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Tonight’s show is a real mixture. First up we’ll be talking about our most clicked the story – the new Bond girl who’s really getting stuck into stunt practise for her role in A Quantam Of Solace. Former Bond stuntman Steve Truglia will join us to explain the difficulties of performing those death-defying scenes. He [...]
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Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he will contest a presidential run-off despite claims he beat Robert Mugabe in the first ballot. This is part of his news conference in South Africa. Read more
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Rex Features A representative for Amy Winehouse has insisted that the singer has no plans to enter rehab again. Reports yesterday claimed that Winehouse was preparing to undergo a “very short, intensive and effective treatment” in Israel. However, Amy’s spokesman Chris Goodman said: “She’s going back in the studio and has absolutely no plans to [...]
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Heavy equipment began toppling the few buildings left standing in this quake-stricken town once home to 30,000 people, and workers in white protective suits sprayed disinfectant Thursday in the silent streets amid roaming dogs and chickens. Read more
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May 24, 2008 — Israel’s corruption scandal took another bizarre twist yesterday when police said they suspected that a Long Island millionaire expected to deliver crucial testimony in court next week got Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to help him sell spy satellites in South America. Read more
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For those curious how presumptive GOP nominee John McCain might use the California Supreme Court’s ruling this month legalizing same-sex marriage in his presidential campaign, we now have an answer: very carefully. Read more
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On Wednesday of this week, as the Globe and Mail reported, “Lebanon’s feuding leaders…struck a deal that gives Hezbollah [, the Iran- and Syria-backed, political-militant Shiite organization,] and its opposition allies the power to veto major government decisions….” The agreement has brought to an end “an 18-month-long political crisis that has inflamed sectarian tensions and [...]
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A comienzos de la semana pasada el gobierno de Colombia extraditó a 13 comandantes de las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia a los Estados Unidos. Se trata de algunos de los hombres más temidos en Colombia, acusados de actos de tortura inconcebibles, masacres y desplazamiento de poblaciones enteras. Read more
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Standing observantly on the sidelines has never been George W. Bush‘s intent or forte. But the president needs to master the skill for his twilight months in power. Read more
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SOCHI, Russia — Vladimir Putin‘s field of dreams is a drained marsh with a solitary cow, some rows of potato stalks and a small cemetery that dates to 1911. On this unlikely piece of turf, reached by a narrow road that skirts the Black Sea, Russia is planning to build an Olympic park to stage [...]
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Eleven days after a massive earthquake hit Sichuan province, Chinese officials are moving away from rescue operations to concentrate on the care and relocation of survivors. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 9 — U.N. troops fought a block-by-block gun battle with gangs in one of this capital’s notorious slums Friday, in the force’s largest offensive since being deployed here in 2004. Read more
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CAMINO DE LOS INDIOS, Venezuela — Like most ambitious state projects in oil-rich Venezuela, the new city being built in the thickly wooded mountains here began as a whim of President Hugo Chávez‘s. Read more
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Under a lavender canopy of jacaranda blossoms within sight of the embattled frontier, Luis Peña imagines an unintended and comical use for the future border wall. Read more
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NAIROBI, May 12 — One of Sudan’s most important Islamist ideologues and spiritual mentors was arrested and later released by Sudanese officials Monday, having been accused of backing Saturday’s surprise rebel attack on the capital, Khartoum. Read more
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CAMP TAJI, Iraq — From an Apache helicopter, Capt. Ben Katzenberger’s battlefield resembles a vast mosaic of tiny brown boxes. Read more
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DHAKA, Bangladesh — As a seamstress, Abida Dulalmia makes $1.25 a day embroidering cartoon characters on Disney T-shirts and stitching pockets on jeans for Target. In this jumbled, hazy metropolis, her salary was once coveted. Now it hardly seems enough. Read more
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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa’s security chief accused rightwingers linked to the former apartheid government on Friday of fanning anti-foreigner violence that has spread to Cape Town, the second largest city and tourist centre. Read more
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SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton mentioned the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy in explaining on Friday why she had resisted calls to end her White House bid, drawing a rebuke from Democratic front-runner Barack Obama’s campaign. Read more
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US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has released his medical records for the years 2000-2008. Read more