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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner plan on Wednesday to lay out broad principles for Wall Street regulatory reform aimed at preventing a repeat of the current financial crisis, an administration official said. Read more
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Play Video AP  – Crashed Turkish airliner’s black boxes found Slideshow:Turkish plane crashes in Amsterdam Play Video Video:Eyewitness on Turkish plane crash BBC Play Video Video:Nine dead in Amsterdam plane crash BBC AP – Rescue workers, seen near a Turkish Airlines plane which slammed into a field while attempting to land, … AMSTERDAM – A Turkish Airlines jetliner plummeted [...]
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European Union enlargement has been put on hold over fears of a growing backlash against migrant workers. Read more
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PARIS (Feb. 23) – A painting by Henri Matisse sold Monday for $41.1 million — a record auction price for a work by the artist — at an art sale from the estate of Yves Saint Laurent, Christie’s said. The sale came at the start of a three-day Paris auction of art from the collection [...]
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Gordon Brown spoke of his sadness this afternoon at the death of David Cameron’s eldest son Ivan. Read more
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You’d think Barack Obama had enough on his plate with the beached global economy and the bank, housing and auto sectors still gasping for air. Read more
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Definition: The Hutu are a mostly Roman Catholic and Protestant, French-and-Bantu-dialect-speaking people numbering more than 11 million and populating Rwanda, Burundi, and portions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Hutu arrived in the region before the Tutsis in the 11th century from Chad. While Hutu share much in common with the Tutsis, they [...]
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Nine people have been killed after a Turkish Airlines plane crashed while trying to land at Amsterdam’s main airport. Plane crashed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport The aircraft, [...]
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Rex Features Vinnie Jones has signed up to play criminals in two new films, it has emerged. Jones will join Dave Annable and Katharine McPhee to play a Croatian mobster in Rob Hedden’s Wedlocked, Hollywood Reporter says. He will also play an assassin in the direct-to-DVD prequel from Universal, Smokin’ Aces: Blowback. The film will [...]
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I was reading an interview today with Jorge Cauz, the president of Encyclopedia Britannica, in which he describes some of the Web 2.0-y tools that the company is preparing to roll out to enable readers to contribute to the encyclopedia’s content. (I’m on Britannica’s board of editorial advisors.) The interview touches, as you’d expect, on [...]
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LONDON – A Guantanamo prisoner who claims he was tortured at a covert CIA site in Morocco returned to Britain a free man Monday after nearly seven years in U.S. captivity – the first inmate from the U.S. prison camp freed since President Barack Obama took office. Read more
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To the surprise of absolutely no one, the state Senate Judiciary Committee today passed a resolution declaring the Senate’s opposition to Prop. 8′s ban on same-sex marriage. Read more
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The brainiest woman in Britain? Possibly. The most talked-about University Challenge contestant in history? Almost definitely. Either way, there’s no doubting Gail Trimble knows which end of the buzzer to press. But do you? Well here’s your starter for 10 … get all of these questions correct and [...]
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LONDON, Feb. 17 — An international group of judges and lawyers is warning that systemic torture and other abuses in the global “war on terror” have “undermined cherished values” of civil rights in the United States, Britain and other nations. Read more
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The global economic crisis has complicated the effort to end North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, diminishing the “cards” for Pyongyang and nations seeking to end its weapons program, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said in an interview yesterday. Read more
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Days after President Hugo Chávez won a referendum to eliminate term limits, Congressman Juan José Molina stood up in the National Assembly and called the victory “a major fraud” made possible by weak institutions and a populace manipulated by an omnipresent government. Read more
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KINIGI, Rwanda — The 958 Express arrived at last. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 23 — Iraq’s National Museum, once one of the world’s leading repositories of Islamic culture and artifacts from other eras, is scheduled to reopen Tuesday, nearly six years after looters plundered it following the U.S.-led invasion. Read more
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TOKYO, Feb. 23 — As the first foreign head of state invited to meet with President Obama in the White House, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso is viewed by most of his countrymen as a failed politician traveling. Read more
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MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani Taliban militants announced on Tuesday an indefinite ceasefire in the Swat valley in the northwest of the country, a day after the army said it was ceasing operations in the region. Read more