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SINGAPORE (AFP) – Oil prices fell more than four dollars in Asian trade Friday, after a “bloodbath” on world equity markets, with traders increasingly convinced a global economic slowdown will hurt energy demand, dealers said. Read more
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BAGHDAD – American soldiers might stop patrolling the streets and head back to their barracks. Help to the Iraqi army could suddenly cease — not to mention raids on al-Qaida fighters and Shiite extremists. U.S. and Iraqi officials would scramble for options to salvage their mission here, in the waning, lame-duck days of a Bush [...]
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Conservative Austria was in a state of shock yesterday after the male successor to Jorg Haider admitted a long-standing “special relationship” with the far-right leader who died in a high-speed car crash this month. Read more
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MUMBAI, India (Oct. 23) – India’s only gorilla is lonely. Even though Polo is 6 feet tall, dark-haired, bilingual and good-natured, the 36-year-old silverback gorilla is still single after a fruitless eight-year search. Read more
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The Government could face a £125 billion black hole as the country tips into recession, it has been reported. Read more
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The United States was absorbing the news yesterday that the Republican Party spent US$150,000 on clothes, hairstyling and accessories for Governor Sarah Palin and her family from such upmarket stores as Saks Fifth Avenue and Nieman Marcus. Read more
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The remains of Srebrenica victims are flagged as International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) forensic anthropologists excavate the Budak mass grave in the Srebrenica Municipality on July 12, 2005, in Bosnia Herzegovina. Read more
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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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What’s Halloween season without a bit of Abominable Snowman? A group of Japanese explorers who trekked into the Yeti’s fabled lair in the Himalayas in Nepal and Tibet claim that this footprint is, indeed, the hairy guy making his mark: “‘The footprints were about 20cm long and looked like a human’s,’ said Yoshiteru Takahashi, [...]
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Either way, the July 2006 special Cook County prosecutors’ report on allegations that Chicago police tortured suspects from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s failed to mention a succulent opportunity to bring criminal charges against retired Cmdr. Jon Burge. Read more
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There is a factor of the problems in this country that seems to be being overlooked and that is the relationship between Estate Agents & Mortgage lenders. After all isnt it the Estate Agents who set the prices for houses and then usher buyers towards the mortgage companies. No doubt there [...]
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Rex Features Guy Ritchie has allegedly moved on from his separation from Madonna by dating Kelly Reilly. The director, who is currently shooting his interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, has turned to the actress as a confidante following the split, reports say. Meanwhile, Ritchie’s father John has criticised his former daughter-in-law after comments she made about [...]
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A U.S.-led coalition airstrike hit an Afghan army checkpoint Wednesday, killing nine soldiers, Afghan officials said. The American military acknowledged that its forces may have “mistakenly” killed allied troops. Read more
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A NATO flotilla sailing toward the Somali coast will begin anti-piracy operations within the next few days, but officials said Wednesday the alliance was still working out the rules of engagement for the seven ships. Read more
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Now that they’re available, we’ve updated this blog with the more complete quotes from California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — who’s about to head to Ohio to campaign for Sen. John McCain. He tells CNN’s Campbell Brown tonight that while he thinks Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was a ”great choice,” a political talent and a popular [...]
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Politicians’ uncontrolled deficit spending: Kinda “like a crack addict”? This just in from Chicken Little: “Deficit spending – it’s all the rage! But is something wrong with this picture?” The sky-is-falling-in gang notes that, against the backdrop of the still-unfolding, still-very-serious, worldwide financial crisis, governments around the world are still spending, spending, spending wildly, falling [...]
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Gordon Brown has called for an official investigation into allegations that George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, discussed a political donation with a Russian oligarch on a yacht in Corfu – allegations that Mr Osborne has denied. At what point does the row become damaging for the Conservatives? If we had a general election tomorrow, would [...]
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ROUEN, France, Oct. 22 — Coralie Canterelle, who wields her scissors with easy flair, makes no claim to expertise in the world of high finance. But from the vantage point of her little hair salon in this ancient Normandy town, she said, it has become clear that Europe’s financial turmoil is trickling down to put [...]
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KANDAHAR AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Oct.22 — Nine Afghan soldiers were killed and four others injured by a U.S. airstrike on an Afghan army checkpoint Wednesday in an apparent friendly fire incident in eastern Afghanistan, according to Afghan and U.S. military officials. Read more