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The British Liberal Democrats face being forced to surrender their record gift of £2.4m (€3.1m) after a police investigation discovered the party’s biggest donor was a bogus businessman. The Electoral Commission says it will reopen its probe into the donation by 5th Avenue Partners Ltd after its founder, the flamboyant conman Michael Brown, was [...]
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NAIROBI, Kenya (Nov . 28) – Somali pirates seized control of a chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden on Friday and a NATO helicopter gunship, too late to prevent the hijacking, picked up three security guards who jumped into the sea. Read more
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MPs demanded protection from a ‘police state’ last night after the heavy-handed arrest of a Tory frontbencher shocked Westminster. Read more
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Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at a luxury Mumbai hotel yesterday, ending a 60-hour rampage through India’s financial capital by suspected Islamic militants that left more than 150 people dead and rocked the nation. Read more
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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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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 world’s largest shopping mall has opened in the United Arab Emirates, which is ground zero for the luxurious, overindulgent, and outrageously flashy (see: Dubailand amusement park). Still, I love the idea of Arabs shopping at Gucci and then munching a Cinnabon: the store directory is a sign that, indeed, globalization is complete and the [...]
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich made news Thursday when he said veteran West Side Congressman Danny Davis is “certainly a strong candidate and under serious consideration,” to be his pick to replace president-elect Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate. Read more
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A senior Indian official has said there is no evidence that any of the gunmen who killed 195 people in Mumbai were British. Security services survey the burnt interior of the [...]
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Fall Out Boy have announced a four-date mini-tour of UK arenas for next year. The group will kick off the tour at Manchester’s MEN Arena on March 5, then follow with dates at London’s O2 arena (March 6), Cardiff’s CIA (March 7) and the Brighton Centre (March 8). The tour is in support of their [...]
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A United Nations official says a rocket attack against a U.N. compound in Baghdad has killed three foreigners and wounded 14. Read more
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NAIROBI, Kenya – Somali pirates seized control of a chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden yesterday, and a NATO helicopter gunship, too late to prevent the hijacking, picked up three ship security guards who had jumped into the sea. Both France and… Read more
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When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the old “Kindergarten Cop” himself, accused the Legislature of acting like kindergarteners when the special session on the state’s financial mess ended Tuesday in a rash of partisan name-calling and finger-pointing, he wasn’t exactly being fair. The legislators were acting like politicians, who, unlike many 5-year-olds, really don’t play well together. [...]
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As disturbing and violent as the attacks (which started on Wednesday) on several hotels and public facilities in the city of Mumbai (Bombay), on India’s west coast, have been, Britain’s Times now reports: “India pointed an accusing finger at Pakistan yesterday as commandos fought suspected Islamist terrorists through the corridors of two of Bombay’s top [...]
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“This cannot be,” Henry Kissinger once muttered in exasperation when an unexpectedly positive development occurred during a Democratic administration. “The wrong people are doing the right thing.” Read more
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MOSCOW, Nov. 28 — Svetlana Bakhmina, the jailed lawyer whose request for a Kremlin pardon sparked an outpouring of support in Russian society, gave birth to a baby girl in state custody Friday at an undisclosed hospital outside Moscow, her attorney and friends said. Read more
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BEIJING, Nov. 28 — China on Friday executed a man convicted of passing sensitive military and political information to Taiwan a day after notifying his relatives through diplomatic channels that they would have a second chance to visit him, his daughter said. Read more
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PETIONVILLE, Haiti, Nov. 8 — Rescuers on Saturday pulled four children alive from the rubble of a three-story Haitian school that collapsed on classrooms filled with students and teachers, killing at least 88 people. Read more
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Evo Morales, the charismatic but controversial president of Bolivia, this week came to Washington for the first time, saying he hoped for a fresh start with President-elect Barack Obama while defiantly reiterating the policies that have led to the near-collapse of his relations with the Bush administration. Read more
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Twelve years ago, Alan Scherr committed his life to meditation and spirituality, moving his family to the Synchronicity spiritual community in Faber, Va., about 30 miles southwest of Charlottesville in the Blue Ridge mountains. Read more