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The bodies of the barn swallows, which are attached at the hip by skin and possibly muscle tissue, are being sent to the Smithsonian Institution for examination and confirmation, Arkansas wildlife officials said Friday. Read more
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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 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 anti-apartheid leader turned president of South Africa has certainly had a 90th to remember, with myriad celebrity-studded celebrations both before and after his actual Friday birthday (which was spent with his family in rural Qunu). Mandela is also celebrating 10 years of marriage to Graca Machel (the widow of onetime Mozambique President Samora Machel, [...]
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Nearly three in four participants in my click survey the other day agreed with my contention that Ron Santo would be a fitting person of Italian descent to replace Italo Balbo on Chicago street signs. Read more
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2:25pm UK, Sunday July 20, 2008 US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has had breakfast with American troops during the second day of his visit to Afghanistan. Senator Obama meets troops [...]
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13:05 Dale names new heavenly housemates 12:28 Kat and Mohamed discuss housemates 12:21 Mohamed explains his banana theft 12:12 Kat told to stop worrying and rest 12:09 Mohamed vows to show how he feels 12:05 DS:BB News Extra – Day 45 #2 [...]
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says U.S. troops should leave Iraq “as soon as possible,” according to a magazine report, and he called presidential candidate Barack Obama’s suggestion of 16 months “the right timeframe for a withdrawal.” Read more
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SERB MA PUT HEAT ON ENVOYA Serb diplomat whose office helped a hulking basketball player flee upstate assault charges had bowed to pressure from the brute’s politically well-connected mother to provide her son with an emergency passport. Read more
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So House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is about 40-odd minutes into her “Ask the Speaker” session Saturday at the Netroots Nation confab here in Austin,TX and about to field a question about energy and the environment, when she says she’s got to call a friend. Offstage is heard the voice of Al Gore. No, wait he’s [...]
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Yesterday, five Lebanese prisoners were released by Israel and returned to Lebanon, where they were welcomed as heroes only “hours after Hezbollah [had] handed over the bodies of two Israeli soldiers [who had been] seized by its guerrillas two years ago. After being transported to Lebanon by the International Committee of the Red Cross, the [...]
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It is just before midday and swelteringly hot in Baghdad.I am standing outside the blast walls that surround the British Embassy, out of breath and dripping in sweat, having spent the morning chasing around the Green Zone on the trail of Gordon Brown. Stern-faced Ghurkas guarding the compound regard me with suspicion as I plead [...]
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WASHINGTON — In a candid moment during his speech this week at the National Council of La Raza’s annual convention, John McCain acknowledged he was addressing a largely skeptical audience. “I know many of you are Democrats, and many of you would usually vote for the presidential candidate of that party,” he said. “I know [...]
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The exposure of illusions does not automatically cause them to be abandoned. They become even more necessary when other alternatives look riskier. Read more
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MOSCOW, July 15 — President Dmitry Medvedev signaled Tuesday that Russian foreign policy, ostensibly now under his control, will not stray from the often contentious course set by his predecessor. Former president Vladimir Putin clashed with the West on a host of issues, including the proposed installation of a U.S. missile defense system in Eastern [...]
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KABUL, July 19 — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama got his first look at deteriorating conditions in war-torn Afghanistan on Saturday, meeting with U.S. military commanders and local officials and touring part of the country by helicopter on the first day of a highly anticipated visit abroad that drew a fresh rebuke from Republican rival [...]
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QUITO, Ecuador, July 18 — The tip came to the old journalist at midnight about the decision at the presidential palace: The police were on their way. Read more
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso After she woke in the dark to sweep city streets, after she walked an hour to buy less than $2 worth of food, after she cooked for two hours in the searing noon heat, Fanta Lingani served her family’s only meal of the day. This Story Africa’s Last and Least Special Report: [...]
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BAGHDAD, July 19 — Iraq’s largest Sunni political bloc rejoined the government Saturday after a nearly year-long boycott, a move that could help bridge the country’s sectarian divide. Read more
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HAVANA, July 18 — Communist officials decreed Friday that private farmers and cooperatives can use as much as 100 acres of idle government land, as President Rául Castro works to revive Cuba’s floundering agricultural sector. Read more