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MONTERREY, Mexico — Biti Rodriguez could have gone anywhere for her 10-year-old’s birthday party. But Incredible Pizza, a mammoth restaurant and fun house tucked into the corner of a strip mall here, offered her something that suddenly has become a consuming obsession: safety. Read more
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PARIS, May 29 — Uncertain weather, rising demand in developing countries and the increased use of grains for biofuel will likely keep food prices higher than average over the next 10 years and make it harder for the world’s poorest countries to feed themselves. Read more
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With its oil and gas reserves in greater global demand than ever, Iraq has sufficient economic resources and “does not require extensive financial assistance,” the Iraqi government said yesterday in a report to international backers. Read more
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LONDON, May 28 — More than 100 countries reached agreement Wednesday to ban cluster bombs, controversial weapons that human rights groups deplore but that the United States, which did not join the ban, calls an integral, legitimate part of its arsenal. Read more
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s foreign minister deepened the uncertainty over Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s ability to survive a corruption scandal by saying on Thursday their party had to prepare for a possible early election. Read more
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DETROIT (Reuters) – No. 1 U.S. automaker General Motors Corp said on Thursday about 19,000 U.S. hourly workers had taken buyout offers, with most expected to leave the company by July 1. GM had offered buyouts to all of its U.S. employees represented by the United Auto Workers under [...]
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FOOD PRICE CRISIS KEY STORIES UN warns about higher food costs Food imports ‘to top $1 trillion’ Pakistan warning to food hoarders Hope of rice exports cuts prices Thailand calls for a rice cartel UK biofuels caution welcomed How rice price has affected Asia IN VIDEO Global rice supply Raids on hoarders, aerial planting and [...]
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Another suicide bomber driving a police vehicle struck Iraqi commandos earlier Thursday in Mosul, killing three of them and wounding nine other people, according to battalion commander Capt. Aziz Latif. Read more
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He was the most plodding, the most robotic, and – until this week – apparently the most loyal of presidential spokesmen. But now Scott McClellan, White House press secretary for George Bush between 2003 and 2006, has delivered the most wounding critique yet of this unhappy administration by one of its erstwhile senior officials. Read [...]
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Self-confessed killer Michel Fourniret and his wife Monique Olivier were sentenced to life in prison yesterday in one of the worst serial murder cases in recent French history. Read more
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CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES, France (AP) – A French court on Wednesday convicted Michel Fourniret of killing seven girls and young women and sentenced him to life in prison – and gave his wife a life term for helping him in some of the murders. Fourniret, 66, was given the maximum sentence by the jury in Charleville-Mezieres in [...]
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A couple who had IVF in India are believed to have dumped their twin babies in a British hospital after finding out they were girls. Read more
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It’s not known who set up the profile on the popular social-networking website, but it’s clear the premier has some fans – with more than 13,000 “supporters” as of Wednesday, more than US President George W Bush has on his page. Read more
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center updated its list of most wanted Nazis on April 1, 2008, along with an update about various countries’ cooperation in helping bring Nazi war criminals to justice after all these years. “I pray for the health of Nazis every day,” said Efraim Zuroff, Israel director of the Wiesenthal Center and coordinator [...]
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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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Save the Children UK today released a damning report that outlines the chronic problem of U.N. peacekeepers and aid workers in conflict-torn countries taking advantage of residents in the worst way: making kids trade food for sex, abusing children as young as six, engaging in sex trafficking, forcing kids into prostitution and porn. The organization [...]
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Announce today that you’ll challenge incumbent Rod Blagojevich for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 2010. Read more
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One of the stories floating around the web today tells of a shop owner in the US, who claims he is losing $1,000 a week in merchandise to thieves. When he had caught his thieves, Mr Fidanque began telling them he would call the police unless they gave him one of their shoes. I think [...]
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But  Hikmat Tawfeeq, deputy chairman of the Fallujah-based human rights group Alakhiyar said: “We have around 200 cases of deformities recorded by our society. Most of these cases are birth deformities which have arisen after the bombing of Fallujah.” Read more
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Coronation Street actress Maggie Jones has returned to work after being hospitalised in a fall, The Mirror reports. The 73-year-old, who plays Deirdre Barlow’s cantankerous mother Blanche Hunt, injured her arm, knee and shoulder when she fell in her room at the Marriott hotel, where she regularly stays when filming at the nearby Granada studios. [...]