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WARSAW, Poland — The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia _ a move followed swiftly by a new warning from Moscow of a possible military response.
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BEIJING, Aug. 20 — Hua Guofeng, who succeeded Mao Zedong as China’s Communist Party leader for a short period before being brushed aside by economic reformers 30 years ago, died in the Chinese capital Wednesday afternoon, state media reported. He was 87.
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Ever Veloza, a paramilitary commander in the now-defunct United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, spoke to The Washington Post on July 26 in his cellblock at Itagui prison, just outside of Medellin, Colombia. Once the commander of two powerful militias, Veloza is now participating in special judicial proceedings in which he has confessed to hundreds of […]
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BERLIN, Aug. 20 — Synchronized car bombs killed at least 11 people in Algeria Wednesday morning, a day after a suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed car into a police academy, killing 43.
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Iraq’s oil income will more than double this year, even as Baghdad continues to spend only a small percentage of its own money on reconstruction and services while it banks billions in surplus funds, according to projections by U.S. government auditors.
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MADRID, Spain — A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands crashed, burned and broke into pieces Wednesday while trying to take off from Madrid’s Barajas airport, killing 149 people on board, officials said.
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BOUIRA, Algeria (Reuters) - Two car bombs in Algeria killed at least 11 people on Wednesday, the day after an attack that left 43 dead at a military academy, Algerian press agency APS said quoting the Interior Ministry.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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At least 45 people have been killed after a passenger plane swerved off the runway at Madrid’s Barajas airport, Spanish officials say.
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The U.S. already has reached an agreement with the government in Prague to place the second component of the missile defense shield — a radar tracking system — in the Czech Republic, Poland’s southwestern neighbor and another formerly communist country.
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CHRISTINA Applegate had to have both breasts removed to win her battle with cancer, it has been revealed.
The star of TV series Samantha Who?, co-created by Cecelia Ahern, was
revealed yesterday to be in the clear from the disease – but the extent of
her battle has only now become clear.
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Russian soldiers took about 20 Georgian troops prisoner yesterday at a key Black Sea port in western Georgia, blindfolding them and holding them at gunpoint, and commandeered American Humvees awaiting shipment back to the US.
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Disgraced rock star Garry Glitter remains in ‘no man’s land’ this morning at Bangkok International Airport after refusing to board a flight back to Britain.
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NORTH CAROLINA - A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom, said federal officials who have threatened to cut off the facility’s funding.
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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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But as Al-Jazeera reports, there’s not too much evidence of that happening, with Russian tanks still dug in just half an hour from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi:
“Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull said there was no evidence of even preparations for a withdrawal.
Right up until the end of Sunday, Russians were digging in with spades to […]
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Tribune religion reporter Manya Brachear has posted the list of some 30
of our newsroom colleagues who left the paper on Friday at the end of this post
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11:34pm UK, Tuesday August 19, 2008
Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband has accused Russia of “not living up to its word” on a commitment to withdraw its troops from Georgia.
David Miliband flanked by French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner (left) and Finland’s Alexander Stubb
Shortly after he spoke, Russia’s UN ambassador rejected a revised French draft resolution in […]