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A senior member of the Royal Family has backed the politically explosive campaign for better treatment of Gurkha veterans. Read more
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US woman swung baby ‘like baseball bat’ New 9:12AM Wednesday May 06, 2009 ERIE – A Pennsylvania judge has set bond at $20,000 (NZ$35,000) cash for a woman appealing her conviction for swinging her infant at her boyfriend during a fight in 2006. Erie County Judge William Cunningham set bond Tuesday for Chytoria [...]
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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 [...]
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On YouTube, DJMixer7 did something I always wanted to do, only I didn’t want to invest even a moment’s time on it. He slowed down the voices of Alvin and the Chipmunks so we could hear their “real” voices. Here they are on the song “Bad Day” – Read more
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Hurdles to jump through….!!!!! are you insane… I know…… we should let all the criminals out of prison and all have a nice cup of tea… The law is there to protect us and if you dont abuse it, it generally does. What would you do if your loved one was [...]
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WENN Tom Hardy and Ken Watanabe are the latest stars to sign on for Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi thriller Inception, says The Hollywood Reporter. Bronson actor Hardy and Watanabe, who appeared in Nolan’s Batman Begins, will join Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page and Marion Cotillard in the Warner Bros movie. No plot details [...]
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Military revolt in Georgia has been averted and its organizers former high ranking officials of Defense Ministry, are under arrest, Shota Utashvili Head of Information-Analytical department of Georgian Interior Ministry told a news conference today. According to him, mutiny had broken out to disrupt NATO exercises or stage a military coup. It seems coordinated [...]
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Throughout their 29 years together, Veronica Lario had turned a blind eye to the antics of her husband, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who has been dubbed “The Great Seducer” by the country’s press. Read more
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A bill that would ratify a new contract for California’s largest state workers’ union got hung up in the state Assembly today. The final tally for AB964 was 51-16 (three votes shy of the two-thirds… Read more
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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WASHINGTON — The three-minute video is filled with iconic images: the final minutes of freedom for “Cesar,” a commander in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC); the look of resignation from U.S. hostage Keith Stansell as he is placed in plastic handcuffs; the loud protests of Colombian hostage Raimundo Malagon; the silence of former [...]
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Could the United States be better off with a Democrat in the White House in 2009? Here are a couple of reasons the answer might be yes, even if you’re not a Democrat. Read more
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President Bush has stymied a strong push by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to engage Iran and Cuba more directly in his twilight days of power. Better never than late seems to be Bush’s motto in diplomacy. This time he is right. Read more
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TARADEAU, France — To the buttoned-down European Union bureaucrats in Brussels, the idea was simple: squeeze costs, conquer new markets, maximize profits. But to the vintners of Taradeau, a sun-splashed Provencal village 800 miles to the south — and a world away, mentally — it was an attack on their Mediterranean heritage, a crack in [...]
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Afghanistan is now the U.S. military’s top priority for assigning troops, equipment and other resources, the nation’s most senior military officer said for the first time yesterday. Read more
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President Obama yesterday announced a major offensive against businesses and wealthy individuals who avoid U.S. taxes by parking cash overseas, a battle he said would be fought with new tax laws, new reporting requirements and an army of 800 new IRS agents. Read more
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VILLA ALLENDE, Argentina — The road through Villa Allende passes lumberyards and hardware stores, one-story concrete houses and a dirt soccer field in a park of patchy grass — an unlikely setting for the center of Latin American golf. Read more
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MEXICO CITY, May 4 — Toward the start of Mexico’s swine flu outbreak on April 24, Ángel Flores Maldonado had so many patients at his office that when he finally escaped at 10:15 that night, the line still stretched into the street. Read more
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NAZARETH, Israel — The bulldozers are working overtime in Jesus’s home town, where Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to celebrate Mass in mid-May with a crowd expected to be in the tens of thousands. Read more
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico will resume normal business activity this week after its swine flu emergency eased, but the global flu alert triggered a trade dispute on Monday over bans on Mexican, U.S. and Canadian pork. Read more