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For 20 years, Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel has owned a beachfront villa in a sun-drenched Dominican Republic resort, yet has only sporadically declared income on the property in federal filings.
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Minneapolis — The city laid out its finest food, music, and stunning riverfront scenery for thousands of delegates, VIPs and media last night at the opening party of the GOP convention, a bash that rivaled anything that we’ve seen at these conventions.
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TACHIA, Taiwan — Antony Lo is one happy biker. He is 60 but looks younger, with a body buffed by commuting 130 miles a week on his bike. He is also president of Taiwan-based Giant, the world’s largest bicycle company, where sales are soaring, helped along by global anxiety over oil prices. With undisguised glee, […]
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BEIJING, Aug. 31 — It was a familiar scene: Rescue teams headed into an earthquake zone Sunday to help frightened farmers deal with hundreds of aftershocks and a shortage of tents.
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HAVANA, Aug. 30 — Gustav slammed into Cuba’s tobacco-growing western tip as a monstrous Category 4 hurricane Saturday, while tens of thousands of Cubans scrambled to flee the path of the fast-growing storm.
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MEXICO CITY, Aug. 30 — Hundreds of thousands of frustrated Mexicans, many carrying pictures of kidnapped loved ones, marched nationwide Saturday to demand that authorities act to stop a relentless tide of killings, abductions and shootouts.
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HELWAN, Egypt, Aug. 30 — In sync with the sun and the moon, the traditions of 1,400 years and the acts of Muslims all over the world, members of one of Egypt’s seven official moon-sighting committees pulled into a parking lot high on a ridge overlooking hazy Cairo at sunset Saturday.
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A Washington law firm filed a lawsuit yesterday against KBR, one of the largest U.S. contractors in Iraq, alleging that the company and its Jordanian subcontractor engaged in the human trafficking of Nepali workers.
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HERAT, Afghanistan, Aug. 30 — NATO’s top commander in Afghanistan on Saturday called for a joint investigation into a U.S.-led airstrike that U.N. and Afghan officials say killed as many as 90 civilians recently. Meanwhile, an Afghan military official involved in the attack said misinformation led U.S. forces to hit the wrong target.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - More than 150,000 Mexicans dressed in white marched on Saturday to protest a wave of kidnappings and gruesome murders, putting pressure on President Felipe Calderon to meet his promises to crack down on crime.
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered the city’s more than 239,000 residents to evacuate on Sunday in the face of powerful Hurricane Gustav, which he called “the mother of all storms.”
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The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Gustav weakened slightly over Cuba but was expected to regain strength as it moves over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and toward the U.S. Coast, possibly becoming a top-scale Category 5 hurricane on Sunday.
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John McCain has not just taken a risk on the inexperience of Sarah Palin, his choice of running mate in the presidential race.
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BEHIND the war of words over the conflict in South Ossetia and the threat of a new Cold War lies a key strategic issue which should not have caught Western policymakers napping in their August somnolence.
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Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said they were surprised at how quickly Gustav gained strength as it slammed into Cuba’s tobacco-growing western tip. It went from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane in about 24 hours, and was likely to become a Category 5 — with sustained winds of 156 mph or […]
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A row over a £40billion plan for State-backed mortgages to tackle the housing crisis has fuelled the bitter feud between Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling that threatens to wreck the Government’s economic relaunch.
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The announcement turns informal advice to flee from the approaching Hurricane Gustav into an official order to get out.
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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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 I doubt that anyone ever was or ever will be [prepared to be president of the United States]. The job is sui generis. The presidency is an act of faith….. The toughest job in the world is essentially reactive. The president does not run the country and is not paid by the hour. ….The […]