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No waiting for your notice from the IRS about when the check will come. No checking one’s Social Security number against the payout timetable. No waiting for that direct deposit or check in the mail.
No, in Iraq the dinars are going straight from the prime minister’s pocket into your hands. In an effort to jump-start […]
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The front-page photo illustration in today’s Sun-Times of Gov. Rod Blagojevich dressed as sheriff in the old west reminded me that, back in the early 1990s, the paper fired one of its editors for a very similar bit of whimsy.
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2:32pm UK, Thursday July 17, 2008
European Union countries look set to agree to widen sanctions against Zimbabwe, diplomats have said.
European leaders hope new sanctions will increase the pressure on Robert Mugabe
This would include travel bans and asset freezes on a larger circle of officials and supporters of President Robert Mugabe.
An EUÂ diplomat said:Â ”There is an agreement […]
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Sara told Dale and Stu that she thinks Mohamed is “so greedy” this afternoon.
The PA spoke about Mo as the trio discussed the latest shopping budget in the garden.
The conversation led on to the popularity of individual housemates and Stuart asked her who she thought would be disliked by the public.
“I think Mo. Mo […]
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Pentagon leaders on Wednesday signaled a surge in U.S. forces in Afghanistan “sooner rather than later,” a shift that could send some units there within weeks, as officials prepare to cut troop levels in Iraq.
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Five Lebanese terrorists - including one of the most notorious murderers in Israel’s history - returned home as heroes yesterday after Hezbollah handed over the remains of two Israeli soldiers captured in 2006.
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Thought you might want to hear what author and journalist Barbara Ehrenreich (”Nickel and Dimed”) had to say about the New Yorker cartoon controversy that is still simmering. She was in San Francisco to promote her new book “This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation,” a collection of her columns, essays and […]
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In China, Kung Fu Panda stirs up big profits - and a cultural crisis
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Poster for this summer’s international, Hollywood-made movie hit, “Kung Fu Panda”; it’s raking in profits in China, too
File under: “Darn it! Why didn’t we think of that?!”
Rumblings about independence in Taiwan and Tibet. The pervasive popularity of that pesky Dalai […]
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My fixer was just tucking into his main course of lamb kebabs at a posh restaurant in central Baghdad when a commotion outside caught his attention.Curiosity aroused, he went to the front door in time to see scores of black, four-wheel drives and pick-up trucks packed with guards pull up in the car-park and on […]
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MOSCOW, July 16 — The imprisoned tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose supporters say he was convicted because of his political opposition to then-Russian President Vladimir Putin, applied for parole Wednesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, July 16 — After suffering significant setbacks in the fight against insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan troops have pulled out of a combat outpost where nine American soldiers were killed in a pitched battle with Taliban fighters Sunday.
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CULIACAN, Mexico, July 16 — A U.N. court ruled Wednesday that the United States should halt the executions of five Mexican nationals — including a convicted killer sentenced to die in three weeks — until their cases can be reviewed.
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CAIRO — Diners in the revolving restaurant on the 41st floor of Cairo’s Grand Hyatt once could count on a certain order to things: As surely as the torpid Nile coursed below and the Pyramids loomed in the distance, the whiskey, beer and wine flowed for hotel guests.
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BAGHDAD, July 16 — A car packed with explosives detonated in a crowded market in the northern city of Tall Afar on Wednesday, killing 20 people, including nine children, and wounding 82 others, police and hospital officials said. Two car bombs also exploded in the northeastern city of Mosul, killing two people and wounding 15.
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MEDINA, Saudi Arabia — Clouds of yellow dust swirled in the air as tractors moved back and forth, leveling a huge, barren piece of land dotted with billboards announcing the city that will rise from the sand here.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a rare public appearance, welcomed five Lebanese freed from captivity in Israel on Wednesday after his guerrilla group returned the bodies of two captured Israeli soldiers.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has a 7-point lead on Republican John McCain in the U.S. presidential race, and holds a small edge on the crucial question of who would best manage the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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Under the exchange - the fruit of two years of delicate German mediation - Hezbollah is also to return the remains of Israeli soldiers killed in south Lebanon in 2006.
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“Thanks to the Australian government’s courageous decision to acknowledge the injustices committed against the indigenous peoples in the past, concrete steps are now being taken to achieve reconciliation based on mutual respect,” Benedict said.
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Barack Obama declared yesterday he would shift “the central front in the War on Terror” from Iraq to Afghanistan, promising a “new era of international co-operation” in which the US would once more lead — rather than alienate — the rest of the world.
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