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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was flying to New Delhi on Tuesday to try to ease tension between India and Pakistan that has surged over the Mumbai attacks and put at risk U.S. counterterrorism efforts in the region. Read more
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DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. automakers started to submit plans demanded by Congress as the Big Three’s CEOs and lawmakers gird for debate over a $25 billion bailout the industry says it needs to survive. Read more
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Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said talks with Moscow, which were frozen over its war with Georgia in August, would resume. Read more
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Play Video AP  – Asian markets slip on word of U.S. recession Slideshow: Stock Markets Play Video Video: Asia shares dive Reuters Related Quotes Symbol Price Change DAI 29.97 +1.78 ^GSPC 844.93 +28.72 ^IXIC 1,446.37 +48.30 AP – Japanese men make their way past an electric market board in central Tokyo, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. Japan’s … LONDON – [...]
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Play Video AP  – India demands Pakistan hand over terrorists Slideshow: Mumbai Terror Attacks Play Video Video: India asks Pakistan for fugitives BBC Play Video Video: Raw Video: Scenes of India shootings AP AP – In this photo released by Mumbai Fire Brigade, burnt-out interiors on the top floors of the Taj Mahal … MUMBAI, India – India received [...]
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Tourists in Venice were left wading through waist-high water yesterday as the city suffered its worst flooding in more than 20 years. Read more
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BANGKOK, Thailand (Dec. 2) – Thailand’s prime minister resigned on Tuesday after weeks of protests closed the capital’s airports, stranding 300,000 travelers. Protesters promised to lift their siege, and international flights were expected to resume Friday. The resignation of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat came after the nation’s Constitutional Court dissolved Thailand’s top three ruling parties [...]
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Icy winds and heavy snow storms swept across Britain today, causing chaos for drivers and closing hundreds of schools. Read more
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BANGKOK, Thailand – Thailand’s Constitutional Court has dissolved the three biggest parties in the ruling coalition and banned the prime minister along with top party executives from politics for five years. 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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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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Ajmal Qasab wasn’t only captured on camera at the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai on Wednesday; he was the only of the gunmen who terrorized the city for some 60 hours who was captured by police instead of being killed in the battle. And after what was apparently a speedy interrogation of the [...]
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Since the middle of the summer, those who’ve driven through the intersection of Irving Park and Pulaski Roads regularly, as I do, have probably been struck by the staggeringly high gas prices at the Shell mini-mart on the northwest corner. Read more
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Thailand’s constitutional court has banned the country’s prime minister Somchai Wongsawat from politics for five years and dissolved the ruling party. Barred from office: Thai prime minister Somchai Wongsawat [...]
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Rex Features Pixies legend Frank Black will produce the next Art Brut album, the band’s lead singer has confirmed. Eddie Argos revealed on his blog that Black will join the group in the studio to produce the follow-up to last year’s It’s A Bit Complicated. “I was thinking about trying to put anybody off that [...]
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The world’s most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent Sunday with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana. Read more
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A French daredevil who climbed the outside of The New York Times’ 52-story building in Manhattan has been sentenced to three days of community service and a $250 fine after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct. Read more
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The sixth time became the charm for redistricting reform when supporters of Prop. 11 realized that while voters don’t care much about the inside baseball intricacies of redrawing California’s political boundaries, they really, really don’t like the crowd in the state Legislature. Read more
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Bargain hunters or “warriors” in the stores? “He’s the rebel on the underground/She’s the rebel of the modern town.” So sang – or shrieked – lead vocalist Poly Styrene of the British punk-rock band, X-ray Spex, in its 1978 ditty “Warrior in Woolworths.” Jim Stafford/AP And they’re off!: The scene last Friday morning (“Black Friday”), [...]