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A LITANY of serious mistakes by London’s Metropolitan Police left Robert Napper, a psychotic killer, free to take the lives of two young mothers and a four-year-old girl. Read more
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(Dec. 19) – Pirates holding a ship full of tanks and ammunition off the coast of Somalia are likely to be paid millions of dollars in ransom within days, senior U.S. military officials said. Read more
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The great Christmas getaway begins in earnest today with a mass exodus expected as millions of holidaymakers escape for the festive season. Read more
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WASHINGTON – The world opened its wallets for Bill Clinton. Governments, corporations and billionaires with their own interests in United States foreign policy gave the former President’s charity millions of dollars, according to records he released yesterday. Read more
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Answer: In Persian, the suffix “stan” means “place of.” In Russian — remembering that Kazakhstan borders Russia, and five ‘stans used to be part of the Soviet Union — the word “stan” means “settlement.” So we have seven countries in Central Asia that share the “stan” suffix: Afghanistan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan The [...]
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Associated Press —Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity is losing his liberal half. Alan Colmes of the network’s “Hannity & Colmes” said Monday that he’ll be leaving the prime-time show after 12 years. Read more
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2:20pm UK, Friday December 19, 2008 Robert Mugabe has told his party he will never surrender and is not intimated by calls for him to step down. Mugabe says he won’t [...]
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Rex Features Clint Eastwood has revealed that he “wouldn’t miss” acting if the roles dried up. The Oscar-winning actor stars in and directs the upcoming Gran Torino, marking his first on-screen appearance since his role in 2004′s Million Dollar Baby. “I don’t know”, he replied when asked by Entertainment Tonight if it would be his [...]
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Russia tackled Ukraine’s efforts at the UN General Assembly to introduce Holodomor, the great famine in 1932-33 as genocide against the Ukrainian people. Russian ambassador to UN Vitaliy Churkin said despite that Ukraine tried to achieve adoption of UN resolution on this issue for many times, its efforts were prevented every time. “The Ukraine’s campaign [...]
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AP Last updated: 3:24 amDecember 19, 2008 Posted: 2:14 amDecember 19, 2008 MILAN, Italy – Italy’s agriculture minister is urging Italians to keep imported pineapples off their holiday tables – but says drinking espresso is still OK. Luca Zaia, however, denies the [...]
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There’s trouble on the inaugural podium for P-E Obama. And, no it’s not about Yo-Yo Ma. Some gay folks and those who are gay-friendly are ticked that the Rev. Rick Warren, the conservative evangelical pastor of Saddleback Church, is giving the invocation. That’s the same Warren who supported Prop 8, and opposes gay marriage and [...]
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As we noted on Tuesday, Muntadar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist, threw his shoes at George W. Bush this past Sunday, when the lame-duck, self-styled “war president” took part in a press conference in Baghdad alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Since then, al-Zaidi, a reporter for a Cairo-based TV channel, has quickly come to be [...]
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A recent increase in Taliban attacks on a crucial NATO transportation route from Pakistan to Afghanistan could imperil efforts to bolster the flagging, seven-year U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan, U.S. and Pakistani officials say. Read more
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Former president Bill Clinton‘s disclosure yesterday that foreign governments and state-sponsored agencies have donated between $75 million and $165 million to his foundation highlighted a series of potential conflicts that Hillary Rodham Clinton could face should she become secretary of state. Read more
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LA PAZ, Bolivia — He had apprenticed with legendary German conductor Kurt Masur and conducted youth orchestras in Chicago. Then, almost on a lark, David Handel, an American violinist, came to this isolated capital in the center of South America — a city 12,000 feet above sea level, seemingly stuck in a time warp and, [...]
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ARUSHA, Tanzania, Dec. 18 — A former Rwandan army colonel was convicted Thursday of genocide and crimes against humanity for masterminding the killings of 800,000 people in a 100-day slaughter in 1994. Survivors in Rwanda welcomed the watershed moment in a long search for justice. Read more
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For nearly five years, FBI leaders encouraged employees on temporary assignment in Iraq to bill an average of $45,000 in overtime and extra pay by routinely claiming to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week, even when some of that time was spent eating, exercising, watching movies or attending cocktail parties, the Justice [...]
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BEIJING, Dec. 18 — As international forces rescued a hijacked Chinese ship from Somali pirates Wednesday, state news media reports said China planned to send a naval fleet to fight pirates in the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters. Read more
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KIGALI (Reuters) – A U.N. court sentenced a former army colonel accused of masterminding the slaughter of 800,000 people in Rwanda in 1994 to life in prison on Thursday. Read more