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In a nutshell, stick to telling funny stories about your dog or sharing what you ate for lunch with your readers, says the Vietnamese government. And Internet service providers will have to ally with the government to make sure that bloggers abide by the rules. More: “The new circular, of which AFP obtained a [...]
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In this week’s “On The Media,” Vanity Fair writer Seth Mnookin explained to host Brooke Gladstone why writers for Bloomberg News were once prohibited from using the words “but” or “however” in their copy:  Read more
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6:45pm UK, Sunday December 28, 2008 Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has told Sky News that there is no option but to use force against Hamas. Israeli airstrikes have continued on [...]
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Rex Features Paul Gascoigne has sparked fears that he is drinking again after disappearing on Christmas Day, a report claims. The ex-footballer checked out of rehab to spend time with his family over the festive period, but he failed to turn up for Christmas dinner at his mother’s home, according to the Daily Star. One [...]
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Israeli warplanes retaliating for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip pounded dozens of security compounds across the Hamas-ruled territory in unprecedented waves of airstrikes Saturday, killing more than 200 people and wounding nearly 400 in the single bloodiest day of fighting in years. Read full story from news.yahoo.com Read more
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Israeli warplanes pressing one of Israel’s deadliest assaults ever on Palestinian militants dropped bombs and missiles on a top security installation, smuggling tunnels and dozens of other targets across Hamas-ruled Gaza on Sunday. Read more
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UNITED NATIONS — International sanctions and Laura Bush‘s personal intervention did not make Burma’s generals ease their political oppression. Neither did quiet diplomacy, nor the devastation of a cyclone. Read more
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BEIJING — This fall, a scholarly magazine that focuses on Communist Party history pushed the envelope again. Read more
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CONAKRY, Guinea, Dec. 23 — A military group seized control of the airwaves in mineral-rich Guinea and declared a coup Tuesday after the death of the West African country’s president, one of the continent’s last strongmen. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 27 — At least 22 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in a car bombing in northwestern Baghdad on Saturday afternoon in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in weeks, Iraqi officials said. Read more
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 28 — Israeli warplanes pounded Hamas installations across the Gaza Strip on Saturday and early Sunday in retaliation for rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel. At least 225 Palestinians were killed and more than 400 wounded, Palestinian health officials reported, one of the highest daily death tolls in decades of conflict. Read more
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GAZA (Reuters) – Israel launched air strikes on Gaza for a second day on Sunday, piling pressure on Hamas after killing more than 270 people in one of the bloodiest days in 60 years of conflict between the Palestinians and the Jewish state. Read more
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council called early on Sunday for an immediate halt to all violence in Gaza after a day of Israeli air strikes in response to rocket and mortar fire by Gaza militants against Israel. Read more
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Israeli jets have launched new air attacks on the Gaza Strip, amid warnings that operations will continue until Hamas ends rocket fire from Gaza. Read more
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LONDON (AFP) – Five senior Church of England bishops slammed the government over the financial crisis, accusing it of being “morally corrupt,” according to published comments. Read more
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli warplanes rained more than 100 tons of bombs on security sites in Hamas-ruled Gaza Saturday and early Sunday, killing at least 230 people in one of the Mideast conflict’s bloodiest assaults in decades. The government said the open-ended campaign was aimed at stopping rocket attacks that have traumatized southern [...]
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Like some kind of deranged termite, Josef Fritzl saw the earth beneath his home as his private domain. He thought there were catacombs running beneath the streets, and believed he could create a large subterranean dwelling by combining them all. Read more
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GUADALAJARA, Mexico (Dec. 24) – A Mexican beauty queen detained on suspicion of drug and weapons violations has been stripped of her crown in the Hispanoamerican Queen pageant, contest organizers said Saturday. Laura Zuniga, 23, was stripped of first-place honors for “failure to comply with the regulations of the title she represents,” Bolivia-based pageant organizing [...]
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Camelot apologised after a ‘network issue’ left thousands of lottery players around the country unable to buy tickets Read more
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JERUSALEM – Israeli warplanes sent more than 100 tons of bombs crashing down on key security installations in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday, launching an open-ended campaign mean to stop rocket and mortar attacks that have traumatised southern Israel. Read more