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5:51pm UK, Sunday December 21, 2008 Alex Crawford in Mumbai Less than a month after the terror attacks in Mumbai, the 105-year-old Taj Mahal Hotel has reopened. Lights back [...]
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An Indonesian man who suffers from a rare disease giving him gnarled warts on his body has said that his condition has worsened. Known as the Tree Man because of the root-like nature of the growths, Dede had six kilos of warts removed from his body in August. “Those [warts] that were removed are growing [...]
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The U.S. can no longer support a proposed Zimbabwean power-sharing deal that would leave Robert Mugabe, “a man who’s lost it,” as president, the top U.S. envoy for Africa told reporters Sunday. Read more
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KABUL, Afghanistan – The United States is aiming to send 20,000 to 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan by the beginning of next summer, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said yesterday. Read more
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Somewhere Bill O’Reilly is crying because there is a LOT of San Francisco (and California in general) in the just-announced schedule for President-elect Obama and Vice President-elect Biden’s swearing in ceremony Jan. 20. Read more
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NEW DELHI, Dec. 20 — First, a prominent bar association passed a resolution telling its members not to represent Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving gunman in last month’s attacks in Mumbai. Then, the home of a noted criminal lawyer who offered to defend Kasab was pelted with stones. Read more
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TORONTO, Dec. 20 — The federal and Ontario governments will provide the Canadian subsidiaries of General Motors and Chrysler with $3.29 billion in emergency loans, the prime minister said Saturday. Read more
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SOUTH LITTLETON, England — Soon after al-Qaeda bombed two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, a U.S. federal judge issued a warrant for Khalid al-Fawwaz, an accused conspirator in the attacks and a confidant of Osama bin Laden. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 19 — Iraq’s interior minister on Friday angrily dismissed reports that a group of officials from his ministry was plotting to overthrow the government and said the arrests of the men were politically motivated. Read more
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JOHANNESBURG — It’s the holiday season, and here that means quiet. Residents flee this sun-scorched metropolis for the coasts, shops close, and chaotic roads grow calm. Read more
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – A multi-faith prayer ceremony marked the reopening on Sunday of Mumbai’s Trident hotel, one of the sites of last month’s terror attacks, with scanners and roses greeting guests as they made their way into the gleaming lobby. Read more
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KABUL (Reuters) – The United States is aiming to send 20,000 to 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan by the beginning of next summer, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Saturday. Read more
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Guests trapped in a Mumbai hotel seized by gunmen last month have told the BBC they were given instructions by police that may have led to more people dying. Read more
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LONDON (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said a lack of fiscal stimulus by governments to tackle the global slowdown may make a bad 2009 even worse, according to an interview released on Sunday. Read more
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AP – Mauritania’s President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi is seen during a visit to Japan, in this Friday May … NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – Security forces early Sunday forcibly removed Mauritania’s recently deposed president from the village where he had been under house arrest, his daughter said. A police official confirmed that police were given orders to take ousted [...]
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The next time you see a passenger sneezing on a train, take it as a compliment: they may be afflicted by more than a cold. Read more
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KABUL, Afghanistan (Dec. 20) — Up to 30,000 additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan next year, military officials said Saturday. Read more
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A new row over politicians’ perks erupted last night after it was revealed that peers who have formed relationships in the House of Lords are receiving tax-free ‘double bubble’ payouts of up to £117,000 a year. Read more
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SYDNEY – An Australian former Guantanamo Bay inmate on Sunday became a completely free man for the first time in seven years when the final restrictions stemming from terrorism allegations ended. Read more
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Children run near a U.N. tank at a refugee camp on Nov. 07, 2008, in Kiwanja, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Killings of about 50 to 200 civilians, as about 120 U.N. peacekeepers took no action, in Kiwanja on Nov. 4 and 5 were criticized as war crimes. Read more