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3:33pm UK, Friday February 20, 2009 Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu has been asked to form the next Israeli government. Shimon Peres (L) has asked Benjamin Netanyahu to form a ruling coalition [...]
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Ricky Gervais has revealed that he has been helping Oscars host Hugh Jackman with his jokes. Read more
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Azerbaijan expects the world community to recognize the Khojali tragedy as genocide against humanity and to punish accused, Azerbaijani Ombudsman Elmira Suleymanova told Trend News. “Committers of the tragedy are known. They committed genocide not against of a small people group, but against the humanity,” Suleymanova said. On the night of February 25, 1992, Armenian [...]
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By TODD VENEZIA Loading new images… Last updated: 11:18 amFebruary 20, 2009 Posted: 1:38 amFebruary 20, 2009 No one is safe from the housing mess – not even a billionaire Russian oligarch. Moneybags Muscovite playboy Mikhail Prokhorov has been hit so hard [...]
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President Barack Obama, addressing America’s mayors today at the White House on the stimulus package, singled out two from the Bay Area — including one who’s clearly running for governor — in his remarks. Read more
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Wednesday’s paper contained my piece about an experience, familar in Japan, which seems to be about to impose itself upon Britain: living with deflation. One reader complains that I must have got it all wrong – on a visit to Japan in December, Peter of Phuket reports, everything was “horrendously expense”. This is a natural [...]
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If you’re planning to come to London as a tourist, take note before you take that photograph of an iconic British bobby, top hat and all (David Byers writes). According to a new anti-terrorism law now in force, it is now a criminal offence to take pictures of all police and military personnel [...]
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MOSCOW, Feb. 19 — The Kyrgyzstan parliament voted Thursday to close a U.S. air base that the Pentagon had hoped to use to expand NATO operations in Afghanistan and reduce the need to ship supplies through a dangerous corridor in Pakistan. But U.S. officials said they had not given up hope on a deal to [...]
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BEIJING, Feb. 20–Human rights violations by China cannot block the possibility of significant cooperation between Washington and Beijing on the global economic crisis, climate change and security threats like North Korea’s nuclear program, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday. Read more
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OTTAWA, Feb. 19 — President Obama warned on Thursday against a “strong impulse” toward protectionism while the world suffers a global economic recession and said his election-year promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement on behalf of unions and environmentalists will have to wait. Read more
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A former British resident held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be flown home early next week, marking the first transfer of a Guantanamo detainee by the Obama administration, according to a source involved in the process, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak on the subject. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 19 — Wearing leather shoes, a pressed beige suit and a scarf emblazoned with Iraq’s flag, the Iraqi journalist who became a folk hero in the Arab world by slinging his shoes at President George W. Bush defended his conduct on Thursday in court. Read more
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 19 — Mexican President Felipe Calderón on Thursday defended the deployment of the military in his fight against drug cartels, vowing that the army would continue to patrol cities until the country’s weakened and often-corrupt police forces were retrained and able to do the job themselves. Read more
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BISHKEK (Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan’s parliament voted on Thursday to close the only U.S. air base in Central Asia, removing one of the U.S. military’s supply routes into Afghanistan as it prepares to send more troops. Read more
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WASHINGTON/ST.JOHN’S (Reuters) – Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, accused of an $8 billion fraud that spooked investors around the world, was served with the formal complaint on Thursday by FBI agents in Virginia. Read more
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Hillary Clinton has warned North Korea relations with the US will not improve until it engages in dialogue with South Korea and ends its nuclear ambitions. Read more
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HONG KONG – Asian stocks market dropped Friday, with benchmarks in Japan and Hong Kong sliding around 2 percent, after trenchant economic fears sent Wall Street tumbling to its lowest close in more than six years. Read more
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Play Video ABC News  – Israeli PM: Do We Have A Winner? Play Video Video:‘Bibi’s Big Break FOX News Play Video Iran Video:Cultural Cartoons FOXBusiness Play Video Iran Video:Iranian art to be shown in the UK BBC AP – In this Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, Israel’s Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters … JERUSALEM – Benjamin Netanyahu [...]
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Cancer-stricken reality TV star Jade Goody left hospital yesterday to prepare for her wedding. Read more
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OTTAWA (Feb. 19) – President Barack Obama stepped cautiously in his first foreign trip Thursday, refraining from asking Canada to rethink its plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and saying changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement can wait. Read more