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ZURBATIYAH, Iraq — For thousands of Iranians, traveling to Iraq through this bustling, dusty gateway now requires stopping at small white trailers where U.S. officials take their photos and record scans of their irises and fingerprints.
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia — As big Western financial institutions have teetered one after the other in the crisis of recent weeks, another financial sector is gaining new confidence: Islamic banking.
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KIBATI, Congo (Reuters) - France and Britain launched a European Union initiative on Friday to secure peace in east Congo and the EU may fly in food for tens of thousands of civilians fleeing attacks by rebels and soldiers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Grim reports showing American consumers tightening their belts and the U.S. business outlook weakening deepened fears about global recession, while a Japanese rate cut on Friday did little to stem the bleeding in markets.
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The UN says it has credible reports that camps sheltering 50,000 displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been destroyed.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) –
Stocks plummeted for a seventh straight session on Thursday as investors bet recent moves by authorities worldwide to thaw frozen credit markets would not be enough to avert a global recession.
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AP – Pakistani police officers carry a person injured by a suicide bomb blast at a local hospital in Peshawar, …
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London’s largest shopping mall, a 265-store, glass-roofed centre owned by Westfield Group and Commerzbank AG, opened yesterday, just in time for the first recession in 17 years.
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VATICAN CITY (Oct. 30) - The Vatican issued new psychological screening guidelines for seminarians Thursday — the latest effort by the Roman Catholic Church to be more selective about its priesthood candidates following a series of sex abuse scandals.
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Jonathan Ross paid a £1.4million price last night for the obscene behaviour which has left his career in jeopardy.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Like all good celebrities, Joe the Plumber - the unofficial star of the last presidential debate - has hired a publicity team.
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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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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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I’m looking at three sites that regularly update a
“poll
of polls,” showing the average results of what the site administrators
deem to be all the most relevant and credible national public opinion
surveys. Here’s a look at this morning’s report compared to earlier
reports on previous days, including my bonus feature, a poll of the
polls of polls.
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4:21am UK, Friday October 31, 2008
The death toll from a string of bombs in the Indian state of Assam branded “an act of cowardice” by a senior official has risen to 76.
Vehicles burn after one of the blasts in Guwahati
A total of 12 bombs went off within the space of about one hour, six of […]
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Rex Features
Ray Winstone has revealed that he was once arrested on suspicion of murder.
The actor, known for playing villainous characters on screen, told FHM that his arrest was part of a huge police search to catch a killer.
“I got arrested for murder, double murder in fact. Well, it was murder and attempted murder.
“I was […]
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Al Qaeda recruits in Afghanistan wept and shouted praise as they watched a propaganda video made by a Guantanamo defendant, a training camp dropout told the U.S. war crimes court on Thursday.
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BAGHDAD - Iraq wants a security agreement with the United States to include a clear ban on American troops using Iraqi territory to attack Iraq’s neighbors, a government spokesman said yesterday, three days after a dramatic US raid on Syria.
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Cali House members get most of their cash outside Cali
LOTS of good numbers inside this new report from the wonderful folks at MAPLight.org – the Berkeley-based folks who track the money in politics.
The MAPLighters (sounds like an opening act for The Kingston Trio) report Thursday that Cali House members, “on average, raised 82 percent of […]
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Earlier this week, the Sydney Morning Herald reported the results of a new scientific-research project, the “largest-ever genetic study of transsexuals,” in which “Australian researchers have discovered a DNA variation linked to male-to-female transsexualism.” This genetic discovery “strengthens the view that there is a biological reason why some people feel they are living in the […]