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PERM, Russia (Reuters) - Engine failure caused an Aeroflot Boeing 737-500 plane crash in Russia on Sunday which killed all 88 people on board, officials said, dismissing fears terrorists had attacked the airliner.
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Talks to sell Lehman Brothers Holdings faltered on Sunday, triggering concerns that the investment bank may be heading into bankruptcy by the end of the day and prompting banks to call an emergency trading session to unwind positions with the firm.
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Preparations are being made for US investment bank Lehman Brothers to file for bankruptcy protection.
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Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said Friday three suspects had been arrested for allegedly giving false information to the American military, but it did not say who they were. Hamidzada and the Interior Ministry spokesman have also declined to say who was arrested.
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NEW evidence has emerged that the Omagh bombing might have been prevented by British security forces.
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MOSCOW (Sept. 14) - A passenger jet traveling from Moscow to the Ural Mountains city of Perm crashed as it was preparing to land early Sunday, killing all 88 people aboard, officials said, citing engine failure as a possible cause.
The crash on the outskirts of Perm scorched a section of railroad track and scattered paper, […]
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While thousands of passengers stranded by the collapse of travel giant XL Leisure were trying desperately to get back home last night, the firm’s bankrupt former boss was living a life of luxury with a Bentley parked in his drive.
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LOS ANGELES - A commuter train engineer who ran a stop signal has been was blamed for yesterday’s train crash that killed 25 and injured 135.
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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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To listen to a full version of the featured song in the new iPod Nano commercial, enter the search term “Chairlift Bruises” at Songza. Lyrics are here.
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9:39am UK, Sunday September 14, 2008
Hurricane Ike has caused a trail of devastation across Texas, causing several deaths and leaving more than two million people without power.
Ike left a trail of devastation through Texas
The storm flattened hundreds of homes, and flooded barrier islands across 500 miles of coastline, cutting off nearly all oil and gas […]
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It’s a well-known fact that the big three console manufacturers - Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft - all want your money. Once you fork out a few hundred notes for a console, they have you in their mighty grip, and bleed you dry with their capitalist agendas. In some cases, this can be as much as […]
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On Saturday, at an outdoor Mass in France attended by 250,000 people, Pope Benedict XVI condemned the world’s love of power, possessions and money as a modern-day plague, comparing it to “paganism.”
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Posted: 3:46 amSeptember 13, 2008
Russian troops withdrew from Georgia’s Black Sea port of Poti late yestrday, within a deadline set for the first phase of a pullback brokered by France.
A reporter saw troops in armored personnel carriers and trucks pull out from positions on the outskirts of Poti.
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Not content to pack the LHC barn in English only, the McCain dropped a Spanish-language ad Friday that accused Obama and the Dems of killing comprehensive immigration reform. One pro-immigrant comprehensive immigration reform advocate said Johnny Mac’s ad “misrepresents history.”
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So-called sovereign wealth funds - they’ve become the talk of the international-finance world, but the talk about them has not always been too positive.
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Russia is developing a comprehensive strategy of bleeding American power around the globe. The United States must respond not at its point of greatest weakness, as the Bush administration may be tempted to do, but at its points of strength.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 11 — The Iraqi government has decided to scrap plans to award no-bid short-term advisory and technical support contracts to a handful of Western oil companies, Iraqi officials said this week.
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SHANGHAI, Sept. 12 — China’s Health Ministry on Friday launched a nationwide probe into the milk powder that has been linked to kidney stones in infants and said the powder could have been contaminated with the chemical melamine.
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