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HAVANA, Sept. 8 — Hurricane Ike roared down Cuba’s spine Monday and toward the island’s densely populated capital, Havana, after ravaging homes and forcing 1.2 million people to evacuate. U.S. residents from Florida to Texas braced for Ike’s next wallop.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, Sept. 11 — Zimbabwe’s rival political factions have agreed to a power-sharing deal intended to end the nation’s political crisis, South African President Thabo Mbeki told reporters here Thursday night.
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JALAWLA, Iraq — Kurdish leaders have expanded their authority over a roughly 300-mile-long swath of territory beyond the borders of their autonomous region in northern Iraq, stationing thousands of soldiers in ethnically mixed areas in what Iraqi Arabs see as an encroachment on their homelands.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 12 — The United States on Friday accused three top aides to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez of helping Colombian guerrillas traffic in cocaine and battle the Colombian government, the first time the Bush administration has publicly outlined tight links between what it calls a terrorist group and the highest echelon of Venezuela’s […]
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - At least five bombs exploded in quick succession in crowded markets and streets in the heart of India’s capital New Delhi on Saturday, killing at least 18 people and injuring scores more, police said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A meeting between top government officials and the heads of some of Wall Street’s biggest investment banks over the fate of Lehman Brothers resumed on Saturday, a Federal Reserve official said.
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Five bombs have ripped through busy shopping areas of India’s capital, Delhi, within minutes of each other, killing at least 18 people, police say.
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Xinhua cited a Gansu provincial health department spokesman as saying he received reports on July 16 that 16 infants under a year old, all of whom drank Sanlu milk, were suffering a rare kidney ailment. He said the Health Ministry launched an epidemic survey.
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ALITALIA moved closer to bankruptcy after investors abandoned talks to buy the Italian state-owned carrier because of union opposition.
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CHENNAI, India (Sept. 12) - A ring-tone that sings
“condom, condom, condom” has attracted over 270,000 downloads
since its launch last month and has spread the message of safe
sex to many more mobile phone users in India and abroad.
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The collapse of the travel giant XL could spell the beginning of the end for cheap package holidays, it was revealed today as the full extent of the human misery emerged.
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HOUSTON - Hurricane Ike has begun battering the Texas coast, threatening to obliterate waterfront towns and give the skyscrapers, refineries and docks of the fourth-largest US city their worst pounding in a generation.
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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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As a colleague of mine just put it, it’s usually hard enough to get out of the National Weather Service assurances of whether it’s going to drizzle or not. So it was especially surprising to see such dire language from the NOAA alert as monstrous Hurricane Ike bears down on the Texas coast:
“LIFE THREATENING FLOOD […]
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It wasn’t too surprising that a notably vile and false attack ad would pop up in this presidential campaign. After all, partisan passions are high and independent advocacy groups have never shown much restraint when it comes to slimecasting.Â
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Up to 15 people are now known to have died after a commuter train collided with a freight train in Los Angeles.
Firefighters pull people from wreckage in LA
TV footage showed firefighters pulling people from the wreckage of the Metrolink commuter train, which was thought to be carrying around 350 passengers.
Carriages have been derailed, and are […]
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Contestant Ceri Rees is keen to get through to boot camp at the third time of asking as The X Factor heads to Wales this weekend.
The Welsh housewife, 51, famously auditioned without her teeth in 2005 before returning in 2006. Although she failed to progress in the competition on both occasions, Rees appears before the […]
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Officials in Afghanistan say at least 10 militants and five Afghan guards were killed when Taliban militants attacked a U.S. security firm convoy in southwestern Afghanistan.
The governor of Farah province says militants Friday ambushed a convoy of a U.S.-based security company that delivers supplies to coalition forces. At least three guards were believed to have […]
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WASHINGTON - President Bush secretly approved US military raids inside Pakistan against alleged terrorist targets, according to current and former US officials with recent access to the administration’s debate about how to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban inside the lawless tribal border area.
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