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NEW DELHI, Dec. 15 — During the three-day siege of Mumbai, an Indian television news anchor took a call from one of the suspected attackers, a young man who identified himself as Imran Babar. Read more
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JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 11 — President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe said Thursday that a cholera epidemic in the southern African nation had been “arrested,” even as the United Nations announced that deaths from the illness had risen to 783. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 17 — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown confirmed Wednesday that British troops would withdraw from Iraq before June, virtually ending the role of the United States’ most important coalition ally in Iraq. Read more
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CHONGQING, China — When 9,000 of Shin Guoqing’s fellow taxi drivers went on strike early last month, he felt he had to join them. Read more
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ATHENS (Reuters) – Protesters hung banners from the Acropolis in Greece on Wednesday calling for demonstrations across Europe, in the twelfth day of protests since police shot dead a teenager. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A recession-mired economy and growing job insecurity have shaken American confidence in the future despite an upbeat view of President-elect Barack Obama’s performance, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. Read more
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The oil producers’ cartel Opec has agreed to make a record cut in output, cutting 2.2 million barrels per day (bpd) from its current output. Read more
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Newell Rubbermaid (NWL.N) slashed its fourth-quarter profit and sales forecasts on Wednesday, blaming a deep slump in the global economy, and said it would cut up to 10 percent of non-manufacturing jobs. Read more
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Reuters – Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown (C) walks to a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri … Slideshow: Iraq Play Video Video: Raw Video: British Prime Minister tours Iraq AP Play Video Video: White House: No hard feelings in shoe incident AP BAGHDAD – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday his country’s troops will leave [...]
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The father of Rhys Jones, the 11-year-old shot dead as he walked home from football practice last year, claimed yesterday that justice had finally been done, after a teenage gangster was jailed for the boy’s murder. Read more
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NEAR OVDA, Israel (Dec. 16) – A bus full of Russian tourists veered off a desert road in Israel and plunged down a ravine on Tuesday, killing up to 30 people and seriously injuring about a dozen more. Read more
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Goldmine Sachs: As jobless toll soars, investment bank’s bonuses for staff are cut to a MERE £4.3bn More misery for savers as rates set to fall to 1% 0% interest rate in US: Federal Reserve slashes it to all-time low Terrorist in a doctor’s coat: Iraqi who infiltrated NHS is guilty of bungled bomb plot [...]
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SRI LANKA – Tamil Tiger rebels say they have killed 130 government troops and wounded another 300 in a massive wave of battles across northern Sri Lanka. Read more
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No foreign media coverage of the closely guarded race, no free and fair election as determined by human-rights groups, and no change apparent for Turkmenistan’s voters — 94 percent of whom showed up to the polls today, hoping that President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, pictured, would follow up on his vows to increase democracy in the nation. [...]
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For years, WGN AM 720 afternoon host John Williams has been talking about what he’d do if he were the king, and some of his listeners have played along by addressing him as “King John.” Read more
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10:09pm UK, Tuesday December 16, 2008 The US Federal Reserve has slashed the interest rate to a record low of virtually zero in a bid to fight off deflation and the global credit crunch. [...]
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Rex Features Brian Friedman has threatened to quit X Factor because of disputes with Simon Cowell about the show’s direction. Friedman, 31, is the programme’s creative director, but he is apparently unhappy with Cowell’s controlling influence. “I’m upset,” he told The Sun. “Art is art and it shouldn’t be smothered. “I haven’t signed a new [...]
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A suspected assassin has been caught trying to break into Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential palace in Paris. Read more