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My colleague Teddy Greenstein reported on a recent dust-up at the competition in which one sports columnist pretty plainly dissed his fellow columnists. Read more
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Yesterday I blogged about the video that appeared to be CCTV footage of an office worker going mad and attacking colleagues. Here, the team agreed it looked like a fake and now all has been revealed – it was a music video for Russian band Delta and part of a viral campaign for a new [...]
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The 29-year-old suspect closed his eyes, held his head in his hands and frequently covered his face as the jurors were shown footage of the murder scene. Read more
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Moonshine and music are on the cards in the Big Brother house tonight, thanks to the delivery of their “ever-changing” surprises. The housemates had earlier opted for two of the unknown treats as part of their shopping budget, along with five of the regular luxury tokens. LukeÂ’s fears that they could be in for a [...]
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A blast flattened the house of a militant commander in the Gaza Strip Thursday, killing four people, wounding 40 and burying an unknown number of others, Palestinian officials said. Read more
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June 12, 2008 — GAZA CITY – Israeli leaders yesterday decided not to launch a broad invasion of the Gaza Strip, in order to give efforts to broker a truce with Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers more time to succeed. Read more
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Did you see the latest CNN-Opinion Research poll? Yup, there’s Ralph Nader and homeboy Matt Gonzalez at 6 percent. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, here comes Ralph V (yes, he’s run five times for president.) Libertarian candidate — ex-GOP Rep./Clinton Impeachment Czar Bob Barr — knocks down [...]
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With his historical legacy clearly in sight, after tens of thousands of American soldiers, Afghans and Iraqis and others – sometimes whole, innocent families – have been killed or maimed for life in different aspects of his aimless “war on terror,” George W. Bush has told interviewers at the British daily, the Times, that he [...]
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A comienzos del mes pasado, el Presidente peruano Alan GarcÃa salió de una reunión con una delegación estadounidense encabezada por el Presidente del Comité de Medios y Arbitrios de la Cámara Charles Rangel y declaró el comienzo de un nuevo “New Deal” (Nuevo Trato) para el comercio exterior. Tal como Franklin D. Roosevelt cambió el [...]
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Say this for Sen. Barack Obama: He is a lot quicker in these post-Jeremiah Wright days to walk away from controversy caused him by others. By the time he finished distancing himself from Jim Johnson, his former vice presidential vetter, Johnson must have felt like he was on Mars. Read more
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LONDON, June 11 — Prime Minister Gordon Brown won passage of a key piece of anti-terrorism legislation in Parliament on Wednesday, but analysts said the victory was too narrow to revive Brown’s sagging public approval figures. Read more
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BEIJING, June 12 — Seeking to foster a new era of cooperation, Taiwanese and Chinese negotiators opened talks Thursday to put the finishing touches on an accord for regular charter flights to Taiwan and sharply expanded Chinese tourism on the self-ruled island. Read more
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Panama was elected today as a compromise candidate to a two-year seat representing 35 Latin American and Caribbean nations on the United Nations’ Security Council. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, according to Colombian and U.S. officials. The Bush administration’s dismal relations with Venezuela‘s government have made matters worse, anti-drug agencies say, paralyzing counternarcotics cooperation. [...]
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered a long-anticipated apology yesterday to tens of thousands of indigenous people who as children were ripped from their families and sent to boarding schools, where many were abused as part of official government policy to “kill the Indian in the child.” Read more
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NAIROBI, June 10 — Humanitarian flights that deliver doctors, aid workers and supplies to remote areas of Sudan’s western Darfur region are being cut back because of lack of funding, the U.N. World Food Program said Tuesday. Read more
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BAGHDAD, June 11 — Young men armed and paid by the U.S. military took to the streets of the Iraqi capital’s Sadr City area for the first time Wednesday to guard their neighborhoods, part of a new strategy designed to recruit former Shiite militiamen to American-created security groups, U.S. officials said. Read more
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BAGHDAD, June 10 — High-level negotiations over the future role of the U.S. military in Iraq have turned into an increasingly acrimonious public debate, with Iraqi politicians denouncing what they say are U.S. demands to maintain nearly 60 bases in their country indefinitely. Read more
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LONDON (Reuters) – One of Britain’s top intelligence officials left a file with secret documents about Iraq and al Qaeda on a train, in an embarrassing government security breach that was exposed on Wednesday. Read more
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – The chief of Democrat Barack Obama’s search for a vice presidential running mate stepped down from that role on Wednesday over questions about loans he received from a company involved in the U.S. housing crisis. Read more