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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, June 30 — President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe presented himself before fellow African leaders Monday hours after claiming victory in a violent Zimbabwean election, confronting African critics who call his 28-year rule increasingly illegitimate.
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BAGHDAD, June 28 — Iraqi officials in the home town of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki are calling for an investigation into a reported raid by the U.S. military early Friday that resulted in the death of a man identified by some Iraqi officials as a relative of the prime minister.
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SHENZHEN, China — When China decided to liberalize its economy back in the late 1970s, Shenzhen was chosen as the vanguard, the first “special economic zone” allowed to do business free of Communist-era restrictions.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Anwar Ibrahim, leader of Malaysia’s revitalized opposition, left the Turkish embassy on Monday where he had taken refuge following sodomy accusations, the latest thunderbolt in Malaysia’s political tempest.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - African leaders on Monday pushed President Robert Mugabe to open talks with the opposition after he was re-elected unopposed in an election condemned as violent and unfair by the continent’s own monitors.
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Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has urged the African Union to suspend Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe until he allows free and fair elections.
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One of the few African leaders openly critical of Mugabe, Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, was not in attendance at the summit after he was rushed to Sharm el-Sheik’s hospital on Sunday. His vice president, Rupiah Banda, said Monday that the 59-year-old Mwanawasa suffered a stroke and was in stable condition.
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Like every supermodel, Ruslana Korshunova had to grow up a lot faster than the rest of us. Plucked from her native Kazakhstan by a London fashion agency at just 15 years old, within just two years she was on the catwalks of New York and on the cover of Vogue. Her almond eyes and “fairy-tale” […]
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The marijuana bars of Amsterdam have survived many legal challenges but may finally have met their match in health and safety laws.
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SEOUL, South Korea (June 30) - A U.S. ship carrying thousands of tons of food aid has arrived in North Korea, after the communist nation agreed to expanded international assistance for its impoverished people, the U.N. food agency said Monday.
The World Food Program said the American ship that arrived Sunday carried 37,000 tons of wheat, […]
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A High Street bank is giving children debit cards that could let them buy cigarettes, alcohol and porn videos over the internet.
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A Perth man who auctioned his life - his house, his car, his job, even his friends - on eBay said today he is disappointed with the selling price: just under A$400,000 ($500,000).
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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A few days ago, I was dining with some South African friends who told me the sad tale of a friend of a friend in Zimbabwe: He had asthma, like a lot of people live with, but could not afford the simple albuterol inhaler to survive attacks. He died from an asthma attack.
In a country […]
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller this week effectively — and I would say mercifully — lops the first 13 words off the Second Amendment.
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I’m not too sure I would want my office to be in a building that continuously rotates 360 degrees, but maybe that’s just me.
I guess on the plus side, your view when looking out of the window, whilst day dreaming, would continue to change. This view is the very reason that architect David Fisher […]
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Two news helicopters collided while covering a car chase last summer near Phoenix, Arizona, killing all four people on board.
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Warning: This article contains language and/or sexual references that younger readers are advised to avoid.
Rex took out his frustrations about the blindfold task and his desire to leave the house on Mohamed this evening.
As the group sat at the dining table waiting for their meal, Mohamed asked Rex how he felt not being able to […]
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An international rights group says supporters of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe used batons and sticks to beat people who couldn’t prove they voted in the country’s presidential runoff.
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