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Menacing forks of lightening and cracks of thunder were the first portends of doom followed by an apocalyptic hailstorm that sent people diving for cover.Then came the rain, turning the streets of Baghdad into rivers within minutes. I was in a car waiting for an appointment yesterday when the freak hail stones, some the size [...]
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MOSCOW — It began with Svetlana Bakhmina’s handwritten letters from prison — thoughtful, melancholy notes to an old middle school classmate. Read more
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CHICAGO, Dec. 1 — President-elect Barack Obama Monday formally announced a national security team that is led by his onetime chief Democratic rival and includes a top member of President Bush’s Cabinet — a bipartisan group that he said shares his pragmatism and his commitment to strengthen America’s standing in the world. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Three of Miriam Sánchez’s sons had already been shot dead in neighborhoods where the crackle of gunfire is a nightly occurrence. So she feared the worst when word arrived one recent night that her 24-year-old son, José Luis Arias, had been shot. Read more
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By many measures, Neteller PLC was a huge success. Founded in 1999, the financial services company signed up millions of customers and saw its market value soar to almost $2 billion. Read more
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KIBATI, Congo, Nov. 12 — In the past few days, a new category of displaced people has begun arriving at this muddy, sprawling camp in the green hills of eastern Congo: young men who say they are running from rebels who bang down their doors at night and force them to join their cause. Read [...]
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Adapted from “Big Boy Rules: America’s Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq” (Da Capo Press, 2008) Read more
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MUMBAI, Nov. 30 — It was just after dinner, about 9 p.m., when the fishermen noticed four strangers come ashore on an inflatable raft. Moments later, another four pulled up to the boat launch in a speedboat. Only two got out of the boat. They were young, muscular men, with backpacks and bulky duffel bags [...]
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By Darren Schuettler BANGKOK (Reuters) – Anti-government protesters consolidated their positions at Thailand’s besieged main airport on Monday as attention shifted to a court verdict that could end the crisis. Officials from the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) said they were shifting the focus of their protest from [...]
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian investigators said on Monday the militants who attacked Mumbai underwent months of commando training in Pakistan, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors as recriminations mounted in India. Read more
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The chief minister of the Indian state of Maharashtra has offered to resign amid criticism of the handling of the Mumbai attacks. Read more
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SEOUL, South Korea – Most Asian stock markets fell Monday on signs that the U.S. holiday shopping season got off to a tepid start over the key Thanksgiving weekend. Major European markets opened lower. Read more
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Play Video AP  – Spokesman: Mumbai survivors ‘played dead’ Play Video Video: Aussie shot in Mumbai to arrive home Australia 7 News Play Video Video: Mumbai attack’s political fallout BBC Play Video Video: India opens cross-party talks BBC AP – An Indian policeman walks past flowers and candles in front of a barricade outside the Taj Mahal Hotel … [...]
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Former royal butler Paul Burrell‘s complaint over a story that he boasted of having sex with Princess Diana, has been upheld, it was revealed yesterday. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela (Nov. 30) – President Hugo Chavez asked supporters Sunday to petition for a constitutional amendment that would let him seek indefinite re-election and buy more time to build a socialist economy in Venezuela. Read more
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Cabinet Ministers turned their wrath on Jacqui Smith last night in the storm over the arrest of a Tory MP. Read more
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WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama plans to announce longtime advisers and political foes alike as his picks for top administration jobs at a Monday news conference, nominating one-time political nemesis Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state. 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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Whereas the United Nations has been wary of sending more peacekeepers to help avert full-scale war — and angry Congolese accuse the U.N. of doing little to keep the peace… Read more