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Cuba has agreed to open talks with the United States on issues ranging from immigration to anti-narcotics cooperation and direct mail service , a senior State Department official said today, in a sign that the island’s communist government is warming to President Obama’s call for a new relationship after decades of tension.
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An unusual strain of swine flu has been detected among victims of a large outbreak of a severe respiratory illness in Mexico, prompting global health officials, fearful of a potential flu pandemic, to scramble yesterday to try to contain the virus.
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NEW YORK, May 30 — A survey of women who fled violence in the Darfur region of Sudan found that a third reported or showed signs of rape and revealed a widespread fear of sexual violence in their refugee camp in Chad, a human rights group reported Sunday.
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TOKYO, May 30 — North Korea, which launched a long-range missile over Japan in April, appeared Saturday to be moving another one to a launchpad.
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By Kamran Haider
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani forces consolidated their hold on the main town in the Swat valley on Sunday and began trucking supplies to 40,000 civilians stranded there, as fighting flared in South Waziristan on the Afghan border.
The army said it had captured Mingora on Saturday and troops were out on patrol on Sunday.
“Mingora […]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of General Motors bondholders have agreed to a debt-for-equity exchange, a source familiar with the voting said on Sunday, helping pave the way for a bankruptcy filing expected on Monday.
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Pakistan’s operation against Taliban rebels in the Swat valley region should be over in the next few days, the country’s defence secretary has said.
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REYKJAVIK (AFP) –
Recession-hit Iceland’s economy is expected to recover in 2010 after bottoming out before the end of this year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Friday.
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AP – Displaced men struggle to get their daily ration during a food distribution at the Chota Lahore refugee …
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Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has succeeded in blocking the publication of photos of his New Year’s Eve party after reports said guests included a teenage model whose relationship with him has caused a scandal.
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SINGAPORE (May 30) - The U.S. defense chief urged Asian allies Saturday to consider tougher sanctions against North Korea, noting that past efforts to cajole the reclusive regime into scrapping its nuclear weapons program have only emboldened it.
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David Cameron was dragged personally into the expenses row last night after it was revealed that he paid off a loan on his London home shortly after taking out a £350,000 taxpayer-funded mortgage on his constituency house.
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American Samoa’s member of the US Congress has warned that the “inept policies and heavy-handed actions” of the New Zealand and Australian governments in the Pacific are putting American interests in the region at risk.
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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After three and a half years of dropping sly, witty remarks into the banter on Roe Conn’s 2-to-6 p.m. talk show at WLS AM 890, Bill Leff is out.
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The deaths took the number of British service personnel who have died in Afghanistan since the start of operations in October 2001 to 165.
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The stand-off between multiplex owners and film producers in Bollywood has led to producers coming up with groundbreaking ways to sell films.
Bunty Walia, the producer of Sanjay Dutt’s new feature Lamhaa, created a six-minute trailer for the film to send to 30 distributors across the country in a bid to find fresh investment.
He asked […]
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I’m stunned, as are many. Susan Boyle lost Britain’s Got Talent to the ten-person dance crew Diversity. I’m so stunned and upset that rather than saying “Diversity Wins,” I would rather say “Susan Boyle Loses.”
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The Taliban have fled the Pakistani army’s advance on the main town in the Swat Valley, delivering the military a strategic prize in its offensive against militants in the country’s northwest, commanders said today.
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Carlos Moreno was the only California Supreme Court justice to dissent from the ruling upholding the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8, some of whose backers have promised to…
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