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TBILISI, Georgia, Nov. 7 — Thousands of flag-waving protesters brought traffic in Georgia’s capital to a standstill Friday in the first major protest against President Mikheil Saakashvili since the country’s war with Russia in August. Read more
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YOKOHAMA, Japan, Nov. 7 — Sony sinks, Toyota tumbles, and the Nikkei stock index plunges to lows not seen for more than a quarter of a century. But the global financial storm can’t rattle Japan’s convenience stores, where sales are up smartly. Read more
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Even in death, José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos let someone else grab the limelight. Read more
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 8 — The State Department protested the Burundian government’s arrest Monday of an aspiring presidential candidate and former journalist who was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people this year by Time magazine. Read more
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Gen. David H. Petraeus has decided to reduce the number of U.S. combat brigades in Iraq from 15 to 14 about six weeks earlier than planned, as a result of dramatically lower violence there, Pentagon officials said yesterday. Read more
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SHIJIAZHUANG, China — Xue Jianzhong never posted a sign on his ground-floor shop, but somehow everyone knew what he was selling. Customers from all over this dairy farming region in the northeastern province of Hebei flocked to Xue’s dusty street to buy special concoctions that he said would make milk more nutritious — and more [...]
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The death toll rose to at least 75 on Saturday in the collapse of a ramshackle church school in Haiti when rescue workers uncovered a room with 17 dead, many of them children, officials said. Read more
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Barack Obama said on Saturday that now with the long presidential election season behind the nation, it is time for Americans to put aside political differences and work together to solve the economic crisis. Read more
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New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has admitted defeat in a general election and says she will step down as leader of the Labour Party. Read more
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AP – New Zealand’s Labour Party leader Helen Clark, right, and husband Peter Davis vote in the New Zealand … Slideshow: New Zealand Election WELLINGTON, New Zealand – New Zealand’s prime minister has conceded defeat in elections held in the South Pacific nation. Prime Minister Helen Clark told a crowd of supporters Saturday night after nearly all the [...]
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Rescue teams have been working through the night under floodlights at the site of a school in Haiti that collapsed with several hundred children inside. Read more
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PETIONVILLE, Haiti – A hillside school where roughly 500 students usually crowded into several floors collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more. Rescuers used bare hands to pull bleeding students from the wreckage. More children were believed buried in the rubble of the concrete building, and the death [...]
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A pilot who suffered a stroke at 15,000 feet causing him to lose his sight kept apologising to his rescuers as he made seven attempts to land. Read more
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PETIONVILLE, Haiti (Nov. 7) – A hillside school where roughly 500 students usually crowded into several floors collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more. Rescuers used bare hands to pull bleeding students from the wreckage. More children were believed buried in the rubble of the concrete building, and [...]
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Banking giants were shamed into slashing their mortgage rates yesterday following a direct order from the Prime Minister. Read more
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In his first public appearance since his election victory, he said, “we’re going to have to act swiftly to resolve it. 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: [...]