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TOKYO — Japan’s chronically unpopular prime minister abruptly resigned Monday after a yearlong struggle with a deadlocked parliament, leaving the weakened ruling party to grapple with a stalled economy and rising calls for snap elections.
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HAVANA, Aug. 31 — Cubans returned from shelters to find flooded homes and washed-out roads Sunday, but no deaths were reported after Hurricane Gustav roared across the island and into the Gulf of Mexico.
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NAIROBI — To a growing number of foreign investors, sub-Saharan Africa represents much more than the ethnic clashes, coups, bouts of genocide and natural disasters that have scarred many countries in the region. It represents dazzling opportunities to make money.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 1 — The U.S. military on Monday handed the Iraqi government responsibility for security in Anbar province, the former stronghold of the Sunni insurgency that has now become one of the safest areas in country.
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KAMPALA, Uganda — Meet Denis Ruharo, an entrepreneur with a master’s degree, a man who carries a BlackBerry and two Nokia cellphones, buys organic greens at a grocery store and sometimes does business over a cold Nile beer at a club called Silk.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda resigned on Monday over a political deadlock, becoming the second leader to quit abruptly in less than a year and threatening a policy vacuum as Japan slips towards a recession.
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ST. PAUL (Reuters) - The 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is pregnant, Palin said on Monday in an announcement intended to knock down rumors by liberal bloggers that Palin faked her own pregnancy to cover up for her child.
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Hurricane Gustav has made landfall south-west of New Orleans, battering the US Gulf coast with torrential rain and severe winds.
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For years, Anbar, the 11th of 18 provinces to switch to Iraqi control, was the center of the Sunni insurgency. The city of Fallujah became the symbol of Sunni resistance until it fell to American troops in November 2004 in the most intense urban combat of the war.
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Hurricane Gustav
grew into the “mother of all storms” last night as it screamed
towards America’s
Gulf coast, forcing one million people to evacuate and turning New Orleans
into a virtual ghost city.
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HOLLYWOOD star Helen Mirren has angered anti-rape campaigners by suggesting that women who are date-raped should not expect to take those who have violated them to court.
In an interview with the former tabloid editor Piers Morgan, the
Oscar-winning actress revealed how she often used cocaine throughout her
twenties and had herself […]
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MOSCOW (Sept. 1) — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was feted
by Russian media on Sunday for saving a television crew from an
attack by a Siberian tiger in the wilds of the Far East.
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Millionaire’s wife Jillian Foster was shot in the head before her family mansion was burned down, police have said.
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A Qantas flight has landed without incident in the German city of Frankfurt after its crew shut down an engine because of a vibration.
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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 Gulf Coast is bracing for Hurricane Gustav after the storm lashed the Caribbean, but the preparations look like night and day compared to preparations for Hurricane Katrina three years ago: About two million residents have left or will leave before landfall, expected at about noon Monday (local time). USA Today has a comprehensive story:
“Homeland […]
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Presumptive GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is opposed to abortion even in cases where the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest.
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1:07am UK, Monday September 01, 2008
Hurricane Gustav is no longer expected to swell into a Category Four storm when it hits the US coast, but fears remain over its possible devastating force.
People in New Orleans evacuate the city
It was feared the Category Three storm could pick up strength as it travels over the warm Gulf […]
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Mo requested that the group stay where he could keep his Head of House eye on them after repeated requests that he keep them awake. “Guys, I’d prefer it if everyone came out to the living area,” he told the group in the bedroom. “It’s you guys […]
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Upping the ante in the recent geopolitical brinksmanship over Georgia, Poland, and Ukraine, Russia responded by test-firing its new RS-12M nuclear missile.
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