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LIMA, Peru – Leaders who oversee half the world’s economy pledged Saturday to avoid protectionism but shied away from any new proposals on the financial crisis because of somebody who wasn’t there: U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.
The 21 leaders endorsed last weekend’s agreement by major world economies to resist domestic pressures to protect industries, while ensuring […]
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AP – Iraqis watch a session of parliament as it debates a U.S.-Iraqi security pact on television in Baghdad, …
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Jonathan Ross was cleared to keep his £6m-a-year BBC job yesterday despite being criticised by the corporation’s governing body over two offensive broadcasts.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Nov. 22) - Zimbabwe has refused to let Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter and a South African human rights advocate visit the impoverished country for a humanitarian mission, the three said Saturday.
The former U.N. secretary-general, the ex-U.S. president and rights advocate Graca Machel had planned to assess the southern African country’s needs. They […]
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The taxpayer faces a multimillion-pound bill to give the evil mother of Baby P a new identity when she leaves prison.
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NEW YORK - At the behest of its students, an elementary school near New York City has been renamed after President-elect Barack Obama.
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Answer: The bloody history of Hutu and Tutsi conflict stained the 20th century, from the slaughter of 80,000 to 200,000 Hutus by the Tutsi army in Burundi in 1972 to the 1994 Rwanda genocide in which Hutu militias targeted Tutsis, resulting in a 100-day death toll between 800,000 and 1 million.
But many observers would be […]
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The world economic summit called together by President Bush is being called a success by the 20 attending countries, who agreed to work together to stem the growing global financial crisis. Highlights:
“The G20 leaders have agreed to a six-point plan for tackling slumping economic activity with stepped-up cooperation, according to the final statement issued after […]
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“Just” is a word I use too much, a potato-chip word, one that I’m always stuffing into the cracks in my sentences. Just because I like it so much. But it’s wrong to use it so much. So I’m starting a campaign called Kill the Just, for my own writing alone….Nancy Nall
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9:41am UK, Saturday November 22, 2008
The alleged mastermind of a 2006 trans-Atlantic airplane bombing plot has been killed in a US missile attack in northwest Pakistan, officials have said.
Rashid Rauf at a court hearing in Pakistan in January 2007
British fugitive Rashid Rauf, an Egyptian terror suspect named as Abu Zubair al Masri and up to […]
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Rex Features
Katie Holmes is to be photographed for a new advertising campaign from Miu Miu.
The actress will replace Vanessa Paradis as the face of the Prada-owned brand, which aims to sell more affordable clothing than the fashion house.
“Katie is soon going to start shooting the photographs for the spring 2009 campaign,” said a company insider.
“She […]
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Finnish shipbuilders say the world’s largest cruise liner has been launched into water for the first time.
Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas will be completed within a year before sailing to Miami. The ship was floated out Friday at a Turku shipyard dry dock.
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By ANDY SOLTIS
Last updated: 10:27 amNovember 21, 2008 Posted: 4:04 amNovember 21, 2008
Pirates who hijacked one of the world’s biggest ships are demanding a $25 million ransom in 10 days - or else.
“We do not want long-term discussions to resolve the matter,” Mohamed Said, a representative of the pirates said […]
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Rep. Miller announces lottery for four inaugural tickets
For those who live in Rep. George Miller’s East Bay district (California 7), here’s the drill for his lottery on inaugural tickets:
“The lottery will be open to all 7th district constituents who are able to arrange their own transportation to and lodging in the D.C. area during the […]
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Conservatives are already gleefully referring to the current economic crisis as “Obama’s recession” - disingenuously and dishonestly, of course, as they make a point of not mentioning that its causes are rooted in Republican policies that date back to the Reagan era and to the inescapable fact that the Bush-Cheney gang, during eight years of […]
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This is meant to be a news blog, but we reserve the right to use it to post links to ridiculous webpages just so we don’t have to bombard our friends with unsolicited e-mails.
Like this one from Australia, rightly described by Popbitch as the “best attempt to get out of a bill ever“.
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Blunt and pugnacious will soon give way to supple and below-the-radar. Say goodbye to the Bush era in foreign policy and hello to the Obama moment.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 19 — The United States, the world’s largest international aid donor, is among the worst at promoting the independence, impartiality and neutrality of humanitarian aid deliveries to needy populations, according to a survey by a Madrid-based nonprofit group that monitors donors’ performance.
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