A Walk in the Ecuadoran Rain Forest
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ALONG THE SAN MIGUEL RIVER, Ecuador — My Spanish is rusty and I wasn’t sure I had heard the pilot correctly. You want me to rappel? From the helicopter?
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Egyptian Judge Sentences Exiled Dissident to Prison for Writings in ‘Foreign Press’
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CAIRO, Aug. 2 — A prominent dissident who has urged the United States to tie financial aid to Egypt to democratic reform was sentenced to two years in prison Saturday.
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U.S., Iraq Remain Unresolved On Dates for U.S. Troop Pullout
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U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have agreed on most elements of a framework under which U.S. combat troops would withdraw from Iraqi cities sometime next year, but dates have not yet been settled and Iraqi political approval of the draft accord remains uncertain, according to Bush administration officials.
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In Beijing, Parents Of Ex-Player Are Stabbed; One Dies
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BEIJING, Aug. 9 — A Chinese man stabbed two relatives of a U.S. Olympic coach Saturday, killing a man and severely wounding his wife, as well as injuring their Chinese guide, at a popular tourist site in downtown Beijing, according to government and U.S. Olympic officials.
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Georgia offers ceasefire as fighting continues
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By Denis Sinyakov
TSKHINVALI, Georgia (Reuters) - Russian troops and tanks took the capital of the separatist Georgian region of South Ossetia on Sunday after a bloody three-day battle as Georgian forces retreated and offered a ceasefire.
Russia ordered in soldiers and bombed Georgian targets after Tbilisi attempted on Thursday evening to retake South Ossetia, a small […]
Russia takes S.Ossetian capital, Georgia pulls back
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TSKHINVALI, Georgia (Reuters) - Russian troops and tanks took the capital of the separatist Georgian region of South Ossetia on Sunday after a bloody three-day battle as Georgian forces retreated and offered a ceasefire.
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Georgia ‘calls Ossetia ceasefire’
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Georgia says it has ordered a ceasefire in South Ossetia and offered to hold peace talks with Moscow.
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Georgian troops retreat from breakaway province (AP)
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The risk of the conflict setting off a wider war increased when Russian-supported separatists in another breakaway region of Georgia, Abkhazia, launched air and artillery strikes on Georgian troops to drive them out of a small part of the province they control. Fifteen U.N. military observers were told to evacuate.
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Drugs probe into Ledger death axed
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US prosecutors won’t be pursuing a possible criminal case into how Batman star Heath Ledger (right) obtained the powerful painkillers that contributed to his fatal overdose.
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The litany of police bungling that allowed Madeleine trail to go cold
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NOW it’s official. The Portuguese police inquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has failed utterly.
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Was Dog Cloner Charged in Sex Case?
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SALT LAKE CITY (Aug. 9) - A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She may be the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing […]
The Pipeline War: Russian bear goes for West's jugular
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• Russian jets widened the offensive by bombing the central Georgian town of Gori – Joseph Stalin’s birthplace – in an attack on military targets that Georgian authorities claimed killed 60 civilians, and attacked the port of Poti.• Georgia claimed that Russian troops had opened a new front by moving into another disputed province, Abkhazia, […]
Russia refuses Georgia cease-fire
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UNITED NATIONS - Russia has refused to agree to a cease-fire or a diplomatic agreement, ensuring that the fighting with Georgia would keep spilling over to other regions such as Abkhazia’s Kodori Ridge, where 15 UN military observers were told to evacuate.
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France's Worst Serial Killers?
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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 […]
France's Worst Serial Killers?
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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 […]
Growing Tension in Venezuela
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Here’s the situation in a nutshell: Even though voters had last December rejected a referendum extending Hugo Chavez’s time in office and his desire to enact socialist reforms in Venezuela, this week he decreed 26 new laws designed to push the country more toward that direction. Key components of the decrees include expanding state control […]
There’s a reason for `politics as usual’ — it works!
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Barack Obama has spoken time and again of his belief in “a new kind of politics” — one that rises above petty partisanship and personal attacks to focus on the issues, on “coming together” and using our common sense and reason to find common ground on which to move America forward.
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Beijing Knife Attack Victim Named
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5:44pm UK, Saturday August 09, 2008
The father-in-law of a US Olympic coach has been stabbed to death and his wife seriously injured by a lone knifeman at a Beijing tourist attraction.
Police at the scene of the knife attack
Todd Bachman died during the attack in the centre of the Chinese capital as the Games got into […]
Rachel cries at Hell’s jibes
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Warning: This article contains language and/or sexual references that younger readers are advised to avoid.
Rachel was reduced to tears this evening after persistent digs from the new Hellmates took their toll.
After swapping sides, Rex grew irritated at the thought of spending his first night in Hell while separated from Nicole.
“What a shit day,” he said […]
Georgia and Russia Nearing All-Out War
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The conflict between Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia moved toward all-out war on Saturday as Russia prepared to land ground troops on GeorgiaÂ’s coast and broadened its bombing campaign both within Georgia and in the disputed territory of Abkhazia.
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