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The State Department suddenly canceled a contract for eight private investigators to assist U.S. officials in Iraq in “extremely complex and sensitive investigations,” after a senator raised questions about whether the department had outsourced oversight of security contractors.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 21 — Russian prosecutors agreed Tuesday to release a senior economic official jailed a year ago on corruption charges, a rare reversal by the authorities in a case that has been linked to Kremlin infighting over control of the country’s huge reserve funds.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Baghdad will demand changes to the wording of a pact allowing U.S. troops to stay in Iraq but will not seek to renegotiate the “backbone” of the agreement, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Wednesday.
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By Ellis Mnyandu
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell for a second straight day on Wednesday as a parade of disappointing profits from bellwethers including aircraft maker Boeing Co increased fears that the global economy might be in the throes of recession.
Investors trimmed their exposure to risk, fueling another leg of a worldwide sell-off that punished […]
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US stocks were down in afternoon trading in New York, echoing declines in Europe and Asia as fears of a global recession hit investor confidence.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) –
Stocks slumped at the open on Friday, with the benchmark S&P 500 falling below the 900 mark, as fears that tighter credit may send the global economy into recession slashed the appetite for risk.
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AP – Map locates Khost, Afghanistan, where a U.S.-led coalition airstrike killed Afghan soldiers; 1c x 1 5/8 …
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Nicolas Sarkozy has demanded the withdrawal from French bookshops of a voodoo doll in his image and a set of pins that are being sold with a manual on how to put the evil eye on the president.
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PARIS (Oct. 20) - Sister Emmanuelle, a nun who lived for years among scavengers in Cairo’s slums and who has been compared to Mother Teresa for her fight to defend the rights of the poor, died Monday at age 99.
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This is the first picture of one of the family of six who died in an inferno when a lorry smashed into their car as they drove home on the M6.
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WASHINGTON - Al-Qaeda supporters suggested in a website message this week they would welcome a pre-election terror attack on the US as a way to usher in a McCain presidency.
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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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Can you help curb rising unemployment by offering immigrants cold, hard cash to go back from where they came?
Spain is giving the idea a shot. Last year, the country’s unemployment rate was estimate at 8.3 percent. Now, nearing a 15-year jobless high of 11.3 percent, comes the Plan of Voluntary Return, which went into effect […]
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Vice presidents are ” in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes,” she said yesterday on Denver’s KUSA-TV. Looks like a “potatoe” moment to me.
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12:32am UK, Wednesday October 22, 2008
Michelle Clifford,
US correspondent
Barack Obama heads up country to Virginia today in the hope of getting its voters to back a Democrat in the presidential election for the first time in more than 40 years.
Obama at a rally in Virginia earlier in his campaign
He has been ahead in the polls for […]
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Showtime has ordered two more seasons of its serial killer drama Dexter.
Based on Jeff Lindsay’s novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, the show revolves around a killer (Michael C. Hall) who works as a forensic blood spatter expert for the Miami Metro Police Department.
Season three premiered in the US last month, drawing in more than 3 million […]
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The three countries together account for 60 percent of the world’s gas reserves, and Russia and Iran have both been accused of using their hold on energy supplies to bully neighboring countries.
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