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BAGHDAD, July 23 — President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday that he would veto a law governing provincial elections scheduled for this year, making it all but certain that the balloting will be delayed until 2009.
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BAGHDAD, July 22 — Iraq’s parliament passed legislation Tuesday setting new rules for provincial elections, a step widely viewed here as critical to the country’s process of political reconciliation.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Radovan Karadzic will conduct his own defence at the Hague tribunal and is convinced he will be cleared of charges of genocide, relatives and associates of the war crimes suspect said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Wednesday dropped a threat to veto a housing rescue bill, clearing the way for measures meant to shore up the worst U.S. home market since the Great Depression.
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War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic plans to conduct his own defence in his trial at The Hague, his lawyer says.
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Diplomats had expected Pak to present at least an initial response to the four-page proposed “verification protocol” that was given to North Korea this month after it delivered a declaration containing details of its nuclear program in June.
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A British woman who tried to humiliate her husband with internet videos during their high-profile divorce hit back yesterday after being branded a “callous” star of a melodrama by a New York judge.
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Portuguese detectives made Madeleine
McCann’s parents suspects on the “slightest chance” they could
have been involved in her disappearance, a leaked report has revealed.
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(July 22) - A bundle bearing a mummy has been found in Peru’s historic Huaura Valley. The mummy is thought to have been an elite member of the Chancay culture, a civilization that thrived in the central coast of Peru from about A.D. 1000 to 1400.
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Freefall: The number of homes sold has halved in a year, according to new figures
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The Los Angeles City Council voted on Tuesday to ban plastic shopping bags from stores from July 1, 2010. Shoppers can either bring their own bags or pay 25 cents for a paper bag.
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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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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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The plush Hitler on the right is reportedly included in a book of knitting patterns that allows users to create their own cuddly Saddam, Idi Amin, Pol Pot and more. From The Sun:
“Rachael Matthews — who has kick-started a celebrity knitting craze — calls the grotesque Nazi doll Knitler.
Her new book has designs for a […]
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I’d like to open the comment salon today for a conversation about gun buy-back programs. Clout Street is reporting on Saturday’s 4th annual event in Chicago in which “gun owners can turn over their weapons “no questions asked’ from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.” in exchange for a $100 credit card per gun.
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3:40am UK, Wednesday July 23, 2008
The Bosnian war crimes suspect arrested after 13 years living a secret life in disguise will fight his extradition to a UN court in the Netherlands, his lawyer has said.
Karadzic went by the name Dragan Dabic and grew a long beard.
Radovan Karadzic faces 11 UN charges of genocide, war crimes […]
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The latest news snippets and gossip from the house…
Luke caused a storm in a teacup when he found that Bex had been hiding a teabag from him. “You slept in the same room with a teabag?” he said in disbelief. “You knew I had tea cravings! You should sacrifice yourself, just like Lisa did, for […]
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Russia may start regular flights by long-range bombers to Cuba in response to US plans to build missile defence sites in Eastern Europe, the newspaper Izvestia reported Monday, quoting an official.
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BELGRADE, Serbia — Radovan Karadzic grew a long, white beard to conceal his identity and even managed to openly practice alternative medicine while in hiding, officials said Tuesday in revealing details about the war crimes fugitive’s capture after a decade on the run.
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The new ”Worst Case Scenario Almanac: Politics,” the latest in the popular series from Chronicle Books, may end up as required reading for the army of 2008 campaign operatives out there.
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