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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A raid by U.S. forces inside Syria on Sunday is believed to have killed a major smuggler of foreign fighters into Iraq, a U.S. official said on Monday, as Syria condemned the attack as “terrorist aggression.”
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Law enforcement arrested two men in Tennessee who had plans to rob a gun dealer to shoot Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and “as many non-Caucasians” as possible, an official said on Monday.
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Syria’s foreign minister has accused the US of an act of “criminal and terrorist aggression” over what it says was a helicopter raid on its territory.
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MOSCOW – The financial crisis has irreparably damaged the image of the U.S. as the leader of the free world and the global economy, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
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The International Monetary Fund said yesterday it had reached an agreement, in principle, with Ukraine for a $16.5bn (€13.1bn) loan package to ease the effects of the global financial crisis.
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Fresh falls across Asia battered UK blue chips forcing the FTSE 100 Index down 5.6% to 3,665 at one point - a five year low.
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A defiant John McCain has dismissed polling numbers that continue to show him trailing Barack Obama both nationally and in several key battleground states, predicting that, when all the ballots are counted after voting one week tomorrow, he will emerge as the new president of the United States.
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Why the Valentine’s Day party poopers? Valentine’s Day = St. Valentine = not an Islamic holiday. Plus, as an Islamic scholar told the Saudi Gazette, “As Muslims we shouldn’t celebrate a non-Muslim celebration especially this one that encourages immoral relations between unmarried men and women.” So in Saudi Arabia, the religious police — agents of […]
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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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L.A. native Esha Momeni, a graduate student at California State University, Northridge, was in Tehran visiting family and working on her thesis, which involved interviewing women about their rights (or lack of them, more accurately) in Iran. She was arbitrarily arrested on a traffic stop on Oct. 15, and was sent to the notorious Evin […]
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I’m looking at three 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 this morning’s report compared to the reports I noted
last week , including my bonus feature, a poll of the
polls of […]
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1:15am UK, Monday October 27, 2008
Syria has condemned as “serious aggression” a US helicopter raid from Iraq that has killed eight civilians.
A civilian building under construction was attacked in the US helicopter raid
Four US military helicopters flying along the Euphrates River struck an area of farms and factories about five miles inside Syria’s border, the […]
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Russell Brand has issued an apology to Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs for leaving a series of lewd messages on his answerphone.
In an item for the comedian’s Radio 2 show last week, Brand and guest Jonathan Ross recorded messages about Sachs’s granddaughter.
In one recording, Ross was heard shouting “he f**ked your granddaughter” as Brand […]
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Congolese rebels seized a major military camp and a spacious gorilla park in a renewed bout of heavy fighting that sent thousands fleeing, according to the United Nations and park officials.
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Last updated: 4:29 pmOctober 26, 2008 Posted: 3:29 pmOctober 26, 2008
Syria’s government says U.S. military helicopters have attacked an area along Syria’s border with Iraq, killing eight people.
A government statement carried by the official Syrian Arab News Agency said the attack was on the Sukkariyeh Farm near the town of […]
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The California Republican Party is sending $3 million to neighboring states of Nevada and Colorado to help in last minute get out the vote efforts in the critical battlegrounds.
That’s $2 million to Colorado and $1 million to Nevada, we’re told.
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