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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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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s choice for running mate, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, used the word “literally” literally eight times in his speech Saturday afternoon, suggesting we’re in for a metaphorical deluge of misuses of “literally” this campaign season: Read more
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4:52pm UK, Sunday August 24, 2008 A fuel train has hit a mine and exploded near the stricken Georgian city of Gori, as Russia faced renewed European Union pressure to make a complete withdrawal. [...]
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Lisa had to subdue the group as excitement grew in anticipation of a wedding ceremony tonight. As housemates prepared for an evening of entertainment in the luxury bedroom, suspicions arose that a second wedding ceremony of the series might be on the cards. But Lisa was quick to put a stop to the suggestions, saying: [...]
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BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan : A passenger jet carrying 90 people to Iran crashed Sunday near the main airport in Kyrgyzstan, and officials in the Central Asian nation said it appeared 25 people had survived. Read more
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A leading expert on the shroud of Turin is gaining support for new carbon-dating tests on the venerated but controversial relic, which was dismissed two decades ago as a fake. Read more
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Camp McCain hardly let the ink dry on the Biden veep pick before launching an ad aimed at disaffected Clinton voters called “Passed Over,” released cleverly, or not, at 3 a.m., the time that White House phone is always ringing. Read more
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Lately, George W. Bush, his bunker-sequestered Svengali, Dick Cheney, and their dutiful, hapless, jet-setting lady-in-waiting, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, have gotten a taste of Russian-style “shock and awe.” Now, confounded and frustrated, their heads are spinning as they try to figure out why they’re feeling so powerless in the face of Russian’s recent [...]
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LONDON — Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, al-Qaeda has increasingly turned to local cells that run extremely low-cost operations and generate cash through criminal scams, bypassing the global financial dragnet set up by the United States and Europe. Read more
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BEIJING, Aug. 23 — Eager to share his excitement at being in the middle of Beijing’s Olympic splendor, Aaron Price pressed toward the railing of the open-air set of NBC‘s “Today” show here Friday night, hoping the live broadcast would beam his face and his “Aaron, Rebecca, China” sign to friends and family back in [...]
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DERBY LINE, Vt. — The changes started coming slowly to this small town where the U.S. border with Canada runs across sleepy streets, through houses and families, and smack down the middle of the shared local library. Read more
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BERLIN, Aug. 19 — A suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed car into an Algerian police academy early Tuesday, killing 43 people in the latest mass-casualty attack in the North African country. Read more
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Bush Praises Georgia and Condemns RussiaORLANDO, Aug. 20 — President Bush reiterated his demand that Russia remove its forces from Georgia in a speech here Wednesday, stating that the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia are part of the former Soviet republic and that “the United States will work with our allies to ensure… [...]
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RUSTAVI, Georgia, Aug. 23 — Georgian civilians captured and recently freed by Russian and South Ossetian forces on Saturday described beatings, forced labor and miserable living conditions in prison. Read more
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POTI, Georgia (Reuters) – Small numbers of Russian troops dug in deep inside Georgia on Sunday and Western states demanded Moscow’s forces leave a Black Sea port, two days after Moscow said it had wrapped up its withdrawal. Read more
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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and newly minted running mate Joseph Biden made their debut on Saturday, with Biden declaring “it’s our time” and quickly going on the attack against Republican John McCain. Read more
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US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has introduced veteran Senator Joe Biden as his running mate at a rally in Springfield, Illinois. Read more
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Russian forces also set up a checkpoint near Senaki, the home of a major military base in western Georgia that Georgian troops retook on Saturday. AP video footage of the base Saturday showed it had been heavily looted. Read more
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BILL Clinton’s reluctance to warmly endorse Barack Obama as the next president is causing jitters in the Obama camp ahead of the Democratic convention next week, where the senator will formally become the party’s White House nominee. Read more
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