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Play Video Reuters  – 9/11 defendants ask to confess Slideshow: Guantanamo Military Base Play Video Video: ‘Extraordinary Scene’ FOX News Play Video Video: 9/11 suspects ask to make ‘confessions’ at Gitmo AP AP – A courtoom drawing by artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. military, shows [...]
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Riots rocked Athens and other university towns across Greece yesterday after a teenager was shot dead in a midnight confrontation with police in an inner-city district frequented by extremist youths. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Dec. – Blackwater Worldwide security guards opened machine gun fire on innocent, surrendering Iraqis and launched a grenade into a girls’ school during a gruesome Baghdad shooting last year, prosecutors said Monday in announcing manslaughter charges against five guards. A sixth guard involved in the attack cut a plea deal with prosecutors, turned on [...]
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A policeman’s wife has been arrested on suspicion of the mercy-killing murder of the couple’s seriously ill daughter. Read more
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ISLAMABAD – Security forces raided a camp used by militants blamed for the Mumbai attacks and arrested more than a dozen people in Pakistan’s first known response to the assault, militants and an intelligence official said Monday. 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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What’s behind the riots that have been setting parts of Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki in Greece ablaze? On Saturday, 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos threw a firebomb at a police car in the Exarchia district of Athens and was shot to death by authorities. Violence by youths in the region is generally attributed to [...]
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I agree with Lynn Sweet’s commentary today – Barack Obama’s dismissal yesterday of the strong criticisms he’d leveled at Hillary Clinton during their primary battle –they were simply “quotes that were generated during….the heat of a campaign,” Obama said, and nothing for us to examine or consider now” — didn’t reflect well on him: Read [...]
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Some 300 students have battled police in Greece in the latest unrest sparked by the police killing of a 15-year-old boy. Anarchists throw stones at police from the cover of burning [...]
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Rex Features Cheryl Cole has revealed that she intends to get into pop management. The singer has been inspired by Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh to try to develop young talent into successful acts. The X Factor judge admitted that after just one series of working on the talent show, she already admires the way [...]
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“Baku in Azerbaijan is a unique place. It has been at the crossroads of different cultures throughout its history and a natural bridge between East and West and between North and South,” Terry Davis said, adding that by hosting such events, Azerbaijan was opening up its doors to the rest of the world. At the [...]
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By LEONARD GREENE Loading new images… Last updated: 8:46 pmDecember 7, 2008 Posted: 8:45 pmDecember 7, 2008 It’s a hard reality for males of all species – pesticides and chemicals have put their genitals in jeopardy. New research shows that the chemicals used in some food [...]
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Barack Obama‘s pledge to make the United States a leader in confronting global warming raised hopes that his election would rapidly end the long impasse in international negotiations over climate change, but the timing of the presidential transition has severely dimmed those expectations as the current round of talks comes to a head this week [...]
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia — In each ad, the servants are depicted as animals. Read more
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NAIROBI — If the election of Barack Obama has been greeted with glee across much of Africa, there is at least one spot where the mood is decidedly different. Read more
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President-elect Barack introduced retired Army Gen. Eric K. Shinseki as his nominee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, bringing to his Cabinet a career military officer best known for running afoul of the Bush administration by questioning the Pentagon’s Iraq war strategy. Read more
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MUMBAI, Dec. 6 In the middle of math class, Pinak Patel, 12, sometimes imagines himself shooting terrorists, bravely protecting his family. His schoolmate Abbas Jinial, 14, can’t sleep and keeps looking out the window of his family’s apartment, fearful that some of the gunmen might be lurking in the darkened alleys of his neighborhood. Read [...]
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HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s government has accused former colonial ruler Britain of using a cholera epidemic to rally Western support for an invasion of the collapsing southern African nation, a state-run newspaper said on Sunday. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House and congressional negotiators sought on Sunday to remove remaining differences over an emergency rescue for the struggling auto industry, a stark symbol of the deepening U.S. economic crisis. Read more