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“World Views” on vacation
“World Views” is on vacation this week and will resume posting next Monday, September 29.
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September 22 2008 at 06:00 AM
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LONDON, Sept. 17 — Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday called for a new investigation into the deadliest bombing of the Northern Ireland conflict following a report that British intelligence officials were tapping the phones of the bombers as they delivered the explosives.
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The spring of 2009 is the earliest time the Pentagon will be able to send three more U.S. combat brigades to Afghanistan to meet the longstanding requirement of American commanders there for about 10,000 more troops, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today.
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 21 — South African President Thabo Mbeki announced Sunday that he had formally resigned and would vacate the office he has held for nine years as soon as the nation’s Parliament selects a successor.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 22 — Almost every September since he has been president, George W. Bush has made a pilgrimage here to speak to the General Assembly. On one of those occasions, Bush forecast the tepid reaction he knew he would receive, telling then-U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton: “Well, it’s my annual trip up here […]
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MANCHESTER, England, Sept. 22 — Concern over the global financial crisis has largely halted efforts by disgruntled members of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labor Party to oust the unpopular leader.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The global financial crisis endangers efforts to reduce world poverty and demands a new approach with less “uncritical faith in the ‘magic’ of markets,” U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the U.S. Congress Tuesday that financial markets are under severe stress and urged immediate action to buy up hundreds of billions of dollars worth of tainted mortgage assets.
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European shares have edged lower, following sharper falls in Asia, amid uncertainty about the impact of the massive US financial bail-out plan.
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The latest casualties came early Tuesday when 10 suspected militants died in a shootout with security forces on the outskirts of Bajur’s main city of Khar, government official Iqbal Khattak said. He said some security forces were wounded, but he would not say how many.
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THE president of the European Parliament yesterday demanded a full investigation into anti-Lisbon treaty group Libertas over the source of its funding.
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LONDON (Sept. 22) - The first excavation of Stonehenge in more than 40 years has uncovered evidence that the stone circle drew ailing pilgrims from around Europe for what they believed to be its healing properties, archaeologists said Monday.
Archaeologists Geoffrey Wainwright and Timothy Darvill said the content of graves scattered around the monument and the […]
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The last time Kerry Hughes saw her two young daughters, their estranged father was picking them up for the weekend.
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Former US President Bill Clinton says he understands why Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is popular in the American heartland: because people relate to her.
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Saudi Arabia’s king called for greater dialogue and openness between the world’s monotheistic religions on March 24, 2008. In the face of rising tensions over Mohammed cartoons, al-Qaida claiming Pope Benedict XVI is leading a crusade, and a stalled Middle East peace process, King Abdullah’s outreach took on extra weight. From the International Herald Tribune:
“‘The […]
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Tainted toys, pet food, toothpaste… the scandal sheet goes on in China with the melamine-tainted milk powder that’s sickened tens of thousands. Now a report of illness comes from beyond the mainland, with a 3-year-old in Hong Kong suffering kidney stones after drinking Chinese dairy products. And Singapore discovered melamine in a Chinese dairy-based candy, […]
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Jake Tapper at ABC.com takes Barack Obama to task for a dishonest attack ad: “By linking [John} McCain to [Rush] Limbaugh’s quotes, twisting Limbaugh’s quotes, and
tying McCain to more extremist anti-immigration voices, the Obama
campaign has crossed a line into misleading the viewers of its new TV
ad. In Spanish, the word is erróneo.”
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A car has slammed into a crowd in central Jerusalem, injuring 19 people, nearly all of them Israeli soldiers, in what police have described as a “terrorist” attack.
Israeli police are calling the incident a ‘terrorist’ attack
An Israeli soldier and then a policeman fired at the Arab driver, killing him, a police spokesman said.
The driver was […]