McCain Backs Down: Debate Back On
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10:54pm UK, Friday September 26, 2008
James Cheyne, Sky News Online
The first presidential debate in Mississippi will go ahead after John McCain said he was re-starting his campaign
Preparations for the presidential debate in Mississippi
The Republican had asked for the event to be delayed so he and Barack Obama could stay in Washington and help sort out […]
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Alan Carr to host Q Awards
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Alan Carr will host next month’s Q Awards, it has been announced.
The comedian appeared alongside Justin Lee Collins to hand a gong to Kylie Minogue in 2007, but will return to front the ceremony this year.
“I’m gonna make sure it’s the most rock ‘n’ roll event in the music calendar. Because you don’t get more […]
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Has Israel signed defense contracts on hundreds of millions of dollars with Azerbaijan?
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Gaarets newspaper reported today that Israels Defense Ministry signed a number of contracts on supply of technique and armament for hundreds of millions of dollars with the Azerbaijani government.
It probably implies the supply of new TAR-21 Tavor guns and ammunitions to Azerbaijan, as well as deals for supply of howitzer weapon and essential items of […]
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SWISS ROCKET MAN FLIES OVER CHANNEL ON JET WING
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DOVER, England - He had nothing above him but four tanks of kerosene and nothing below him but the cold waters of the English Channel. But Yves Rossy leapt from a plane and into the record books on Friday, crossing the channel on a homemade jet-propelled wing.
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Free Sarah, Day 29: If she can hunt caribou, she can talk to reporters
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Free Sarah, Day 29: If she can hunt caribou, she can talk to reporters
It’s been 29 days since Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was named the GOP vice presidential candidate. She has yet to do a news conference.
And in our campaign to ”Free Sarah” — and allow her to speak freely to the press — […]
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Five things to crave/dread when returning to Baghdad
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On the plus side:1. Hooking up with my Iraqi team because they are awesome guys;2. Driving over the Tigris River. It always looks calm even when there are dead bodies lurking beneath the surface and everywhere else is chaotic;
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Bush’s Last Latin America Initiative, the Path that Should Have Been
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WASHINGTON — President Bush this week launched what will surely be his final Latin American policy initiative. While in New York for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly, Bush, standing with presidents and senior representatives of 11 countries, unveiled the Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas, hailing it as “a forum where leaders can […]
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Two Terrorism Suspects Arrested on KLM Flight
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BERLIN, Sept. 26 — Two Somali-born men who had left notes saying they were willing to sacrifice themselves for “jihad” were pulled off a flight at the Cologne airport Friday morning, moments before it was scheduled to depart for Amsterdam, German authorities said.
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Japan’s Core Inflation Up Sharply
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TOKYO, Sept. 26 — Japan, a nation that rode exports to become the world’s second largest economy, posted a surprise trade deficit in August, an alarm signal for the country’s already shrinking economy and yet another worrisome indicator for troubled global markets.
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Zulus Eagerly Defy Ban on Virginity Test
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NONGOMA, South Africa — One week before, Nonhlanhla Mhkize had risen early, walked to her tribal chief’s home, climbed a desolate hill and lain on a blanket for what leaders of her Zulu culture call an “inspection” of her genitals. Now the teenager glowed as she held up a document she had earned for the […]
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Air Force Instructor Details Harsh Interrogations
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The techniques themselves — forced nudity, sleep deprivation, painful shackling — had been used for years to prepare U.S. fighter pilots for possible capture by an enemy. But Col. Steven Kleinman, an Air Force instructor, said he was shocked in 2003 to see the same harsh methods used haphazardly on Iraqis in a U.S. prison […]
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Questionnaires Stir Unease in a Baghdad Enclave
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BAGHDAD The document appeared harmless enough — a computer-generated form, on white paper, seeking personal information. The two Iraqi soldiers who handed it to Abu Samir at his house were polite and respectful. But when the Christian shopkeeper took a closer look, he froze.
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North Korea nuclear deal could break down: Seoul
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SEOUL (Reuters) - International talks on ending North Korea’s nuclear arms ambitions could be heading for a breakdown after Pyongyang said it would restore a plutonium- making plant, South Korea’s foreign minister said on Friday.
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Bailout in chaos, feds seize WaMu
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A rescue for the U.S. financial system unraveled on Thursday amid accusations Republican presidential candidate John McCain scuppered the deal, and Washington Mutual was closed by U.S. authorities and its assets sold in America’s biggest ever bank failure.
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Wall St rescue talks ‘deadlocked’
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GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
LATEST NEWS
Wall St rescue plan ‘needs work’
Bank giant HSBC axes 1,100 jobs
US ‘agrees Wall Street bail-out’
Bernanke demands bail-out action
Key finance firms ‘probed by FBI’
US bail-out plan provokes doubts
US banks in shock status switch
How the turmoil affects you
BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
Japan’s solution
Should the US look to Japan for a way out of its banking crisis?
Q&A: […]
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Pakistani troops fire on US helicopters at border
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U.S. Central Command spokesman Rear Adm. Greg Smith said the helicopters had been escorting U.S. troops and Afghan border police. When the helicopters were fired on, the ground forces fired rounds meant not to hit the Pakistani troops, but “to make certain that they realized they should stop shooting,” Smith said from Centcom headquarters in […]
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‘Evil’ mother gets life sentence for drowning disabled daughter in bath
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A mother who drowned her disabled daughter in a bath because she was embarrassed by her cerebral palsy was jailed for life yesterday.
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Man Dies After Waiting 34 Hours in ER
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Sept. 25) — Canadian officials want to know why a wheelchair-bound man waited for 34 hours in a Winnipeg hospital’s emergency waiting room before dying from a bladder infection, according to CBC News and CTV News.
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Staffers at Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba found Brian Sinclair, 45, dead after […]
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Back to the Dark Ages: National Grid raises the spectre of blackouts this winter
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The warning, following the release of grim industry figures yesterday, will dredge up memories of the last electricity crisis in 1974.
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