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LONDON - A British sex-shop chain has suspended sales of a chocolate body spread found to contain small quantities of the industrial chemical melamine, Britain’s food regulator said yesterday.
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So today in The Chronicle, we ran a story about the “Rednecks for Obama” — a couple of self-appointed ambassadors to redneck America that I hooked up with in Rolla, Mo.
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Right now, at the Vatican, the headquarters of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, of which Pope Benedict XVI is the administrative and spiritual head, that institution’s procedure for considering a deceased person for sainthood is under way. The candidate for sainthood in question is the controversial, Italian-born, World War II-era pope, Pius XII, whose papacy […]
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The Baghdad traffic was at a standstill. Cars, trucks and minibuses lined bumper-to-bumper from each direction of the crossroads as frazzled policemen tried to ease the jam with little success. Horns, dust and frustrated sighs merged into one as thousands of drivers and their passengers sat motionless in what has become a typical scene of […]
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The International Monetary Fund has hired an outside firm to investigate whether its managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, abused his position by engaging in an affair with a female staffer who later left the organization with financial compensation, according to sources familiar with the probe.
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BANGKOK, Oct. 21 — Thailand’s Supreme Court Tuesday found controversial former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra guilty in absentia of abusing his office and sentenced him to two years in jail.
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BOGOTA, Colombia — Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has delighted in the economic meltdown in the United States, mocking the Bush administration for its bailout plan and predicting the end of American economic dominance.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 20 — A U.N. task force has uncovered five new cases of corruption, fraud and mismanagement involving $20 million in contracts throughout the international body, according to the unit’s annual report to the U.N. General Assembly and sources familiar with the findings.
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RAMADI, Iraq — As the day crossed into dusk, Jassim Muhammed al-Sweidawi sat on brown floor cushions, chain-smoking, calmly watching the tribesmen argue over blood money.
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MAHALLA, Egypt — There was the soccer-loving suitor, who interrupted his first meeting with his potential bride to flick on her family’s television and, red-faced, cheer on his team in their living room.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra had violated a conflict-of-interest law while in office and sentenced him to two years in prison.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama will leave the presidential campaign trail to visit his ailing 85-year-old grandmother in Hawaii, whose health has deteriorated in recent weeks, an aide said on Monday.
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Exiled Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to two years in prison by the Thai Supreme Court.
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LONDON (Reuters) –
Oil pared losses on Friday after a fall of more than $7 to below $80 a barrel for the first time in a year, pummeled by expectations that fuel demand growth will shrivel if the credit crisis pushes the world into recession.
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AP – Two workers cycle through piles of steel materials at a port in Yingkou, northeast China’s Liaoning province, …
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Two US fighter planes were scrambled and ordered to shoot down an unidentified flying object (UFO) over the English countryside during the Cold War, according to secret files made public yesterday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (Oct. 20) - Taliban assailants on a motorbike gunned down a Christian aid worker in Kabul on Monday and the militants said she was killed for spreading her religion — a rare targeted killing of a Westerner in the nation’s capital.
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Motorists face a 2p a litre fuel tax hike to help fill emptying Treasury coffers, it was claimed yesterday.
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CHANTILLY, Virginia - A black puppy decked out in a red, white and blue bandanna jumped out of his crate and wagged his tail at the airport Monday, three flights and two days after leaving Iraq en route to his new home with a US soldier.
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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 […]