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Lighted only by the moon, its windows blacked out, a small U.S. outpost in southern Baghdad looks abandoned. Hulking armored vehicles, still hot from a recent mission, rest on imported gravel. Bats flutter and fall like a sudden twitch in the placid night sky. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 28 — At least 27 people were killed Sunday in attacks in crowded commercial areas of Baghdad, Iraqi police officials said. Read more
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Eleven European tourists and eight Egyptians abducted in the Egyptian desert have been freed unharmed in an operation in which some of their kidnappers were killed, Egyptian officials said on Monday. Read more
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By Eddie Evans NEW YORK (Reuters) – Regional bank Wachovia Corp succumbed to the worldwide credit crisis and authorities propped up a slew of European banks, while lawmakers began voting on a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry. U.S. stocks fell more than 2 percent on Monday [...]
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The lower house of the US Congress has begun voting on a $700bn (£380bn) plan to bail out Wall Street. Read more
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“The safety of the ship’s crew and cargo is a paramount concern to us,” Christensen said, adding additional warships and helicopters were deployed to prevent the weapons from falling “into the wrong hands.” Read more
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Britain’s Conservative Party will today call for reforms to stamp out irresponsible practices in the City in the wake of the crisis engulfing banking. Read more
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HONG KONG (Sept. 29) – A Cadbury spokesman says preliminary results show its Chinese-made chocolates contain the industrial chemical melamine. The spokesman said Monday it was too early to say how much melamine the chocolates contained. He declined to give his name because of company policy. The company also said it was recalling those chocolates. [...]
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The Stock Exchange and the value of the pound plunged today after the nationalisation of the country’s biggest mortgage lender left taxpayers facing a multi-billion pound bill. Read more
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Teen wanted mom dead to pay for breast work – cops 4:17PM Monday Sep 29, 2008 FOUNTAIN, Colorado – A Colorado teenager hired men to kill his mother so he could use her money to get breast implants for his girlfriend, police said. Nikita Lee Weis, 18, was arrested on suspicion of [...]
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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 [...]
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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: [...]
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Malalai Kakar may have seemed like a groundbreaker in Afghanistan, but in reality she was just assuming the job that she’d held — as a family tradition — before the Taliban came into power and shut women inside the home. Kakar, who headed the crimes against women division in Kandahar’s police department, was shot to [...]
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Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, in an essay posted at the National Review Online, says GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has shown herself to be painfully out of her league, and urges her to drop out of the race:Â Read more
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3:13am UK, Monday September 29, 2008 US politicians have agreed the details of a $700bn (£380bn) financial rescue package, insisting it is not a bail-out of Wall Street but a way to protect American taxpayers. [...]
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Rex Features Beyoncé Knowles is to perform at this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony, it has been announced. The R&B singer is the first artist to be named as a confirmed performer for the event, which takes place at Liverpool’s Echo Arena on November 6. Details of the other performing stars will be released [...]
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The Israeli military says it is imposing a closure on the West Bank and Gaza Strip to coincide with the Jewish New Year holiday. Read more
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Reuters Posted: 5:06 amSeptember 28, 2008 North Korea wants to press ahead with the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, but it is strengthening its “self-defensive capability” in the face of hostile US policy, an official said yesterday. The comment came as Chris Hill, the US nuclear envoy for North Korea, prepared to visit Pyongyang in [...]
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Energy independence is the new foreign policy McCain learned one lesson from his debate coach: Keep repeating that “Sen. Obama doesn’t understand” and mention his “naivete.” They don’t have much disagreement on Russia. But Obama successfully links U.S. foreign policy to the need for energy independence. Obama said, “Yes, that means offshore drilling” .. with [...]
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COLOGNE, Germany, Sept. 26 — Two terrorism suspects who had left notes saying they were willing to die for “jihad” were pulled off a flight at the airport here Friday morning, moments before it was scheduled to depart, authorities said. Read more