an hour.
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MOSCOW, May 21 — Thousands of English soccer fans descended on Moscow on Wednesday only to be quick-marched into and out of a city they barely had time to glance at.
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TOKYO, May 22 — U.S. beef is scaring the daylights out of South Korean consumers and triggering a crisis of leadership for the country’s fledging government.
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