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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Finance leaders from the International Monetary Fund’s 185 member countries on Saturday endorsed a plan announced by major economies to chart a course out of the credit crisis.
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The world financial system is teetering on the “brink of systemic meltdown”, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned in Washington.
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North Korea, along with Iran and Iraq, was branded as part of an “axis of evil” by Bush after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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A TEENAGER accused of the murder of the schoolboy Rhys Jones told a fellow gang member that “he had just shot someone and that a kid had gone down”, Liverpool Crown Court has heard.
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WASHINGTON (Oct. 11) - The U.S. says North Korea has agreed to every nuclear inspection demand the Bush administration has sought, so the North is being dropped from a U.S. terrorism blacklist.
The agreement is intended to salvage a faltering nuclear disarmament accord in the short time before President Bush leaves office in January.
Kim Jong Il […]
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President Bush today warned countries against acting alone to try and ease the financial crisis after a catastrophic week of nosediving shares that saw £250billion wiped off the Stock Market.
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Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded today.
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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 four 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 today’s report compared to the reports I noted
on Tuesday and Thursday, including my bonus feature a poll of the
polls of […]
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The power-sharing being brokered in Zimbabwe is under threat after Robert Mugabe allocated control of three major arms of the government to his ruling Zanu-PF party.
The opposition MDC have accused Mugabe of acting unilaterally
The president handed control of defence, home affairs and finance to Zanu-PF, excluding the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
The MDC rejected […]
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Ryan Reynolds is to run the New York Marathon to raise money for Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s Disease charity Team Fox.
The actor will take part in the annual event as a tribute to his father Jim, who has battled the disease for the past 15 years.
In a letter to The Huffington Post, Reynolds wrote: “I […]
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Nato forces in Afghanistan will target Afghan drug lords and opium laboratories in an attempt to stop the booming drugs trade financing Taliban insurgents, it has been agreed .
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BAGHDAD - The leader of a US-backed neighborhood police unit was killed, along with his wife and two children, by a roadside bomb yesterday, authorities said.
The explosion in Udhaim, 60 miles north of Baghdad, took the lives of Khdaier Abbas Azzawi, his wife, daughter and son, and […]
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Since we can’t get Sarah Palin to speak, the best we could dig up is a bit about the videostalkers at TMZ getting Katie Couric to answer some of the same questions she asked Palin. It’s a quick yuk:
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The superpower of the East (ouch - they really don’t like the sound of that phrase in Washington!) is so big and so rich that it’s just about everywhere nowadays. As the cash-strapped U.S. government’s second-largest creditor after Japan, it would seem that China would or should have some cards to play in the completely […]
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WASHINGTON — There is something surreal about listening to a 35-year-old New York financial adviser describe his inability to put his own financial house in order.
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BUDAPEST, Oct. 10 — NATO defense ministers reached a compromise agreement Friday that allows forces operating in Afghanistan to target heroin networks funding the Taliban. The deal, viewed by the Pentagon as critical to beating back a resurgent Taliban, essentially allows some members of the military alliance to opt out of counternarcotics operations.
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