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Inflation has doubled in just six months, driven by a record surge in supermarket food prices which has delivered a hammer blow to millions of families.
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Stolen artwork in US collection
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Is this Picasso yours? When New York art collector William Kingsland died in 2006, he left behind hundreds of pieces.
But some, including works by Pablo Picasso, turned out to have been stolen.
The FBI, searching for the rightful owners of possibly stolen items, posted photographs yesterday […]
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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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Last night at about 8 p.m. Eastern time, I received a copy of the draft resolution on Georgia, introduced by France and immediately e-mailed out to members of the U.N. Security Council. The resolution was the result of five straight days of emergency meetings on the crisis in Georgia, and State Department sources tell me […]
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I’m headed out of town for a few days, so I’m throwing some shot-item chum on the comment water this morning.
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Jon di Paolo,
Sky News online
The Russian and French presidents have endorsed a peace plan that would see Russian and Georgian troops withdraw to their pre-war positions.
Georgia has accused Russia of targeting civilians
Dmitry Medvedev and Nicolas Sarkozy gave a press conference about the plan, which they said would include a re-appraisal of the future status of […]
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The Spice Girls have been announced as the highest-grossing concert act of the past year.
Figures released by Forbes magazine show that the singers pulled in £16.5 million for their 17 sell-out shows at London’s O2 Arena in January. The publication also confirms that each gig sold out within one minute of tickets going on sale.
US […]
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Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordered a halt to military action in Georgia on Tuesday, after five days of air and land attacks that took Russian forces deep into the small Western-allied nation.
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* Georgia’s president says his government will declare that its breakaway regions are occupied territories and will designate Russian peacekeepers.
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An astute reader noted this week that Averell ”Ace” Smith, the saavy California campaign manager and political operative — also known as the Dr. Death of oppo-research — may be tipping his hand as to his political future on his Facebook page.
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Russia’s president, Dmitri Medvedev, and its prime minister (and Medvedev’s presidential predecessor) Vladimir Putin, have Georgia on their minds.
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The details of who did what to precipitate Russia’s war against Georgia are not very important. Do you recall the precise details of the Sudeten Crisis that led to Nazi Germany’s invasion of Czechoslovakia? Of course not, because that morally ambiguous dispute is rightly remembered as a minor part of a much bigger drama.
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President Bush said yesterday that Russia’s military attacks in Georgia may be designed to unseat the pro-U.S. government there, a move he warned would represent a “dramatic and brutal escalation” of a conflict that American officials have begun to describe as a return to Cold War-style aggression.
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North Korea missed its first chance yesterday to be removed from the State Department’s list of terrorist states, U.S. officials said, because it has not provided a way for international inspectors to verify claims about its nuclear program.
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SAN DIEGO — Quietly over the past 14 years, gay men and lesbians from Mexico have sought — and received — political asylum in the United States based on their sexual orientation and the argument that the culture of “machismo” in their country has sometimes put homosexuals there in danger.
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UNITED NATIONS — Six days before Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was charged with genocide, a group of 200 fighters on horseback, supported by more than 40 vehicles mounted with machine guns, carried out the bloodiest and most sophisticated ambush yet on a fledgling U.N. and African peacekeeping mission.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 11 — King Abdullah II of Jordan on Monday became the first Arab head of state to visit Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion five years ago, the latest sign that Iraq’s Sunni Arab neighbors are strengthening ties with its Shiite-led government.
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BEIJING, Aug. 10 — Violence and bloodshed marring the first two days of the Beijing Olympics provided a dramatic reminder that there is no such thing as perfect security in a country as vast as China, with so many people nursing grievances against the authoritarian government.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra skipped bail on Monday and went into exile, accusing political enemies who removed him in a 2006 coup of meddling in the courts to “finish off” him and his family.
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