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President Bush has stymied a strong push by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to engage Iran and Cuba more directly in his twilight days of power. Better never than late seems to be Bush’s motto in diplomacy. This time he is right. Read more
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MOSCOW, Nov. 24 — The presidents of Georgia and Poland said they encountered gunfire while attempting to visit a Russian checkpoint near the South Ossetian border on Sunday, an assertion Russia immediately denied and described as a provocation and “wishful thinking.” Read more
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MALEGAON, India — Every morning, dozens of Muslim men gather at a tea shop in this western textile town near the spot where a motorcycle bomb exploded in September during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The bomb killed six people, injured 101 and punctured the walls of the shop, whose clock stands frozen at [...]
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 15 — Cal Ripken Jr. could have guessed it was going to be “a real interesting trip,” as he diplomatically put it, when the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua decided it was too dangerous for the baseball Hall of Famer to stay as planned at the Intercontinental hotel in the capital. The night [...]
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SUCRE, Venezuela — In campaign slogs through Venezuela’s biggest slum, Carlos Ocariz seeks out those who worship President Hugo Chávez. He then urges them to abandon “El Comandante” and throw their support behind him in the mayoral race for Sucre — a down-at-the-heels district of Caracas that was once fertile political ground for Chávez. Read [...]
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LIMA, Peru, Nov. 23 — George W. Bush was the U.S. president at an economic summit here this weekend, but many foreign leaders were focused on President-elect Barack Obama instead. Read more
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BERLIN, Nov. 19 — Al-Qaeda delivered a harsh, personal message to President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday, tagging him with a racial slur in an attempt to undercut his political appeal in parts of the world where the network has recently tried to expand. Read more
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WINGHAM, England — Geese honked happily outside as Pat Swinfen sat in the study of her 16th-century farmhouse, cozy and warm amid thick Oriental carpets and a glowing wood fire. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 24 — Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez‘s allies won a hefty majority of state governorships in Sunday’s elections, but the opposition secured important victories by winning the mayor’s seat in greater Caracas and two economically vital states. Read more
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SEOUL (Reuters) – Secretive North Korea said on Monday it would all but seal its border with the South a week before heading into talks with its neighbor and other regional powers which are pressing it to give up nuclear weapons. Read more
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government has bailed out Citigroup Inc, agreeing to shoulder most of the potential losses on $306 billion of high risk assets and inject $20 billion of new capital, in its biggest rescue of a bank yet. Read more
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The US government has announced a rescue plan for troubled banking giant Citigroup after its shares plunged by more than 60% last week. Read more
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s economy is likely to slow this fiscal year but growth of 7-8 percent will still be among the best given the financial crisis and a slowdown in major nations, the finance ministry said in a report on Monday. Read more
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AP – Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, second from left, takes part in a meeting with Iraqi political leaders … Slideshow: Iraq Play Video Video: Wake Held For Mansfield Soldier Killed In Iraq WBZ Boston BAGHDAD – Iraqi officials say two attacks have killed 18 people and wounded 18 others in Baghdad. Security officials say a female suicide bomber [...]
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Researchers say they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer’s books. Read more
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BAGHDAD (Nov. 23) – Baghdad authorities killed more than 200 stray dogs on Sunday, the opening day of a campaign to cull dog packs roaming the capital that was prompted by a spate of fatal attacks on residents. Read more
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Those on more than £150,000 will be charged at 45p in the £1 to help pay for a £20billion giveaway designed to jump-start the economy. Read more
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Emergency crews have found the body of a four-year-old girl who was swept away after a water bladder atop a dam wall burst in central Queensland. Read more
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The remains of Srebrenica victims are flagged as International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) forensic anthropologists excavate the Budak mass grave in the Srebrenica Municipality on July 12, 2005, in Bosnia Herzegovina. Read more
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Remember that devastating cyclone that hit Burma/Myanmar on May 2, and the ensuing misery because the junta refused to let international aid come into the country? Burmese journalist Ein Khaing Oo (pictured) just received a two-year prison sentence on charges of “disturbing tranquility” for covering that humanitarian crisis. More: “Ein Khaing Oo, a reporter [...]