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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Two babies have died after a river surging with rain from Tropical Storm Fay toppled their overcrowded bus, raising the storm’s Caribbean death toll to at least 14, a UN official said.
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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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It’s big news, no doubt, but is it the best news for Pakistan and for those fighting against terrorism?
First, the statement from Pervez himself:
“After consultations with my legal advisers and close political friends, for the country and the nation today, I am deciding to resign from my office. I am leaving with the satisfaction that […]
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One of the more interesting conversations I had during my still-not-quite-over vacation was with my long-time friend Pete, who lives on Cape Cod and came in for a quick visit. He said his wife, Pam, has noticed that all the middle-aged, married women in her circle of friends have more or less the same complaint […]
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Imagine being in a foreign country, getting in a cab and being asked for £3,050 on arrival at the supposed destination. That is what happened to a Spanish couple holidaying in Norway, when they mispronounced the name of the place they wanted to go to their taxi driver. Instead of going to Olden, they were […]
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The Georgia conflict and the US proaganda , continually repeated by the Wests Media, shows we NO longer have a media industry that wants to report trurthfully and objectively. Where are all the satelitte pictures from the US to prove there assertion that Russia started this conflict. Remember Iraq where they where only […]
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AC/DC have revealed the details of their first studio album in eight years.
The veteran rockers’ follow-up to 2000’s Stiff Upper Lip will be released on October 20. The 15-song LP is titled Black Ice.
Lead single ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Train’, which was produced by Brendan O’Brien in Vancouver, precedes on August 28.
Details of a […]
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation Monday, ending an eight-year tenure that opponents said was hampering the country’s labored return to democracy.
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ROGUE KREMLIN WORRIES LEADERS
By CATHY BURKE
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Posted: 3:54 amAugust 18, 2008
The whole world is watching.
While Russia pledged it would begin troop withdrawal from Georgia today, US officials are skeptical about its old Cold […]
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Newport Beach — We’re the local pool reporter today in the motorcade of Sen. John McCain, following the Republican candidate on his day around Southern California. This is running up to his Saturday night joint appearance at the invitation of author and pastor Rick Warren before the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest with Barack Obama.
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TBILISI, Georgia, Aug. 17 — In November 2003, Georgia’s Rose Revolution toppled President Eduard Shevardnadze, and he retired to his gated residence in Tbilisi to watch his flashy successor take the country on a roller-coaster ride of reform, economic development and increasingly tense relations with Russia.
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NEW DELHI, Aug. 17 — On a recent four-month trek through hundreds of Kashmiri villages, separatist leader Yasin Malik called on people to adopt his new Gandhian philosophy of nonviolence. Malik, a secular Muslim, soon became an icon of peace to many youths in this turbulent region that India and Pakistan have fought over for […]
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MALINDI, Kenya — Almost 10 years to the day after the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, dozens of Kenyan anti-terrorism police busted their way into two homes in this sleepy resort town on the Indian Ocean.
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SOUTH BUHRIZ, Iraq — Two Iraqi soldiers stumbled out of the thick, black smoke, their faces bathed in blood that glistened in the sun. They clutched their heads, mumbling “Hamdullah” — “Thanks to God.” They had survived the explosion. A third Iraqi soldier was being carried on an olive-green stretcher. He was unconscious, curled like […]
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CAIRO — In a Muslim country where the numbers of women wearing the veil are rising, and so — by most accounts — are incidents of groping and catcalls in the streets, the message in ads circulating anonymously in e-mails here in Egypt is clear:
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The secretary general of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Sunday he believed a power-sharing deal with the country’s ruling party will be reached soon.
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TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia’s president struck a conciliatory tone towards Russia as its troops were due to start leaving his country on Monday, urging Moscow to discuss ways to avoid “discord for future generations”.
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Western powers have stepped up pressure on Russia to honour its pledge to begin withdrawing troops from Georgia.
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But Medvedev’s silence on South Ossetia has fueled fears that Russia could annex the region, which — like Abkhazia — broke from Georgia government control in the 1990s and has declared independence. Getting Abkhazia alone would increase the length of Russia’s Black Sea coast by more than 25 percent.
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