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WASHINGTON — In the months following Sept. 11, 2001, Bush administration officials floated the idea that Canada and the United States should work to create a common front against terrorism — a so-called “security perimeter” that would focus on protecting the North American continent.
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Turkey bolstered security at U.S. diplomatic installations across the country Wednesday after men armed with a pump-action shotgun and pistols shot and killed three Turkish policemen outside the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, officials said.
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BEIJING — Outside the small restaurant where he was having dinner, Huang Qi saw men he recognized, plainclothes police officers. He got on his cellphone to alert colleagues: Something might happen tonight, he said. We were followed.
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QUETZALTENANGO, Guatemala — Across Central America, growing numbers of impoverished children appear to be setting out for the United States on their own, risking robbery, rape and death as they try to sneak illegally through Mexico and across the U.S. border.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, July 7 — At a May presidential summit in Brazil, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela sought out his Colombian counterpart and regional rival, Ãlvaro Uribe. The two had not spoken in months. But Chávez got right to the point, telling Uribe: “We haven’t been giving money to the FARC,” referring to the rebel […]
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RUSUTSU, Japan, July 9 — The United States and other members of the Group of Eight industrialized countries this week reiterated their commitment to doubling aid to Africa by 2010, seeking to assuage growing concern that they will miss the ambitious targets they set three years ago in Gleneagles, Scotland.
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Iraq’s army and police will be fully manned and operational by mid-2009, possibly as early as April, the top U.S. general in charge of building Iraqi security forces said yesterday, signaling the prospect that Iraqi forces could assume primary combat responsibilities in the country while U.S. troops shift to a supporting role.
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BAGHDAD, July 9 — Suspected Shiite militiamen have begun using powerful rocket-propelled bombs to attack U.S. military outposts in recent months, broadening the array of weapons used against American troops.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Police detained four suspects and patrolled the high-walled perimeter of the U.S. consulate in Istanbul on Thursday after 3 policemen and 3 gunmen were killed in what a minister said was a suicide attack.
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran tested more missiles in the Gulf on Thursday, state media said, and the United States reminded Tehran that it was ready to defend its allies.
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The US has said it will not hesitate to defend its interests and those of its allies as Iran continues missile tests.
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Another Iranian state channel, Press TV, quoted a senior Republican Guard commander Thursday as saying Iran would maintain security in the Strait of Hormuz and the larger Gulf.
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A court-appointed psychiatrist sized up Christie Brinkley’s ill-fated fourth marriage, saying the model needed to examine her taste in men and her cheating husband was a narcissist.
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Josef Fritzl could face only 10 years in prison for locking his daughter in a cellar dungeon for 24 years and forcing her to bear seven of his children.
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LONDON (AP) - A British court has ordered a store to pay $14,400 to a woman who broke her ankle and needed surgery because her stiletto heel snapped off.
A Manchester court Tuesday ordered the Dolcis store to pay Sophie King, whose ankle still swells painfully three years after her operation.
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Almost half of all car owners will be up to £245 worse off under plans for massive increases in road tax, the Treasury admitted yesterday.
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JOHANNESBURG - A lawyer for Zimbabwe’s opposition told a court on Wednesday that talks between the group and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s party are to begin this week.
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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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In a rare moment of on-air harmony, John Williams, Steve Bertrand, Mary Schmich and I all agree that general happiness will increase if we move Memorial Day from Monday to the previous Friday.
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