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The Marriott blast could prompt diplomats and aid groups in Islamabad to re-evaluate whether nonessential staff and family members should stay. U.N. officials met Sunday to discuss the security situation and, for now, made no decision to change their measures, said Amena Kamaal, a spokeswoman.
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The Pope has for the first time publicly defended the wartime record of Pope Pius XII, who for decades has been accused of failing to speak out against the Holocaust.
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LONDON (Sept. 21) - Miners in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho have found one of the world’s largest diamonds, a near-flawless white gem weighing nearly 500 carats, mining group Gem Diamonds said on Sunday.
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Jehovah’s Witness shot dead and wife critically-ill after being gunned-down ‘by daughter’s jilted boyfriend’
Share sharks made £190m profits from HBOS by trading two minutes BEFORE BBC announced Lloyds TSB rescue
With a £1m diamond necklace and Jamie Cullum performing at her wedding - meet the UK’s top hedge fund WAG
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Australian seige ends with discovery of woman’s body
New 6:30AM Monday Sep 22, 2008
Edwina Scott
A seven-hour siege has ended with the discovery of a woman’s body and the arrest of a man in the Victorian city of Geelong.
It ended when the man set the Norlane house alight tonight, with police storming into the home while firefighters […]
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Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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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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Twenty-three years ago, a dying Cub fan wrote and recorded an anthem to North Side optimism called “Go Cubs Go.”
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3:16pm UK, Sunday September 21, 2008
The suicide bomber who killed more than 50 people at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad had first tried to target the Parliament building, it has been claimed.
Huge crater outside the burning hotel in Islamabad
And Pakistan’s government is blaming members of the Taliban with links to al Qaeda for the attack.
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Dolly Parton has revealed that she has had enough of rumours that she has died.
A major TV news channel recently stated that the country star had passed away after suffering a heart attack in her sleep.
Parton said that she was asleep when the report was aired, but her husband woke her up and told her […]
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Those of you concerned that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the super particle accelerator in Europe, will bring the world to an end with miniature black holes or strangelets can rest easy for two months. Death threats couldn’t bring the project to a halt, but technical snafus? Yep.
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President Thabo Mbeki bowed to heavy pressure from his own party to resign Saturday, tossed to the sidelines of the economic powerhouse he built up as punishment for allegedly abusing his power in trying to quash a popular rival.
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On Thursday, the U.S. economy came within 24 hours of a financial meltdown that economists agree would have led to Great Depression II. The administration is asking Congress next week to approve a fix whose details are being whipped up on the fly.
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Mexico City - On Monday night of this week, Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa stepped out onto a balcony of the National Palace on the east side of Mexico City’s vast, downtown…
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WASHINGTON — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Chile this week hailing South America’s determination to defend democracy and decrying the days when the region’s leaders stood by as a CIA-backed coup toppled Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973. “Things are no longer as they were,” Chavez boasted. He is right — to a point.
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A war that can be won is a valuable asset for a presidential candidate. It spreads hope and wards off vote-numbing despair on the campaign trail. For Barack Obama, the winnable war is Afghanistan. John McCain makes the same claim for Iraq.
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MOSCOW, Sept. 20 — For the past eight years, the political strength of Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, has rested on what seemed an unbeatable combination — a soaring economy that raised average incomes eightfold and a steady drive to consolidate control over government, media and business that stifled any meaningful opposition.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 20 — A massive suicide truck bomb ripped through a luxury hotel in the Pakistani capital Saturday night, killing at least 60 people and wounding more than 250 as the building was engulfed in flames, officials said.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 19 — Armed agents in Venezuela detained and deported two officials from Human Rights Watch just hours after the New York-based group issued a report critical of the country’s socialist government, the activists said Friday.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, June 29 — President Robert Mugabe cemented his government’s hold over Zimbabwe on Sunday with the announcement of his overwhelming election victory followed by an inauguration before the approving gazes of the military leaders who engineered his brutal political comeback.
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