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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea toppled the cooling tower at its plutonium-producing reactor on Friday in a symbolic move to show its commitment to an international nuclear deal, a day after submitting an inventory of its atomic program. Read more
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UNITY, New Hampshire (Reuters) – Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton joined forces at a carefully staged campaign rally on Friday, promising to bury the grudges from their bruising presidential nominating fight and work together to put Obama in the White House. Read more
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Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has described the country’s election run-off as “an exercise in mass intimidation”. Read more
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As early as Monday, the chief negotiators from the six nations involved in the nuclear talks — North and South Korea, the U.S., China, Japan and Russia — will meet in Beijing to begin discussions on the specifics of how North Korea’s declaration of its nuclear programs will be verified. The key element that requires [...]
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WHEN Judge Diane Kottmyer passed a sentence of life in jail without the possibility of parole on Briton Neil Entwistle in, she said his crimes were “incomprehensible”. Read more
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Tens of thousands of revellers have their fingers crossed for settled weather at Glastonbury Festival this weekend. Read more
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YONGBYON, North Korea (June 27) — North Korea destroyed the most visible symbol of its nuclear weapons program Friday, blasting apart the cooling tower at its main atomic reactor in a sign of its commitment to stop making plutonium for atomic bombs. An explosion at the base of the cylindrical structure sent the tower collapsing [...]
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Crack-addict serial rapist stabbed to death young mother in her home days after being released on bail Furious McCartney sisters vow ‘it’s not over’ as man is cleared of brother’s IRA gang killing Jailed: Mother who left toddler son alone in a flooded kitchen while she spent the weekend partying Shares sliding across the world [...]
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CALIFORNIA – The plastic surgeon who operated on rapper Kanye West’s mother before she died last fall has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. Read more
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Chaos Continues in ZimbabweTsvangirai Pulls Out of Runoff VoteViolence Precedes Zimbabwe ElectionsMugabe: Hell, No, I Won’t GoWill Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Live to See the Runoff? Read more
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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 [...]
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A crazy case out of Macedonia, where a reporter’s inclusion of unreleased details about the slayings of two women led to his arrest in those deaths. Now, not only is he being charged with rape and murder, but he’s being investigated in a third slaying. And, according to the BBC: “The journalist, Vlado Taneski, [...]
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It’s long seemed to me that humility is the appropriate response to the vastness of the universe and the wonders and horrors of life on Earth. Read more
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Yesterday Rob blogged about Guns N’ Roses’ songs being leaked on the web. Last night Martin Stanford spoke to the man who published the songs online. To see what he had to say, look no further than just below. Read more
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Ahead of Zimbabwe’s election, which brings with it the threat of violence and death, President Mugabe dared the world to interfere. He condemned Gordon Brown and rejected African calls to postpone the poll. It comes after the opposition pulled out. Read more
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Rex Features Liz Hurley, Gordon Ramsay and former US President Bill Clinton were among the stars at Sir Elton John’s White Tie And Tiara ball last night. Hurley was joined by husband Arun Nayer, while Ramsay took wife Tana to the £3,000-a-head charity bash at Sir Elton’s Berkshire estate. Sir Michael Caine, Mischa Barton and [...]
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Zimbabweans began voting in a one-sided presidential run-off on Friday after President Robert Mugabe defied mounting world condemnation and calls to postpone an election which the opposition says is a farce. Read more
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LONDON – Nelson Mandela lashed out at Robert Mugabe’s oppressive and corrupt government yesterday, in his first public comments on the crisis in Zimbabwe. Read more
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Obama campaign manager David Plouffe outlined today in Washington an election strategy for the summer and fall that aims to keep Republican Sen. John McCain on defense all over the country, while expanding deep into GOP turf. California is not in play, but the Obama campaign hopes to tap volunteers from the state as soldiers [...]
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Polygamous marriages, in Australia? In Australia, how many wives is too many wives – legally, that is? That’s the essential question, apparently, in a debate that has been provoked in part by remarks Keysar Trad, the president of the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia, made on an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio program earlier this week. [...]