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LOS PALACIOS, Cuba — A pair of devastating storms have prompted new calls for the United States to end its long isolation of Cuba, including from hard-line exile groups that are pushing for the Bush administration to loosen restrictions they had long favored.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - North Korea has expelled U.N. monitors from its plutonium-making nuclear plant and plans to start reactivating it next week, rowing back from a 2007 deal to scrap its atomic bomb program, officials said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Congress must approve a $700 billion banking bailout or see the lifeblood squeezed from the world’s richest country, America’s central bank chief warned on Wednesday as the U.S. economy showed more signs of stalling.
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The chairman of the US Federal Reserve has urged politicians to “act quickly” to support the proposed $700bn (£378bn) bail-out of the financial markets.
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North Korea officials have “informed the IAEA inspectors that they plan to introduce nuclear material to the reprocessing plant in one week’s time,” said an IAEA statement.
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A Finnish student who killed 10 people in a college massacre yesterday had
been questioned by police only the day before about a YouTube
video showing him firing a pistol on a shooting range.
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TOKYO (Sept. 24) - Outspoken conservative Taro Aso took power as Japan’s prime minister Wednesday, promising “emergency measures” to revive the ailing economy and vowing to keep Tokyo in the fight against global terrorism.
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Ruth Kelly insisted she was quitting the Cabinet purely to spend more time with her family today as her resignation threatened to derail Gordon Brown’s fightback.
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OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma Supreme Court has disbarred a former judge who served prison time for using a sexual device while presiding over trials.
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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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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 message from Saturday’s gruesome suicide bombing of the Marriott in Islamabad was clear: Pervez Musharraf is no longer around to use his martial law and other tactics against terrorists; Asif Ali Zardari is in power, and al-Qaida and the Taliban are telling him to change course now. The symbolism of the target is powerful: […]
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich is pushing hard for the General Assembly to pass  Senate Bill 780, an ambitious, omnibus political ethics law that contains proposals the governor tried to slip into an earlier bill using his amendatory veto powers.
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6:28am UK, Wednesday September 24, 2008
Greg Milam, Europe correspondent,
Finland
Authorities in Finland are under pressure to reveal more detail about why police released a 22-year-old the day before he went berserk with a gun killing 10 people.
How was Matti Juhani Saari free to kill?
Matti Juhani Saari was questioned over videos he posted on YouTube which showed […]
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John Sergeant has admitted that he is touched by the support he has received from Strictly Come Dancing viewers.
The broadcaster made it through the first round of the competition at the weekend after being backed by viewer votes and the panel of judges.
Speaking on BBC Two spinoff It Takes Two, Sergeant explained: “I think what […]
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“Occupied and uncontrolled part of Azerbaijani territories causes great problems for the international community”, Secretary General of the World Customs Organization Michel Danet said in Baku
Michel Danet confirmed that those territories were used as a corridor in smuggling and illicit drug turnover.
“The occupied Azerbaijani territories, as well as MoldovaÂ’s Transdnestria are such uncontrolled zones. These […]
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Katie Couric is asking the tough questions again of Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. We kid you not, here’s a peek at the transcript from “The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” tonight:
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Katie Couric is asking the tough questions again of Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. We kid you not, here’s a peek at the transcript from “The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” tonight:
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UNITED NATIONS - Iran’s president accused “a few bullying powers” of trying to thwart his country’s peaceful nuclear program and declared in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly that “the American empire” are nearing collapse. Iranian…
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Lies, Half-Truths and Contradictions: McCain HAS Asked for Earmarks
It’s become a pillar in Sen. John McCain’s stump speech: “I have never asked for a single earmark, pork barrel project for my state of Arizona.”
But it’s not true. McCain isn’t a pork barreller, but in 2006, the nonpartisan Politifact notes that McCain co-sponsored legislation asking for […]