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Hawkes Bay jolted by 4.7 quake New 10:36AM Saturday Oct 25, 2008 An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter Scale shook Hawkes Bay this morning. The quake at 6.47am was centred 10km west of Hastings, at a depth of 30km, GNS Science reported. The quake was felt in Flaxmere, Parkvale, Westshore, and [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Today was the day by which Kadima leader Tzipi Livni was supposed to have formed a coalition. With Ehud Barak and Labour on board — but not the ultra-orthodox Shas party — Livni was granted a two-week extension by Israeli President Shimon Peres to form a coalition and thus avert early elections. From the Jerusalem [...]
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Numerous readers contacted me starting yesterday afternoon when the news broke to ask/taunt me about this story:Â Pa. McCain volunteer says robber carved ‘B’ in her face after seeing McCain sticker on car Read more
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10:32pm UK, Wednesday October 22, 2008 Barack Obama has fought off claims he would be lacking in a global foreign policy crisis by meeting top advisers to bolster his credentials. Barack [...]
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The X Factor final twelve will perform their charity single ‘Hero’ on Saturday’s live show. Girlband and Bad Lashes will return for a live performance of the track with the remaining ten contestants before the latest elimination results are announced. The Mariah Carey cover is raising funds for the Help For Heroes charity, which supports [...]
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The Iraqi government has taken control of a province that includes a Sunni area once known as the “triangle of death.” The Iraqi government has now taken control of 12 of its 18 provinces. Read more
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TOKYO – A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual-game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband’s digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said yesterday. Read more
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San Francisco voters are getting automated phone calls from comedian Roseanne Barr, asking them to vote for anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan in her congressional race against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Read more
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Reporters Sans Frontières/Reporters Without Borders, the Paris-based, international organization that advocates for freedom of the press and the rights of journalists to be allowed to do their jobs without censorship or intimidation around the world, has released its annual Press Freedom Index. (The report is available on the group’s website in several different languages.) Read [...]
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BRUSSELS, Oct. 7 — With European lawmakers still bickering over how to respond to a string of bank failures and a fading economy, expectations are rising that a clairvoyant French banker will come to the rescue. Read more
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BANGKOK, Oct. 23 — Thailand has escaped the global financial panic with only minor immediate damage, in part because of an ethic of financial caution that it learned in the 1997 financial crisis, which almost stopped its economy. Read more
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MIZQUE, Bolivia — For an unemployed man, Cooper Swanson is busy. One minute he is at the hospital, going over a plan to combat Chagas’ disease. The next, he is teaching accounting to peasant weavers. Read more
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 22 — While markets around the world swoon, the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange is marking record gains as citizens turn to equities in a desperate attempt to protect their money from the country’s stratospheric hyperinflation. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 23 — The U.S. military on Thursday gave Iraqi authorities control of security in most of the “Triangle of Death,” an area south of Baghdad that has seen a dramatic turnaround. Read more
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The Miami trial of a Venezuelan entrepreneur who grew rich doing business with President Hugo Chávez’s populist administration has exposed how some top government officials have profited from a corrosive web of corruption in the oil-rich country. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – European nations could contribute more to NATO’s mission in Afghanistan if Washington poured in more resources itself and provided a compelling strategy, the U.S. ambassador to NATO said on Thursday. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress on Thursday he is “shocked” at the breakdown in U.S. credit markets and said he was “partially” wrong to resist regulation of some securities. Read more
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Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has called the recent turmoil in the global financial markets a “once in a century credit tsunami”. Read more