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UNITED NATIONS, July 10 — The chief prosecutor of the Internationals Criminal Court will seek an arrest warrant Monday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, charging him with genocide and crimes against humanity in the orchestration of a campaign of violence that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians in the nation’s [...]
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UNITED NATIONS, July X (Reuters) – A U.N. resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe for holding a violent June 27 presidential poll boycotted by the opposition candidate was vetoed in the Security Council on Friday by Russia and China. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pressure mounted on Friday for the government to act more swiftly to prevent the housing crisis from dragging down the nation’s top mortgage finance agencies, as Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson indicated that a bailout was unlikely. Read more
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Colombia’s Farc rebels say betrayal by two of their own fighters led to the dramatic release of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages last week. Read more
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U.S. forces detained a man on Thursday who Hammond said could provide valuable insights into the group behind the bombmaking. “We think we have defined the network,” he said. He would not elaborate, although other American officers said in interviews that the group is Shiite and may have links to Iran. Read more
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Christie Brinkley‘s lurid divorce trial came to an abrupt end yesterday when lawyers for the supermodel and her fourth husband reached an out-of-court settlement that gives her custody of their two children. Read more
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The ‘News of the World’ was forced to drop its allegation that Max Mosley requested a Nazi orgy after a dominatrix was too upset to give evidence yesterday. Read more
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ROME (July 11) — She suckled Rome’s legendary twin founders and fed Benito Mussolini’s ambitious dreams of renewed imperial glories. Read more
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A man has been stabbed to death in an apparent road rage attack during a bloody 17 hours on London’s streets in which four men were killed in violent stabbings. Read more
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The National Coroners Information System (NCIS) statistics show that between 2003 and 2006 there were 402 deaths reported to coroners around Australia (excluding Queensland and South Australia) of people aged 13 to 25 who had a blood alcohol level at or above of 0.05g/100ml, the legal limit on the roads. Read more
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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 [...]
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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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The grisly long and the short of it: Ahmad Suradji, 57, was convicted of ritualistically slaying 42 women and girls and burying them in a field next to his house because he thought it would magically give him magical powers. The AP describes this: “He lured them to the field and buried them up [...]
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Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan called this afternoon to complain that Gov. Rod Blagojevich has taken an ax to her office’s budget for fiscal 2009t: As part of the elaborate political chess game he’s playing with the House of Representatives, he lopped 25 percent off the appropriation for Madigan’s office, reducing it to pre-2003 levels. Read [...]
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8:24am UK, Friday July 11, 2008 Three British soldiers remain in hospital after a “friendly fire” incident in Afghanistan left nine injured. MOD said the pilot thought he was firing on [...]
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The upcoming second season of Mad Men should reflect the mood of the US presidential election race, its creator Matthew Weiner has said. Although set in 1960, Weiner said the feel of the first run was “very much” affected by the social and political climate in the US last year. “WeÂ’ll see how the election [...]
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The head of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries warned yesterday that oil prices would experience an “unlimited” increase in the event of a military conflict involving Iran because the group’s members would be unable to make up the lost production. Read more
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Iran test-fired nine missiles yesterday – including some capable of hitting Israel – and warned it has thousands of others ready to retaliate for any attack on its nuclear program. Read more
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The state Democratic Party has a simple answer for anyone who complains about the $250,000 in party money that was dropped into Oakland state Sen. Don Perata’s barely breathing legal-defense fund last week — on top of $200,000 the party gave the fund last year. Read more
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Known for his travel essays and his richly evocative novels set in such locales as Japan and Cuba, the globe-rotting writer Pico Iyer’s new book, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (Knopf) is neither a valentine to nor a conventional biography of the current spiritual and political leader of the [...]