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WASHINGTON (Sept. 10) – The U.S. military conceded it was not winning the fight against an increasingly deadly insurgency in Afghanistan and said on Wednesday it would revise its strategy to combat militant safe havens in Pakistan. Read more
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Homeowners finally received some good news today as three more lenders announced cuts to the costs of their housing loans. Read more
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A former colleague of Hawke’s Bay woman Catherine Marlow throttled her with her own scarf and dumped her body in an office shower cubicle, a London court was told overnight. Read more
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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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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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The tiny British territorial islands took quite a beating as Hurricane Ike plowed across the territory with Category 4 strength and 135 mph winds. More from The Guardian: “Thousands of tourists fled the archipelago before the near-direct hit and residents who stayed hunkered down ‘just holding on for life’, said Michael Misick, the chief [...]
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Standings and number of combined victories and losses by rivals of the Cubs and White Sox that will allow the Chicago teams to finish ahead of that rival team this season: Read more
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Visiting Georgian capital Tbilisi on Tuesday, Mr Sarkozy clearly indicated that EU peacekeepers would be allowed access to Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Read more
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Latest James Bond instalment Quantum Of Solace will get its first public screening at the BFI London Film Festival. The movie will be shown at the event on October 29, the same night as its world premiere. Frost/Nixon, Ron Howard’s drama based on David Frost’s TV interview with Richard Nixon, will open this year’s festival. [...]
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Iranian rescue services are checking for damage and casualties after an earthquake measuring 6.1 struck near the southern port city of Bandar Abbas. Read more
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GENEVA – The world’s largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons all the way around a 17-mile tunnel this morning in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe. Read more
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Gov. Sarah Palin is granting her first major interview since becoming the GOP-Veep-nom and ABC’s Charlie Gibson does the honors. The first excerpts will air on Thursday’s “World News with Charles Gibson” and “Nightline,” followed by “Good Morning, America,” “World News,” “20/20″ and “Nightline” on Friday. Read more
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Mother always said, “You can never be too rich or too thin,” “Wear sensible shoes” and, perhaps most wisely, “Never a borrower nor lender be.” Read more
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The Coalition of the Willing appears to be going out of business. Read more
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Frustrated by repeated dead ends in the search for Osama bin Laden, U.S. and Pakistani officials said they are questioning long-held assumptions about their strategy and are shifting tactics to intensify the use of the unmanned but lethal Predator drone spy plane in the mountains of western Pakistan. Read more
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CABARET, Haiti, Sept. 9 — Three times this month, the river rose toward Andre Jean Compae’s cassava garden and three times, he watched it subside. So when his neighbors in this coastal Haitian town began running for safety as the latest rains came, Compae gathered his wife and seven children into one room to wait [...]
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CAIRO, Sept. 8 — Residents pounded riot police with fists and stones Monday outside an illegal slum crushed by a massive rockslide three days earlier. Egypt’s Interior Ministry said rescue workers had recovered 41 bodies, but residents said they thought hundreds remained buried. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 9 — Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the departing commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said that the country remains “the central front” for al-Qaeda and other extremist groups, but acknowledged that violence is rising in Afghanistan and Pakistan — battlegrounds he will soon oversee as the next head of the U.S. military‘s [...]
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il failed to appear at North Korea’s 60th anniversary parade today, lending credence to intelligence reports that he might be gravely ill. Kim, known in the communist north as “Dear Leader,” typically presides over mass gatherings on such occasions, waving to crowds as they shout praises to him in unison. [...]
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HARARE (Reuters) – President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Tuesday they have made progress in power-sharing talks in Zimbabwe and are to address outstanding issues on Wednesday. Read more