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Originally posted: November 27, 2008
Durbin puts clemency on the table, then takes off
Dick Durbin wouldn’t come to the phone Wednesday or even give me a short […]
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2:22pm UK, Monday December 15, 2008
Seven members of a Russian skinhead gang have been jailed for between six and 20 years for a series of racist murders.
Members of the gang appear for sentencing in court
Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky, seen as the ringleaders of the group, were given 10-year sentences.
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Computer game heroes Mario and Luigi discover that they are not biological brothers in a new comedy sketch.
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Pakistani truckers are refusing to haul vital supplies to NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan because of mounting attacks along the main route, a transporters association said Monday.
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BAGHDAD - Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets Monday to demand the release of a reporter who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush, as Arabs across many parts of the Middle East hailed the journalist as a hero and praised his insult as a proper send-off to the unpopular U.S. […]
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The end is near
Nevermind the financial crisis. Something worse is upon us, that thing science fiction writers have long warned of.
Blackberries have minds. They think for themselves and say things and people trust them more than they trust their fellow humans.
My Blackberry is no longer My Blackberry. It is a Blackberry of its own, a […]
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In some ways, the moment was Shakespearean, but without much drama: As for the delegates to the United Nations’ climate-change conference that ended this past Saturday in Poznan, Poland, it could be said that they came, they talked and they departed. And that’s about it.
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RENNES, France — When Anna Sam entered the supermarket world as a part-time checkout clerk, she was 20 years old and still in college, intending to work for a short while to help finance her studies.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 14 — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown promised Sunday to provide Pakistan with more information about Pakistani links to the Mumbai attacks late last month, saying that Britain will also work to enhance Pakistan’s counterterrorism capabilities.
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 12 — The pilgrims walked for miles, some for days, carrying framed portraits of the Virgin of Guadalupe roped to their backs, a parade of movable shrines dressed in paper flowers and plastic tinsel.
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UNITED NATIONS — The Bush administration will mount a last-ditch push this week to muster international backing for a relatively small U.N. peacekeeping mission in Somalia, in an effort to help stem piracy and prevent the resurgence of Islamist militants in the lawless East African nation, according to State Department officials.
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By Andrea Bruce {vbar} Washington Post Staff Photographer
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ALFONZO, Argentina — When Héctor Farroni married a few years back, he took his new bride for a swing through Iowa. The silos and windmills, the spider-like combines, the wide, flat fields all reminded him of this region of eastern Argentina, part of a fertile farm belt that has propelled the country’s economy since the […]
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GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas leaders said on Sunday they did not expect to extend a six-month ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip when it expires this week, although it remained unclear whether this would mean an immediate surge in violence.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese business sentiment has suffered its sharpest crash in three decades, a Bank of Japan survey showed on Monday, and the central bank said no early turnaround was expected with the economy set to shrink next year.
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US President George W Bush has arrived in Afghanistan on a surprise visit, his last before stepping down in January.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) –
Banks floundered, grabbed government lifelines and failed in 2008 as the global financial crisis shredded their own vaunted reputations for security.
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GANGS of youths attacked banks across Athens yesterday as the violence that has engulfed Greece entered its second week.
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NEW DELHI (Dec. 13) - The Indian navy captured 23 pirates who threatened a merchant vessel in the lawless waters of the Gulf of Aden and a German naval helicopter thwarted another attack Saturday on a freighter being chased by speedboats off Yemen.
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