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Dannii Minogue has confessed that she felt bullied by the UK press during her time on Home And Away.
The X Factor judge claimed that being called overweight by the tabloids almost pushed her towards anorexia, but she turned back after recalling how a friend was hospitalised with the eating disorder.
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President Bush hailed a new “degree of durability” in security gains in Iraq Thursday, saying it should permit him to announce further U.S. troop reductions later this year.
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PORTLAND, Maine - It’s peak season for lobster in Maine, yet consumption has fallen to the point where it costs no more than sliced turkey in parts of New England.
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That controversial new ad for John McCain called ”Celeb,” uses images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton to jab at Democrat Barack Obama for being just too much of a celebrity — and is being credited to the saavy Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s chief strategist.
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Things are bad right now for many American families (despite the callous quip a high-profile advisor to Republican presidential hopeful John McCain recently made, dismissing their suffering as mere fantasy in the minds of “whiners”).
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A multiple suicide bombing by three women failed to dampen the spirits of about one million people in Baghdad this week who flocked to a revered shrine in the north of the capital for the climax of a major religious event. One of my reporters, Sarmad Ali, was among the streams of flag-waving pilgrims who […]
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THE HAGUE, July 30 — Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic will appear in a courtroom here Thursday to be formally charged with war crimes related to the siege of Sarajevo, the execution of 8,000 prisoners in the town of Srebrenica and other atrocities of the three-year war in Bosnia, prosecutors said.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates says that even winning the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan will not end the “Long War” against violent extremism and that the fight against al-Qaeda and other terrorists should be the nation’s top military priority over coming decades, according to a new National Defense Strategy he approved last month.
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OCULOKORI, Uganda — He had escaped alone, running for his life through swamps and grassy savannas, leaving behind seven years of captivity in one of Africa’s most sadistic rebel groups, the Lord’s Resistance Army.
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BAGHDAD, July 30 — The leader of the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq and several of his top lieutenants have recently left Iraq for Afghanistan, according to group leaders and Iraqi intelligence officials, a possible further sign of what Iraqi and U.S. officials call growing disarray and weakness in the organization.
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BEIJING, July 30 — The International Olympic Committee and the Chinese government acknowledged Wednesday that reporters covering the Olympics will be blocked from accessing Internet sites that Chinese authorities consider politically sensitive.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel’s right-wing Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu called on Thursday for a new parliamentary election after Ehud Olmert pledged to resign following his party’s leadership contest in September.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel’s right-wing Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu called on Thursday for a new parliamentary election after Ehud Olmert pledged to resign following his party’s leadership contest in September.
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The international community has been accused of failing to provide basic equipment vital to the peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur region.
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Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki said Olmert’s decision would not change much. “It’s true that Olmert was enthusiastic about the peace process, and he spoke about this process with great attention, but this process has not achieved any progress or breakthrough,” Malki said. He said the Palestinians would deal with any Israeli government.
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Alex Spillius in Washington
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The collapse of the world trade talks in Geneva
was last night greeted with relief by farmers, but disappointment by
businesses.
Trade and agricultural ministers spent nine exhausting days trying to reach
an agreement on market access.
Developing countries had pressed for lower import-tariffs on farm produce,
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ASUNCION, Paraguay (JUly 30) - Paraguay’s president-elect has received unprecedented permission from the pope to resign as bishop, the papal nuncio said Wednesday, ending a dispute over Fernando Lugo’s priestly status.
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The number of violent attacks by women has doubled in just five years in the age of the ‘ladette’ binge-drinking culture.
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ATLANTA - Flight attendants discovered the body of a 61-year-old woman in the toilet of a Delta Airlines plane shortly before the flight landed in Atlanta on Wednesday morning, a spokeswoman for the airline said.
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