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Last updated: 2:38 amDecember 10, 2008 Posted: 2:36 amDecember 10, 2008
BERLIN - A German cruise ship plans to evacuate passengers in Yemen and fly them to the next port of call today to avoid any possible encounters with pirates off the coast of lawless Somalia.
Several other cruise operators said yesterday […]
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As Congress prepares today to loan GM and Chrysler (Ford has declined) $14 billion that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has warned may not even last until March, the House held hearings on how the $700 billion bailout of the banks has been going, which is not all that well.
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Carlos Slim Helú, the Mexican mogul whose holdings in his homeland include the national telephone company, Sears retail stores, commercial real estate and countless other money-makers, is the second-richest person in the world.
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A former university professor with motor neuron disease will be seen ending his life in a documentary to be broadcast tonight — the first time that an assisted suicide has been televised in Britain.
In the footage Craig Ewert travels from his home in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, to the Dignitas clinic […]
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LONDON, Dec. 9 — A Lebanese college student was convicted and sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for his role in a 2006 plot to plant suitcase bombs on two German commuter trains.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec. 9 — With GDP shrinking and unemployment spiking, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou said Tuesday that his focus was squarely on the self-ruled democratic island’s domestic economy. For Ma, that agenda clearly includes promoting the economic benefits of closer links to China.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 9 — It began with denial, as the leaders of several South American countries insisted their high-stepping economies could weave their way through the financial troubles shaking the United States.
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GOMA, Congo, Nov. 11 — Hundreds of Congolese soldiers rampaged through several villages in eastern Congo, raping women and pillaging homes as they pulled back ahead of a feared rebel advance, U.N. officials reported Tuesday.
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President Bush yesterday urged President-elect Barack Obama to “stay on the offensive” against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups and said his own administration had “laid a solid foundation” for meeting emerging threats around the world.
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For the second time in a decade, suspected Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar was placed under house arrest yesterday after being linked to attacks in India. His detention, announced by Pakistan’s Defense Ministry, was intended to show the country’s resolve in hunting for the organizers of last month’s deadly rampage in Mumbai.
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By Daniel Flynn and Renee Maltezou
ATHENS (Reuters) - A general strike shut down Greece on Wednesday, grounding flights, closing banks and schools and restricting hospital services in action that piled pressure on a conservative government hit by the worst riots in decades.
Workers chanting anti-government slogans gathered in central Athens before a rally called by Greece’s […]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives could vote as early as Wednesday on a $15 billion plan to bail out and restructure U.S. automakers but the initiative may face possible roadblocks in the Senate, officials said.
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Greece is braced for further turmoil after days of violence as unions stage a general strike in protest against the government’s economic policies.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Swedish engineering firm SKF AB says it is laying off 2,500 workers worldwide because the financial crisis is affecting demand in the sector.
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(Dec. 9) - A documentary that shows the deliberate act in which a terminally ill man takes his own life at a Swiss euthanasia clinic will be shown Wednesday night on British television.
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The harrowing moment a retired university professor dies in an ‘assisted suicide’ will be shown on television tonight.
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LONDON - Rupert Murdoch’s British pay TV broadcaster Sky has come under fire for planning to screen the final moments of a man who committed suicide in a Swiss euthanasia clinic.
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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 resembled […]