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LONDON — Batman star Christian Bale will not face charges relating to an alleged assault on his mother and sister at the Dorchester Hotel on July 20, British prosecutors said Thursday.
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While Oakland state Sen. Don Perata and other California Democrats are wailing that the Proposition 11 redistricting plan on the November ballot is nothing more than a Republican-backed effort to turn California into a red state, so far they aren’t putting their money where their mouths are.
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Now that the Olympic Games are under way in Beijing, under the watch of the Chinese government’s extraordinarily broad and heavy security operation, are China’s human-rights record and other controversial subjects still such a big deal? Should they be? Has the keep-politics-out-of-sporting-events argument been settled or not?
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Russia appears to be withdrawing its forces from positions inside Georgia in initial compliance with a cease-fire agreement, and there is virtually no prospect that the United States will use military force in the conflict, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today.
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BEIJING, Aug. 13 — On Wednesday, relegated to a half-empty gymnasium at Beijing University, a sport that once thrilled a nation seemed like a relic.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia, Aug. 10 — Bolivians voted Sunday to keep President Evo Morales in office, with unofficial returns on a recall referendum giving him a victory even larger than the one that put him in office more than two years ago.
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KAMPALA, Uganda — In a country with one of the highest birthrates on Earth, where bearing children is considered a woman’s singular purpose, Betty Apio leads an unusual life.
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In the five-year struggle to finish the war in Iraq, military leaders and their troops have said a particular weapon is among the most effective in their arsenal:
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TBILISI, Georgia, Aug. 14 — Russian troops remained in control of a key Georgian city Thursday, and a Kremlin official suggested that two breakaway provinces will never return to Georgian control.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese army investigation into a bomb attack that killed 15 people, including 10 soldiers, is focusing on militant Sunni Islamist involvement, a security source said on Thursday.
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TBILISI/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged support on Thursday for two separatist regions fighting for independence from Georgia, as Washington demanded that the war-torn country’s territorial integrity be respected.
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Russian troops have begun handing over control of the area around the town of Gori to Georgian security forces.
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The strategically located city is 15 miles south of South Ossetia, the separatist region where Russian and Georgian forces fought a brutal five-day battle. Russian troops entered Gori on Wednesday, after the two sides signed the cease-fire that called for their forces to pull back to the positions they held before the fighting started.
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A dog stood guard over her owner’s body for up to six weeks after the man committed suicide in a remote part of rural Colorado.
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Michael Binyon in Moscow
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The man cleared of murdering Rachel Nickell spoke last night of his delight at being awarded a record £706,000 damages for the police blunders which ruined his life.
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Despite an attempted cover-up by organisers, the British Daily Telegraph has revealed that dancer Liu Yan fell over three metres and landed on her head and back.
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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 […]