Hostage Released After Six Years
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Brian May slams ITV over Mandela cuts
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Brian May has slammed ITV for cutting Queen’s performance at Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday concert.
The gig, which took place at London’s Hyde Park last Friday, closed with Queen and vocalist Paul Rodgers performing a set of their hits.
However, broadcaster ITV decided to cut most of the band’s performance out, something that angered Queen guitarist […]
4 die in Israel earth-mover rampage
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A Palestinian man plowed an enormous construction vehicle into cars, buses and pedestrians on a busy street Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding at least 45 before he was shot dead by an off-duty soldier.
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DOCTOR SAYS ANGELINA JOLIE IS WEEKS AWAY FROM BIRTH
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Dr. Michel Sussmann spoke at a brief news conference Wednesday in Nice, where Jolie is hospitalized. Asked when the 33-year-old actress is expected to have her twins, he replied: “I can’t give you a date. Let’s say the birth will happen in the weeks to come.”
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Matthew Yi: New fiscal year, same old story — no budget
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Sacramento — Happy New (fiscal) Year, California.
But while today marks the first day of the 2008-09 fiscal year, the state doesn’t have a budget in place — yet again.
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Turkey: Secularism vs. Islamism leads to constitutional crisis
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Turkey: Secularism vs. Islamism leads to constitutional crisis
As the op-ed columnist Yavuz Baydar puts it, writing in the Istanbul-based daily Today’s Zaman, there is “[n]ever a dull moment in this country.”
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In January of this year, a group of Turkish women in Ankara demonstrated in favor of the lifting of a long-standing ban on […]
Ya basta con las reformas superficiales
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Cuando Mijeil Saakashvili se posesionó como presidente de Georgia en 2004, era tanta la corrupción en la policÃa de tránsito que despidió a toda la fuerza pública. Cuatro años antes, Saakashvili, entonces ministro de justicia, ayudó a purgar el sistema judicial del paÃs, suprimiendo, al no aprobar un examen judicial, a por lo menos dos […]
French Army Chief Quits Over Shooting
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PARIS, July 1 — France’s army chief of staff resigned Tuesday after a bizarre shooting earlier this week in which 17 people were wounded when a soldier taking part in a mock hostage rescue sprayed the civilian audience with live gunfire. Military authorities said the soldier apparently believed his weapon was loaded with blanks.
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For Hosts, Games Lose Some Luster
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BEIJING — It seemed like a great idea last year, starting a hotel-reservation Web site for this summer’s Olympic Games. Companies had been calling travel agencies 17 months in advance to book rooms.
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In 30-Year-Old Terror Case, a Test for the U.S.
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HAVANA — A quarter-century before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a bomb ripped a gash in a civilian jetliner in the skies off Barbados.
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In Testimony, Former Spy Chief Says Peru’s Fujimori Is Innocent
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LIMA, Peru, June 30 — Former president Alberto Fujimori and his security chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, who together wielded unprecedented powers in Peru throughout the 1990s, faced one another in a Lima courtroom Monday, the first time the two had seen each other since fleeing the country nearly eight years ago.
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McCain Stressing Trade On Latin American Trip
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CARTAGENA, Colombia, July 1 — Sen. John McCain arrived here Tuesday night on his third foreign trip since clinching the Republican presidential nomination, the latest attempt to embellish his international credentials at a time when the electorate is increasingly focused on domestic issues.
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Mugabe Tells African Peers To Examine Own Records
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, July 1 — A defiant President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on Tuesday fended off an effort by African leaders to sanction him for his country’s recent election violence, telling them that their claims to power were no more legitimate than his.
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U.S. Embassy Cites Progress in Iraq
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Iraq has met all but three of 18 original benchmarks set by Congress last year to measure security, political and economic progress, according to a report by the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
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Africa’s Hungry Horn
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EL BARDE, Somalia — Not too long ago, Irad Hussein Ali considered himself a lucky man.
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Mongolia election clashes bring emergency rule
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ULAN BATOR (Reuters) - Five people were killed and more than 300 injured in a riot in Mongolia’s capital among people alleging fraud in a weekend election, the country’s justice minister said on Wednesday.
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Mugabe leaves summit under pressure from AU rebuff
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HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe returns to Zimbabwe on Wednesday under pressure from fellow African leaders to form a national unity government in the wake of his re-election in a violent poll ruled unfair by monitors.
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African call for Zimbabwe unity
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African leaders have called for a government of national unity in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe was re-elected unopposed last week.
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AP IMPACT: Rebels desert as Colombia army advances (AP)
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But longtime FARC watchers are reluctant to proclaim the rebellion over. The guerrillas have hunkered down in Colombia’s forbidding jungles and mountains, planting more land mines in hopes of outlasting President Alvaro Uribe, who has made defeating the FARC the cornerstone of his administration. His second term ends in 2010 and he is constitutionally barred […]
Secret plan to capture bin Laden ‘blocked by Bush’
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The White House has blocked a secret Pentagon plan to pursue Osama bin Laden in the tribal areas of Pakistan, it was reported yesterday.
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