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BAGHDAD – Iraq has earmarked some $15 billion — nearly 25 percent of its 2009 draft budget — to help rebuild the country’s crumbling infrastructure, energy and oil facilities, the finance minister said Saturday. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Oct. 31) – Libya has paid $1.5 billion into a fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s, clearing the last hurdle in full normalization of ties between Washington and Tripoli. Read more
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A commander of the SAS in Afghanistan has resigned – blaming the Government’s failure to provide adequate kit for the needless deaths of four of his colleagues. Read more
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The British Army has cut back its plans yesterday for a parade through the centre of Belfast amid rising fears of conflict with Irish Catholic protesters. Read more
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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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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 earlier reports on previous days, including my bonus feature, a poll of [...]
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11:08am UK, Saturday November 01, 2008 Britain may need to send troops to the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, a Foreign Office minister has warned. Thousands forced to flee homes [...]
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A wave of corruption arrests has led to a British expat becoming the mayor of a Spanish town. Mark Lewis, 58, apparently speaks only basic Spanish but has become the leader of the council in the Costa Blanca community of San Fulgencio. Lewis’s promotion came after the mayor, deputy mayor and four senior councillors were [...]
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Last fall, Passport noted that more sex-change surgeries are performed in Iran than in any other country except Thailand. Ayatollah Khomeini approved them for “diagnosed transsexuals” 25 years ago, and today the Iranian government will pay up to half the cost for those in financial need. Former FP researcher David Francis wrote, “In a country [...]
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POST STAFF REPORT Last updated: 3:31 pmOctober 31, 2008 Posted: 3:31 pmOctober 31, 2008 A zoo in Japan went to extreme measures recently to make sure they were prepared in case a rhino broke loose. Two people wearing a massive rhino costume pranced out the entrance of the zoo while workers respond. First they put [...]
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The signs on the front lawn of former 49er quarterback Steve Young’s Peninsula home say “No on Prop. 8,” which normally wouldn’t be much of a story in the Bay Area, a gay-friendly region which is the center of opposition to the effort to ban same-sex marriage in the state. Read more
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If Democratic Senator Barack Obama becomes the next president of the United States, it is possible – or perhaps even likely? – that his administration will steer the federal government back to a policy of respecting and protecting the rule of law. Read more
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No presidential election is about one thing only. It takes many strands fused together to account for victory or defeat. But when the last ballots are counted, that will not stop a judgmental world from using one criterion above all to analyze the outcome: Did the United States elect a black president or not? Read [...]
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LONDON — The value of the U.S. dollar has soared with unheard-of speed against many currencies in recent weeks, but the global financial crisis has altered the usual effects of such a spike. Read more
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BANGKOK — As agricultural commodity prices plunge, Asia’s exporters are increasingly looking to joint international action to support values, but many of the forces driving down prices appear to be beyond even multilateral control. Read more
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — The monthly poker night held by members of the Latin-Anglo Alliance here is strictly social. No work. No politics. Read more
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Several hundred thousand dollars in charitable grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation may have been illegally diverted in several southern African nations, the Michigan-based foundation said today. Read more