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Last weekend’s formation of the new peaceful anti-Kremlin movement that borrows its name for the Polish anti-communism trade movements pits opposition leaders, including chess legend Garry Kasparov, directly against Russia’s fresh crackdown on dissent. The Other Russia, an umbrella opposition organization that incorporates a wide range of views across the political spectrum, reports that the […]
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Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said Tuesday he is considering asking President George W. Bush to commute the prison sentence of George Ryan, contending the former Republican governor convicted on federal corruption charges “has paid a price for his wrongdoing.”… Tribune story today.
When asked if there were anything George Ryan would change, Lura Lynn Ryan said […]
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5:06pm UK, Saturday December 20, 2008
The United States is looking to send at least 20,000 extra troops to Afghanistan by next summer, the chairman of the USÂ Joint Chiefs Of Staff has said.
US Soldiers in Afghanistan
Admiral Mike Mullen said the figure could even rise as high as 30,000.
He told reporters: “We’ve agreed on the requirement and […]
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Emma Watson has said that she is happy living a normal life rather than a glamorous Hollywood existence.
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Zimbabwe’s central bank introduced a $10 billion note worth less than 20 U.S. dollars, as the once-prosperous southern African nation battles against spiraling hyperinflation.
The new note, expected to buy just 20 loaves of bread, comes just a week after Zimbabwe issued a $500 million note to ease a cash shortage.
Zimbabwe has slashed zeros from […]
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Jihadists have a plan for “invading Facebook” and using the popular social networking site as a means of spreading their message and finding new recruits, experts say.
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If you didn’t fill your belly on Caroline Kennedy chatter with our story Friday, this just came in: Even after 310 people were shown videos of people making arguments why Caroline Kennedy shouldn’t be a U.S. senator, HCD Research reports that 81 percent believed she’d be chosen to fill Sen. Hillary Clinton’s seat.
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Gordon Brown, the veteran Labour Party pol, served as Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer (finance minister) from 1997 to 2007 under former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Brown was there, close to the decision- and policy-making process, when his former boss, in close cooperation with George W. Bush and his Washington-based war-makers, cooked up the argument […]
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So the big day is almost here. Children are gazing wistfully into the distance with stars in their eyes, mums and dads are working out how to get home from the shops in time and, somewhere out there, an old man is dusting down his outfit for the busiest night of the year. Yes - […]
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Bernie Madoff had his fun with the $50 billion entrusted to him by investors. Now the media have their fun chronicling the downfall of the financier once affectionately known as “the Jewish T-bill” for his ability to generate guaranteed returns — until his Ponzi scheme collapsed.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 19 — Russia accused the United States on Friday of trying to weaken a landmark nuclear arms-control pact set to expire next year by removing limits on long-range missiles and bombers and demanding instead that a new agreement cover only warheads.
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After Dennis Blair’s assignment as military liaison to the CIA 13 years ago, he groused about all the cloak-and-dagger politics at Langley headquarters. “You’d go to a meeting and think everyone had agreed” to a particular course of action, and then the meeting would end and “someone would come up to me in the hallway […]
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JOHANNESBURG For South Africans with means, a fundamental question is: stay or go?
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KIRKUK, Iraq — Darawan Salahadin, dressed in a black shirt and blue jeans, strolled out of his home in the Kurdish part of his ethnically fragmented neighborhood, passing concrete barriers and a checkpoint guarded by a Kurdish fighter. He entered the Arab section and walked swiftly to his tan, flat-roofed school.
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DUBLIN — Jason Bissett, 30, sat on a busy pedestrian bridge that arches over the River Liffey, a hood pulled tight around his head and his hand out.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - A Russian warship sailed into Havana Bay on Friday for the first time since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union as Russia flexed its muscles close to the United States and showed off its warming relations with former Cold War ally Cuba.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush bailed out automakers on Friday with $17.4 billion in emergency loans as he sought to stave off a collapse that would have cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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US President-elect Barack Obama has welcomed the multi-billion dollar aid package for US carmakers, but said the industry faces some “hard decisions”.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) –
The International Monetary Fund on Friday approved a one-year, 75.6-million-dollar aid package for Senegal in order to help offset the impact of skyrocketing food and energy prices.
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BAGHDAD – Iraqi authorities released without charge the nearly two dozen security officials who had been accused this week of conspiring to revive Saddam Hussein’s banned political party, the interior minister said.
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