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GOMA, Congo, Oct. 30 — After giving up their fight against rebel forces, Congolese soldiers resorted Thursday to shaking down residents and the tens of thousands of displaced people here for cash, cellphones and skinny chickens and goats. With this important provincial city essentially surrounded by rebels, the exhausted and now aimless government soldiers roamed [...]
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 23 — Three U.S. soldiers and their translator were killed Monday during combat operations in Diyala province, the U.S. military said. Read more
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CAIRO, Feb. 22 — An explosion Sunday targeting a bazaar popular with tourists in the Egyptian capital killed a French citizen and wounded at least 20 people, authorities said. Read more
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The Pakistan army said on Monday it had ceased operations against Taliban militants in the northwestern valley of Swat, and an Islamist cleric asked for troops to be shifted to “safer places” to give peace a chance. Read more
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By Poornima Gupta and Soyoung Kim DETROIT (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co has reached a tentative deal with the United Auto Workers union on changes to a retiree health care trust, becoming the first Detroit automaker to secure union concessions on the key issue. Ford’s shares were up 12 percent [...]
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Scores of white-owned farms in Zimbabwe have been invaded since the country’s national unity government took office, a union chief has told the BBC. Read more
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GENEVA (AFP) – The European Union has made a fresh proposal to Latin American banana producers in a bid to end a decade-old dispute over the bloc’s banana import policies, sources close to the WTO said Monday. Read more
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LONDON – A former British resident who claims he was tortured at a covert CIA site in Morocco was freed from Guantanamo after nearly seven years in U.S. captivity without facing trial. Read more
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European leaders backed major reform of hedge funds yesterday as part of structural changes to help the world’s financial institutions emerge stronger from the global economic crisis. Read more
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ATHENS, Greece (Feb. 23) – Greek police scoured the country Monday for two convicts who orchestrated a brazen helicopter prison break for the second time in three years, deeply embarrassing authorities who had vowed to improve security. Read more
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Police are bracing themselves for a ‘summer of rage’ against the economic crisis, a senior officer warned today. Read more
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Bushfire toll hits 210 7:49PM Monday Feb 23, 2009 MELBOURNE – The death toll from Victoria’s bushfires has reached 210, police say. This figure is up from the tally of 209 police released on Friday. The additional fatality was confirmed in the township of Strathewen which has now lost 43 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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Taliban fighters have agreed to a “permanent ceasefire” in exchange for strict Islamic law in a northwestern area of Pakistan. Read more
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Rex Features Prince Harry was the guest of honour at Natalie Imbruglia’s 34th fancy-dress birthday party after the pair reportedly struck up a firm friendship. The Australian singer and Prince Harry are said to have been in regular text contact since the Royal’s recent split from his long term girlfriend Chelsy Davy. According to the [...]
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Four people were killed, including two foreigners, in a blast near a popular tourist area in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday. Read more
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Hillary Rodham Clinton’s weekend visit to Beijing sparked a crackdown on dissidents, some of whom have been confined to their homes while others were monitored by Chinese police, a human-rights group said yesterday. Read more
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Sacramento — Former eBay Ceo Meg Whitman held her first big press conference as a GOP gubernatorial candidate today..and sidestepped deteails and follow up questions on abortion, state spending cuts, immigration and whether she’ll release her taxes. Read more
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The cast of Slumdog Millionaire has just arrived on the Red Carpet, along with the British director Danny Boyle. Among them are Azharuddin Mohammed, 10, and Rubina Ali, 9, who were flown over from the Mumbai slum in which they live. Hard to comprehend what they must be thinking – or how they’ll feel when [...]