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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jesse Helms, a die-hard anti-communist firebrand who championed a wide range of conservative causes in his 30 years in the U.S. Senate, died early on Friday, aged 86, his foundation said.
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The Colombian government has released video footage of the daring raid in which 15 rebel-held hostages, including Ingrid Betancourt, were freed.
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In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Khan said a shipment of used P-1 centrifuges — which enrich uranium for nuclear warheads — was sent from Pakistan in a North Korean plane that was loaded under the supervision of Pakistani security officials.
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The personal viewing habits and online identities of millions of YouTube users are to be handed over to an American media giant after a court rejected arguments that such a move amounted to a massive invasion of internet privacy.
Under the terms of a US court judgment, Google, which owns YouTube, must now
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Detectives investigating a brutal double murder have said those responsible will be caught “sooner rather than later”.
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PARIS (July 4) - Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt arrived in France to a hero’s welcome Friday after six years being held by leftist rebels in the Colombian jungle.
Betancourt said she “cried a lot during this time from pain and indignation,” Today, she said, “I cry with joy.”
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War veteran, 84, tried to commit suicide as energy firm hounded him for incorrect £6,000 bill
FTSE plunges to a two-and-a-half year low as Bradford & Bingley shares tumble
Three charged with murder after 17-year-old boy is tied to tree, forced to drink petrol and set alight
Sales plummet at John Lewis as credit crunch takes a stronger […]
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MINSK - More than 50 people were injured when a bomb went off at an outdoor concert in the Belarusian capital. Officials blamed “hooligans.”
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Question: What’s next for Zimbabwe?
On June 27, 2008, Robert Mugabe ran for his sixth term as president of Zimbabwe, a position he’s held since the country’s 1980 independence. However, Mugabe competed in the runoff election against himself: Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who led after the first round of voting and is widely […]
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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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Mongolians are up in arms about the results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections, claiming that the ruling Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (which also ruled in the Soviet era) employed fraud to top opposition democratic movements. The subsequent clashes with police and attack on the ruling party’s headquarters prompted President Nambaryn Enkhbayar to declare a four-day state […]
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CONCORD, Calif. (AP) — More than 2,000 guitar-players performing “This Land is Your Land” in a Bay Area park Tuesday night appear to have strummed their way into the record books.
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9:35am UK, Friday July 04, 2008
Zimbabwe will remain a full member of the International Cricket Council, an official has said, after the deeply divided world body agreed a last-minute compromise.
The Zimbabwe cricket team at the World Cup in the West Indies
The ICC Executive Board, meeting for an unscheduled third day in Dubai, agreed to keep […]
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Mariah Carey’s marriage to Nick Cannon is in trouble after just two months, reports claim.
The couple, who wed in April after a five-week romance, are said to be at loggerheads over the singer’s controlling behaviour.
A source told OK!: “Nick is basically around to attend to her diva-ish ways. When they were in Hawaii where […]
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KUMAGAYA, Japan : With its towering furnaces and clanging conveyer belts carrying crushed rock, Taiheiyo Cement’s factory looks like an Industrial Revolution relic. But it is actually a model of modern energy efficiency, harnessing its waste heat to generate much of its own electricity.
The plant is just one example of JapanÂ’s single-minded dedication to reducing […]
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The plan was nothing if not audacious: A turncoat persuades rebels to bring together their most prized hostages and march them 90 miles through Colombia’s wilderness. A month later, disguised commandos primed with acting lessons land in a helicopter and trick the rebels into handing them over.
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom may have jumped into the 2010 race for governor this week more than two years before election day, but he’s a laggard compared to Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez of Garden Grove in Orange County.
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Mexico City - It’s one of the biggest, most controversial issues in Mexico today, along with the ongoing war the government of Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa is waging, helplessly, with the national armed forces, against the country’s powerful, unsinkable drug cartels.
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WASHINGTON — When Mikheil Saakashvili took office as president of Georgia in 2004, the country’s traffic police was so corrupt that he fired the entire force. Four years earlier, Saakashvili, then minister of justice, helped purge the country’s judicial system of at least two-thirds of its judges who failed to pass a judicial qualification exam.
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In his final months in office, President Bush is mounting a last-ditch effort to forge a new global deal to limit greenhouse-gas emissions but finds himself once again at odds with much of the rest of the world on how to address climate change.
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