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CARACAS (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez’s left-wing party and the growing opposition shared the spoils of Venezuela’s local elections as they jostled for political momentum in the OPEC nation on Monday. Read more
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(Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is considering tapping the second half of the government’s $700 billion financial-industry rescue fund, and rolling out new programs in response to worsening market conditions, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter. Read more
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GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS KEY STORIES US Fed announces $800bn stimulus Citigroup shares jump on bail-out US shares plunge to five-year low IMF head calls for extra funding Summit pledge to ‘restore growth’ Bernanke says banks ready to act Eurozone officially in recession BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS Changed times The most striking thing about the G20 summit [...]
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Play Video AP  – Obama calls for quick action on economy Slideshow: President-elect Barack Obama Play Video Video: Obama presents economic team Reuters Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 8,407.39 -36.00 ^GSPC 850.31 -1.50 ^IXIC 1,451.73 -20.29 AP – President-elect Barack Obama, flanked, by Budget Director-designate Peter Orszag, left, and Deputy Budget … CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama pledged [...]
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Play Video AP  – Thai protesters take to streets, block airport Slideshow: Thailand Protests Play Video Video: Thai protesters attack policeman BBC Play Video Video: Thai PM Wongsawat will not quit Reuters AP – Anti-government demonstrators gather outside Thai Armed Forces Command Headquarters on the outskirts … BANGKOK, Thailand – Anti-government demonstrators swarmed Bangkok’s international airport late Tuesday, halting [...]
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Singer Amy Winehouse‘s husband was urged by judges yesterday to keep off the drugs which almost cost him his life. Read more
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HOBART, Australia (Nov. 25) – A group of whales rescued from an Australian beach have joined a larger pod in deep waters — a sign they are doing fine after their ordeal, an official said Monday. Read more
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Alistair Darling said he ‘makes no bones’ about taxing the rich today as he defended his high tax, high borrowing £20billion giveaway. Read more
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Campaigners say business leaders should announce how much they think Australia should reduce its carbon emissions by 2020. 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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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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Hugo Chavez will clearly bill it as a landslide that his team won 17 gubernatorial posts Sunday, the real news is that the opposition — constantly under the hammer in the Chavez regime — won three crucial gubernatorial races and the mayorship of Caracas. The Miami Herald has more: “Opposition forces also might claim [...]
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« This joke rocked | Main Originally posted: November 25, 2008 Peterson’s Law is no silver bullet This print column is a version of a blog entry from Friday. That entry has source documentation and a longer discussion of the legal issues. Last week, the General Assembly passed a law aimed squarely at one man: [...]
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Dominic Waghorn, In Dubai Two Britons convicted of having sex on a beach in Dubai have escaped jail but have been ordered to leave the country immediately. Michelle Palmer [...]
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Nintendo has promised that new titles to be released on the Wii during 2009 will make hardcore gamers “stand up and pay attention”. The Wii console has previously appealed to more casual gamers, as well as Nintendo’s core gaming audience. Speaking to MTV Multiplayer, Cammie Dunaway, the firm’s executive vice president of sales and marketing, [...]
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Five Indian sailors who were among the crew of a Japanese-owned cargo ship hijacked by pirates and held for two months before a ransom was paid said Monday their captivity was “total desperation.” “I wish that no one else ever has to go through this – (hijackers) are not human but rather animals,” said Alister [...]
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By CATHY BURKE Last updated: 2:39 amNovember 24, 2008 Posted: 2:35 amNovember 24, 2008 Weeks before dropping North Korea from a terror-watch list, the White House reportedly thwarted the transfer of missile parts from there to Iran. Newsweek reports that on Aug. 7, India abided by a [...]
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Here’s a new batch of 14 pardons and commutations by President Bush,just announced from the Justice Department. They are his first since March and are nowhere near as controversial as President Clinton’s final pardons on leaving office. Bush has handed out far fewer reprieves than Clinton or President Reagan, totalling now 171 pardons and eight [...]
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Yesterday, the New York Times reported that, lately, a proposed new map of the South Asia region “has been making the rounds among Pakistani elites.” This map shows Pakistan “reduced to an elongated sliver of land with the big bulk of India to the east, and an enlarged Afghanistan to the west.” Apparently, the map [...]
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It doesn’t take much to bring out the northern men’s working club comic in us. This story was just the trigger. “I haven’t spoken to my mother-in-law for 18 months. “I don’t like to interrupt her!” Ken Dodd “The wife’s mother said, ‘How would you like to have a chat with me?’. “I said, ‘Through [...]