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LA PAZ, Bolivia — Once a product of armed rebellion, the revolution in Latin America today is taking place on paper in the form of new constitutions, a mostly peaceful process influenced by the work of European legal scholars who have played a behind-the-scenes role in drafting the populist documents. Read more
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TOKYO (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for coordinated action to revive the global economy on Tuesday and invited Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso to meet President Barack Obama at the White House next week. Read more
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HOUSTON/ST JOHN’S, Antigua (Reuters) – U.S. authorities charged Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and three of his companies with “massive ongoing fraud” on Tuesday as federal agents swooped in on Stanford’s U.S. headquarters. Read more
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Texan billionaire and cricket promoter Sir Allen Stanford has been charged over a $8bn (£5.6bn) investment fraud, US financial regulators say. Read more
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Play Video Reuters  – Japan finmin quits over drunk claim Play Video Video:Raw Video: Drunken Japanese Finance Minister? AP Play Video Video:Slurring Japanese Minister resigns Reuters AP – In this Feb. 14, 2009 file photo, Japan’s Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa meets journalists at the … TOKYO – Japan’s finance minister resigned in disgrace Tuesday after slurring his speech and [...]
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Play Video AP  – Pakistani region imposes Islamic law Slideshow:Pakistan Play Video Video:Pakistan moves on Mumbai plotters Reuters Play Video Video:Holbrooke in Pakistan Reuters AP – A crowd of supporters gather around pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Muhammad as he arrives in Mingora to negotiate … MINGORA, Pakistan – NATO warned Tuesday that Pakistan risked creating a safe haven for Islamist [...]
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IN a country famous for its passion, his is one of the most feared tempers. Now even Carla Bruni has admitted that her husband, President Nicolas Sarkozy, has trouble managing his anger. In one of the French First Lady’s most controversial interviews to date, she said he constantly needs calming down. Ms Bruni said: [...]
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LONDON (Feb. 17) – Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage inside Iran in an effort to delay Tehran’s attempts to develop a nuclear weapon, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday. Skip over this content Quoting intelligence experts and an unnamed former CIA agent, the newspaper said Israel’s “decapitation” strategy had targeted [...]
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Drivers looking for a new car are being urged to take advantage of the cut-price deals sparked by the recession. Read more
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Callers to LifeLine New Zealand, the round-the-clock telephone and email counselling service, were up 25 per cent last year as the economic downturn hit. 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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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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Considering that, on the second time around, Hugo Chavez can now legitimize his quest for term after term, headline writers the world over are left wondering how to word the Venezuelan president’s victory. Considering that an investigation after the last vote revealed that his government had tried to buy off poor voters, and that the [...]
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6:43pm UK, Monday February 16, 2009 Hillary Clinton has arrived in Japan at the start of an Asian tour expected to focus on the global economic crisis and security issues including North Korea. [...]
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M.I.A. has been offered the chance to perform from a bed at the forthcoming 81st Academy Awards. Read more
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A woman who missed her flight at Hong Kong’s international airport went into hysterics and has thus become a YouTube video star. The “woman going insane after missing her flight video” has over 1.35 million hits at the time of this writing. Read full story from snafu-ed.blogspot.com Read more
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Pakistan agreed to impose strict Islamic law and suspend a military offensive across a large area of its country today in a bid to pacify the spreading Taliban insurgency, officials said. Read more
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Well, she passed the first hurdle. A logjam that lasted more than a month over the nomination of California Rep. Hilda Solis for Secretary of Labor broke Wednesday when the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted to approve her. Read more
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Shoichi Nakagawa’s display of public drunkenness (sorry, I mean public intoxication with “cough medicine”) is one of the most extraordinary self-humiliations by an international statesman I can recall. You have to go back to the last days of Boris Yeltsin to find a similar spectacle (even the former leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats, Charles Kennedy, [...]
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They’re as far from a cutting-edge kind of family as you can get, so perhaps it’s appropriate that The Simpsons have only just entered the world of high definition. The first HD episode aired in the States last night, but for those who didn’t care that Marj’s hair was a crisper blue and Bart’s eyes [...]