US defends Afghan border strike
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The Pentagon has said an air strike by US forces in the Afghan-Pakistani border region, said to have killed 11 Pakistani soldiers, was legitimate. Read more
Bush won’t rule out military strike in Iran over nuclear program (AP)
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Within the coded language of the U.S. attitude toward Iran, several small changes in Bush’s rhetoric Wednesday added up to a difference. Three times, he called a diplomatic solution “my first choice,” implying there are others. He said “we’ll give diplomacy a chance to work,” meaning it might not. He also offered, without even being [...]
McCain sets his sights on Hillary’s unhappy voters
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Senator John McCain will aggressively pursue four million disaffected supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton as a key element of his bid for the White House, according to senior campaign aides. Read more
Women’s lifespan unchanged if cancer is ‘seen early’
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WOMEN whose breast cancers are detected early live as long as those who never developed the disease. Read more
Pakistan Slams ‘Cowardly’ US Airstrike
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (June 11) – U.S. airstrikes into Pakistan that may have accidentally killed allied fighters have upset the already fragile relations between Washington and Islamabad over how to stem violence in the lawless border region. Defense Department press secretary Geoff Morrell defended the bombing Wednesday and said it was too early to know whether [...]
First signs of panic at the pumps as drivers warned price of petrol 'will double'
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Crucial talks aimed at averting a strike by hundreds of tanker drivers were held today amid signs some drivers were panic-buying petrol. Read more
‘Dead man’ wakes up as doctors prepare to remove his organs
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The case of a man whose heart stopped beating for 1½ hours only to revive just as doctors were preparing to remove his organs for transplants is fuelling ethical debates in France about when a person is dead. Read more
France's Worst Serial Killers?
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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 [...]
France's Worst Serial Killers?
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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 [...]
Sudan Airways Plane Bursts Into Flames
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Death tolls have been rising and falling all day after the plane veered off the runway after landing and burst into flames, so I’m going with the latest report from Al-Jazeera, the news agency upon which others seem to be leaning for information: “The airport’s chief doctor said 120 of the 217 people on [...]
The city is cutting in on the motorist/pedestrian dance
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I voted no along with the honest 40 percent (so far) who admitted that, hey, sometimes, when I think I’m there first, when the pedestrian is still hanging back on the curb, I go first. I proceed with caution, of course, as always. But no, I don’t play Alfonse and Gaston with those waiting to [...]
Office Rage Video – Is It A Fake?
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This video has been causing a real buzz online over the last few days – it appears to show an office worker flipping and attacking his colleagues, but the consensus on the web seems to be that it isn’t for real. Read more
Hong Kong Poultry To Be Slaughtered After Bird Flu H5N1 Virus Detected
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It has been confirmed that the outbreak of bird flu at a farm in Suffolk is of the type which can be fatal to humans. Government vets say tests revealed the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus was present in turkeys. Sky’s Jayne Secker reports. Read more
Abraham: ‘Dannii Minogue is bland’
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Rex Features Former X Factor finalist Andy Abraham has said that he won’t watch the show now that Sharon Osbourne has left. The 2008 British Eurovision entrant claimed the programme would be weaker without Osbourne on the judging panel. “I’m not sure if I’ll even bother watching it,” Abraham told DS. “I like the fact [...]
Operation Lets Muslim Women Reclaim Virginity
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The operation in the private clinic off the Champs-Élysées involved one semicircular cut, 10 dissolving stitches and a discounted fee of $2,900. But for the patient, a 23-year-old French student of Moroccan descent from Montpellier, the 30-minute procedure represented the key to a new life: the illusion of virginity. Read more
BUSH’S NEW IRAN $LAM
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June 11, 2008 — KRANJ, Slovenia – President Bush claimed progress yesterday in his legacy-shaping drive to stop Iran from developing a nuclear bomb, winning European promises to tighten pressure on the mullahs’ regime with UN sanctions and possibly other new penalties. Read more
See McCain’s Campaign Strategy in 14 Easy Minutes
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Want to learn how John McCain’s peeps thinks he’s going to beat Barack Obama? Want to blow 14 minutes of your life watching a PowerPoint presentation? Click, sit back and enjoy McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis explaining how: Read more
A bloody rampage shocks low-crime Japan
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Overall, Japan is one of the safest places anywhere. Locals and visitors alike can feel secure walking through even the narrowest back streets of big cities like Tokyo and Osaka late at night or in the wee hours of the morning. Freakish crimes like the 1995 sarin-gas attack in the Tokyo subway that was ordered [...]
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot does that mean?
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BLUF: Complex attack IVO PB ECP: SVBIED, SAF, and IDF. BDA: 1x CF(US) WIA, 2x IA KIA, 2x LN INJ, 2x AQI/ISI Killed, 1x CHU FUBAR. POO: Sadr City.Military acronyms sound like an unfathomable foreign language to civilian bystanders. As a journalist, I spend a fair amount of time asking someone to translate into real [...]
‘New Deal’ on Trade Deals?
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WASHINGTON — Early last month, Peruvian President Alan Garcia stepped out from a meeting with a U.S. delegation headed by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel and declared the start of a “New Deal” for international trade. Just as FDR changed the balance of capitalism favoring workers’ rights over money interests, Garcia said, [...]