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NEW DELHI, Feb. 12 — Pakistan admitted for the first time Thursday that part of the planning for November’s bloody assault on India’s financial capital, Mumbai, occurred on Pakistani soil, and it announced criminal charges against nine men involved. Read more
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TOKYO, Feb. 16 — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived here on the first stop of her Asian tour Monday night, declaring that she wanted “to create networks of partners in order to deal with the problems that no nation, even ours, can deal with alone,” such as climate change and the global economic [...]
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 15 — Fourteen months after his first attempt failed, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez won a referendum Sunday to eliminate term limits, paving the way for him to rule far into the 21st century to carry out his socialist transformation of this oil-rich country. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 15 — For the second time in 14 months, President Hugo Chávez tried Sunday to persuade Venezuelans to end term limits through a referendum that, if approved, would allow him to rule far into the 21st century to complete his socialist transformation of this oil-rich country. Read more
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In their summary of evidence against Mohammed Sulaymon Barre, a Somali detained at Guantanamo Bay, military investigators allege that he spent several years at Osama bin Laden’s compound in Sudan. But other military documents place him in Pakistan during the same period. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 15 — Iraqi election officials said Sunday that some fraud was committed in virtually every province during local elections Jan. 31 but that it was not widespread enough in any of them to require a new vote. Read more
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, Feb. 15 — Some sound like lofty dreams: a liver transplant at the fading government hospital. Most sound like simple wishes: Valentine’s Day dinner at a restaurant. Paint for the peeling walls. Beef for the butcher shop. Read more
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CARACAS (Reuters) – A polarized Venezuela celebrated and deplored on Monday socialist President Hugo Chavez’s referendum victory that allows him to run for re-election in an OPEC nation facing plummeting oil income. Read more
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has decided to launch a government task force for restructuring the struggling U.S. auto industry instead of naming a “car czar” with sweeping powers, a senior administration official said on Sunday. Read more
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A Royal Navy nuclear submarine was involved in a collision with a French nuclear sub in the middle of the Atlantic, the MoD has confirmed. Read more
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MOSCOW – Russia’s super-rich are also super-losers in the financial crisis, according to the business magazine Finans, which said Monday the top 10 wealthiest Russians lost about two-thirds of their fortunes over the past year. Read more
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Regional government officials say Pakistan will impose Islamic law in parts of its northwest where Taliban fighters increasingly hold sway. The decision follows government talks with a pro-Taliban group aimed at convincing militants in the Swat Valley to lay down their arms. The officials did not offer many specifics. However, Mian Iftikhar [...]
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File-sharing enthusiasts beware: a landmark trial opens today in Sweden for four men behind The Pirate Bay, a popular online piracy site. Read more
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AMSTERDAM (Feb. 12) — Anne Frank called them the Helpers. They provided food, books and good cheer while she and her family hid for two years from the Nazis in a tiny attic apartment. Read more
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The astonishing treatment could help sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder and those whose lives are plagued by hurtful recurrent memories. Read more
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A 39-year-old man accused of lighting a bushfire that killed at least 21 people in Victoria had recently been rejected by a girlfriend, according to his MySpace internet page. Read more
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Why the Valentine’s Day party poopers? Valentine’s Day = St. Valentine = not an Islamic holiday. Plus, as an Islamic scholar told the Saudi Gazette, “As Muslims we shouldn’t celebrate a non-Muslim celebration especially this one that encourages immoral relations between unmarried men and women.” So in Saudi Arabia, the religious police — agents of [...]
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2:38pm UK, Sunday February 15, 2009 A senior official in Zimbabwe’s MDC party – which has just formed a government with President Robert Mugabe – has been charged with terror offences. [...]
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Rex Features Taylor Hawkins has defended his bandmate Dave Grohl amid claims that he is an overbearing force in the Foo Fighters. The drummer said Grohl’s standards drive the band forward, adding that he is the “nicest control freak you [will] ever meet in your life”. Hawkins told NME: “He tells me what to do [...]
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Over 100 people were admitted to the hospital and 200 others given first aid after they ate food at a marriage function in a village in Gujarat Sunday, officials said. Read more