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The biggest gains in the Gaza war have gone to the hard-liners on both sides. Hamas is declaring victory, while Israel’s leading hawk is the front-runner in elections just over a week away. Read more
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AP Loading new images… Last updated: 4:43 pmJanuary 31, 2009 Posted: 4:43 pmJanuary 31, 2009 The director of an Iraqi orphanage says a sculpture honoring an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush has been removed. BUSH [...]
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So the new RNC Chair is Michael Steele, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland. It took six ballots — and 155 years — for Republicans to elect their first African-American chair. Read more
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President Obama repeatedly extended his hand to the world’s Muslims in his first 10 days in power. His respectful tone and gestures toward Arab states in particular were as welcome as they were deft. But it would be a mistake to conclude that the gears of history have shifted and what Americans have come to [...]
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PARIS, Jan. 29 — More than a million French workers staged a general strike and marched in massive protests around the country Thursday to vent their anger over the global economic crisis and denounce President Nicolas Sarkozy’s business-friendly approach to containing the damage. Read more
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MUMBAI — This tangled neighborhood of pieced-together shacks along a railroad track seems an unlikely residence for movie stars. But here is where two of the child stars of the hit movie “Slumdog Millionaire” live, amid the rusted tin lean-tos that flourish in the shadow of this city’s high-rises for the wealthy. Read more
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A former Interior Department official pleaded guilty yesterday to accepting $15,000 in kickbacks from an insurance company in exchange for arranging meetings with government officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Read more
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 30 — Zimbabwe’s main opposition party announced Friday that it would enter a unity government with autocratic President Robert Mugabe, bending to pressure to end a nearly five-month impasse that had paralyzed the government as a humanitarian and economic crisis grew more dire by the day. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 — Over the past 18 months, Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who has long fought for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, has tried to improve his movement’s image and reform his Mahdi Army militia. Saturday’s provincial elections will in part be a referendum on his influence over the country’s majority Shiites [...]
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LONDON, Jan. 30 — Hundreds of British energy workers walked off the job Friday to protest the use of foreign labor on British job sites, the latest sign of an increasing backlash against foreign workers amid the global recession. Read more
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqis voted behind barbed wire and rings of police on Saturday in an election that tested the war-battered country’s fragile security gains and may ease sectarian resentment still fuelling violence. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. economy shrank at its fastest pace in nearly 27 years in the fourth quarter, government data showed on Friday, sinking deeper into a recession that the White House said demands urgent action. Read more
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STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ KEY STORIES Iraqis vote in landmark elections Tight security before Iraq polls Iraq ends licence for Blackwater Iraq troops vote in local polls FEATURES AND ANALYSIS Iraqis vote Provincial elections may mark a turning point for war torn country Iraq: Key facts and figures Iraq voices: provincial elections Ex-war zone prepares for [...]
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DAVOS, Switzerland (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown argued for tougher control of the international economy, opening up a potential split with the United States on ending the financial crisis. Read more
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AP – A Myanmar traffic police man outside Yangon International Airport as the motorcade with U.N. special … YANGON, Myanmar – The United Nation’s special envoy to Myanmar was expected to meet detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a visit to the country that began Saturday, the latest effort to coax democratic reforms from the ruling [...]
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THE funeral of a four-month-old baby boy went ahead yesterday after his remains had to be dramatically taken off a stranded Belfast-bound ferry by rescue boat. Read more
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BAGHDAD (Jan. 30) — The monument commemorating the journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush was taken down a day after it was erected, local officials in Tikrit told CNN. Assisted by kids at the Tikrit Orphanage, sculptor Laith al-Amiri on Tuesday erected a huge brown replica of one of the shoes [...]
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The hollowness of Gordon Brown’s pledge to create ‘British jobs for British workers’ was exposed tonight as wildcat strikes spread across Britain in protest at the use of foreign labour. Read more
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WHITTIER, California – The Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets this week already had six children but refused the option of reducing the number of embryos she was carrying last year, her mother said. 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 [...]