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CAMAGUEY, Cuba, Sept. 7 — Hurricane Ike struck eastern Cuba after roaring across low-lying islands Sunday, tearing apart houses, wiping out crops and worsening floods in Haiti that have already killed more than 300 people.
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RABAT, Morocco, Sept. 7 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday defended the Bush administration’s record on restraining the spread of nuclear weapons, asserting that the record shows “we have left this situation or this issue in far better shape than we found it.”
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At the Joint Chiefs of Staff in late November 2006, Gen. Peter Pace was facing every chairman’s nightmare: a potential revolt of the other chiefs. Two months earlier, the JCS had convened a special team of colonels to recommend options for reversing the deteriorating situation in Iraq. Now, it appeared that the chiefs’ and colonels’ […]
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SHANGHAI — Harry Kazazian built his business on sleeping bags that are made in China and shipped across the ocean to the United States, but he realized recently that the math doesn’t work anymore.
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MEIENDORF CASTLE, Russia (Reuters) - Russia agreed to completely withdraw its troops from Georgia’s heartland within a month on Monday, but there was no commitment to scale back its military presence in two Georgian separatist regions.
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By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares in mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plunged while their debt soared Monday, one day after the U.S. government took over the companies, as investors bet the action would wipe out stockholders but fully guarantee their bonds.
Equity markets around the world surged on the […]
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Russian forces to withdraw from undisputed land within 10 days of monitors deploying
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A tally of sporadic reports from six of the eight eastern provinces affected indicated at least 900,000 people had evacuated, and former President Fidel Castro released a statement calling on Cubans to heed security measures to ensure no one dies. Cuba historically has successfully carried off massive evacuations before hurricanes, sparing countless lives.
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On Wednesday the biggest machine and international scientific experiment ever built will be switched on. Called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), it is a giant $10bn “atom smasher” that has been constructed at the European centre for nuclear research (Cern) in Geneva.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. - The U.S. and NATO militaries must stop carrying out airstrikes in densely populated Afghan villages unless intelligence is highly reliable, Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday that also urged military leaders to accept responsibility for civilian casualties as soon as possible.
The report comes just two weeks after an […]
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MELBOURNE - A stripper hired to entertain a buck’s party raped the best man with a sex toy, a Melbourne court heard today.
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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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Japanese Professor Toshimitsu Shigemura thinks that the notorious North Korean dictator has been dead since 2003, and his network of imposters, previously in place for assassination-proofing purposes, has been carrying on his state visits and negotiations. A tantalizing conspiracy theory about one of the world’s most eccentric leaders (really, Moammar Gadhafi gives him a run […]
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) _ Gov. Sarah Palin’s church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer…
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2:33am UK, Monday September 08, 2008
Hurricane Ike has made landfall in Cuba, with heavy rain and flooding preceding the storm.
Flooding in the streets of Baracoa, eastern Cuba
High winds and torrential rain hit the east of the island ahead of the Category 3 hurricane, flooding low-lying areas and causing rivers to burst their banks.
Forecasters warned that […]
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The five nominees who will compete for the MTV Europe Music Awards’ Best UK Act prize have been announced.
Soul stars Adele and Duffy have been nominated alongside X Factor winner Leona Lewis, indie-pop band The Ting Tings and Liverpool rockers The Wombats.
The nominees were determined by MTV chiefs and record label representatives, as well as […]
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Fiji’s Electricity Authority says the island nation will save $14 million a year in fuel costs when the Nadarivatu hydro-dam is built.
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A veteran Japanese expert on North Korea claims the country’s dictator, “dear leader” Kim Jong-Il, is actually dead - and his role is played by a double.
Kim may have died of diabetes in 2003 and […]
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Palin to Bay Area to Raise $$
The McCain Team isn’t wasting any time putting Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on the hustings to raise cash for the party — and to excite the base.
And that even means here in the Bay Area — as in Woodside.
The invite comes from the McCain-Palin Victory California group — […]