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FAN SHEN, China — Pausing to catch her breath, Yi Feng let the two nylon bags stuffed with fresh-picked tea leaves settle to the ground. She took off her straw hat and used it to fan away the perspiration dripping down her weather-lined face. Read more
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The archaeological site at Gobero in the Eastern Sahara is not going to rewrite the history of Stone Age man, or even the history of settlement in North Africa, where desert and lake have played tag with each other for eons. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 14 — A female suicide bomber detonated explosives among a group of Shiite pilgrims heading to a religious festival in the holy city of Karbala on Thursday, killing at least 18 people and wounding 68, police said. Read more
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BEIJING, Aug. 14 — As he sat munching Kentucky Fried Chicken with his captors at a Beijing police station last week, the Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney couldn’t help thinking that he was going to be used as a star in an upcoming Chinese propaganda film. Read more
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has so far been unable to contact Russian President Dmitry Medvedev by telephone to discuss the crisis in Georgia, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday. Read more
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TBILISI/SOCHI (Reuters) – The United States demanded on Friday that Russian troops end their occupation of Georgia immediately after Georgia signed a ceasefire agreement. Read more
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has demanded that Russian forces withdraw from Georgia immediately. Read more
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Poland and the U.S. signed a deal Thursday for Poland to accept a missile defense battery as part of a system the United States says is aimed at blocking attacks by rogue nations but that Moscow claims is aimed at weakening Russia. Read more
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Whites will become an ethnic minority in the United States in a generation as surging Hispanic and Asian populations transform the leader of the Western world. Read more
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Tension had been rising in the area for days and Nona Bakarashvilli, a 51-year-old mother of four in a family of ethnic Georgians, was increasingly worried. She, along with her husband Georgi, left their home in the breakaway enclave of South Ossetia to seek safety. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Aug. 15) — President Bush on Friday accused Russia of “bullying and intimidation” in its harsh military treatment of Georgia, saying the people in the former Soviet republic have chosen freedom and “we will not cast them aside.” Bush ratcheted up his rhetoric against Moscow as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pursued a diplomatic [...]
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The number of homeowners at risk of losing their homes has risen by nearly a quarter in the past year, figures showed today. Read more
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Fiji may pull out of the Pacific Forum leaders meeting in Niue next week after being excluded from subsequent meetings in New Zealand. Read more
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So when Georgia sent troops into the breakaway republic — which is peppered with ethnically Georgian towns as well as Ossetian ones — Russia responded with heavy force, using the disputed peacekeeping mission and Russian citizenship of regional residents as justification. The onetime Soviet republic of Georgia was also encountering conflict with Russia far from [...]
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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 [...]
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The Financial Times leans on a member of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s inner circle and government officials in breaking this story. More: “A senior officer in Mr MusharrafÂ’s camp on Thursday conceded that he had decided to step down to avoid a parliamentary impeachment that was likely to begin on Monday. A senior [...]
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The Obama campaign has responded to Jill Stanek’s “Breaking news: New documents show Obama cover-up on born-alive survivors bill.” Read more
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Meanwhile, Pentagon officials have warned Russia its relationship with the US could be “adversely affected” for years if it does not step back from the conflict. Read more
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The latest news snippets and gossip from the house… Lisa and Mikey completed this week’s shopping list but not without some disagreements. As they sat in the bedroom, Rex and Nicole came in to help. Big Brother then announced that only Lisa and Mikey could do the shopping list. Mikey asked them: “Could you please [...]
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Faced with desertions by his political supporters and the neutrality of the Pakistani military, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, an important ally of the United States, is expected to resign in the next few days rather than face impeachment charges, Pakistani politicians and Western diplomats said Thursday. Read more