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NIR OZ, Israel/GAZA (Reuters) - For Yossi Atzili, a truce with Hamas Islamists is the only way to stop mortar bombs from the Gaza Strip whizzing across the border and smashing into his paint factory in Israel.
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QUINCY, Illinois (Reuters) - Hundreds of volunteers on the surging Mississippi River piled sandbags atop strained levees on Tuesday as the worst Midwest flooding in 15 years delivered a blow to the U.S. economy and world food prices.
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Israel and militant group Hamas have agreed to end months of bitter clashes with a six-month truce starting on Thursday, Palestinian officials say.
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“I am extremely disappointed that the courts have granted Abu Qatada bail, albeit with very strict conditions,” she said, pledging to try and overturn an April decision that prevented the British government from deporting the terror suspect back to Jordan, where he has been convicted of terror attacks dating back to 1998.
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John McCain should have been fundraising in the Texas oil patch yesterday alongside his good friend Clayton Williams. In the town of Midland, Republican heavy-hitters were lined up to sign some equally weighty cheques for their man’s presidential campaign.
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NICOLAS SARKOZY‘S
son Jean set his sights on following in his father’s footsteps yesterday
when he won a key post in the French President’s political fiefdom at the
tender age of 21.
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LONDON (June 16) - Prince William was made a Royal Knight of the Garter on Monday at a ceremony presided over by his grandmother — the British monarch — and attended by his father, brother and girlfriend.
Queen Elizabeth II made William the 1,000th knight to join the order and formally presented him with the regalia, […]
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The cost of living is rising at its fastest pace since records began more than a decade ago - and things are going to get worse.
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ASUNCION - A couple jailed on suspicion of having a same-sex wedding was freed Monday after a doctor determined that the groom is a hermaphrodite.
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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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Also known as why Morgan Tsvangirai needs to watch his back, Part II. Bobby Mugabe, who has vowed to be president until he’s 100 years old, has made it crystal clear that he’s not going to honor a Movement for Democratic Change win in the June 27 presidential runoff election. He said flat-out Monday that […]
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My contribution to the weekend party
honoring former White Sox minor league pitcher Irving Boim was to
assemble written tributes to him in a book.
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A day after Gordon Brown pledged to send more British troops to Afghanistan a Taliban commander has told Sky News there are dozens of suicide bombers ready to launch attacks. Alex Crawford travelled to a secret location north of Kabul to meet him.
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Rex Features
Joe Jonas has revealed that he fancies Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole.
The singer, one third of US boyband the Jonas Brothers, said he was knocked out by the X Factor judge’s beauty.
He said: “Oh my God, Cheryl Cole! All of Girls Aloud are beautiful but Cheryl is just like, wow!
“British girls are great and […]
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Today, those in Congress are hearing the outrage of Americans across the nation about the profits of oil companies and rising gas prices. But the next president, along with Congress, will have a new set of Global challenges: Preventing Civil wars over oil.
Today, oil-producing states make up a growing fraction of the world’s conflict-ridden countries. […]
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AMY WINEHOUSE RUSHED TO HOSPITAL
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June 16, 2008 —
LONDON — Amy Winehouse fainted Monday at her north London home and was hospitalized, her spokesman said.
Winehouse lost consciousness but an assistant caught […]
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Sacramento — The Legislature has again missed the June 15 constitutional deadline to pass the state budget. This makes California’s pols 0-for-22 since 1986, so it probably isn’t a ”Stop the presses!” announcement.
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Those are some of the big themes George W. Bush’s handlers have had in mind as they’ve sent their man out on overseas junkets in recent months. Their goal: to try to shore up - or alter - the already sharply defined legacy the self-styled “war president” will leave behind. Alas, it is that of […]
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Si a usted le arde el estómago con la idea de que un debate entre candidatos presidenciales estadounidenses sea transmitido en español, quédese tranquilo. No tiene por qué permitir que la transmisión de tal evento este domingo, por Univisión, le cause una úlcera. El suceso no representa riesgo alguno para el idioma inglés.
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