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FORT JACKSON, S.C., Nov. 2 — President Bush, invoking the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as he has many times before, contended Friday that Iraq is the central front in the struggle against extremism, telling a supportive military crowd at this Army post that it is imperative to continue fighting the increasingly unpopular war.
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MEXICO CITY, June 28 — The newspapers fly off the stands at Juan Pérez’s kiosk on bustling Avenida Juarez — especially those splashed with headlines about the riches of Zhenli Ye Gon, an importer accused of drug trafficking in a case Mexican and U.S. authorities have hailed as a blow to the methamphetamine trade.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 31 — Authorities began setting up tents at displacement sites in Johannesburg on Saturday to shelter some of the thousands of foreigners who fled a recent wave of xenophobic attacks.
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BASRA, Iraq — Mohammed Zaki’s black hair glistened with gel, his muscular body bulged through his T-shirt, and on his chin, he sported a wisp of goatee. He held the hand of his girlfriend, Sabreen Jawad, whose cascade of hair was unfettered by an Islamic head scarf. The sounds of violins and saxophones flowed through […]
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LONDON, May 31 — Pete Duffell stood on the subway platform late Saturday, swigging a cold beer and ready to party.
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By Kole Casule
SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia’s parliamentary election was marred by violence in ethnic Albanian areas and suspected fraud on Sunday, with one person shot dead, nine wounded and voting halted in one town after a gun battle.
The violence among rival ethnic Albanian parties echoes incidents during the pre-election campaign and will hurt the country’s […]
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By Sue Zeidler
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A massive fire broke out at Universal Studios film and TV studio on Sunday, engulfing one soundstage and burning a New York City street set.
A total of 300 firefighters from several Los Angeles-area fire departments were battling the blaze, said L.A. County Fire Inspector Frank Garrido.
Garrido said the fire […]
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But as Mr Nasser was released, Hezbollah said it had handed over the remains of two Israeli soldiers killed during the 2006 war to the ICRC, in order that they could be returned to Israel.
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Hezbollah official Wafik Safa told the group’s al-Manar TV station that it handed over a brown box containing what it said were the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in the monthlong Lebanon war in 2006. Nisr stood beside Safa as he spoke.
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HILLARY CLINTON will be offered a dignified exit from the presidential race and the prospect of a place in Barack Obama’s cabinet under plans for a “negotiated surrender” of her White House ambitions being drawn up by Senator Obama’s aides.
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THE parents of two young children found dead with stab wounds and a baby admitted to hospital with serious injuries were being questioned by police in London last night.
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PUTIS, Peru (May 31) - Forensics experts began piling the dusty
skeletons of 60 people - including children and babies - into boxes
Friday, 24 years after they were killed by the military in this
village in Peru’s highlands.
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The Queen has voiced concern that Prince William should not announce an engagement to his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton until she has secured herself a full-time job.
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ABERDEEN - Barack Obama said Saturday that he has resigned his 20-year membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in the aftermath of inflammatory remarks by his long-time pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and more recent fiery remarks at the church by another minister.
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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. 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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And what’s the name of the hurricane season’s firstborn? Arthur.
Originally forming near Belize and weakening while passing over the Yucatan peninsula, Arthur could gain strength if it pops up again in the Gulf of Mexico. More from CNN:
“The government of Belize issued a tropical storm warning for the nation’s coast, and the government of Mexico […]
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As you may have read, during his remarks from the stage he told a story about a Vietnam-era prisoner of war that word-for-word matched a story told on the stump by presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain. Yet Weninger didn’t give McCain credit.
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The stories moving across the web, the top five web videos, including an amazing manoeuvre by a digger driver and the buzz today.
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Hillary Clinton has vowed to fight on in the race to become the Democratic presidential candidate. She has won the latest primary, in West Virginia, by a comfortable margin. Sky’s North America correspondent Robert Nisbet reports from Washington.
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