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IsraelÂ’s defense minister called on Wednesday for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to remove himself from his post pending the outcome of a high-profile corruption investigation in which Mr. Olmert is embroiled. Read more
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LICENSE TO QUILL Reuters May 28, 2008 — LONDON – Bond is back – in print. “Devil May Care,” the first James Bond novel to be published as a period piece – it takes place in the ’60s – makes its debut today. The novel was penned by British writer Sebastian Faulks at the request [...]
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Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a wide-ranging editorial board interview with The Chronicle today, offered her own views on the bombshell book by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan, who charges that the Iraq war was a bungled policy and the Administration was in ”damage control” over Hurricane Katrina. Read more
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WASHINGTON — Julita is an undergraduate with a double major in psychology and Spanish at a university in Texas. She aspires to attend grad school to become a teacher. At 23, she is about to celebrate her first decade in this country — she hopes the first of many. Read more
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LONDON, May 27 — Hundreds of truckers shut down a central London highway Tuesday, French fishermen blockaded ports and French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed cutting European fuel taxes as already high gasoline prices soared even higher. Read more
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TOKYO — Japan’s new recipe for killing oneself is being purged from the Internet at police request. Drugstores are pulling ingredients from shelves. Read more
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Passengers experienced few difficulties yesterday as new border security rules went into effect requiring citizens of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and some Caribbean islands to present a passport when entering the United States by air, officials said. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 22 — Colombia has abruptly ended Venezuelan President Hugo Ch¿vez’s role as a go-between with Marxist guerrillas, casting gloom on hopes of a possible prisoner swap that could have freed 45 hostages in hidden rebel camps. Read more
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TORONTO, Aug. 6 — A dramatic submarine dive to plant the Russian flag on the seabed at the North Pole last week has rattled Canadian politics and underscored the growing stakes as the ice cap melts in the oil-rich Arctic. Read more
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UNITED NATIONS, May 27 — U.N. peacekeepers and international aid workers from 23 organizations have engaged in sexual exploitation of children, including some as young as 6, in Haiti, Ivory Coast and South Sudan, according to a report by Save the Children, a British-based aid agency. Read more
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Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated “political propaganda campaign” led by President Bush and aimed at “manipulating sources of public opinion” and “downplaying the major reason for going to war.” Read more
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LEIGU, China, May 27 — With as many as 14 million earthquake survivors in urgent need of housing, China is beginning to rebuild from scratch. Read more
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By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Defense Minister Ehud Barak called a surprise news conference on Wednesday and Israeli Army Radio said he would demand Prime Minister Ehud Olmert step aside after damaging testimony in a corruption case. The unsourced radio report said Barak would threaten to take [...]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan says in a new book that President George W. Bush “veered terribly off course” and was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” Politico.com reported on Tuesday. Read more
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Nepal is due to become a republic and end 240 years of royal rule. Read more
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“The Myanmar government appears to be moving toward the right direction, to implement these accords,” Ban told reporters a day after returning to New York. “Some international aid workers and NGOs have already gone into the regions of the Irrawaddy Delta, without any problem. I hope — and I believe — that this marks a [...]
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THE Republican candidate for the US presidency, John McCain, sought to put further daylight between himself and President George W Bush on foreign policy last night even as he prepared to accept Bush’s help in raising campaign funds. Read more
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A CONVICTED child rapist murdered two little sisters within months of his release from a Belgian prison, a court heard yesterday. Read more
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WARSAW, Poland (May 27) – A team of musicologists is reviewing 19th-century copies of musical scores from a Polish monastery’s archives in hopes that some might prove to be previously unknown works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the lead scholar said Tuesday. Read more
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The move would take their annual salaries to nearly £100,000 - at a time when millions are struggling to cope with soaring living costs and police, nurses and teachers have received below-inflation wage rises. Read more