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BAGHDAD, June 19 — Iraq is preparing to award contracts to several Western energy companies to help develop its vast oil resources, allowing them to consolidate their positions in a country that has seemed less threatening in recent months as security has improved.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is considering whether to pull out of the June 27 presidential run-off election, fearing it will be a charade, a spokesman said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush did not know about a White House effort to leak the identity of a CIA agent but tried to protect staffers who were involved in one of the biggest scandals of his administration, former Bush spokesman Scott McClellan told Congress on Friday.
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EU leaders have admitted that the Czech Republic may not be able to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, which has already been rejected by the Irish.
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In Manara, red warnings signs marked the location of two roadside bombs. At one site, red wires protruded from a green container buried near a bridge, and troops told Khalid not to proceed farther.
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It has hardly been unremarked upon in the fishing town of Gloucester in Massachusetts that girls at its North Shore High School have been getting pregnant in alarming numbers. No fewer than 17 have turned up with child this year, four times the level seen last year.
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Damien Hirst has taken the unusual decision to put dozens of new artworks under the hammer.
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WASHINGTON (June 19) - The world’s population will reach 7 billion in
2012, even as the global community struggles to satisfy its
appetite for natural resources, according to a new government
projection.
There are 6.7 billion people in the world today. The United
States ranks third, with 304 million, behind China and India,
according to projections released Thursday by the Census […]
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The parents of a three-year-old boy were arrested on suspicion of murdering their son after paramedics decided not to take him to hospital following a fall.
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Scientists have spotted what they say must be ice in a trench dug by the Phoenix Mars Lander, US media are reporting today.
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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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The southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk, proud of its reputation for administering mineral-spring colonics to the digestively challenged, plopped $42,000 on a bronze, 800-pound enema sculpture, reports the Associated Press:
“‘There is no kitsch or obscenity, it is a successful work of art,’ (Mashuk-Akva Term spa director) Alexander Kharchenko told The Associated Press. ‘An enema is […]
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Does
knowing that octogenarian lesbians Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon had a
legal wedding this week in San Francisco diminish, in retrospect, your
legal wedding? Does their bond profane yours?
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Some of our Sky.Com News guest contributors are based across the pond so it is always great when we can get them into the main studio.
Last night Jeff Jarvis from the influential new media blog Buzz Machine - who normally gives us his wisdom from New York - was in town so we got the […]
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Sky News has been given exclusive access to the drugs trade which is funding the Taliban in Afghanistan. Sky’s Alex Crawford travelled from Jalalabad through the Tora Bora mountains where she met a team of smugglers heading into neighbouring Pakistan.
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‘In Bruges’
Colin Farrell has reportedly married girlfriend Muireann McDonnell in secret.
The Irish actor was spotted walking through Los Angeles airport wearing a large ring on his wedding finger.
“He didn’t seem to be hiding the ring. Maybe he has finally found the girl he wants to settle down with,” a source told Metro.
Farrell, who has described […]
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After decades of denials, the Chinese have acknowledged burying an American prisoner of war in China, telling the U.S. that a teenage soldier captured in the Korean War died a week after he “became mentally …
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TEHRAN,Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday accused the United States of plotting to kidnap and assassinate him during a visit this year to Iraq, state media reported.
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Communications director Robert Gibbs told reporters today that the Obama campaign was surprised at the reaction to hiring estranged Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle as top staffer for Obama’s yet-to-be-named running mate. The move was seen by some Clintonistas as a slap in the face to Hillary Clinton and a clear signal that Clinton […]