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BERLIN — A busy intersection in the German city of Kassel turned into a lake of frozen beer on Tuesday when some 1,600 bottles smashed after poorly secured crates flew off a delivery truck, police said.
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Today’s item is the last one that will appear here. After the publication of today’s column, this regular, daily feature of S.F.Gate, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle, will come to an end. (See yesterday’s post for details.)
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It was like waking up into a real-life nightmare about being trapped inside a coffin.Everywhere I turned there were walls and no way to escape. In desperation I started to claw at one of the panels and emit a feeble cry for help.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 30 — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday signed a constitutional amendment extending the country’s presidential term from four to six years, a step that has prompted widespread speculation Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is preparing an attempted return to the nation’s top post.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 29 — Pakistan’s army chief on Monday stressed the need to avoid conflict with India, days after he ordered troops toward the rivals’ shared border amid tensions resulting from last month’s terrorist attacks on Mumbai.
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NAIROBI, Dec. 29 — A Ugandan rebel group known for its horrific cruelties has massacred 189 people and kidnapped at least 20 children over three days in northeastern Congo, U.N. officials reported Monday.
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FORT LEE, Va. — Army Sgt. Stephanie Greer was serving with a vehicle-maintenance unit in the volatile Iraqi city of Ramadi, part of President Bush’s “surge” strategy to stabilize the country, when she learned of a far-off and most unexpected battle: Her estranged husband was going to fight her for custody of their daughter.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 29 — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak declared “an all-out war against Hamas” on Monday as fighter jets raked the Gaza Strip with bombs for the third straight day and Palestinian fighters sent dozens of rockets flying deep into Israeli territory.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israel on Tuesday rejected any truce with Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip before cross-border rocket fire ceased and said its air strikes, the fiercest in decades, heralded “long weeks of military action.”
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Monday expanded its bailout of the U.S. auto industry, saying it was buying $5 billion in equity in auto and mortgage finance company GMAC and increasing a loan to General Motors by $1 billion.
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Israel says it is ready for “long weeks of action” as it continues its fiercest air assault on Gaza for decades to stamp out militant rocket attacks.
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BANGKOK, Thailand – Most world stock markets rose Tuesday as Middle East tensions boosted energy stocks and the Nikkei eked out a modest gain in the last session of a year that was the worst on record for Japanese stocks.
Oil prices hovered near $40 a barrel as Israel showed no sign of relenting in its […]
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‘He lost a tooth and the whole family is really shaken up’
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TEHRAN, Iran (Dec. 29) – A group of influential conservative Iranian clerics launched an online registration drive on Monday seeking volunteers to fight against Israel in response to its air assault on the Gaza Strip.
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Almost three million working days were lost last year, up from 2.5million in 1999. Some 311,000 teachers took at least one day off.
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Six bodies have been recovered from the scene of two avalanches that buried eight snowmobilers in western Canada’s backcountry, police said today.
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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Again, disturbing shades of Rwanda as grisly conflict continues in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Ugandan army states that the Lord’s Resistance Army hacked 45 people to death in a Catholic church in the northeastern part of the DRC. More:
“An aid official speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity confirmed Friday’s massacre … ‘There […]
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9:24pm UK, Monday December 29, 2008
Downing Street has said it is “appalled” at the deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip after a third day of Israeli airstrikes on the Palestinian enclave.
Smoke rises from explosions following a fresh round of Israeli air-strikes
As the death toll rose above 325 and Israel promised a “war to the bitter […]